"Boss~ What else could it be?" Guinaifen deliberately dragged out the last word teasingly. "Disgusting! Disgusting! Do you two shameless dogs have no sense of shame? Even Lady Sparkle is embarrassed for you! How did you two manage to say something so utterly shameless?"
"Is that so? I thought my wife was calling me hubby."
"...Huh?"
Liu Bai's casual reply made Guinaifen's face heat up rapidly, her brain quickly overloading from the high temperature.
"W-What did you just call me?"
"Little Gui." This time, Liu Bai wore a mischievous smile.
"Bleurgh! Bleurgh!"
The poorly timed sound immediately shattered the romantic atmosphere that had just begun to form.
Sparkle climbed down from Liu Bai's back and kept dry-heaving.
Sparkle dry-heaved as she left the room.
"...What's wrong with that girl?"
Guinaifen looked concerned about Sparkle—yeah, right!
Her mind was filled entirely with what Liu Bai had called her.
"Forget it, Boss, say it again. Say it again~ Say it again~ I'm begging you~ Hubby~ My good hubby~~"
Guinaifen swiftly set down her needle and thread and moved closer to Liu Bai, the expression on her face gradually changing from ingratiating to fawning.
Acheron, who had been meditating, opened her eyes as well.
...Her face was a little red.
It seemed that she and Liu Bai had skipped right over the romantic stage. Should she find an opportunity to make up for it now?
"Come to think of it, Firefly, are you planning to keep working with the Stellaron Hunters in the future?"
Kafka was shopping with Firefly at the moment.
"Huh? Are you saying you're going to keep being a Stellaron Hunter too, Kafka?"
Kafka's question gave Firefly quite a scare.
"What kind of expression is that...? Hmm, I'm not really sure myself. After all, you know what kind of