Am I the only one streaming Sword Art Online on the entire internet?

Aiweixin doesn't really like wearing dark-colored clothes, which might be related to Mo Yulan and You Na's dressing style. After busying herself for a while, she changed into a light blue dress and put a delicate pink rose hair clip in her hair, making her look much younger than before.

"Vivi would be quite surprised to see Ivy Xin like this," Ivy Xin thought expectantly, looking at herself in the mirror before tiptoeing out of her room. Mo Yulan's door remained closed; it seemed the two of them were still asleep, presumably having had a wonderful night. Ivy Xin was no longer the innocent child she once was; now she only appeared innocent.

"Vivi's on her way, she'll be there soon." She ran briskly downstairs, used her electronic warfare module to open her garage, and drove out Mo Yulan's car. "There might be a surprise in a bit~"

"Ah, you always like to use the word 'surprise,' but it's often just what you think is a surprise when it's actually nothing at all." Vector said this, but she was also secretly looking forward to it, after all, that little angel had already given her too many surprises. She looked up at Chu Ziyu, who was sleeping like a log on the table, and shook him awake without any pity.

"Oh my god... Vivi, can't you let me get some sleep? I'm so tired after staying up all night!" Chu Ziyu shook his head groggily, looked helplessly at Vector who had suddenly woken him up, and then lay back down. "What are you up to now? I remember your body hasn't fully recovered yet."

“Although I haven’t fully recovered, it doesn’t interfere with my daily activities anymore. My little angel wants to go shopping with me later, so you can stay here,” Vector replied calmly.

"Is she already calling me 'Little Angel'? You two are making pretty fast progress... Wait, what's with this feeling of watching my own daughter grow up? Am I that old already?" Chu Ziyu muttered to himself, leaning on the table. He knew Vector's personality, and the fact that the little angel could cause such a big change in Vector was clearly something that surprised him greatly.

"Do you think you're not old enough? You just look younger. I'm leaving. Don't bother me unless it's absolutely necessary."

She rolled out of bed, slipped on her black ankle boots, gave one last answer, and walked straight out of the room. The problem she faced now was: she couldn't find any clothes here besides her combat suit, and wearing something more formal for a date was clearly inappropriate.

Actually, we'd been saying Vector was in the hospital room, but this place was actually the "Azure Eyes" team's temporary base in Tokyo, which in a sense was also a temporary home for Vector and Chu Ziyu. She returned to her room with practiced ease and stood in front of her wardrobe, lost in thought.

"This is really a headache. I do have my battle suit here, but I can't exactly wear that kind of outfit," Vector muttered, feeling frustrated. But then she thought, her battle suit isn't the particularly hardcore kind; at least it's a dress. And if she's shopping with a girl, they'll definitely be visiting some clothing stores, so the problem is solved.

As she changed, she eagerly anticipated the surprise Aivisin had promised. Changing into her combat suit wouldn't take long, as she was a professional. However, it suddenly occurred to her that since Aivisin had said she would give her a surprise, she should also prepare a surprise for Aivisin in return.

"The problem is I don't have anything on hand, where am I going to get a surprise?" Vector racked her brains for a long time, then suddenly remembered a mobile game that Ivy had told her about, where someone also used Vector, and she was immediately inspired. She found a box of quick hair dye used for disguises, turned her hair into a cherry blossom pink in front of the mirror, and then took out a set of red contact lenses from the drawer and carefully put them on.

These projects took Vector quite a bit of time. Just as she finished, her phone rang.

"Vivi! Ivy is here! I'm waiting for you outside~" Ivy's energetic voice came from inside. Vector heard her voice and a rare smile appeared on his face.

"Okay, I'm coming right now." She replied with a smile, her steps becoming lighter, clearly looking forward to her upcoming date (?). She quickly ran out of the facility and saw Ivy standing not far from her in front of the AE86, smiling and waving her right hand.

"How is it? Isn't Vivi cute today?" Vivi lifted her skirt and twirled in front of Vector, her tone quite cheerful. However, she was immediately drawn to Vector's unusual outfit. "Eh? Vivi seems a little different from usual today."

Upon hearing Ivy's question, Vector didn't answer her directly, but instead gave her a bright smile and then uttered these lines.

"The password is 'Long live the Penguin Empire,' so you're the employer? Call me Exusiai. I'm not like that aloof Lupo. If you're looking for something fun to do, you can call me anytime!"

295. Hey hey hey... Is this a date?

Aivixin was stunned for a moment, and then it took her a long time to connect the six-star sniper operator she had secretly spent several times to pull with Vector in front of her.

"I feel like you and Exusiai are completely opposite characters, Vivi. Look how cheerful she is in her backstory, while you never even smile." Ivy took two steps forward, suddenly reaching out to cup Vector's cheeks in her hands and gently rubbing them. "Of course, I'm not talking about now. Vivi actually looks really beautiful when she smiles~"

"Then please, my dear little angel, don't pinch my face in such a way that could easily cause misunderstandings... Take your hand away." Vector's smile was suddenly frozen on her face. She had only intended to imitate Exusiai's character and give a symbolic smile, but the little angel's antics made her feel her face burning.

She raised her hand and removed Aivisin's hands, then returned to her usual expressionless demeanor. However, the blush still on her face and her uneven breathing suggested that she didn't seem to want to appear as calm as she did.

"Vivi? Why is she like this again? She looked so beautiful when she smiled just now." Ivy looked at Vector with a puzzled expression. She noticed that Vector's face was strangely flushed, so she thought about it for a moment using her peculiar thought process. Then she raised her hand, brushed aside Vector's light pink bangs, and gently placed her right hand on Vector's forehead. "Is she not fully recovered yet? She feels so hot. Does she have a fever?"

“Don’t worry about the details… Get in the car, we still have a lot to do today, don’t we?” Vector felt the soft, delicate hand of Ivy on her forehead, and the temperature suddenly rose a lot. She breathed heavily, politely declining Ivy’s offer, and gently removed Ivy’s right hand from her forehead with her left hand. “Speaking of which, you actually drove Mr. Mo’s car today. Do you have a driver’s license?”

“Dad once told Ivy Xin something like this: ‘Driver’s license goes through the door, but traffic rules sit in your heart.’ It means that as long as you drive well, whether you have a driver’s license or not isn’t really that important.” Ivy Xin answered calmly. She took Vector’s left hand and very gentlemanly (?) opened the car door for her before getting into the driver’s seat from the other side.

"That sounds somewhat reasonable... my foot! Can I ask you, little angel, who taught you to drive, Mr. Mo?" Vector was initially calm, but when she heard Ivy Xin say that, she immediately felt that something was not quite right.

“No, Dad is so busy, how could I possibly trouble him to teach me to drive? Besides, Dad has always stubbornly believed that I am still a minor.” I said, her tone a mixture of disappointment and smugness. “Actually, I learned it from playing GTA7.”

“…It’s a miracle you managed to drive it here unscathed.” Vector sighed with a complicated expression. She relaxed and leaned back in her seat, only to be immediately pinned down by Ivy’s obviously aggressive start. “Hey! Slow down when you start!”

"Ah...ah? Is this how it should be?" Ivy slammed on the brakes, then turned her head to see Vector's head had hit the table in front of her. Her voice suddenly became flustered, "Oh! Vivi, I'm so sorry! Ivy didn't mean to..."

"Get out of the car, let me handle this. I'm curious if I'll even survive walking down the street if you keep going like this." Vector rubbed his forehead, which he had just bumped, unbuckled his seatbelt, got out of the car, and helped the still bewildered and helpless Miss Ivy out of the car. He then sat in the driver's seat himself. "And Ivy, has anyone ever told you that it feels really awkward when you only speak in the third person?"

“Yes,” Ivy replied matter-of-factly. “Vivi said the same thing to me last night, have you forgotten?”

“Your answer was a bit perfunctory, and I still don’t understand what’s going on.” Vector was about to shift gears when the car automatically beeped, so she stopped and pointed to the side of Ivy’s head, “Little angel, seatbelt.”

"Oh, oh." Ivy hurriedly pulled down and fastened her seatbelt, then sat obediently in her seat like a good child, while also tidying up her hair accessories.

"Well, Vivi hasn't answered Ivy yet. Does Ivy look good today?" Ivy, who had been quiet for a moment, suddenly became cheerful again. She looked at Vector expectantly, but Vector didn't even look at her, which made her feel a little disappointed.

"Please, little angel, I'm driving, okay? Please don't do anything that might distract me, OK?" Vector's tone was somewhat helpless, but she was indeed amazed by Ivy's look, so she didn't hold back her praise, "Hmm... little angel, you look very cute today."

"Wow! This is a combination that Ivixin has been thinking about for a long time! Vivi has great taste!"

Ivy smiled happily. She wanted to hug Vector, but then suddenly realized that Vector was still driving, so she pulled her arms back, crossed her hands on her lower abdomen, and only her face still had an uncontrollable smile.

“Actually, you look cute no matter what you wear,” Vector suddenly said. The next moment, she was incredulous at her own words, and her already flushed cheeks became even hotter.

"Is that so, Vivi?" Vivi was even happier after hearing Vector's words, but Vector just shook his head and his tone suddenly turned cold.

"No, I didn't say anything. You must have misheard, little angel."

She drove around a corner, looked around, and pulled the AE86 into a parking lot near the shopping street. She initially considered slamming on the brakes to give Ivy a taste of headfirst impact, but the idea only lingered in her mind for a moment before she dismissed it.

She didn't want the little angels around her to get hurt, in any way.

“We’re here, get out of the car.” Vector walked to the car door, gentlemanly (?) opened it for Ivy, and then naturally took her right hand. “I’m really looking forward to our date today, my little angel.”

"Hmm, Ivy is looking forward to it too... Wait, is it a date?"

296. Tsundere Girls

To passersby, the scene was quite idyllic, like an innocent young lady enjoying a stroll under the protection of her guards. Ivy held Vector's left hand tightly, curiously observing the bustling street, occasionally letting out exclamations of admiration. Vector, on the other hand, simply watched her happily, occasionally answering her common-sense questions. After all, compared to Vector, who had lived in this world for a long time, Ivy's general knowledge was pitifully limited.

She shifted her position, linking her arm with Vector's, and held a large lollipop in her other hand, a sweet, happy smile on her face. Vector had bought the lollipop for Ivy when she passed by, and when Ivy offered it to Vector's lips, he just blushed slightly and turned his head away. In the end, he couldn't resist and reluctantly licked it lightly.

"Isn't it delicious? Why didn't Vivi buy one for herself?" Ivy pulled her hand back and deliberately licked the spot Vector had just licked again. "Hmm... the spot Vivi tasted was even sweeter than before."

"Actually, I don't really like sweets, but seeing how young you are, I thought you'd like them." Vector's face turned even redder after hearing Ivy's words, and his voice trembled slightly. "Compared to this..."

“Vivi, do you want some ice cream? Dad bought it for you before, it was really good!” Vivi interrupted Vector, waving her arm holding a lollipop and pointing to a nearby ice cream shop, her tone unusually excited. “And I recognize this place’s brand, Dad said he often brings Mom here.”

“I think it should be a chain store or something. It’s quite inconvenient to get here from your location. You have to transfer several times by tram, and it takes a long time to drive here.”

Vector answered with feigned composure, but Ivy didn't seem to wait for Vector's agreement and directly took Vector's arm and walked towards the ice cream shop. Vector didn't intend to refuse Ivy's invitation, but she didn't expect Ivy's actions to be so decisive, causing her to stumble and almost fall to the ground, barely managing to regain her balance.

"...Oh dear! Vivi, are you alright!" After taking a couple of steps, Ivy also noticed Vector's unsteady gait. She exclaimed in surprise, then quickly turned back to help Vector up. "I'm so sorry..."

"It's alright. It's not the first time you've acted before thinking, I'm used to it." Vector looked up at Ivy, who was full of apologies, and suddenly felt helpless with this girl. She gently patted Ivy's head, wanting to comfort her, but while Ivy was enjoying her touch, her hands had somehow wrapped around Vector's waist, and she had moved her head even closer to Vector's chest, rubbing against it.

Now Vector was at a loss. She couldn't understand and was completely unable to resist Ivy's tendency to act cute all the time just because she looked younger than her. After thinking for a long time, she could only keep patting her head and whisper, "Little angel, stop... we're still outside!"

"So Vivi means that when we get back we can... I understand, I'll tell Dad later that I want to stay at your place tonight~" I looked up and whispered with a mischievous smile, "I wonder if Sister Vivi will agree to spend a pleasant night with me?"

“I think… kids shouldn’t be thinking about so many messy things!” Vector replied with a dark expression. “Isn’t it better to just stay home, lie down for a while, and play on your phone?”

“You're talking like Vivi is much older than Ivy, and it's so boring playing on your phone at home. Ivy has finally finished all the work for this exhibition, and I don't want to just stay home obediently.” Ivy protested righteously, reluctantly letting go of Vector, but her free hand still tightly clung to Vector's arm. “Besides, Ivy isn't a child anymore; Ivy knows a lot!”

“Yes, yes, yes, Ivy knows best, Ivy knows everything…” Vector used her usual tone to coax a child. She thought for a moment and realized that she had used the same way to coax a sulking Grace many years ago, except that Grace back then was much more mature than the little angel in front of her. “But in every sense, I am much older than you, Ivy, you have to admit that.”

“Yeah, but that doesn’t stop Ivy from liking Vivi, does it? Dad’s several years older than Mom.” Ivy said defiantly, uttering words that surprised Vector. “Why are you looking at Ivy like that? What’s wrong?”

"No...nothing..."

Vector felt that she had experienced more emotional fluctuations than she had in the first half of her life. She felt that her CPU was running much faster all of a sudden. Now, not only her face, but all of her exposed skin was flushed, and the temperature was inexplicably and rapidly overheating without any functions being activated.

"Vivi? If she's not fully recovered yet, she should go back... Ivy was really too optimistic, thinking that Vivi would definitely be better today and then come out and play with Ivy..."

Ivy Xin didn't immediately understand why Vector's temperature had suddenly risen. She thought it was some kind of aftereffect, and her voice suddenly became panicked.

“It’s really nothing, little angel, you’re just too cute.” Vector explained with a wry smile. Looking at Ivy’s pitiful appearance, she suddenly had a strange impulse—she lowered her head and gently touched Ivy’s forehead with her lips, then looked up.

"Ah!" Ivy exclaimed suddenly, instantly transforming into a steampunk fairy, with wisps of white steam rising from her head. "Vivi, you..."

“Now you know why I overheated. Let’s go, Ivy, I still want to try the ‘delicious ice cream’ you mentioned.” Vector said, a rare smile appearing on his usually expressionless face. This time it was a genuine smile, not a forced one to maintain a certain persona.

“Ivy said it before, Vivi’s smile will be beautiful!” Ivy’s cheeks were still flushed, but when she saw Vector’s smile, she forgot all about it. “Let’s take a picture together, Vivi, how about we capture this smile?”

"No way, it looks silly."

297. The cherry blossoms bloomed, and then I accidentally kissed your cheek.

"So Vivi really does look beautiful when she smiles, right? Look."

Ivy showed Vector her phone; she had just captured Vector's smile on her phone—a photo of her and Vector together—and posted it on her Twitter. The tweet had already garnered thousands of comments, a large portion of which were from Ivy's fans speculating about the identity of the girl with Ivy's arm around her, smiling gently.

(Or rather, I'm concerned about who's standing next to his wife... But I always feel that if Senior Mo knew that so many people were treating Ai Weixin like his wife, it would cause a huge problem. Not to mention drawing a knife on the spot, he'd definitely be investigated.)

“I… Ivyxin! You actually…” Vector felt a little angry because she didn’t like taking pictures, let alone posting her photos on the public internet. However, before she could finish speaking, Ivyxin scooped a small spoonful of her sundae and stuffed it into Vector’s mouth, silencing her before she could say anything else.

"Is it delicious, Vivi? This is actually Daddy's favorite flavor."

Ivy remained with a satisfied smile. She seemed unaffected by Vector's fleeting expression of anger, or perhaps she had simply grown accustomed to interacting with the emotionless Vector in this way.

“It’s definitely delicious, but the way you’re feeding me… wait, don’t change the subject! I don’t want this to happen a lot more.” Vector nodded seriously, praising the sundae, then remembered something he had just overlooked and quickly changed the subject back, “Posting photos on social media… it just feels so childish. And it’s not like many people would like to see me, after all, you’re an internet idol, and I’m not.”

Vector has always lacked confidence in this regard; she's felt unpopular for a long time, which may be related to her personality. Ivy, watching Vector's sudden slump, put the spoon back in the sundae, walked behind her, gently hugged her, and then placed her phone in front of her.

“No, look at the comments below, Vivi.” Her voice was so soft that Vector felt a tickle in his ear. “They all like you a lot, just like they like Ivy.”

Ah, Exusiai, wsl!

Is that the older sister next to the little angel? So cute!

[My little angel's older sister, just thinking about it is exciting, wsl]

"It's definitely not what I imagined," Vector muttered to herself, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Ivy Xin shoved another spoonful of sundae into her mouth. "Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh!"

“So Vivi will actually be quite popular, you know. How about trying a live stream with Ivy Xin? Everyone should be looking forward to your appearance.” Ivy Xin encouraged him from the side, but Vector just silently shook his head and handed the spoon back to Ivy Xin.

"Never mind, I guess I'm just not used to this kind of public performance. We're just not the same." She sighed, then picked up her cappuccino from the plate the waiter had just handed her. "I'd rather enjoy dessert. It'll help me cool down; you made me feel so hot..."

“Vivi came over on her own... How can you say it was Ivy who did it…” Ivy suddenly remembered Vector’s sudden kiss at the entrance of the ice cream shop. Her heart, which had finally calmed down, was stirred up again. “That’s too much! What if Ivy can’t get married in the future?”

“It wasn’t too much, it’s just that Ivy is so cute, I couldn’t help myself… It’s like that sentence I saw, ‘The cherry blossoms bloomed, and then I accidentally kissed your cheek,’ that’s it.” Vector tried to explain, but the next moment it was as if he suddenly understood, he looked directly into Ivy’s clear, rosy eyes and said seriously, “You don’t need to get married, my little angel is enough with me, understand?”

"R-Really?" Vivi looked at Vector in disbelief, her whole body instantly overheating, her voice trembling, "Vivi, you... don't joke with Vivi."

"Oh my god, what did I just say?" Vector thought, but there was no going back on her words. Looking at Ivy's shy expression, which was practically steaming, she figured it was no use saying she was joking.

"But thinking about it carefully, now is probably the best time. Anyway, the little angel has a lot of feelings for me, so why not just leave it at that..."

After saying that, Vector hesitated for a while. She looked at Ivy and noticed that the little angel had suddenly closed her eyes, as if expecting something. So she mustered her courage, glanced around to make sure no one was watching, and then lowered her head to kiss Ivy again.

"Well!"