"Regret?" Houraiji Kyuusyou blinked and tilted her head in confusion.
Then she sat up straight, gave half of the blanket to Ryn, and the two of them huddled together under the covers.
"Regret what? Did something happen that I should regret?"
Ryn flicked Houraiji Kyuusyou's little head, causing the girl to clutch her head and bare her teeth at Ryn.
What is there to regret? Regretting that the two of them so rashly left that crimson stain of Houraiji Kyuusyou's first time on the bedsheets.
"Little sis, tell me, after we leave this place, will we have a chance to meet again? If we never see each other again in the future, are we being irresponsible to ourselves and to each other right now..."
"Did you lose your mind? Or have you entered sage mode?"
Houraiji Kyuusyou first placed her hand on Ryn's forehead to check if he had stayed up too late, was mentally exhausted, and had caught a cold and fever from not wearing clothes all night.
But after checking and finding him in good health, Houraiji Kyuusyou slapped Ryn across the face, sending him spinning in the air twice before he landed on the bed.
Houraiji Kyuusyou put her hands on her hips, her hair floating up in anger. She pointed her finger at Ryn and shouted loudly:
"What's there to regret? Since we've already made the decision, there's no such thing as regret!
You bastard brother, I've given you my everything. If you're a man, then take responsibility properly! If you want to go back on your word, if you want to be a deadbeat, then just wait for me to drag you down with me to mutual destruction!"
"Mmm..."
Ryn clutched his slightly swollen face and climbed up from the bed. As expected of the Houraiji Kyuusyou who could trade blows with the humanoid Honkai Beast, Kiana; that slap made his face swell up.
"It seems I've fallen to the point where I need my little sister to teach me a lesson...
Now that I have my sister's answer, I can rest assured."
Ryn also stood up with his hands on his hips. Unlike Houraiji Kyuusyou's angry and fierce appearance, Ryn's smile was bright and sunny.
"A black hole is a black hole because it is a black hole. Houraiji Kyuusyou, along with your world, await the descent of this god!"
Houraiji Kyuusyou also smiled, pointing one finger to the sky and one to the ground, making the gesture of 'Heaven and Earth, I alone am the honored one.'
"I will make the heavens and earth darken, and when the god personally descends, the world will light up in a clamor, splendid and magnificent!"
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As the time neared noon, Ryn and Houraiji Kyuusyou tidied up and left the room, preparing to go to the kitchen to see what delicious lunch Mei had made.
He wondered how good this world's Mei's cooking was~
But to Ryn's surprise, the one in charge of the kitchen today wasn't Mei, but Bronya.
Bronya, who usually had an expressionless face, strangely didn't have a blank look today. Instead, she wore a sullen face as if Cocolia had died.
Even without asking, Ryn and Houraiji Kyuusyou could feel the faint resentment emanating from Bronya.
But who would care about the opinion of an underdeveloped Banya?
Ryn and Houraiji Kyuusyou quickly finished their meal, packed a few portions each, then left the bowls and chopsticks to Bronya and patted their butts as they left the dining area.
While walking back to the residential area, Ryn and Houraiji Kyuusyou stopped in unison.
They both said at the same time...
Ryn: "I'm going to deliver lunch to Seele. Ryn, you can go back first."
Houraiji Kyuusyou: "I'm going to open the door for Kiana and Mei, and bring them some food. Brother Ryn, you can go back first."
The two looked at each other, then couldn't help but chuckle at their tacit understanding.
Then they waved a simple goodbye and temporarily parted ways.
Back in his and Seele's room, the little lazy pig Seele was still resting.
But it was understandable. The rest on the Stellar Leviathan couldn't compare to the soft bed on the Homu Pirate Ship...
What's more, Seele had been wandering among various Bubble Universes. When had she ever had a proper sleep...
Ryn sat on the edge of the bed, gently stroking Seele's head. This fragile yet exceptionally strong girl always made people's hearts ache for her.
The Sea is a real idiot, and so is the author, for making Seele suffer so much in the Bubble Universes.
But now these boring experiments should come to an end. Ryn and Seele had already communicated with the Sea. They would go back fifty thousand years in advance, solve all those miscellaneous problems, and then bring Seele back to the prime world.
Let her be like a normal child, able to go to school, make friends, and be with the people she wants to see...
Not having to live in constant fear, sleeping in the open, and meticulously calculating the countdown to a Bubble Universe's destruction just to escape...
As if hearing Ryn's thoughts, or perhaps feeling the warmth from his hand, the sleeping girl slowly opened her eyes, revealing scarlet pupils.
"Yo, Dark Seele. The first thing you see upon opening your eyes is your beloved me. How does that feel?"
"Idiot."
Dark Seele contemptuously gave Ryn the middle finger, then shook off his hand from her head, turned over, and prepared to go back to sleep.
Seele was still in a period of rapid physical development, and she naturally needed a lot of sleep. Because of the various dangers in the Bubble Universes, she had always forced herself to stay alert and control her sleep time.
Now that she was relaxed and settled, both Seele and Dark Seele didn't want to get up once they fell asleep...
Ryn was helpless, and then, courting death, he stroked Dark Seele's head again.
Dark Seele opened her large eyes and turned to stare at Ryn.
"It's already afternoon... Sleeping too long isn't good for your health. How about we eat something first to fill our stomachs, and then sleep?"
"Hmph, I don't care. I just want to sleep..." Dark Seele pouted and said in a spoiled manner.
Then she opened her arms, hugged Ryn's waist, and laid her head on his lap. Just like that, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Ryn could only remain in the position of being hugged by Dark Seele, not moving at all, so as not to disturb the Seeles' sleep.
Using Honkai energy as a communication tool, he sent a telepathic message to Houraiji Kyuusyou and Kiana's group, saying that he had something to do today and to talk tomorrow if anything came up.
Then Ryn sat by the bed, opened Seele's favorite fairy tale book, "The Little Mermaid," and softly read one story after another.
Seele loved listening to stories. In the past, she would fall asleep peacefully listening to Bronya's fairy tales. Now, Ryn had naturally taken on the role of storyteller.