"Mm... my head hurts. Where is this...?"
Beside the grass was a small river, with a little bridge stretching across it.
"Shio-mi River?"
Had I returned from Tenshu-kaku?
"Sakura! Hiyori Maru! Bella!"
There was no one in Yae Village, no one in the shrine, and even Tenshu-kaku had vanished.
After searching the entire area, Feng Chen returned to the vicinity of Shio-mi River.
"King!"
A little girl poked her head out of Shio-mi River. She looked about thirteen years old.
The girl climbed ashore, completely unconcerned that she was stark naked.
"W-Wait!"
Feng Chen covered his eyes with one hand, doing his best not to see Bella through the gaps between his fingers... What was he thinking?! Wasn't this exactly when he should look through the gaps between his fingers, using his palm to cover most of what he saw while pretending to be embarrassed?
As expected, she was flat-chested, but the girl was still adorable. Water droplets clung to her light-blue hair and long eyelashes.
Behind the girl was a pair of purple-blue wings, each marked with a crescent moon.
"King?"
The girl approached, unsure what Feng Chen was doing.
"Bella?"
"Don't answer a question with a question, you moron!"
The system suddenly chimed in. It had barely finished speaking before it made that sarcastic remark, proving that they were currently outside, not in Tenshu-kaku or its inner space.
"Mm... What's wrong? I just arrived. It turned me back into the way I looked when I was human, so it would be easier to move around in the real world with you, King."
"C-Clothes."
"Clothes? I don't have any. Honkai Beasts don't need clothes."
"But you look human now! Humans need to wear clothes!"
Bella before him was only a little loli. Feng Chen obviously wasn't going to have