She could only honestly face whatever came next.
“It and your skirt are together, on the floor.”
Gaia didn’t ask any further questions, seeming to understand perfectly.
But Liu Yu knew that this didn’t mean anything good.
If he suspected something and didn’t ask, she would lose the opportunity to explain. Over-explaining would only deepen his suspicion.
If he didn’t suspect anything, it meant he was not interested in her at all-
He had no intention of finding out the truth.
“Alright, alright! Mr. Leslie, take your flirting elsewhere!” the monitor interrupted them. “And Miss Fergus, you better hurry. The divine arts class is at the Temple of Light, and it takes a lot of time to get there!”
“Okay, I’m going now.”
Liu Yu followed the monitor into the building and couldn’t help but glance back when they turned the corner. Gaia was standing there quietly, seemingly troubled by something. His eyebrows knitted slightly, and it seemed like he sensed her gaze. He looked up at her-
Liu Yu quickly turned her head.
The mushroom house was right in front of her.
The monitor remembered what Gaia had said and waited outside.
Liu Yu pushed open the door and walked in. She hadn’t returned for a night, and her room looked like it had been ransacked. Her things were scattered everywhere, with her trunk open and items scattered around. The only thing left intact was the birdcage sitting by the window.
The lock on the wardrobe had been intentionally broken, and everything inside had been cut up with scissors.
Jewelry was strewn all over the place, and she even found vampire fangs on the floor. Even her pillows and blankets had been shredded.
It was obvious that it was Mary’s doing.
She hadn’t returned last night, so Mary was jealous and took it out on her things- just like her usual style.
“Ban Ban! Ban Ban! Ban Ban Ban!”
The gray-spotted sparrow inside the cage flapped its wings desperately, and water flicked out of its black beady eyes when it saw her.
[Wuwuwu, that woman is crazy! She wanted to use scissors to cut Ban Ban’s beautiful wings! She’s gone mad! It’s terrifying!]
Liu Yu suddenly heard this sentence in her head.
She looked at the gray-spotted sparrow, thinking she was hallucinating.
Ban Ban was still holding its head up high, continuously calling out “Ban Ban Ban Ban, Ban Ban, Ban Ban Ban Ban”.
[Look! What are you looking at?! Haven’t you seen such a beautiful bird before? Even if you stare at Ban Ban for a thousand years, you won’t grow such beautiful feathers! Ugly, despicable, freak!]
“Ugly freak?!”
“Say it again.”
Liu Yu hated two things in her life- being chosen by others and being called ugly.
[Exactly! Ugly freak! Baldy! Black-hearted!] the gray-spotted sparrow continued to curse with its rough voice. “Ban Ban! Ban Ban! Ban Ban Ban!…”]
But halfway through the scolding, its black beady eyes widened:
[Oh, wait, why is the ugly freak able to understand Ban Ban’s words? Can she really hear what Ban Ban is saying? My god, my god, this is impossible! The ugly freak must be tricking Ban Ban, we can’t believe it, we can’t believe it!]
Liu Yu casually picked up the scissors that Mary had left behind, and with a slow “snip, snip”, she cut it twice:
“Say it again.”
[Ah! Ugly- ah no, beautiful person, you can really hear? Wow, Ban Ban is scared to death, you finally came back! Yesterday, that princess, who was ten thousand times uglier than you, wanted to cut Ban Ban’s wings. Luckily, Ban Ban was clever, otherwise you wouldn’t see lovely Ban Ban… wah wah…]
With its busted voice, Ban Ban’s crying voice was piercing, and tears fell drop by drop.
[Wah wah~ Ban Ban’s starved, Ban Ban is suffering too much, Ban Ban hasn’t eaten for a day and night, Ban Ban desperately wants to eat chocolate cake, wants to drink water, and wants to touch beads…]
Liu Yu’s headache was getting worse from the noise, so she lowered her voice:
“Shut up. If you keep making noise, you’ll go hungry for another day.”
Ban Ban quickly covered its mouth with its wings:
[Mmm, Ban Ban won’t speak!]
Liu Yu bent down and found a small bag of buckwheat that Mary had left in a corner. She added water and bird feed to the cage, patting the cage:
“Eat.”
Ban Ban pecked at the buckwheat like a little chicken, all while complaining:
[Move! Move! Ban Ban can’t go on like this for another day… It’s too scary… It’s too scary…]
Liu Yu dragged her heavy legs into the bathroom.
She rinsed her mouth and washed her face.
In the mirror, the reflection of the girl had a pale complexion, but her eyes had an unexplainable difference from before. It seemed like a hook, directly hooking onto people’s hearts, making them jump chaotically. Beneath the calm surface of the lake, there was a surging undercurrent.
Her lips were chapped and bleeding, and there was a circle of red marks on her fair neck. Liu Yu wiped it with a towel and winced. Who could have imagined that four drops of mixed blood medicine could turn a pure boy into that? He almost kissed her entire body with his lips, passionately and forcefully- she could still clearly remember the warmth of his hands and lips even now.
Liu Yu hurriedly finished and left the bathroom.
Ban Ban had already finished all the buckwheat and was calling out to her:
“Ban Ban, Ban Ban!”
[Why can you understand Ban Ban’s words?]
Liu Yu didn’t answer, as the answer was self-explanatory.
The only difference from yesterday to today was that she had slept with Gaia and slept soundly.
And now, she could hear Ban Ban talking-
In the original book, this “fairy godmother”, the bird with some strange ability, no one could understand what it was saying. When Natasha went to the Divine Palace, she didn’t bring it along, and Ban Ban was left alone on the Aven Continent.
So the question is, can she understand all bird language, or does this particular bird just happen to have the power of light?
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