With a heavy impact, a series of cracking sounds like ceramic, glass, and ice shattering echoed above them.
The noise made Momo and the others-who had been enthusiastically questioning Hiro just moments ago-instantly change expressions. They all looked up at the snow-white ceiling as if facing a powerful enemy.
"What happened?"
"Enemy attack!"
Only Lala looked puzzled and curious, completely unconcerned.
I thought you brought this iceberg back just to show off.
I didn't expect you, little girl, to be planning to tear the house down.
Is your real name Ha-Kaede-ski?
Sensing the massive iceberg that had slammed directly into the roof of the Deviluke residence, Hiro complained inwardly.
If not for Sephi's bizarre sticky note reinforcing the roof, that chunk of ice would have smashed straight through the ceiling and crushed everyone beneath it.
"Ah-ah-it's not like that!"
Seeing everyone's reaction, Kaede immediately realized she'd messed up.
She jumped to her feet and blocked Golden Darkness and Mea, who were about to break through the window.
Her face was full of apology as she explained, "It's just an iceberg I pulled down from the moon. It's not an enemy. Everyone, calm down-calm down."
"I can vouch for that. The disturbance just now was indeed caused by the iceberg Little Kaede brought down."
As for whether it actually came from the moon, that part was unclear.
Hiro's Haki perception covered a radius of more than two thousand kilometers-enough to encompass the entire region, nearly one-third of Earth's radius-but that was still far too short to reach outer space.
After all, the distance between Earth and the Moon was hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
He was still lacking a spatial transfer movement skill.
And a perception skill with a wider range.
Hmm. Wider range. Underlined.
"Oh? So it has that kind of range?"
Momo approached Kaede, interest written all over her face, stopping when they were barely ten centimeters apart.
"Then how did you accurately locate the iceberg and pull it down? Could it be that those arms of yours also function as eyes?"
From the sidelines, Hiro felt as if a strong lily-scented atmosphere was drifting toward him.
While the girls chatted freely about private matters without any concern for his presence, Hiro exchanged a glance with Golden Darkness-who was staring at him-and quietly moved closer to Lala.
Lowering his voice, he asked, "Lala, Sephi locked us in with a sticky note. Do you have any way to remove that effect?"
"A sticky note?" Lala tilted her head, thought for two seconds, then remembered what he meant.
"That should be Sticky Note Man."
An awkward expression appeared on her face.
"It's just that... although Sticky Note Man doesn't affect living beings, I also don't have a way to cancel it. It can only解除 itself after twelve hours."
Can't affect living beings, and can't be undone.
As expected.
Hiro didn't show any disappointment. He chuckled and reached out to rub Lala's head.
"It's fine. The problem isn't-"
Feeling the warmth of his palm, Lala's cheeks flushed slightly, and her voice took on an excited tone.
"But Hiro-kun, don't worry! There's plenty of food and sleeping space in my experimental dimension. Supporting everyone for twelve hours is no problem at all!"
"If Hiro-kun isn't used to it, I don't mind sleeping with you either. It's bound to happen sooner or later, and Mother will understand."
Lala, with her straightforward personality, didn't hide anything and spoke her thoughts outright.
"Lala-nee! You're being way too open! You and Hiro-kun haven't even finalized an engagement yet!"
"Exactly, exactly!"
"Hm? But isn't that something that'll happen eventually?"
Ouch.
Seeing the three sisters on the verge of arguing because of him, Hiro's eyelid twitched.
He deliberately lowered his presence and quietly slipped toward the main door.
[Sadalmelik-Albus] activated silently.
The bright yellow sticky note Sephi had placed at the center of the door vanished instantly, returning to her Sticky Note Man.
Click.
Hiro twisted the doorknob and left without hesitation, unwilling to stay even one more second.
Why did a love triangle suddenly form when I have absolutely no relationship with Lala's sisters?
Behind him, as Lala's sisters argued, Mea and Kaede watched with interest.
Golden Darkness, however, kept her gaze fixed on Hiro as he left.
Bang.
He clearly doesn't reject Lala and the others.
Yet he isn't in a hurry to be with them either.
Lala took the initiative, but he wasn't swayed.
What a strange man.
Recalling her awkward first encounter with Hiro, how she and Lala's sisters became curious about him, secretly observed his daily life through Earth's technology, evaluated him-
And how that curiosity gradually turned into the sisters falling for him, with herself half-following along-
As for why only "half"-
Because protecting the galaxy came first.
A strange man.
Golden Darkness's eyes lost focus for a moment as the thought repeated in her mind.
The door of the Deviluke residence closed behind him.
Hiro didn't return to the neighboring castle.
Instead, he headed toward the center of Saitama Prefecture.
Earlier, while activating Observation Haki, his perception-stretching more than ten kilometers away-had picked up a very special aura.
Or perhaps "very special" was an exaggeration.
At most, it was "somewhat special."
It resembled the aura Yuuto Kiba gave off when using [Blade Blacksmith].
An aura with a very clear attribute.
After walking leisurely for several minutes, Hiro broke through a barrier and finally saw the blonde girl.
Above her head floated a silver-white "4."
Yasuko.
Lavinia.
Asia.
...Do I have too many blondes around me?
Looking at the silver-white Holy Swords scattered around and the girl's appearance, Hiro immediately recognized her.
Jeanne.
One of Cao Cao's subordinates in the Hero Faction.
Her name was simply "Jeanne."
No surname.
No "d'Arc."
Just the two characters-Jeanne-hovering above her head.
Jeanne also sensed the intrusion into her barrier.
The moment Hiro saw her, she turned to look in his direction.
Their gazes met.
Despite the hundreds of meters between them, the system's acquisition judgment triggered instantly.
Then, the very next second-
"Ding! Four-Tier Luck extraction complete. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reward: one opportunity to fuse eye-related skills."
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