At St. Freya High School, during dusk under the setting sun... a figure quickly shuttled through the school's small paths. As the figure ran, it even kicked up the withered branches and fallen leaves on the stone-paved ground, rushing towards the school dormitories like a gust of wind...
"I'm back..." Li Xuan said loudly. Standing in the entryway, he hurriedly and quickly took off the leather shoes on his feet. Too lazy to even put them in the shoe cabinet, he casually threw them on the floor, called out a greeting, and rushed into his room in a blaze.
"Bang!" The next moment, after a heavy slam of the door, the entire room suddenly fell silent.
"..." Sitting in the living room, Liv and Yaoye, who were originally playing a game together, stopped their game consoles and looked at each other.
"Sister Liv... what is big brother so busy with?" Yaoye asked curiously, blinking her glass-like eyes.
"Master..." Liv placed a finger on her lips, recalling if Li Xuan had ever been in a similar situation before. After a long while, Liv suddenly revealed a smile and said softly to the curious Yaoye.
"Maybe... Yaoye is about to get another little sister~"
"...?!" Yaoye tilted her little head in confusion, her long, golden hair scattering down somewhat lazily.
At this moment... as soon as Li Xuan entered his room, his gaze fell upon the window. By the glass window, which was illuminated a brilliant red by the setting sun, was an ordinary small wooden table...
"Finally..." Li Xuan stared at the small wooden table in front of him and said as if sighing, "I've come to fulfill my promise." On the small wooden table, a golden Familiar Egg resting on a soft cushion was still shining brilliantly with a golden glow under the orange-red sunlight.
"..." Li Xuan silently stretched out his hand, and Honkai energy crystals appeared out of thin air in his palm. These were the Crystals he had just asked Theresa for.
In fact, Li Xuan had taken far more than ten thousand Crystals from that crystal vault; it was actually infinitely close to sixteen thousand... However, Li Xuan couldn't help but marvel at how wealthy Schicksal was... For someone like him who had to fight tooth and nail just to save up for a ten-pull, such an amount was just a drop in the bucket for a place like Schicksal where things were calculated in the tens of thousands...
However... it also reflected from a certain perspective that the materials Schicksal provided for the Hyperion were truly not a small amount.
Li Xuan quietly watched as the Crystals fell from his hand, continuously landing on the golden Familiar Egg's shell. What was surprising was... as soon as the Honkai energy crystals touched the golden Familiar Egg, they melted into it like blocks of ice...
As the Honkai energy crystals were continuously devoured, the complex patterns on the golden Familiar Egg also began to slowly light up. Golden patterns shaped like cherry blossom petals emitted a golden radiance from bottom to top...
Soon... the Honkai energy crystals, enough for the Hyperion to take a spin in the sky, were all swallowed by the Familiar Egg as if into a bottomless pit. At the same time... an energy that twisted the 'rules' of the world and carried the 'breath of life' began to gather in the center of the Familiar Egg.
Because the patterns on the Familiar Egg's shell lit up by the Honkai energy were magically glowing, the entire Familiar Egg shone with a golden radiance from the inside out, like a large lantern.
"Thump!~" A faint beating sound abruptly appeared in the room. If Li Xuan hadn't been intently focused on the Familiar Egg before him, he might have missed this subtle, mosquito-like sound.
"Buzz!~" The Familiar Egg trembled slightly before returning to calm, but it was obvious that... a round, black shadow had suddenly appeared within the faintly glowing golden Familiar Egg.
"...." As the black shadow appeared, the golden-glowing Familiar Egg slowly dimmed.
"Is it done?..." Li Xuan reached out and gently touched the golden Familiar Egg. As soon as his finger touched the surface of the shell, a piece of information was transmitted from the Familiar Egg and suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Yae Sakura]Incubation time... three days.
"Three days..." Li Xuan muttered to himself. His originally impatient mood was instantly extinguished as if cold water had been poured on firewood, yet he felt a bit anxious...
Of course, Li Xuan didn't look closely at the shadow in the center of the Familiar Egg. If he had, he might have discovered that the central shadow was actually in two parts.
Just as Li Xuan was sitting on a stool, staring blankly at the Familiar Egg in front of him... trouble came knocking again.
"Li Xuan!!..." A certain foolish white-haired furball, transformed into a fierce tiger, kicked open Li Xuan's door with a powerful kick as fast as lightning. The lock on Li Xuan's room door was truly wrecked under Kiana's foot.
"Ah?!..." Li Xuan snapped back to his senses. He turned around to see a panicked Kiana, and what panicked him... the room door kicked broken by Kiana.
"Kiana ahh!..." A certain poor man, heartbroken over his door, shouted loudly.
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"Kiana, don't panic when you encounter things, you need to calm down... also, kicking doors is a bad habit..." Li Xuan said earnestly as he walked side by side with Kiana.
"I know, I know... isn't it just a door lock? This young lady will compensate you for it later," Kiana said, not taking it to heart at all, but then her expression instantly turned panicked.
"Li Xuan... what do you think we should do? Someone was audacious enough to come to our dorm and steal clothes!" Speaking of this, Kiana put on a pouting expression again. The clothes thief... the thief even took Mei's underwear! This is really... so enviable.
"Ahem... I'll do my best to help you find it..." Li Xuan was also quite helpless. To think that this kind of thing would happen at St. Freya High School. You have to know, this is an all-girls school... Could there be a perverted lesbian (yuri)?!
However... Li Xuan immediately rejected his own idea. When it comes to yuri, who could compare to this perverted white-haired furball beside him...
"Li Xuan-kun is here..." As soon as Li Xuan entered, Mei, who was waiting in the living room, instantly stood up and greeted him gently. The reason Kiana went to find Li Xuan was also her idea... After all, back in Nagazora City, it was mostly Li Xuan who made the decisions, and everyone thought Li Xuan was more reliable.
"Sorry to trouble you, Li Xuan-kun," Mei said reservedly. After all... asking a boy to help them find their lost underwear and clothes was still a bit embarrassing, but now that Bronya and Miss Himeko were out, Li Xuan was the only one they could rely on.
'You can do it! Classmate Li Xuan!' Mei thought, staring at the certain poor man with anticipation.
"I'll do my best to take a look for you," Li Xuan said with a bitter smile, waving his hand. He wasn't very good at finding the culprit in this kind of situation... In his previous life, he hadn't even finished watching the anime "Detective Conan."
"...." Li Xuan walked onto the balcony of Kiana and the others' dorm. Perhaps because Li Xuan was coming over, there were no clothes on the balcony. Mei must have tidied up beforehand.
"A height of three floors..." Li Xuan looked from the balcony at the cherry blossom tree not far away. Although it was a cherry blossom tree without blooming sakura, its branches were lush, possibly because it had been growing for a long time...
"Who would climb three floors just to steal a few pieces of underwear..." Li Xuan was a bit speechless. The world is really going downhill, people's hearts are not what they used to be... Are perverts really creatures that can transcend worlds and dimensions and exist eternally?!
"If... someone wanted to take the things here, then they could only..." A flash of inspiration suddenly struck Li Xuan's mind as he murmured, "They would have to go through the balcony..." After all, the clothes were placed near the balcony. The thief couldn't possibly have flown to steal them without their feet touching the ground, right?!
"Huh?... What's this?..." Li Xuan suddenly felt something on the palm of his hand that he had placed on the balcony...
"Li Xuan! Have you found anything yet?..." Kiana seemed to feel a bit hot and raised her small hand to fan herself as she said nonchalantly.
"Yeah... I think I have a lead..." Li Xuan turned around, nodded, and said with a faint smile. In his open right hand lay a brown hair that would be easily overlooked if one didn't look carefully...
"Clue..." Li Xuan murmured. This was the clue...
(End of this chapter)