As Cang Xuan said this, a figure suddenly leaped over from the distance and landed beside them.
A massive knight lance was planted in the ground, allowing the figure to stand steadily beside the group.
"Why did Chi You's body suddenly start shaking so violently?"
The person who had landed beside them was Durandal, who had previously been fighting the Honkai Beasts alone.
With the Honkai Beast horde scattered by the tremor, she had returned to the others and asked about the situation.
Yet in Durandal's other hand, she was carrying a... chubby, plump bird that drew the eye.
"Is that... A Ji?"
Fu Hua looked at the plump bird in Durandal's hand, its feathers tinged with red as it flailed around while being held by the wing, and recognized it.
Wasn't this what A Ji had looked like after getting fat, the image Xu Yanwu had shown Fu Hua while talking about the past?
"Huh? You mean this bird?"
Durandal lifted A Ji as she spoke. "After I fought it just now and defeated it, it suddenly turned into this."
"So I brought it back."
As Durandal said this, A Ji struggled free from her hand.
Then, flapping its wings, it flew onto Fu Hua's head.
Its fluffy feathers stood on end one by one, making A Ji look like a ball.
"Caw—!"
A Ji puffed up at Durandal.
Then it hid behind Fu Hua's head.
"...It seems quite close to you." Durandal looked at A Ji hiding behind Fu Hua and said, "It was so fierce toward me just now..."
"This... may be because you were too fierce with it?" Fu Hua was also surprised by A Ji's sudden affection, but she could only explain it to Durandal that way.
"Was I? But when I did that before,