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"Please hold onto the blackboards and face the camera,"
the little bee host blinked her left eye, reminding the two.
"..."
Lanci and Talia didn’t communicate any further, looking straight ahead, picking up the small blackboards in their hands without focusing on each other.
As their fingertips lightly touched the blackboards, new color elements could be drawn in this Graffiti World, or peculiar little animals summoned—much like the beating of their hearts at this moment.
"So, neither of you has expressed a wish to give up, and the game is about to begin again!"
The cartoon bee host twisted excitedly in the air of the classroom like a marshmallow before spinning rapidly to face them both.
She magically pulled a card from thin air, glanced at it, and tossed it out to become a banner at the top of the show screen.
The ever-changing pixel sky passed a forest made of musical notes, each step accompanied by a pleasant melody, followed by a river made of dancing light spots that moved on the water’s surface, like a dazzling fairyland—
[Question 10 (Male & Female): What do you most want to hear the other person say to you at this moment?]
The two, standing straight, were momentarily stunned, as if the question was too sudden, and they didn’t know the answer themselves.
Subconscious thoughts always arise first, and then are analyzed by the brain.
Words already appeared on their respective blackboards:
[Tata, how can you be so adorable, I really want to gobble you up]
- This was what Talia wished Lanci would say to her.
[I’m hungry, could you feed me, I love it most when you do]
- This was what Lanci wished Tata would say to him.
The two almost simultaneously bent down to shield their blackboards!
"..."
Then, an eerily quiet silence ensued.
After a long while,
"… Did you see it?"
Talia asked with a quivering voice.
"If I said I didn’t see it… would you believe me…"
Lanci had accidentally caught a glimpse of Talia’s blackboard and wanted to laugh about it.
But realizing his own answer was no better, he suddenly felt he couldn’t laugh.
What was more terrifying was that their answers were already displayed in front of everyone at the same time.
Both kept their heads down firmly.
Lanci even feared that Talia might impulsively decide to take off with him.
Audience laughter from the real world made them feel they couldn’t stay in this world any longer.
The audience’s laughter was like the fire of purgatory, roasting them both on the flames.
"Hey, you’ve triggered a special reward!"
The golden bee host said with a laugh, seemingly receiving a message from backstage,
"You just need to fulfill each other’s wishes, and you’ll win a couple’s annual pass to the Gold Bee Amusement Park. For the next year, you can come as many times as you want without buying tickets."
"Fulfill... wishes?"
Upon hearing this, Lanci and Talia both looked up, bewildered, at the golden bee host.
"Yeah, don’t you both have something you wish the other would say to you? Now that you know what the other wants to hear, just satisfy each other’s wishes, and both of you will be content without regrets! The audience will have a great time too!"
explained the golden bee.
In an instant, the cheers from the players in the courtyard of Gold Bee Amusement Park in the real world surged like waves, wave after wave crashing down, as if to inundate the entire Shadow World Graffiti space.
Both buried their heads even lower, not daring to look at each other.
Now, they regretted coming to this stage immensely.
What was all this for!!
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"The answer is right in front of you, yet you dare not speak? Weren’t you two very brave just a moment ago?"
The little golden bee raised an eyebrow, looking at the two who seemed deflated at this moment.
"Or... are you planning to concede to each other? At this time, if one side bravely speaks up and the other does not dare to speak, the one who remains silent is considered to have lost."
She continued to hold the microphone, badgering the two people who were sitting in the classroom in school uniforms.
For a long time.
It seemed that if the two of them did not make a move, the next question would not continue.
"I’m hungry, can you feed me? I love it when you feed me the most."
Talia’s face turned red, and her voice trembled as she spoke with difficulty.
She felt that by uttering these words, she was almost dying, but the damage it inflicted on Lanci was just as severe.
No matter what! She would never admit defeat to Lanci.
"..."
Lanci looked at Tata, who was blushing yet still managing to look reluctantly stern and serious, her eyes filled with a mix of three parts provocation and seven parts ferocity, causing him to momentarily lose the ability to think.
It wasn’t just the demon sound ringing in his ears; Lanci even wondered for a moment if Talia had learned the Great Love Poet’s music rhythm magic.
He could imagine every scene in the world, except for Talia with this expression.
"Oh! She has already taken the initiative to fulfill your wish, so next... are you going to give up?"
The little golden bee host flew next to Lanci, asking.
Lanci’s grip gradually tightened.
He felt he just couldn’t say the sentence Talia had written on her little blackboard.
But Talia had already taken the initiative.
If he backed down now, that would really mean he was completely chickening out!
Let’s explode it with her!
"Tata, how can you be so adorable? I really want to gobble you up in one bite."
Lanci stared at Talia, watching her golden eyes start to retreat, and he said this sentence to her.
After he said it, his own face turned a bit red.
This line was just absurd.
"I... I."
Talia felt dizzy and leaned back in her chair.
Last time they read the script, at least they were alone together.
This time the cheering and egging from outside the stage were like a mountain flood and tidal wave, drowning out all other sounds for the two of them.
The crowd below had gone wild.
"Congratulations on completing the special challenge of the tenth question!"
The little golden bee clapped her hands and applauded, and at the same time the prize [Gold Bee Amusement Park Double Pass × 12] also landed on the low table between the two.
"The two of you, let’s have an interview. How do you feel now? What feedback do you have about your experience in the First-order Artificial Shadow World [Love Obstacle Corridor College]? Currently, [Love Obstacle Corridor College] is still developing other classrooms and entertainment modes!"
The little golden bee host asked the two.
They shook their heads repeatedly, like they were tired from playing.
If there was a next time, they would never enter this First-order Shadow World together again.
Lanci had never felt that a Shadow World could be so difficult.
"All right, since you both seem ready, let’s move on to the next question."
The little golden bee looked at the newly drawn question card,
"But don’t be nervous, this question seems quite simple."
[Eleventh Question (Male): When on a date with the other person, if you receive a notification about urgent work from a female colleague, would you leave the other person for the sake of work?]
