Children who grew up in an interstellar society could actually understand better why an eighteen-year-old boy would choose amusement over women.
Especially those who lived carefree lives—it was perfectly normal for them to still look childlike at seventy or eighty.
If they did not want to grow up, they did not have to.
But Susu had learned quite a bit about the background of Oaisis and even Toril lately. In particular, in a world like Oaisis, which resembled the Victorian era... even the most innocent children grew up exposed to adults' extravagant, decadent lifestyles.
Their innocence generally came with a peculiar coldness and indifference.
Susu could not help asking in surprise, "So, is there something wrong with this son of Gaia's?"
A long list of genetic disorders caused by inbreeding had already flashed through the female priest's mind... and she had begun wondering whether the child had been conceived using Lucimar's seed in secret.
After all, that fellow spent his days chasing women. It was not impossible for someone to seize the opportunity to pull something, was it?
"Zhu Meili said the boy does pay attention to the women around him." Xue Yunfeng, however, interrupted her wandering thoughts. "But he's extremely cautious. He seems to regard everyone around him as... his elders' spies.
"This kid... perhaps he's known since childhood that no one around him is on his side, so he's wary of everyone?"
"How is that possible?" Susu, who had studied psychology, rejected that outright. "Even people sent by his own grandmother, never mind his parents, couldn't stamp out a man's desire to chase women.
"Could all the women around him really resist trying to seduce him?
"In a desert oasis, having their master's favor must make quite a difference to those servants' lives, right?"
"Lucia is trying to