Asuna's voice made Yusei pause, his hand on the bathroom door. He immediately turned back towards the bedroom.
Shiro and Kanna, who had been very curious about this little one roughly their size, also ran over.
Arriving at the bedroom, Yusei saw Asuna, Shiro, and Kanna already there. They were gathered around the bed, looking at the little girl on it.
Her waist-length black hair... color-wise, it was actually the same as Yusei's.
The little girl seemed somewhat afraid of so many people. She hid under the quilt, only revealing the part of her face above her eyes as she looked at everyone.
Watching Yusei walk over slowly, the little girl finally revealed her head. She gave Yusei a big smile.
"Papa!" The two words were crisp and clear, without any hesitation. This nearly made Yusei stumble and fall onto Asuna.
The voices of the others were filled with shock, especially Asuna's. She and Yusei had only just gotten together... how could she process this?
If she didn't know Yusei's real-world identity, she would suspect he had been married before and actually had a child.
Yusei also thought of this point. He looked at Asuna, and seeing that she wasn't overthinking it, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Shiro stared blankly at Yui, who had called her brother 'Papa'. She didn't know what she was thinking about, seemingly lost in contemplation of a problem.
Kanna, meanwhile, stared dumbly at Yui on the bed, the word 'Papa' echoing in her mind.
At the same time, she remembered scenes from her own home: Calling her own father, acting spoiled with her father, the scene where she broke her father's horn...
Finally, she reached a conclusion: Little children are cute. Little children are very...
'Kanna was also born from Mama and Papa together...' Kanna thought to herself, her gaze unconsciously falling on Yusei.
'Kanna... also wants a child...'
Yusei, unaware, was currently teaching Yui basic things. And he himself was a little curious.
"What's your name?"
Seeing it was Yusei, her 'Papa', asking, Yui seemed very happy. She answered sweetly, "Yui!"
Yusei thought for a moment, then asked, "Then why do you call me Papa? Did you mistake me for someone else, or remember wrong?"
When he asked this question, Asuna also watched Yui's answer nervously. Although she thought it was impossible for Yusei to have married and had a child at sixteen...
But... nothing was certain... Maybe it was a mistake Yusei-kun made in his youth?
However, Asuna felt that loving someone meant accepting their flaws.
So now, what she thought was, if Yui really was the result of a mistake Yusei made in his youth, then she must fulfill her duty as a stepmother and take good care of this child.
After all... Yui and Yusei looked so similar. Both had black hair and brown eyes. Their features were also very alike.
If Yusei heard Asuna's inner thoughts, he would be extremely frustrated.
'A mistake from my early years? How early could I possibly have been to make such a 'mistake'?'
Yui still smiled sweetly and cutely. Or rather, she only smiled like that for Yusei and Asuna.
"Because Papa is Papa."
Yusei fell silent. He felt he had realized a problem: That Kayaba must have added a lot of things when giving him the game privileges.
For example... an attribute for very high NPC affinity.
Right now, Yui was a bit like an infatuated person in the real world… infatuated people easily develop a high favorability towards handsome guys, and guys easily develop a high favorability towards beautiful goddesses.
This is the so-called affinity.
But generally speaking, affinity has its limits.
Nothing usually reaches the level of directly calling someone 'Papa' upon meeting.
Just like you can't just call a handsome guy or beautiful girl you meet your husband or wife.
This was probably because Yui had lost her memory, and then, within her own settings, she had an inherent closeness to Yusei.
Then, in the system's retrieval, what relationship has the highest closeness?
Some might say a married couple, but that's actually wrong.
The truly closest is blood relation. And Yui probably knew she was a girl, so it became father and daughter...
Reaching this conclusion, Yusei was also somewhat speechless, but at the same time, he felt very happy and satisfied.
'A cute little loli calling me Papa and giving me a sweet smile... this feeling was actually very nice.'
Asuna, however, didn't know any of this. Right now, she just felt a bit jealous, but she also... didn't really mind it that much.
What she cared about now was that this little girl was really cute and pitiable, actually abandoned by some heartless father, maybe without even knowing it.
Immediately, Asuna's maternal instincts surged. She gently stroked Yui's head, "I will definitely take responsibility for you."
"Take responsibility?" Yusei was stunned.
"Of course! She's your daughter… if you don't take care of her, who will?" Asuna glared at Yusei, then turned back to continue smiling gently at Yui, "Yui, if your Papa doesn't take good care of you, I will definitely teach him a lesson!"
Yusei opened his mouth but didn't say anything, 'This mother and daughter pair... although they aren't mother and daughter yet... it won't be long now.'
Besides, he really wanted to tell Asuna that he was wronged! He was just a foster father, not the biological one! But the facts presented before them were indeed very easy to misunderstand.
Just think, which little girl would call someone Papa upon meeting them? And when asked why she called him Papa, or if she mistook him for someone else, she actually answered 'Because Papa is Papa'.
What does that represent? It represents that the other party has a deep impression, is very clear that you are her father.
Seeing Yusei seemingly speechless seemed very amusing to Yui. She laughed happily, then looked happily at Asuna.
"Papa, she... she is...?" She was asking who Asuna was.
Yusei, naturally, had no reason to hold back, 'If I'm the foster father, then naturally there needs to be a foster mother.'
"She is your mother."