Tesla: At your age, how can you...

But thinking about Otto...

Lin Nai couldn't help but get a headache. That guy was truly difficult to deal with; brute force wasn't the concern.

It was mainly his intelligence...

But if anyone had the greatest resources, it was probably World Serpent, right?

Not to mention how early it had been founded.

Just the Sea of Quanta: Past within it was enough to show the extent of its resources.

It was only because the Flame-Chasers within were memories and couldn't come out.

Otherwise, it was hard to imagine what might happen.

After nearly eight hours of travel, the aircraft finally landed.

Lin Nai yawned. The sky had already gone completely dark.

"Lin Nai, hang in there a little longer. I've already had rooms arranged for you."

Einstein sat in her seat, revising blueprints.

Hearing his yawn, she answered without even looking up.

They had set off at noon.

Anti-Entropy's headquarters wasn't in that snowy region of Siberia.

It could be considered an international flight.

Even Einstein and Tesla had departed immediately upon receiving the report, traveling through the night and arriving during the day.

They had rushed over without stopping.

If they hadn't spent years staying up all night, Einstein and Tesla would probably have been sleepy too.

As for the aircraft freely crossing national borders...

Many of Anti-Entropy's Executors, for various reasons, were unwilling to cooperate with Schicksal and were even hostile toward it. Yet they could still play an important role in the fight against the Honkai.

Not only through combat power, but through research as well.

They also provided funding, connections, equipment, and all sorts of other assistance.

That was why Anti-Entropy could operate freely in certain places, thanks to these Executors.

There was no helping it.

As an organization, Anti-Entropy had developed too rapidly, making it unsuitable to continue using the management system from its days as a Schicksal branch.

Anti-Entropy's elders were mostly researchers without the ability to command armies or run businesses, which was why the Executor system had been created.

"No, I'm fine..." Lin Nai shook his head. He was just a little tired.

It wasn't a big deal.

It wasn't as if he could sleep whenever he wanted.

Besides.

More importantly, Lin Nai lowered his head and looked at Kiana and Bronya, who were sound asleep in his arms.

Sigh...

Once they arrived, sensitive little Duck Duck would probably wake up.

As for Kiana...

He would probably have to carry her to her room himself.

He couldn't exactly ask the small-framed Bronya to do it, could he?

During the trip, with nothing better to do, Lin Nai had naturally continued telling Kiana the story of Build.

Thinking about it, it really was quite a coincidence.

Kiryu Sento was a hero who had been picked up by a snake-skinned monster.

Kiana was a hero too; she had merely been picked up by him.

Only...

He wasn't a snake-skinned monster, nor did he have any reason to fight Kiana.

Oh.

Training excluded.

Honestly, if possible, Lin Nai would rather Kiana become a brave warrior.

Not a hero.

Lin Nai gently stroked Kiana's face. He could tell her stories and let her experience all kinds of things through them, helping her grow.

But he would never want Kiana to grow through injury and hardship.

Some people might say.

How could one see a rainbow without weathering wind and rain?

But in truth, all it took to see a rainbow was water droplets in the air and sunlight shining from behind the observer at a low angle.

On a clear day, one could also make an artificial rainbow by facing away from the sun and spraying water or mist into the air.

Likewise...

Kiana could take her time growing up. There was absolutely no need to rush.

That was why guarding against Otto was a necessity.

It just depended on when the system gave him a resurrection skill. Then he could fucking hold Kallen hostage to command Otto!

"I always felt like you treated this girl unusually well." Tesla glanced at him in surprise.

Lin Nai smiled. "Kiana was the first friend I made after coming to this world, and also... the first person who felt like family."

Lin Nai was actually very glad that he had taken a shortcut that day and run into that lively little white-haired fluffball.

Otherwise, he might still be alone now.

All by himself...

Glancing at Bronya beside him, Lin Nai reached over and rubbed her head as well.

Hopefully this kid wouldn't get into motorcycles so early.

Otherwise, Lin Nai was genuinely afraid that one day her license would get revoked...

He was also afraid that someday, he would have to tell this Duck Duck, "Bronya, don't flirt with girls if you don't have a bike."

"Family..." Tesla murmured. Einstein was family to her too.

Oh.

Right, and Welt as well.

More precisely, there had been two of them, but one had already passed away.

Thinking of that, Tesla couldn't help sighing. She wondered what that man would think if he saw Anti-Entropy as it was now...

At some point, Einstein had put down her blueprints and gently patted Tesla on the shoulder.

How could she not know what Tesla was thinking?

The dead could not return to life.

They would continue living.

They would eliminate the Honkai.

And of course, they would also take down that old bastard Otto.

And so.

Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya settled down in Anti-Entropy for good.

Tesla: How Could You Sleep at Your Age...

The next day.

In the corridor of Anti-Entropy's residential dormitories.

Lin Nai yawned repeatedly as he hurried toward the laboratory.

That Lobster Doctor had disturbed his sweet sleep first thing in the morning.

The moment he answered the call, she told him to get to the lab immediately for physical data calculations, a medical examination, and all sorts of other miscellaneous tests.

Lin Nai had said, couldn't they do it in the afternoon?

Then...

"How can you sleep? At your age, at this stage of your life, how can you sleep? Don't you have any ambition at all?!"

Lin Nai: Hmm... I feel like I've heard that somewhere before.

But considering Lobster Doctor called him once every minute, Lin Nai couldn't delay even if he wanted to.

Seriously.

Stop rushing me!

It's not like I'm going to reincarnate!

It was only eight in the morning!

This was killing him. He wasn't even in school, so why the hell did he have to suffer through an eight a.m. start?!

Though before college, he had basically gotten up at six every day.

This was too hard...

Left with no choice.

While half-asleep in bed, Lin Nai had even mumbled that he was up. A few minutes later, when he was getting out of bed, he said he was washing up. A few more minutes later, while washing up, he said he had already left.

It was like she was trying to collect his life.

Lin Nai could only hurry toward Lobster Doctor's laboratory.

Still, this had successfully put Tesla on Lin Nai's list. Sooner or later, he would let Tesla experience what true cruelty was!

He would dismantle her mecha!!

If today's testing involved a mecha, Lin Nai wouldn't hold back.

He would absolutely dismantle it until not even a single component remained!

That was what he said...

But...

There was a problem now.

Standing at the intersection, Lin Nai fell into deep thought. Wait... where was this?

That Lobster Doctor didn't seem to have told him where her laboratory was.

As everyone knew, Lin Nai had no sense of direction. It was the same in every world. What a joke.

Lin Nai: Shut up.

"Mm... There's no one around here either..."

That only troubled Lin Nai even more. He couldn't even find someone to ask for directions.

And Lobster Doctor had called from a landline...

Huh?

A cell phone?

Where would he get one of those? After all, Lin Nai was supposedly an undocumented resident.