On the morning of the second day after the Familiar Egg hatched into Yaoye-hime, Li Xuan lay sprawled on his bed in his room. Sunlight streamed through the gap in the curtains that weren't fully closed, falling on his face.
Some of the sunlight even fell on the little girl lying on his chest. In the sunlight, a little girl with fluffy, long golden hair slept peacefully. Her slightly chubby, fair face was endearing, and on both sides of her hair were two oval-shaped hair ornaments that looked like they were made of glass. She was wearing a sailor uniform with wide, long sleeves, and under the brown pleated skirt were two slender calves.
Yaoye-hime, lying on Li Xuan, was already a budding beauty despite being just a child.
"Master~ Breakfast is ready!" came the urging voice of the diligent Maid Liv from outside the door.
"Mmm~" Awakened by the call, Li Xuan's eyes snapped open. He rubbed his messy hair, and just as he was about to get up, he felt a stuffiness in his chest.
"Oh, it's Yaoye~" Li Xuan looked down and saw his sister lying on him, a smile unconsciously appearing on his face. He had played with Yaoye quite late last night, and she seemed to have taken a liking to him, insisting on sleeping with him. Anyone who tried to stop her would get a face that looked like it was about to cry.
"Aww~" The cute Yaoye raised her little head, glanced at Li Xuan, then contentedly lay back down, rubbing her eyes, wanting to continue sleeping, but Li Xuan picked her up.
"..." Is it my imagination? Li Xuan looked at Yaoye-hime, whom he was holding up like a little kitten, with some confusion... 'She feels a little bigger...' Li Xuan inexplicably felt that Yaoye's body seemed a bit bigger than yesterday...
"Master~ Hurry and get up." Liv started shouting for him again.
"Yes, I know..." Li Xuan scratched his head helplessly, held Yaoye-hime in his arms, and got up to walk to the living room...
"Li Xuan-kun, good morning~" A sleepy-eyed Yae Sakura was slumped over the dining table, holding a rice ball and taking large bites. Her cherry-like mouth was covered with plump grains of rice, and a pair of fluffy fox ears stood up from her long pink hair.
"Sakura, your ears are showing..." Li Xuan said, curiously reaching out to touch the ears on Yae Sakura's head as a reminder.
"Mmm~" Yae Sakura's fair face suddenly turned bright red after Li Xuan touched her ears... "Mmm~" A comfortable yet shy expression appeared on her face.
"..." What's going on?! Li Xuan was startled by Yae Sakura's reaction and quickly withdrew his hand.
"What is it, Master..." Liv happened to walk in holding a black-covered book and asked curiously when she saw Li Xuan's surprised expression.
"Uh... it's nothing." Li Xuan quickly waved his left hand to indicate he hadn't done anything. From the corner of his eye, he saw Yae Sakura, who had been blushing just moments ago, calmly tilting her head and taking small bites of her rice ball. The fox ears on her head had disappeared.
"Liv..." Relieved, Li Xuan suddenly noticed a strange black-covered book in Liv's hands. "What's that book in your hand?..." Li Xuan asked curiously.
"...This, it's nothing!" Liv, realizing what she was holding, blushed and stuffed the black-covered book into the hem of her skirt... If Master found out I was reading this kind of book, he would definitely be disgusted with me...
In the sunlight... the title on the black-covered book vanished in an instant... Li Xuan didn't see it clearly at all.
"..." Newton's coffin can't hold me down... Li Xuan's mouth fell slightly open as he watched Liv stuff the black-covered book directly into her skirt without it falling out... As expected of a dimensional skirt, it's truly amazing...
"Ahem..." Liv coughed lightly. Two blushes rose on her cheeks, making her exquisite face even more stunningly beautiful, leaving Li Xuan, the otaku bachelor, completely dazed.
"Master, this is the milk tea I prepared for you..." Having regained her composure, Liv reached out, picked up a cup of milk tea made from milk powder, and handed it to Li Xuan...
"Mmm...." I haven't been getting enough nutrition lately... Li Xuan reached out to take the cup from Liv's hand, his mind wandering.
"Boom! Crash!" Suddenly, the ground shook violently. Li Xuan failed to take the cup from Liv's hand steadily, and the cup of warm milk tea fell to the floor, shattering into glass shards with a crisp sound.
"What's going on?!" Li Xuan, who almost fell, tightly held the still soundly sleeping Yaoye in his right arm, while his left hand helplessly steadied himself on the dining table.
"..." Liv's eyes suddenly widened as she looked out the window. Her pearly white teeth bit her cherry-red lips, her expression grave as she looked to the east, her long, slender eyebrows furrowed.
Yae Sakura, beside them, also put down the delicious rice ball in her hand, her long hands unintentionally resting on the scabbard of the sword slung at her waist. It was her beloved blade, the 'Spirit Blade-Sakurafubuki'.
"Master..."
"What is it?"
"There's trouble..." Liv stood up and looked towards the direction of the tremor, saying softly, "A strong Honkai energy reaction has appeared again..."
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"A Herrscher-level Honkai energy reaction has appeared again in Nagazora City..." a synthetic female voice broadcasted on the 'Hyperion'. But unfortunately, the 'Hyperion' was currently at a critical stage of repairs and couldn't take off at all.
"What do we do?" Murata Himeko asked, biting her thumbnail. This was a bad habit of hers; she couldn't help but bite her nails when she was nervous.
"What else can we do? I'll go myself~ And while I'm at it, I'll help that idiot Kiana and the others look for that 'Li Xuan' person they're always talking about..." In contrast, Theresa, standing next to the somewhat nervous Murata Himeko, looked as if she had everything under control, patting her disappointingly flat chest as she spoke.
"You?!" Himeko looked at the petite loli-nun who didn't even reach her shoulder and was about to express her disdain, but then she remembered that although the person next to her looked like a 'little girl' and had the heart of a young maiden, Theresa was one of Schicksal's rare 'S-Rank Valkyries', an existence more than twice as strong as herself. She managed to swallow her words.
"Can you handle it alone?! How about I go with you..." Himeko said kindly.
"Forget it... If your body goes into battle again so soon, you'll be getting killed off early..." Theresa said, stopping her. "Just fly the transport ship and drop me off in Nagazora City."
"But..."
"That's enough... no buts!" Theresa firmly cut Himeko off. She turned around, the hem of her white nun's dress swaying gently with her movement. Though her figure was small, she exuded an aura of looking down on the world...
"Who do you think I am?!" Theresa smiled and turned her head. "I am Theresa Apocalypse!"
"The world's cutest Principal Theresa!" Theresa winked, stuck out her tongue, and then ran off, humming a little tune.
"..." Murata Himeko stared speechlessly at the loli-nun's cute act, her heart breaking down. "She's already an old lady..."
"Did something happy happen?..."
(End of Chapter)