Chapter 45: How Frightening It Is To Be Uncultured

  Ugh, was super busy during National Day holiday, and also fell seriously ill, didn't leave any drafts... 55...... Thanks to my fellow otakus who are still silently supporting me, and thanks for the votes too ~~ that's all.

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  After Kaito finished speaking, he put on a triumphant expression and waited to see the complex expressions of surprise, suspicion, and regret on these two people's faces; after waiting for half a day without seeing any reaction from them, why did they hide both hands behind their backs with an appearance of being at their wit's end? Masaka!!!!!!

  "You're not actually using your fingers to calculate this, are you? This is a calculation that can be solved with a simple linear equation from the first year of junior high school..."

  "How could it be..."

  The two of them stiffly smiled and explained, while quickly moving their hands from behind their backs to the front, waving them around to indicate that they absolutely did not do anything shameful. However, the guilty look on their faces had already betrayed their true thoughts.

  I'm speechless about these two illiterate performances. Can't you guys just follow the script as agreed? Didn't you develop your stories in other authors' fanfics like that? Honestly, it's so disappointing, I don't feel any sense of accomplishment at all!

  *sigh*...

  Jiayu let out a long sigh, shook his head and silently opened the drawer of the bedside cabinet, pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, scribbled for a few seconds on the white paper to solve this math problem, after solving it he didn't even glance at it before tossing it to the two illiterate men staring at him.

  Kirisaki Hitori and Stir looked at the solved math problem with wide eyes for a long time, just when Kirisaki thought these two people were almost hopeless, their fingers finally stopped moving along with their brains; it seems that Kirisaki's previous guess was really correct, these two people need to count on their fingers to assist in calculations when they encounter slightly more complex math problems.

  "How could it be..."

  The same words, when spoken again from their mouths, have already changed in tone, mixed with remorse, suspicion, and regret. This is what Jie Lü Chu Yu wants to see. Who made Shen Lie Huo Zhi treat him like this, sending him to the hospital without distinguishing between strong and weak? During these few days of lying in the hospital in a coma, he must have missed out on watching many anime episodes and playing many games! A few words of apology are far from making up for their grave mistake!

  "But Indrick's pain at that time was not pretended! She is not a child who will tell lies!" Still unwilling to accept the cruel truth, Stil did not learn from the previous lesson and once again pulled Jiaolongchun's collar, with the same result as before.

  "The truth and the solution are right in front of you, but because you don't want to accept reality, you make excuses to escape... Ha ha, humans are indeed creatures that would rather die with dignity than live in shame.

  With a raised eyebrow, Ji Lu Xi glared at these two with a condescending gaze, having finally managed to create this atmosphere after being disturbed by Stair for so long. How could he not take revenge on these two who had wasted his time that could have been spent staying home?"

  "What's the solution? Please tell us what the solution is!" The relatively calm Godou Fireweave's eyes lit up, catching the key words spoken by Kaito Minagi. In the remaining time, solving Entice's problem was now the most important thing to do, and everything else could be put aside for the moment!

  "Now that it's certain that Intik's brain capacity is insufficient, leading to her death, isn't the next solution easy to deduce? " Ji Lu Chu Xiang hadn't had enough fun yet and continued to tease the two anxious and flustered illiterates.

  "This kind of intelligence work is not our area of expertise, please." Kirito Fireweave bowed deeply to Intetsu Choyo, his chest heaving with a wave-like motion that made Intetsu's face turn bright red. Although he had lived with his elementary school sister for a while, it was really just cohabitation and nothing more. Intetsu Choyo and his elementary school sister hadn't had any deep physical exchanges between them...

  "Alright." Kai Lian turned his head, shifting his gaze away from the turbulent waves, silently reciting "2D is our gentle hometown" a hundred times before slowly analyzing to Jin Tiekusu, "Since we can basically confirm that the problem on Yintiekesu's body was caused by a third party, then who is this third party? As Yintiekesu's protectors, you should already have an answer in your minds; to unlock the lock left on Yintiekesu's body by this third party, we need a key that can open it... However, from the looks on your faces, which seem like you've eaten a cockroach, I can infer that you can't obtain this key, at least not in a short period of time. So, you can think about it from a different angle - what do you do when you encounter a lock without a key?"

  As a result, the two guys were still in a fog and looked very anxious, so angry that they rolled their eyes, and had no interest in teasing these two brain-dead guys anymore. They directly told them the answer: "Can't you use a hammer, a brick, or a multi-tool to open it? Are you unable to find a toilet? Go find that guy who bullied the red-haired kid! Don't ask me why, or I'll think you're all pig demons in human form! Oh, and leave the medical expenses before you go!"

  Kamitsuki and Steer exchanged a slightly awkward glance, before Kamitsuki, who was older (and more composed), spoke up with a reddened face: "I'm terribly sorry, but our business trip expenses are limited, so..."

  "So?" Ji Lu asked with a hint of desperation in his voice.

  "Please let us settle the account first, we will definitely pay off our debts in this lifetime! Please!" Godou Kusakabe pressed down on Steer's head, and the two of them bowed together to Intetsu Ichijou who was lying on the bed.

  "Bookkeeping?"

  Shen Lie Huo nodded slightly, bending his waist.

  "Can it be repaid within one's lifetime?"

  Kamui Hinami nodded again, her face already red to the point of being unseen in the corner of her vision, and was spreading towards her neck. This impolite request, for a female saint, was the first time since birth. If there were a seam on the ground now, she would have liked to bury her head in it and never lift it up again.

  "...Fairy tales are all deceiving..." Zhai Jia, a novice traveler, was full of complaints. In movies and animations, aren't those who can travel abroad on business trips always rich guys? What kind of shameless promise is this that requires poor people to keep accounts first and then pay back within their lifetime? No matter how you look at it, isn't it just like a deadbeat who doesn't pay back debts?

  "And you, what's your opinion?" Kagari asked cautiously.

  "Go ahead, but you must write an IOU and sign it with your fingerprints, and pay interest on top of interest!" The innkeeper handed them a white paper and pen again; after signing, are you still afraid that you won't repay? If not, I'll expose you online!

  "Why don't you go rob!" The red-haired delinquent exploded!

  "Give me cash then, damn it! Go sell your blood or kidney, I don't care!"

  "You're worse than a vampire! Bring me the paper! I'll write an IOU and sign it!"

  "Cut, it really didn't work out with no cash..." Ji Lu Chuyi disappointingly handed over the paper and pen, if possible, he sincerely did not want to have any more dealings with these two people.