Magic Fighting Spirit (2)

The scene before his eyes changed, revealing red rocky ground and a green sky—Beginning Ball Space.

Li Yu walked up to his cabin, pushed open the door, and saw the two girls sitting in the courtyard.

The moment they saw Li Yu enter, they immediately stood up and bowed.

"Master, you're back."

"Mm."

Li Yu handed the two translators to them, motioning for them to learn how to put them on.

The two girls were very clever and quickly placed the headset-like devices over their ears.

"Very good. You can understand what I'm saying now, right?"

"Yes, Master." It still felt somewhat strange to have two twenty-year-old girls calling him Master.

Li Yu was not one to fuss over such things. That was not the important part; rather, he was very interested in the girls' planet and cultivation system.

"I still don't know your names."

The brown-haired girl answered first. "My name is Jessie."

"Alice."

"Very lovely names."

They sounded somewhat unfamiliar when heard separately, but hearing the two names together made them seem oddly familiar.

At Li Yu's praise, neither girl showed any embarrassment. Their expressions remained numb, their eyes still hollow.

"Do you know where you came from? And how you ended up in that palace?"

The question seemed to stump them both. They tried hard to remember, as though it were a distant memory from long ago.

"I... I only remember my parents offering me to a god. They said I would gain happiness, and then I appeared in that castle-like palace, where I lived for a very, very long time."

Jessie's words were halting at first as she recalled the past, but when she spoke of the palace, they became clear and fluent. Yet she had no concept of time, perhaps because there was no distinction