'Guangzhou' in the Divine Land... The weather was not much different from that of St. Freya High School. After all, the two places were on roughly the same latitude on this earth...
So at five or six in the afternoon, the sun also began to slowly set... The orange-red sunlight finally sprinkled across the land.
"This is nice..." Li Xuan propped his chin on his hands and leaned against the balcony, closing his eyes and murmuring. The gentle breeze, just as he remembered, lightly brushed against his face... carrying with it that faint fragrance of grass and trees.
"Still the familiar scent..." Li Xuan said with a sigh. Every blade of grass and every tree here was just like in his memory... the place where he grew up... Under the orange-red sunset, he felt like he could fall asleep again...
"Student Li Xuan, you're awake so soon..." Fu Hua, who seemed to have just taken a shower, greeted Li Xuan who was leaning against the wooden railing of the balcony.
Her long hair, which she usually tied up, was now draped smoothly over her back. The slightly damp strands of hair reflected a golden light in the sunlight... Her face, without the slightly old-fashioned glasses, instantly elevated Fu Hua's looks to the level of a beautiful girl...
"..." Li Xuan stared blankly at the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar pretty face... He never dreamed that the usually poker-faced and seemingly cold Class President Fu Hua would become a beautiful girl after taking off her glasses and letting her hair down...
"What's wrong?..." Fu Hua asked, looking at the stunned Li Xuan with confusion. Having had little experience with the opposite sex since she was young, she had no idea that her charm value had just broken through the roof...
"No, nothing... ahem..." Li Xuan turned his head and coughed a few times to cover it up.
"Principal Theresa notified me earlier... We have a day off tomorrow. Student Li Xuan can take his sister and girlfriend out for some shopping... The investigation mission will begin the day after tomorrow..." Fu Hua said seriously.
"Okay, great~" Li Xuan was in a great mood and agreed with the white-haired nun loli's decision. Although as a former otaku he didn't like going out shopping, it didn't seem so bad to go shopping with his girlfriend and sister now...
"Anything else?..." Li Xuan, the conversation ender, asked again. His social skills were really not that strong...
"No, nothing else... Just remember to come down to the hall for dinner with Yae Sakura and student Yaoye later..." Fu Hua said directly. Her fair feet in slippers pattered on the floor. Under the setting sun, Fu Hua's beautiful figure left only a shadow as she disappeared at the end of the corridor...
"...That felt a bit awkward..." Li Xuan mumbled to himself. To be honest, he was not very good at communicating with others... It was probably a side effect of being a shut-in for too long... This was also why, despite having a decent face, he couldn't find a girlfriend before graduating from high school...
"Sniff sniff~" A gentle breeze blew through Li Xuan's hair, and the faint fragrance in the air made him sniff involuntarily...
"The smell of medicinal herbs?..." Li Xuan held his head and stared at the sky, letting his mind go blank as he murmured. The smell reminded him of the small clinic his grandfather used to run...
"Brother..." A soft voice suddenly came from behind Li Xuan, making him jump....
"Yaoye?!..." Li Xuan looked at the young girl standing at the entrance of the carved wooden door. Her long, golden hair, like osmanthus flowers, was a bit messy from sleep. She rubbed her eyes... and a pair of golden eyes looked at Li Xuan.
"Uh... Good afternoon, Yaoye...." Li Xuan, who was a little embarrassed, noticed the golden spherical object in Yaoye's hands... That thing gave him a sense of déjà vu...
"What's that?..." Li Xuan pointed to the golden sphere in Yaoye's arms, which was about the size of a basketball...
"Oh, brother... this is Squeaky." Yaoye's voice was soft as she had just woken up. "Squeaky turns into this whenever it sleeps... But, I don't know why... Squeaky has been sleeping for several days, and the patterns on its body are getting more and more numerous..."
"Ahem... we'll have Principal Theresa check it out when we get back, but it should be fine..." Li Xuan said comfortingly. He reached out and poked the 'Squeaky' ball in Yaoye's arms. He hadn't paid much attention to it for a while, how did it become like this... The creature known as a Honkai Beast was truly beyond common sense, even curling up into a ball while sleeping...
"Okay, Yaoye, go wash your face and get ready for dinner..." Li Xuan patted Yaoye's head and said softly. He got up and prepared to walk into the room...
"...Brother, why do I always feel like there's something between us?" Yaoye suddenly murmured in a voice that only the two of them could hear. Although her brother was always gentle with her, whether at home or outside, she always felt an invisible barrier separating them...
"..." Li Xuan's footsteps stopped. He was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Sorry, Yaoye..." He couldn't refute it...
The main reason Li Xuan desperately wanted to save Yaoye-hime was because Yaoye looked almost identical to his own sister... except for her hair and eye color, they were very similar in other aspects...
Perhaps it was because of the loneliness of coming to this other world, so Li Xuan regarded Yaoye as a substitute for his own family affection... This seemed very shameless, but before this, Li Xuan was just a student who had just graduated from high school... at most, you could add the label of otaku to him...
"It's okay, brother..." Yaoye suddenly took a step forward, reached out her hands from behind, and gently hugged Li Xuan, saying in a soft voice, "No matter what, I'm still your sister..."
Because my life belongs to you... Yaoye didn't say the words in her heart, because it was something they both knew...
"Thank you, Yaoye... my sister." Li Xuan closed his eyes. Something in his heart suddenly shattered... A warm feeling spread from his back throughout his body, and then gathered in his heart...
"What are you two doing?" A figure with a faint floral scent appeared in front of Li Xuan. The person's face was hidden in the shadow of the setting sun, so Li Xuan couldn't see it clearly...
"I can explain..." Li Xuan, feeling a chill down his back, swallowed and looked at Yae Sakura with sincerity.
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Fu Hua was born in the southern part of the Divine Land, near Guangzhou... Her parents both managed several local hospitals, so her family was quite well-off, and could be considered to have come from a family of doctors...
But... the Fu family, which was mainly composed of doctors, had an inheritance... This inheritance was the true martial arts of the Divine Land passed down from ancient times to the present... just like the sword art 'Hokushin Itto-ryu' that was passed down in Raiden Mei's family...
However, the martial art mastered by the Fu family was a close-quarters combat technique... like a fusion of other fist techniques from the Divine Land... It was incredibly difficult to learn, but the Fu family still had a name registered in the martial arts association...
"Xiao San, have our guests arrived?" A middle-aged man with a rather refined appearance slowly sipped his tea and asked the person opposite him softly.
"Yes, they're here, they're here~" A burly man whose appearance and figure perfectly embodied the word 'robust' said casually.
"The Xuanyuan Sword..." the refined middle-aged man said as if in a daze. He gently stroked the rectangular box beside him... The long box was slightly opened, revealing a small section of the item inside...
It was an orange-gold sword hilt...
(End of Chapter)