Are you a wholesale dealer in heartbreak?
"Hey, hey, don't bite so hard. You'll have to cook afterward if you hurt me!"
Wei Gong played along with her.
"Why do your hands smell like heather? Have you been secretly doing needlework again?"
Luo Ya released his hand without hesitation and spat repeatedly.
She looked utterly disgusted, as if she were staring at a pervert.
"You..."
Wei Gong was completely speechless at this wicked little cotton-padded jacket.
Where had this girl learned such inappropriate things?
The worst part was that Ilya was still here!
Where was he supposed to put his dignity?
Little Angel wore an innocent expression and tilted her head slightly as she asked, "What does heather smell like?"
"Ahem, don't listen to her nonsense. Come in and eat!"
Wei Gong changed the subject without hesitation.
Faced with the temptation of delicious food, Ilya naturally forgot all about it without a second thought.
The three of them began to enjoy their meal.
This time, Wei Gong had only prepared a simple serving of Wensi tofu, sweet-and-sour fish, and a few other dishes. He had not put in much effort.
He was not bragging.
He considered himself second-best at cooking, and there truly were not many people who could claim to be first.
After traveling through countless worlds over the long years, his culinary skills had long since absorbed the best of both ancient and modern cuisine from all over the world.
Even Golden Flash had praised his cooking!
That Shirou's Saber had nearly eaten the entire treasury of Britain dry!
After the meal.
Seeing the two little girls with their round, food-filled bellies, Wei Gong took it upon himself to scrub the pots and wash the dishes.
This was what everyday life was all about: the ordinary routine of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea.
In the living room.
Luo Ya leaned over to the little girl beside her and whispered, "Do you like him?"
"Huh? N-No, I don't!"
Ilya froze for a moment and hurriedly shook her head.
Yet her beautiful ruby-like eyes secretly glanced toward the busy figure in the kitchen.
Just looking at him made the corners of her mouth itch, as if strange tears were about to drip out.
His cooking was simply too delicious!
If only she could eat it every day...
There really was something going on!
Looking at the other girl's expression of insatiable longing, Luo Ya instantly felt the danger of having invited a wolf into the house.
Ding-dong~
Just as she was about to continue interrogating her, she suddenly felt the phone in her back pocket vibrate.
Luo Ya took it out and saw an update notification from a specially followed Uploader.
The Uploader was none other than—
[Alaya]
It had uploaded a new video—
[The Perfect King]
"Huh? It hasn't even been a day, and Alaya has already uploaded a second video?"
Luo Ya was extremely surprised.
The quality of the first video, Vengeful Witch, had been outrageously high.
It had completely crushed ninety-nine percent of the movies on the market.
It had even felt so realistic that people seemed to have traveled into the past and followed along with a camera.
It possessed an immersive realism that made viewers feel as if they had witnessed everything with their own eyes!
Countless people online had speculated that Joan had most likely hired someone in private and spent tens of millions of euros filming it, hoping to recreate the Nameless Heroic Spirit who had once saved her.
The everyday life the two of them shared had been filmed in the form of a movie.
Only the most exciting segments had been edited together for now, allowing the entire world to see them.
It could be called the most romantic confession imaginable!
"Wouldn't it make more sense to release the unedited movie?" Luo Ya asked, puzzled.
It had been less than a day since Joan had publicly admitted at a press conference that the video was authentic.
No matter what kind of publicity campaign it was, it needed time to build momentum.
Once the buzz had reached its peak, they could release the complete movie.
By then, it would certainly shatter box-office records, bringing in at least several billion, or even over ten billion euros in terrifying revenue.
"Could it be that this Uploader, [Alaya], isn't from France?"
Ilya rubbed her round belly as she answered her best friend's question.
"Oh? That actually seems possible!"
Luo Ya's eyes lit up.
That was one of countless guesses.
With the arrival of the Age of Heroes, many people speculated that Alaya, the Human Collective Consciousness, wanted to usher humanity into a second evolution of life.
An evolution from ordinary organisms into energy-based lifeforms!
Now, Alaya had begun using Biography of the Nameless Heroic Spirit as a medium to reveal the pasts of one Heroic Spirit after another.
Could this mean that the true Age of Heroes had arrived, an age in which everyone could become a Heroic Spirit?
Luo Ya shouted toward the kitchen, "Wei Gong, come take a look!"
"Look at what?"
Holding a pair of chopsticks, Wei Gong casually turned his head and replied.
The mischievous child's delighted voice came from the living room: "Alaya uploaded a second video!"
Clatter~
The chopsticks in his hand suddenly fell to the floor.
His relaxed, cheerful expression froze in an instant.
Two videos in one day?
Wei Gong felt his temples throbbing violently.
Good grief, even the donkeys on a production team weren't this diligent!
"Alaya, even capitalists would bow before you. Can't you let me rest properly for a few years?"
He was utterly speechless.
He always felt as if he would wake up one day to find someone crouched in front of him, saying—
"Master, you can't rest yet~"
He had traveled across all of Human History and countless parallel worlds, worked for Alaya for countless years, and protected humanity's continuity who knew how many times. Yet she still refused to let him off.
I have to say my piece!
Wei Gong wiped his hands, took out his phone, and opened the new video that had immediately shot to the top of the rankings.
It began just like the previous one—
[Biography of the Nameless Heroic Spirit!]
[No one knows your name, yet your deeds will endure forever!]
The two lines of large text left him with complicated feelings.
If she really liked him, would she have exploited him this ruthlessly?
Looking at this introduction, he could almost hear someone saying—
"Being able to work 007 is your Good Fortune! Lots of people want to work 007 but don't even have the opportunity!"
"Don't you want low housing prices? To find a job easily? To have no pressure at all? To win over the girl you like simply by pursuing her?"
"Surely not, surely not, surely not?"
Damn it. One day, he would come straight to her door!
So, who was the protagonist of the second exposure video?
Wei Gong patiently started the playback.
Countless comments suddenly began scrolling across the screen—
[First!!!]
[Holy crap, look at what I found!]
[Alaya is awesome! I love you so much! Which Heroic Spirit are you exposing this time?]
[Look, this is the efficiency the donkeys on a production team should have! You authors who keep delaying updates, take note!]
[@Cat-Eared Princess, I'm talking about you! Update already!]
The number of comments exploded.
Wei Gong had no choice but to turn comment blocking to its maximum before he could watch the video without interference.
The image slowly changed.
This time, it was accompanied by a deep, powerful narration—
[In the fifth century AD, the British Isles entered an era of chaos as the Roman Empire declined.]
[King Uther, defeated by Vortigern, the King of Lowly, placed his hopes in the next generation.]
[King Uther and his court mage Merlin used the bloodline of Britain's kings, along with Britain's incarnation as the Red Dragon, to create a child destined to become king.]
[Her name was—Artoria Pendragon!]
A petite figure clad in armor and wearing a helmet appeared at the very center of the video.
Her golden hair could be seen through the helmet.
As could a pair of emerald-green eyes!
"Heh heh, it really is you!" Joan sat upon the throne.
She swirled her wineglass, her lips seeming stained with blood as she displayed an extraordinary beauty.
After Alaya released the first exposure video, the memories that had previously been sealed away had gradually returned to her.
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