I'm in Morioh, just joined a chat group for cute girls.

"Woo..."

Rejected by her favorite older brother, Ilya almost burst into tears.

Seeing her daughter's stubbornness, Irisviel sighed softly, a perfectly measured look of helplessness and disappointment on her face.

"Is that so... Since Ilya is so unwilling to go, then let's just forget about it."

Her voice sounded somewhat regretful.

Ilya's eyes lit up for a moment, thinking she had won.

"But,"

Irisviel changed the subject, her voice tinged with a hint of unintentional regret, "Mom was thinking of arranging for you and Mr. Gu Ye to be in the same class so that you could go to school and come home with your favorite older brother every day... It seems that Mom was just being presumptuous."

After she finished speaking, she shook her head, feigning distress.

"……Eh?"

Ilya stopped moving, her brain seemingly processing the information she had just received at lightning speed.

Is he in the same class as...the older brother?

Going to school together every day?

The thought exploded in her little head like a thunderclap.

The next second, the style of the painting suddenly changed.

"Waaah—! I want to go! I want to go to school!"

Ilya jumped off Gu Ye and rushed to Irisviel, hugging her leg and crying loudly, "Mommy! Ilya wants to go to school! Ilya wants to be in the same class as big brother Gu Ye! Waaah... Mommy, you can't go back on your word!"

Looking at her daughter who had suddenly betrayed her, Irisviel's lips curled into an elegant and gentle smile.

Chapter 79 Sakura longs to replenish her mana.

For the next few days, Morioh was peaceful, and the chat group was filled with nothing but harmless everyday chatter.

Gu Ye's life returned to its peaceful routine of going to school, coming home, and going home.

Most of the time, he immerses himself alone in those intricately constructed virtual worlds.

Occasionally, Kitagawa Kaimu would come over with great enthusiasm, snatch a controller, and loudly challenge him to a match, filling the room with her energetic shouts.

Later, Ilya also joined this small group.

She demonstrated far greater adaptability than Hai Meng to games labeled "18+".

After all, biologically speaking, she is the one in the family most qualified to access these kinds of things.

Even though she already knew that she was actually two years older than Gu Ye, her sweet and soft "big brother" never changed; on the contrary, she called him that with even more confidence.

That evening after dinner, as Gu Ye was about to return to his room, a purple figure silently appeared beside him.

"Um... Brother Gu Ye."

Sakura Matou lowered her head, her fingers nervously twisting together, an unnatural blush rising on her fair cheeks, even her ears were tinged with a faint pink.

"Could you come for a walk with me?"

Her voice was so faint it was almost swallowed by the air.

Seeing her like this, Gu Ye didn't ask any more questions, but simply gave a soft "hmm".

The villa area was exceptionally quiet at night, and the streetlights cast long shadows of the two people.

They walked side by side on the empty asphalt road, neither of them speaking, only the rustling of the leaves in the evening breeze and the soft sound of their footsteps.

When they reached a dark, shady corner where even the streetlights couldn't fully illuminate it, Matou Sakura suddenly stopped.

Gu Ye turned around in confusion, only to see her suddenly raise her head. Her beautiful purple eyes were filled with a thick layer of moisture, mixed with shame, longing and struggle.

The next second, before Gu Ye could react, she rushed forward and grabbed his right hand.

Soft and warm, it instantly enveloped his index finger.

Sakura actually bit his finger, drawing blood from it.

A faint but distinct magical power was being drawn from his fingertips.

Gu Ye's body tensed instantly, and the first thought that flashed through his mind was—the Marking Worm!

They're not all dead yet?

This thought made his heart sink.

I'm so tired, so alone

Instead of roughly pushing Sakura away, he grabbed her cold wrist and actively mobilized the magic within his body.

That warm, sun-like energy, a fusion of ripples and fragments of the Third Law, flowed gently and steadily into her body from his fingertips at a speed far faster than she could absorb it.

"Well……"

Sakura let out a satisfied groan, her tense body instantly softening.

She let go weakly, almost collapsing into Gu Ye's arms.

Her cheeks were flushed red, she was breathing heavily, her watery eyes were tightly closed, and glistening tears clung to her long eyelashes.

Her legs instinctively clamped together, and her body trembled slightly.

"What's going on, Sakura?"

Gu Ye supported her limp body, his brows furrowed, "It's those bugs again..."

His words made Sakura's body tremble violently. She buried her face deeply in his chest, not daring to look him in the eye, her voice heavy with nasal congestion and a sob.

"No...it's not..."

“Those bugs… Brother Gu Ye has already killed them all… all of them for me.”

"Then why is your body..."

Gu Ye pressed for an answer.

Sakura's body trembled even more violently. She seemed to have used all her strength to utter the unspeakable truth in fits and starts.

"It's...it's my body..."

"It...it was modified by those things...over a decade ago..."

"It's already...it's already become an instinct..."

Her voice was very soft, and every word seemed to be spoken with all her might.

"As long as... as long as there isn't enough magic, my body will... will become very strange, very hot... very empty..."

"I...I will desperately, desperately crave...the magic of other magicians..."

At this point, she couldn't continue, and simply buried her face even deeper, as if trying to hide herself away.

Gu Ye fell silent; he could feel the shame and fear in the girl in his arms.

He gently patted her back, guiding her in the softest voice.

"Then why did you choose me?"

"because……"

Sakura's voice carried a hint of infatuation and dependence, "Because of Brother Gu Ye's magic... it's different from everyone else's..."

"Last time...after feeling it last time, my body...my body can never forget it..."

"It...it seems it only wants Brother Gu Ye's magic..."

"I...I really...I couldn't hold back today...I'm sorry...Brother Gu Ye...I'm sorry..."

She kept apologizing, her body trembling from suppressed desires and fear of being disliked, her legs unconsciously rubbing together, seeking a fleeting sense of comfort.

"This is not your fault, Sakura."

Gu Ye's voice clearly reached her ears, firm yet gentle, without a trace of reproach or unease.

Sakura's body stiffened for a moment. She slowly raised her head in disbelief, looking at him with teary eyes.

Gu Ye reached out and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his fingertips.

“Listen, Sakura.”

His gaze was earnest and focused. "This is not your fault. You are just... sick. No one has the right to blame you for being sick."

"It's those filthy worms, that rotten family, they're the ones who turned you into this. They're the culprits, not you."

He paused, looking into her purple eyes where a glimmer of light had rekindled, and said, word by word.

"So, don't say sorry anymore."

"If this happens again, come directly to me, understand?"

"I will help you."

"I will continue to help you until I find a way to completely cure your body."

Gu Ye's gentle yet firm words were like a warm current, instantly melting away the coldness and fear that had accumulated in Matou Sakura's heart.

She felt like a drowning person adrift in a dark, icy sea, finally grabbing onto a solid, warm piece of driftwood.

"Then...then from now on..."

Sakura's cheeks were flushed crimson, almost as if they were about to bleed. She lowered her head and whispered, "Brother Gu Ye, could you... could you spare some time... for me... for me to absorb some magic? In a place where no one is around..."

She dared not look up; she did not want others to see the ugly, obsessive state she might reveal because of her yearning for magic, a state that even she herself found shameful.

"no problem."

Gu Ye answered without the slightest hesitation.

Hearing the affirmative answer, Ying dared to raise her head and look at Gu Ye's hand, which she had bitten herself. She tenderly picked it up and gently stroked the wound with her fingertips.

Gu Ye smiled, seemingly unconcerned.

The tiny wound healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in an instant it was as smooth as before, without leaving a trace.

"Look, it's okay."

He took Ying's slightly cool hand in his own and promised, "So, if you ever need anything, just come to me."

Sakura nodded heavily, and the last trace of unease in her heart dissipated.

"But,"

Gu Ye then asked the question that had been bothering him, "We live here, and you don't usually need to use magic, so why are you experiencing symptoms of insufficient magic power?"

"that……"

Sakura blushed again, and explained somewhat embarrassedly, "Actually... it's not entirely because of insufficient magic power... it's more like... my body's instinct..."

Even if its magic power is full, it still wants... wants to absorb more... even if it's all wasted in the end, it still wants more...

Gu Ye understood instantly. This wasn't a simple replenishment of magic power; it was a deep-seated physiological addiction left behind by the Marked Worm's more than ten years of modification.

He subconsciously opened the chat group's store interface, quickly browsed through it, and the result was as expected.

There is no cure for this symptom.

Even if there were similar ones, their astronomical prices would be far beyond what he could afford now.

It seems that in the short term, I can only use my magic to alleviate her symptoms.

He was about to say he was going back when a small hand gently tugged at the hem of his clothes.

Sakura fidgeted, her gaze darting around, her voice barely audible: "Um... Brother Gu Ye... just now... just now I didn't have enough... I... I wanted a little more..."

Gu Ye looked at her expression, which was both eager and shy, and smiled helplessly and indulgently.

"Sakura, if you want to absorb magic, just say it without hesitation. You don't need to be so cautious."

He extended his hand again.

But this time, Sakura didn't pounce on him like she had before.

yi ling yi er er ba san ling jiu ba

She simply raised her head, her beautiful eyes fixed on him, her gaze shimmering with tears.