Ark, I got cold a little early

Before she had the Deep Sea Hunter surgery, Gladia had the same hair color as her mother, right? That's right, right? Huh?

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Chapter 38 Hongyu: I met a swordfish family, she wants to go home with me

"My name... is it strange?" Gloria was surprised by Hongyu's boastful behavior.

"Ah, no, no, no, I choked myself." Hongyu waved his hands quickly, indicating that it was his own problem.

"So...were you forced by your mother?" He then asked tentatively.

"Well, I just had a fight with her, and now I'm at a stage where I don't want to have anything to do with her, so I ran away." Perhaps Hongyu's question touched upon Gloria's current situation, and she couldn't help but say a few more words to Hongyu.

Oh, so he ran away from home.

Why are you talking in such a roundabout way?

But after saying this, Gloria looked a little regretful. She looked at Hongyu, as if she was struggling with whether to just leave.

"Since you are running away from home..." Hongyu said slowly,

Is this another smartass who's going to call the Maritime Administration and ask me to go home...

When Gloria heard the first half of Hongyu's words, she was about to turn around and leave, but the second half of Hongyu's words made her stop.

"If you really don't want to go home, would you like to stay at my place for one night?"

There was silence for a moment.

Gloria: Cold eyes, take out the terminal and prepare to call the police.

Hongyu's condition gradually worsened, and he hurriedly explained, "Wait! Wait! I actually already have a girl at home who is younger than you."

Gladia: ...The call is being made...

Hongyu explained that in his own opinion, "I have my family at home, I don't live alone, and the child is a girl, so you don't have to worry."

When these words reached Goladia's ears, they gradually turned into "What?! Has a girl already fallen victim to this pervert?!"

"Wait a minute! You must have misunderstood something, right?!" Hongyu was still trying to explain...

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In the end, Gloria followed Hongyu to the door of the sculpture shop he rented.

As for the reason why Gladia came here...

Perhaps out of confidence in her own strength, seeing Hongyu looking so weak, Gloria thought that if Hongyu really had any ill intentions, she could use her absolute strength to send Hongyu to jail and spend the rest of his life.

Or maybe it was because he really didn't want to go home and face his mother's face, a face he didn't even want to think about. He had left home in such a hurry that he didn't bring enough money to book a room, and he really didn't want to sleep outdoors...

Or find a more outrageous reason, that he came to rescue the girl who had been "harmed" by Hongyu?

Okay, this is a bit outrageous. What if they are just ordinary family members?

With all the above thoughts in mind, Gloria followed Hongyu until Hongyu opened the door of the sculpture shop.

"feather!"

As soon as Hongyu opened the door, a white figure rushed over and threw himself into his arms at an extremely fast speed.

"You're finally back..." Skadi hugged Hongyu's waist with a relieved expression on her face.

"Ah... well, I'm back." Hongyu touched Skadi's head, but his eyes glanced at the white killer whale pillow he made on the counter at the main entrance.

The white killer whale pillow was lying on the counter, with a note with "Er Yu" written on its forehead. Its wise eyes emitted the same strange light that made the 2019 college entrance examination candidates collapse.

"But, Skadi, can you explain to me what the 'Eryu' on the counter is?" Hongyu gently pinched Skadi's fair and tender face and pointed his finger at the counter.

"Well..." Skadi raised her head slightly with a proud expression, "I ordered it to watch the store after you left!"

Hongyu: If there were no customers when I was away, but people came as soon as I left... I would start to wonder if it was because of me that no one cared about me...

"Then, Yu, who is that person standing at the door?" Skadi looked at Gloria, who was standing at the door and interacting with Skadi suspiciously, and asked in a low voice.

"Is this the guest you brought here?"

Hongyu was speechless for a moment.

How should I put it... Your dad and I went out to investigate the enemy situation in the same industry, but found that our family's job was so unpopular that there was no colleague in the same industry, so I was so sad that I went to the park and brought back a JK to stay?

Isn't the author afraid that writing such an experience in such a concise way will be too ooc and may lead to criticism from readers?

However, although Hongyu has always regarded himself as Skadi's father in his heart, in reality he has never corrected the way Skadi calls him. Perhaps in her eyes, his identity is just "brother" or "friend" or... nothing more.

"Um..." Hongyu hesitated for a moment, then said in the most euphemistic way he thought Skadi could accept: "This is your roommate who will live here from now on..."

Skadi: "Huh?"

Yuta kidnapped a high school student!!!

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"You still have that killer whale pillow, Skadi." In the hotel on land, Ishamara found the white killer whale pillow in Skadi's luggage and was a little surprised.

"These must be things from more than 20 years ago..."

"Don't move." Skadi reached out and grabbed the pillow, holding it in her arms with a nostalgic look on her face.

Seeing how cherished Skadi was, Ishamara couldn't help but say in a teasing tone, "Hmm... I remember you called this pillow 'Eryu' when you were a kid, right? You're not using it as a substitute for Hongyu, are you?"

Skadi: Stunned, her face gradually turning red.

"Oh, oh, no... You can't sleep without hugging this pillow now? Just like you couldn't sleep without hugging Yu before... It hurts!!" Isamara's tone gradually became cheerful, and then she was punished by Skadi's "Three Hundred Thousand Horsepower Whale Killing Fist".

"Don't talk too much..." Skadi's face flushed slightly, while Isamara sat on the edge of the bed with a smoking bump on her head, looking like she wanted to cry but had no tears.

"Skadi~~~You don't love me anymore~~~" she cried, and then received a reply from Skadi.

"Quiet and go to sleep." Skadi threw a pillow and hit Isamara in the face, interrupting her show.

"Okay." Ishamara curled her lips helplessly, then asked, "I also want to sleep with that white 'Eryu', Skadi~ How about letting me hold her for the whole night?"

Skadi: Stare—

There is murderous intent!

Ishamara decisively covered herself with the quilt and poked her head out. "I told you to go to bed. It's already this late and you're still fussing about pillows. Turn off the lights! Go to bed!"

This scumbag god...

I don't know who I learned this from...

Helplessly, Skadi held "Eryu" in her arms and turned off the lights.

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Chapter 39 Hongyu: I am happy to do so. Gloria: Yes, I am happy to do so.

"That kid has been looking at me with hostility for several days. Is there really no problem?"

In the morning, Gloria found Hongyu who was sculpting and explained to him Skadi's recent inexplicable hostility towards her.

When Hongyu heard Gloria's question, he was stunned for a moment, because in his impression, Skadi always had an expression without any particularly obvious emotional fluctuations.

Since Gloria came to the sculpture shop a few days ago, Hongyu really didn't notice any situation where Skadi looked at Gloria with hostility.

"Don't worry about it. Maybe it's just the instinct of the Agor cub when facing the invasion of its territory?" Hongyu said not to worry.

"Is... is that so?" Gloria raised her eyebrows. Although Hongyu said so, she always felt that the girl named Skadi seemed to be wary of her getting close to Hongyu, as if... she was afraid that she would take Hongyu away?

"Well, don't worry about it. We just need to spend a few more days together." Hongyu waved at Gloria, signaling her not to disturb his sculpture.

"Spend a few more days together?" Gloria frowned slightly. "Speaking of which...why did you invite me to live here?"

I have been living here for a few days, but I still can't see any intention from him.

Is he after her beauty?

This can be ruled out for now. Not to mention that I have never seen even the slightest greed in his eyes, nor have I ever seen even the slightest emotional fluctuation in him. It seems as if he has no ability to feel emotions at all, and all his performances are just his acting.

What's more, there is a little girl named Skadi by his side, whose face almost has "You thieving cat, get away" written on it. Although this little girl is young now, it is not difficult to tell from her current appearance that she will definitely be a top-notch beauty in the future.

This little girl cares so much about that man, and if the man is really that kind of scum, it is impossible for him not to instill some wrong ideas into such a little girl.

But as of now, little Skadi is doing fine, and the way they get along is also a normal father-daughter relationship.

The warm atmosphere of their daily playfulness would occasionally make Gloria diss her mother in her heart for only caring about honor.

As for his greed for his own money...

That was even more impossible. Not to mention that he hadn't received a penny so far, he didn't have much money on him. Perhaps the pitiful amount of money he had on him couldn't even buy a sculpture in his shop.

"Hmm..." Hongyu was also stumped by Gloria's question.

I can't say that you are a key character in the plot, and I deliberately invited you to live in my house like a stupid pervert to improve your favorability, right?

That explanation is a bit too crude...

"Just think of me as a pushover." Hongyu turned his head and looked directly at Gloria. "I'm just an incurable pushover. I want to help you simply because—I'm happy to do so."

"Just simply... willingly?" Gloria was a little surprised by Hongyu's answer. "Is it that simple?"

"Of course. Have you ever heard the saying, 'Money can't buy my happiness?'"

"..." Goletia was silent for a moment, then she walked over to Hongyu, looked at his profile as he worked diligently on the sculpture, and asked, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Don't be like Skadi, who makes things worse every now and then. Just sit there." Hongyu refused decisively. Last time, he had just finished a sculpture, but Skadi destroyed it under the pretext of helping him...

From then on, he never accepted Skadi's help again, and he just threw a small killer whale object to divert Skadi's attention so that she would no longer focus on her work.

"Or maybe when you become rich, just don't forget me, an old man who runs a sculpture shop in Agor."

"Old man?" Gloria laughed. "You don't look like an old man at all. Honestly, when you showed me that adoption certificate, I didn't really believe it."

"What? Don't I look like a divorced single dad with a child?" Hongyu said jokingly.

"Not like that. He looks more like a street thug who left home to work before graduating from high school. At most, he's just a decent-looking thug." Gloria teased Hongyu for pretending to be old despite having a young face.

"..."

Don’t you know that I’m at least several hundred years old?

However, Hongyu's previous words had clearly piqued Goletia's desire to challenge him. She retorted dissatisfiedly, "And how do you know I'm definitely not good at sculpture? I'm not that silly little girl..."

"Oh, yes, yes, I'm just a bad boy who didn't finish high school and is still in his rebellious period, while you are already a mature girl who runs away from home..." Hongyu responded casually.

"..."

"But then again, you've been away from home for so long, doesn't your mother care about your safety?" When Gloria was about to blush at Hongyu's words, Hongyu changed the subject.

"Oh, maybe. Maybe even if I die outside, she will just think that I deserved it because I overestimated my abilities?" Gloria said hatefully.

"Well... in that case, you won't go to school anymore?" Hongyu realized that he shouldn't change the subject in this way and hurriedly changed the subject again.

"I dropped out of school the day I ran away from home. I only took that book because I didn't want to forget the knowledge I had gained by sacrificing so much of my precious time." Gloria said casually.

Hongyu: Oh my god, did I say something wrong again?

"Isn't this... a bit inappropriate?" Hongyu's tone suddenly softened.

"How can it be bad?" Gloria laughed, then said, "Just like you said, 'Money can't buy my willingness.' I'm happy with this. Since I think that school can't accommodate me, there are certainly other schools that have a place for me."

"I've already found a school and submitted my resume. I'm just waiting for their acceptance letter." Gloria confidently lifted her blonde hair.

"..." Hongyu was silent for a moment, then nodded as if accepting his fate. "Okay, as long as you can make a good plan for your life."

"And... you're confident, which is good."