About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"So, what did Lord Kelsey say? When will I be able to have a grandchild—"

"dad!!"

This time it was Frost Star who was sitting in the co-pilot seat. Snow Rabbit moved half of his head out from the co-pilot seat. His eyes met the Patriot's without any fear and he interrupted the other person's words directly.

If the patriot's eyes can remind people of the surging steel torrent of Ursus, then the eyes of Frost Star are the eternal stormy and snowy night.

"...I understand, Yelena. But you're not a child anymore. It's better to deal with this kind of thing as soon as possible—"

"Old stubborn!"

"Well……"

It was obvious that the Patriot wanted to say something, but after seeing Froststar get angry for the second time and change the way he addressed himself, the invincible Patriot chose to hold it back.

"Really... We're not going on a picnic. Even if you want to chat, at least find something we can discuss in front of everyone..."

After confirming that the stubborn old Patriot had given in, Frost Star sighed, and a hint of shyness appeared on her fair cheeks because of the farce just now.

"—"

After Froststar retracted her head, Patriot turned her gaze to Orson in the driver's seat. The look in her eyes clearly meant "You haven't replied to me yet."

"Haha... Doctor Kel'tsit has been busy with various diplomatic and surgical matters lately and doesn't have time to come."

Orson could only sigh and respond to the Patriot.

Of course, judging by Green Cat Head's current situation...if she could truly develop a drug that could 'overcome and improve the Chimera's inability to inherit DNA', the first experimenter would definitely use it on herself...

Orson remembered the night when Kal'tsit and he were in the hot spring in Xiosta.

Orson not only touched Kal'tsit's softest heart, but also touched her softest chest, and even touched her softest inside - cough cough cough.

In short, after that incident, the relationship between Kal'tsit and myself has changed slightly. The most obvious change is that I have fewer physical examinations than before.

Before she completely revealed her inner thoughts, Kal'tsit had always used "physical examination" as an excuse to create a world where only she and Orson could be alone together, and she could also touch Orson's body in this way.

However, after the "hot spring incident", the old lynx finally stopped making up various excuses for physical examinations as hypocritically as before.

Now when Orson is working in Rhodes Island, he often sees Kal'tsit holding two cups of coffee, looking for herself calmly and happily.

Although many concerning "rumors" naturally spread within Rhodes Island because of Kal'tsit's actions, Kal'tsit became much less concerned about these "rumors" after realizing that her "relationship" with Orson was not something to be ashamed of.

Of course, when Kal'tsit went to the cafeteria to eat, Warfarin suddenly came over mysteriously, and asked with a sinister smile if the old lynx needed to learn a few more moves. In this situation, Kal'tsit would still blush. By the way, Warfarin was sent to the Bridge University for further studies.

...Then afterwards secretly asked Huafalin what positions she knew.

"It is indeed reassuring to hear about the current state of our allies—but how about we talk about something else now, Orson—Lord Bodracas?"

Also sitting in the back seat of the armored vehicle, the Reunion Movement's 'founder', 'leader', and the red dragon Tallulah, who already possessed the aura of a monarch, coughed twice, her tone subtly displeased.

"Ah, sorry, Tallulah. I was chatting with my father and Orson, and I accidentally forgot about you. That's really a dereliction of duty. You're our leader, right, Orson~?"

After hearing what Tallulah said, Froststar pressed on and used this conversation to highlight that she, the Patriot, and Orson had already formed a qualified "family."

"...Do you need anything, Froststar?"

Talulah raised her eyebrows and looked at Yukito beside her. The two of them kept their eyes fixed on each other. If this scene was seen by her younger brother, the rumor that "the Reunion Movement is going to split up and start a civil war" would probably spread directly the next day.

"Hehe... naive rabbit, you have a confident look on your face. Do you think you're fighting on your side with only two people, while Tallulah is fighting alone? Don't forget my presence. Compared to that stubborn old man, I can definitely play a greater role."

A female voice with the same voice as Tallulah, but with a more mature and 'cold' tone, rang out around everyone.

Then, in the empty space at the back of the armored vehicle, another 'Tallulah' slowly emerged. However, unlike the Tallulah who was dressed in a combat-oriented Ursus uniform, this 'Tallulah' who appeared later was wearing a dress that was completely unsuitable for combat.

"blacksnake……!"

Frost Star was suddenly startled, and at the same time realized the true identity of Tallulah who suddenly appeared.

Just as this "feminine Tallulah" said, he had always ignored her existence. In fact, Tallulah was not fighting alone. In her consciousness, there was still a "curse" that once entrenched in Ursus - the undead black snake.

Of course, by now, the old snake's venom and teeth had been completely extracted. Frost Star probably wouldn't be surprised if Black Snake suddenly said, "I actually want to pursue Orsen, too."

...No, if I really said it, I'd probably still be shocked.

Back in the Reunion Movement, Frost Star occasionally heard some gossip, which roughly said, "Sometimes you can hear Tallulah talking to herself in her room."

The content includes but is not limited to words like "Don't just stand there laughing, help me think of some ideas", "The plot of running into someone with a piece of bread in your mouth is too old!", "Let you do it yourself!", "You won't...well, what am I thinking about?", "Don't scare me!" and so on.

For most people who didn't know the existence of the black snake, they all thought that Tallulah was accompanying Orson to perform crosstalk.

But for Frost Star, the content of this conversation is very interesting...

I heard that Black Snake could only be alone with Orson in the conscious world for a long time. Could it be... No, it shouldn't be that case, right?

Froststar once complained that their competitors were really comprehensive. In the Integration Movement alone, there was a deer and a dragon, there was an M3 in Rhodes Island next door, there was a bear in Che City, there were a bunch of horses in Casimir, and Lungmen had everything from dragons to dogs and angels. Recently, even those swimming in the sea seemed to have emerged.

If even something like "ghost" joins the battlefield, then the matching environment will be too bad.

"Just treat Black Snake's words as lies. However, I do agree with one thing: thinking victory is certain so early on, isn't it a bit too hasty for you, the leader of the Yeti Squad?"

Tallulah smiled faintly, and the two leaders exchanged glances once again, beginning the second round of momentum confrontation.

"You're so sad to hear that, my daughter. Have you forgotten? I've researched a special outfit for you to wear in the final battle against Orson—Go ahead, Tallulah, give them the whole job... It hurts!"

With a thud, the black snake's head was hit by Tallulah like a raw egg. Tallulah and Orson were the only ones who could perform a physical attack on the black snake.

"So, I absolutely will not wear that ridiculous sexy outfit of yours!!"

[Then I will transform myself into Orson——]

"Go to hell, Black Snake."

Although I don’t know what kind of earth-shattering style the erotic underwear that Black Snake mentioned is, judging from the fact that Tallulah’s face turned red instantly and her palms rubbed out fire snakes, it must be very exciting.

"Don't start the car suddenly!?"

Orson, who was driving, suddenly realized that his car was about to explode and hurriedly turned back to stop the group.

"Don't worry, Orson. Stopping the out-of-control dragon is what Snow White should do."

Seeing that Tallulah looked like she was about to burst into flames, Frost Star also stretched out her right hand, and the palm of her hand emanated an air a hundred times colder than that of the harsh winter.

"Don't get caught in a sudden blizzard in the car! The antifreeze will freeze!"

Orson was in tears. It was a rare opportunity for everyone to go out together on this operation, but it turned out to be such a situation where everyone was left dead in the wilderness due to internal strife. This made Orson completely numb.

"Hiss... I feel like... the Reunion Movement, hiss—is different from what we heard in the intelligence, hiss..."

At this moment, there are not only two leaders who are ready to replicate the battle between Naruto and Sasuke in the rear, but also an inner guard who is wearing a mask, breathing heavily, and has no idea where to hide.

"You'll get used to it... Inner Guard, uh, Miss. Right, Froststar Tallulah?"

Orson gave a wry smile and said to the young lady from the inner guard who was traveling with the armored vehicle and whose identity was "the emperor's spy" (probably), then he looked at the two gods, hoping that they would show mercy.

"You have no right to intervene, Orson!" "That is to say, don't think you can get away with it like this. What were you doing in Syracuse before?"

Although Orson's intervention temporarily avoided the steam explosion caused by the combination of fire and ice, it also caused him to be targeted by the two men.

"Uh... Syracuse? I was just there to, uh... take care of some business. You know, those sea monsters that have been popping up lately."

Orson realized that something was wrong and immediately turned his gaze back to the front windshield, but Froststar and Tallulah had already come over and continued to question him, and even the Patriot in the co-pilot seat had a red light in his eyes.

As a close friend who often sleeps in the same bed (?) with his father-in-law, Orson knew very well that the light was the same annihilation mode of the T800.

"I see. It's strange to just deal with it—then why did the members sent by the Syracuse gang a few days ago call you 'brother-in-law' when they met? Can you explain?"

"It's just a habit, actually! The Syracuse gangs are used to calling Texas and Lappland 'big sisters' in private, so I... Oops^q^"

Orson, who was eager to distance himself from the matter, suddenly realized after some explanation that it seemed as if he had shoveled the soil into his own grave with his own hands.

“I knew it—!” “Orson…!!” [Young man, don’t be so impulsive!] “… (He didn’t say anything, but took out his halberd)”

Faced with four people getting angry at the same time, Orson just smiled calmly, and then slowly stopped the armored vehicle for the sake of safe driving.

"Can I explain it again?"

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——Hiss… I want to go home, huh… It’s so scary here…hiss… Junjun, help me…

Sitting in the armored vehicle, the internal security guard looked at the man-made natural disaster scene not far away, which he was not sure whether it could be classified as "domestic violence", and whispered for help in his heart.

04. Ursus Wasteland (Part )

On the icy wasteland at the northernmost tip of Ursus, an off-road vehicle sped across the deserted snow. Judging from the marks on the armored vehicle, it seemed that some fierce battle had taken place in the vehicle. At least it was covered with burns, frostbite and spear-like cracks.

"We're here, this should be the place."

The leaders of the Reunion Movement got off the armored vehicles one after another. The leading black-haired young man, Orson, had a bruised face and nose for some reason, but he didn't pay attention to these details. Instead, he shielded his hands from the wind and snow, staring at the frozen wasteland not far away.

"Hiss—according to the intelligence, those things you mentioned, hiss... are probably around here."

A masked man in a black robe and wearing a very strange outfit was talking to Orson while making a "shashasha" sound.

She is the emperor's sharp sword, just a legend to most people, but a nightmare to a few.

In fact, it was this sharp blade and the information she carried that allowed the group to leave the Reunion Movement base around Qie City and arrive in this area.

"Captain! Orson, Tallulah, Big Sister—you're here."

It would be wrong to say that this gathering place was deserted. It was obvious that a group of soldiers had already been stationed in advance on this snowy land that was supposed to be deserted.

When the most elite shield guards of the Reunion Movement saw Orson and his group arrive, the captain who led them immediately walked up to everyone and greeted them.

Not only the Shield Guards, but also some members of the Snow Monster Squad, which also belonged to the Reunion Movement's 'Elite Squad', came over and told everyone about the surrounding environment.

"According to the instrument, there are indeed some signals in this area that are different from those of demons or Originium worms. However, because the temperature in this place is so low, there may be a certain degree of error in the results."

A member of the Yeti team who was responsible for monitoring the surrounding environment handed the collected data to Orson, who frowned after seeing the reading on it.

"Hmm... I hate to admit it, but even if this data isn't accurate enough, the enemy numbers revealed are still at least double what was originally reported..."

Orson's tone was a little worried. After all, he knew very well that these things were not simple Originium bugs. They were specialized in the act of "killing" and would become more difficult to deal with as the number of battles increased. If they were crushed in numbers, such a battle would be tantamount to suicide.

Not long after Orson returned from Syracuse, he heard a piece of news from the emperor's internal guards who were responsible for liaising between Che City and Saint Jun Castle.

The general content is that in the wasteland at the northernmost tip of Ursus, some indigenous people once reported that they had witnessed a "sea monster".

Ursus sent out a reconnaissance team, but the team lost contact after entering the blizzard.

This crisis is not as large as the demonic war, but it must be taken seriously. The emperor's choice is to hand it over to the Reunion Movement. After all, at least from the motivation point of view, it is necessary for the Reunion Movement to take on this task, because the information about the "sea monster" was proposed by Orson, and he himself is constantly traveling to various regions to eliminate sea monsters.

Furthermore, the Reunion Movement is a security force within Ursus, and in this situation, they are obligated to conduct reconnaissance operations.

Many ministers were relieved that the Reunion Movement had accepted the proposal to "replacing Ursus with scouting the Northern Wastes." After all, Ursus had been plagued by internal conflict over the past decade, and due to the harsh environment of the Northern Wastes, most of the group's troops simply couldn't survive such a situation. However, the Reunion Movement, with its more elite troops, was relatively better off.

"It's really cold here, but it's okay, Orson. Come over to me. The red dragon's flames can warm your body temperature - unlike the rabbit next to you that can only freeze you into an ice cube."

After everyone arrived at the wasteland, Tallulah started ROUND2 again. Although the two of them had just teamed up to beat up Orson who had gone to Syracuse to kill a dog, external troubles are external troubles, and internal troubles are internal troubles.

After leaving the armored vehicle, Talulah, who was able to control fire, naturally came to Orson. While showing her fire source stone skills, she looked at the white rabbit next to her with a look of "Can Frost Star do it?"

"This kind of thing... As long as I absorb and gather the cold air around me, I can easily... uh, make the temperature even lower..."

Snow Rabbit instinctively refuted Tallulah, but her tone became a little lacking in confidence halfway through her words. As Tallulah said, under such circumstances, Snow Rabbit could not use the excuse of "keeping warm" to get close to Orson.

"Tsk... Next time, if you go to a place like the desert, you'll know what truly useful abilities are—really, why is it that places like Ursus are like winter all year round..."

Snow Rabbit grumbled in a low voice with some dissatisfaction.

——Is there really such a place in Terra...

Orson, who was hugged by Tallulah, complained quietly in his heart.

"Speaking of which, hiss... the leaders of the Reunion Movement, hiss... are all here. Is it okay for you guys, hiss... to not have a leader?"

The inner guard looked at the scene of a group of top security force leaders flirting in front of him, and this question suddenly popped up in his mind.

Integration Movement is not a particularly large company, at least it does not have a so-called "senior command group leadership team" or anything like that.

Because this mission requires strong individual combat capabilities, everyone has come to the wasteland, but in other words, the Reunion Headquarters is now without a "leader" - except for Miss Alina.

Unlike Neiwei's somewhat confused expression, Froststar and Tallulah looked relaxed after hearing this question.

"Ah, that's no problem. Jun-jun is in Qie City now anyway, so just ask her to handle the work for the next two days."

“…Is that so, sss…”

Neiwei observed a second of silence for what happened to her good friend Junjun, but she was already accustomed to the internal quality management policy of the integration movement of 'Junjun takes care of things'.

"How's the defensive line?"

After Talulah Froststar and the others' brief commotion, it was time to get down to business. While observing the Yeti squad's data and intelligence, Orson walked to the front of the temporary position and questioned the shield guards stationed there.

"Honestly, I'm not very optimistic. There's nothing here that can be called a shelter. Most importantly, this permafrost has existed for too long. We can't even carve out an area on the ground that could serve as a shield."