After Ryn tricked Mei into becoming his student, he spent most of his time tutoring her, expanding her knowledge into academic fields she had never encountered before.
To Ryn's surprise, Mei was a true genius! When Ryn first started teaching her, she could only stare blankly, but after a while, she could keep up with his pace, understand the knowledge he imparted, and was even able to draw inferences and propose her own insights.
Although Mei still felt she was more suited to studying quantum mechanics and artificial intelligence, Ryn planned to cultivate her into an all-powerful, god-tier scientist like Yiselian.
Previously, Ryn thought that the pillar of the world should be Kiana, but now the more he looked, the more he felt it was Mei... After all, no matter the world or the timeline, Mei always existed, whereas Kiana did not necessarily...
Every day, Elysia would sneak into a certain academy to play with the students. Like a caring big sister, she would gently look after the children and patiently answer their various questions.
However, in Elysia's heart, she would occasionally think of the sisters, Sakura and Rin, and would often go find them to play together.
But it seemed Sakura had found some kind of job and was often out early and back late, rarely at home, so it became difficult for Elysia to see her.
At first, Elysia was often sad because she couldn't see Sakura, but recently she seemed to have completely forgotten about her.
Because after Mei's classes ended, Ryn would tutor her. Elysia, with nothing to do at home, gradually got to know Mei.
Elysia was immediately captivated by a cool and beautiful, unapproachable girl like Mei.
But unlike a warm-hearted big sister like Sakura who would yield to a strong offensive, Mei treated all of Elysia's attempts to get closer with cold indifference.
After school, Dr. Mei arrived at Ryn's house as usual, ready for her studies.
After ringing Ryn's doorbell, Mei counted a few seconds in her mind, then skillfully and quickly stepped aside, retreated a few steps, and leaned against the corner of the wall.
The next second, the door flew open, and a gleefully smiling, pink-haired fatty with outstretched arms leaped out from inside.
"Oof!"
With a thud, Elysia face-planted on the ground in front of the door.
Plan Ambush-Mei was a great failure. Sprawled on the ground, Elysia rolled over into a starfish pose and looked at Mei with a grin.
"Mei~ I've fallen! I need kisses and hugs to get up!"
"Then you can just lie there and wait for Dr. Ryn to pick you up."
Mei glanced at Elysia on the floor, then simply stepped over her body and walked into Ryn's house.
She then locked the door from the inside, shutting Elysia out.
She then familiarly made her way to Ryn's teaching "classroom," which was an absurdly huge underground experimental base five hundred meters below ground...
Although she didn't know how Ryn managed to build this underground base, since Ryn didn't say, Mei was sensible enough not to ask.
Mei gently patted Ryn's face, waking up the Ryn who had fallen asleep while playing games.
"Dr. Ryn, wake up. I'm here."
"Mmm... you're here..."
Ryn yawned and tossed the phone in his hand aside. That trash game Honkai 2 was so boring it easily made one drowsy...
"Then let's begin today's lesson. By the way, where's Elysia? Didn't she go to pick you up? Why didn't you come together?"
Mei adjusted her glasses and explained without a hint of a blush or change in her heartbeat:
"Same as before."
"Er..."
Ryn awkwardly rubbed his temples.
Understood. Elysia's attempt to get cuddly failed, she refused to get up from the ground, and then Mei locked her out.
"Then let's not worry about her. She doesn't like these classes anyway, so let her be."
"Mm."
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While Ryn was teaching Mei, Elysia, who had been locked out by Mei, lay on the ground for a good while. When no one came to open the door and help her up, she got up on her own, feeling snubbed, and went out to play happily.
Today's grand strategy to win over Mei was a failure, so she would just have to continue tomorrow~
Bored, Elysia took the bullet train from Nagazora City to its final destination, and then back to the starting point.
Leaning against the train window, she watched the scenery flash by as the train sped along, as well as the people getting on and off.
Elysia loved to watch both the scenery outside the window and the diverse array of people inside the carriage, recording the myriad facets of the world.
In a fleeting moment, Elysia, on a whim, looked up at the bullet train's route map on the carriage wall.
A route that ran from the south of the Far East to the north, traversing the entire region.
"The Earth is round. Dad and I also traveled in a straight line around the Earth, just like this track that runs through the Far East..."
Elysia held up two fingers, tracing the line.
Then, Elysia slowly turned her wrist, changing the horizontal line she had traced into a vertical one.
Elysia's eyes lit up. She had suddenly found a new goal!
"I've already circled the Earth horizontally, but I haven't done it vertically yet!"
She excitedly took out her phone, found a globe, and began planning a new round-the-world trip.
A spontaneous journey allows for no hesitation.
Elysia sent Ryn a series of messages about her travel plans, then took the bullet train directly to the seaside.
Ryn was in the middle of a lesson and wasn't paying much attention to his phone...
It wasn't until night fell, after he had finished Mei's lesson, that Ryn picked up his phone and checked his messages.
His vision went dark, and he nearly fainted.
Elysia had already left! A spur-of-the-moment trip, and she didn't even bother to pack any luggage!
Ryn packed Elysia's luggage, then put it into a storage device created through quantum mechanics.
He located Elysia's position, then opened a black hole portal and stepped right through.
At that moment, on the surface of the Pacific Ocean, Elysia was sitting on Maheśvara's back, happily humming a song.
"That darn dad, all he knows is class, class, class. He has no time to play with me. There's no place for me in this family anymore! Abandoned, I can only walk this path alone!"
Maheśvara: "Hmm? Elysia, didn't you say you came out to play? How did it become that cheap old dad of yours abandoning you?"
Elysia: "Ehehe~ I was just picking a trope to joke about. Don't take it seriously, Maheśvara."
Buzz—
A miniature black hole instantly formed in front of Maheśvara.
Maheśvara's skin instantly writhed, swallowing Elysia, who was sitting on its back, into its body.
After protecting Elysia and concealing her aura, Maheśvara looked with a grave expression at the suddenly appearing black hole.