Chapter 99: No Class Today (2)

“Oh, Brother, you’ve already woken up and showered so early?”
Su Xiaozhi’s voice came from outside the door.
The sound of footsteps in slippers was steadily approaching.

“Seriously, you should’ve said something sooner! We’re good~ sis~ters, you know, we could’ve bathed together…”
With a slightly mischievous tone, deliberately teasing her brother who had turned into a girl, Su Xiaozhi turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. Her words stopped at that moment.

“Get off me! Don’t cling to me, you can hide in the shadows if you want—!” Su Xiaoxiao frantically tried to disentangle herself from Evran’s playful grappling, but Evran stubbornly continued to hang onto her, completely oblivious to the situation.

Tina, who was following behind Su Xiaozhi, appropriately and swiftly drew a conclusion from her database at that moment, robotically stating, “Caught in the act,” and then continued eating her ice cream.

“Xiaozhi, is b-breakfast ready?” Su Xiaoxiao strained to push Evran’s face away, looking at her younger sister.

“Oh, I haven’t started preparing it yet.”
“Isn’t it a bit rushed to make it to morning self-study at this time? And why are you still in your pajamas?”
Su Xiaozhi touched the fluffy ball on her sleep cap, showing no signs of urgency.

“Don’t worry,” she said, “the school just sent out a notice saying that the campus is undergoing construction today and will be very noisy. To avoid accidents caused by too many students, the entire school is suspended for another day. I just came to tell you about this.”

‘So it’s a suspension after all…’
‘Campus construction must refer to the previously damaged areas. I noticed it yesterday when I went to school; that area was already cordoned off with roadblocks.’
‘Today is Friday, so a day off means it’s connected to the weekend, creating a short holiday.’

Su Xiaozhi looked towards the living room, where the warm sunlight was already streaming through the window onto the balcony. She thought, ‘It should be good weather today.’
“So, let’s eat out today, and by the way, I want to take you out to play, Brother.”

“Go out and play? It’s a rare day off, just let me stay comfortably at home.”
Su Xiaoxiao’s face was full of reluctance. She had already thought of putting on her backpack and walked to her desk, but upon hearing about the day off, her expression immediately relaxed. She then slowly climbed back into bed, lifted the quilt, and burrowed in.

“No way! Precisely because it’s a rare holiday, we must go out and play!”
“We can go shopping together. Your old backpack is a bit too big compared to your current figure, isn’t it? And it’s dark blue; if you walk around like that, people might think you’re still half-asleep and brought the wrong bag to school!”

“If you want to go out, take little Tina with you then.” Su Xiaoxiao still tried to decline.
‘Although her body had become that of a girl, her personality was still as lazy as ever, and she had absolutely no interest in going out, sightseeing, or shopping…’

“Little Tina expended too much energy before, so she needs to stay home and charge for the entire day. She can’t go out with me.”
Tina, standing beside them eating ice cream, nodded definitively. If she expended too much energy without sufficient power supply, she would enter a dormant state and be unable to operate.

“Why doesn’t the research society install a solar receiver device on little Tina? It’d be great if she could just sunbathe outside to fully recharge… Uh, why aren’t you saying anything? Don’t you think that’s a brilliant idea?”

“The problem is, little Tina doesn’t have such a device right now. Hmm, maybe it’s also because my position is too low; headquarters doesn’t seem to provide Tina with adequate equipment…” Su Xiaozhi’s voice held a hint of shame.
Tina was clearly an elite team member, battle-hardened, yet she hadn’t received equipment of a corresponding level.
After this defense of Tian Tan City, her merits had been recognized by headquarters, and she should now be supplied with some advanced weaponry.
‘Perhaps she really could request a solar device?’

“What about Evran? Evran, do you want to go out and play? You can go with Xiaozhi!” Seeing that she couldn’t ‘pass the buck’ to Tina, Su Xiaoxiao quickly shifted her target.

Evran blinked from the side, then suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.

“To make a vampire stand in such strong sunlight, Xiaoxiao, are you trying to kill me?”

“Vampires being afraid of sunlight is clearly a false premise… I’ve never seen a high-bloodline vampire who genuinely fears sunlight.”
‘If vampires were really that easy to kill, that would be great,’ Su Xiaoxiao thought.

“Of course, noble vampires can resist sunlight, but if they’re exposed to strong sunlight for too long, they will still—”
“Still what?”
“Get sunstroke.”