"Barbara, your combat power's really improved." Ye Li gripped the two bird wings tightly, continuing to pour damage into their owner.
"All thanks to your constant guidance~" Barbara wrapped her legs around him, smiling charmingly as she spoke.
After Mockingbird.
It was the Invisible Heroine turn again...
The three of them sparred continuously until the time indicator ticked past four or five hours before things gradually setttled down.
[Master, it's mealtime.]
Venica's voice sounded all around: [Jessica says she's made a dish of white mapo tofu for you and asks that you come taste it.]
"Haha? Isn't she about to start school? She still has time for this?"
Ye Li helped Susan and Barbara up. "You two go eat first. I still need to go back to my room and soothe Rachael and the other two."
Susan covered her mouth and giggled. "You really are busy~"
Barbara also smiled in understanding. "Take your time being busy, I'll be sure to save something tasty for you."
Ye Li chuckled and played along. "Then I'll thank you in advance."
…..
He went back to the room and fought for quite a while again.
Only then did Ye Li arrive at the dining hall.
You could see that beside an 870 super-large banquet table.
He could see that beside an extraordinarily large banquet table, fresh, pretty young girls were already scattered about in their seats, some chatting merrily with bright smiles, others quietly playing on their phones.
But none of them had started eating; they were patiently waiting for the master to arrive.
Uh...
Except for a certain…...
A foodie who only knew how to bury her head and gorge herself...
Seeing the Devourer Girl about to wipe out a huge section of the tabletop spread, Susan gave her a light push in reminder. "Hey~ Galacta, were you a starving ghost in your last life?"
"Mind your own business~ You still haven't settled accounts with me for tricking me into going over to the hot spring!"
Galanta kept reaching across the table, tearing a huge octopus leg from a big platter and mumbling as she stuffed it into her mouth. "And I've already been very restrained… otherwise I could finish this whole table in one bite…"
"I'm saying, Galacta…"
Ye Li pulled out the chair beside her and sat down. Ye Li pulled out the chair beside her and sat down. "All this stuff isn't even enough to moisten your lips. If you're hungry, I'll give you a lollipop."
At those words.
Before the Devourer Girl could answer, Alita raised her hand first. "Lollipop! I want one too—I want chocolate flavor!"
Matilda also looked at Ye Li and blinked. "Brother, I also…..."
"Hold it. The kind of lollipop I'm talking about—you two can't have."
Ye Li tapped the table lightly with his index finger. "And during mealtime, what lollipop? Isn't all this on the table enough for you to eat?"
"Oh….." The two little girls drew their necks back under the lecture.
"Alright, everyone dig in."
Ye Li picked up a piece of the white mapo tofu Jessica mentioned and said, "You don't need to wait for me—look, the dishes are already cold."
Jessica volunteered eagerly. "Big brother, do you want me to go reheat them?!"
"No need to go to that trouble."
Ye Li glanced at the Scarlet Witch at the upper left of the table, who was holding a little magic booklet. "Wanda, it's your turn."
"Mm?"
Wanda gently lowered the book that hid her pretty face. "What is it, Li?"
"Reheat all the dishes that should be hot."
"Okay~"
Scarlet energy twined around Wanda's fingertips; with a light wave— the hot dishes on the table were once again steaming. "Wow~ amazing."
The little Princess Crystal praised, "Even my fire-control ability can't manage such precise control."
The girls sent grateful looks to Wanda, then began eating in turn.
All the dishes on the table had been carefully selected and purchased by Venica from Earth or Xandar, then delivered directly via spatial transmission.
So, it counted as a universe-level gourmet feast; everyone was eating with great relish and had no time to talk.
Once Galacta saw an opening to speak, she asked Ye Li, "Lollipop, hurry up and give it to me!"
Ye Li tugged at her cheek speechlessly. "You eat and drink for free like this—don't you think you've got a thick skin?"
"You told me to stay~" The Devourer Girl's violet eyes sparkled as she squinted and smiled with a clear conscience. "Then you definitely have to keep me~"
Ye Li: "...."
Seeing he seemed a bit unwilling, Galacta tugged on her meal ticket's arm with her small hand. "You promised me—you can't go back on it… You can't be like my dad, disliking how much I eat and driving me out."
'I'd say... Piggy had plenty of reason to kick you out... Don't think I can't hear you calling me 'meal ticket' in your heart...'
Ye Li grumbled inwardly, but aloud he lectured her: "Freeloading isn't a good habit. Look at how much you eat—shouldn't you do something for me?"
"Do wha I?"
The Devourer Girl slurped the octopus tentacle straight into her belly and said on principle, "I don't do bad things, okay."
'Do what?...'
'Maybe, if you did to me what you're doing to that octopus tentacle, that wouldn't be a bad idea...'
Ye Li muttered to himself.
However.
While they were eating, there was no way he could say that out loud.
"I won't have you do anything evil. But naughty things... Those could be on the table~"
Ye Li said, more euphemistically.
"Ah-m~"
Galacta didn't take in a word; she opened her little mouth and swallowed another piece of cake, innocently asking, "Is there any difference?"
"...."
Ye Li felt… talking about that kind of thing with her… was completely impossible.
To her, it apparently wasn't as important as eating…