Water Mirror Peak appeared above Earth once more.
"What a pain... I'm exhausted..."
After all that mental torment, Su Lin dragged his weary body home to his own world without stopping at the Shrouding the Heavens Merchant Association's transit station in God City.
Thank heavens he had slipped away before that crazy woman got home.
After tea came freshly baked cookies. Her parents had even chatted with Su Lin about everyday things. It had all felt inexplicably awkward; he had been unable to sit still.
Looking back, Su Lin would rather have fought the Mother Goddess of Depravity, even if the grass on her grave was already three inches high.
It had been awful. Elaina's father had looked at him with sorrow and resignation, occasionally saying things Su Lin neither understood nor wanted to understand.
Brother, are you in your right mind?
He shook his head, casting the absurd experience from his mind.
If you'd told me your parents were home, I would've left right after dropping the stuff off.
What was with her? What good was a move that inflicted a thousand wounds on herself to deal the enemy eight hundred?
All it had done was trap Su Lin inside a shell called "what people would think," forcing him to act unfailingly polite. It had served no other purpose.
"Never again."
"Never what again?"
"Eating with her parents."
"You've met the parents already?"
Su Lin turned toward the gray-haired girl emerging behind him. Their eyes met, and he blinked.
"What are you doing here?" Su Lin asked flatly. He had only just conjured up a mattress and hadn't even had time to lie down before she appeared.
Stelle: "There's no Honkai: Star Rail without Stelle."
"I'm not playing right now," Su Lin said.
Stelle: "I am."
"Oh." Su Lin