Chapter 633: Chapter 652: A Young Man’s Fluttering Heart
Jiang Qiuqiu: "Why are you apologizing for that?"
The mecha’s pain receptors were linked to her nerves, and Jiang Qiuqiu felt terrible, but she would never accept Huo Jia’s apology. "You did great."
"This is a competition. You’re supposed to give it your all. You did nothing wrong. Let’s go again."
She focused her concentration again, bracing herself.
Watching Jiang Qiuqiu like this, Huo Jia felt his heart start to beat faster for some reason.
Even through the mecha, he felt as if he could see the fiery fighting spirit blazing in her eyes.
’This is what a Mecha Soldier should be.’
Jiang Qiuqiu and Huo Jia trained there for a long time—a full two hours. In that time, they must have sparred at least fifty times.
Unfortunately, from the first match to the last, Jiang Qiuqiu was on the receiving end of a beating, with almost no chance to fight back.
When it was over, she tumbled out of the virtual pod and went to lie in a Treatment Pod by the door for ten minutes before she slowly started to feel like herself again.
When she climbed out of the Treatment Pod, she found Huo Jia was still there.
"Huo, were you waiting for me?"
"Yeah." Huo Jia nodded. "I think training with a classmate is way more interesting than training with an AI. I wanted to ask if you’ll be coming back. If you do, would you want to PK with me?"
"We can schedule a time."
"Okay."
"So, should we add each other as friends?"
Jiang Qiuqiu added Huo Jia as a friend, and they agreed to train together here whenever they had time.
After adding him as a friend, Jiang Qiuqiu sent Huo Jia a message on her way back to the dorm: "Huo, I’ll train and get familiar with fighting you as soon as I can, so there are more possibilities in our PKs."
At that moment, Huo Jia was on his way to the cafeteria with Huo Deng.
Huo Deng already found it strange when his cousin’s terminal chimed as they were walking. But after seeing the look on Huo Jia’s face when he finished reading a certain message—
He suddenly leaned in for a closer look.
But there was no way he could be faster than Huo Jia, who immediately put away his terminal. "Bro, what are you doing?"
"Not letting me see? C’mon, let me see."
"Nope."
"...No way. Is the man married to his mecha actually falling in love?"
"What ’married to his mecha’? What ’falling in love’!?" Huo Jia frowned. "Why do you call me that?"
Huo Deng chuckled. "Isn’t your mecha the wife you’re clinging to every day? Alright, alright, you young people get embarrassed so easily. I won’t ask anymore."
"Studying is important, training is important, and shouldering the Huo family’s burdens is important, but being happy is important too. If you’re going to fall in love, go for it! Your bro supports you!"
Huo Jia didn’t say anything.
But his fingers couldn’t help but touch his terminal.
Huo Jia: Okay.
’I’ll be waiting for you to become my worthy opponent.’
-
After two or three consecutive days of taking a beating in training, it was Saturday.
This week, their only day off was Sunday. Jiang Qiuqiu had originally planned to go to Starry Sky Wander tonight, but a message came from Mo Si saying he had an urgent meeting tomorrow morning and could only head over at noon.
He told Jiang Qiuqiu not to rush, saying it was fine to head over in the morning.
’Oh well. My body’s still sore from training anyway.’ Jiang Qiuqiu thought for a moment and decided she might as well go tomorrow morning.
Seeing that she had been about to leave but then didn’t, her roommate asked about it with concern.
Liu Tingting knew that Qiuqiu had been rushing home before to do her livestreams, but she didn’t have a streaming task this week. "It’s a long trip anyway, so why not just stay? How about we go out and do something fun together this week?"
Liu Tingting flopped onto her bed and suggested cheerfully, "We could go check out the Federation Mall. Summer’s almost here, so we could buy some summer clothes."
"Or we could go see a movie together! We haven’t all hung out together yet!"
