The instant he heard that, Fang Ran, who had still been drinking with his head down, sprayed water everywhere. He jerked his head up in startled disbelief, completely caught off guard.
Ah!
Σ(Д!!!) An illegitimate child!???
It wasn't like she couldn't be seen in public, so why would it be illegiti—ah, damn it!!! That wasn't even the issue here!
That one remark sent ten thousand horses stampeding through his mind. He no longer knew whether to mock her overactive imagination or her excessive consumption of family melodramas.
Fang Ran stared at Hua Ling, so dumbfounded he could not even make a sound.
"Otherwise, why would a female A-rank Upper Tier participant near the top of her faction get involved with a cowardly little boy like you? Not only putting so much effort into raising you, but treating you so well?"
Ignoring the inner turmoil of a Magical Boy who looked as if he had been struck by lightning, Hua Ling wore a suspicious expression as she continued making what she considered a perfectly logical deduction.
After all, female participants in the Night Battle world looked for partners and spouses at different times. Those who possessed both strength and beauty beyond ordinary people—
Aside from those with more open and casual private lives, were willing to spend time waiting for "love."
So, for an ancient A-rank Upper Tier participant, finding true love over the course of a century and having a son as old as Fang Ran did not actually seem all that strange.
Hearing that, Meng Lang and Gou Yu exchanged looks, both struggling to suppress the bizarre absurdity in their eyes. As for the Queen who had been hanging over their heads ever since they had been in The Cabin—
Though they did not know her exact relationship with