Because it was already afternoon when they arrived yesterday, Nangong Yu slept straight through until the early morning of the next day.
As dawn was just breaking, Nangong Yu opened his eyes. Before his consciousness had fully revived, his stomach, empty for a day, began to rumble in protest.
So hungry…
The surge of hunger quickly stimulated his consciousness awake. The embarrassing scene from yesterday reappeared in his mind.
Tsk, what a miscalculation.
Shaking his head to clear away distracting thoughts, aside from hunger, a night's sleep had completely cleared all his debuffs. Now he felt refreshed all over. Indeed, only after losing something do you learn to cherish it. Nangong Yu felt his body had never been this good.
Wait, refreshed?
Sitting up, he looked at his naked body and scratched his head in confusion. Who had stripped him? Lifting the covers, he found that not even his underwear was left. He remembered feeling a familiar warmth when he was drowsily falling asleep yesterday. Was it Seele?
His backpack was by the bed, so Nangong Yu didn't think too much about it. He simply took out a new set of clothes from the bag and put them on: shorts and a white T-shirt, a simple and versatile combination.
Then he picked up his phone from the nightstand to check the time. He tapped it, but the screen didn't respond. A moment later, he realized with a start that it was out of battery.
He remembered the battery was already critically low when they got off the plane yesterday. Since then, he hadn't charged it due to motion sickness, so it must have shut down automatically.
Looking at his reflection in the black screen, Nangong Yu felt like he had forgotten something, but after frowning and thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember anything.
Never mind, it's more important to go out and fill his stomach first.
Plugging his phone into the charger, Nangong Yu stretched his body and walked to the room's private bathroom. After quickly washing up, he opened the door and walked straight out.
Soon after Nangong Yu left the room, his charged phone beeped and turned on automatically. After the Anti-Entropy logo flashed, the lock screen, with Seele's sleeping face as the background, lit up.
Then, the entire phone began to vibrate wildly, messages popping up like a surging flood, interspersed with several missed calls.
And the source of these messages was mostly the same person.
It was a cute girl with pink hair.
...
Perhaps they were a bit too excited playing yesterday, as all the girls slept in late this morning. Nangong Yu, unable to find the cook, could only helplessly walk to the refrigerator alone and pull out some toast and milk.
He warmed them slightly, spread some peanut butter, and had it for breakfast. These high-calorie foods were just right to satisfy the demands of his empty stomach.
With the sunrise over the sea as his accompaniment, Nangong Yu sat on the wooden steps by the door, eating bite by bite.
The taste was only decent; the peanut butter was a bit rich, but it went perfectly with the plain milk. His stomach finally had something in it, making the feeling of panic from hunger disappear without a trace.
Feeling himself re-energized, Nangong Yu inexplicably thought of a certain clever person's lines.
This is the complete Azure Empyrea, the complete Fu Hua, the complete me!!
Replacing the names with his own, that was Nangong Yu's current mood. Unfortunately, it was too embarrassing; perhaps only someone with the personality of the Sentience would be able to say it without awkwardness.
After tidying up and returning to the villa, one of the bedroom doors on the second floor opened at that moment. Through the gaps in the railing, Nangong Yu could clearly see a head of fluffy, messy white hair.
Kiana, wearing loose pajamas, shuffled down the stairs step by step, yawning sleepily as she went, tears constantly welling up in the corners of her eyes.
As she passed Nangong Yu, Kiana, squinting, greeted him: "Ah, it's A Yu, good morning~"
Her drawn-out greeting even infected Nangong Yu with a hint of drowsiness. Before he could respond, he saw Kiana, who continued walking forward, suddenly stop.
Then she quickly turned around, staring at him blankly with one eye wide and the other squinted.
Soon, Kiana's eyes widened, and a look of surprise appeared on her face: "A Yu, you're awake!"
"Mm-hmm, and I haven't turned into a girl."
Nangong Yu replied with a smile, also making a jab.
"What do you mean 'turned into a girl'? Is your body okay? Is there anywhere that still feels uncomfortable?"
As she spoke, Kiana even reached out to touch him.
"Don't worry, I've fully recovered." He pushed away Kiana's restless little hands. It wouldn't be good if she touched somewhere she shouldn't.
Kiana, however, was only wearing loose-fitting camisole pajamas. With a slightly larger movement, her shoulder strap slipped down her smooth, rosy shoulder, exposing half of a tender white curve to the air, but Kiana was completely unaware.
As expected of a good brother, giving out benefits first thing in the morning.
"That's good, that's good. A Yu, you scared us to death yesterday. Your face was so pale, it felt almost like when Sirin fainted from a horror movie."
"Sirin fainted from a horror movie?" Curiosity welled up in Nangong Yu's eyes.
"Of course! You should have seen that time…"
At this, Kiana also got excited, gesticulating wildly and vividly recounting the story of how Sirin fainted from a horror movie and was then carried to the hospital on her big sister's back.
In her excitement, she even wanted to carry Nangong Yu to demonstrate.
Little did she know, a certain purple-haired girl had been behind her, giving her the death glare for a long time.
Soon, Kiana's screams echoed through the room.
Perhaps Kiana's screams were too mournful, as Seele, Bronya, and Mei quickly emerged from their rooms, rubbing their eyes, and upon stepping out, they all instinctively peered downstairs.
Nangong Yu also smiled and greeted each of them.
Seeing Nangong Yu's recovery, Mei smiled in relief.
Bronya's eyes flickered; Seele had seized yesterday's opportunity, and today she also wanted to do something.
Seele, however, didn't think too much, immediately waved her hand in surprise, then pattered downstairs and threw herself into Nangong Yu's arms.
"Big Brother, are you alright?"
"Yes, thanks to Seele's care~"
Unexpectedly, this compliment instantly made Seele's face flush. She looked left and right, then leaned into Nangong Yu's ear and whispered, "Big Brother knows about yesterday?"
"Yesterday? What happened?"
Seeing Nangong Yu's genuine confusion, Seele finally relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief, waving her hands at him repeatedly: "It's nothing, nothing, Big Brother doesn't need to worry about it, hehe~"
This secretive act, like a little secret she shared with her Big Brother, made Seele's heart flutter with joy.
My dear girl, hasn't anyone told you that doing this will only make people more curious?
Looking at Seele's smiling face, Nangong Yu pondered how to get her to speak.
Compared to the cheerfulness here, the atmosphere on the other side was a bit off.
"Eden, don't you think A Yu is too much? How could he treat a cute girl like that!!"
In a pink, dreamy room, Elysia was lying on the bed in her pajamas, her two adorable, fair feet kicking against the soft mattress, thumping in rhythm with her owner's mood, as if venting her dissatisfaction. On the tablet screen in front of her, a neatly dressed Eden looked at her with a somewhat helpless expression.