Make me leave the team? My beast girl and I can win easily.

There are only 7 days left until the start of the new semester.

Lin Yu planned to go to the wilderness again before the start of the semester so that Lin Shan could personally settle the old grudge with the two red-tailed giant eagles.

The giant eagles roam in areas on the outskirts of the wilderness.

With the team's current strength, the monsters there no longer pose a threat.

But the wilderness is too vast, and it would take at least a day to travel there and rest there at night.

In addition, the wilderness is not only home to magical beasts, but also to various hunting teams.

People's hearts are unpredictable.

In sparsely populated wilderness, murder and robbery for a bottle of medicine or a piece of equipment are commonplace.

Therefore, he felt that the protection of the space tent should be maximized.

The [Holy Protection Counterattack Rune Array], as well as the [Holy Magic Turret Rune Array] and the [Light Giant Summoning Rune Array] have already been inscribed.

Only when three Heavenly Rank rune arrays are stacked can it be considered a true impregnable fortress.

After his first successful experience, his understanding of the rune array structure deepened considerably.

Those originally complex and dizzying combinations of runes gradually revealed their inherent logic in his eyes.

"At this rate, we should be able to finish these two rune arrays within five days," Lin Yu estimated in his mind.

In the living room of the villa, he stood in the middle of the large open space, his gaze falling on the two complex array diagrams spread out in front of him.

Lin You floated beside him, her energy body fluctuating slightly as she projected the calculated energy loop optimization plan into mid-air.

The dense stream of data, interspersed and flashing with three-dimensional structural diagrams, would make an ordinary person dizzy at a glance.

"Let's begin." Lin Yu took a deep breath, dripped blood into the bowl of water, and began to trace the array symbols...

Meanwhile, in the restaurant on the first floor.

Several plates of cut fruit were placed on the long table, and sunlight streamed through the window onto the smooth surface.

Lin Duo sat upright in the chair, her back straight, her expression serious and focused.

In front of her was a pair of wooden chopsticks, and next to her was a small dish of apple slices.

Lin Xue sat opposite her, her red eyes calm and unwavering.

She picked up her chopsticks, gracefully picked up a piece of apple, and put it in her mouth.

The entire process was smooth and seamless, without making a single unnecessary sound.

"Did you see it clearly?" Lin Xue asked.

Lin Duo nodded vigorously, her orange ahoge (antenna-like hair sticking up) swaying as she spoke: "I saw it clearly!"

She imitated Lin Xue and reached for the chopsticks.

The placement of the fingers, the curvature of the web between the thumb and forefinger, the coordination between the index finger and thumb...

She remembered that her owner and her sisters always took it this way.

However, her fingers had their own ideas.

Either two chopsticks were crossed in her hand into an "X" shape, making it impossible to close them together.

Either she finally got into the right position, but then her wrist jerked, and the chopsticks fell to the table with a "clatter".

With great difficulty, she managed to pick up a piece of apple and shakily held it up in the air—

As a result, the apple slipped and rolled onto the ground.

"Ugh..." Lin Duo looked at the dusty apple pieces on the ground, her eyes glistening with tears.

She bent down to pick it up, and her forehead hit the edge of the table with a "thud."

She always forgets this, and she's bumped into things several times already.

"It hurts so much..." She sat up straight, clutching her forehead, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Pfft, haha—" Unrestrained laughter came from the side.

"Lin Duo, you're so cute!" Lin Ya suddenly appeared, peeking out from behind Lin Duo's shoulder, laughing so hard she almost fell over. "You're so clumsy at everything!"

"Sister Lin Ya..." Lin Duo looked at her with a pitiful expression.

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh at you anymore." Lin Ya squeezed in next to her. "I'll teach you, it's very simple!"

She grasped Lin Duo's hand and adjusted the position of her fingers: "This one, hold it in place with your middle and index fingers, right..."

"This one, controlled by your thumb and forefinger, is what moves..."

"Look, it's been clipped up!"

With Lin Ya's help, Lin Duo finally managed to pick up another piece of apple.

She held her breath, cautiously, as if she were holding a time bomb.

Slowly bring the apple to your mouth—

I ate it!

"I did it!" Lin Duo's eyes lit up instantly, sparkling like stars. "Sister Lin Ya, I did it!"

"Amazing!" Lin Ya smiled and ruffled her hair.

Lin Duo shook her head happily, her ahoge sticking up proudly.

She couldn't help but look at Lin Xue, like a little animal waiting for praise.

Lin Xue nodded expressionlessly.

She stood up and went into the kitchen.

A few seconds later, she brought out two new plates and placed them in front of Lin Duo.

One plate contains tofu cut into neat little cubes, which look very tender, as if they would crumble if you blew on them.

The other plate contained round, smooth peas that rolled around in the dish.

Lin Duo's smile froze on her face.

Lin Xue sat down, picked up her chopsticks again, and with the same elegant posture, picked up a piece of tofu.

The tofu block landed steadily on her chopsticks, slightly deformed but not broken, and was smoothly fed into her mouth.

Then, she picked up another pea.

The peas didn't boil or slip off; they were held firmly to the tip of the chopsticks as if attracted by a magnet.

Lin Duo looked at the two plates of "Ultimate Challenge" and then at her chopsticks that wouldn't obey her, and her little face gradually fell.

Lin Duo: (╥﹏╥)

"Sister Lin Xue...this is too difficult..." Her voice was trembling with tears.

Lin Xue looked at her, her eyes completely unmoved: "Then practice cooking more."

"But…"

"If you want to use chopsticks, you have to practice." Lin Xue's tone left no room for argument. "Our master and we all use chopsticks. Do you want to be different?"

Lin Duo bit her lip and shook her head.

She didn't want to be different.

Previously, she sat at the dining table, watching her host and sisters eat with chopsticks, while she could only use a spoon.

Although no one said anything, she just felt that she was different.

She is a koi fish in human form.

Fish can't be eaten with chopsticks; that's only natural.

But she didn't want to be just "a fish" forever.

She wanted to stay by her owner's side, like a true "family member".

So she wants to learn.

Even if it's difficult, even if it's stupid.

Lin Duo took a deep breath, gripped the chopsticks tightly again, and her eyes became determined.

She cautiously reached for the plate of tofu—

The tofu has crumbled.

I tried again, and it broke again.

As for peas?

It's impossible to pick it up; it slips away as soon as you touch it.

Once, twice, ten times…

The tofu crumbled into pieces under her chopsticks, and the peas rolled all over the table.

Her fingers started to ache, her wrists stiffened, and she bumped her forehead on the table several more times.

Feeling wronged, frustrated, and doubting myself...

A flood of emotions welled up, and my eyes reddened again.

Lin Ya initially cheered her on from the sidelines, but gradually fell silent.

Looking at Lin Duo's stubborn profile, at how she clearly wanted to cry but held back, a soft spot in her heart was touched.

She recalled the time when she had just taken human form.

At that time, she didn't know anything, she couldn't use chopsticks properly, and she couldn't take a bath properly either.

It was her master and Lin Xue who taught her little by little, and she slowly learned how to do it.

At that time, she also felt that Lin Xue was too fierce.

Looking back now, if Lin Xue hadn't forced her like that, she would probably still be eating with a spoon.

"Little sister Lin Duo..." Lin Ya said softly, "Why don't you rest for a while?"

Lin Duo shook her head, her voice muffled: "I...I'll try again..."

She reached for a pea that had rolled to the corner of the table, leaned forward, and lost her balance.

He slid off the chair and landed on the floor with a "plop".

This finally made the tears I had been holding back burst out.

"Waaah—" Lin Duo sat on the ground, hugging her knees, and cried out.

It wasn't just being coquettish; she was genuinely sad and wronged, feeling useless.

Lin Ya panicked and quickly squatted down to comfort her, "Don't cry, don't cry, we won't practice anymore!"

"How wonderful it is to use a spoon! The spoon is mankind's greatest invention!"

Lin Duo raised her tear-filled face, sobbing, "But...but...Master uses chopsticks...and the sisters too..."

"So what!" Lin Ya pulled her up and wiped her face haphazardly with her sleeve. "It's fine if you use a spoon, Master loves you the most!"

That's true.

Lin Yu indulged Lin Duo like a doting father.

I always felt that she was the youngest and the most clueless, and needed extra care.

Hearing this, Ke Linduo cried even harder: "Master...Master is good to me..."

"But I... I don't want to always be taken care of..."

"I also want to...do something..."

She recalled the time when she was still a lucky koi fish, swimming in that huge body of water within the [Space Bracelet].

All around were various kinds of magical fish, which were all "reserve food" waiting to be eaten by Kaz and his companions.

Many companions disappear every day.

She swam carefully inside, not daring to snatch food or attract attention.

My biggest wish is to go unnoticed and live one more day at a time.

At that time, she felt that this was all there was to her life:

One day, it was fished out and then torn into pieces by the Naga warriors, who then devoured it alive.

Until that towering figure appeared.