A silver-white tail swings happily, and a pair of furry wolf ears twitch along with it.
Lin Ye, who is sitting on the other side of a table looks at his company. Said company is burying her head in a bowl and is lost in her own world.
Why does this girl's posture when she eats... look like a dog?
Her tail wagging so cheerfully and the loudness of her eating attracted more than a few people's attention.
Even Lin Ye, who brought her to eat, became the object of attention in there. It made him a little uncomfortable looking at how brutal she is eating, so he coughs slightly
"Lappland."
Huh?" she lifts her head from the rice bowl, with two rice grains on the corners of her mouth,
"What's wrong?"
"You can eat slowly, you know. "Lin Ye says,
"No one will steal it from you."
"What are you talking about?" Lappland says, "I have been eating very slowly."
'If this is her eating slowly...'Lin Ye looks at the empty bowls piled up next to her. The corners of his mouth twitch slightly.
'It's only been ten minutes! You have eaten two blows of noodles, one of porridge, and a whole barbecue lamb! A whole goddamn Lamb! Can you save any of it? Will you ever stop? The food here is really costly damnit!'Lin Ye shouts helplessly in his heart.
But what he actually says "You should eat slowly, they won't go away. "
"Mhm!" Lapland buried her head again and made a slurping sound.
This sound made Lin Ye even more speechless.
Originally, he just wanted to talk to her more. After receiving the supper invitation, he never expected that Lappland would follow him so obediently. This made Lin Ye feel that his previous views on Lappland seemed to be wrong too.
Now he didn't know how to view her.
Many different Labels could fit this silver-haired girl.
Cranky, upright, talkative, and...
At least Lappland's current image makes Lin Ye feel that fits her better.
Seeing that Lappland had finished her bowl and was about to start yet another, Lin could help but ask, "How long has it been since you last ate?"
Lappland's hands stop moving, she tilts her head at him. "It hasn't been that long, I ate yesterday... Why do you ask?" She says with a measured carefulness
"It's obvious that you didn't eat enough."
"Why are you looking at me with that face? You obviously invited me to come over... Forget it, I'm done eating, okay? Let me finish eating these sausages, then I leave you."
Lappland seems to like the grilled sausages served in the cafeteria during the night.
She wants to eat eight of them for a second time! I don't know whether she is eating them as a side dish or just a whole meal.
She has moved on to more porridge and sausages. Her food set out before she reminds Lin Ye, of the standard internet cafe meals. He himself is more of an instant noodle and ham sort of person.
At this moment, Lin Ye suddenly thinks of something smart and pretends to be indifferent.
He asks in a casual tone "I invited you here because I enjoy company when I eat. It's like eating with family. Speaking of that, where did you come from before ending up here?"
After hearing Lin Ye's words, Lappland slowly stops her movement, then raises her head and looks at Lin Ye with a smile.
"Want to know my past?" Lappland shakes a sausage in her hand,
"Just use let me finish my food, there are only a few dishes more...
"There is like eight more full of food." Lin Ye corrects.
"There is also a bowl of noodles..."
"It is two bowls of noodles, a bowl of porridge. There is also a bowl of barbecue sos that you just slurp like a soup." Lin Ye continues to correct.
Lappland's smile suddenly collapsed.
"Sheesh, I know. You're so annoying. Can't you just eat your little bit of food? You're too fussy."
"What do you mean? This is obviously a lot."
"Just eat."
Lappland takes a big bite out of the sausage, then vaguely says, "About my past, do you think you can handle my story?"
"Can you spit out or swallow your food before talking? And speak more clearly? It's not good to answer questions while eating."
Lin Ye sighs softly, his experiment with Lappland seems to have failed. According to his information from Orchid, Lappland's past is part of and why she is supposed to be in his care.
Lin doesn't know where Siracusa is, but he knows it's supposed to be dangerous. This place is Lappland's hometown so it's important to know about it, and it's impossible to not be curious knowing those things and seeing the girl in front of him.
This little experiment has not entirely been without gain, he has been able to determine that Lappland is smarter than let on.
She can realize at the first time that Lin Ye is trying to know her past, or she is always on guard Lin Ye.
"Oh?" her ears moved suddenly.
Lin Ye's thoughts were interrupted, and he looks up at Lappland "What's wrong?
He notices he is sniffing around.
"This smell..." She put down the grilled sausage in her hand and looked around,
"No? She's here too?"
"Who?"
Lapland ignores Lin Ye. All her attention seems to be on finding someone with using her ears and nose together,
She moves her head everywhere.
In the end, her eyes stop behind Lin Ye.
Lin Ye looks at who is behind him.
He sees a black-haired woman, that seems pretty uptight. She is having supper at the table closest to the window.
"Isn't that Texas?" Lin Ye recognizes her.
Lappland's attention immediately goes to Lin Ye "Do you know Texas?!"
"Yeah." Lin Ye nods casually,
Then he finds that something is wrong with Lappland. He doesn't know when it started. Her furry tail and the pair of silver-white beast ears stands up, and the silver pupils seem crazes, and she is muttering,
"Texas, it turned out to be Texas, I finally found you." Immediately, her white cheeks became rudder little by little.
Seeing this change, Lin Ye is a little dazed. Lappland now seems to be a little...excited? Crazy?
No, she is really excited, and she even puts down her sausage.
"What's the matter with you?" Lin Ye can't help but ask, "Is Texas your friend?"
"Friend? Haha, friend?" Lappland raises her eyebrows.
"What is my relationship with her? A simple friend? Can that sum it up?"
"Then what is your relationship?"
"Of course, our relationship is..." Lappland pauses, thinks for a while, and stares at Lin Ye,
"Our relationship. You can't understand!"
Lappland looks at Texas, then rubbed her hands "Texas... Texas... I finally found you... I finally found you... Hehe... "
"... Are you looking for her?"
"Something like that. Although I already know where she was, I can't go to that place, luckily, I'm here, hehehe."
Lappland's tail sways happily. Lin Ye probably understand the joy of reunion between old friends, but what he couldn't understand why did they spit-up. By looking at how happy she looks he believes that they should have a good relationship.
"So, what are you waiting for? Go, talk to her."
"Huh? Huh?" She looks at Lin Ye, "You don't want me here?"
"No, didn't you say that she was your old friend? You haven't seen her for so long, why don't you go and say hello? Meet up with her. I save your food if you worry."
"Say hello!?" Lappland's eyes widened, "How can I say hello?"
He looks at how she looks now, her hair looks messy and there is still some grain of rice near her mouth. "Come here."
"Huh?" Lin Ye takes out a napkin and pats on the seat next to him.
"Just come." she seems on guard, but she obeys him anyway.
When she is facing him, he tries to clean some stains on her mouth.
"W-Wha-?!"
"Stay still. You don't want to let her see you like this." he cuts her off.
With that, she shut up and glances at Texas. After that, he tries to clean up her hair. It is full of grass and dirt, He even finds a bug in it.
While he is doing that, she feels weird. Normally she would lash out but not him. Her tail even moves when he is grooming her hair.
Everyone watching this strange scene fold out in front of them is confused. They had heard about how crazy and unruly she is supposed to be. But here is Lin Ye, just grooming her like a dog.
After a few moments later, she looks decent enough.
"There. Now, go say hi to her."
"So, what now? I definitely can't just say hello."
Lin Ye wonders "Why?"
"Of course, I have to wait for her to come over and say hello to me," she says that like it is a law.
Lin Ye. "... whatever you say."
"Hehehe. "Lappland tries to fix her hair a bit more.
Lin Ye can't help but glances back at found that the other party was slowly eating bread and had no intention of looking here.
He turned his head back again and asks Lappland "What should you do if she didn't come to you?"
"How could she not," Lapland says
"Texas is my family, okay, I have found her, how could she not find me." Lin Ye thinks for a while and finds it reasonable. The Lupo sense of smell and hearing is far better than that of other races.
Before Lappland used her sense of smelled to find Texas
Then Texas should have the same ability. But this made him feel very puzzled. She is obviously a Lupo, but why Texas is so elegant when eating, while Lapland looks like she was starving.
Can there be such a big gap between the same race? Lin Ye couldn't help but glances at Lappland.
Humans are all the same back in my life but there was still some oddball in the group. Maybe it's the same for here too.
"She finished! Texas finished!" true of her words, Texas finishes her food and stands up.
Lappland suddenly sits upright. She also tidies her hair again, and even her tail that he forgot to groom.
Texas little by little came over here.
Look like she was right.Lin Ye thinks
A faint smile appears on Lappland's face, and then she slowly picks up a sausage and bit it in her mouth like a cigarette.
...That weirdly cute to look at.
The sound of footsteps is getting closer. Lappland sandwiches the sausage with two fingers and slowly removes the sausage.
When Texas walked in, she says faintly: "Hello, old friend. Long time no see..."
Texas walked past the two, only acknowledging Lin Ye, but not Lappland.
Lin Ye nods awkwardly.
Lin Ye notices that Lappland's expression slowly drops.
{Rhodes Island's Psychologist}
Draft by Jaq
Proofread by Kingofkrakens d0d0b1rd
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