Last night, he helped Stelle and Bronya fix the "white hole memory overflow" issue until very late.
To ensure he could wake up early today to prepare a loving breakfast for Phantylia, Caelus thoughtfully set a wakeup alarm on the Herta puppet.
Unfortunately, what woke him wasn't the "Herta puppet morning bite" he was preparing to attempt for the first time, but rather a string of ding-dong chimes from his phone.
Caelus opened his phone with regret.
[Risking Life With Tiles: You there? You there?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Not awake yet?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Look at the time!]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Hurry up and get online to play Celestial Jade! I'm already at work, and you're still sleeping in?]
Looking at this barrage of messages from Qingque, Caelus carefully extricated himself from between Stelle and Bronya and replied with some confusion.
[Gin: Why did you start work so early today?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Don't mention it. I finished my work ahead of schedule and snuck out to play Celestial Jade and slack off, but I was unluckily arrested by the Master Diviner, and then...]
— Ding, your friend has gone offline.
Seeing the prompt pop up on the chat interface, Caelus sent a question mark.
[Gin: Were you ruthlessly beaten to the ground by Fu Xuan and dragged back to the Divination Commission to be a sex slave?]
Ding, your friend has come online.
[Risking Life With Tiles: Why is your imagination so vivid!]
[Risking Life With Tiles: That's right, it's exactly that tragic. Wait, why is there an extra word in front of "slave"?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Anyway, I was caught and dragged into the Master Diviner's office at five this morning to help her work. I'm dying of anger...]
[Gin: Fu Xuan is right next to you and you still dare to sneakily chat with me? So brave?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: It's fine, my experience in slacking off is abu...]
Ding, your friend has gone offline.
[Gin: ...]
Ding, your friend has come online.
[Risking Life With Tiles: Scared me to death. I was almost caught by the Master Diviner. Her height is really too dangerous; I can't even tell if she's standing behind me.]
[Gin: I actually think Fu Xuan being small like that is also very cute.]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Ho? I didn't expect you to like the Master Diviner's type?]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Wait, isn't your girlfriend very... um, impressive?]
Qingque recalled Bronya's figure she had seen that night during Strip Mahjong. With that level of fullness, she could hang and beat 100 Master Diviners, okay?
To be honest, Qingque felt the relationships between Caelus and the girls around him were quite messy.
Especially when Caelus told her that he and Stelle were actually the same person, even a genius brain like Qingque's experienced instantaneous power overload and nearly crashed, somewhat shocked by the variety of human play.
However, Qingque's lazy and carefree personality prevented her from digging deeper into how many boats Old Caelus was stepping on at once.
As long as everyone was happy and joyful when playing together, that was enough.
Moreover, if one really had to investigate, Qingque felt Bronya's problem might be even bigger. After all, Caelus was only three years old!
[Gin: Believe it or not, four years ago Bronya's body type was the same as yours?]
"8 > 50000" was already past tense. Honkai Impact 2nd Part started in 2022, and only four years had passed since the end of the Great Honkai Era, yet Bronya was already in her "Li Sushang" (Big Duck) form.
Therefore, the proposition actually proven by the famous mathematician Bronya is 4 > 50,000!
One can only say the Duck-Duck genes are terrifying!
[Risking Life With Tiles: Ah!!!???!@#￥%&□]
Four years? To grow from her current body type to Bronya's current body type?
Are you kidding?
Qingque felt a massive shock.
Seeing that string of garbled characters, Caelus was very satisfied with Qingque's reaction. However, he was puzzled when Qingque didn't send another message for quite a while.
[Gin: Really scared? Do you want the same level of development? I can provide free assistance, you know. I think the Master Diviner actually has a lot of potential too.]
[Risking Life With Tiles: ...]
[Risking Life With Tiles: Then should This Seat thank you?]
[Gin: ...]
This time, it was Caelus's turn to fall silent.
Qingque had been caught by Fu Xuan. No wonder there was a pile of garbled text after the question marks.
Putting down his phone, Caelus closed his eyes and silently prayed for his best friend for three seconds.
Hoping she's okay.jpg*
At the same time, Caelus conducted a shallow self-reflection. It seemed the news he told Qingque was too shocking, causing her to fail to react in time when Fu Xuan approached.
He also deeply criticized Bronya's development speed and decided that if there was a chance tonight, he would definitely help avenge Qingque by ruthlessly ravaging her.
[Risking Life With Tiles: This Seat will note down this offense for now. Kafka's interrogation will be conducted at the Divination Commission today. This Seat will dispatch Qingque to guide you all shortly. Please do not go out.]
[Gin: Understood, Master Diviner! Today, before Qingque arrives, not a single member of the Express crew will step out of this inn!]
After sending the message, Caelus logged off at light speed, observing another second of silence for Qingque.
Then, he threw the matter to the back of his mind and happily went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for 'Tingyun'.
And then, there was the present.
"Come, sit down and eat some steamed cake first."
Caelus picked up a piece of Persimmon Date Sweet Steamed Cake and handed it to Qingque, whose entire body exuded the numb aura of 'I am already a waste fish', comforting her.
"Wu wu wu, Old Caelus! I'm going to die!"
Turning grief and indignation into appetite, Qingque didn't take it with her hands but opened her small mouth and bit directly onto the pastry in front of her, munching voraciously ao-wu ao-wu.
"Who? Who dares bully the person protected by me, Galaxy Batwoman?"
Stelle, cheeks bulging as she chewed, swallowed the food in her mouth with a gulp, slammed the table, and stood up with the posture of a big sister boss.
"Believe it or not, I, Vodka, the General sitting under the Second-in-Command of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, will take my little brothers to teach him what it means to be a person of society!"
"It was the Master Diviner."
Regarding the title "General sitting under the Second-in-Command of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, Vodka," Qingque expressed some confusion, but it sounded very troublesome. She was more interested in knowing if Stelle could make the Master Diviner experience the sinister nature of society.
"Oh, then never mind. My condolences."
Stelle sat back down and continued eating.
March 7th didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Qingque, what exactly happened?"
"The Master Diviner made me immediately submit a review that I've dragged out for a year."
Qingque's eyes were misty with tears as she looked with somewhat resentful little eyes at the silver-gray beauty's full, snowy-white chest.
Although this matter had nothing to do with Bronya, but... four years? How on earth did she develop?
Qingque looked down at her own curves, which had a very slight arc. She wasn't envious; she was just greatly shocked and couldn't understand.
"Huh? Dragged... dragged out for a year? That time is indeed a bit long, isn't it?"
March 7th scratched her head. She felt that what Fu Xuan did this time seemed to be correct.
"You don't understand this, Ah Qi. Some things can be dragged out. What if Fu Xuan forgot? Then Qingque wouldn't have to write it!"
Stelle, with a piece of steamed cake dangling from her mouth, shook her head back and forth.
"Are you referring to how you said you'd organize your room, but ended up dragging it out for a month until you successfully dragged the task out of existence?" March 7th retorted with a side-eye.
Room was messy, so she just went to live in Caelus's room.
Later, Caelus obtained the Persona Mask (Tara Mask), so not only did Stelle not have to organize the room, she didn't even have to do daily chores.
Of course, on this point, March 7th was the same.
Caelus fed Qingque the unadulterated steamed cake while introducing Qingque to Dan Heng and Welt.
Not long after, 'Tingyun', having destroyed the Energy Residue inside her body, returned. Hearing that everyone was about to go to the Divination Commission to observe the Stellaron Hunter's interrogation, she took her leave first.
With Tingyun's status as a minor Amicassador, she clearly didn't have the clearance to observe Kafka's interrogation.
As for why she made this trip?
Just to eat energy dregs?
Wasn't it all because of Caelus!
He said he had a gift to give her!
The result was a pastry he made personally, laced with shi—Energy Residue!
That damned, brain-sick Gray-hair!
"Dan Heng, aren't you going?"
After simply packing up some things, the group prepared to follow Qingque to the Divination Commission, but Dan Heng remained sitting on the sofa without moving.
"I won't be going."
Dan Heng shook his head.
He had only disembarked because he was worried his companions might encounter danger. Going to the Divination Commission wouldn't pose any danger.
Given his identity, it wasn't appropriate for him to appear within the Six Commissions. Moreover, Dan Heng heard that Jing Yuan would also be participating in the interrogation, so he absolutely couldn't go.
"Alright."
Stelle remembered Dan Heng saying before that he was forbidden from stepping onto the Luofu. She nodded, then suddenly thought of something and hopped in front of Dan Heng.
"Then help me grind my daily tasks."
Caelus-cub had the [Sole Wolf King] to help him grind dailies, and Hachi-Stelle was very envious. She wanted to find a tool-person to help grind dailies too!
Otherwise, her account progress would fall too far behind Caelus-cub!
Every time, Caelus-cub would flaunt it in her face!
"Okay."
Dan Heng took out his phone, let Stelle log into her game account, and started helping her grind dailies.
Stelle gave Dan Heng a thumbs up, then bounced over and lunged onto Caelus's back, wanting to ride him.
Caelus ducked his body, and Stelle plunged into March 7th's arms. Just as she was being helped up by March, Caelus seized the opportunity to straddle her shoulders.
"Set off!"
Contrary to normal couples, between the Star-Caelus duo, Stelle's physical fitness completely crushed Caelus. Even with Caelus equipping badges, he could only surpass Stelle in strength during attacks.
If they fought one-on-one in bed, Stelle was the one on top. Only by coordinating with a female body could he suppress her.
Amidst the roughhousing, Caelus noticed Qingque's small face was still somewhat bitter. after being thrown off by Stelle leaning forward, Caelus smoothly somersaulted to Qingque's side.
"Keeping a long face isn't like you. How about I teach you to sing a song to express your feelings?"
"Yo, Old Caelus, you can sing?"
"Of course. I can not only sing, but I can also write," Caelus said shamelessly.
"This song is written for you."
"Real or fake?"
Qingque was surprised; she didn't expect Caelus to have this skill.
"Listen well."
Caelus cleared his throat.
"House on fire, I take photos; life in chaos, I go to sleep."
"Disaster looms, I do not know; worst case scenario, I hang myself."
The lyrics were extremely simple and easy to understand, sounding just like a doggerel jingle.
The tone vividly displayed the carefree mentality of a 'salted fish' letting things rot, singing directly into Qingque's heart.
"Ai, I just love living this way; I don't take anything to heart."
"Stress and bumps don't make me fret; if I can't get past, I'll detour."
Oh oh oh!
The more she listened, the brighter Qingque's eyes became, tears shimmering within them.
Old Caelus truly understood her better than anyone!
Amidst Caelus's lazy singing voice, everyone boarded the Starskiff bound for the Divination Commission.
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