"If I said the place on this map is where I live, would you believe me?"
The words registered in the white-haired girl's ears, and she couldn't help but freeze.
This guy's home?
"Are you serious?"
As if she had just encountered something truly bizarre, Miss Stargazer couldn't help but question him.
According to the Immortal, that place was supposed to be her husband's residence. Yet the person before her claimed to live there...
Could it be that this guy was the Immortal's husband's page boy?
Miss Stargazer's mind began to race with wild theories, and her gaze as she sized him up grew suspicious.
That beautiful woman who had obliterated the Mop-Head with a single blow was an Immortal, so her husband was likely an Immortal as well.
Miss Stargazer vaguely recalled that in the plays she had seen, Immortals were often accompanied by one or two page boys.
"I'm serious."
The youth, who had inscribed no less than three hundred Honkai-energy-activated teleportation portals throughout this world for the convenience of Durandal and Fu Hua, nodded with great earnestness.
Leaving three hundred portals in a single world and maintaining their operation by himself sounded utterly ridiculous.
Even a Herrscher has limits.
Take Sirin from the Second Eruption period as an example. Before she reached her complete form, she couldn't even manage continuous long-distance teleportation, and the portals she created were far from stable.
Making her create and maintain over three hundred portals would have been enough to work her to death.
However, Li Zihan, who didn't even possess the Authority of the Void, had managed this massive undertaking with ease.
The reason was simple.
He was an apostle of all lunar civilizations, including the divine species of the Sea of Stars; the rank of his authorities was far higher than that of the castrated-version Herrschers of the Honkai world.
Furthermore, he had the fruits of the First Beast's incineration of the Human Order and the Second Beast's Sea of Chaos as his power source.
With sufficient power output and ample energy reserves, coupled with the fact that his original profession was that of a spatial mage, creating a few portals was not a very difficult task for him.
As the creator of those portals, he naturally recognized the icon on the map.
The drawing on that map clearly depicted one of the portals he had established in Tokyo.
But...
Speaking of which, did Fu Hua have some kind of grudge against Stargazer?
Li Zihan's expression turned a little strange.
She could have just given Stargazer the address of Kirie Kagarino's villa. But instead, she had to give Miss Stargazer the location of a teleportation point, and without even explicitly stating "this is a teleportation point"...
Li Zihan sank into thought.
And another thing...
At the beginning, Fu Hua had been very much looking forward to traveling with him. Yet, the moment they arrived at their destination, she had vanished...
She had been so excited about this trip, even preparing her and his clothes and travel necessities days in advance.
Could there be something in this world that was more important to Fu Hua than traveling with her lover?
Li Zihan, who knew very well that Fu Hua had learned a great deal after regaining her memories, pondered for a moment, and then the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
So, she abandoned our travel plans not to watch over Shenzhou, but to bully Stargazer?
Realizing this, Li Zihan's gaze towards the girl before him couldn't help but take on a peculiar quality.
Someone Fu Hua would go out of her way to target...
It absolutely had to be related to him.
After all, besides himself, no one else possessed the ability to jaunt around fifty thousand or five thousand years in the past.
So then...
Should he be calling Stargazer "dear wife" right now?
For some reason, the youth's expression became hesitant.
"Although I'm not entirely clear on the situation, I can confirm that this is Kirie Kagarino's house, which is my current temporary residence," the youth, his gaze toward Miss Stargazer having changed, stated a fact that she found incredible.
"Of course, to be more precise, it's the coordinates of a teleportation portal that leads to my temporary residence."
What's a teleportation portal?
And who is Kirie Kagarino?
The words, heavy with information, fell on Miss Stargazer's ears, causing an expression identical to Theresa's to appear on her face.
"If I'm not mistaken, you came looking for this place because you met an Immortal, who then brought you here, correct?" the youth spoke, knowing full well that Miss Stargazer had come because of Fu Hua, even without using Clairvoyance to read the past.
"H-How did you know?"
Her intentions laid bare in an instant, Miss Stargazer was stunned, her voice stuttering in astonishment.
And—
She wasn't sure if it was her imagination, but she felt that the man's gaze towards her had suddenly changed.
Before, he looked at her like a normal, horny boy looking at a pretty girl. But now...
It was like he was looking at family.
The girl's face instantly flushed crimson.
Hey, hey, hey, what is going on with you!
Why is a perfectly good playboy suddenly looking at a girl like he's about to reunite with a long-lost relative?
"..."
Li Zihan fell silent.
He had brought three people with him on this trip.
The Dull Goose had been with him the whole time. Ling had shouted, "I won't give you a chance to conquer me!" before retreating to her Herrscher core to hole up.
Besides those two, the only other person in this world who knew about the spatial gates was the High Immortal herself.
"Hua... she really knows how to cause trouble," the youth sighed, wondering what the High Immortal was up to now.
"What did she say to you that made you so desperate to find my temporary residence?"
Hey, hey, hey, why are you calling the Immortal by such an intimate name like "Hua"?!
As if struck by lightning, the expression on the girl's delicate face almost twisted.
He was extremely close with the Immortal, he could understand the so-called portal markings, and he knew the portal's final destination...
All the pieces wove together, and a single possibility surfaced in her mind.
"May I ask, what is your relationship with the Immortal?" the girl asked, swallowing hard. She roughly knew the answer, but she simply couldn't connect the profligate man before her with that mysterious and powerful being.
"Fu Hua is my wife," the youth stated bluntly, as if it were a simple fact.
Miss Stargazer fell silent. After a long moment, she looked at the very rakish youth and muttered in a low voice, as if she had just encountered the most unbelievable thing in the world.
"So... you're the Immortal's husband."
"That is correct," the youth sighed, having caught a glimpse of Fu Hua holding their marriage certificate while peeking into the past with his Clairvoyance.
"That title sounds rather embarrassing, though. Let's change it."
"Then, what would you like me to call you?" Miss Stargazer asked, her tone unconsciously shifting to use honorifics.
"What to call me?"
The youth looked at the girl who had clearly been toyed with by Fu Hua, stroking his chin as he pondered for a moment.
"Well, if we're speaking from the perspective of the relationship between you and me—"
"You can call me 'Husband'."