My name is Levi, and I work in anime.

"Who...who would care about you!"

Rin Tohsaka, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, blushed and desperately retorted, "Go die twice!"

Then came a string of incomprehensible remarks, such as "Caring for classmates is part of being a gentleman," "I didn't care about you at all," and "My Tohsaka family has been gentlemen for generations." The classroom was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Without a doubt, Li Wei still holds the upper hand in today's battle between his deskmates.

Chapter 21 Classmates should get along well.

Five minutes later, Tohsaka, who had been so enthusiastically refuting her earlier remarks, belatedly realized just how embarrassing her behavior had been, drawing the attention of everyone in the classroom. She now slumped over her desk, turning deathly pale, as if she had burned out, leaving only a trail of white ash.

It seems like we've gone a bit too far. Could we have broken this guy?

He can handle physical injuries perfectly well, but emotional trauma is not his forte. Kids these days are notoriously afraid of losing face and being ashamed, but they're not afraid of death. If he were to self-harm or jump off a building due to emotional trauma, the boy would have nowhere to turn for help.

Fortunately, when the teacher came to announce the start of class, the little devil with pigtails lowered her head and stood up with her classmates to greet the teacher, so it seemed that the situation was not serious.

This relieved the boy.

Tohsaka is quite resilient; she won't give up because of a small setback.

This guy didn't even glance at Li Wei the whole time, seemingly preparing to start a cold war with the boy today.

Faced with this situation, Li Wei remained calm and composed. He was already very experienced in dealing with his deskmate in this state.

At this moment, the boy tore a page from his notebook and, with the utmost seriousness and the most impartial calligraphy, began to pass notes across the paper.

Fish carrying letters and wild geese carrying messages—isn't this the behavior of a true gentleman?

At first, the little red devil with twin tails was completely unmoved. However, after being passed around several times, although she still looked unhappy, she began to reply.

Compared to open and aboveboard conversations, these private exchanges are much more exciting.

The conversation started with the older brother with cow dung beating up thugs and saving the tacky older sister, then moved on to the progress of the relationship between Takagi and Nishikata from the next class, then to whether Lu Bu was the strongest warrior in the Three Kingdoms and Zhao Yun was the second strongest, then to medical skills—especially the discussion on physical development, and finally to what they did last weekend.

The breadth of the topic shifts and the divergence of the thinking were so great that even male college students in their dormitories would have to admit they were experts.

"Last weekend?"

Li Wei paused for a moment after receiving the latest note, then pondered and wrote down his experiences: "The same as always, practicing boxing, high jump, reading, studying medicine... Oh right, I also accompanied Saeko to a lingerie store to buy the latest styles of lingerie."

"!?!?"

Upon receiving the reply, Almond Tohsaka's eyes widened, and her face visibly turned red. She quickly wrote down her opinion and threw it back.

"Going to buy lingerie with Busujima-kun? Have you gone this far?"

The style is wild and unrestrained, unconventional, clearly a work created in a burst of speed under intense emotional pressure, possessing high aesthetic and artistic value. The brushstrokes are powerful and penetrating, so much so that an uninformed person might mistake it for the work of some muscular monster.

Even Li Wei had to admit that Tohsaka's calligraphy skills were getting better and better.

"What's so strange about that? We do this all the time."

"Is there anything strange about this? And they do it all the time!"

"Otherwise what? Saeko has already gone up two cup sizes this year. New bras start to feel tight after three months at most. If you don't change them, they will be very uncomfortable and will affect your future breast development. Tohsaka, you should also pay attention to changing your underwear in a timely manner."

As he wrote this, the boy glanced at the twin-tailed little devil's development and suddenly realized something, crossing out everything he had just said: "People's physiques cannot be generalized. In terms of physical development, Tohsaka, you shouldn't have this problem."

"Go die a hundred times!!!"

You don't even need to look at her; you can feel her anger just from her words: "Can't you do something normal like other students? You're driving me crazy!"

"So you're going to break off our friendship?"

"Screw you! I'm prepared to be angry for the rest of my life!"

"So what do you mean by doing normal things like other students?"

"For example, playing video games, dating, reading comics, and aren't all the high school girl bands popular these days? Aren't you interested in any of those?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not really into these things."

What kind of recreational activities do you usually engage in?

"Besides reading, I practice medicine online and exchange skills with renowned doctors from all over the country. I also have hobbies like calligraphy and painting to cultivate my mind. I'm somewhat involved in music; I can play the pipa, qin, zheng, flute, xiao, and erhu. Oh, and I can also play the gong and chime bells. Tohsaka, would you like to hear that?"

"Are you really a 21st-century human?" The twin-tailed little devil could no longer contain her burning sarcastic spirit: "Look at all your hobbies! The other day when Akane Minagawa was being buried, you were a whole funeral procession all by yourself!"

Akane Minagawa?

Li Wei remembered this teacher; she was sweet-looking, gentle, and very popular with her classmates. However, the boy had an instinctive aversion to her, feeling that she wasn't as innocent as she seemed.

Women and petty men are the most difficult to deal with; if you get too close to them, they become disrespectful, and if you keep your distance, they resent you.

But when did she die?

"You didn't know?" Tohsaka seemed very surprised: "The security situation has been very bad lately. Everyone says there's been a serial killer. Several people have gone missing in the area, and similar things have happened at the school. Ms. Minagawa Akane's body was discovered a few days ago."

"The death was quite gruesome. I heard that the body was shoveled away with a shovel. The police were finally able to identify the deceased by the number on the silicone implant in his chest."

"Is that so? Tohsaka, give me your phone."

"Hey, what do you need this for?"

For some reason, the twin-tailed little devil, who had been full of enthusiasm just moments before, suddenly became like a cat whose neck had been grabbed, speaking haltingly and reluctantly. At the same time, she subconsciously protected her pockets with her hands, watching Li Wei with wariness.

Her action only fueled the boy's suspicions.

"what happened?"

"I can't show you, there are very private things here!"

"!?!" Li Wei's heart suddenly raced—although he was an honest and upright gentleman, that did not mean he was completely ignorant of certain things.

I've known Tohsaka for four years now, and I've watched her grow from a naive little girl with a babyish aura into a twin-tailed little devil. Plus, girls develop earlier than boys, so it's normal for them to be interested in the sexes and visit those not-so-proper websites.

What I should do is be tolerant of her, understand her, and guide her onto the right path.

"So, Tohsaka, what type of website were you looking at? Could you share it?" Li Wei wrote this on the note with a scientific, upright, and objective attitude.

The reply received was:

"Aaaaaaahh ...

There was a small mishap in Chapter 22, but it was definitely not Li Wei's fault.

"Oh, I see."

Before Rin Tohsaka completely exploded, Li Wei finally understood her concerns and realized that this girl didn't like browsing websites that teenage boys and girls liked to visit.

"So what exactly do you want my phone for?"

The twin-tailed little devil looked annoyed: "If you're trying to take this opportunity to do something shady, then please leave. I won't... When did you get it?"

Li Wei was holding a red women's mobile phone in his hand. It was the kind of phone that looked cute and was the kind that female students would buy.

By the way, its owner's name is Rin Tohsaka.

"I got it when you just told me to die ten thousand times." A hundred kinds of martial arts skills—this is Merlin's magic—pickpocketing.

Then, quickly press the unlock password and start using it proficiently.

The reason why the boy's movements were so skillful was very simple—he was the one who took Rin Tohsaka to the mall to buy this phone.

My deskmate is a complete digital idiot; she'd even accidentally blow up a video player. In this situation, Li Wei, who wasn't comfortable with her, had to set everything up for her and patiently teach her for over a month until she could operate it proficiently.

"No, I definitely changed my password." Rin Tohsaka was startled.

"Isn't your new password the date we first met? If I remember correctly, I think I was practicing high jump back then."

The boy didn't even look up: "After watching how you unlock it a few times, it's easy to guess."

“Uuuuuuuuuu——”

Hmm, this guy is still so easy to understand.

Not only have all the settings remained unchanged, but even the initial shortcut keys have not been modified.

Come to think of it, such a difficult setting is too much for a digital idiot like Tohsaka.

Fortunately, we were still in the era of feature phones, where all sorts of malicious software had no place to stand. Otherwise, in at most a month, Li Wei would have found at least four input methods, eight security guards, and sixteen browsers on this phone.

Then, during the setup process, the boy accidentally clicked on the "Photo Album" function.

"Um……?!"

"Wow, don't click on it!" Tohsaka cried out in despair.

What Li Wei saw were various photographs.

It's normal to have photos in a phone's album; it's perfectly common for young girls to like taking selfies. What surprised the boy was that, apart from a few of Tohsaka's selfies, the subjects in the rest of the photos all looked very familiar.

Oh, it was me. That’s okay.

There are people taking a nap, listening to lectures, eating, practicing calligraphy, practicing high jump, holding hands with Saeko, holding hands with Ryougi, holding hands with both Saeko and Ryougi at the same time, wearing casual clothes, wearing sportswear, and even wearing only swimming trunks—that must have been taken during a swimming lesson.

Some of the photos are so realistic that even Levi himself didn't realize he had worn so many different kinds of clothes.

That left Li Wei with nothing but "???" and "!!!".

Although he didn't say anything, the boy's face as he looked at the twin-tailed devil was full of the expression that said, "Hey buddy, you're really paying attention to me this much?"

"Well... not all of them were filmed by me. There are many that can be downloaded from the campus forum." As if to cover something up, Tohsaka said something that shocked Li Wei.

There's even a dedicated forum for this? What's the name of the section? Is it "Campus Spring Scenes"?

"Yes...yes, that's it. I just took these pictures to post on the forum to earn some pocket money." The twin-tailed little devil seemed to have grasped a lifeline and desperately explained, "We're friends, so you shouldn't mind if I use your face, right?"

I knew the Tohsaka family had declined, but I didn't expect it to have come to this extent. Even the young lady has to secretly film people to make a living?

I really don't know whether to praise you for working hard to support yourself while studying, or for not doing your job properly.

I don't mind if they take pictures of me, we're all brothers.

But when you mention making money, all I can think about is "family matters".

"Okay, I won't pursue the matter of you taking pictures without my consent. Just let me know in advance next time. I'm not that petty."

The boy shook his head, sighed helplessly, and handed the phone back: "Here's another one, it's already set up."

"What did you do to it?"

The twin-tailed devil cautiously answered her phone, fiddling with it as if it contained some hidden mechanism. She feared that if Li Wei gave the signal, five hundred axe-wielders would emerge from both sides of the classroom and chop her into mincemeat.

I breathed a sigh of relief only after confirming that there were no problems—especially that no photos in the album were missing.

Seriously, are these photos really that valuable?

Otherwise, next time when you have time, let her take pictures of you however she wants, as compensation for teasing her during this period.

"They didn't do anything, they just changed the default dialer to my number."

Li Wei said very seriously, "Because you're not very good at this, Tohsaka, I'm afraid you might panic and not know what to do if you encounter danger. If you really encounter a killer, or if anything seems wrong, call me immediately. I'll come to help you as quickly as possible."

"Eh!"

Li Wei's answer was clearly unexpected by Tohsaka, and the boy visibly panicked: "But, we were just having a cold war..."

"Tohsaka, you don't have bad logic, do you?"

"What does this have to do with logic?"

"Because I want you to notify me if you encounter any danger so I can come and rescue you. This has absolutely nothing to do with whether we're having a cold war or not."

"I……"

Hearing Li Wei's resolute answer, coupled with his firm and courageous gaze, his gentlemanly attitude, and the hand being held, all of this made Rin Tohsaka's heart beat faster.

My mind was a jumbled mess, filled with all sorts of thoughts. I opened my mouth, but couldn't say a word for a moment.

Then, a familiar voice came from beside me.

"Um, I know it's not nice to bother you, but we're in class right now."

The class monitor, who had her hair in three braids and was wearing a pleated skirt and sailor uniform, pushed up her glasses: "Li Wei and Tohsaka, you're both too loud. It's going to bother everyone."

Li Wei: "..."

Tohsaka: "..."