The sudden shout nearly scared Sirin into dropping her phone into the bushes.
However, at the critical moment, Sirin used her Herrscher power to transfer the phone to an unknown location.
By the time she had done all this, Sirin's face had already changed into a calm and composed expression.
Just then, Bella ran up to her, tightly grabbing onto the corner of her clothes.
"Sirin, I heard you're going to be adopted? But we clearly promised to always..."
"Bella!"
Before Bella could finish, she was hurriedly interrupted by Aurora, who had just caught up.
Then, Aurora turned to Sirin and gave her an apologetic smile, "Don't listen to her nonsense, we're happy for you."
Seeing Bella's pitiful look while trying hard to hold back tears, Sirin also felt full of guilt in her heart.
Because recently she had been immersed in the joy of recovering her memories, she had subconsciously ignored her companions' feelings.
Thinking of this, Sirin walked to Bella's side, patted her head, and said, "Bella, Aurora, Ananta... I've ignored your feelings a bit during this time, I apologize to all of you…"
Sirin's serious apology made the three girls present a little overwhelmed.
The calm Aurora still wanted to say something, but Sirin continued,
"Actually, it's also my fault for not making it clear. The truth is, not long from now, there is a family who will adopt me, but… they're not just adopting me—they're adopting all four of us…"
As soon as Sirin finished speaking, the three girls all showed expressions of surprise and joy.
After all, if conditions allowed, of course they hoped the four of them could always stay together and never be separated.
But what they didn't know was… Sirin was lying.
In reality, the person coming to adopt her, Cecilia, didn't know about this situation at all. Everything Sirin just said was a well-intentioned lie to comfort her companions.
As for how to bring the other three to where she would be, without alarming Cecilia's family…
Sirin considered that a small problem.
After all, now that she had recovered part of the Herrscher of the Void's powers, transferring the three of them somewhere was as easy as could be.
On the other side, after learning she wouldn't be separated from Sirin, Bella, with red eyes, apologized to her, "Big sister Sirin, I'm sorry. It's all my fault, coming to say all that weird stuff without understanding the situation…"
To that, Sirin generously waved her hand and said,
"We're all family. No need to be so distant. And besides, as your big sister, how could I blame you~"
As Sirin's words fell, the mood among the group returned to the previous harmonious atmosphere.
After chatting for a while, Aurora called for everyone to head back.
And Sirin said she'd stay behind because she still had a few things to finish up.
Aurora and Ananta nodded, then took Bella's hand and prepared to leave.
However, just as Sirin was preparing to wait for the three of them to leave and resume arguing with the video's scrolling comments, Bella suddenly turned around halfway and said to Sirin with curiosity, "By the way, big sister Sirin, what video were you watching just now? You were laughing so happily. I've never seen you so happy before…"
Before Bella could finish, she was hurriedly pulled away by Aurora and Ananta, who covered her mouth.
Before they left, Ananta suppressed her laughter and said to Sirin, "Sirin, don't mind her. Bella is still young and doesn't understand some things. As for us… of course we didn't see anything at all…"
After saying that, the three of them quickly left the scene, leaving behind Sirin with a blushing face, stunned in the wind.
After a long while, Sirin finally recovered herself. After all, since she had decided to bring the three of them along, they'd find out about the things related to Van sooner or later.
Thinking of this, Sirin no longer tangled herself in it.
But just as she was about to take out her phone again and continue arguing with those blind barrage comments, whe awkwardly realized… she couldn't find her phone.
Earlier, in a panic to prevent her secret from being discovered by her companions, Sirin had transferred the phone to an unknown location.
And that "unknown location" also included herself…
———
[Meanwhile, at St. Freya Academy]
After school in the morning, Bronya was standing dazed at the entrance of the teaching building.
Recalling what just happened, she subconsciously furrowed her brows.
Today was Seele's first day attending St. Freya Academy.
Bronya had planned to use the lunch break to take Seele on a tour of the campus and help her get familiar with the environment.
After learning this, Kiana immediately offered enthusiastically to help Bronya give Seele a tour too.
But after thinking for a moment, Bronya refused Kiana.
Firstly, she didn't want to take up her friend's lunch break over her personal matters.
Secondly, she worried Seele might be shy around new people, especially on her first day.
But more importantly, last night when Bronya returned to the dorm, she had keenly noticed that something subtle had changed between Kiana and Raiden Mei.
Though she didn't know why or how things had changed…
She still hoped the two could take the lunch break as an opportunity to talk things through.
After all, the three of them were each other's most precious companions, so Bronya didn't want a rift to form between the two because of something.
Thinking of this, an absurd thought suddenly popped into Bronya's mind...
'Could it be… Mei was caught by Kiana making lunch for someone else?'
But quickly, Bronya dismissed that idea. Because with how single-minded Kiana was, how could she possibly have such keen observation skills?
'Even if she did discover something, she would've probably caused a huge scene by now, right?'
'How could she possibly be keeping it all bottled up? There's no way that just being away for a day, Kiana's thoughts could've matured that much, right?'
'Rather than believe Kiana could grow up overnight, I'd rather believe I am the Herrscher of Reason.'
Just as Bronya had this signature duck-face daze, she suddenly felt a tug on her sleeve.
Turning around, it turned out to be Seele.
Seele looked at the dazed Bronya with worry and said, "Bronya, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Bronya shook off the clutter in her mind and turned to the blue-haired girl beside her.
"Seele, how do you feel on your first day at St. Freya Academy? Are you adapting okay?"
"It's going great." Seele smiled gently. "The teachers and classmates are all taking good care of me…"
"That's good." Bronya nodded. "I was worried you wouldn't adjust well to a new environment~"
"No way~" Seele quickly waved her hands. "Besides, anywhere with Bronya… isn't a new environment to me~"
At this moment, another voice suddenly rang in Seele's mind, it was Black Seele.
[Seele, why didn't you tell Bronya about the guy we ran into?]
Seele gently replied in her heart, 'Other me, Bronya probably hasn't remembered the past yet. Let's not trouble her with those things.'
Hearing this, Black Seele was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
[From that angle, what you said does make sense.]
After a while, Black Seele still couldn't help but mutter,
[Can't believe we actually ended up becoming classmates with the Herrscher of Knowledge...]
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