[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want-":3,"chapter-my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-48":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Streaming Life With SSS-Rank Girls With Want My Kids",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1457668,1905,"Chapter 48: A vampire’s worst enemy comes to the rescue","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-48",48,"\u003Cp>Kai shook the stone fragments off his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at the hole in the floor he’d come up through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shrugged nonchalantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood.\" He folded the newspaper carefully and set it on the desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do it every morning. I don’t like starting the day without reading and having coffee, though.\" He picked up his cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dress with the cut on the shoulder Vayne had made hours earlier, the only visible sign of combat on her person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lunged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space was wider here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira’s follow-up strike arrived before Kai finished repositioning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A real kick, with full hip, the kind that seeks not anatomy but distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crashed through the guild’s inner door — wood, which gave way without much resistance — and landed in the assessment room where the rank crystals were still on their pedestals, the display case still unrepaired since registration day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the threshold of the broken door, Lira watched him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Coffee?\" Aldric said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, thank you.\" A pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I could sit and talk while drinking a cup of his.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood,\" he said, in exactly the same tone he’d used to answer Kai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[GarcíaFTW: ALDRIC OFFERED COFFEE TO LIRA]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: \"I could sit and talk while drinking a cup of his\" — LIRA BEING LIRA]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jac_Moore: Fifteen years as guildmaster. Nothing moves him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[xSorinx: Eris among them. Just watching. They know Lira would be annoyed if they helped.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty plus Eris, spread around the perimeter of the guild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She watched Kai getting up in the assessment room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked back into the main room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Confidence is back,\" she said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He set his stance — the low Muay Thai stance, fingers extended, Qi active from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the small smile when something turned out right. Something calmer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m working on it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because Kai was stronger — but because he fought differently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qi active, integrated into every movement as it had always been, only now conscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira deflected it. Stepped back one step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira blocked it with her forearm. Stepped back half a step more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira dodged it — but backward, giving ground instead of simply redirecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not because she can’t handle it. Because she prefers the space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know.\" Kai repositioned. \"Why are you retreating?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You already evaluated me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Qi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai looked at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking about every strike is what a student does.\" She lunged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: \"thinking about every strike is what a student does]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[StreamerHunter: \"you changed between the catacombs and here\" — Lira notices it before the system]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Jac_Moore: \"enemy and critic\" is the perfect summary of Lira]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[RagingMutant: Eris lost to Kai. Now she sees Lira having to adapt to him. She’s processing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not the most intense — the longest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How much do you know about A_D_M?\" Kai said, blocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that why you came?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"About me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai blocked the first, dodged the second, took the third on his arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That wasn’t a compliment either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[NocheEterna99: \"a very inconvenient one\" — Lira describing Kai to Serah indirectly]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[DragonicLegacy: she came 880km out of curiosity. EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY KILOMETERS. OUT OF CURIOSITY.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mist_Of_Death: \"that wasn’t a compliment either\" \u002F \"I know\" — they’ve had this exchange four times and I still like it every time]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pedro_Sierra: ε=ε=ε=( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ε=ε=ε=ε= \"I came out of curiosity\" ε=ε=ε=( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ε=ε=ε=ε=]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai felt it in his arms first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi compensated — but compensating had its own cost, and the cost accumulated on top of everything he’d already accumulated in the last hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With enough force that the Qi active in the block was insufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stayed on the ground a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eyes closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira approached.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vampires on the perimeter didn’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well fought,\" Lira said, from above. \"For a human.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your blood,\" she continued, her voice with the predator instinct fully active, \"will be the most interesting thing I’ve tasted in decades.\" She crouched slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s the most considerate thing I can offer you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing to say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The position was good. Close to the target. With enough space for what was coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The dawn is beautiful from here, I imagine,\" she said, looking at the edges of light around the boards. \"Though I never see it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you going to get up?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira extended her hand toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lira was a meter away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exactly where he needed her to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Short. Genuine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes changed — from predator instinct to something sharper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai got up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your ego,\" he said, looking directly at her, \"made you fall into the trap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kai’s fist struck the largest board on the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wood exploded outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Directly onto Lira.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound that came from Lira was not that of someone who knew what awaited her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pure and absolute.\u003C\u002Fp>",813,"2026-06-06T02:17:06.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","be0dd748d7d986dc9f6b6284f822df7707784d6dd2f8cb18d0907a7f216e8e26","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-49","my-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--chapter-47",110,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-streaming-life-with-sss-rank-girls-with-want--cover.jpg"]