A pedestrian street, from an academic perspective, refers to a pedestrian-only road established in a city's central area with concentrated traffic, which gradually develops into a commercial district. To put it plainly, it's a commercial street specifically for people to stroll and shop...
In Guangzhou, where commerce is relatively developed in the Divine Land, pedestrian streets are quite common...
"Wow wow wow wow!!" Standing at the crossroads of the pedestrian street, Yaoye and Yae Sakura's expressions were almost identical... Their bright eyes stared at the bustling street, and they clenched their fists in front of their chests in excitement...
Although St. Freya High School also had a commercial street, in terms of prosperity... the pedestrian street here in Guangzhou was a whole eight streets ahead of St. Freya High School...
"Li Xuan-tongxue, isn't this a bit... attracting attention?" Fu Hua, who had been dragged out to be a guide, looked uncomfortably at the growing crowd gathering around them... She felt like a monkey in a zoo, feeling inexplicably embarrassed...
"Sakura and Yaoye have never seen a pedestrian street before, so it's understandable... that they'd be a little excited..." Li Xuan said, scratching his cheek a little embarrassedly...
Thinking about how Sakura had only just woken up after 500 years of sleep, and how Yaoye had initially existed only as a weapon... Li Xuan felt a strange tightness in his heart...
"Wow! Amazing, is this cosplay?! That girl's hair is actually pink..."
"Is the blonde-haired girl a foreigner?"
"Quick, take a picture, I'm going to post it on the forums..." Many of the boys in the crowd started to get restless, some even took out their phones and started taking pictures without turning off the flash...
"Sakura, Yaoye, let's go!" Seeing his sister and girlfriend about to be surrounded by the crowd, even Li Xuan, who hadn't been in a hurry at first, couldn't stand it anymore... He quickly rushed forward, pushed through the wall of people, grabbed one in each hand, and ran off...
After running with Yae Sakura and Yaoye to a slightly less crowded street corner, Li Xuan looked behind him with lingering fear... It was clear he had overthought things; there wasn't a scene like in an anime where a large crowd would chase after them...
"Phew~ Looks like I was overthinking things..." Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the street around them which didn't have too many people... However, although this street wasn't very crowded, because of Sakura and Yaoye's exceptionally unique appearances... curious gazes were still cast over from time to time...
"We left Sister Fu Hua behind..." Yaoye looked back and saw that the person who was supposed to be their guide had disappeared...
"It's fine... Fu Hua and I have the special phone-like communicators from St. Freya High School." Li Xuan took out a phone that looked like a Xiaomi 7 and said.
This modified phone communicator from the science department of St. Freya High School could contact people within a few thousand meters, even in the mountains... and the most amazing thing was that this phone could also be used as a hand grenade when needed... truly a must-have for home, travel, murder, and arson... ahem..
"Brother, where are we going to play next?..." Yaoye said expectantly, clinging to Li Xuan's left arm like a koala...
"Play, huh... haha..." Li Xuan muttered with a wry smile. He felt that if he didn't cover up the two's appearances today, they would continue to attract gawking onlookers... After all, a beautiful blonde girl and a beautiful pink-haired girl thrown into a crowd of black-haired, black-eyed people from the Divine Land was like a golden gorilla mixed in with a group of small monkeys...
"If it's going to be very difficult for Xuan-kun... we... can... go... back first," Yae Sakura said, still as considerate as ever, but her hesitant tone and wandering eyes completely betrayed her inner thoughts...
"Don't worry..." Li Xuan, his heart softening, paused for a moment before saying with great determination, "Give me one minute..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xuan scanned the shops on both sides of the street like an eagle searching for prey... Then he suddenly dashed out...
"Sister Sakura... did we cause trouble for brother?..." Yaoye said, looking at the bustling crowd and the occasional gazes directed at them, sticking out her little pink tongue.
"Uh..." Yae Sakura looked up at the sky with her pair of azure eyes and thought seriously for a moment, then said with a straight face, "Matters between family can't be considered trouble!…"
"!!" Yaoye's eyes widened in disbelief, her doll-like face showing such a shocked expression that it was actually kind of adorkable...
"What's wrong? Is there something dirty on my face?" Yae Sakura blinked, rubbing her cheek in confusion.
"No... I just didn't expect Sister Sakura to have such a profound theory..." Yaoye said, giving a thumbs-up.
"Sister Sakura, what color underwear is brother wearing today?"
"Black and white stripes…"
Just as the two were whispering to each other... a mischievous hand holding something suddenly covered their heads from behind...
"What are you two talking about?..." Li Xuan placed the straw hats he had just bought on their heads. The style was quite similar to the one worn by the protagonist in "One Piece," and it could barely conceal their long hair.
"It would be better if you tied up your hair... hmm, a bun would be best..." Li Xuan looked at the two of them from bottom to top and suggested. A bun could just about hide their hair....
"Eh... I don't know how to tie my hair..." Yaoye, being a shut-in girl, frowned with her delicate brows.
"It's alright, little sister Yaoye... I do~" Yae Sakura said with a slight smile, puffing out her ample chest.
Li Xuan couldn't help but smile as he watched his girlfriend and sister start to tie up their hair... If only days like this could last forever...
"By the way, I bought ice cream... does anyone want some?" Li Xuan held up the bag in his hand. It was a paper bag with 'Husky Ice Cream' printed on the front...
"I do!" Yaoye quickly came over, reached out, and snatched the ice cream from Li Xuan's hand. With a blissful expression, she stuck out her small pink tongue and licked the strawberry ice cream on the cone... When it comes to sweets, every girl loves them...
Li Xuan felt his sister's affection level shooting up +1+1...
"Yaoye, watch where you're going..." Li Xuan reminded Yaoye, who was looking down at her cone, so happy that she started to sway as she walked.
"It's fine, brother... I'm looking where I'm going!.... Ouch!"
Just as she made her declaration, Yaoye turned her head to speak, and a person suddenly came rushing around the corner of the road... It seemed they also happened to not be paying attention and walked straight forward...
"My ice cream..." Yaoye, who accidentally bumped into the person, sat on the ground unsteadily. She wasn't hurt from the fall... instead, her eyes welled up with tears as she looked at the scoop of ice cream that had fallen on the ground...
"Are you okay, Yaoye..." Li Xuan pulled Yaoye up, patted the dust off her clothes, and said with concern.
"Ah... I'm so sorry... I was distracted while walking..." the person Yaoye bumped into suddenly said proactively.
"...It's fine, my sister was being careless..." Since the other person had apologized, Li Xuan couldn't possibly hold a grudge... so he looked at them with a smile and spoke.
"No, no... please allow me to apologize..." the young man insisted, his face full of sincere apology...
"Uh..." Li Xuan was stunned. In this day and age... no, were people in this world all this nice? He looked at the other person, who clearly also had some ice cream on his clothes from the collision... Shouldn't they just apologize to each other and go their separate ways?
"Hello, my name is... Muyue Rendong, and I'm a mangaka..." said the young man, who was wearing brown casual pants, a black hoodie, and had headphones hanging around his neck, extending his hand with a smile...
"Uh... hello, I'm Li Xuan..." Li Xuan instinctively reached out and shook the other person's hand...
Their hands clasped together...
(End of Chapter)