"Relaxing...? Huh?" It wasn't that Shu was slow to react. It was mainly that a grown man had his arm around his neck and was asking him in a rather subtle tone if he had any way to relax...
If the other party wasn't Siegfried, Shu would have really started to pull away.
But since it was Siegfried, Shu could only think in the direction that he was really asking what he usually liked to do.
"Yeah, what do you usually like to do? Play games? Or watch tokusatsu? I recommend... ahem, so you..." After almost revealing his true intentions for the second time, Siegfried quickly shut up, then coughed lightly and looked at Shu seriously.
"So... do you really have any relaxing activities?"
Shu really wanted to answer "yes" with conviction.
He completely agreed with what Siegfried had said before. A person definitely needed to rest. Even an iron man couldn't withstand long periods of high-intensity fatigue!
Even if he also...
Also...
What was his way of relaxing?
Shu hesitated. The ways of relaxing that Siegfried had just mentioned were nothing more than playing games and watching anime or dramas. Since returning to Fire Moth, Shu had indeed not done either of these things.
What about other things that Siegfried hadn't mentioned?
Did training count? Although he didn't have much formal training and mostly replayed past battles in his mind, fighting with his imaginary enemies... did that count?
It definitely didn't, right!
"Ahem, actually, I do..." After telling a lie with a little guilt, Shu looked up and found that Siegfried's eyes had narrowed into a slit.
The meaning of "you're not being honest" was almost written in glowing letters on Siegfried's face. The scrutinizing and suspicious gaze made Shu's trembling eyes look away.
Was the Kaslana family really so sensitive to lies? Or was this just a unique skill of Siegfried's?
Otherwise, why hadn't Kiana shown this ability to see through his lies at a glance? Could it be that he was the one being kept in the dark by Kiana?
Nonsense! How could that be?!
"Then what is it?" Siegfried didn't expose Shu's lie directly, but said in a faint voice, his eyes narrowed. "Share some with me~"
Confirmed. This was a unique skill of Siegfried's. Kiana didn't have this level of sarcasm.
"Playing games..." Shu didn't know why, but his words had become a mumble-like whisper. His voice was so low that Siegfried had to turn his head and put his ear close to Shu.
"What?"
"Just playing some games." After adjusting, Shu managed to find his voice.
Siegfried showed an understanding expression, then with a "swoosh," he took out his phone in front of Shu and squeezed in next to him. "What game? Let's add each other as friends and play together?"
?
A look of incredible horror was projected from Shu's eyes.
Speaking of which, when he had met Kiana, he was still in a state of excitement from just having transmigrated, surrounded by surprises and scares. And Kiana had ambushed him first, so his conversation with her had been relatively smooth...
So the social butterflies of the Kaslana family were this terrifying?
I just said I play games, and you're asking for my contact information right away?
Do we know each other?
Aren't we still in a state where you know me, and I know you, but we're not familiar with each other at all?!
Skipping the stage of exchanging names was one thing, but why even the self-introduction... forget it, I can't do that even more...
One of the things Shu hated most in his life was giving a formal self-introduction to others... summarizing his strengths and weaknesses was fine. He could think of a set of words in advance and use them until he died.
The difficult part was explaining his likes and dislikes... saying "I don't like **, so you'd better not ** in the future" was a challenge for Shu that was almost equivalent to murder.
Making such a forceful request to others, he just couldn't do it!!
He could do it a little now, but Shu was still avoiding making such forceful requests to others. Unless there was a reason why he had to be forceful, Shu was the Shu who liked to stay out of things.
And after exchanging names and self-introductions, what was the process of becoming friends?
It seemed to be exchanging contact information and starting to interact!
Shu tremblingly took out his phone and mechanically added Siegfried as a friend. Siegfried put his phone away with satisfaction, then took out another phone and added the two of them as contacts in front of the unresisting Shu.
Hmm? Why was Cecilia also...
Shu didn't dare to ask. He just stared at Siegfried, who was putting away the two phones, for two seconds. After confirming that he had no further moves, he put his phone away with relief.
"So what's the game?" Then Siegfried's voice sounded again.
No, you're chasing me to my death?!
"Uh..." Shu felt that at this moment, Siegfried was more terrifying than a Herrscher. Every word, even every single word, had turned into a mighty army, charging at him with spears and horses.
Heh... a mere mighty army...
What? The other side was a friendly army? I can't hurt them at all?
Shu quickly retracted all his sharpness and could only dodge frantically in the midst of the mighty army, exhausted.
How should he answer this question? Should he say that he was actually playing "Honkai Impact 3"? Or those games that only existed in his original world and were modified into the Homu series in this world?
Wait, could it be that this world also had "Homu 3" or something?
"Actually... it's just... 'Homu Combat Evolution'... something like that?" Shu had indeed played this game. It was the game Kiana and the others had played on the train, and it was enduring. Shu would also play with them in the beginning.
Although he had played less later on, he would still go up and take a turn occasionally.
"Oh? A console game?!" Siegfried's eyes lit up. "I'm very good at this game! I'm practically unbeatable!"
Siegfried slapped his chest with a bang, but was met with Shu's suspicious gaze.
If he remembered correctly... the current strongest player in this game should be Cecilia, right? And behind her was Kallen, who was also in a league of her own. Bronya could only be considered in the third tier, on the same level as the cheating Ai-chan.
Siegfried, whose thoughts had been directly exposed, wanted to whistle in guilt, but he couldn't. He could only wave his hand shamelessly.
"Oh! At least I was once a legend in this game!"