It turned out that even a born straight-A student did not necessarily like doing homework. Even a good child who loved studying as much as the Creation Goddess would build up resentment if you made her do twenty-eight sets of advanced problems in a row—and when that "good child" also happened to be your mother-in-law, you were really in for it...
Whenever he thought about this, Hao Ren could not help once again marveling at how insanely tangled the seniority and family relationships among these long-lived species were.
A moment later, Hao Ren and Lia stood at the entrance to the old house in the South Suburbs.
"Oh—" The petite Creation Goddess tilted her head back to look at the rather old house before her and deliberately drew out her tone. "So this is where you live?"
"Is it different from what you imagined?" Hao Ren had long since grown used to Lia's reaction. "You're not the only one who's been surprised."
"It's a little different. I thought you'd live in a huge palace or something like a military base," Lia said with a nod. "After all, you're a pope and the commander of a drone legion at the same time. I didn't expect you to live here. Is this some kind of hermit spirit?"
"I lived here from the start," Hao Ren said with a shrug. "I was already living here before I signed a contract with Raven 12345, and I didn't move after changing jobs. A house is just a place to shelter from the wind and rain. What matters is where the people are. Everyone's happy living here, so isn't this what makes it a home?"
Lia listened in silence, and her expression suddenly turned somewhat wistful. "Yeah... It's nice that everyone can live together happily..."
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