NOVEL WEB Chapter 124 - Perfectly resolved?
“……”
“Hah?! x2”
“Cough, cough, cough!”
The moment WuYue’s question left her mouth, Bai Yu froze for a second before the meaning truly registered. Then, as if she’d been startled awake, she suddenly broke into a fit of coughing.
After regaining her composure, she hastily spoke with a mix of urgency and helplessness—though the blush on her face remained impossible to ignore.
“N-No! That’s not right! How could I possibly do something like that?! I would never do such a thing!”
“Really?”
“Then why is your face so red, Bai Yu?”
WuYue looked at her, tilting her head in confusion.
“…… That’s because—well, because—”
“Because I was right, wasn’t I?”
“Hmm… Bai Yu, let me explain how I reached my conclusion.”
“This was just something I happened to discover by chance. If you don’t believe me, you can test it on yourself.”
“In short, my discovery is this—when a magical girl’s hair is separated from her body, it retains a residual mana fluctuation for a period of time. And based on the strength of these fluctuations, it’s possible to estimate how long ago the hair was shed.”
“And this strand of hair—”
As she spoke, WuYue extended a hand and casually felt around YouYu’s arm. After a brief search—one that was far too deliberate—she finally plucked a single strand of blue hair, all while YouYu silently watched with an exasperated expression.
Holding up the hair, WuYue continued in a matter-of-fact tone.
“This strand of hair, along with its mana fluctuation, could only belong to a magical girl.”
“Which means… Bai Yu, this should be yours, right?”
“If you didn’t sleep with YouYu last night… then how did your hair end up on his arm?”
“Uh… I… th-this…”
Faced with WuYue’s relentless line of questioning, Bai Yu suddenly panicked. That confident demeanor she’d displayed just moments ago vanished in an instant.
In her flustered state, her eyes eventually landed on YouYu, silently pleading for help.
Meanwhile, LiuMeng, watching from the side, realized that things might not be as she’d initially assumed. The words that had been forming at the tip of her tongue—words filled with an ominous sort of pressure—were swiftly swallowed back down.
Instead, she let out a sigh, turned to the ever-exasperated YouYu, and asked:
“So, YouYu… nothing actually happened?”
“…What exactly do you mean by ‘nothing’?”
“You know what I’m talking about. Don’t play dumb. I just need to hear it from you—did what WuYue implied really happen?”
“You don’t even need to ask—it’s obviously impossible!”
“I was asleep the whole time! I have no idea what happened!”
YouYu answered immediately—after all, he definitely understood what LiuMeng was getting at, and this was not something he could afford to let spiral out of control.
“Hah?! How could nothing have happened? YouYu, if you did something, you should own up to it! No need to lie, right?”
“Besides—”
She pointed at Bai Yu.
“She even sent a picture of you last night!”
“You were in her bed… and the next morning, there’s her hair on your arm…”
“Are you sure nothing happened?”
“…Alright, so tell me—what exactly do you think happened? What Liu Meng said might not be the same thing you’re referring to.”
Not wanting to play along with WuYue’s convoluted logic, YouYu simply questioned her back.
WuYue blinked, suddenly hesitant. After a moment, she muttered, a bit awkwardly,
“Well… something happened, that’s all! No need to be so specific!”
“Ugh, forget it! Bai Yu, you tell me! Did something happen or not?!”
“……”
Bai Yu fell into a long silence. Then, face still flushed, she lowered her voice and admitted,
“I mean… technically, yes—but only for a little bit.”
“Mmhm! I knew it! I knew—wait, what?!”
“You actually did something?!”
WuYue had been nodding along smugly, ready to bask in the glory of being right, when Bai Yu’s words fully registered. And then—her whole brain practically short-circuited.
But this time, YouYu wasn’t about to let the misunderstanding spiral out of control.
Letting out a sigh, he looked at WuYue—who was completely frozen in shock—and, under the immense pressure of LiuMeng’s gaze, patiently explained,
“Alright, alright, don’t let your imagination run wild. Bai Yu, what you’re referring to is when you fell asleep clinging to my arm, right?”
“H-Huh?! YouYu, how did you—”
“Because when I woke up, my right arm was still numb. How could I not know?”
“…Oh. Um. Sorry.”
“……”
“Seriously, you two. Try not to phrase things in a way that leads to so many misunderstandings…”
After a brief silence, LiuMeng spoke, rubbing her temples.
“You nearly made me think that—”
“Don’t worry.”
YouYu cut her off immediately, preventing any further unnecessary elaboration.
“Besides, I’m not exactly fully human anymore. So at this point, I’ve probably—no, almost certainly—lost those kinds of urges.”
“In other words, something like that is… highly unlikely to happen.”
…Unless he were forced, but that was practically impossible.
“……”
“…Hah. Fine.”
Hearing YouYu’s response, WuYue finally let out a breath.
“As long as nothing actually happened, then it’s fine.”
After saying that, she turned to Bai Yu. Her expression shifted slightly, and after a brief pause, she lowered her head and muttered,
“Sorry, Bai Yu. I kind of went off on you just now…”
“It’s just… I was honestly pretty upset.”
She lifted her head again and gave a somewhat helpless smile.
“Because, you know… I really didn’t expect you to ‘sneak ahead’ like that.”
“So, I guess… I ended up taking it out on you a little.”
“…Mm.”
Bai Yu nodded.
She had already prepared herself for this. If it meant WuYue would agree to her request, then this level of “sacrifice”—being teased a little—was something she could handle.
“So, WuYue.”
Taking a deep breath, Bai Yu looked her in the eye and asked once more,
“What do you think of my proposal?”
“…”
“Of course I’ll agree.”
“After all, if I don’t—”
WuYue glanced at YouYu, pausing for a moment. Then, with a faintly melancholic tone, she continued,
“Then he wouldn’t be able to live a little more comfortably, would he?”
“……”
“But, Bai Yu.”
“What?”
Recalling a novel she’d read before, WuYue suddenly smiled at Bai Yu and said,
“You do know that I was the first one to meet YouYu, right?”
“That… is true.”
“Mm! So in a way, that makes us ‘childhood friends’, don’t you think?”
“And you know, there was a novel I read once that said—there are only two types of girls in the world.”
“One is the childhood friend, and the other… is the sneaky little cat who steals.”
“So… I hope you’ll promise me—don’t be a ‘sneaky cat.’”
“That’s my condition.”
“……”
“Alright.”
After a brief moment of thought, Bai Yu nodded in agreement.
After all, this condition… didn’t bother her at all.
“……”
“So does that mean this whole situation is now…”
Watching as Bai Yu and WuYue seemed to have completely reconciled—and as LiuMeng gazed at them with an inexplicably nostalgic expression—YouYu mused to himself.
“Perfectly resolved?”