Chapter 557: 418, Aiko’s Other Side and Magic Divination
“Give it back to me,” Lia’s face flushed as she snatched the Magic Conduction Tablet away, “It’s all your fault, just happened to freeze it right when it paused.”
That’s a pretty lame excuse.
But Aiko didn’t feel like making any comments, as happy as she had been laughing a moment ago, her expression was now just as ugly.
She thought Lia had been sneakily watching some little video, but all this time, the woman was enjoying a “couple’s selfie”?
Aiko felt like her cheeks were swollen from the scorching sun, a bright red sun falling right onto her nose.
“Oh.”
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Aiko slumped her shoulders, listlessly heading back to her room.
“It really did break when it fell, pausing at that exact spot,” Lia, still not quite reassured, repeated with a stern face.
“I know, I know.”
Back in her room, Aiko pulled out a blue, four-pointed sleeping cap from under her bed and put it on her head, then she laid down quietly with her hands placed on her chest.
She had wanted to treat herself to a reward, but somehow she just couldn’t get into the mood.
The image of Lin Da smiling at Lia kept replaying in Aiko’s mind.
The room was silent and her thoughts uncontrollably drifted.
The scenery in Aiko’s mind began to twist, the 15th-layer prairie background turning into a church adorned with stained glass, Lia grew into a tall, curvy woman, holding hands with Lin Da, smiling as they received blessings from everyone.
“Aiko, as teammates for many years, please accept this Magic Conduction Tablet filled with recordings…”
“What’s inside it?”
“You’ll see when you look at it, it’s a gift from me to you!”
“#￥￥…#…￥#~~~”
A tempest of emotions.
Strange noises filled the church.
“Ugh!”
Aiko turned pale and jumped up from the bed with a whoosh.
She hurriedly checked the mirror to see if a World Tree had grown on top of her head.
She absolutely didn’t want anything of the sort!
Thinking of Lin Da and Lia rolling in bed together, Aiko’s eyes burned with jealousy, contemplating whether to stuff Lia into a sack and sell her off.
Biting her finger, Aiko paced anxiously around the room.
She accidentally knocked over a photo frame on the desk.
The frame fell to the ground, triggering a mechanism, and the photo of the Snow Goose Adventure Team switched to a photo from her childhood in the Holy Rock Adventure Team.
The little girl in the photo, who hadn’t yet grown her hair down to her waist, wore gender-neutral overalls, hands in her pockets, unwillingly facing the camera.
That day, she had finally completed the devilish training set by Rocher and planned to invite some friends to bully the poor souls in the slums. But Rocher caught her and brought her back, saying they were going to make a promotional poster for Holy Rock.
Her most anticipated monthly entertainment ruined, Aiko could still remember how angry she felt, looking at Rocher’s big head, always wanting to pick up a wooden stick and hit him with it.
Now her personality has mellowed a lot, but essentially, she’s the same as when she was a child. Antagonize her, and she’ll hold a grudge for life, thinking of every way to get back at you. Lin Da is one, and the arrogant Lia too, she just hasn’t been able to catch them in the act.
They, or to be precise, what Snow Goose knew of Aiko, actually didn’t exist at all.
Aiko found it somewhat amusing, she had lived with them for three years behind a mask called [Holy Mage].
Bending over to pick up the frame, she stared at it for quite a while.
She pressed a hidden switch at the back with her forefinger, and the photo returned to the image of the Snow Goose team.
In both photos, Aiko’s position was unexpectedly similar. The only difference was that the Aiko from Snow Goose showed a graceful smile, like a well-bred lady, while the Holy Rock’s Aiko clearly looked like a rebellious brat full of aggression.
“I finally understand… all along, I made a fatal mistake.”
Aiko felt like she was waking up from a dream.
No matter how hard she tried, she would always be the old team member [Holy Mage] Aiko of Snow Goose; all of Lin Da’s impressions of her were based on that. Once a first impression is established, it’s hard to change it afterwards.
She had to break and rebuild, let Lin Da accept the real her!
No one knew what Aiko was really like. Lia thought she was a bit lazy, but a reliable Light Mage when serious. Lin Da thought she was kind and gentle.
In truth, it was all a facade.
Aiko laughed at herself wryly.
After more than three years of companionship, not a single person knew the real her.
She was worse than most villains.
Bitchy in nature, vain, unwilling to put in the effort, content with just getting by, uninterested in adventures… had it not been for her slight mage talent, she’d probably be a social parasite, finding a good man to leech off for life, deceiving him until his death.
That was the real her, [Blackheart Mage] Aiko.
Knowing what she had to do, Aiko hesitated, her chest feeling as if a swarm of ants was crawling inside, agitated and confused.
If Lin Da found out she had been deceiving him all along, they might not even remain friends.
Snow Goose would also kick her out.
No team leader would want a mentally twisted worm in their team.
“Sigh, what should I do…”
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Aiko sat at the desk, looking dejected.
“If you want something, get up and go for it, by all means necessary, seize every opportunity.”
A lazy male voice drifted in from outside.
Aiko’s eyelid twitched.
Suddenly, a golden-haired man with sleepy eyes unfurled his Battle Qi Twin Wings, floating in mid-air, said, “My good-for-nothing sister even dares to contradict the Leader of the Holy Rock Group, surely she’s not afraid of an Ultimate Pervert, right?”
“Bervis, why are you here?” Aiko stood up in surprise, “Didn’t you go back with father?”
Bervis pushed open the window and jumped into Aiko’s room.