I Bit My Best Friend Until The System Spoiled Me Chapter 05

I Bit My Best Friend Until The System Spoiled Me Chapter 05

I bit my lip, speaking up awkwardly.

“No need, Ethan. I’m almost cured, so I don’t really need to bite anyone anymore.”

Maybe it was just my imagination, but Ethan’s face seemed to pale a fraction.

He slowly came to a halt and stared at me quietly.

“Cured? How could it suddenly just… be cured?”

I gave a firm nod.

“I went to see a therapist, so it just naturally got better. Thanks for everything before, though.”

Ethan stood there entirely rigid, not saying another word, but I felt the temperature in the air around us drop significantly.

Since Ethan wasn’t moving, I was forced to stand there awkwardly with him until my eyes caught a boy walking past us. I immediately sprinted over to catch up with him.

“Hey Lucas, what a coincidence! You’re heading to school too?”

The air went dead silent, and Lucas looked at me like I was a total idiot.

I hurried to walk alongside him, but my arm was suddenly grabbed from behind.

Ethan’s lips were completely bloodless.

“When exactly did you see a therapist?”

I’m actually going this Sunday, I answered silently in my head.

But before I could say a word out loud, I noticed Ethan’s gaze had frozen entirely on my wrist.

Right there was a deep, prominent teeth mark.

It was from last night, when I had chewed on myself.

I quickly yanked my sleeve down to cover it, shook off Ethan’s grip, and hurriedly blurted out that I had something to discuss with Lucas before rushing ahead.

Escaping that suffocating atmosphere, I let out a massive sigh of relief.

Yet, I couldn’t resist stealing a glance back at Ethan, who was still standing in the exact same spot.

He stood there in utter silence, his head lowered, completely motionless.

I couldn’t see his face; I could only see the stark, pale line of his neck.

The system was practically over the moon with joy.

[What are you two NPCs even whispering about?]

[Did you just tell the Male Lead that you’re cured?]

[Look at how thrilled our Male Lead is! He’s so happy he literally forgot how to walk, just standing there completely frozen.]

I turned back around, and Lucas pushed up his glasses.

“What was that about a therapist?”

I pulled back my sleeve to show him the mark and briefly explained my fixation.

True to his nature as a heartless studying machine, Lucas spent the entire walk analyzing the psychological triggers and behavioral remedies for my biting habit.

Meanwhile, the system was relentlessly droning on in my ear about the future plotlines.

With information attacking me from both sides, my brain was completely fried. By the time I finally snapped back to reality, it was already lunch break.

A shadow fell over my desk. I looked up to see that Ethan had already returned to his seat, but a fresh strawberry smoothie was sitting right in front of me.

Usually, Ethan would take my empty tumbler back at the end of the day and bring it back refilled the next morning.

But since I had walked home alone yesterday, this tumbler was clearly brand new.

I quietly glanced over at Ethan’s seat. Our eyes met, and he violently whipped his head around to look the other way.

The new tumbler sitting on his desk, however, looked exactly like a matching couple’s set with mine.

With a deeply conflicted mind, I slowly finished the smoothie.

Just as I was about to get up and wash the tumbler, I noticed Ethan walking over from behind me once again.

Ethan seemed to be in a terribly foul mood. Normally, he would wait for me to finish so he could take both our cups to wash together, but today, he didn’t even reach for mine.

Instead, he just walked past my desk at an excruciatingly slow pace.

He was moving so slowly that even Lucas, who was busy grinding through a practice exam next to me, noticed the bizarre tension and knit his brows to look up at him.

I couldn’t hold it in and called out to him.

“Ethan.”

He froze in his tracks and turned to look at me. His face was still masked in a cold, distant expression, but his eyes seemed to flicker with a faint, hopeful starlight.

[Are you seriously about to make the Male Lead wash your cup again? I’m warning you, NPC, have a little mercy. Don’t constantly bully him just because he has a good temper.]