Chapter 6: Awakening Potential

Human potential can be awakened under certain specific conditions. Once, Ye Yu had seen a news report. To save his mother, a 10-year-old boy who had not yet awakened his abilities lifted a steel beam weighing a thousand pounds in a moment of desperation. For a long time, Ye Yu had only thought of such instances of potential awakening as existing in the news. But now, with the knock at the door, Ye Yu, who was determined not to reveal his secret of cross-dressing, personally understood a truth. It turned out that potential could indeed be awakened.

In the 0.1 seconds after the knock, Ye Yu’s mind went blank, feeling a sense of crisis more severe than when his parents caught him doing something embarrassing. But in 0.3 seconds, driven by the crisis of his dignity, Ye Yu’s brain began to operate at high speed. He remembered that his roommate, Ushio, also had a key to the dorm. If he took off the cross-dressing outfit and hid it, changing into his school uniform, there wouldn’t be enough time. There was a chance that Ushio would use the key to enter before he was ready.

Although Ushio, being a lolicon, had no interest in anything other than young girls, Ye Yu didn’t want to be labeled as a pervert in his roommate’s eyes. Just as Ye Yu was thinking at high speed, with wisps of white smoke rising from his head, his gaze fell on the school uniform he had just taken off—a green long-sleeved, long-pants uniform from Yunqi Academy. Ye Yu’s eyes lit up. If changing clothes wasn’t an option, he could change his approach. He decided to hide the cross-dressing outfit instead.

Ching ling swish~ A series of intense sounds echoed in Room 503.

2 seconds later, creak~ The dorm room door was opened from the inside by Ye Yu, who was now disguised. He even carefully opened the curtains. As the door opened, both Ye Yu and Ushio stood frozen in place, staring at each other. Ushio, standing outside, saw Ye Yu, who had forgotten to take off his cat-ear headband in his haste. The sunlight from the window cast a soft glow on Ye Yu’s fair skin, enhancing the delicacy of his features. Perhaps due to the sudden opening of the door, a few droplets of sweat glistened on Ye Yu’s small, elegant nose, and his usually fair cheeks were tinged with a rosy hue. Combined with the cat-ear headband and the habit of nervously biting his lips, Ye Yu’s cuteness was off the charts.

Faced with this sight, Ushio instinctively glanced at Ye Yu’s flat chest. For a moment, he had the illusion that his roommate of several years might actually be a girl. But for a normal person seeing Ye Yu with the headband and his current adorable appearance, many questions might arise. However, for Ushio, who had awakened the ‘lolicon’ ability, Ye Yu being a girl was of no consequence. After all, for a qualified lolicon, anything that wasn’t a loli held little interest, regardless of gender.

More importantly for Ushio, there was something else on his mind. Remembering this, Ushio patted the box in his arms, filled with several bottles of yellow honey, and walked into the room, boasting to Ye Yu, who was shocked. ‘Little Rain, look at what treasure I bought!!!’

Ye Yu, who had just opened the door and was shocked by Ushio’s purchase of a large box of honey, struggled to keep a straight face, using one hand to hide the mischievous cat tail behind his uniform, and forced a smile as he responded. ‘It’s just honey. By the way, why did you buy so much at once? Meow~’

Ye Yu intended to respond normally to Ushio, but at the end of his sentence, he couldn’t help but let out a ‘meow’ due to his passive ‘meow meow meow’ skill. Hearing the meow, Ye Yu suddenly realized a big problem. He had forgotten to take off his cat-ear headband!

Feeling the atmosphere in the dorm becoming more awkward, Ye Yu was thinking of how to reasonably explain to his roommate that he wasn’t a pervert for wearing the cat-ear headband. Just then, Ushio, who had placed the large box of honey on the floor, looked deeply at another item on the chair. Following Ushio’s gaze, Ye Yu felt his heart sink. In his haste to open the door, he had forgotten to put away the free white stockings. Seeing the white stockings with a pink cat paw print on the chair, and remembering that he was still wearing the cat-ear headband, Ye Yu felt a wave of despair. It was over. If it was just the cat ears or the stockings, he might have been able to explain, but now both had been discovered. Caught red-handed, there was no way to explain this away!!! Was he going to be labeled a pervert by his roommate?

Just as Ye Yu was at a loss for words, his brain already giving up, a voice of salvation rang out from Room 503. ‘Congratulations, Little Rain, you’ve awakened the cat system ability today. You’re finally an awakened being!’

Hearing Ushio’s words, Ye Yu, who was in despair and couldn’t find a way to explain, was taken aback. So, it could be explained that way? He didn’t even know there were people waiting to awaken the cat system ability?

As Ye Yu sighed in relief, Ushio walked over to his own cabinet and rummaged through it. The next moment, he handed Ye Yu a stack of unwrapped, snow-white items. Due to his guilt, Ye Yu instinctively opened his hands, and upon seeing what Ushio had given him, he felt uneasy. Ushio had handed him a pile of white stockings similar to the ones Ye Yu had forgotten to put away. These stockings, upon closer inspection, seemed to be smaller in size.

Looking at the stockings, a question mark slowly rose above Ye Yu’s head, which was adorned with cat ears, and he unconsciousally took a half step back. So, was his roommate no longer just a simple lolicon, but had become a terrifying pervert who stole stockings from lolis’ homes?

Seeing Ye Yu’s shocked expression and his instinctive step back, Ushio didn’t seem to mind. After all, Ye Yu wasn’t a loli, so what he thought of Ushio didn’t matter. Ushio just looked at the stockings, his handsome face with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes showing a mix of five parts infatuation and five parts pain. ‘Little Rain, these are for some naughty children whose stockings I accidentally tore. Lately, for some reason, there are too many security guards near the kindergarten, so I can’t deliver these. Since you have the cat system ability and need to practice silent walking, you might as well use these.’

Ye Yu’s forehead was covered in black lines. No matter how he thought about it, the increase in security guards and his roommate Ushio’s appearance seemed to be connected. But usually, Ye Yu might have wanted to retort. However, thinking of his current state, still wearing the embarrassing cross-dressing outfit under his uniform, with the cat-ear headband on his head and the cat tail in his right pants leg, Ye Yu avoided arguing with Ushio and shifted his gaze to the box of honey placed on the floor by Ushio, which had a seal featuring a cute little loli. He changed the subject with a laugh. ‘Um… meow… cough cough… so, what’s with this big box of honey?’

As Ye Yu asked this question, Ushio, who had been troubled by the increase in security guards and unable to help the children, suddenly perked up, his eyes shining with excitement. ‘Little Rain, do you know how bees gather nectar?’

Ye Yu, who rarely encountered bees in his daily life, shook his head. Seeing Ye Yu shake his head, Ushio’s handsome face lifted slightly, and he proudly began to share his knowledge. ‘Bees mostly gather nectar when they are 3-6 months old. Young bees carry the nectar in their mouths and then spit it into the hive. In a sense, eating honey is like eating the saliva of young bees.’

Hearing this not-so-useful trivia, the question mark that had just disappeared from Ye Yu’s head reappeared. So, his perverted lolicon roommate had now set his sights on young bees as well? Wasn’t the species gap a bit too large?

Just as Ye Yu was internally shocked by his roommate Ushio’s perversion, he saw Ushio pick up the box of honey from the floor and point to the packaging, which featured a small, winged, bee-like loli with various bee characteristics. ‘Hehehe, Little Rain, my honey is different from other honey. It’s collected by this bee spirit loli who was transformed from a bee. A spirit loli is a humanized spiritual body that has undergone a mutation.’

‘Although most spirit lolis hold a deep grudge against humans for destroying the environment, this little bee spirit loli seems to like humans. Of course, that’s not the most important point! The most important thing, Little Rain, do you know what it is? Do you know? Do you know?’

Listening to Ushio’s frenzied triple question, Ye Yu looked at the spirit bee loli on the packaging, but as a normal person, he couldn’t grasp what his roommate was getting at. Seeing Ye Yu’s confused expression, Ushio didn’t answer, but gave him a profound and mysterious look before elegantly taking out a bottle of honey from the box. He then opened the cap and gulped it down, ton ton ton, his face showing pure enjoyment and bliss.

Watching his roommate drink an entire bottle of honey in one go, Ye Yu realized a fact. His roommate’s level of perversion seemed to be much higher than he had imagined!!! And what exactly was he trying to get Ye Yu to understand?