"Not so. I am many years older than my husband. If anyone must be punished, it ought to be me."
"Huh? But how old could you possibly be, looking like that?" Celine blinked.
The voice that answered her came from outside the tree hollow.
"It's rude to casually ask someone's age, especially a girl's."
Having already washed up, Zhang Xiu stood with his right arm braced against the entrance to the hollow, his eyes full of amusement as he looked at them.
"Husband." Yaoshi bounced toward him, then flung herself into Zhang Xiu's arms.
He held Yaoshi and spun her through the air before finally coming to a stop in front of the others.
"Everything's been sorted out. You can all relax now~" Zhang Xiu waved to Celine, whose injuries had healed, feeling genuinely saddened by what the girl had endured.
In Honkai Impact 3rd, she had been driven mad as a test subject, become a Herrscher, and finally died as a disembodied consciousness.
Even after coming to Honkai: Star Rail, she still had to suffer an invasion, when she was only a child...
"Would you like something to eat? You've helped us through so many crises. We ought to treat you as family."
As she said this, Naya could distinctly feel her face growing hotter.
They seemed far too dependent on him and owed him far too much. Simply calling him family and leaving it at that hardly seemed right.
She immediately added, "If there's anything you need our help with, we'll do everything we can."
"Actually, there is something right now... I'd like to try the tastiest thing you have here. Could you bring me some?"
"The tastiest thing? Hmm... All right, though you might have to wait quite a while."
As she spoke, Naya turned to the