"Sister, I'm home!" Yori, returning excitedly from school, opened the door and called out toward the empty room.
"Huh?" Where is Sister?
Confused, Yori put on her slippers and placed her backpack on a chair nearby. She had originally thought her sister would be watching TV in the living room, but it seemed she was mistaken.
Sister's shoes were still neatly placed by the front door, meaning she hadn't gone out. Could she still be resting in her room?
Slowly walking to her sister's room, Yori heard the voices of Melanie and another girl.
That girl wasn't Quinn, but... uh, Quinn's Guild Leader in the game?
"Could Quinn be inside too?" Yori couldn't think of a second possibility besides that.
The only connection between her sister and that older girl was Quinn. Only through Quinn would her sister and the Guild Leader be acquainted.
Cautiously opening the door, Yori saw her sister sitting at the desk operating the computer, and astonishingly, a game was running on the screen!
Oh my goodness!
Her sister actually played computer games!
Was this really her sister?
"Leticia?" Melanie heard Yori open the door. She turned to look at Yori. "Aren't you coming in?"
Having been discovered, Yori walked into her sister's room, her face flushed with embarrassment. She had spent quite a bit of time in this room during the days Melanie was away.
"Sister, are you playing a game?" Yori asked a rather idiotic question.
"Mhm." Melanie nodded.
"I think I heard Leticia's voice. Is that you, Leticia?" The Guild Leader's voice came through the speakers.
Yori had spoken to the Guild Leader a few times when she was playing with Leticia before, so the Guild Leader still recognized the young girl's voice.
"It's me, Sister York." Yori replied.
The Guild Leader's surname was Xia, and she was certainly quite a bit older than Yori, so the title "Sister" was well-deserved.
"So Leticia and York Rose are sisters! No wonder your voices sound so similar." The Guild Leader chuckled as she spoke.
"My voice isn't as pleasant as Sister's." Yori scratched her head. Her voice was very, very ordinary, completely incomparable to her sister's heavenly voice. "Right, why are you playing games with Sister York?"
Faced with Yori's question, Melanie stated that she was simply bored.
"Killing time." She said plainly.
If it was just to kill time, why play with the Guild Leader Sister? There was clearly a better option, wasn't there?
Yori's gaze subtly darted downwards. Wasn't there a master living down there whose relationship with her sister was complicated and inseparable?
The fact that Sister could play with the Guild Leader Sister meant that Sister must have been with Quinn earlier, but why wasn't Sister playing with Quinn?
The Guild Leader quickly solved Yori's confusion. The girl, who loved gossip, whispered: "Anna refused to take York Rose along. I reckon she just couldn't swallow her pride, tsk tsk tsk."
Speaking of which, that makes sense. Quinn is a total tsundere. She always says her relationship with Sister is bad, so she would definitely refuse Sister's request to play games with her.
"Sister, is that true?"
"Mhm." Melanie nodded. "She said I shouldn't be friends with her."
"Quinn is definitely just being stubborn," Yori asserted.
This opinion earned the Guild Leader's agreement. "That Anna is exactly like that. She can't swallow her pride. Getting her to admit her true feelings is harder than reaching the heavens."
What that girl is best at is expressing her true emotions indirectly, and the detours she takes are even more numerous than those on a mountain road.
"And then you just came back by yourself, Sister?"
"She told me to scram, so I came back." Melanie succinctly conveyed Leticia's emotions toward her. "But I remembered Xiaxia's ID before, so now I'm playing with her."
"Ah, well... Sister, remember one thing." Yori placed her hands on her sister's shoulders. Through years of observing tsundere characters in anime, she had figured out their traits. "Don't listen to what she says, look at her actual actions."
"Anna is the classic example of someone who is honest in action but dishonest in speech," the Guild Leader added.
"Exactly. Her mouth tells you to scram, but secretly, she's desperately hoping you'll stay." Yori fanned the flames. "Sister, you need to be a bit more forceful. That's the only way to get Quinn to speak her true mind."
"Forceful?" Melanie felt that what Yori said had a slight problem, but she couldn't pinpoint what it was.
It seemed... Leticia was indeed like that.
She constantly claimed they were irreconcilable enemies, yet her actions were the complete opposite.
Leticia would always help Melanie with her small requests, such as bathing or playing games, albeit with an impatient expression.
That's not how enemies interact.
"Oh, right, if you can offer a condition she can't refuse, she might also 'reluctantly' agree to your request..." the Guild Leader offered another suggestion.
"Forceful... a condition she can't refuse..." Melanie began to think.
"Coincidentally, I have a method right here," the Guild Leader declared, asserting that she was definitely playing the role of matchmaker this month. "Just a few days ago, Anna was complaining that her mobile game gacha pulls failed."