Super Strike (Continued)

"... It still hurts. A beautiful girl's skin is very delicate."

"...If you keep acting like that girl Aili and pretending to be young, I'll cut off those two lumps on your chest." Mobius's face darkened as he looked at Eden, who was acting coy on the bed.

"Doctor, you're eighteen now, so don't be so sensitive about your age."

Eden looked at Mobius was clearly getting anxious, and teased him.

"Tsk... No matter what, I can't be as shameless as Aili, who can brazenly call herself a beautiful girl all the time." Mobius's lips twitched.

She originally thought that if she became younger, she could refer to herself as a "pretty girl" wherever she went, just like Aili. But in the last two days, she suddenly realized that it's not enough to just be young; you also have to be thick-skinned.

She... honestly, isn't thick-skinned enough.

A mature woman's sense of shame makes it impossible for her to keep referring to herself as a "beautiful girl."

So now Mobius inexplicably has a bit of respect for Elysia —it's not easy to be that thick-skinned.

"Hmm... shamelessness... that's true."

Perhaps because the anesthetic was starting to take effect, Eden's voice gradually became weak.

"I'm counting on you this time..."

"You don't trust me to handle things?" Mobius looked at the drowsy Eden with a hint of exasperation. "Don't worry, it's just surgery, and Liu Bai will be here to protect you soon."

"This is... life..."

"Your first time in life, right? I've seen that kind of talk a lot."

"Mabi, actually I've always felt... that my first surgery... should have been... um... to save the mother or the baby?"

"Read less melodramatic novels. I never expected you to have such thoughts." Mobius looked at Eden, whose eyes were already half-closed, and was both amused and exasperated. "And what's with the nickname 'Mebi'? It's so pretentious."

"It's just a nickname... Isn't it normal for girls to have some romantic fantasies?"

"Sorry, I'm probably not that kind of normal girl—don't hold on, get some sleep, everything will be fine when you wake up."

Mobius was surprised to find that Eden had such a strong will. An ordinary person would have been fast asleep by now, but Eden was still able to keep his eyes open and chat with him.

Unfortunately, she came here for surgery.

Mobius retrieved the prepared Honkai Beast gene—it came from the whale-shaped Emperor-Class Honkai Beast "Vorona" encountered at sea during the fleet's retreat.

However, despite being called a whale, it can actually fly... In a sense, it annihilated a group of terrestrial Honkai Beast.

Moreover, Vorona possessed an unimaginably enormous size, far exceeding the strength expected of Emperor-class being. The reason he wasn't classified as Judgment-class was simply because Vorona himself couldn't fully utilize this power.

Compared to the later Chiyou, a colossal Judgment-Class Honkai Beast capable of continuously devouring cities and land, and whose own body could even become a small landmass, Vorona is indeed only worthy of the Emperor-class.

Even so, this Honkai Beast is undoubtedly one of the best among the Emperor-class beasts.

"This really does match your brilliance..."

Mobius took out the exquisite biological tissue from the jar beside him, picked up the scalpel, and silently began the surgery.

Good evening, Miss Diva.

Mobius looked at Eden, who was slowly waking up in the hospital bed, with a teasing expression on his face.

"How did you sleep?"

"Strictly speaking, it was a bit... well, it felt like a dream." Eden was unsure how to describe the feeling.

"What dream?"

"I dreamt I was flying in the sky or something..." Eden rubbed his forehead. "Never mind, there's not much to say. Doctor, how long did I sleep?"

"The surgery lasted thirty minutes, and you slept for an hour—I have to say, your compatibility with Vorona is off the charts."

Mobius had an expression that suggested he was seeing Eden for the first time.

Based on the adaptability Eden demonstrated today, there is no doubt that she is the person she had previously envisioned as "more suitable to be Honkai Beast than a Honkai Beast".

The person in the bed next to yours is still asleep.

Next door?

Eden rubbed his eyes, looked around, and discovered that the person in the bed next to him was Hua.

"Hua is under some mental pressure, after all, she's the kind of person who's always on edge."

In fact, once the surgery is successful, these patients can ignore the anesthesia—thank goodness for the increasingly advanced surgical techniques, otherwise they would be woken up by pain even with anesthesia.

Eden slept for an hour because she was an ordinary person, while Hua, as a soldier, should have woken up immediately after the surgery.

"Is it just my imagination? Hua seems to have gotten younger."

"You've gotten younger too." Mobius gestured for Eden to look at himself first. "You look younger now than when we first met."

"Young?" Eden stretched and looked in the mirror.

Looking in the mirror wasn't a big deal, since she already looked about twenty years old. Mobius's idea of youth... well, you could say she was a tiny bit younger, around nineteen?

There's not much difference.

However, what bothered her was her chest.

"... Why do the clothes feel too small?" Eden's intuition as a fashion designer is usually accurate; if he says the clothes are too small, then they are definitely too small.

"... Smaller?" Mobius, with his sharp ears and keen eyesight, naturally didn't miss this question and immediately began to doubt his own ears.

You're saying your clothes are too small?

After the surgery, Mobius gave Eden a cursory examination, since the surgery was successful and the vigorous vitality couldn't be faked.

Who would have thought that Eden would grow up?

"No way! You're wearing this hospital gown, how can you possibly sense a ghost?"

Don't you realize how loose hospital gowns are?!

"I just said it was small, not that it was serious. I'm not like you doctors who don't even know if someone has swapped their clothes."

Don't underestimate the skill of a world-class costume designer!

Mobius thought about it and realized it made sense. After calming himself down, he slowly asked, "So... where are you older?"

"It's probably on the chest... um, that's the most obvious spot. I'm not sure about the others. Should we measure it?"

"... That's fine too." Mobius gave up.

Comparing body shape and appearance with Eden is just asking for trouble; let her be.

"By the way, where is Liu Bai?" Mobius had said that Liu Bai would come, but Eden looked left and right and couldn't find Liu Bai.

"He left after you and Hua finished your surgery. You know, Mei is in a complete mess. She's borrowed all the people under me. That guy is now grabbing people to do whatever he wants."

No wonder I haven't seen the four assistants these past two days... Eden nodded knowingly.

Whether it was the capable Blanca and Klein, or the perpetually lazy Danzhu Cangxuan, they were all captured.

Well, it can't really be called an arrest. After realizing the magnitude of the matter, Danzhu Cangxuan, unusually, started working like crazy.

They usually slack off only because their nemesis senior, Klein, could cover for them. But now that they've really run into trouble, they can't hold back anymore. The two of them are just as desperate Klein.

Either the job or them, one of them must die today!

"I'll go find the measuring tape. Wait a moment."

"Hmm..."

Hua Youyou woke up.

I feel like I had a really, really long dream.

I dreamt that I inherited that ordinary little martial arts school, and Teacher Liu also had a body.

They began their innocent romance, and as time went by, their feelings deepened. They got married, went on their honeymoon, tried to conceive, got pregnant, and had a child. The couple looked forward to a prosperous family.

Just like an ordinary girl.

And then... and then...

Hua pinched the bridge of his nose, revealing an expression of unbearable regret.

And then... and then the son in my dream grew up to look like Kevin...

Hua was immediately startled awake.

For a moment, Hua was unsure whether she was having a pleasant dream or a nightmare.

I don't want my son to turn into a husky!

(Should I stop interfering with Kevin a bit lately...? Thank goodness, at least Su and Mei aren't in my dreams.)

Although Hua felt good about his junior brothers and sisters, if his own son and daughter were like that... it wasn't that it was unacceptable, after all, they were all outstanding individuals, but there was always a lingering, subtle feeling.

She still felt that it was enough for her children to be ordinary and safe and sound, otherwise she felt they would cause her a lot of worry...

"Oh, you're awake?"

Hearing someone call out to him, Hua snapped out of his shock and looked up.

I just happened to see Mobius taking a measuring tape to measure Eden's bust size, who was completely naked.

"What is this, you two...?"

They were all in the same group of close friends, and since they were all women, Hua hadn't said anything about whether it was appropriate or not, or whether they should avoid suspicion. But the group in front of her still gave her a strange feeling that she couldn't quite explain.

"As you can see, they're measuring Eden's chest size—and let me tell you, this bastard Eden seems to be going through a second puberty, and it's evenly developing."

Mobius's tone was rather sarcastic.

I've come to terms with it, but not completely.

"Doctor, you can eat your way back to being thirty years old." Eden said nonchalantly.

You're talking like you think you can beat me if I don't undergo a second growth phase?

It's like I could beat Aponia after my second growth.

What business is it of yours?!

In terms of body coordination, Aponia can't beat Eden, but in terms of pure stats, Eden can't beat Aponia either.

"... Congratulations!"

Hua couldn't help but think of the dream she had just had.

Thank goodness for baby formula, otherwise my dream would have ended at the breastfeeding part... But then again, it feels like this ending was much better than dreaming about Kevin...

Hua's furrowed brows made Eden mistakenly think that Hua was somewhat depressed, so he simply comforted her, "Hua, you are Fusion Warrior now, so you should also undergo secondary development."

Eden, being strong enough, was not stingy with her consolation in this regard—she was not Mobius.

I can't climb to higher ranks, and I feel like I shouldn't be stuck in lower ranks. I'm stuck here.

"No, it's impossible. Hua is the only one who has absolutely no chance of developing." Mobius suddenly spoke up at this moment.

Upon hearing this, Eden nudged Mobius.

Can't you talk? Don't you know that Hua may seem fine on the surface, but she actually cares about her figure?

"Don't poke me, I'm just stating the facts—didn't you say Hua looked younger before?—I didn't say that was just your imagination."

Mobius became serious.

This isn't about offering comfort; it's an academic issue!

"...young?"

Hua looked in the mirror and found that his face had indeed become much younger, with only the weathered look of a warrior remaining.

"... High school?" Hua recognized his own age in his face.

"Strictly speaking, you were 17 years old, during the Third Honkai Eruption, when you had just joined the Moth Chasers to Fire."

Mobius remembers very clearly what happened when Hua Gang joined the Moth Chasers to Fire several years ago.

On the other hand, Hua doesn't actually look that old. The difference between being in her twenties and seventeen isn't as big as people imagine. It's just that Hua isn't usually eye-catching, so most people don't notice her.

"You have actually become younger, and you are now stuck at this age."

"... So you mean your figure has shrunk? Uh, sorry, I didn't mean it." Eden blurted out his thoughts without thinking, then realized that it might have been a bit hurtful.