Meiling knew more about the outside world and she'd be confused by those books, as long as it'd been. Marisa would be pretty baffled to be sure.

More of those books probably involved sort-of-enemies confessing to each other than any of those other scenarios, and more of them were probably a human with a... not that. So maybe this wasn't the most impossible seeming confession. Frankly, Meiling wasn't going to be too bothered if Marisa turned her down, or at least she told herself that, and she was expecting it. There wasn't much special about her, was there?

So that answer wasn't the most direct, but Meiling couldn't help smiling. "Okay with me being interested, or okay with actually trying a relationship?" she asked to clarify, still fairly casual despite her brightening blush.