Yae Jun Kaslana

"Dong Moxuan... Jun,"

Watching the boy before her, Yae Sakura forced a smile.

"Although I have no idea what you're talking about, I somehow feel like you're saying something really terrible."

Dong Moxuan "..."

"Ahem, I was only joking!"

With an awkward laugh, Dong Moxuan scratched his head and dropped the subject.

After all, jokes like that were fine once or twice, but overdoing them ruined the fun.

"I know you, Yae Sakura, my great-great-great-great-great-great... grandmother!"

Yae Sakura "..."

"Great... great-grandmother?"

Dong Moxuan's words startled Yae Sakura so badly that her fox ears stood straight up.

What in the world was a great-great-great-great-great-great-great... grandmother? She was still an unmarried maiden, for goodness' sake!

Don't go making up family connections!

But to her surprise, the boy before her began explaining himself with a perfectly serious expression.

"That's right, Great-Grandmother. I'm your descendant. Great-Grandmother, you don't know this, but before Kallen sealed you away, she had already had your child—my ancestor. Dong Moxuan is actually an alias. My real name is Jun Xuan Kaslana!"

Looking at the girl before him, Dong Moxuan spouted utter nonsense with a solemn expression.

"Great-Grandmother, I finally found you!"

Yae Sakura "..."

There was far too much information. She needed a moment to process it.

Kallen had been pregnant with her child before sealing her away?

But the most outrageous thing she and Kallen had ever done was sleep in the same bed. They hadn't done anything else, so how could...

Wait!

That wasn't even the important part!

She was a woman herself. Even if she had wanted to get Kallen pregnant, she didn't have the necessary equipment!

So...

She looked up at the boy before her, her face expressionless.

Dong Moxuan "..."

"Alright, don't look at me like that. I was only joking, really! Yae Sakura Granny!"

"...I'm not your granny!"

"It's all the same. My mother taught me to respect my elders, especially a centenarian like Granny Yae Sakura!"

Yae Sakura "..."

What should she do if she suddenly felt like hitting him?

"Dong Moxuan... Jun,"

Yae Sakura's expression darkened.

"It's very rude to casually comment on a girl's age!"

"...Understood, Big Sister Yae Sakura!"

Sensing a sudden, inexplicable chill, Dong Moxuan immediately backed down.

Seeing this, Yae Sakura breathed a quiet sigh of relief.

If this fellow kept provoking her, she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't lose control and attack him.

Thinking this, Yae Sakura took her hand off the hilt of her sword...

Wait, where was her sword?

Puzzled, the girl looked down and saw that she was wearing a pure white nightgown.

Yae Sakura "..."

Dong Moxuan "..."

"Jun... Jun Xuan,"

Realizing what had happened, Yae Sakura's cheeks instantly flushed crimson. She instinctively covered her chest like an innocent young girl.

"W-What did you do to Sakura?"

"I didn't do anything unnecessary."

Seeing the girl's embarrassed and indignant expression, Dong Moxuan instinctively raised both hands to prove his innocence.

"I only helped you change your clothes. Your original ones were covered in mud and soaked through, so I washed them for you."

"The clothes you're wearing were the ones I just changed you into. I only helped you change clothes. I absolutely didn't do anything else."

Dong Moxuan declared this with complete conviction.

Yae Sakura "..."

Looking at the boy before her, Yae Sakura was so embarrassed and furious that she could have died.

People from her era were extremely conservative, and she was a shrine maiden to boot.

Yet a boy she had met for the first time had seen her body. Even with Yae Sakura's gentle temperament, she felt an urge to kill him.

However, he was her savior. Even if he had merely picked her up and brought her home on a whim, she couldn't repay his kindness with hatred.

Besides, she was already a spirit who should have died long ago. Why should she still care about such things?

At that thought, the flush faded from Yae Sakura's face, and her eyes grew somewhat despondent.

"Then... should I thank you, Jun Xuan...?"

Yae Sakura sighed softly, her voice weak, but she placed particular emphasis on the words "Jun Xuan."

"You're welcome, you're welcome!"

Dong Moxuan smiled and scratched his head, completely oblivious to the sarcasm in her words.

Seeing this, Yae Sakura's expression froze slightly. She had gained a new understanding of just how shameless the boy before her was.

She didn't dwell on what had just happened. Instead, she looked at Dong Moxuan and asked softly, "Where is this? And Jun Xuan... why do you know so much about Sakura?"

What Yae Sakura truly cared about was the second question.

She clearly didn't know the boy before her, yet he seemed to know everything about her, even what had happened between her and Kallen...

The feeling of being seen through completely made Yae Sakura uncomfortable.

"As for this place... I don't know either. I'd guess it's the room of some girl who's already become a dead apostle."

Faced with Yae Sakura's question, Dong Moxuan first looked around the room filled with a young girl's atmosphere, then answered.

"As for why I know so much about Sakura... just take it as me being able to foresee the future and know the past."

After all, although Dong Moxuan had no intention of hiding the fact that he had transmigrated or knew about games, explaining it would be troublesome.

"By the way, Sakura, I remember you being very strong. Who beat you into this state?"

Looking at the girl before him, Dong Moxuan voiced the question he had kept buried in his heart.

Seeing that Dong Moxuan hadn't answered her question directly, Yae Sakura frowned.

However, she didn't press him further. Instead, she answered his question.

"A girl wearing blue-and-white armor, carrying a lance, with golden hair and blue eyes."

As she spoke, Yae Sakura couldn't help recalling the battle from earlier.

"She... was very strong!"

"Durandal?"

Hearing Yae Sakura's description, Dong Moxuan instantly pictured the absentminded goose known as Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie.

"Jun Xuan, you know her?"

Seeing Dong Moxuan's reaction, Yae Sakura grew curious.

It was impossible for her not to be interested in the girl who had defeated her.

"Of course. Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie—who doesn't know her?"

Dong Moxuan's expression turned slightly wistful as he said this.

After all, she...

Back then, she seemed to have been called Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie too.

"Schicksal's... Valkyrie?"

At those words, Yae Sakura fell into thought.

She seemed to have heard that term somewhere before...

That's right, Kallen. Kallen seemed to have been a Valkyrie of Schicksal too...

"Exactly. No wonder you were beaten so badly! You actually ran into her. You're really unlucky..."

Gently stroking his chin, Dong Moxuan looked at the girl before him and sighed softly.