Morning, Firefly (Continued)

"..."

"..."

Neither side spoke first.

"Oh my, is she a shy little girl?" Kafka smiled, seemingly quite pleased.

"I... I'm called Firefly, and I'm currently... living with someone?"

Seeing Kafka's expression, Firefly still tried to speak as normally as possible.

That's right, it's normal, you absolutely must act as normal as possible!

"I see. Please take care of me in the future."

Kafka reached out her hand to the Firefly.

... This guy.

The Firefly touched each other briefly before separating.

Don't use this special treatment to make me stand out!

Although she wanted to attract more of Liu Bai's attention, it was definitely not by getting involved with Kafka!

They cut ties with the Stellaron Hunters a long time ago!

Well, anyway, now Firefly feels that even if she goes back to the Milky Way, continuing to work with the Stellaron Hunters is a matter of friendship, and no one can say anything if she doesn't work with them.

After all, being Stellaron Hunters is about finding targets, not about worldly gains.

Now that the target has been found, there is naturally no need to continue following it.

But then again, Elio...

That guy couldn't possibly have predicted this, so what about me and Kafka...?

Furthermore, according to Kafka's current explanation, it seems that the Stellaron Hunters and Liu Bai really do have some kind of contract?

I don't know!

... As expected, there really is no reason for him to stay with the Stellaron Hunters anymore, right?

Hmm... or did Elio foresee his "misfortune" in the script?

Not wanting to think about these overly complicated things, Firefly smiled shyly at Kafka.

Since Kafka hasn't exposed him yet, he'll just keep pretending for now.

So... well, stay calm, and absolutely don't panic.

Firefly took a deep breath.

"Let's go downstairs and meet the other people, and we'll also arrange a room for you."

Liu Bai interrupted their conversation at the right moment.

Just as Firefly had thought, Kafka's words successfully attracted Liu Bai's attention, coupled with some of his existing ideas...

Hmm, it really is Sam, isn't it?

But we can stop here.

Kafulinka chuckled and nodded, not caring about Liu Bai's interruption. It seemed that she didn't have any special interest in Firefly.

Liu Bai then sorted through the items he had obtained from the gashapon machine.

Well, these are basically all alchemy materials. Anyway, there's no such thing as a constellation. Except for a few items, everything that isn't five-star is considered a material.

After tidying up, Firefly glanced at the silver-white pocket watch that Liu Bai had placed on the shelf.

Ah... I haven't even had a chance to use my own hypnosis pocket watch yet.

Wait a moment--!

Isn't Kafka just a humanoid hypnotic pocket watch?

Suddenly, the Firefly remembered this very important matter.

Although Kafka's application range is not as wide compared to the Hypnotic Pocket Watch, Kafka's hypnosis is obviously more discreet!

Well, even if a top-tier expert like Acheron could hypnotize someone with a pocket watch, the prerequisites for using it already determine that the success rate of using this thing is very low.

As for strength... can Liu Bai withstand hypnosis?

Well, whether or not one can resist Kafka's Words of Power mainly depends on willpower.

In this regard, Firefly still trusts Liu Bai quite a bit—but that doesn't stop her from being extremely, extremely, extremely worried about him emotionally!

"Hmm? What's wrong, little Firefly?"

As Kafka went downstairs, she turned to look at Firefly, who was struggling with her inner turmoil.

"You can talk to me about anything that's on your mind... Although I'm not good at psychological counseling because of my work, I'm good at listening..."

"No! Nothing's wrong!"

Kafka's smile became noticeably more playful and aggressive, which immediately set off alarm bells in Firefly's mind.

Once she came to her senses, Firefly immediately followed after them as if nothing had happened.

"This is the second floor. Kafka, please choose a room."

"Um... which room are you staying in?" Kafka asked with a smile that seemed to never change.

"This one," Bai pointed to his room.

"Then I'll stay next door to you," Kafka said, pointing to the room next to Liu Bai's.

"Huh?" Firefly exclaimed subconsciously.

Isn't this a very bad situation?

Although they all live here, they do not have adjacent rooms due to reasons such as avoiding suspicion and protecting privacy.

If we divide them into two groups, Guinaifen and Acheron are on one side, and Liu Bai and she are on the other side.

There were two or three rooms between Liu Bai and her room.

Hmm... that's terrible.

Now Kafka has chosen to be next to Liu Bai, and right between her and Liu Bai.

... Ugh, isn't this really bad?

If I want to do something with Liu Bai in the future, won't Kafka, who lives next door, hear everything?

"Why next door?" Bai felt quite puzzled as well.

"Of course, it's because we need to protect your safety and receive your orders. Even if we Stellaron Hunters are notorious, we don't believe in betrayal."

That sounds quite plausible.

"Well... let's leave it at that."

Liu Bai thought about it for a moment, and then thought, well, it doesn't seem like there's any need to refuse, since he's not going to do anything bad in the room anyway.

After receiving Liu Bai's permission, Kafka seemed to be in a very good mood.

Afterwards, the group went downstairs again, and Liu Bai introduced Kafka to everyone.

The others clearly didn't care about the identity of a Stellaron Hunters.

Even Xueyi didn't care. Although Xianzhou would give the company face and publicize the wanted poster, Kafka had no grudge against Xianzhou. Kafka wasn't on Xianzhou's own wanted list, so she had no reason to be hostile to Kafka.

At most, I was slightly surprised that Liu Bai and the Stellaron Hunters were also related.

Similarly, due to Kafka's actions, the originally planned victory celebration was changed to a welcome banquet.

However, for the Inazuma family, this was not a bad thing.

Well, especially from the perspective of Kitsune Saiguu, many of their own people were not "mentally prepared".

It's okay to delay a little longer; in fact, it would be even better if we could delay until we are fully recovered.

What man could resist a gentle and virtuous woman like that?

It even comes with a cute and easy-going twin sister-in-law – the twins and the sister-in-law are both important!

Which man could resist?!

As for Kafka, Kitsune Saiguu didn't care at all; having one more or one less didn't matter, and besides, she was a very interesting person.

"Hmm... Miss Acheron, you are truly remarkable."

It's quite counterintuitive that Kafka, who seems like a fun-loving person, actually started chatting with Acheron, who has a stoic expression.

Acheron was surprisingly happy to chat with Kafka —although some of the conversations were incomprehensible to him.

Nothingness, emotions, fear...

"I simply cannot understand a situation where all emotions are absent."

Kafka smiled and remarked sincerely.

The loss of fear prevented her from experiencing the value of life.

If you were to let her experience life in the Acheron... well, no, even if she tried to put herself in her shoes, she wouldn't be able to understand the feeling of "fear".

"That's all in the past," Acheron said calmly. "Although your situation is different from mine, here... you might be able to rediscover your fear."

"Then thank you for your kind words."

Kafka glanced at the long sword at Acheron's waist.

Actually, she really wanted to see if she would feel fear after Acheron drew his sword.

"Don't expect to achieve it all at once." Acheron seemed to have seen through Kafka's thoughts. "Feelings... need to be cultivated slowly. For example, Kafka, what do you think of the gentleman?"

"Sir? Oh, you mean the BOSS?" Kafka touched her lips, lost in thought—even her innocent lip-touching had a seductive quality to it. "You can't hide it from me, I'm really looking forward to meeting the BOSS~ especially after meeting you."

"Firefly, what's wrong? You don't seem to be in a very high mood today?"

Kamisato Ayaka looked at Firefly.

She and Firefly had a good relationship and often had common topics to discuss during their conversations.

After a few times, the two became friends who could easily confide in each other.

"Um... I'm just not feeling well."

Although Firefly wanted to appear flawless, Kafka... simply couldn't ignore her.

"Oh! I see." Kamisato Ayaka was taken aback for a moment, then her expression changed to one of understanding.

This is just like someone visiting their period!

"Then, Firefly, you shouldn't eat cold dishes. Eat more of the hot dishes that Lord Liu Bai makes. I ate the best when I had my period before."

"..."

Although this misunderstanding was strange, it was a great help.

The next day, as usual, Firefly went out, but as soon as she stepped out, she saw Kafka looking down at her with an inscrutable and mocking smile on her face.

"Should I call you Firefly or... Sam?"

"Hey Sam, you don't want the BOSS to find out you're Stellaron Hunters, do you?"

"Oh my, how cute! It's really touching that she's willing to lie to stay by the BOSS's side."

"Hmm? This smell... Sam, you didn't secretly do something... Hmm?"

"I just wonder if the BOSS can accept that he's been deceived all along, and that the person who deceived him is a female psychopath?"

"What? You want me to keep quiet about this?"

"Sure~ After all, we're family. Come on, just lick my feet like a little puppy and I'll help you keep it a secret."

"Yes, that's right, good puppy~~ As a reward for being a good puppy, tonight you'll help the BOSS from behind. Your main job is to deliver water and give him a little push on the butt."