Hearing Stelle act so pretentiously, Pei Guang stood up, planning to give her something big.
He quietly got up, walked to Stelle's back, and reached out his hand, ready to flick her on the forehead.
March 7th and Firefly noticed Pei Guang waking up from his eye-rolling state, and when they saw Pei Guang's movements, the two of them stared fixedly at him.
Logically speaking, Stelle should have noticed that something was wrong by now, but she ignored the looks from March 7th and Firefly.
Just a moment ago, she herself had felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction and a fresh, novel experience.
Even though she still had soda-soy bean juice in her mouth, because it had been there for too long, in the end she could no longer taste it.
Even if she could no longer taste it, that strange sensation at the moment of the attack had brought her an indescribable joy.
Even though it had stopped now, as long as she imagined it a little, as long as Pei Guang was the one she imagined as the target, she would feel a kind of joy that was beyond words and almost impossible to suppress.
Human potential is limitless, and for her own sake, a greater plan suddenly appeared in Stelle's mind: since she had thought of it, she had to start putting it into practice.
"Hey! Revenge complete. I suddenly remembered I have to go back to the real world to do a few things. You guys keep playing here, I'll head out for a bit."
Because this idea required Pei Guang's consent, she turned her head, planning to wake Pei Guang up and ask whether she could do it.
That sudden turn of her head made Pei Guang's body freeze in embarrassment. "Haha, how does it feel?"
Facing this question, Stelle's eyes lit up, but very quickly she still voiced her own idea: "Ah Guang, I want to go back to reality for a bit, get some things off you in the real world and run a few experiments. Is that okay?"
Pei Guang, who had originally been a little embarrassed after his sneak attack was discovered, suddenly had a bad feeling when he heard this question from Stelle.
"What are you going to do?"
Stelle's eyes sparkled, and her whole being exuded an aura of happiness, joy, and delight as she spoke to Pei Guang.
"It's just a sudden whim to do some experiments. Please rest assured, I promise not to shove anything like soda-soy bean juice into your mouth, nor will I randomly draw or paint on you. I just have some things I want to try and verify.
I hope you know I have limits in what I do!"
Pei Guang retorted, "Limits? I'm afraid I'll wake up one day and only have my head left."
Stelle replied, "How is that possible? You know me. If I really wanted to, you wouldn't even have your head left."
Pei Guang said, "Complimented and already out of breath? But by the way, you want to use me for tests because you gained some skill effective on allies and want to try it in reality?"
Stelle nodded, "Something like that. It's indeed a skill that requires you to be effective on me."
"Go ahead, go ahead. I won't wake up anymore. Let's continue to look for Something Unto Death."
Having played and enjoyed herself, Pei Guang felt the need to keep searching for Something Unto Death. His intuition told him that Something Unto Death was definitely related to deeper dreams.
Since it had escaped before by accident, this time when encountering it, he intended to give it a big gift package and thoroughly study how to use it to go to deeper dreams.
If he still couldn't figure it out, Pei Guang would resort to the old method: digging through.
Judging by where Robin was, the opponent's location was not reality but a dream. Since both are dream dimensions, in theory, digging through is feasible.
Maybe digging through is the real way to skip class.
However, considering various factors, Pei Guang hadn't planned to use the digging through method yet.
Besides his goal of reaching Penacony's deeper layers, he had also taken on a mission from Aventurine regarding the truth of Penacony's death.
As for Stelle's experiment, Pei Guang wasn't worried: for his companions, he had unconditional trust. As a player, besides those he trusted around him, there seemed to be no one else trustworthy in this world.
Feeling Pei Guang's unconditional trust, Stelle was moved and held his hand: "Rest assured, I won't betray your trust. I definitely won't shove strange things into your mouth, nor will I randomly draw or paint on you. I just want to confirm my true feelings and thoughts."
Pei Guang said, "Eww~ sounds so cheesy. Also, next time if you want to trick me, don't use soda-soy bean juice. I can block my taste buds, you know."
Stelle was shocked: "What? Then what about just now?"
Pei Guang gratefully said, "Thanks for the reward."
Stelle waved her hand: "You're welcome! I'll give you a bigger reward later."
Pei Guang thought Stelle was exasperated: she originally planned to drag him down with her but now had other methods. That bigger reward was definitely not a reward in the usual sense but her tricking him.
Stelle asked, "Aren't you afraid I'll do something bad?"
Before she could continue, March 7th interrupted: "Doing bad things? Hehe~ the bad things you can do are just those few, right? Do you think you could eat Ah Guang in his dream completely? Instead of worrying about that, worry about pulling Ah Guang out of the dream pool and into the trash can."
Pei Guang said, "I'm already in the trash can."
March 7th clapped her hands: "Right, that means secretly taking ugly pictures of you while you sleep, then threatening you with the photos. What did you always say about threatening people?"
Pei Guang: "You don't want those photos seen by others, right?"
March 7th: "Right, right, right!"
Stelle gave March 7th a thumbs up: "You guessed it. I just want to give sleeping Ah Guang a big kiss. But you reminded me, I could also take photos as souvenirs."
March 7th disdainfully waved her hand: "Tsk, talk as if it's true. Go on, go on. If you really had the ability to eat Ah Guang up, that'd be great."
March 7th didn't think much and just took Stelle's words as a joke. Honestly, she hoped Stelle had special feelings for Pei Guang.
From her own experience, if someone were to do such a shameful thing, they wouldn't say it openly in front of so many people, right? What decent person would?
If Stelle really had such special feelings, would Firefly have a chance? According to Stelle's behavior logic, Pei Guang probably never even notices Firefly.
March 7th was seriously analyzing internally, but Firefly had a very bad feeling.
Firefly knew Stelle and knew that Stelle, like Pei Guang, was someone who always did what she said. Recalling Stelle's strange behavior just now, Firefly wanted to stop her but March 7th interrupted.
However, March 7th apparently forgot one thing: there was indeed someone around who would openly say these kinds of things—that was Pei Guang.
But because March 7th was very close with Pei Guang, she subconsciously forgot these things.