"That's right, it's a romantic relationship."

Chapter 73

Administration, Institute.

Mu Hang looks down and examines the papers laid out on his desk.

These are magic readings and reports from the area around the Abyssal Rift in recent times:

"Any results yet?"

Zhuo Fu walked over with more papers in his arms and placed them heavily on the table with a thud.

He wiped the false sweat from his forehead, shook his head, and said, "Data analysis and processing should take a few more days, but you're right, this time the abyssal rift really isn't normal."

Zhuo Fu reaches over and pulls a report from his desk, pointing a line of data out to Mu Hang: "Until then, there were no abnormal alerts in the area at all, until yesterday--"

His finger moved downward, landing on the unusually spiked numbers behind him.

Mu Hang narrowed his eyes.

All the victims rescued from the area are still unconscious in the hospital and cannot be questioned.

However, generally speaking, there is a slow expansion period after the appearance of an abyssal rift, and high pollution values such as those in the surrounding area can never be caused by a one-day rescue.

Zhuo Fu : "I've sent someone to investigate the institute in the nearby area, I think there might be something wrong with the instrument."

He scratched his head, "But I really don't have any clue about this matter of the Abyssal Eye."

Mu Hang slips his jacket over his arm, turns and heads out the door:

"Contact me when you have a lead."

Zhuo Fu stared at the other party's back and smiled heatedly, "In such a hurry to leave?"

Mu Hang paused in his steps.

Zhuo Fu was not afraid to add, "Accompanying your little friend?"

The man turned around, his cold blue eyes looking up without a ripple.

Zhuo Fu subconsciously took a step back.

He gave a dry laugh, "You guys have fun, I have work to do, so I'll leave you to it."

After saying that, Zhuo Fu turned around with great foresight and dashed towards the laboratory.

Mu Hang: "......"

He withdrew his eyes and pushed the door open to head out.

Outside the research lab, the teenager is slightly curled up, dozing in a chair.

He seemed sleepy as hell, and his head was going little by little, as if he'd slip out of his chair the next second.

Long eyelashes drooped, casting deep shadows on a white face that looked furry.

Mu Hang felt a feather gently sweep the bottom of his heart.

"Wake up, don't sleep here."

Shi An raised her eyes half-asleep, sleepily toward the man in front of her, her clear voice with a bit of a soft nasal sound, and complained, "So sleepy ......"

Mu Hang : "Come on, I'll take you back."

He thought for a moment and added, "Or go for ice cream?"

"!"

Catching the familiar keyword, the sleepy Shi An snapped out of it as he sat up straight, "Ice cream!"

Mu Hang let out a laugh, "Good."

Outside, the sky was already light, and the entire city was shrouded in a light blue morning mist.

The sun gradually climbed higher into the sky, and the city became lively and bustling once again.

Inside the dessert store.

Shi An looks a little fidgety as she looks blearily in the direction of the counter.

Mu Hang sat across from him, stoic and seemingly unaffected by Shi An's impatience.

Since it was still too early in the morning, there was no one else in the dessert store but them.

Soon, the clerk came over with a tray and placed the items on the tray one by one on the table.

The ice cream in front of me had a sweet, creamy, cold, milky flavor mixed with a rich, mellow chocolate aroma that was appetizing.

Shi An stared at the large cup of chocolate barfi in front of her and gripped the small silver spoon.

But before he could start, the man's long, gloved fingers reached up and pressed against the base of the glass, moving it in the opposite direction of Shi An, "Wait."

Shi An: "??"

He looked up quizzically.

Only to see the man across the table dropping his long silver eyelashes and nonchalantly pushing the sandwich aside:

"Breakfast first."

Shi An twisted her head and eyed the ice cream, "But ......"

Mu Hang was expressionless, "No."

"You'll get a tummy ache if you eat it before a meal."

Shi An: "......"

He remembered his last harrowing experience of being hospitalized for eating too much ice cream.

Although he really wanted it, ......

He's really super scared of pain.

Shi An sighed reluctantly.

Still, he wolfed down the steaming hot fried eggs and sandwich in front of him before eagerly dragging back the chocolate barfi that Mu Hang had pushed away, gripping a small spoon and cracking it open.

Mu Hang sat across from him, holding his coffee cup between his fingers and sipping it with a sense of humor, his eyes stoic and his vision always falling on the teenager in front of him.

The black mellow bitter coffee flavor was still hot and steamy and dense.

Shi An sniffed the air and paused in her bite of the spoon.

He raised his eyes, his eyes falling on the coffee in Mu Hang's hand, and asked curiously, "Is it good?"

Mu Hang's eyelashes drooped and he didn't make a sound.

He set his coffee cup down, the bottom of the cup tinkled on the tabletop, turned at an angle, and then was pushed over by the man's fingertips.

Shi An didn't hold back his curiosity in the end, and he reached for it, bringing his coffee cup to his lips.

The teenager's lips were pale, and he carefully contained the rim of the cup.

Mu Hang's eyes deepened slightly as he watched the other's lips gently purse on the spot he had touched earlier.

As soon as the clear black liquid entered her mouth, a strong bitter taste instantly spread out, the mellow flavor that she had smelled earlier seemed to be an illusion, and all that was left was a slightly sour astringent taste, Shi An's face instantly wrinkled up.

Until a minute ago, Shi An thought all food made by humans was delicious, until now ......

He stared at the coffee cup in his hand with a twisted expression, greatly shocked.

Why do humans make such things?

More importantly ......

Why would anyone else voluntarily drink it?

Shi An looked up with a blank face and slowly looked at Mu Hang, who was sitting across from him.

Mu Hang raises an eyebrow, "Well?"

Shi An: "......"

He lowered his head to yippee the rest of the chocolate barfi in his own cup, then pushed it over with a sympathetic look on his face.

Mu Hang: "......"

I don't know why, but it always felt like there was a strange look across the room.

He lowered his eyelashes and scanned the ice cream pushed in front of him before raising his eyes to Shi An : "For me?"

Shi An nodded.

His own collection is so pathetic that it looks like he hasn't had anything good to eat.

Mu Hang shook his head, "No need, you just eat."

Shi An: "Are you sure? It's delicious."

Mu Hang nodded.

Shi An dragged the ice cream back the instant Mu Hang nodded, saying vaguely as she ate it, "Don't you regret it."

Soon, the table is emptied of ice cream by Shi An.

He narrowed his eyes insatiably and stood up, following Mu Hang outside.

Mu Hang, however, took a sudden stride, his voice low and calm, "I do kind of regret it."

Only the man in front of him turned around, his eyes backlit, looking dark and deep.

Shi An : "...... eh?"

Only Mu Hang leaned down, his knuckles slightly curved, hooked Shi An's chin, and kissed her with downcast eyes.

Perhaps it was because he had just eaten ice cream, the teenager's lips were cold and sweet, with a bit of chocolate mellow flavor and the smell of fresh milk, and you could taste a hint of bitter coffee flavor if you tasted it carefully.

Mu Hang licked the corner of Shi An's lips and let out a soft chuckle:

"It's really good."

With those words, he let go of Shi An and calmly turned to walk out the door, "Come on, I'll take you home."

Shi An stood with a frown on her face.

He pursed his lips, the burning human body heat seeming to linger on the surface of his lips for a long time.

Shi An couldn't help but start thinking about Ryusei.

Where exactly does this liturgy apply?

It always felt like something wasn't quite right.

*

Shi An was sent back to the cottage where he had been living before.

Old Butler had not seen his own child for a long time, and although he tried his best to restrain himself, he could not help but burst into tears when he saw Shi An. He wiped the tears from his eyes, and pulled Shi An to ask him questions until Shi An was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and only then did he reluctantly let him go up the stairs.

Shi An flung herself into her bed as soon as she entered the house.

The treasure hidden under the mattress made a clanking metallic clash that was very crisp and pleasant to the ear.

Shi An yawned, and in a daze began to fantasize about what it would be like to pile up a giant bedroll after he got all the treasure back, and then bury his entire dragon in it.

Ah ...... so looking forward to that day!

"Oooo...... oooo...... oooo......"

The sound of sobbing came from Shi An's ears.

Shi An: "......"

He opened his eyes expressionlessly and looked in the direction the voice came from.

Only at his window stood a large black and red-eyed man, with thin two legs supporting his disproportionate body, who was covering his eyes with his thin two hands and weeping sadly.

Shi An slowly clenched her fists.

Damn, he knew this thing didn't give up that easily.

But Shi An is just too sleepy right now.

He yawned, blinked away the tears in the corners of his eyes, and asked in an extremely sleepy voice, "What the hell were you thinking lah ......"

The eyes cried louder:

"Oooooooooooooooooooooo...... me, I know I'm not good enough for you, you rejected my confession, I understand, you're so beautiful and powerful, simply the most perfect creature in the world, but, but, what's so good about that human!

Shi An: "????"

What the hell are you talking about?

Eyes climbed in through the window, tears snapping to the floor as he looked at Shi An in grief:

"You... Why did you do that with that human?"

Shi An : "...... sh, what is it?"

A delicate blush spread across her eyed face as she pairs her two thin hands together, "That's it, that's it, Jojo."

Shi An: "......"

Kind of a disgusting heart.

However, he quickly caught the emphasis in the other's words, frowned slightly, and repeated:

"Jojo?"

Five minutes later.

Shi An sat on the bed with a blank face, sleepless.

He slowly twisted his head to look at the eyeballs, "So kissing isn't a human rite of passage?"

Eyes: "Yes, that's true, but it's limited to the cheeks, the backs of the hands, like mouth-to-mouth, and it's only done between couples."

Shi An: "Love, couple?"

He repeated dryly, asking somewhat incredulously, "It's ......"

"That's right, it's a romantic relationship." Eyeball covered her face shyly.

Shi An: "........................ "

Wait a minute?

Wait ？？？？？

The memories of the previous days flooded into his mind like a tidal wave.

Shi An is stupid.

So it is that he, the world's last abyssal dragon, actually unknowingly establishes a relationship as a couple with Mu Hang, the world's last remaining dragonslayer and a future collector of his own ？？？？