Kevin

Three days later...

"I really don't know if your mother did experiments every day until she fried her brain, leaving such a tiny child here to wait for your father to come back... Wasn't she afraid something would happen to you...?"

Xu Yanwu gently bumped his forehead against the cradle as he coaxed Little White Ball to sleep, unable to stop muttering, "Why hasn't that brat Kevin come back yet...? I've been taking care of you for three days already... Damn it! You pooped again!"

Listening to Little White Ball's bubbling sounds of relief, Xu Yanwu's mouth twitched again. "This kid really can eat and poop... Truly worthy of the Kaslana family's excellent genes..."

As he spoke, Xu Yanwu made Little White Ball float in the air. He commanded the diaper on Little White Ball's body to jump into the trash can by itself. After a towel flew over and cleaned Little White Ball up, a brand-new diaper appeared directly on their bottom.

"Why am I using Wish Fulfillment to take care of a nursing baby...?"

After gently tucking Little White Ball in, Xu Yanwu controlled his head to float over and lie down beside Little White Ball's pillow. Unable to help himself, he started letting his thoughts wander again.

"Where exactly did the Herrscher of the End throw my body...? I can clearly still sense that it exists... But making a wish consumes too much energy, so I can't summon it over..."

Xu Yanwu's Wish Fulfillment was not without limits. It had taken him three days to discover that, at present, his ability could at most do things like change Little White Ball's diaper...

This ability consumed energy...

Xu Yanwu had also tried fulfilling some larger wishes, such as regenerating a body for himself. The moment he started, though, he nearly drained his head into a shriveled rabbit head...

It consumed way too much damn energy... Easy way to wreck your kidneys...

Back then, he had only managed to send the Herrscher of the End flying by absorbing the energy from the spear. Otherwise, why do you think the Herrscher of the End had bound Xu Yanwu with ordinary matter immediately afterward...?

Xu Yanwu had painstakingly accumulated a little energy over tens of thousands of years to keep himself conscious, only for the humans of this civilization to suck away more than half of it as an energy source...

Xu Yanwu was now completely broke... He could only sustain himself by drawing tiny amounts of Honkai Energy from the air...

Come to think of it... he should probably preserve MIE's corpse again... Kevin still hadn't arrived... He couldn't just let the man's wife's corpse rot, could he...?

Setting aside the fact that Xu Yanwu and Little White Ball were locked inside this laboratory and couldn't get out.

He had listened to Kevin ramble on so much while he had been asleep. Helping the guy out a little wouldn't be impossible...

"MIE! MIE!"

The shouts coming from outside the laboratory interrupted Xu Yanwu's train of thought and startled him badly. "Kevin's voice? He's back?"

"Damn it, what should I do? Hide? Or meet him?"

While Xu Yanwu was still hesitating, he slowly floated over to the door. Then he heard Kevin roar from the other side, "Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire!"

Boom—!

"Damn it, Kevin, you bastard..."

The shockwave from the blasted-open door sent Xu Yanwu flying, splattering him against the wall into a lump of mangled flesh.

"MIE!"

The white-haired, blue-eyed warrior rushed in and saw MIE lying on the floor.

I only have a head left. I can't move MIE... And I don't have enough energy, either...

By the time Xu Yanwu's head had reassembled, he saw Kevin with a despairing expression, holding Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire to his own head.

"Put that Holy Judgment of Heavenly Suicide down, damn it!"

Xu Yanwu no longer needed to consider whether he should meet Kevin. The bastard was about to kill himself.

Damn it, you haven't even met your Little White Ball yet! Why the hell are you dying?!

Hiss—

Xu Yanwu's hair visibly turned ash-gray. At the same time, Holy Judgment of Heavenly Fire in Kevin's hand was slammed viciously to the floor. Even with the terrifying strength Kevin had gained after merging with the emperor-class Honkai Beast Parvati, he could not lift it from the ground.

"Damn your mother..."

Xu Yanwu's voice was weak now. Kevin could not die here; he still had to bear the responsibility of beginning humanity's next civilization.

"Who's there?!"

Kevin swept his surroundings with a piercing gaze, then... ignored Xu Yanwu, who had been smashed into the corner by him.

"Damn it! Kevin, you brat, are you blind? I'm right here! Where are you looking?!"

Xu Yanwu flew up in a rage and rammed Kevin in the face with a rocket-powered headbutt.

The two of them froze in a bizarre pose for a second...

"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! My nose!"

"So cold, so cold, so cold! Damn it, why is your body so cold?!"

Kevin rolled back and forth across the floor, while Xu Yanwu... rolled around like a soccer ball.

"Mwee?"

Little White Ball curiously poked their little head out of the cradle. Watching the two unreliable adults roll around on the floor, they actually clapped and laughed.

"Hm?"

Hearing Little White Ball's laughter, Kevin froze. He did not even bother covering his nose anymore before rolling over and scrambling to his feet. "A child?"

"That's the child created from your and MIE's genes..."

Xu Yanwu spoke weakly from the floor. "Otherwise, why do you think I stopped you from killing yourself? It was all for Little White Ball's sake."

"You're... the Head of the War Gods?" Drawn by Xu Yanwu's voice, Kevin sucked in a sharp breath. "You actually woke up?"

"What Head of the War Gods? That has nothing to do with me."

Xu Yanwu wanted to wave a hand, only to realize he only had a head. Depressed, he said, "I'm just an ordinary man who got beheaded by the Herrscher of the End—ah, the Last Herrscher, as you call her... I just happened to be unable to die. That's all."

"You..."

Kevin reached out, wanting to pick Xu Yanwu up from the floor, but Xu Yanwu roared him back. "Stay away! Don't touch me! Do you know how cold you are?!"

"This..."

"I'll do it myself!"

Xu Yanwu wobbled up from the floor and flew over to Little White Ball's side. Little White Ball excitedly hugged him in their arms. "Goo!"

"All right, sit down. There are some things I need to discuss with you."

With Little White Ball tugging at his face, Xu Yanwu spoke sternly to Kevin.

"Uh... Head of the War Gods... you..."

"I already said I'm not the Head of the War Gods! Why did you people make up names for me?!" Xu Yanwu had barely finished shouting when Little White Ball slapped him across the eye. "Ah! Little White Ball, let go first! Stop pulling my hair!"

Watching this scene, Kevin could not help silently thinking, Kid, well done...