Chapter 3065: Grievance and Crying

【Moonlight Greatsword】 can not only be attached to sword-type weapons; what Miss Daniste was demonstrating at this moment was a high-end application of 【Moonlight Greatsword】.

The large tree itself was treated as a sword. The tree glowing with red light was swung and smashed toward Xia De. Xia De really didn't want to pull out a tree to swing back and forth with Miss Daniste, so he raised one hand upward, directly blocking the tree. Immediately, the silver moonlight on his body also spread to the tree:

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

Holy silver and blood-red light intertwined and tangled on the tree. Both sides wanted to gain dominance over the great tree, so as expected, the tree exploded directly in the confrontation of the two powerful forces.

While tree bark and wood flew wildly, the red-haired young lady lunged forward to Xia De's front and then punched him. Xia De thought Miss Daniste was joking, after all, he had never seen her use combat techniques at close range. Then, the careless Outlander was sent flying like a cannonball by that small fist.

Amidst the rumbling sounds, he broke three waist-thick trees before stopping. When he climbed up in disbelief, the female Ringed Shushi who had already caught up didn't forget to explain:

"The red moon itself has the ability to strengthen flesh and blood; you should know this too."

Another punch was thrown. This time, the small fist was held by Xia De. He wanted to use a technique to deflect her fist to the side, but then the young lady's left fist also struck, and was then held by him as well.

"You couldn't possibly have grown a third hand, could you?"

Xia De asked the young lady. Then, with a *pop*, Miss Daniste used her head to hit Xia De's head. Afterward, she, who had launched the attack, whimpered, pulled her hand out of Xia De's grip, and covered her forehead with both hands, tears appearing in her eyes:

"Why is your head so hard?"

"Sorry, are you okay?"

Xia De wanted to step forward to comfort her, and then he was tripped by the young lady's leg, and then she pressed her whole body on top of him, trying to lock Xia De down.

The Outlander had learned excellent close-quarters combat techniques from the 【Night Watcher】, so he immediately wrestled with the red-haired female Ringed Shushi in the snow. Neither side used any more techniques, so although Xia De was the one who had been tripped, before long, it became him pinning the young lady to the snow.

He knelt on one knee on the young lady's back, panting, grabbing the other's hands with both of his, while Miss Daniste, lying in the snow, tried hard to turn her head to look at him. Looking at those rose-red eyes, Xia De felt inexplicably guilty, but having been "tricked" twice already, he wouldn't fall for it again this time:

"We are in a duel, so it's normal for me to do this... does this count as me winning? Let's go to the kitchen to find some late-night snacks in a while?"

"It doesn't count, you haven't won yet."

As she spoke, red filaments spread from her controlled hands and directly pierced into Xia De's wrists. Then, Xia De felt his arms uncontrollably loosen their grip on the other's hands.

The female Ringed Shushi rolled violently on the snow, causing Xia De to fall as well. When he tried to climb up, he found that hundreds of red glowing filaments had already wrapped around his body. Although they couldn't completely take away control of his body, he felt his whole body becoming numb.

Miss Daniste took the opportunity to flip him over to the ground again. After pouncing on him, she punched his face, but the punch passed through a swarm of red butterflies and hit the snow.

She looked up, and the fluttering swarm of butterflies had already flown into the higher night sky. So she also stood up and turned into a red light to chase after them.

The flight speed of the red butterflies was obviously not as fast as Miss Daniste, who was traveling as light, but even if she caught up with the butterfly swarm, she couldn't force Xia De to appear.

So the butterfly swarm and the chasing red light constantly collided above the forest floor. Xia De felt that Miss Daniste was clearly driving him toward a specific direction, because every time he deviated from the "correct" direction, the red light would crash into the butterfly swarm in anger.

The two thus fought and stopped like this. Xia De would occasionally restore his human form at the top of a large tree, either exchanging a few punches with the eighteen-year-old girl or throwing moonlight at each other from different treetops far away. Finally, the red light wrapped around the butterfly swarm in the air, and the two revealed figures hugged each other and fell downward together.

Although this scene was slightly familiar, the landing spot was not a hot spring.

But because the snow was very thick, there was not much pain when they hit the ground. The red-haired young lady still wanted to get up and continue attacking Xia De, but found that her hands had been tied up by black chains. The 【Great Sin Chains】 of the eight Great Sin Runes were simply not something she, at the Eleventh Ring, could break free from. So the movement of getting up turned into falling back into the snow. She looked up at the starry sky and didn't move anymore.

"Does this count as me winning this time?"

Xia De, who had climbed up and sat beside her, asked, but still didn't get an answer. He was a little angry at this time, after all, the other party had indeed hit him very hard just now, but this anger was only a little bit; Daniste Gustav was, after all, his teacher.

Seeing that the other party didn't answer, he shook the two chains in his hands, but the young lady looking up at the starry sky still didn't speak as if she were sulking.

"It's so cold, you don't want to lie here all night, do you?"

He asked again, and then the girl, who was restricted in movement but not completely unable to move, turned her head to look at him, her eyes even carrying a look of grievance. Xia De didn't know how he had seen that.

"You want to leave me behind and go back?"

"Of course not. If you really want to lie in the snow all night, I will stay here with you. But do we need to continue fighting? Or should we pause and continue at another time?"

As he spoke, he shook the chains in his hands again, and then felt that doing so seemed a bit wrong, so he took the initiative to let the 【Great Sin Chains】 disappear to show his sincerity.

He guarded against the young lady lying on the snow making another sneak attack, and in fact, she did exactly that. But it wasn't to punch Xia De, but to stretch out her arms and hug Xia De's neck, pulling hard to hold Xia De tightly.

The scene suddenly became quite awkward, because Xia De almost had his face pressed into the snow. He tried hard to lift his head, but the young lady who was hugging him tightly didn't want to let go at all.

Gradually, Xia De also gave up resisting and let the other party lie in the snow and hug him. They could both hear each other's breathing and feel each other's heartbeat. The moonlight shone on Xia De's back and the young lady's face. After a long silence, the Outlander unexpectedly heard sobbing.

"What's wrong?"

His movement of getting up this time was no longer blocked. The young lady's hands let go of his neck, allowing him to see her appearance at this moment. The red-haired young lady's eyes were already red, and when Xia De looked at her, he happened to see tears sliding from the corners of her eyes.

Considering that the posture at this time was very unseemly, Xia De sat up and hugged her waist to let her get up from the snow. After hesitating for a moment, he took her into his arms.

The eighteen-year-old red-haired girl struggled for a moment, but in the end, she just hammered Xia De twice and didn't object anymore.

"What's wrong with this? We won a war, and just had a victory banquet, why are you crying? I remember when we were dancing just now, I shouldn't have stepped on you."

Xia De said, and then heard her answer in a low voice with a crying tone:

"I miss my teacher."

"I see..."

Xia De also sighed in this long night. While looking up at the sea of stars above his head, he continued to hug the young lady while sitting in the snow. He understood this kind of longing. Although the Outlander had no relatives in his hometown, when he first came to this world, he had also missed his past countless times:

"Miss Helena Carter... we have found the direction, she will return sooner or later."

"Then before the teacher returns, Xia De, can you tell me? What exactly is the relationship between you and the teacher?"

She asked while sobbing, her voice a bit muffled. Xia De continued to look up at the starry sky and the moon, and said softly:

"Probably a tacit ambiguity, a mutual liking that is understood without being spoken, and a longing across time."

This was the first time he had answered this question directly, so the red-haired young lady he was holding continued to ask:

"Xia De, after finding the teacher, will you and her... not want me anymore?"

Xia De looked down at her:

"Although it's impolite to say so, I still want to say—that's a really silly question. She is your teacher, I am your student, what reason would we have to not want you?"

After finishing, he realized:

"Wait a minute, you wanted to fight me in the woods tonight, and hit me so hard, it wouldn't be because of this reason, would it?"

Of course, she wouldn't admit what she was fearing, what she was worried about, and what she was feeling aggrieved about. Only the eighteen-year-old girl herself knew her true thoughts, but Xia De at least knew that she should have relaxed, because she was also actively hugging him at this moment.

The tear-red rose-red eyes looked up at him:

"Xia De, you won't suddenly disappear one day like the teacher and never appear again, right?"

"Of course not. If I did that, don't worry, there would certainly be more than just you who would want to find me and beat me up."

"Xia De, you won't stop being close to me after I expel the time curse and return to my original appearance, right?"

"Both of you are you, is there a difference?"

"Xia De, you treat me as your teacher, right?"

"Yes, always have."

She sniffed and asked the last question:

"Then why have you never called me teacher?"

She looked at him from Xia De's arms, her rose-red eyes filled with the stubbornness of an immature eighteen-year-old. "She" immediately laughed in Xia De's ear again—

【Key answer.】

Xia De's smooth breathing stalled for a moment, but he didn't hesitate. Looking at the eighteen-year-old girl, he explained softly:

"The title I use and how I actually view you do not need to be equated." ===== CHAPTER 3066 =====