A young man from another world returned to his hometown.

Chapter 76 Jealous Syl

"...Miki?"

Nia looked bewildered, while Miki puffed out her cheeks and suppressed her laughter.

"Nya, Lady Nia..."

Miki cleared her throat, trying to make her voice sound normal.

"That older sister is indeed very ambitious..."

「!?」

Nia's eyes widened.

"That's it, she's the villain, she must be a succubus from the Demon King's army! She's here to kidnap Dad."

Miki looked at Nia's puffed-up face, then glanced at Mu Jiuzhang, who was intently examining Xier on the beach.

"snort!"

Nia puffed out her cheeks.

"That wicked woman better not let me catch her doing anything wrong!"

Lin Yan had already set up the net and drawn a simple volleyball court on the sand.

"cough……"

He clapped his hands.

"Um, Teacher Mu, Xier, you two...would you like to fight first?"

"Um."

Syl nodded slightly, her eyes unusually firm.

"The teacher will definitely need to assess my level first."

She smiled gently, and Lin Yan immediately sensed something was wrong. He quickly pulled Xier's hand and whispered something.

"Honey, you've never played volleyball before, have you? Let me explain the rules to you..."

"Darling~"

Syl interrupted him with a laugh.

"I've already learned it."

"what?"

"I saw how to play it on TV."

Syl stood tall, full of confidence.

"You just need to hit the ball over to the other side."

"..."

Lin Yan's eyes widened.

"Honey, listen to me, this volleyball..."

"Darling~"

Syl squeezed his arm.

"I already know how to do it!"

Lin Yan could tell that Xier seemed to be jealous. He held his forehead. Oh no, Xier was usually gentle, but once he entered battle mode, even he couldn't pull him back.

"Okay then."

He could only step back to the sidelines and raise his hand to act as referee.

"Alright, let's begin!"

Xier took the ball and entered the court. She glanced across and saw Mu Jiuzhang stretching and warming up. Xier silently wondered to herself, "Is this woman looking at me?" A classic rival provocation. Fine!

"Well then... I'll serve first~"

She smiled sweetly, tossed the ball high into the air, and imitated how she hit the ball across the other side of the screen, just like in the movies.

Then a chop to the neck.

"ha!"

Her immense strength was unleashed in an instant, but she forgot that for a great mage like her who could send magical beasts flying with a single punch and shatter mountains with a single kick, a small ball could hardly withstand such torment.

Sizzle, the volleyball, like a watermelon cut in half, was split in two.

Mu Jiuzhang remained frozen in place, still in his receiving position, unable to believe his eyes.

???

"The ball cracked! What just happened?"

Mu Jiuzhang's brain started generating a series of errors.

at this time

"oops!"

Lin Yan slapped his thigh and rushed up from the sidelines.

"No wonder this volleyball is so bad quality, it just cracked on its own. You really can't buy decent products in the countryside, huh... haha..."

He picked up the two halves of the volleyball from the ground and held them high.

"There are so many counterfeit goods on street stalls these days! It cracked on its own with just a gentle swipe!"

"..."

Mu Jiuzhang looked at Lin Yan with empty eyes.

"...A mere flick of the wrist?"

"yes!"

Lin Yan looked righteous.

"My wife is a gentle person, how could she possibly hit the ball with force? The ball must be terrible!"

"..."

She looked at the two halves of the volleyball, then at Lin Yan.

"...Oh, so the quality is too poor... These kinds of street vendor goods do indeed have the problem of substandard processing techniques. The market should strengthen the supervision of inferior products."

She forcibly used past scientific knowledge to explain the phenomenon before her eyes.

Lin Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Although the teacher was sharp-tongued, he was still quite rational and didn't delve too deeply into the matter.

"Waaah..."

Syl's eyes suddenly reddened, and she lowered her head in grievance, clutching the hem of her skirt.

"Honey, I'm so...I'm so sorry, I'm so useless. I...I can't even play volleyball properly, and I even broke the ball..."

"...Don't cry, honey! It's always like this the first time."

Lin Yan quickly pulled Xier aside and whispered in her ear.

"Honey, listen to me, volleyball is just a recreational sport. You really don't need to hit it so hard. Let's play gently."

"……Um."

Syl sniffed.

Lin Yan then took out a volleyball.

"Then...shall we continue?"

"Um."

Mu Jiuzhang nodded and silently recited it in his heart.

"Hmph, I have absolute confidence in all sports. The problem just now was definitely with the ball. This time, let me assess your level and see if you, this foreign woman, are really a spy."

"I'm holding the second ball in my hand," she said to herself.

"Use little force, hit gently, don't let the ball break again, you absolutely can't embarrass your darling."

Nia, standing to the side, stomped her feet in frustration and shook Miki vigorously.

"Miki, Miki, what do we do! If Mommy can't use her strength, won't we lose to that villain on the other side?"

Miki watched as Syle carefully handled the newly replaced ball on the court, as if afraid of breaking it again.

Miki's eyes darted around, as if she had come up with some mischievous idea. She quietly hid behind Lin Yan.

"hey-hey……"

Illusion magic, a little illusion.

On the field, Sier gently tossed the ball up.

"Tap gently..."

She silently repeated Lin Yan's instructions in her heart, gathered all her strength, and extended only the little finger of her right hand, preparing to tip the ball over the net.

Just as her little finger was about to touch the ball, the scene before Xier's eyes suddenly blurred. Mu Jiuzhang was no longer alone on the other side. Lin Yan had appeared behind her at some point, looking down at her and smiling. The two faces were very close, their posture extremely intimate.

"!!!"

Syl's brain completely shut down in that instant, and his little finger twitched instinctively due to the emotional turmoil.

Mu Jiuzhang stood on the other side of the court, already in a very standard receiving position.

"Hmph! No matter how professional your spy training is, you can't hide from my scientific eyes. As long as I observe your body language, I can immediately tell whether you are an ordinary person or a special agent."

Her gaze was sharp, fixed on Sier's serve.

Serve, toss the ball, wave...

"Here it comes, this movement is not standard. Based on her arm swing speed, the initial velocity is estimated to be no more than..."

The moment Syle's fingers touched the volleyball, the whole world seemed to be muted.

The sounds of the waves, the calls of seabirds in the distance, and the wind sweeping across the beach gradually faded away.

The synthetic leather of the ball began to dent, spreading outward from the point of contact, and the leather began to disintegrate under enormous pressure.

The volleyball is no longer round; under the immense force, it has been compressed into a flattened sphere.

Its speed has exceeded the speed of sound, and it has passed through the air in front of it.

Then a visible air compression wave appeared.

First, a picture of flight flashed by.

"Bang."

Then the sonic boom was heard.