[Aside from being able to impart Pleasure through your tentacles, now you can also infuse any target with a "no-end-time-limit" Superconductor effect through them]
[It's recommended to release it from a highly elevated place with a vast field of view!]
[...]
[Please use it without any reservations!]
Watching the text as it appeared, An Le opened her mouth slightly, quickly turning her head to look behind her.
However, behind her was still the cliff, without any temple capable of producing the sound of a wooden fish.
What made An Le feel even more bizarre was that usually, whenever her superpowers upgraded, her Little Thumb would sense it.
Just like the time in the Shrine.
It had been giving her the silent treatment for days, and it generally wouldn't show up without her permission.
But at that time, the moment she sprouted more tentacles, it sensed it immediately and appeared.
But now...
Little Thumb showed no reaction at all, as if it wasn't aware of the information that suddenly emerged now.
"Little Thumb?"
With this thought, An Le murmured a call for Little Thumb.
"What's up?"
On her shoulder, Little Thumb appeared at once, seemingly guilty.
An Le turned her head to scrutinize it for a while, realizing it seemed to have guessed that she knew everything, so now it didn't know how to face her...
But, this wasn't a reaction to knowing about this new power.
"...Nothing, just calling you."
"Nervous..."
Little Thumb snorted lightly, turning its head away.
Catching a glimpse of An Le's silence, it realized she had nothing else to say, then quietly added,
"If there's nothing else, I'll head back first..."
"Okay."
"...Oh right."
Just as it was about to disappear, Little Thumb stuck out its tongue, saying to An Le,
"During this time, be sure not to use my power again."
An Le gave it a glance, and Little Thumb stuck its tongue out faster, quickly vanishing without a trace.
Even after it fully disappeared, An Le belatedly uttered an "mm."
After checking the cliffside once more, An Le then turned toward the village.
"Yo, little girl, thank your boyfriend for me! Those things were heavy, and without him, it would've been quite troublesome!"
"Eh? Okay... okay, I'll pass it on to him..."
However, on the way, as dusk fell, An Le encountered quite a few villagers returning home.
Several people, seeing An Le walking back, immediately reached out to greet her with smiles.
"Didn't you head back to the Shrine? The boy accompanying you looking for his girlfriend throughout the village is your boyfriend, right?"
"Ah... I... I'll head back soon..."
Boy...
Boyfriend?!
Hearing this, An Le was initially bewildered, then her heart started racing.
She pressed her lips, without explaining, instead nervously tucking her hair, afraid that others would notice something suggesting she wasn't his girlfriend.
Xiao...
When did Xiao Huan suddenly become my boyfriend?
Could it be...
Am I dreaming?!
An Le pressed her lips together and, after passing through the crowd, discreetly pinched her thigh.
"..."
As expected!
No feeling!
I really am dreaming!!
An Le subconsciously thought.
But after a second, she abruptly remembered:
Her limbs were already numb!
An Le, you really are an idiot...
With this in mind, she quickly pinched her abdomen.
When the pain came, she realized she wasn't dreaming.
Then...
How did it suddenly...
An Le felt both shocked and delighted, quickly heading toward the Shrine to find out.
"Yo, An Le, back already?"
"Grandmother Jindai... ladies?"
At the entrance, three Grandmother Jindai sat leisurely, smiling as they looked at An Le.
In the courtyard, Kuixiang and Hayashi were already called back home by their parents.
"Um... Xiao Huan... oh, the one with me..."
"You mean your boyfriend?"
At Grandmother Jindai's opening words, An Le's face flushed slightly, instinctively wanting to wave it off, but a second later, she discreetly nodded.
Indeed.
"Him? He said he wanted to show off and is cooking dinner for us... He should be in the kitchen now, if you want to see him, just go..."
"...Alright."
An Le, face red, nodded incessantly.
On her way here, for some reason, everyone in the village seemed to have assumed that Xiao Huan and she were a couple.
Although she hadn't seen Xiao Huan himself yet, An Le's little heart pounded the whole way.
Even when she reached the smoky kitchen door, she cautiously peeped inside.
Seeing the smoke inside enveloping a boy watching over a pot, she finally stepped inside little by little,
"Xiao Huan?"
"Ah, you're back?"
Yan Huan instantly donned a facade of expression management, striving to betray no flaws.
He smiled, turning around to see An Le, whose face was slightly red with a hint of puzzlement, wiped his hands,
"Dinner's almost ready."
"Oh... good... it's just, Xiao Huan, um... why..."
Seeing An Le's gaze drifting toward him, Yan Huan blinked, intentionally playing a trick,
"Since we're staying in Grandmother Jindai's home, it's only fitting we repay them with a few meals..."
"Not asking about cooking, it's just... before you called me your girlfriend... why..."
There it is!
A hint of gleam flashed through Yan Huan's eyes, precisely controlling his expression to show a trace of confusion.
Then, he suddenly asked,
"An Le, are we meant to do that sort of thing on the last day?"
"Exactly!"
Even before Yan Huan finished speaking, An Le immediately opened her mouth to confirm.
Her reaction was exactly as Yan Huan hoped.