"So... you fell into the Sea of Quanta and fished out a bunch of old foss... ahem, Predecessors from the Previous Era, and Bronya's sister."
Theresa looked with a pained expression at the now tripled number of people before her... We agreed to fish out two people, so why did we end up with six? Do you have to overachieve even when it comes to rescuing people?!!
"Eh? So they are sisters?"
Upon hearing this, Pardofelis curiously turned her head to look at the bickering Bronya and Seele behind her... and then shifted her gaze to Bronie and Veliona...
"Hey, hey, hey, Bronie and Big Sis aren't the same kind of sisters as Bronya and the others!"
Noticing Pardo's curious gaze, Bronie shook her fist.
"What kind of relationship is that?"
The cat girl became even more curious.
"She's my Big Sis... and I'm her little fangirl, ahem ahem!"
"I get it... it's just a couple relationship, why make it so complicated..."
Pardo shook her tail and picked up an apple from the tray with a knowing expression, waving her hand.
"It's good that you understand, Pardo-cat... among all of us here, the only true forbidden love is between Bronya and Little Seele!"
Bronie immediately shifted the fire, making the bickering Bronya and Seele the center of everyone's attention.
"Bronya understands the reasoning... but Bronya and Seele are both children who grew up in the orphanage, so it can't be considered a forbidden love."
Bronya and Project Bunny simultaneously made an "X" gesture with their hands, rejecting the somewhat gleeful and gossip-hungry gazes of the others.
"Tch... How boring."
The others immediately turned their heads back, looking disappointed that there was no gossip to eat.
"Are you guys expecting the wrong thing..."
Watching everyone turn their heads away in disappointment, Bronya couldn't help but twitch her lips.
"Ah, forbidden love is so alluring, just like the Serpent's fruit in the Garden of Eden..."
Kyuusyou began spouting strange remarks out of nowhere... and very successfully drew Theresa's aggro.
The white-haired loli nun stared at Houraiji Kyuusyou, who kept shamelessly pulling attention to herself. The Overseer, recovering from the joy of seeing her student safe and sound, suddenly recalled Kyuusyou's performance in the Sea of Quanta, which had far exceeded her usual lazy dog behavior.
"Hey, hey, hey, Houraiji Kyuusyou! I believe you still owe me, the Headmaster, an explanation? Explain to me, what do you mean my students are all abnormal people?"
"And why did Bronya change her clothes and hairstyle in the Sea of Quanta...?"
Theresa glanced at Bronya, who had completely changed her outfit... Her once-tied double-helix twin-tails were now let down, with only four spiral curls at the tips, and her clothing had been completely replaced with a blue and white small dress...
"Eh??? Bronya, can you move now without the help of an exoskeleton???"
And most importantly, Theresa saw no exoskeleton or any other assistive devices on the girl's legs wrapped in white stockings; now, Bronya was walking in front of everyone relying solely on her own legs.
"Well... Bronya found a gift left for Bronya by Miss God, Miss Muninn's boss, in the Sea of Quanta... Mr. Kevin and Miss Pardofelis can both testify."
"A gift from God? That God???... Why does that guy act just like Grandpa, showing off everywhere? Anyway, hurry up and tell me what happened."
"Hmm, this is going to be quite a long story..."
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In the Sea of Quanta not too long ago, Pardofelis had been repeatedly asking Kevin who that awful person was, the one who had been single for fifty thousand years, who skipped work all day to slurp noodles, and who even exploited the labor and lives of his descendants. Just as Kevin's originally stern expression was about to break...
"Single for fifty thousand years, slurping noodles every day, exploiting his descendants? Isn't that just you, Boss Kevin?"
Miss Houraiji Kyuusyou sold out Kevin without a moment's hesitation and began to settle the score and list his sins.
"Every generation of the Kaslana family has been driven by the obsession left in their bloodline by this awful person, continuing to fight Honkai wave after wave of generation after generation. That's right, generation after generation of Kaslanas have been sent down the same path, with almost no exception."
Kyuusyou pointed at Kevin right then and there.
"With things done this way, how the Kaslana bloodline could even survive until now, should I praise you Kaslanas for being top-tier ladies' men who can always trick a beautiful wife into marrying you to carry on the family line? Or should I say that a certain awful person still has a little conscience left? It is said in the records that whenever a member of the Kaslana family encountered danger, they would receive help from Kevin's projection."
"Cough, cough, cough... That's all in the past. It is all in the past now."
The man waved his hand awkwardly under Pardo's gaze, which seemed to say: Boss Kevin, I can't believe you were actually this kind of person. He was trying to convey that it was all in the past, it didn't count, it didn't count.
"It really is all in the past. Pardo, let me tell you what Kevin is up to now."
"Shut up, Houraiji Kyuusyou!"
"Hahahaha! Nobody in this world has ever been able to stop me. Pardo, let me tell you, your trashy boss is currently the head of an anti-Honkai organization called World Serpent."
"But, hey, this piece of human trash has already checked out. He threw all his work onto a successor he doesn't even know how many generations removed is, and now he just wanders around like a street loafer eating noodles every day. Pardo, believe it or not, if we hang Kevin upside down right now and punch him in the stomach, we could probably get a bowl of undigested noodles out of him."
"Ah, this... Boss Kevin, have you already fallen this far?!"
Pardo jumped up, grabbed Kevin's collar, and started shaking him violently.
"I... This, this, this..."
"I call this training my juniors' abilities. That is my personally appointed successor after all!"
A speechless Kevin couldn't even find the words to argue. After all, Houraiji Kyuusyou's claims were all facts... In his desperation, Kevin resorted to talking nonsense, trying to fool Pardo-cat standing before him.
"Really? Boss Kevin is doing this to train his successor's abilities?"
"That's right, to train her abilities..."
Seeing Felis, who seemed to believe his words, Kevin breathed a slight sigh of relief... However, sometimes you can fool people, but you can't fool a cat.
Can-meow, smelling the lie, looked at the cooler in front of her and decided to bear the pain of letting go...
She bit down hard on Kevin's long leg.
"Meow!!!"
Trashy human, take this bite!!!