My Demon Friends-Chapter 475 - 465: Remote Control Helicopter

"Is it cold outside?"

"I’m not afraid of the cold anyway."

"Is the rain heavy?"

"Can’t you see for yourself?"

"I can’t tell."

"Wimp." Huai Xu squatted on the ground, suddenly picked up a super cute case for wireless earphones, and showed it to Zhou Li.

"Huh?" Zhou Li was puzzled.

"Not heavy," Huai Xu then said.

"So are you going to your classes later?" Zhou Li asked again. "The ones you audit, like art and music and stuff."

"Not going... Ugh, don’t ask me anymore. I’m still taking stock." Huai Xu said, holding her phone and methodically going through her deliveries, confirming receipt of each item one by one. "Otherwise, I’ll get all confused."

"Do you have OCD?"

"I can’t be bothered with you..."

Zhou Li shrugged upon hearing this, withdrawing his gaze. He figured he’d let the old monster get a taste of how he usually felt.

But given her personality, she probably wouldn’t take it to heart. She found Zhou Li, chattering incessantly in her ear, very annoying and exasperating, but she didn’t associate it with her own behavior towards him. Even if she inadvertently thought of it, or even if Zhou Li pointed it out to her, at most, she would be briefly startled. She might reflect for a moment, sigh with the realization, Oh, so that’s how it was, and then forcefully ignore it.

After opening all the packages, over a dozen of them, and confirming receipt for each, Huai Xu finally stood up and let out a long sigh.

Looking at all the bits and pieces scattered on the floor, she felt a deep sense of accomplishment.

Although it had pained her to spend the money, that feeling vanished the second the payment went through, leaving only pleasure.

"Look at what I bought!"

"Not looking..."

"Why not?"

"Don’t want to." Zhou Li turned to look out the window. "I want to see if the rain is really that heavy."

"Ah, just look, will you? Look~~"

"..."

The girl’s coquettish tone, and her voice so pleasant... It really gave Zhou Li goosebumps all over his arms.

Having no choice, and to avoid getting more goosebumps, he obediently turned to look.

"..."

A miniature remote-controlled helicopter.

Huai Xu grinned, looking very pleased with herself, and said to Zhou Li, "How about that? Isn’t it cool?"

"Not really..."

"Want to play with it?" Huai Xu asked, hopeful.

"That’s for kids." Zhou Li glanced at Huai Xu. "And that’s for boys to play with. You’re a girl now."

"Tch! I thought you were going to say..." Huai Xu’s eyes rolled upward as she looked at the ceiling, mimicking Zhou Li’s tone like a pretentious child, "Haven’t you ever played with a remote-controlled plane?"

"I haven’t," admitted Zhou Li. "Besides, helicopters are not planes."

"Hmm, you didn’t play with them when you were a kid?" Huai Xu ignored his second sentence. "Given your family’s means, you’re from a pretty well-off household, huh."

"Never played with them..."

"Oh."

Huai Xu nodded, pondering as she speculated, "You must have been too withdrawn as a kid, not liking to play... Has Zhu Shuang played with them before?"

"He played with remote-controlled cars," Zhou Li replied.

"And you?"

"I didn’t play either."

"See? You were so withdrawn." Huai Xu shook her head. "Aunt Jiang is so nice. She definitely would have asked if you wanted her to buy one for you too, and you surely said no. When Zhu Shuang was playing with his, they must have asked if you wanted to play, but you also said no."

"You’re so annoying..."

"Because no one played with you when you were little, you didn’t want to seem unpopular, so you pretended not to like playing, and then it became a habit... That way of yours is no good!"

"..."

"It’s okay, it’s still not too late to play now. Anyway, you’re only nineteen, still very young." Huai Xu excitedly came over with the remote-controlled airplane. "Come on, let’s play together. I’ll play with you."

"I don’t want to play."

"Look!"

"..."

「About half an hour later」

A buzzing sound reverberated through the living room.

The helicopter was small but powerful, and the breeze from its propellers flipped the pages of the books on the coffee table, making them rustle.

Earlier, when Huai Xu was opening her packages, some of them had foam cushioning. Since she’d opened them roughly, many small foam pellets had fallen to the floor. Zhou Li had planned to clean up after she finished, but now they’d all been blown into the corners by the wall.

But at that moment, he had no time to care.

He was struggling to control the helicopter.

Huai Xu stood beside him, occasionally looking up at it, occasionally looking down at the instruction manual in her hands, giving Zhou Li real-time guidance. "I heard from the seller that this can fly over a hundred meters high, travel several hundred meters, and it’s super fast..."

"How do you change direction?"

"This one... just toggle it to turn. This one is for flying forward."

"Oh."

Zhou Li casually toggled it a couple of times, then just watched as the helicopter spun in mid-air and hit the wall.

THUD.

The helicopter vanished.

A buzzing sound and a gust of wind came from beside him.

Zhou Li turned his head to look, and there the helicopter was, held steadily in the old demon’s hand, its propellers still spinning.

"See?" The old demon even looked a bit smug. "You said I shouldn’t have stashed away those cardboard pieces and boxes. Luckily I’m Huai Xu, the Great Devil King. Otherwise, you’d be needing those things right now."

"Why?" Zhou Li asked, puzzled.

"Because it would’ve broken!" Huai Xu blinked. Seeing that he still didn’t understand, she reminded him, "There have been lots of reports about rough package handling online recently."

"That’s not right."

"Emmm... Do you still want to play?"

"Yes!"

"Alright, you play first. Be gentler this time, and I’ll look at the instructions again." After saying this, Huai Xu shook her head and muttered softly, "Such a grown-up, and can’t even play with a little remote-control airplane. He must be from ancient times or something..."

"Helicopters aren’t airplanes..."

Zhou Li stubbornly repeated this, but he ignored everything else the old demon said. He focused solely on controlling the remote-controlled helicopter in his hands, trying to make it fly smoothly and slowly around the living room. He even flew it over the old demon’s head, ruffling her hair.