"Are you awake, Sleeping Beauty?"
Xia Chuanhu smiled and helped her up: "Are you feeling unwell?"
"Um... uh... ah..."
K-423 opened his mouth as if to say something, but no words came out.
Haven’t you learned to speak yet?
(Otto didn't even make adjustments in this regard? It seems that in addition to raising her, I have to teach her cultural knowledge in various aspects... Tsk, it would be better if Gray or Ata were here, I'm not very good at teaching people.)
“Ah…ah…”
The little hand grabbed Xia Chuanhu's sleeve, and K-423 tilted his head cutely. An expression appeared on his round little face that made Xia Chuanhu feel warm in his heart.
He likes children very much. After all, he is a savior who has been fighting for the continuation of humanity. He has had a good impression of children who represent the future from the beginning. From the distant past to the present, he has witnessed the growth of many children and also witnessed the end of many children.
The birth of Hercules, the adventures of Perseus, and the end of Achilles.
He has witnessed a lot, and now there is a child in front of him.
"... [Bianca]."
Xia Chuanhu laughed.
"[Bianca Kaslana], from today on, this is your name. I'll have to tell Siegfried next door later, but I don't think he will object to this name."
"Then, I am your family, let's live together from now on, Bianca."
“Ah~~~Ah~~~”
Bianca, who had not yet learned to speak, called out twice and seemed to be very satisfied with the name, her eyes narrowed with a smile.
16. Kiana is the older sister and Bianca is the younger sister
As mentioned before, Xia Chuanhu has a biological daughter, but due to work reasons, he basically never took care of the child, and she was always raised by her mother.
But this doesn't mean he won't take care of children.
All those little bastards under Chiron's command were raised by him and Chiron. He knows a lot about raising children.
"Is this why you came to my house to use the kitchen and borrow Kiana's clothes?"
Siegfried's house next door.
Leaning against the door frame of the kitchen, Siegfried folded his arms across his chest and complained as he watched Xia Chuan Hu busy at the stove.
"You suddenly brought a child who looked exactly like Kiana to my house. I almost thought that Kiana ran out to play when I wasn't aware of it, and was picked up by you."
"Do I need to explain how well behaved your daughter is?"
Xia Chuanhu skillfully shook the wok a few times and kept stir-frying the fried rice over high heat.
"Besides, your kitchen is only used a few times a year, right? I know that the cooking skills of your Kaslana family have been terrible for generations."
"Gu——!"
Siegfried was suddenly speechless.
He wanted to refute, but sadly, he had no way to refute it. After all, the cooking skills of the Kaslana family seemed to be a curse for the whole clan. It was not very good from generation to generation. In the entire Kaslana family, there might not be even one hand that could cook.
If it weren't for the fact that the Kaslana family had a long history and was not short of money as one of the three royal families of destiny, and could always hire people to cook, otherwise a large family might really have starved to death.
As the head of the family, Siegfried's cooking skills were not that great either. Nine out of ten things he made were charcoal-colored. Since Cecilia left, he and Kiana had almost all of their meals out, and rarely used the kitchen at home.
"It's a shame that you, as a father, have never thought of practicing your cooking skills in the past five years. You let your precious daughter eat takeout every day. You've got it."
"No way! I will still go to Tianming's cafeteria to get my work meals! I will definitely not miss out on nutrition!" Siegfried said stubbornly, "Besides, if you want to talk about my cooking skills, you should first serve a dish that tastes good! Don't be busy for a long time and then serve something that you can't eat."
"Who are you looking down on?"
Everything else is fine, but if you say that Xia Chuanhu has a problem with cooking, he will never admit it! Even if he is an idiot, he will definitely become a god chef if he devotes himself to studying cooking for thousands of years!
"Just watch carefully from now on."
"You seem quite confident... So, the child's situation is really the same as you said?"
The relaxed look on his face disappeared, and Siegfried asked Xiachuanhu with some seriousness: "Is she really a clone created by Otto using Kiana's DNA and the DNA of the Second Herrscher?"
"Ah."
(And the person who was supposed to be your daughter.)
Memories are connected to each other. After remembering one part of the memory, if you are affected by something else, it is not impossible to remember another memory.
After bringing Bianca to Siegfried's house, Xiachuan Hu naturally recalled some of his memories - if he had not interfered, then in the original process, K-423 would have been taken away by Siegfried and Kiana, and taken over by Anti-Entropy, and Siegfried and Kiana would have continued to live under Anti-Entropy's arrangement.
But that was only an ideal situation. In the memory, Siegfried and Kiana did not wait for the response from Anti-Entropy. The pursuit force of Skyrim shot down the plane they and K-423 were on. Kiana fell from a high altitude into the snowy mountains and lost consciousness due to the impact on her head. She was finally recovered by Skyrim. After receiving treatment and waking up, she lost all her previous memories and got a new name "Bianca Atagina".
Siegfried and K-423 began to live in hiding after that. After a certain incident, Siegfried gave K-423 the name "Kiana Kaslana".
However, given the current situation, that kind of situation is no longer possible.
"Her original code name was K-423, but now she's called Bianca Kaslana. I think you're okay with that name?"
"...I'm more curious about why you gave her this name."
As the head of the Kaslana family, Siegfried has a lot of say in the family. Even if a child who looks very similar to Kiana appears out of nowhere, as long as he insists that she and Kiana are twins, the family elders will not be able to say anything.
But Siegfried intuitively felt that the name "Bianca" was not randomly chosen by Natsukawa Tiger.
"I just thought of this name at the moment - by the way, don't bother Otto because of this matter."
"...Of course I do."
Siegfried and Otto have known each other for many years, and he is well aware of how infuriating the things the latter has done are, but Siegfried also knows that he can't do anything to Otto. After all, he is not alone, and Kiana is by his side. If he does anything, Kiana will definitely be implicated.
In order for his daughter to live a safe and stable life, Siegfried could only grit his teeth and endure.
"...You got the wrong idea."
Looking at Siegfried who turned his head away, Xia Chuanhu served the fried rice, rinsed the pot a little, and poured more oil into it. "I told you not to go looking for trouble with Otto alone. If you have any trouble, you can come to me for discussion. As for the current situation, I plan to let Kiana and Bianca live together. In this way, I am unintentionally standing on the same side as you."
"Although I can't help you with everything, it's no problem for me to give you some advice or back you up."
"Natsukawa..."
Siegfried was stunned: "...Why do I feel like you are helping me for some other purpose?"
"Are you suffering from paranoia?" Xia Chuanhu rolled his eyes at him, "Come here and take the fried rice out to cool it down. Children can't eat anything too hot."
"Why should I be ordered around by you in my own home?"
Siegfried complained as he sent the fried rice away.
Just at this moment, a sound of jogging came from the second floor, and then Siegfried and Xiachuanhu saw two identical figures appear at the stairs.
"Dad! Big brother! I've helped my sister change her clothes!"
"Um... I, I'm not... my sister..."
Compared to Kiana who looked excited and lively, Bianca behind her seemed a little stage fright, with a blushing face. She also changed her clothes from simple white clothes to a fitted light yellow lace dress, which was very similar in style to the light blue dress on Kiana.
They look like a pair of little sisters.
"Well, it looks very nice, Bianca. Please, Kiana, take care of your sister." Xiachuanhu smiled, "Come to the kitchen to wash your hands and get ready for lunch."
“Okay~~~”
“I understand…”
The two little white-haired balls obediently walked to the sink.
[Let Kiana and Bianca live together, and if possible, let the two of them become a pair of sisters who have grown up together] - This is the idea proposed by Xiachuan Hu. Although he can solve all the problems in Bianca's growth process, if she is not allowed to interact with people of the same age, it will not be good for her growth.
It just so happens that Kiana has a close relationship with her, so it would be nice for the two of them to become a pair of childhood sweethearts.
Soon after that, after Xia Chuanhu cooked two more dishes, the Siegfried family had a rare normal meal on the table.
By the way, according to the evaluation of Kiana, my own daughter, after the meal—
[Big brother's cooking is better than mom's. Dad, don't cook anymore. Let big brother do it! ]
——These words directly caused tons of real damage to Siegfried.
17. Do you think your face looks like a father’s?
Two days passed quickly since Xia Chuanhu adopted Bianca.
Thanks to the care of the Siegfried family next door, food, clothing, housing and transportation are basically no problem. In addition, Bianca is actually 7 years old now, so she doesn't need to be fed or anything. And perhaps because of the protection, she has a strong learning ability. Basically, she can learn a lot of things as long as she is told once.
If only those bastards I had led in the past could be so worry-free - Xia Chuanhu really wanted to sigh.
Now, on the third day after adopting Bianca, Xia Chuanhu finally got the "ID" that Otto had mentioned before. Although for Xia Chuanhu, ID was not necessary at all, with his ability, he could freely go anywhere in the world without ID, and various situations that required ID were not a problem at all.
But for Bianca's sake, it would be better to get one. He didn't want his adopted daughter to become an illegal resident.
however--
"It's called... Amber, right?"
In the living room of Xiachuan's house, after looking through the identity documents in his hand, Xiachuan Hu frowned slightly and said to the white-haired girl sitting in front of him: "Can you please explain why the relationship between Bianca and I is [brother and sister]? Shouldn't it be [father and daughter]?"
"Regarding this point...it was actually decided by the Bishop after careful consideration."
Otto's personal secretary Amber replied.
"The bishop's original words were, 'Your appearance is too inappropriate to be your father.'"
“…Is there?”
Xia Chuanhu took out a mirror from somewhere and looked at himself - the man in the mirror was the same as always. Even though so many years had passed, his face was still as handsome and charming as when he was young.
This is not a boast, but a fact.
Back when he was a self-defense teacher in the Clock Tower, he had easily defeated Weber and was rated by the Clock Tower female students as "the man they most wanted to have sex with". In addition, with his connections in the Minerals, Plants, Spiritualism, Astronomy and Modern Magic departments, the number of female magicians who wanted to have a one-night stand with him could be lined up from the Clock Tower to the Atlas Academy.
Oh, there were male magicians as well, but they were all secretly killed by the two monarchs of the plant and astronomy departments.
"...So, my face is inappropriate for being a dad?"
After looking at it for a while, Xia Chuanhu asked unconsciously, "I think my facial features are quite regular, or am I the ugly type according to the standards of this world?"
"No, I don't think so."
Even from Amber's perspective, Natsukawa Tora was so handsome that it seemed unreal. His smile was pleasing to the eye, and it soothed Amber's slightly tired heart, which was caused by handling official business for Otto. She felt a lot more relaxed.
But...this face is really not suitable for being a father!
"Excuse me, Mr. Xiachuan, your appearance and age... are too young by [father's] standards. No one would think that a young boy of no more than 20 years old would be a father."
"what......"
20-year-old father.
Even if we look at the entire human history, this can be considered a very explosive situation. Although it is far inferior to the British man who had a child at the age of 12, but the fact that he is a 20-year-old father...it is really not convincing to say it out loud, not to mention considering Xiachuan Hu's appearance.
Who would believe that such a teenager who had barely graduated from high school was the father?
"So we have set the relationship between you and Lady Bianca as [Girls and Brothers], please understand. In addition, the same applies to your subsequent work arrangements."
“…That’s what I want to ask as well.”
Xia Chuanhu looked at another message: "[Instructor of the Destiny Valkyrie Preparatory School]? How come I didn't know that I had this additional identity? Was this also arranged by Otto?"
Amber nodded. "This is just a superficial measure taken by the Bishop to reasonably allocate funds for your activities. In Tianming, every use of funds has a [name]. After all, Tianming is still in the revival period, and every fund is very important."
"Even if it's about the training experiment of Lady Bianca, it's nominally [Research and Analysis of the Remains of the Second Herrscher]."
(Which is to say, even if you want to give me money, you have to find a reason.)
"By the way, the bishop also said that if you need, we can also arrange for Lady Bianca to enroll."
"Enrollment?"
"The Sky Mandate Headquarters has complete educational facilities. In addition to the Apokalis family, the children of the Shaniat family and the Kaslana family must go to school after they reach the school age according to the regulations." Amber explained, "For example, Lady Kiana is studying in school now."
(I see.)
Xiachuanhu probably understood Otto's thoughts.
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