“It’s not safe these days, so we should be prepared,” Qin Zi shook her head. Fu Jiang absolutely couldn’t die, her emotions were the other’s power, and death was the other’s switch.
“Qin Zi jie, are you busy right now?”
“No, what’s up?”
“Let’s go out and buy a phone for Kaya. I memorized Fu Jiang’s phone number, and even her mom bought her a phone after Hanako’s accident. Kaya is the only one who doesn’t have one, so it’s good to have a phone for contact. It’s like a gift for her. After all, Hanako and Fu Jiang both have one, so I’m afraid she might be sad if we don’t get her one. We can’t just give her a charm, can we?”
“A charm for Kaya? It would break in her hands…” What charm could withstand the curse… Qin Zi also wanted one.
“So let’s buy her a phone.” If the pendant had been directly given to Kaya and shattered, she didn’t know how much she would cry.
“Let’s just buy two simple accessories for her and Hanako on the way, just in case. Hanako doesn’t know that you gave her the one, and just giving Fu Jiang a pendant feels like it would be troublesome.” It’s not good to have too many girls around. They probably won’t say much about a phone, but a pendant would make them think too much.
“Hmm, that’s good. Looks like you’ve been reading the book I gave you, and you’re already thinking about how to avoid a harem situation.” Qin Zi was full of relief. The more stable Lin Ze was, the more at ease she felt. This kid was reliable after all.
“Can we not talk about that book?”
“Bashou, are you coming out with us? It counts as one.” Lin Ze had a beautiful plan. With Qin Zi there, Bashou would definitely restrain herself, not wanting to be looked down upon by Qin Zi. He could save himself some trouble and use up one opportunity at the same time.
“I won’t go if Qin Zi is there.” Bashou didn’t even lift her head from her book in the room.
“…Alright, then you stay home. We’re leaving then.” The plan failed.
Only after hearing the sound of the door closing did Bashou close her book and slam her pillow a few times, “Damn Qin Zi, she took Lin Ze away as soon as she came.”
“Achoo.” Qin Zi rubbed her suddenly itchy nose and asked Lin Ze, “You have no problem communicating with Bashou, right?”
“No problem. We’ve experimented. We can communicate anytime she’s in her contract object. If she’s not in the object, I can only call her unilaterally. She can enter the object and come to my side, or she can sense my location and teleport over. That’s faster.”
“Hmm, that’s good. Usually, shikigami are kept in their contract objects for emergencies. She’s an exception, she’s always outside. But thankfully she can teleport. Buy her a phone too, so she can call you if anything happens.”
“Okay.”
When Bashou got the pure white phone, she was happy. When she found out that it was Qin Zi who bought it, her smile froze. She suddenly felt a little guilty, thinking about how she was still scolding Qin Zi behind her back.
She murmured a vague thank you to the two of them before walking quickly upstairs, “Check the manual, ask me if you don’t understand.” Lin Ze reminded her with a smile.
Qin Zi just kept smiling at Bashou. That was also the reason why she ran away. After washing up in the bathroom, everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
“This… this is too expensive, Lin Ze…” Kaya almost cried.
When she went to see Lin Ze in the morning, he had told her to come to his room, all mysterious. At the time, she even thought maybe Lin Ze was going to…
Qin Zi jie and Sama jie are still at home, she was still in a dilemma, but her feet had already brought her to Lin Ze’s room.
Kaya’s heart was in turmoil, but she didn’t forget to look around Lin Ze’s room. Clean and tidy was the best description. She heard that boys’ rooms have many little secrets. Did Lin Ze have any?
He did! Those books were stuffed under the bed. It wasn’t that he was afraid of Kaya seeing them, it was just that he felt it would be a little troublesome to explain. Lin Ze took an unopened new phone from his bedside table and walked towards Kaya with his back to her.
Is… is it that thing? “Lin… Lin Ze… I… I… I… I’m ready.” Kaya was like a cooked shrimp at this moment.
“Hmm? You know I’m going to give you a gift? Qin Zi jie told you secretly?” Lin Ze was puzzled.
“A-lei?” Kaya saw the new phone Lin Ze was taking out from behind his back, and she became wide-eyed. Then, a wave of heat rose from her head.
“This… this… this is too expensive, Lin Ze.” Kaya almost cried, half because of being moved, half because of shame.
Kaya refused to accept it no matter what. Lin Ze thought for a moment and said something that held her hostage, “But I want to be able to contact Kaya anytime, anywhere.”
“I… I… I’ll pay Lin Ze back later.”
“We’ll talk about that later. This is your phone card, I’ve bundled the number with mine so you don’t have to pay extra for phone bills.”
Kaya felt like she must have committed a lot of sins in her past life, so she was being punished by the gods for the first ten years of her life. But she must have saved the world in her past life, so the punishment ended, and the gods made her meet Lin Ze… Thank you, God.
All the way, Kaya was carefully fiddling with her new phone. She saved Lin Ze’s number, set it as her first contact, and took the first picture on the phone under Lin Ze’s suggestion.
Kaya was standing in front, Lin Ze was behind her holding up the phone, click! The shy girl used one hand to lift up her hair, she lowered her eyes and dared not look at the boy beside her. The boy behind her was smiling brightly.
Kaya secretly set the photo as her wallpaper, touching the face of Lin Ze in the photo. She thought… the future is by her side.
“Did Kaya buy a phone? Did you register a LINE account? Quickly register one, let’s add each other as friends. And you, Lin Ze, why haven’t you accepted my friend request?”
“I… I didn’t pay attention.”
Fu Jiang was the most enthusiastic about Kaya getting a new phone. She was bored to death at home alone. Those people online were either hitting on her or hitting on her. Yesterday she added Hanako, but this bastard Lin Ze hadn’t agreed all this time.
“I… I’m not very good at it, Fu Jiang.” Kaya spoke a little shyly.
“It’s okay, I’ll teach you how to do it.” Fu Jiang sat next to Kaya and leaned her head over. When she saw the phone’s wallpaper, she seemed to pause for a moment, but then she acted as if nothing had happened.
Finally, the four of them added each other on LINE and the matter was settled.
“You bought Kaya’s phone, didn’t you?” Taking advantage of the fact that Hanako and Kaya were both looking at their phones, Fu Jiang sent a message to Lin Ze secretly.
“You can guess that? Kaya doesn’t have a phone because of her family situation. If we all have one except for her, it’ll be inconvenient to contact her in case of emergency. What? Is someone going to mind?”
“Joke! Who would care about something you gave them!” Fu Jiang gritted her teeth and mumbled silently, “Partial bastard.”
Lin Ze, who had been paying attention to Fu Jiang, knew she was scolding him from her lip movements.
“Really? Then it seems like Fu Jiang wouldn’t want this thing I bought either. What a pity.”
Hmm? What thing?
She looked up, Lin Ze was smiling as he held a pendant, “So… do you want it?”