Chapter 13: Misunderstanding

"The top student probably won't come even if you drag her here. She just likes reading books and doing experiments. Now she's also practicing martial arts! She's not interested in other recreational activities at all." 

Cyra pouted, feeling that there was no way Reed would agree to come.

"No way! Although Reed is eccentric and not good at communicating, she will definitely come!" 

I shook my head, recalling Reed's appearance at the previous reunion, sitting alone in the corner reading a book, not wanting to talk to her classmates at all. This should be an illusion.

"If she was completely uninterested in interacting with her classmates, why did she come to this reunion in the first place? Otherwise, she wouldn't have ended up crossing over into this world."

"Feliciana is right. We aren't hungry anyway, there's no hurry. Let's find Reed first before eating together." 

Hearing my words, Nicola also nodded in agreement.

"What time do you guys close?"

I walked over and habitually asked the little girl. She had no wings behind her back. Seeing her pointy ears, she should not be an angel who had folded her wings, but a light elf.

"We don't close here! Did you forget, Your Angelness? All stores in Edenmere are open 24 hours. You can come for a meal anytime." 

The light elf answered us very respectfully.

"Oh, sorry..." 

I suddenly remembered there was no night here, so it made sense they didn't close. 

But don't these light elves still need to sleep like angels? I just don't know what their work hours would be like. Based on my experience, they probably work in shifts.

"So we still have to wait a while to eat?" 

Cyra asked disappointedly, staring longingly at the food on the tables of other customers in the hall, involuntarily swallowing.

"You can't get hungry anyway. Why are you acting like you haven't eaten for days..." 

Seeing her like that, I felt it was a bit of an overreaction.

"I haven't eaten for a month..."

Cyra said pitifully.

"Even if I'm not hungry, not having anything to eat for so long still makes me crave food..."

"Alright, fine. I'll buy you a chicken leg first to curb your appetite. Don't eat too full or you won't be able to finish your meal later." 

Nicola looked helpless as she casually glanced at the menu. Although most were Western-style dishes, she still found roasted chicken legs in the corner. But that chicken leg was quite expensive, costing several dozen silvers.

"Wow! Thank you so much! You're like my rebirth parent!" 

As soon as Cyra heard, she happily shouted and tried to pounce over to hug Nicola.

"No need... Save your hugs for your Lord." 

Nicola didn't know whether to laugh or cry as she pushed Cyra away.

"Tastes good?" 

Walking on the road, seeing Cyra wolfing down the oily chicken leg with her mouth dripping oil, I felt it looked a bit weird. Because Nicola grabbing her wing earlier looked almost like how she was gobbling down that drumstick. 

"Not bad... so-so..." 

Cyra swallowed the last bite of meat into her belly and wiped the oil from her mouth. 

"The stuff served at the new angel welcome banquet didn't taste very good. This was still the first time I ate chicken legs after becoming an angel. Speaking of which, does this world have chickens too?"

"Yes, the ecology here is quite similar to Earth, apart from those magical beasts." 

Nicola nodded and replied. It was normal Cyra didn't know since she hadn't gone to the outside world.

"Luckily you believe in the True Church. If it was Buddhism, you probably wouldn't have anything to eat." 

Seeing her still licking her fingers one by one, I felt I couldn't stand to keep watching. Too irritating for the eyes.

"No way I'd join Buddhism. Those scammers!" 

Cyra answered disdainfully. 

"Don't tell me there's Buddhism in this world too?"

"Uh... No, there isn't..." 

I didn't understand why she disliked Buddhism so much, but it wasn't important. The most urgent thing now was to go to the library. So I gave her a push and said: 

"Alright, stop licking your fingers! Hurry and take us to find Reed. You want to eat right? The sooner we find Reed, the sooner you can start your meal."

"(๑‾ ꇴ ‾๑) Yes Ma'am!" 

As soon as Cyra heard, her spirit was roused. She hurriedly rushed to the front to lead the way.

"How on earth did this chick become a priest?" 

Seeing Cyra's back, Nicola whispered to me.

"Who knows?"

I was quite speechless too. Cyra gave off a feeling of being too unreliable. I also wonder who allowed her to rise to the position of priest. 

"Maybe it was because she was pious enough..." 

I was quite certain at least regarding her faith.

"But from now on, Cyra definitely won't be able to continue as a priest anymore. Now that she has become an angel, it would be a blessing if she doesn't get treated as God's wife."

Nicola said gloatingly. 

"I think she will most likely change her name." 

After what we talked about, Cyra should have realized the problem and would change her name which was too eye-catching.

"On the contrary, I feel she won't." 

Nicola shook her head, expressing a different opinion. Suddenly, she looked at me meaningfully with a sly smile.

"Wanna bet on it? 100 silver. What do you think?"

"All our money is with you now. How to bet like this?" 

I rolled my eyes, feeling it was unfair.

"If I win, you don't have to give me money since you don't have any anyway. If you win, I'll give you 200 silver, how's that?"

Nicola had it all figured out, but when she saw me simply stretch out my palm to her, she didn't understand what it meant for a moment. 

"Hand it over!"

I pretended to be serious.

"Hand what over?"

Nicola still didn't get it.

"The money of course!"

I shook the ring on my finger. 

"The storage ring is with me now, so of course all the money should go inside the storage ring. Safer than your wallet, right?"

"You..."

Nicola was momentarily speechless, but reluctantly took out her wallet from her pocket and handed everything to me, instructing:

"This is all our fortune. Don't lose it again, or we'll truly become destitute."

"Don't worry, I'll keep it safe!" 

Of course, I didn't dare to be careless. After putting the wallet into the ring and carefully checking again that nothing was amiss, I finally felt assured.

"Alright, now we can continue talking about our bet. If I win, you don't have to give me money since I don't have any anyway. If you win, I'll give you 200 silver pieces, how about that?"

Seeing my sly grin, Nicola was baffled for a long time before forcing out a smile. 

"You went through all that just for a rhetorical quip?"

"Not really..."

I took off the ring from my finger and handed it to her. 

"Mainly because a lot happened and I forgot—this ring was originally given to you by future Nicola. It doesn't feel right for me to keep holding on to it, so I'm taking this chance to return it to you. You have to keep our fortune safe!"

"Oh, no need..." 

Originally Nicola wanted to hand the ring back to me, but she instantly recalled the scene of me stuffing books into the ring before, and her expression became one of realization.

"Oh, I see! You were trying to take this chance to pass me those naughty books, weren't you?"

"What? naughty books? Where, where? Let me see!" 

With her sharp ears, Cyra walking in front had caught the keywords and immediately turned around excitedly asking to see them.

"Ah..."

I didn't expect Nicola to still remember this matter. I instantly became a little panicky. All of future Nicola's stuff in that ring had been dealt with when I found the chance. Now, other than a wallet, it was empty.

"Where are my naughty books?"

After Nicola put on the ring and took a look inside, she was unhappy of course. 

"What naughty books? I've never seen any naughty books before. And does this world even have naughty books?"

I pretended to know nothing and said: 

"That book you saw before was just a cookbook. Seeing it useless, I threw it away. After all, it only took up space..." 

"Is that so?" 

Nicola looked at me suspiciously for a moment, seemingly not convinced.

"So this is a storage ring? Looks so magical..." 

Standing next to Nicola, Cyra saw her operation and said wonderingly: 

"I heard this was invented by humans from the outside world. Many angels have them except me..."

"No naughty books for you to see!" 

Seeing Cyra kept squee squeezing over wanting to peek inside the ring's internal space, Nicola said impatiently.

"Hmph! You guys are teasing me! Lying to my innocent feelings!" 

Seeing that, Cyra could only angrily stomp back to the front by herself.

"..." 

Nicola silently stared at me for a good while, before suddenly lamenting. 

"Feliciana, you're becoming more and more like a girl now, even throwing away my naughty books."

"You're the girl!" 

I was so furious when I heard that. I'm trying so hard here! 

I was kindly helping Nicola conceal her future marriage and giving birth. But this chick turned around and said I was the one becoming girly.

I was just trying to be nice but getting treated badly in return. If I had known earlier I wouldn't have thrown away those educational items. Just let her get dead drunk alone in a corner then!

"Nicola, that was a bit inappropriate. Feliciana is a girl now anyway!" 

Having heard our conversation at the back, Cyra came over to watch the commotion.

"If you want to say who's more like one... that would be hard to judge..." 

She made a gesture of bowing her head in thought, shaking her head evaluating:

"Actually I feel you guys are both quite alike! Nicola, voluptuous figure. Feliciana, delicate and cute... Very nicccce!" 

"I want both of you! Don't worry, I won't mind your past. Just go for it!" 

Then she made a perverted expression wanting to pounce over.

"Piss off!" 

I and Nicola sprayed fragrance at Cyra simultaneously, wishing we could kick this shit-stirrer flying with one kick.