49: Stay Here
"Seriously, we clearly agreed to tidy things up together, but now I can't even see a shadow of her." Standing in the already cleaned kitchen, Bai Ya muttered unhappily to herself, "That bad sister."
Su Qi, wearing an apron nearby, showed an awkward but polite smile. She really wanted to leave quickly now, otherwise when Bai Ya's sister returned, she probably wouldn't be able to leave so easily.
Originally, she planned to slip away right after dinner, but unexpectedly Bai Ya warmly invited her to come play at her house for a while longer.
Refuse? Bai Ya's expression of "if you don't agree I'll cry for you to see" was really something Su Qi couldn't handle.
To be precise, it was something Bai Ling beside Su Qi couldn't handle.
Under Sister's threatening gaze, Su Qi tearfully agreed to Bai Ya's request. She had already anticipated Bai Ya's expression when she opened the door.
She had just sent people to ransack this little girl's house during dinner time, and now as the mastermind, she was being dragged to the crime scene—wasn't this walking into a trap?
Why send people to Bai Ya's house? This question was easy to answer. During their first meeting, Su Qi had seen Bai Ling reading a book.
Although she hadn't seen the front of that book, and Bai Ling immediately closed it after seeing her, Su Qi still felt a sense of familiarity.
That book looked very much like her target for coming to the human world this time—a book called "Mythological Age Magic Studies."
Originally her plan was going smoothly. The elves and beastmen couldn't spare hands to interfere with her, but at the crucial moment, the book was intercepted.
This really pissed Su Qi off, but what could she do? She could only send people to search for it.
This search lasted several days. Not only was Su Qi looking, but the person she was trading with, the middleman, were all searching for that book.
However, Su Qi didn't share intelligence with them because she wanted to freeload.
As long as she could find the book before those people, Su Qi wouldn't have to pay! The price that trading partner offered still made Su Qi's heart ache a bit. If she could get the book without spending money, that would be perfect.
So when she saw that Bai Ling had a book that looked similar, Su Qi immediately thought of a plan. She invited Bai Ya and her sister to dinner together, then sent her subordinates to search while the family was away.
But she never expected that after dinner, Bai Ya would actually invite her to play at her house. Now she was really screwed.
When the half-open door was pushed open, what appeared before the three of them was a kitchen in complete disarray. Almost instantly, Su Qi felt the gaze coming from Bai Ling's direction.
This girl was already suspicious of Su Qi.
"A burglar broke in?!" Bai Ya quickly ran into the room, only to discover that except for the kitchen, everywhere else was the same as before. "But why was only the kitchen touched?"
Yeah, why only the kitchen?
"I'll go downstairs for a bit. You two clean up first." Bai Ling dropped that line and ran downstairs without looking back, leaving Bai Ya and Su Qi staring at each other.
"Should we call the police?" Su Qi asked weakly.
Bai Ya shook her head with a confused expression, "It seems like nothing is missing, forget it."
This burglar was really strange. Having already broken in, they only searched the kitchen. Having searched only the kitchen was one thing, but they didn't even take anything from the kitchen.
This made Bai Ya wonder about the burglar's purpose. It couldn't be that they specifically used her house for practice, right?
Now that everything was tidied up but her sister showed no signs of returning, Bai Ya said apologetically to Su Qi: "Sorry, Little Qi. I didn't expect something like this to happen, and I even troubled you to help clean up."
"It was nothing, don't be so polite." Su Qi didn't know how to respond either. Was she bringing this trouble on herself?
However, since everything was cleaned up, she should slip away quickly.
"It's getting late, so should I head home first?"
"Eh? Is it really this late?" Bai Ya looked at the clock on the wall and was surprised to find it was almost ten o'clock. "It's so late, it'll be dangerous on the road."
Central City's public safety could be said to be quite good, but after nightfall, there would still be some restless social idlers appearing in certain dark corners, waiting for prey to arrive.
And unfortunately, Bai Ya's house was located in a relatively quiet area of Central City.
"It's fine, I'm very strong." Su Qi indicated she was powerful and those small-time thugs couldn't cause her any trouble at all.
Unfortunately, her appearance really couldn't convince Bai Ya.
Su Qi had a very petite figure. Compared to Bai Ya, an average high school student, she was shorter and much thinner.
This reminded Bai Ya of Su Qianqian downstairs. Su Qi and Su Qianqian were really very similar in build, both so petite and delicate, making people fond of them.
"How about Little Qi stays at my house for the night? Tomorrow's a rest day anyway." Bai Ya suggested. In her view, this was the best solution.
Girls staying over at good friends' houses seemed like a pretty normal thing. Some girls in Bai Ya's class would stay at each other's houses.
Especially on weekends, this situation was even more common.
"That's not really appropriate." Su Qi quickly waved her hands. She really wanted to slip away before Bai Ling returned.
If she stayed the night here, she was afraid she wouldn't see tomorrow's sun.
"It's fine, it's fine. I can sleep on the floor. That's better than letting Little Qi go home alone." Bai Ya took Su Qi's hand and gently shook it. "What if something happens to you?"
"It won't happen, I'm super strong." Su Qi was still resisting. "I'm actually a superpower user."
"Eh?" Bai Ya blinked. A superpower user?
Sister is a superpower user, Su Qianqian is also a superpower user, and now Little Qi is also a superpower user. So it turns out I'm the only useless one, is that it?
"Really?"
"Really, I'm not lying."
"Then show me, otherwise I won't believe you." Bai Ya said to Su Qi.
When Sister said she and Su Qianqian were superpower users, Bai Ya believed it, because only this reason could explain why Sister was always busy; explain why she clearly heard Su Qianqian's voice but couldn't find where Su Qianqian was.
But Su Qi claiming to be a superpower user with no evidence—Bai Ya was unwilling to believe it.
"That's not really appropriate. My ability is quite dangerous and not suitable for use in front of ordinary people." Su Qi could only refuse. Where did she have any superpowers? Demons only used magic; superpowers were humans' privilege.
"Hmph, then you'll obediently stay here today." Bai Ya crossed her arms and said very seriously to Su Qi, "Could I be more dangerous than those bad people outside?"