"How power should be used depends on the heart of the user.
The same goes for Authority. Its lower limit is determined by the constraints of physical laws, but its upper limit... lies within our hearts."
Mei flattened her palm and pressed it against Ryn's chest, feeling his vibrant, thumping heart.
"What do you think? A big boy like you still needs a little kid to teach him how to use his power?"
"What do I think... I can only say I kind of get it, but it also feels like I don't..."
Ryn examined his own heart, looking at the network of electricity wrapped around it with his mind's eye.
This was the electric current controlled by Mei. It centered on his heart and spread throughout his body with his blood, intercepting or assimilating his own neural currents to perceive his thoughts.
Are neural currents actually electrons? No, wait, how many things in this world aren't made of positive and negative electrons?
Mei's Authority seemed to have become somewhat conceptual... Ryn had always thought Mei was just a little brat who threw lightning around recklessly. Was she actually a conceptual god?
"That's not right... if what you're saying is true, then why were you so weak before?"
Ryn looked at Mei with confusion. When he was beating up Mei in the Fire Moth, it was incredibly easy. How was it that the current Mei seemed so bottomless, so profound?
Mei raised an eyebrow, seemingly a little unhappy that Ryn brought up her dark past. But she still explained for him, "Back then, my mind was filled with the thought that everyone would die a painful death in the end, so it would be better for me to end it all early and lessen everyone's suffering. Who would think about so much? Developing my Authority was meaningless…
Besides, all my energy back then came from Penglaiji Ryn, and I was restricted everywhere. It's not like now, where it's completely my own and I can do whatever I want."
After speaking, Mei withdrew the hand on Ryn's chest. She proudly puffed out her flat, childish chest and shouted at Ryn with confidence, "Do you dare fight me again right now? I'll definitely blow your mind!"
Ryn chuckled at Mei's childish display. He pinched his thumb and forefinger together, comparing the tiny space between them to the currently young and petite Mei.
"I could probably crush you with one hand."
"Heh!" Mei pouted, letting out two angry, cold laughs. Then, with her head held high and one hand on her hip, she pointed at Ryn with the other.
"Stop bragging, you pervert who peeks at little girls sleeping! Your powers can't be used at will at all. The things affected by your gravity are all at a cataclysmic level."
Standing on the bed, Mei bent down, poking Ryn's face with her finger, and said to him in a bratty, passive-aggressive tone:
"Perverted big brother~ You wouldn't want to destroy the world again just for a little fight, would you?"
Ryn was so angered by this little brat that he was almost out of breath. He quickly took two deep breaths and slapped his chest hard.
Mei's finger lightly traced across Ryn's chest, her expression one of playful mockery.
"Ooh, ooh~ Is the perverted small fry going to die of anger? No way, no way, right? A big guy like you has such a small heart~"
Ryn didn't want to explain anything anymore. He covered his face in defeat and lay down on Mei's bed, giving up the struggle.
He used to think that the young, childhood Mei was so, so cute, but he never realized that the young Mei was also such a detestable little brat!
"You... are you sure you're still Mei?"
"Then what do you think I should be like? We seem to be getting off-topic. For now, let's settle the score for the secret photos."
*Thwump—*
Mei raised her slightly chubby, but already promisingly long and shapely leg.
She stomped one foot on Ryn's face, then ground it back and forth, squishing his cheeks. She looked down at Ryn with disgust and contempt.
"You utterly base and despicable maggot, who gave you the gall to spy on my sleeping face and disturb my sweet dreams?"
Although Mei's current body was delicate and petite enough to inspire affection, making one want to hold her and cherish her dearly.
In Ryn's eyes, Mei was incredibly young, yet she already possessed the dignity, dominance, and unquestionable air of a master.
It was a bit like... a Queen?
Hold on... it seems the Mei from his world once mentioned that when she was a child, she was ignorant... incredibly chuuni and foolish, and she managed to make everyone in Academy City submit and acknowledge her title as the "Queen of Thunder." They would even lower their heads and scurry away whenever they saw her…
Mei had previously said it was just a nickname others gave her and not worth mentioning. If Mei hadn't let it slip, Ryn would have thought people bullied her and gave her that name.
So the truth was that the current Mei, thinking back on her childhood, saw it all as a dark history she didn't dare speak of, so she twisted the truth!!
So... this current Mei, having returned to her childhood, free from Raiden Ryoma's restrictions... and having mastered her power... has she dropped the act?
Has she reverted to the "Queen of Thunder" of her childhood, both chuuni and domineering?
"Ant, what disgusting things are you thinking about?" Mei's pupils looked down, gazing at Ryn as if he were already dead.
One of her feet was grinding on Ryn's face, but that didn't seem to be enough to vent her anger, so she lifted her other foot and placed it on his chest.
Mei thought her actions were humiliating enough, more than enough to damage Ryn's self-esteem and crush his will.
Perhaps in Mei's perception, in her short decade or so of life, stepping on a peer's face, stepping on a peer, was the most severe punishment she could inflict.
It should be enough to make the other person burst into tears of shame and humiliation, wanting to kill themselves on the spot, to bury themselves alive.
Maybe he would even strip naked, perform a standard traditional Japanese dogeza, crying and shouting "I'm sorry, I'll never do it again," prostrating himself and begging Mei for mercy.
But Mei didn't understand. A little brat who hadn't even finished middle school, who hadn't been tempered by modern society, how could she possibly understand…
Her exquisite, doll-like face, and her skin as smooth as jade, as white as snow, which from time to time wafted a wonderfully milky fragrance to Ryn's nose…
Coupled with what she thought was a forceful and humiliating stomping. In reality, to Ryn, it felt like Mei was giving him a massage with a look of disgust and contempt.
Especially since the massage tool wasn't her slender, soft fingers, but rather…
This flawless treasure, a jade foot without a single imperfection, which, because she often flew instead of walked, had no odor whatsoever, and even carried the fragrance of a young girl.
Mei's queenly behavior! Was actually a reward for Ryn!
Ryn was so excited his whole body was trembling, wasn't it!!
Feeling Ryn's body trembling slightly, Mei thought he was suppressing his desire to erupt in anger, and felt she could push things further.
And so, Mei, who had died too young and was inexperienced with the world, used the most humiliating act she had ever seen on television.
"Ant, you are only fit to lick my feet!"
Ryn, who had been enjoying it with his eyes closed, suddenly snapped them open, looking up in disbelief at the imperious Mei above him.
"Hm? Your Majesty! Is that really true?"
"Heh... you dreg of society, scum of humanity, pervert of perverts. I will turn you into my most, most, most lowly slave, fit only to lick my feet every day, to be my footstool…"
Mei said with her arms crossed and her head held high in pride, laughing loudly.
But she couldn't finish her sentence, because she felt something wet on her foot... as if it had stepped into something, like a mouth?
"Ah-ah-ah-AHHH!! What are you doing!!! Let go of my foot!!!!"