64: Guild Leader's Romance Classroom
In the end, Leticia's showdown still became a farce. Unable to break free from Bai Ling's embrace, all those words she had said earlier suddenly lost their credibility.
"Really... infuriating to the point of explosion." Leticia muttered to herself through gritted teeth.
She had used her final request on having Bai Ling stop bothering her today, so now she could finally calm down and think carefully about what had just happened.
That is, if she didn't have to connect online with Guild Leader.
"What's wrong? You sound like you're not very happy, Qianqian?" Guild Leader's voice was as pleasant as always, but it made Leticia feel somewhat familiar.
That gray-haired girl she had beaten up seemed to have a voice quite similar to Guild Leader's.
Could it be... no no no, impossible. With Guild Leader's personality that was similar to her own, how could she possibly seek trouble by becoming a hero?
Guild Leader should be a shut-in girl who liked staying at home, very beautiful, and appeared perfect in front of others... just like in certain manga.
Although Leticia understood that this kind of thinking was pure wishful thinking, people always had to hold onto hope. What if Guild Leader really was such a perfect girl?
"Nothing much, just had a conflict with someone." Leticia muttered while propping her cheek.
Guild Leader pondered for a moment and asked, "With Little Bai?"
She didn't really understand Leticia's social circle, but from the previous online communication with the Bai Ling sisters, she had deduced that Leticia was just a shut-in with basically zero social activities.
The only person who could have a conflict with her seemed to be Little Bai.
As for Little Ya, the Guild Leader really didn't believe Leticia would be petty enough to get angry with a little girl who was like a younger sister.
But Little Bai was very possible. After all, according to Little Bai herself, she had previously had some small conflicts with Leticia, and these conflicts caused Leticia to still hold a grudge against her.
"Who else? I clearly told her not to bother me, but she still does whatever she wants. Don't I have any dignity? Coming whenever she wants, leaving whenever she wants—does she think my house is a public toilet?" Leticia complained about Bai Ling like a machine gun, the thick resentment in her voice making Guild Leader almost visualize a pitch-black mass of something.
"Um, Qianqian, what happened between you and Little Bai before?" Guild Leader asked carefully.
She actually wasn't clear about what had happened between Leticia and Bai Ling. She only knew that incident had made Leticia hate Bai Ling, but Bai Ling didn't seem particularly affected by it.
"My relationship with her used to be very bad, really very bad—not fake bad, but real bad. To give you an analogy, it was the kind where I wanted to kill her and she wanted to kill me too."
"Later, I transferred schools and she stayed at the original school. I thought we'd never have any contact again, but a few days ago she suddenly appeared."
"It would have been fine if she had just appeared, but somehow, she seems to have latched onto me. She comes to my place every day, which is really annoying."
"Guild Leader, what do you think I should do?"
The Guild Leader indicated she was just a romance novice and completely couldn't understand the emotional problems between you two little geniuses.
No, Leticia's description was very easy to misinterpret, wasn't it?
What did she mean by "the relationship used to be very bad"?
If the relationship was really bad, could you two be like this now?
"Qianqian, tell me honestly—do you really dislike Little Bai or not?"
"Of course I..."
"Don't be tsundere at a time like this. I want to hear the real answer." Guild Leader interrupted Leticia because she knew what Leticia was about to blurt out.
"I..." Leticia fell silent. She thought of Bai Ling's embrace that had made her lose the ability to resist. In fact, she didn't dislike Bai Ling that much either.
"Actually, you don't dislike her that much, right?" Guild Leader chuckled. This girl Qianqian was really a textbook example of a major tsundere.
She said with her mouth how much she disliked Little Bai, but in reality, she couldn't be happier in her heart. This girl was just stubborn and couldn't bring herself to admit it.
In this world nowadays, tsunderes had no future. When people had already gotten to base, you were still here being wishy-washy—how much of a losing dog could you be?
"I really do hate her, but I don't know why I can't bring myself to refuse her." Leticia was truly troubled. She just couldn't harden her heart to refuse Bai Ling's requests.
She was the Demon King—her inability to be ruthless was simply a joke.
Back in the day, she could hang her young sister from a tree and whip her hard with a big whip. If you could say she couldn't be ruthless, that would be ridiculous.
But Bai Ling was an exception. Leticia truly felt the sensation of being unable to be ruthless. She wanted to refuse Bai Ling but always couldn't say the words of refusal.
"Sigh, Qianqian, although I, your Guild Leader, have never been in love and don't have any good friends, based on my years of experience immersed in 2D, you've fallen for her."
"Fallen for a hammer! I hate her to death!" Guild Leader's words left Leticia somewhat bewildered. She had fallen for someone? She could fall for anyone but would never fall for Bai Ling.
Absolutely impossible.
The Guild Leader was somewhat exasperated. Sure enough, Qianqian's tsundere problem was ingrained in her bones. Look at her now—wasn't she just a little girl in the throes of youthful romance?
And she still insisted she hadn't fallen for anyone. In Guild Leader's opinion, this girl had already fallen deep.
"Really?"
"Really." Leticia said decisively.
Of course she hated Bai Ling. That was a life-and-death grudge—she couldn't simply forget it.
"Mm-hmm?" Guild Leader was also amused. To encounter such a classic die-hard tsundere like Qianqian these days was really quite interesting.
"Guild Leader, what does that 'mm-hmm' mean? Don't you believe what I'm saying?!" Leticia was about to bristle. Guild Leader's attitude of treating her like she was being contrary really annoyed her.
"No no no, I absolutely believe what you're saying, Qianqian." Guild Leader immediately indicated she absolutely believed Leticia. She was Leticia's Guild Leader—how could she not believe Leticia?
But, Little Bai was also her good friend, right? So in a while, Guild Leader planned to go ask Little Bai about the situation.
Listening to both sides makes one wise; believing only one side leads to ignorance—especially when you couldn't believe the words of a die-hard tsundere like Leticia.
The words tsunderes said generally needed to be understood in reverse.
"Guild Leader, your words sound so perfunctory."
"Aha ha ha, how could that be? It's an illusion, an illusion."