Since Sirin's resurrection and return, time had quietly passed without any incidents. In the Honkai world, 80% of bad things were Otto's responsibility, while the remaining 20% were Cocolia's.
With Otto's tacit approval and Cocolia knowing nothing about it, naturally no villains would step forward to disturb Shun's peaceful life.
However, due to Sirin's appearance, the originally planned honeymoon trip had to be interrupted. As the new member of Shun's family, it was necessary for Shun and Ana to take her to familiarize herself with this rapidly changing world. After all, human society in the 21st century changed rapidly, and it took Sirin quite a bit of time and effort to adapt to the world fourteen years later. Perhaps the price of this process was that Sirin gradually turned into a shut-in girl? Or rather, she had always been a shut-in, and the popularization of electronic devices had completely released her true nature.
On a quiet afternoon, Shun was sitting at the dining table when a girl with horns on her head and wearing a maid outfit was busy bringing the prepared dishes to the table. "Bella, has Sirin not gotten up yet?" Shun asked her.
This dragon girl maid in maid attire was Sirin's loyal servant — the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares. Fourteen years ago, Shun had saved her life, allowing her to sleep on the snowfield for fourteen years. It was only after Sirin's return that Shun took her back to the ruins of the Tower of Babylon and awakened the sleeping Bella.
Knowing that Sirin had found a new life, Bella was very happy. As the Honkai Beast most loyal to Sirin in the world, she always put Sirin's interests first. She immediately expressed her willingness to become a maid in Shun's household and join this family together with Sirin.
Faced with Sirin's pleading gaze, Shun couldn't refuse. He himself had no objection to Bella joining, but he was worried about Ana. Her acceptance of Sirin was already very high; he didn't know if she could still accept the existence of a Honkai Beast.
Fortunately, after following Shun for so long, Ana could be considered someone who had seen the world. The Third Herrscher was her student, the Second Herrscher now lived with her every day and called her sister-in-law. Now it was just one more Judgment-class Honkai Beast living at home.
Ana even joked that if she one day became a Herrscher herself, she could accept it too. After all, some of the physical qualities of Herrschers were quite enviable.
Sirin's skin and hair, which often went unwashed, could still be maintained so well — the Herrscher physique was truly indispensable.
"Her Majesty the Queen might not have woken up yet…" As a Honkai Beast and Herrscher, sleep was not a necessity. Bella remembered that when she came out of the room, her Queen seemed to still be playing enthusiastically in front of the computer.
But if she just said it directly like that, it didn't seem very good. It was better to hide it for now.
"Bella will go call Her Majesty the Queen right away!" To avoid giving herself away, Bella took the initiative to volunteer for this task.
Bella returned to the room, which even in broad daylight had the curtains drawn, making it look very dim. The only light source in the room was the glow from Sirin's computer screen. However, as a Honkai Beast, Bella was unaffected even without any light.
"Your Majesty, it's already noon. Lord Shun is calling you to come out and eat."
"Mm, okay. I'll go in a bit…" Sirin casually responded and continued fighting on the computer. A pair of delicate and small jade feet were lightly placed on the gaming chair, occasionally swinging with the owner's mood. At the same time, she muttered from time to time: "This process isn't wrong either. Hiss… is it a problem of missing one entry?"
Sirin, who had temporarily lost her life goals, didn't know what to do either. Little Shun had gotten married, revenge and such seemed to have ended, and the Honkai they were supposed to fight against hadn't made any big moves. Fortunately, at this time she encountered the internet, so Sirin quickly became immersed in it.
"Hahaha, I finally cleared it!" Sirin slapped the table hard. The computer screen stayed on the settlement screen. She exited and saw, mm, first place in the group.
Looking at the second place ranked just two points below her on the floor below, Sirin went out and changed her ID to "Two points short from the guy downstairs, not gonna tryhard?"
"Comfortable, comfortable. Bella, let's go eat. Don't make little Shun and the others wait too long."
Sirin yawned, put on her slippers, followed Bella to the dining room, sat down, took the happy water Bella handed her, and happily chugged it down.
"With your sleep schedule, if it weren't because you're a Herrscher, you would have been hospitalized long ago because of a bunch of problems, right?" Shun knew about Sirin's current decadent lifestyle.
At the beginning, Sirin was still very normal. She read books at home, took walks at St. Freya, and a day would pass like that. Shun even thought that she was truly a fake pufferfish. But after equipping Sirin with a computer, he discovered Sirin's shut-in girl nature.
However, Shun didn't regret turning Sirin into a shut-in girl. After all, Sirin's previous life had been somewhat too empty, as if she was living in this world without any meaning.
Back then, besides things related to Shun, she didn't seem to care much about anything else. Now, although she had become a shut-in girl, because of the internet, she had gained some human-like qualities.
Simply put, she had become more abstract, but seemed much more real. Her previous appearance was all due to a self-protective action produced after Sirin's loved ones and the person she depended on left her in an extremely short period of time.
"Herrschers are not inconvenient things!" Sirin was very satisfied with the Herrscher body. After all, this body could be said to have no flaws at all.
"However, St. Freya's spring break is about to end soon. At that time, Sirin, you should go to school, right?"
"? Why? I don't want to." As expected, school was the natural enemy of all children. Unless it was a good child like Seele, whether it was Kiana or Mei, upon hearing the news of enrolling in the new semester, they all showed bitter expressions.
"Youth only comes once. I can responsibly tell you that experiencing high school life is not wrong. Besides, I won't restrict you in anything."
Shun wanted Sirin to go to school to let her experience a normal person's youthful life. This was different from those parents who hoped their sons would become dragons and daughters phoenixes.
As the surface-level younger brother but actually Sirin's guardian, Shun could be said to have worried himself to death for her.
Secondly, there were some metaphysical reasons. He hoped Sirin could form some bonds at school. This world could be considered a very idealistic world.
At critical moments, shouting things like friendship or bonds really worked.
"Mm, alright." Sirin had no choice. Shun had already made so many concessions; it wouldn't make sense to disagree with even this, right? Besides, staying at home playing games all the time was indeed a bit boring.