Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

Shen Liang completely lost his composure. The ladies of the Fool Clan were enthusiastic, open, and graceful, but after all, they were just casual acquaintances enjoying a moment of pleasure. It wouldn't be good if someone died, and Shen Liang didn't want dozens of girls from the Winter Kingdom to become single mothers. So, bringing this thing from Earth had become a habit for him, even though it displeased many of the sorcerer ladies.

The older ladies never let him use it, it seems that the average age of the ladies in the Hidden Mirror is over thirty. The fools who reach this age no longer expect to settle down and start a family, so it doesn't matter if they become single mothers.

However, although Shen Liang had already decided that he was a scumbag and a player... he still wanted him to explain his reasons clearly...

He dare not.

He felt a little guilty for not telling anyone, but he felt that Cecilia and Maria would kill him if he did.

Eh?

—Why wasn't he killed by Kiana, but by his elders?

Shen Liang kept a straight face and, under the suspicious gazes of Xilin and Kiana, quickly picked up the small cube and put it away. Then he hurriedly ran towards the departing main group.

Kiana let out a long breath, composed herself, and helped her limping sister continue forward.

"As expected, he's been exposed. This kid doesn't look like him. He's not some innocent and harmless pretty boy." Sirin felt much more comfortable in her soft shoes. Her mood was a bit complicated, so she whispered in Kiana's ear, "My silly little sister, you might not be able to outsmart him."

Kiana shrugged. "Do you care? Do I care?"

"You don't care?" Xilin turned to look at her, a half-smile on her face.

"What do I care how many female confidantes my landlord has? Rather, my junior brother's aesthetic standards, honed by his group of cute little sisters, are higher than mine. Anyone who catches his eye must be a top-tier beauty." Kiana pouted. "Sis, you forgot, I'm no pushover either. My junior brother... he's just one of my many admirers. In fact, the more suitors he attracts—like that Rita, whose gaze I find strange—the more... hehe, men conquer the world, can't I conquer the world by conquering men?"

She smiled wickedly.

Xilin smiled silently, as if praising her sister's clever logic.

Not far from them, a cool-looking girl, also dressed in a light tennis outfit and wearing a baseball cap, watched them, then looked at Shen Liang's back, lost in thought.

She also noticed the small square piece falling to the ground. Anna Shaniat's pink eyes sparkled, and knowing Shen Liang's true nature, she secretly made up her mind.

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After the 100-kilometer weighted run training session ended, on the wide platform at the top of the mountain, the Shaniat girls, dressed in various sportswear, were all slumped over, exhausted.

Even without using Honkai energy, their physical abilities, enhanced by Honkai energy over the years, are far beyond those of ordinary people, but this is still a 100-kilometer run with added weight.

The training of soldiers in most countries in the world is difficult to reach this level. To give a simple comparison, the International Special Forces Competition will give four days and three nights for a 200-kilometer weighted run, while Maria only gave ten hours for a 100-kilometer weighted run.

"My feet are blistered, Lady Maria..."

"Ouch, that hurts..."

"The clothes I chose this morning were wrong, and now they're chafing me all over, sob sob."

"Can someone give me a bottle of water? I finished mine halfway through, and I'm so thirsty."

The girls complained bitterly, and Shen Liang forced himself to walk past their mournful eyes.

[Even though Maria was the one torturing them, they complained about their boss. Humans are just such cowardly creatures.]

【really. 】

Maria watched the wailing with satisfaction, nodded, and then cracked her whip across the ground with a loud sonic boom. Frowning, she shouted, "What has become of the Shaniat family all these years! Weak! Incompetent! Do you all really think you're some kind of pampered princess? Have you forgotten that we are the strongest warriors on the supernatural side? How will you protect humanity in the future if you continue like this!"

"Humanity won't go extinct in my generation... I've been on missions for so many years and I haven't even seen a single Honkai Beast." Perhaps they're so exhausted that they don't care anymore, so some people are now daring to complain.

"That's right, and besides, we're the Saintess family, what kind of warriors are we... This should be the family motto of the Kaslana family, the knight family."

Indeed, the cataclysmic collapse of this era's civilization has not yet truly arrived. Some minor collapse events can be resolved with the intervention of S-class officials, far from the terrifying crisis of previous civilizations. In fact, it could be said that most of the current civilization's collapse crises are actually unexpected consequences of the excavation of previous civilizations, such as the Siberian War... and the Aisha incident a couple of months ago.

“Indulging in comfort and lacking ambition, you 90s and 00s generation are hopeless.” Maria sneered, then glanced at Shen Liang, “Pandora, give them a good dressing down.”

Her tone wasn't very polite; it was more like an order.

"Okay, Mom."

But Shen Liang could only helplessly get up and brush off the dust. He didn't dislike Maria's tone; in fact, this direct, commanding tone felt more approachable. Even though Maria had a fiery temper, she rarely spoke to outsiders like that. Her subconscious tone was more like…

A mother instructing her son to do things.

Chapter 218 Night Owl, Raven

Shen Liang drank a few sips of water, then dragged his tired body to clean up the accumulated injuries from the excessive exercise of each of the girls.

"Ooh... Junior Brother's hands feel so good..."

"Junior brother, junior brother, here, here, let me touch it too, I'm injured too, yes, right here, here on my chest!"

"Do you want me to take off my clothes? Do you want me to take off my clothes?"

"But I'm not wearing anything underneath..."

"Enough, you lot! Are you doing this on purpose? Pandora, go heal the others. I'll beat these sluts to a pulp!"

"Hey, no! I'm seriously injured! Look, I'm bleeding!"

"I told you this was a marathon, who can you blame for not wearing breast pads! Besides, didn't Pandora cure you?"

"But it still hurts and feels so swollen! Nailer, your breasts are so small, you can't possibly understand my pain!"

"Get out of here, stop acting crazy!"

The girls were making a lot of noise, but Shen Liang cleared her mind and pretended not to hear anything.

He was used to it; this was how it was in a world where women made up the majority of the population. As a young man in this environment, he could only be the one being joked about and teased. It was a very strange realm. If there was one woman among a group of men, no one would joke about her because it always felt ungentlemanly and like being a pervert.

When there is a boy among a group of girls, the girls will not behave as ladylike as they would like... When women gather in large enough numbers, they are even more shameless than men. They are true social animals, and the boundaries of their conversations increase exponentially with the number of people.

However, Shen Liang had experienced this kind of life since he was a child, so he had plenty of experience with it and simply turned a deaf ear to it.

Then he walked up to two pretty girls in tennis outfits. These were the last two. He took their wrists and used the Transformation Moon to cleanse them of their fatigue and injuries.

One of the girls was Anna, a cool and aloof girl with long chestnut hair and pink eyes, whom he knew well. The other was a typical European beauty with light blonde hair styled in a Rococo-style princess bun, somewhat timid and unassuming; he didn't recognize her.

After Hua Haiyue roamed over their bodies, Anna and the blonde girl almost let out soft moans of pleasure, but thankfully they both realized what was happening and immediately covered their mouths.

"I did a quick check, there were no external injuries, the repair is complete." Shen Liang withdrew his hand, somewhat impressed.

He felt he had been unfair to Earthlings and Teyvats. The girls of the Shaniat family had only known him for a few days, and he didn't even know the names of most of them, yet they could still enjoy his Transformation of the Sea Moon without any cost.

On the island of Haiqi, those fools who know of Huahaiyue's existence and want to use him to heal their old wounds often have to pay millions of Mora or do everything in their power to win his favor.

Differential treatment, huh?

“Thank you, Pandora,” Anna said with a smile.

The other girl quickly lowered her head and whispered, "Thank you, Pandora."

Small?

Shen Liang was somewhat surprised. The nickname "Little Pandora" was usually reserved for older people like Cecilia, who were at least seven or eight years older than him. This blonde girl, however, looked to be about the same age as Anna, around twenty.

"And who is this?" Shen Liang asked Anna.

“Her? Angela Shaniat, she’s my best friend. Hmm… in the family, she’s a bit older than you and me. She’s your mother Maria’s cousin,” Anna said. “By lineage, you should call her Auntie, but from a collateral branch, of course. Even if you really were Maria’s child, your blood relation to her is so distant that you could get married.”

Angelia's face immediately turned red, and she tugged at Anna's miniskirt, "Anna!"

"Auntie?" Shen Liang was somewhat helpless, but also relieved.

Although Angelia was quite young and already his elder, the Shaniat family was full of good-looking people, and even his elders didn't look old. Cecilia looked to be in her early twenties, and Maria looked to be in her early twenties, not much different from Anna and Angelia.

So it's quite easy to accept.

"How many aunts do I have?" Shen Liang asked.

Anna thought for a moment, "That depends on how many cousins ​​Lady Maria has. Hmm, one is Miss Cecilia, my second aunt. And another one..."

She hesitated for a moment, "There's another one who's technically Cecilia's god-sister. You and the eldest and second young ladies all have to call her 'Auntie,' and you should be quite familiar with her in Japan."

Shen Liang guessed it, "The headmistress of St. Freya Academy, Theresa Apocalypse?"

"Correct."

Shen Liang had a hunch; it was probably a kind old woman. Cecilia was actually over forty, and Theresa, who was said to be a decade or so older than Cecilia, was already considered an "old woman." Although the Valkyrie possessed the art of preserving her youth, just look at Kiana. Kiana's first reaction after escaping her family was to seek refuge with her aunt—it was like a runaway granddaughter going to her maternal grandmother.

Theresa is also a school principal, a position that inevitably requires authority and hard work; she cannot be portrayed as a young beauty, as that would not be conducive to establishing the authority of an educator.

After much thought, an image of an elderly woman who was dignified when teaching but kind and loving towards the younger generation formed in his mind.

“However, even with these kinship ties, you still have to be selective about how you address her,” Anna said with a light laugh. “For example, if you call Miss Cecilia ‘Aunt’ or ‘Sir’ by Pandora, she will definitely be very unhappy and stop you. Miss Cecilia seems to think that treating her like an elder would make her seem old.”

“My cousin is the most beautiful woman in the family, of course she’s still young,” Angelia whispered. “Then what are we?”

Shen Liang couldn't help but laugh. Yes, Cecilia's saintly beauty was enough to win the hearts of all the little princesses in the Saintess lineage. If she was considered an old lady, then the young girls of the Shaniat family wouldn't dare to call themselves beautiful girls.

At this moment, Anna asked softly, "Um... Pandora, you haven't been bullied these past few days while you've been with Lady Maria, have you?"

Angela looked over as well.

Shen Liang scratched his head. "Mom isn't the kind of person who would use underhanded tactics to exclude others. Although we don't get along very well, it's just that we're not very familiar with each other."

“Of course Cousin Maria wouldn’t use underhanded tactics to exclude people; she always excludes them openly and directly,” Angelia whispered.

“No, Mom…” Shen Liang was still a little unaccustomed to calling someone “Mom” repeatedly, but she still said, “We are gradually building a real relationship. There is still some distance between us, but that’s normal. After all, I’m a stranger to her.”

“That’s normal.” Anna nodded. “Even if you were biological mother and son, it wouldn’t be easier to build a relationship after not seeing each other for more than ten years.”

"I see."

“However, Little Pandora has a significant advantage,” Angelia said cautiously, her emerald green eyes gazing at him. “My cousin is actually quite lonely. She’s always away on missions, only returning when my cousin Cecilia is in trouble, just to alleviate her loneliness through work. With you by her side, even though she may verbally resist, she’s probably still somewhat happy. After all, she’s a high-ranking S-class Valkyrie with few friends and no lover. Even many in her family think she has a volatile and difficult personality. Little Pandora is quite adorable; perhaps in her eyes, you are a little angel sent to her by God.”

Shen Liang clicked his tongue, savoring the thought: "Forget about 'little angel,' that's too cheesy to say."