"All right, that should be enough. If we don't head back soon, it'll be her bedtime."
Bai Ge glanced at his watch. The routine Bronya had developed back at Hearth Home was one she still kept to this day.
"Please wait. May I ask one final question?"
Alexandra suddenly seemed to have steeled herself for something.
"Hm? Is there something else you want to know about Duck Duck?"
Bai Ge paused. He had thought their conversation was over, so he had shut off the Herrscher of Reason's authority and had not read Alexandra's thoughts just now.
"It's not about Duck Duck. I wanted to ask whether you... um, well... are you married?"
A blush colored the beautiful woman's face as she asked Bai Ge, looking deeply embarrassed.
"..."
Bai Ge's mind instantly crashed.
Was he married?
The question made him instinctively want to smack a certain Pink Fairy Lady. At the end of the Previous Civilization, Bai Ge had given the completed marriage application form to Elysia.
But neither of them had gone to register their marriage. After all, right after giving it to her, Bai had simply died.
"Unfortunately, I'm not married... truly unfortunate."
Bai Ge let out a deep sigh. What a shame. They had only been one step away from getting their certificate. Thinking about it now, he felt that he and a certain Pink Fairy truly had it rough.
There had been twelve cycles in the Previous Civilization. In the first eleven, Elysia had given Bai Ge marriage application forms filled out with her own information, then died herself.
In the final twelfth cycle, Bai Ge returned the gesture.
"I see. Then I... sorry, it's nothing."
Alexandra's heart raced. A bold thought surfaced in her mind, but the instant it appeared, she fiercely scolded herself.
She