Hearing Shen An’an say she had rushed back to find her only after finishing her mission, Yan Qi thought for a moment, then deliberately put on a hurt expression and said to her:
“Oh, I see. I thought you had abandoned your mission to come find me. Looks like I was just being presumptuous.”
“Ah, no, it’s not like that, Xiao Qi! I didn’t mean it like that!”
Hearing Yan Qi’s intentionally misleading words, Shen An’an immediately became flustered, wanting to explain but finding herself unable to get the words out.
Watching Shen An’an’s panicked face, stammering and unable to speak properly, Yan Qi couldn’t help but feel a little amused inside. However, knowing when to quit while she was ahead, she quickly wiped the expression off her face and said with a smile:
“Alright, alright, Sister Shen, I was just teasing you. Look how scared you got!”
“Xiao Qi, when did you become so mischievous!”
Hearing this and realizing Yan Qi had been deliberately messing with her, Shen An’an couldn’t help but widen her eyes, looking at Yan Qi with a mix of reproach and annoyance.
“If I weren’t a bit mischievous, how could I leave a deep impression on you, Sister Shen?”
Looking at Shen An’an’s angry face without a hint of nervousness, Yan Qi said this, a slightly roguish smile appearing on her face.
Seeing Yan Qi’s cute face with that mischievous grin, any anger Shen An’an felt quickly melted away. She reached out and pinched Yan Qi’s cheek, saying:
“Xiao Qi, why are you so adorable?”
“Sister Shen, could you maybe not pinch my face? I am a Three-Star Transcendent, you know. Please save me a little dignity.”
Having her cheek pinched wasn’t painful, but Yan Qi found it a bit embarrassing and couldn’t help pleading.
Hearing Yan Qi’s plea, Shen An’an reluctantly let go, freeing her little face.
“Sister Shen, does our squad have any missions today?”
Rubbing her cheek, and thinking she shouldn’t just collect a salary from the Anomaly Affairs Bureau without doing anything, Yan Qi looked at Shen An’an, her squad leader, and asked.
“Missions? Xiao Qi, are you really that eager to go on a mission?”
Hearing Yan Qi’s question, Shen An’an withdrew her hand and looked at her curiously.
“Yeah, after all, I can’t just take money and not do any work.”
Yan Qi looked at Shen An’an and honestly stated what was on her mind.
Hearing this, and even though she knew Yan Qi was sincere, Shen An’an—thinking about what Yan Qi had experienced today and believing it would be better for her to rest here quietly—said to her:
“Xiao Qi, I understand how you feel. But considering the bloody nature of what you encountered today, I can’t let you go on another mission.”
“I really can’t go on a mission today?”
Hearing Shen An’an’s words, Yan Qi thought for a moment and asked, somewhat unwillingly.
To this, Shen An’an shook her head, answering very firmly.
“Absolutely not.”
Hearing Shen An’an’s answer and seeing the serious expression on her face, Yan Qi knew there was no room for negotiation. She could only sigh and, with figurative tears in her eyes, accept the fact she was ‘profiting’ by 500 bucks for doing nothing.
…
While Yan Qi was in the squad office of the Fengfang City Anomaly Affairs Bureau, talking with her squad leader Shen An’an…
In the presidential suite of Fengfang City’s only five-star hotel, a black-haired beauty with an enchanting figure and an alluring, almost dreamlike aura was wearing yoga clothes. She was performing various extremely difficult poses on the hotel-provided interlocking plastic mats, movements that looked like they were trying to bend a person in half.
“Hmm? You’re back so early today?”
Immersed in the soothing background music, she suddenly sensed a familiar presence. The black-haired beauty lifted her head to look at the newcomer and asked, somewhat puzzled.
Hearing the black-haired beauty’s question, the man in a suit—whose job was to continuously spread transcendent powers and create all sorts of trouble for the Anomaly Affairs Bureau—didn’t even glance at her. He plopped down on the sofa and began closing his eyes to rest.
Ignored by the man in the suit, the corner of the black-haired beauty’s mouth twitched involuntarily. But knowing this guy wasn’t one to leave work early without reason, she consoled herself and stopped continuing the previous set of extremely difficult poses.
Instead, she quickly got up from the interlocking mats, walked over to the man in the suit, and pressed him further:
“Hey, Baka, didn’t you hear what I said?”
Hearing the black-haired beauty’s inquiry, the man in the suit, Baka, finally opened his eyes and looked at her, answering flatly:
“Could you please lower your voice? I really want to rest right now.”
“You want to rest? Did you finish your work for today?”
Hearing Baka say he wanted to rest, the black-haired beauty furrowed her delicate brows and asked him this.
Hearing this, Baka knew that if he didn’t make things clear, he definitely wouldn’t get any proper rest today. He answered:
“Yes, my work for today is done.”
“Your work is done already? How is that possible? Don’t you usually need the whole day to finish?”
Hearing Baka’s reply, an expression of confusion immediately appeared on the black-haired beauty’s face. She then asked him with puzzlement:
“True, if I followed the usual pace, I would indeed need a whole day to finish. But since I had some private matters to attend to this afternoon, I sped things up a bit.”
Hearing him say it was because of private matters that he accelerated his work pace today, the black-haired beauty blinked her eyes and said curiously:
“You have private matters? Since when do you have private matters? In my impression, you’ve always been a workaholic.”
“Workaholic? Before my little sister left this world, I was never a workaholic.”
Hearing the black-haired beauty say that in her impression he had always been a workaholic, Baka couldn’t help but feel a tinge of melancholy as he recalled the days he used to live with his sister.
“Even if you weren’t a workaholic before, aren’t you one now?”
Knowing Baka was a total sis-con, the black-haired beauty ignored his odd demeanor when mentioning his sister and asked him this follow-up question.
“Hmm, you’re right. I am a workaholic now. It’s just a shame that today is the day I really shouldn’t be one.”
Hearing Baka’s words, the black-haired beauty was taken aback for a moment, then asked:
“Is today something special for you?”