When Wayne suddenly heard the name from Chris's mouth, he froze.

Fortunately, Chris, who was devastated at the time, did not notice this minor detail.

After a long pause, Chris finally cried out to Wayne, "She can actually use a staff... Waaah... Why...?"

"Ah, this..." He was speechless.

Magical girls... oh wait, I mean boys, isn't it normal for them to have magic wands?

“Nobody in this world knows how to use a staff!” Chris said.

"When I was little, I experimented with sticks to try to increase the power of my magic, and my mother scolded me severely... saying that such behavior was neither in line with ladylike etiquette nor with common sense about magic."

Her tone was inexplicably dejected.

"Perhaps, maybe, or perhaps others just haven't discovered the underlying rules yet?" Wayne tried his best to excuse himself.

But this excuse clearly did not alleviate Chris's emotions.

"and!"

Her expression turned worried.

"And... that person even said something like, 'Since you asked so sincerely, I'll mercifully tell you.'"

Oops!

"What's wrong with that sentence?" Wayne tried his best to appear normal, not revealing any flaws.

I was careless.

To be honest, although I knew that Bulwer would try to publicize the glorious achievements of the Red Rose Squad, why is it that even my every word and action is being publicized so clearly?

“This sentence…this sentence…” Chris looked at him with brimming eyes, wanting to say something.

However, she ultimately couldn't say anything.

"--nothing."

She lowered her head again, looking quite dejected.

While gently stroking her back to comfort her, Wayne felt incredibly guilty.

Chris...

Is it because they suspect that Aikos is a time traveler?

Chapter 238 I cheated to make you like me.

Upon arriving at the academy, today Lady Exos became the absolute protagonist.

At this moment, hearing those cringeworthy lines from his classmates, Wayne felt only extreme shame.

"Hey... Wayne!" Lauren deliberately walked over and knocked on his table, suggesting, "Why don't we find a chance to go to the city guard and see that Aikos?"

"I heard she's a stunning beauty with a magic that can make people fall in love at first sight."

He spoke as if he were longing for it.

Wayne folded the paper into a little frog, lay down on the table and pressed its bottom, making it hop around on the table.

"Go by yourself if you want to."

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"Oh, please don't do that." Lawrence deliberately looked around.

Then, with a very affected gesture, she brought her hands together like cylinders and whispered to Wayne, "I heard Richard has made a lifelong vow to marry no one but Miss Aikos?"

GIAO!

Wayne sat up and wanted to punch him on the head with his big fist.

However, seeing that Lawrence was talking to him but his eyes kept glancing towards the back seat, he seemed to understand something.

"hehe."

Wayne chuckled coldly twice.

"Do you think I'm the kind of shallow man who would fawn over someone just because they're good-looking?" he retorted.

“How is that superficial?” Lawrence exclaimed as if his tail had been stepped on. “The love of beautiful things is human nature!”

Looking at his confident demeanor, Wayne suddenly thought of a sentence.

He had read this in a book a long time ago—

To truly love someone is to go against your own nature.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked towards Chris's position on the other side, only to find that she was also turning around to look at him.

When Chris met Wayne's gaze, she was slightly taken aback, but quickly looked away.

Looking at the round back of her head, Wayne sighed inwardly.

Perhaps it was because of Aikos's appearance that Chris sensed a sense of crisis, as she seemed to have something she wanted to say to her.

However, whenever I'm about to say it, I always hesitate and waver.

Turning his gaze away from Chris, Wayne silently placed the folded paper frog into a cardboard box in the drawer.

There were already some other small trinkets like paper stars inside.

Time passed slowly.

After finally finishing a full day of classes, the rumors and gossip about Aikos finally stopped.

Having suffered greatly, Wayne felt that his mental resilience had increased a little.

"Chris, it's time to go home," he called out.

Chris, contrary to her usual behavior, did not meet up with her friends, but instead lay on her desk scribbling something.

Upon hearing Wayne's voice, she gave a soft "oh," listlessly tidied up the pile of things on the table, and stood up with a conflicted expression.

"What's wrong with Miss Chris today?" Wayne joked. "This isn't like you at all."

Chris paused for a moment.

Wayne was just saying it casually to cheer her up, and without paying attention to her expression, he took out a small cardboard box from behind his back.

Although it is made of ordinary white paper, it looks very delicate and thoughtful.

It was held in Wayne's palm and handed to Chris.

Looking at the object in front of her, Chris looked up at Wayne with some confusion, "What is this?"

"A special gift for today," he said with a smile.

"I hope Miss Chris won't find it offensive."

However, Chris reacted a beat too slowly, and after a moment of stunned silence, she seemed to suddenly come to her senses.

"Oh……"

She accepted the inexpensive gift box with both hands.

Wayne raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you going to open it and take a look?"

"Ok?"

For a moment, Chris felt somewhat lost.

"I...I'm used to not opening gifts in front of people."

Influenced by her unusual mood, Wayne felt himself becoming somewhat unnatural as well.

"Emmm...okay."

He actually just folded it up casually during a break when he was bored, it's nothing more than a disposable toy.

The two left the classroom in silence.

In the twilight of the campus, only a few students could be seen scattered along the road.

“Wayne,” Chris suddenly spoke.

"Ok?"

"Actually... there's something very important I've been wondering whether I should tell you," she said wistfully.

"If I don't say it, I feel like I'm not being honest enough, like I'm still wary of you; but if I do say it, I really don't know how to put it into words..."

Wayne slowed his pace.

He was silent for a moment before saying, "Everyone has secrets, and it's okay not to tell them."

After all, I have my own secrets too.

And there are many.

She didn't feel relieved by Wayne's words, but instead smiled softly.

"Sometimes even I can't tell whether your thoughtfulness towards me is just how it's supposed to be, or if it comes from the bottom of your heart."

Wayne looked at her with a slight surprise.

Chris strolled along the curb as if taking a walk, gazing at the clouds in the sky.

She seemed to have finally let go of some burden, and no longer tried to hide anything.

"The more I think you're really great... the more I worry about your feelings for me, which isn't a reasonable thing."

Wayne frowned.

What does "reasonable" mean?

Chris stopped in her tracks.

She stepped onto the stone tusks piled in a straight line next to the green area, turned to look at Wayne beside her, her gaze not much lower than his.

"Because... I made you like me by cheating."

she says.

The campus was empty and quiet a while after school had ended, and there was no one else around.

It was as if, in this world, only Chris and Wayne remained.

"Cheating?"

Wayne repeated the sentence, somewhat bewildered.

“Yes.” Chris reached out and placed her hand on Wayne’s chest.

I could feel the powerful beating of his chest.

"I might have unknowingly used... a cheat code specifically for heroines that resets the difficulty of the game for you."

Just like in an animation.

Wayne's face darkened: "You mean, I'm too 'easy'?"

Upon hearing this, Chris smiled somewhat forlornly.

"It should be said that it's too easy for the 'female lead' to fall in love with someone else, which is why it's worrying... If I weren't the female lead, would you also fall in love with someone else so easily?"

She was very reluctant to think that way.

However, in anime like "Bad Girl Chris", romanceable characters like Wayne are essentially the heroine's spoils of war.

And it's still considered beginner difficulty, the kind where you're practically defeated the moment you start.

The meaning of this story lies in helping each of them find love and friendship.

However, because I deviated from the main storyline, my progress in the game only stopped at Wayne.

But what if a new female protagonist appears in the story?

Just like how he took away what Tasia should have had...

Could it be that one day in the future, another girl will appear out of nowhere and unreasonably steal the glamorous halo of being the "heroine" from my head?

Chapter 239 The Pool Battle Between Ge Li and Chris Begins!

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