Star Rail universe.
The faint morning sunlight shone into the room through the cracks. Rustling sounds came from the bulging blanket on the bed, and Caelus slowly opened his eyes as if sensing something.
His gradually focusing gaze landed on the heaving and undulating bedsheet over his body. From the outside, it looked as if someone was engaging in some sort of activity under the covers.
Last night, besides Caelus, there were two other people on this bed: the Stellaron spirit, and Leylah.
The latter had taken the initiative to join the fray while Caelus and Stelle were fiercely battling it out. Fortunately, Caelus could use Leylah's bodily fluids to recover his stamina. Otherwise, let alone Stelle, Leylah alone would have drained him dry.
Even the strongest ox would have to kneel before an endless, boundless field! The three of them fought all the way to the edges of the universe, until even the Great Dao was obliterated.jpg
Theoretically speaking, even if physical strength could be replenished, staying up all night fighting was still very mentally draining. He should have slept until the sun was high in the sky before naturally waking up.
But this Stellaron spirit...
The corner of his eye twitched slightly. Caelus gloomily stared at the squirming, rising bedsheet. Slowly lowering himself, he suddenly reached out and threw it open.
Although Stelle had a habit of sleeping naked, no universally beloved scenario presented itself. The gray-haired girl's eyes were closed; she was clearly still asleep.
Because of this, the twitch in the corner of Caelus's eye gradually escalated into a frantic spasm. Stelle's sleeping posture could no longer be described as merely ungraceful. She rolled around while playing, continued rolling back and forth after falling asleep, and even kicked people while spinning in circles.
In the next second, Caelus saw the girl suddenly roll over again. Then, the Stellaron spirit sat straight up, pointing forward with her hand, her eyes still tightly shut:
"Me! Galaxy Batwoman! Hand over the money—or I'll beat you up!"
After saying that, Stelle's body tilted, and she toppled sideways toward the edge of the bed. The snowy plumpness usually hidden by her white T-shirt jiggled with the movement.
With a thud, she fell to the floor. Caelus only saw a tender white little hand reach up, fumbling along the edge of the bed. After grabbing the edge of the blanket, Stelle groggily climbed back up, muttering as she squirmed toward Caelus:
"Caelus-cub, don't kick me... I fell down..."
Sure enough, he shouldn't have passed Leylah's bodily fluids to Stelle after they finished last night to help her replenish her stamina. This girl had too much abundant stamina, which would overflow when she slept, causing Caelus, who shared the bed with her, to suffer. And Caelus couldn't just return into a yo-yo anytime and anywhere like Leylah could.
Caelus let out a sigh and climbed up.
Possessing a quad-core processor, his mental recovery speed was already far beyond that of an ordinary person. As for his stamina, he had been fully replenished before the battle ended yesterday. Even waking up early, he didn't feel exhausted, but rather full of energetic vitality.
Rolling Stelle up in the bedsheet, Caelus put on his underwear and prepared to quietly go wash up.
Just as Caelus pushed open the bedroom door, the Stellaron spirit wrapped up like a spring roll on the bed suddenly sat straight up again, her eyes still unopened:
"Caelus-cub, where are you going?"
Hearing the voice, Caelus paused in his tracks. He turned his head in surprise and was just about to give a casual reply. When he saw Stelle flop back down again. As she fell, she continued muttering:
"Don't forget to bring fried dough sticks when buying credits, don't just win all the time, let Ah Qi win a bit, let's go, stop playing, hurry up and go line up..."
The corner of Caelus's mouth twitched slightly. Giving up the thought of washing up first, he took out his phone and turned on the video recording.
Because Stelle was in an unarmored state, Caelus only pointed the lens at her head above the collarbone. After recording two dreamy clips of dark history, Caelus finally left in satisfaction.
As soon as he put on the Persona Mask, ten tail-wagging raccoon Stelles instantly rose from the shadows.
They took charge of standing on their tiptoes to fetch water for Caelus, stacking two on top of each other to help him brush his teeth, preparing hot towels, and grooming his head's connective tissues into a style that met modern human aesthetics, washing his epithelial tissues and massaging his facial nerve tissues...
The raccoon Stelles had a clear division of labor, acting exactly like the world's most perfect nanny team. Every single one looked like the best loli-mommy.
"Sure enough, this is the correct way to utilize the Shadow Soldiers."
In just a few minutes, the raccoon Stelles, having completed their nanny-style services, sank back into the shadows. Caelus walked out of the room with a Refreshing Spirit.
Morning mist drifted outside the carved wooden windows. As Caelus rubbed his eyes and walked into the shared living room, he saw a figure standing on tiptoe, preparing breakfast in the high-end inn kitchen that almost no one ever used.
The young girl's delicate face wore a focused expression, which, combined with her youthful features, made her look incredibly cute. Her dark blue hair was tied into a ponytail, revealing the smooth white skin on the back of her neck.
Her petite body was clad in an apron. Amidst the sizzle of popping oil mixed with the caramelized aroma of melting rock sugar, her right hand was performing an operation that could be called an artistic performance—Quantum blue light flowed around her fingertips. Three eggs floated in mid-air simultaneously, their shells blooming open in sequence like petals, while the egg liquid fell precisely into three porcelain bowls positioned in different directions.
"Is this a newly learned cooking technique?"
Caelus leaned against the doorframe and smiled, asking despite already knowing the answer.
"B-Brother Caelus!"
The sudden voice startled 'White' Seele so much that she almost knocked over the kitchenware in her hands.
Judging from the delicate display of being frightened and her reaction to Caelus, it was obvious that 'White' Seele's will was controlling the body.
The consciousness of Caelus-Seele was currently swimming in the Sea of Quanta in the Honkai World together with 'White' Seele.
"Yes, the other me said that using my ability saves more time."
After flusteredly steadying the kitchenware, Seele let out a sigh of relief and revealed a gentle smile.
By the way, the "other me" mentioned here referred to Caelus-Seele.
"It looks like our family's Seele has grown up too."
Caelus came to the slightly quiet living room.
Generally speaking, Dan Heng and Old Yang were the earliest risers. Dan Heng and Bailu had gone to the Scalegorge Waterscape to reseal the Ambrosial Arbor and still had to deal with some Vidyadhara issues, so they hadn't come back at all last night.
Welt had probably already gone out for a stroll.
The words "our family's" made the tips of 'White' Seele's ears turn red. She turned around, her tone as gentle as a true ambassador:
"The eggs will be ready very soon. Does Brother Caelus want milk or soy milk? What about Sister Stelle?"
Even though it was merely this kind of everyday conversational interaction, to 'White' Seele, it provided a unique sense of security in her heart.
The sunlight was as bright and beautiful as the ray of light she saw when her consciousness was pulled up from the sunless Sea of Quanta into this world.
Everyone on the Express was like family. Sister Himeko would worry about her emotional and psychological state. For her three meals a day, she tasted dishes meticulously prepared to satisfy the palate, and occasionally, dark cuisine made for the sake of Trailblazing.
Brother Caelus and Sister Stelle filled her very own wardrobe with a wide variety of clothes. Sister March made plushies appear on her bedside and sofa...
In addition to all this, so many other things piled up to form a mountain of warmth, causing her to gradually lose the sense of the Nihility where she was once lost.
This warmth offset the various sorrows and pains that 'White' Seele had experienced in the past. As for the choice made by her "parallel world" self, 'White' Seele had actually never resisted it; she was merely too shy to face it.
In short, not just toward Brother Caelus, she also had to do her best to repay everyone!
"Milk is fine~"
Caelus sat at the living room dining table, praising the young girl while taking out his phone, which had just popped up with a message.
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: File Note "Aether Editing: From Beginner to Buried"]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Bro, seriously, are you really planning to learn hacker skills?]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Listen to my advice, this stuff really isn't something just anyone can learn, and it heavily depends on talent!]
Silver Wolf suspected that Caelus only had a three-minute passion; he saw the handsome and cool side of hackers and wanted to learn, but was the type who would get dizzy and fall asleep after reading professional books for ten minutes.
As for teaching the skills themselves and providing summarized experiences, it was nothing to Silver Wolf. Some of the techniques could be bought in Punklorde, or else they could be honed in the world where network and reality intertwined. Purely knowledge-based stuff was handed over to the Four Great Generals under her command to summarize.
Compiling a beginner's version was a piece of cake for her. The fact that Silver Wolf could become the invisible emperor of Punklorde at such a young age, worshipped by countless hackers, was entirely due to her extraordinary talent!
[Fusion is a Man's Romance: Wolf-baby, do you believe that your big brother here possesses hacking talent no less than yours?]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Hah, is this today's joke? I definitely laughed.]
[Fusion is a Man's Romance: Image.jpg]
The steaming mist in the kitchen was being dyed pale gold by the morning light. Seele's back, wearing an indigo apron, flickered in the halo of light. The butterfly hairpin fastened to the tips of her hair, that touch of faint blue, trembled slightly in the morning light like a swallowtail butterfly resting on a gardenia flower.
Silver Wolf sat up in shock from her dying bed, instantly retracting her previous message at the speed of light.
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: I believe it, I believe it, I believe it! Hurry up and send more.jpg]
Silver Wolf scoffed internally, but her body was very honest. As long as he sent her beautiful pictures of Seele, she didn't mind praising him a bit verbally.
With the abstract brains of Stelle and Caelus, if they could possess hacking skills comparable to hers in a short time, Silver Wolf would read her name backwards and even help Caelus flirt with Seele!
It wasn't Silver Wolf blowing her own horn; in the entire Galaxy, you couldn't find more than a few people whose hacking talent could rival hers!
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: I also want to eat the food Seele cooked. Save a portion for me, Foster Father, please! Silver Wolf giving a thumbs up.jpg]
Caelus blinked. Logically speaking, calling someone Foster Father when asking them to bring food wasn't wrong, but you...
[Fusion is a Man's Romance: Saving a portion is fine, but how do I deliver it to you? Or rather, have you already come back from Pier Point?]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Not yet, but soon.]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Originally, I planned to go prepare according to the script I received before, but then Elio tore the script up.]
[Fusion is a Man's Romance: Tore it up? What's the situation?]
Caelus was surprised and his interest was piqued.
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Sigh, an old problem... uh, I guess it's not really old, just a problem that surfaced a while ago, right after that incident at the Herta Space Station.]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Every time he writes a script, he mutters some obscure and hard-to-understand things. I don't get it, but the general meaning is stuff like 'What is this thing now?', 'What is this?', 'This isn't right?', 'Why is it like this?', 'Can it stop changing?' and words to that effect.]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: He irregularly tears up previous scripts, rewrites them, and then sends them to us. Even Little Black's head is almost plucked bald!]
"..."
Caelus's eyebrows twitched slightly. Catching the key element, he stayed silent for two seconds before typing.
[Fusion is a Man's Romance: Roughly what times are these?]
[Wolf King Still on the Return Journey: Why are you asking this? Could it be that you know the reason?]
Saying so, Silver Wolf sent the times of the several instances Elio had torn up the script to Caelus.
Caelus silently pondered in his heart. Finally, he discovered... they perfectly corresponded to the times he rolled the gacha.
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