Xiyadie had her own interpretations of Quinlan's reactions. It was fortunate for him, as it saved him from the trouble of thinking about what to use as an excuse.
As Xiyadie continued to wash his body, she suddenly moved closer, as if about to hug him. "Excuse me, Young Lady Yinuo, I'll be washing your back from here."
With one of her hands holding Quinlan's shoulder, he couldn't distance himself from her. As she started and continued to scrub his back clean for a while, she then moved to the other side, switching hands. The warmth radiating from her body and the flowery scent tickling his nose made him dizzy.
"We're almost done," Xiyadie said as she moved slightly away.
Without a word, her hands moved to the most sensitive place in Quinlan's body. As the damp towel made contact with it, it was as if a lightning bolt fell on top of his head.
"Hiiik~!"
As if surprised, Quinlan was forced to hold Xiyadie's shoulder, his body trembling from the stimulus. "Oh my, Young Lady, you're this wet? Even I'm not this sensitive." Xiyadie teased a smile on her face the entire time.
Each movement of her fingers and each wave of her hand caused Quinlan to jump. Small shrieks escaped his lips as Xiyadie continued to wipe her lower lips clean. "No matter how I wipe it clean, more keeps coming out. What should I do~?"
Xiyadie asked, her eyes narrowing down teasingly as she looked amusedly at Quinlan's reactions.
"T-That's enough!" Unable to endure any longer, he pushed Xiyadie away. "I, I'll do the rest myself. Give me the towel!"
Xiyadie smiled gently, laughing. "Fu fu fu, alright, here~!"
As she fell down after getting pushed, she was sitting sideways on the bathroom floor looking as erotic as always. Having no choice, Quinlan stood up to reach the towel, but he forgot an important factor.
"Ah...!"
His legs felt like jelly after getting played by Xiyadie, so he fell forward helplessly as he tried to stand up.
"Watch out!" Xiyadie shouted in worry, quickly moving to catch his falling body.
Fortunately, due to her quick action, Quinlan was saved from kissing the cold bathroom floor. However, a moment later, his face turned blank. His hands were cupping Xiyadie's mounds as his thigh was pressing against her lower lips. The combined sensations sent his mind into chaos, and blood rushed up to his nose.
*CRACKLE!*
Unable to hold back his Qi, the entire floor froze, even affecting Xiyadie and his body, covering them with a thin layer of ice. Unlike before, where he only had barely a drop of Qi, he now had hundreds of drops, after all. The potency and range of the freezing effect were way different than before.
"Oh no, you activated your Heavenly Ice Element again! Look, your nose is bleeding!" Xiyadie was completely cool with the places Quinlan was touching.
After all, in her eyes, Quinlan was also a woman, and one that she raised personally from a baby, so it was fine.
Quinlan felt fortunate that she misunderstood the cause of the nosebleed again. However, before she becomes doubtful of the real cause of his nose bleeds, Quinlan needs to gain more resistance to the opposite sex.
"Hmmm~!"
When Quinlan tried to move, however, his thigh slid forward due to the wet floor, causing Xiyadie to moan loudly. "Young Lady, I don't remember raising you to be this naughty~!" She teased before helping Quinlan sit on the stool once more.
After that, Quinlan's memory of what happened later was blurry. By the time he returned to his senses, Xiyadie had already finished dressing him up and applying oil to his hair.
"There, done!" Xiyadie exclaimed in satisfaction after tying Quinlan's hair into a half-crown with a bun on the rear end. "Are you really going to work using those tools and wood?"
Xiyadie was already briefed about his plans, so she knew what Quinlan would do next. Of course, he didn't hesitate and nodded immediately. "I waited four days for this. Of course, I wouldn't miss it!"
Four days, adding the first one, then five days. He hadn't touched any machinery for that long! He was already reaching his limit, so if he delayed any longer, he felt like he'd lose the will to continue living.
"What are you going to make, anyway?" Xiyadie asked with a curious gaze.
Quinlan smiled, seeing her face in the mirror before him. "That's something you need to look forward to!"
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While Quinlan was busy recovering, Yinuo, on the other hand, was also occupied. Her internal injuries healed after two days in the medical pod, but after that, she was called to the chairman's office. Still, she wasn't really capable of moving by herself yet, so she needed a nurse to push her while in a wheelchair just to reach her destination.
Right before the chairman's office, with an expensive-looking door made of fragrant wood, Yinuo sat in her wheelchair while the nurse went ahead and knocked three times on the door.
*Knock!* *Knock!* *Knock!*
"Enter,"
Without even asking who the visitor was, a deep voice echoed from inside. The nurse, receiving the go signal, opened the door ajar before pushing Yinuo's wheelchair forward. Her eyes sharpened, studying the entire room in a split second.
It was a relatively large room, with a wooden office table at the far end. A lot of trophies and awards were displayed on top of it. Beyond the table, two figures were present. The one sitting, a middle-aged man with brown hair and a Kaiser mustache, frowned deeply upon seeing Yinuo's appearance.
The other one, standing behind him with a worried expression, was Melody. She was wearing the school's uniform, a black vest with a white inner shirt, matched with a red and black checkered necktie.
"Quinlan, it's been a while since we've last seen each other, right?" The chairman asked as a grin crossed his face. "Oh, you have memory loss, was it? Too bad, too bad."
Yinuo was feeling that something was awry, seeing that the man's smile wasn't really a smile. It was like a predator looking at his prey, playing with it, before taking it in with one big gulp.
"You remember the incident two days ago, don't you?" The chairman asked, using his thick thumb to point at Melody behind him. "The one where you send my daughter slamming against the wall."
"Dad! I told you that it was an accident!" Melody intervened, her face filled with both worry for Yinuo and irritation for her father. "Quinlan didn't do anything to me; I just went flying against the wall from some mysterious phenomena!"
"Melody, please be quiet. I'm talking to Quinlan here," the chairman said in a low voice, as if anger were brewing inside him.
At that moment, Yinuo realized why she was summoned. "So I was called here to receive repercussions for injuring the princess?"
"P-Princess?!" Melody took a step back, her face turning bright red from Yinuo's mindless comment.
Seeing the exchange between the two, the chairman's frown returned and deepened even further.
"There's that too, but there's an even more pressing matter..."
He leaned forward, picked up an envelope, and passed it to the nurse, who then gave it to Yinuo. Curious, she opened the letter, fished one of the two folded papers, and read its contents. Understanding the alphabet she saw for the first time was a strange feeling, but after reading it, she froze up.
"I... might get removed from your school?"