Chapter 54 : Yun Xia's Confusion
54: Yun Xia's Confusion
At eight o'clock on a June evening in Suzhou, as the sun completely fell behind the curtain.
Without sunlight shining from above, the temperature dropped significantly compared to the scorching daytime, paired with the occasional cool night breeze and fresh air from green plants.
Choosing to stroll at this time was quite comfortable and pleasant.
At least Su Mo, currently wearing a light green JK outfit and walking toward Vanke Beautiful Plaza, found it quite pleasant.
As for why Su Mo would choose to go out at nearly 8 PM, and in women's clothing no less.
The reasons were mainly two-fold.
First, after completing the first form transformation of the Hiiragi Utena costume, feeling her body enhanced by the outfit's attributes—with Body, Constitution, and Heartbeat all receiving bonuses, just like buying new equipment in a game, Su Mo immediately wanted to go out and experience the vitality brought by the new equipment.
As for the second point, it was somewhat complicated.
During her WeChat conversation with Lin Muyao, she had confirmed attending her birthday party tomorrow evening and decided to buy a real birthday gift for her.
Yesterday, Su Mo might have felt confused about what gift to give Lin Muyao, even desperately searching Pinduoduo for girlfriend surprise gift boxes or seeking outside help from her three roommates.
But today, having earned Challenge Coins from completing morning missions, she had exchanged them for the miraculous makeup skill called Disguise Technique.
With the cosmetics knowledge bonus from this skill, Su Mo decided to coordinate with Lin Muyao's skin tone and custom-purchase cosmetics as a gift tailored specifically for her. Incidentally, she would also buy some cosmetics tonight for her own daily disguise use.
Considering that buying women's cosmetics, especially purchasing many at once, would look very suspicious as a boy, but would be much more reasonable as a girl.
Combining these two points, after weighing the pros and cons, Su Mo ultimately decided to go out in women's clothing.
Walking on the road to Vanke Plaza, feeling her body lighter than usual, her walking speed could keep pace with pedestrians without feeling tired or exhausted like before. This healthy experience made Su Mo somewhat happy.
But everything has pros and cons.
Having always been a boy before, Su Mo had no experience wearing skirts.
Now wearing a skirt and walking on the street, with occasional night breezes making her feel cool below, plus the occasional gazes from passersby, honestly, Su Mo felt considerable pressure and shame on her first crossdressing experience.
What made Su Mo even more difficult to accept was that a male university student had just mustered courage to ask for her WeChat contact.
Emmmmmmmm As an eighteen-year-old boy, how could Su Mo not know what it meant when boys asked for WeChat?
After politely declining, to avoid eye contact leading to more boys approaching her.
Su Mo now lowered her little head to reduce her presence, combined with the twisty cute ahoge on top of her head, making her look somewhat gloomy and socially anxious—inadvertently matching Hiiragi Utena's pre-transformation temperament perfectly.
While Su Mo walked tremblingly toward Vanke Beautiful Plaza with her head down like a guilty little rabbit.
She didn't notice that a pair of bright eyes had already locked onto her from behind.
Yun Xia from the anime club had learned during today's student council work that her idol, Senior Chu Tianlan, had actually developed interest in Su Mo, whom she had met once.
Although she knew she had no right to monopolize idol Chu Tianlan's private life.
Just thinking about this matter made Yun Xia uncomfortable—it was like the unpleasant experience of a favorite idol announcing a relationship.
In a bad mood, Yun Xia had planned to go for an evening run to release dopamine through exercise and adjust her emotions.
Unexpectedly, after running for just a short while, she saw Su Mo dressed in Utena's school outfit.
As an anime enthusiast and anime club member.
Looking at Su Mo's "carefully designed" ahoge hairstyle and her socially anxious head-down walking movements, Yun Xia's eyes lit up.
Because no matter how she looked, the girl in front was a very successful cosplayer. If they could become acquainted, perhaps they could attend comic conventions together in the future.
Taking three steps in two, Yun Xia in her athletic wear soon caught up to Su Mo, who was walking anxiously with her head down. After briefly recalling the "Aspiring to Become a Magical Girl" anime plot, she spoke:
"Utena-chan, what are you going to do?"
Su Mo, walking on the street in women's clothing for the first time, was already feeling shame and anxiety.
Now hearing a crisp girl's voice suddenly beside her, the tense Su Mo immediately jumped slightly like a startled little rabbit.
Then slowly lifting her head, she looked around left and right guiltily like a thief before pointing at herself uncertainly.
"Um... excuse me, classmate, are you... calling me?"
Yun Xia watched Su Mo's complete set of socially anxious moves—it was like breaking the dimensional wall in perfectly recreating the Hiiragi Utena character. Her gaze became even more intense as she directly praised:
"Wow, your Hiiragi Utena cosplay is really realistic, just like the real thing. Would you mind making friends? We could attend comic conventions together in the future!"
Hearing the girl who had started praising her, looking at that trademark sweet face full of youthful vitality, Su Mo was slightly stunned, feeling somehow familiar.
After carefully searching her memory, she realized this was the sweet junior who had helped her cut her hair the day before yesterday!
Emmmmmmmm Was this world really so small?
Silently complaining a bit in her heart.
Carefully recalling that Yun Xia's words just now included the term "comic convention," and thinking that her current costume had been recognized at a glance.
Su Mo's eyes lit up, because the fifth ring of the SSS-level mission was related to comic conventions.
Originally, she had been somewhat troubled about where to find information about comic conventions.
Now this sweet junior who appeared seemed to know everything—wasn't this like receiving a pillow when drowsy?
Making friends didn't seem impossible.
After confirming again that the junior in front hadn't recognized her, Su Mo gently nodded, indicating agreement.
Seeing Su Mo nod, a smile appeared on Yun Xia's sweet face full of girlish innocence and beauty.
The next second, she gracefully extended her fair little hand to Su Mo and introduced herself:
"I'm called Yun Xia. I'm currently a freshman at Su University and a member of the anime club. What about you, Miss Utena?"
Looking at the girl's extended fair little hand, hearing the girl named Yun Xia whom she had met just days ago introduce herself and ask in return.
At this moment, Su Mo was slightly dazed. Why had the recent greeting method been handshakes? Or did girls just like this novel greeting method, and her thinking was behind the times?
Instinctively grasping the girl's clean little hand, perhaps due to experiencing too many stimulating things recently, or the heart rate increase brought by the Utena outfit, Su Mo's heart surprisingly didn't accelerate today.
Feeling the smooth and delicate texture of Junior Yun Xia's little hand.
While enjoying it, Su Mo couldn't help but face a new problem.
Introducing herself now with her real name was definitely not okay—that might increase exposure risk and lead to mission failure.
So what kind of name should she find for herself?
While Su Mo was thinking of a suitable name, Yun Xia, who had been shaking hands for a long time without receiving a response, couldn't help but look at Su Mo curiously.
Looking at Su Mo's fair cheeks in her costume without any trace of cosmetics.
Smelling the refreshing fragrance emanating from Su Mo's body, feeling the tender smoothness transmitted through her hand.
At this moment, Yun Xia unexpectedly discovered that her originally somewhat depressed mood had become lighter.
Noticing the subtle change in her mentality.
Yun Xia was slightly stunned, looking at Su Mo who shared the same cosplay hobby.
At this moment, she couldn't help but think: could this be the feeling of finding a kindred spirit?
However, why did this fair face look vaguely familiar?