Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

Jiuxiao muttered something under his breath, then received another glare from Imotek, which he brushed off with an awkward laugh.

"So, as the one who started this date... how long are you going to keep laughing?"

Miss Imotek stared at Houraiji Kushou, who was grinning at her, and began to consider whether or not to kick her again—

"Ahem... Come with me, it's been so long—we haven't had a proper date since we started dating..."

Jiuxiao took Imotek's hand and led her into the crowd.

.....

"Hmm... Imotek, what were you thinking about when you came over just now? You looked quite thoughtful..."

"If you encounter any problems in life, you can come to me, Lord Jiuxiao~ I'm best at being a mentor to confused young women—"

Jiuxiao looked at Imotek with a curious gaze as he carefully licked the candied hawthorn.

The latter seems to have grasped the most crucial point in Jiu Xiao's words—

"Who is best at being a mentor to confused young women?"

Shifting his attention from the interesting Chinese snacks in front of him, Imotek looked at Jiuxiao calmly.

"That's right, that's right."

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens, who was rampaging through the minefield in the war, nodded without realizing it, with an expression that said, "I'm an old hand, I'm very familiar with flirting."

"Then you must have flirted with quite a few girls, right..."

A somber voice rang in Jiu Xiao's ears, causing the person involved to shudder instantly.

"Gulp... It wasn't me, I didn't do it! My love for you is absolute, heaven and earth bear witness—"

"Hmph, I bet you wouldn't dare."

After glancing at the "French" Valkyrie who seemed to surrender, the girl shifted her attention back to the candied hawthorn in her hand.

"So... what were you thinking when you came here?"

"...I'm wondering what kind of existence humans really are—"

"Ah... Imotek, aren't you human yourself now?"

Jiuxiao didn't notice the other meaning behind the girl's words, but just gave his partner a strange look.

"Probably... Perhaps only I can find the answer..."

"You'll always be by my side, right?"

The white-haired girl inexplicably asked Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple a nonsensical question, causing him to pause in surprise; then, Jiuxiao, realizing what was happening, smiled—

"Of course, Your Highness~"

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Compared to the vibrant and thriving atmosphere of Sky City, the atmosphere deep within the Quantum Sea was far less pleasant.

The "gods" wandering here quietly await the activation of the Eye of the Abyss, hoping to capture that fleeting tremor from their primordial world and thus reposition their little home...

Just now, the blonde goddess's leisurely mood was shattered—she seemed to have a bad feeling that a damned cheating cat was about to cuckold her, which made her peaceful mood less pleasant once again.

The blonde girl, still feeling suffocated after finely chopping the quantum jellyfish blocking her path into mince, set her sights on a drifting world bubble—just as this innocent world bubble was about to be cruelly crushed and used as bubble wrap to relieve its pressure, two seemingly dissimilar but completely different voices sounded behind her—

"Hey, you golden retriever up ahead! Do you know how to get there?!"

A strong, energetic voice, with a distinctly bossy tone, shouted rudely at the girl who was frantically trying to seduce the world...

"Hmm...isn't that a bit too impolite?"

This was another, somewhat timid voice, seemingly worried that the former's words might have been a bit too rude—after all, that world was creaking in the blonde girl's hands...

"...?"

The blonde girl, who had been looking gloomy, turned around upon hearing the sound, and a hint of surprise and astonishment appeared on her face.

"Seele Vollerai...? Or two of them???"

The blonde girl was stunned as she looked at the two Seeles in front of her, one big and one small; the short-haired, timid girl hid behind the long-haired, strong girl carrying a scythe. The only thing they had in common was that they both had the same face. Although they were different in temperament, there was probably no doubt that they were both Seele Freya.

How do you know our names???

Da Xi'er gripped the scythe tightly in her hand warily, looking at the blonde girl in front of her with suspicion.

"Ee—do you know Seele?"

The slightly timid girl looked curiously at the blonde woman in front of her...

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Chapter 226 Let Me Give You Some Buffs

Scythes and swords clashed in the quantum sea, but the swordsman seemed uninterested in attacking, only parrying and dodging intermittently.

Even though the blonde girl hadn't attacked first, Da Xi'er's wrist was numb. Her opponent seemed to be using some special technique, making the recoil from each weapon impact even stronger, causing her arm to ache. She feared she wouldn't even be able to grip the scythe properly if she struck again...

"I'm not fighting anymore. What kind of golden-haired monster is this? What happened to the saying 'an inch longer, an inch stronger'..."

The larger Seele stuck her scythe aside and collapsed onto the ground. The smaller, short-haired Seele reappeared from behind a geometric polyhedron in a quantum sea, sizing up the blonde girl wielding a golden-orange flaming longsword.

"Phew—we've been fighting for so long, and I still don't even know your name. Hey, hey, hey—what's your name, Sword Saint?"

Long-haired Seele looked at the blonde girl in front of her who had fought without even breaking a sweat, and showed a curious expression—

"Me? I am Snow Apocalypse..."

"—The shadow of the gods on the earth, the heir to the divine mandate, the king of kings, the supreme representative of the Tree of Illusory Numbers, the sultan of sultans, the khan of khans...."

"Stop, stop—"

Da Xi'er wiped the sweat from her forehead and interrupted the girl's endless narration.

"So you are an emperor?"

"No... I am not an emperor in the traditional human sense—of course, it doesn't matter if you think I am..."

Snow gave an indifferent look and changed the subject to the two of them—

“I know you… or rather, I know you—Miss Seele Voller.”

The blonde girl looked at the smaller, short-haired Seele.

"Hey... do you know Seele? But Seele doesn't... like you..."

"Of course you don't have any impression of me... it's just a one-sided acquaintance; I know you, but you don't know me—have you heard of Bronya Zaycek?"

"..."

The topic Snow posed threw Seele into a state of profound shock...

"You know Bronya?! Is Bronya doing alright...? Is anyone still bullying her...?"

"She's alright, she's fine. She's made new friends and new family—but she's still reminiscing about the past, she's still longing for a certain girl who haunts her dreams—"

"Seele Vollerai".

“Sister Bronya..…”

The timid Seele fell silent, seemingly beginning to miss her beloved older sister again—

"So, how do we get back to a normal world? And preferably this crybaby's world? Your Majesty Snow, you must be from the same world as her, right?"

Seeing her companion, who was starting to withdraw into herself again, made Seele, with her long hair, feel a headache coming on again.

"I finally managed to convince this crybaby to come with me to find a way out—and you ruined all my efforts with just a few words! You're fully responsible for this!"

Da Xi'er glared at the golden retriever in front of her with annoyance.

"Speaking of which, could this smaller version of Bronya I'm talking about be exactly the same as a Bronya I know? Are their mothers both named Cocolia?!"

"...That's right, Cocolia...It seems you don't like this name?"

"A ruler high above, an oppressor, hmph—"

"So, what kind of person is Cocolia in this world of crybabies? And how could 'I' actually recognize her as my mother?"

Big Xi'er thought of something and looked at Snow in front of her, hoping to get an answer from her.

“Let’s place three bottles on the table first—ambition, power, and family.”

"Then take out a bottle of water and use it as attribute points to allocate to these three empty bottles. So Cocolia will have one-third of a bottle of water in each of them - in short, she's good for nothing but being the number one troublemaker."

"...Why does he seem even worse than the one I know?"

Da Xi'er smacked her lips...

"Perhaps...but now she's probably overflowing with familial affection—after all, water and bottles are things that can be poured back into each other—"

"Oh... what's wrong with Cocolia's mom?"

Upon hearing this, the short-haired Seele, who had been withdrawn, raised her head, seemingly concerned about her adoptive mother.

"Of course she'll go to jail. Illegal human experimentation, framing colleagues, and a whole bunch of other messy charges—it'll be at least a life sentence, but given her past influence among the anti-entropy radicals—it'll probably be house arrest, a punishment that restricts her from leaving the country for life."

"You can definitely see her if you want; the leader of Anti-Entropy has always been a kind-hearted person..."

"So, how do we get back to the real world? Any world will do—you don't need to eat, but I do."

After the fight, the tragic discovery that humans still need to eat made Da Xi'er somewhat exasperated as she glared at the two seemingly lively creatures in front of her—

One cries every day and doesn't need to replenish water, while the other, judging from the group of quantum creatures around her that have been chopped into mincemeat, is obviously not normal. As the only normal human among the three "people," the long-haired Da Xi'er glared at the two in front of her with an expression that seemed to say, "Do you want to starve me to death so you can inherit my big scythe?"

"You want to eat? Just take it out of the World Bubble..."

Snow looked at Big Hill with the kind of admiration one might have for rare animals. He grabbed the world bubble that hadn't yet managed to escape, rummaged through it, and pulled out a bowl of noodles, along with a few bags of potato chips.

"As for going back... we'll just wait—I don't know the coordinates of the original world, but I know someone will come looking for us—"

Snow nodded as he watched Seele, the big guy who was engrossed in slurping noodles and seemed to be about to be assimilated.

"Someone actually came looking for us? Who's so brave?"

Upon hearing this, Da Xi'er stopped talking and looked up at Snow with an expression that seemed to say, "How can there be any fools who would deliberately jump into the Sea of ​​Quanta?"

"Of course, it's her dear sister Bronya—once that gate called the Eye of the Abyss opens, I'll be able to find the coordinates of the original world..."

"Even if Miss Bronya doesn't come to pick us up, I can still send you back to the real universe."