Thanks for the invitation! I am in Honkai, still connected Chapter 258 37 - The Long-Awaited Arrival of Shenzhou's Flat

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At this ti of year, Raiden i was an early riser. She finished her morning routine with practiced ease and then began preparing breakfast.

With six people living in the house, a substantial amount of food was needed, requiring an early start. However, thanks to her skill and experience, Miss i didn't find preparing a al for six to be much of a challenge.

Soon, the clean, savory aroma of food filled the kitchen.

"Breakfast is ready," Miss i announced, making her way to the second floor where the bedrooms were.

One by one, the residents of the house erged, all neatly and properly dressed.

The scene filled Miss i with a quiet satisfaction. Everything was normal, aside from the fact that Miss Seele, just like Sirin and Ana the day before, kept looking at her with a guilty expression.

Honestly, one would think she should be wary of a girl who had an ambiguous relationship with her fiancé looking at her like that. However, Miss i often helped clean everyone's rooms and had never found any strange or suspicious traces in her friends' rooms or her fiancé's.

Besides, just yesterday, after finishing breakfast early, she had suddenly knocked on Li Zihan's door to wake him and had seen nothing inappropriate.

Thus, after a mont of suspicion, her heart was put at ease.

The way Seele and the others looked at her was most likely born from the guilt they felt for having feelings for her fiancé.

After all, Seele, Sirin, and Ana were all good kids. They would absolutely feel guilty for doing sothing as rotten as getting involved with soone else's fiancé.

The truth was, Miss i was completely oblivious to a certain scoundrel's thods.

Within a Reality Marble, whether or not its ti is synchronized with the outside world is entirely up to the caster.

Li Zihan had chosen "no."

Therefore, no matter how long Li Zihan and Black Seele spent together inside the Reality Marble, upon returning to reality, it would be the exact sa mont they had entered. As long as they cleaned up after themselves within that space, there would be no discernible evidence.

Of course, it was only natural that Miss i wouldn't understand.

A Reality Marble was the grandest of grand magics, a mystery second only to True Magic itself. Without reaching the rank of "Color" in the study of mystics, one couldn't even begin to comprehend it.

And Miss i's level of mystic knowledge… well, it was limited to the common sense tidbits Li Zihan would casually ntion when he was bored.

Li Zihan had actually proposed transplanting so of his Magic Circuits into her so she could learn magecraft. As a first-generation magus, Li Zihan's aptitude was almost unbelievably high. His Magic Circuits were on par with Tohsaka Rin's, with forty main circuits and thirty auxiliaries each. Parting with a few circuits was not an unbearable loss for him.

However, Miss i felt it would cause harm to Li Zihan's body and had, of course, refused.

"Good morning, i."

The young man, whose eye color had now transford into a reddish-gold, like the sun, erged from his room and greeted Raiden i.

"Morning, Zihan."

Completely unaware that a certain soone had been cuckolding her with Black Seele just monts before, Miss i smiled at her fiancé.

"Yeah, morning."

The man in question, who had in fact been awake for just as long as i, greeted the girl who was probably his fiancée.

Driven by the notion that a delayed marriage might be a cuckolded one, the girl who had decided on an early marriage naturally took hold of his hand and led him towards the dining table where several other girls were already seated.

This sort of action can be seen as a declaration of sovereignty, right? the girl, who had her own little sches, thought as she looked at the familiar faces.

Yes, that's it.

Declare her sovereignty through everyday actions. The thod was gentle, yet effective.

As long as she could make them fully realize that she was Zihan's true lover, and then naturally bring up wedding plans in front of them to widen her advantage… she would undoubtedly be the heroine of this new world.

Under the sowhat complicated gazes of the other girls, the one who was indeed his official girlfriend led the young man who had made promises to them all and sat him down across from her.

Miss Seele, who had been woken up by her other self inside the Reality Marble and had also "received her share of the public grain," kept her head down and ate her food quietly. Having just placed a green hat on Miss i's head, she felt a little bit guilty.

"So, Zihan, do you have any plans for what's next?" Miss i asked, arranging the bowl and chopsticks for the young man beside her, much like a wife inquiring about her husband's schedule.

Does 'find a world and marry Seele' count as a plan? thought the young man, who had just been urged by Black Seele to marry her right after they had finished.

But he couldn't say that out loud.

If he did, even the good-tempered Miss i would go berserk and unleash her ultimate right in his face.

The young man, who had co to the God-Slayer world to fulfill his pact with Kevin and take his girls on a trip, rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

His gains from this trip had been quite substantial.

The Authority, "Though the Sun May Set Three Tis," which granted him three lives and a twenty-percent stat boost upon revival.

The Authority, "A-no-Murakumo," seized from that old scher Susanoo, which had the sa effect as his sword, stealing the characteristics of others' powers and applying them to other things.

And from Surya, who basically ca to offer his head on a platter, the Authority "Fire-Thief" and a chief-god level divinity of Creation.

This set of Authorities was truly disgusting. If it appeared on a ga boss, it would be a build that would make players curse the developers' entire family line.

So, all he had to do now was chop up a few more God-Slayers or gods, obtain the final divinity for his Three-God-Garnt, and he could go back.

"The general plan is to help you all get the God-Slayer buff, and then go and test my skills against a certain extraordinary prince," the young man said, having basically decided to take Rama's divinity of Balance next.

Speaking of which, how was Fu the Brawny doing now?

According to Kevin, Fu the Brawny had practically turned Shenzhou upside down for a week and still hadn't found a Heretical God.

That Guardian of Shenzhou's luck was so bad, he wondered if her part-ti job was Guardian of Africa.

Just as he was internally mocking a certain soone's rotten luck, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.

Who could that be?

Li Zihan thought as he stood up to answer it.

When he opened the door, he froze.

In his line of sight was the unconscious form of the Demon Sect Leader.

Then, the weak voice of a certain Guardian of Shenzhou sounded out.

"It's , Hua."

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Author's Note:

PS: Seriously, do you guys want to see more fight-focused plotlines?

If you do, I'll try to cut down on so of the scenes with the female characters and replace them with descriptions of enemies and the overall situation to build up to the fights.

Honestly, for , writing battle scenes is much easier than writing scenes with female characters.