Miss Witch, even if we're poor, we can't sell ourselves!

The extra day spent in the wooden cabin behind the mountain after the nightfall was not simply a matter of resting and recuperating.

Every morning, Bie Chenye still makes breakfast, with Mi Ye helping out. In the morning, she goes for a walk around the outer edge of the back mountain and takes a few low-level monsters.

The Nightblade Jackal couldn't even last three seconds against her now.

Bie Chenye then helped her review the martial arts test in the wooden house, breaking down all the battle records frame by frame.

What are the weaknesses of the Sleepy Fish Domain of Corona Borealis? From what angle is the Charm of Nightfall most easily detected? When Asase changes his move, in which direction will his center of gravity shift?

"You won, but there were some areas where you could have fought more easily."

"Next time you encounter a similar situation, you won't need to take so many hits."

Teacher Bie Chenye spoke earnestly.

The afternoon is for teaching.

Miya's basic skills were all learned through actual combat. Tentacle attacks were instinctive, contempt was triggered passively, and giant devour was used as soon as it was obtained.

But under Bie Chenye's systematic sorting, those scattered skills began to return to their proper places, like the trunk of a tree finally being revealed after its branches have been pruned.

"Your current total vitality is sufficient to support the second stage of skills."

Bie Chenye opened her notebook, which was curled at the edges, and pointed out a page to Mi Ye.

[Berserk Mode] Lv1

【Effect】:

Consuming one's own life force to significantly increase physical fitness and agility in a short period of time.

[Unyielding] Lv1

【Effect】:

The lower the vitality, the higher the defense; this is a passive effect.

Bie Chenye explained that these two skills are the most basic twin skills of flesh and blood magic. Berserk is responsible for the offensive end, and Unyielding is responsible for the defensive end. Combined with the tentacles' contempt and giant bite, they can form an extremely high margin for error in the case of low health.

While practicing Unyielding, Mi Ye squatted on the gravel ground behind the mountain. Bie Chenye simulated several low-intensity attacks, controlling the force to just enough to make her lose health but not to injure her.

Miya felt her physical condition steadily increasing as her blood volume decreased, and her eyes widened in surprise.

"That's so unfair!"

"This is flesh and blood magic."

Bie Chenye retracted his tentacles and pulled her up from the ground.

"Others get weaker the more they fight, but you get stronger."

On the night before his departure, Miya sat at the table in the wooden house, with a blank page torn from Bie Chenye's notebook spread out in front of him.

She held the dip pen; the tip was a little rusty, but it wrote surprisingly smoothly after being dipped in ink.

The recipient is Meredith.

She wrote several openings but wasn't satisfied with any of them. "Dear Meredith" was too stiff, "Dear Meredith" was too cheesy, and "Hello, Meredith" was too bland.

Finally, she scratched her head and started writing directly from the first sentence.

……

Respectfully yours:

Dear Teacher Meredith, I am Miya.

I used the recommendation letter you gave me before.

Teacher Bie Chenye is very good, even better than you described.

Although the wooden house behind our mountain is a bit dilapidated, she planted cherry tomatoes on the windowsill, and they are very sweet.

……

The pen nib scratches across the paper. Don't sit on the bench late at night looking at your notes; pretend you're not peeking.

When Mi Ye wrote about being blasted off balance by the Chaos Bomb from Corona Borealis, Bie Chenye's gaze lingered on that page for quite a while.

When she wrote about how she flew into the sky on a sleepwalking fish and turned the tables, she hid her face behind the book, but she was clearly chuckling to herself, as if she were proud of her student.

"You're so busy, teaching, doing research, and recording videos. I wonder if you've been eating on time. The summer insects on the back hill are very beautiful. I'll catch a few for you to see next time you come."

After writing this, Mi Ye carefully lifted the letter with her tentacles to dry it, folded it into thirds, and stuffed it into the envelope that Bie Chenye had found for her. She sealed the envelope with a small tomato pattern printed with sealing wax.

Bie Chenye took the envelope, carefully placed it in his drawer, and prepared to burn it with magic the next day.

On the day I was finally leaving, the sun was shining brightly.

The air behind the mountain was crisp and clear after the rain, like freshly melted snow. Mi Ye changed into the windbreaker that Bie Chenye had sewn for her.

The windbreaker was eventually brought over by Teacher Xiesta, who gave Miya a meaningful smile, which puzzled Miya.

The backpack contained a spirit-locking box, several freshly picked herbs, and a bag of homemade dried mushrooms that Bie Chenye had given her.

Bie Chenye stood at the door, adjusted her backpack strap, and bent down to brush off a dead leaf that had somehow gotten stuck to her trouser leg.

Send a message when you arrive.

"Okay."

"If you don't like the food in the cafeteria, tell me and I'll have Meredith give you special treatment."

"I haven't eaten in the cafeteria yet."

Bie Chenye looked down at the top of Mi Ye's head, watching her pale golden hair shimmer with a soft, fluffy light in the sunlight.

For several days, there were two people eating in the cabin. One person would ask her from behind what she was having for breakfast while she was making breakfast, and the other person would sit next to her while she flipped through her notes, watching MikuFans and suppressing his laughter.

Now I'm alone again.

Mi Ye looked up and saw Bie Chenye's expression. Then she stood on tiptoe, stretched out a hand and gently pressed it on the top of Bie Chenye's head, just like that day.

"We'll be able to see each other again when school starts in a few days."

Bie Chenye didn't answer, but simply reached out and gently pulled Mi Ye into his arms.

The hug was brief, so brief that it ended before Mi Ye could even react. Bie Chenye released her grip and took a step back.

"Let's go, or we'll miss the subway."

Miya nodded and turned to walk into the path behind the mountain.

On her way to the subway station, she refrained from looking back.

She stopped after turning the corner from the ancient oak tree and looked back in the direction of the cabin.

The chimney was still smoking; Biechenye must have boiled another kettle of water.

I left school.

There weren't many people in the subway station.

Miya swiped her card to enter the station and found a seat in a corner.

The air conditioning in the carriage was set a bit too low, so she pulled up the zipper of her coat and shrank into her seat to watch the tunnel lights rushing past the window.

Then, in the reflection of the glass, she saw several little witches in the next carriage peering in her direction.

They huddled together and whispered, one of them raising her phone and pretending to take a picture of the GG sign outside the window, but the camera was clearly off-center.

"...Is it her?"

"Blonde, short, definitely number one."

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, should I go up and ask for an autograph?"

"She's so small and cute, even smaller than she looks in the live stream."

"Was that tentacle really hidden in her sleeve? I couldn't tell."

"Alive! Alive! I'm going to faint—"

Miya pulled up her hood, tucked half her head down, and pretended to be looking at GG outside the window.

After the martial arts test, she knew she could no longer keep a low profile as before.

She used to be just an unknown part-time worker at Nightingale's Nest, occasionally mentioned by customers as a cute new maid. Later, she became the maid trending on Meredith's lap pillow, and now she is the tentacle monster who won first place in the martial arts competition.

She has short, light blonde hair, is less than 1.5 meters tall, and has honey-colored eyes.

It is indeed too conspicuous.

She took out her phone and texted Flores, her fingers tapping rapidly across the screen.

"Manager, I'm almost home."

Flores replied instantly.

"What would you like to eat tonight? I'll have the kitchen prepare it in advance."

Mi Ye looked at the message and couldn't help but smile. She sent a picture of what she wanted to eat, along with a cat nodding emoji, then locked the screen and put her phone in her pocket.

The subway roared through the tunnel, and occasionally a few light boxes with "GG" lit up flashed past the window.

She dangled her legs, which barely reached the ground, in the corner seat of the carriage, thinking that she could finally sleep in her own little bed tonight.

The bed where Korika secretly let the plush bunny go, and outside the window are the streetlights in the back alley of Nightingale's Nest.