"Ah~ I doesn't want to train."
Early in the morning, Kiana let out a lazy sigh, much to the exasperation of the others nearby.
"Kiana, you are not allowed to enter the Dungeon until you learn Edge of Taixuan."
Fu Hua stood in the courtyard and said to Kiana, who was acting completely listless.
"Why? I can defeat enemies in a few moves even without learning that sword technique."
Saying that, Kiana threw a few punches at the air, stirring up a gust of wind: "Besides, isn't it most important for us to go conquer the Dungeon and level up now? Edge of Taixuan and those Six Powers can be practiced anytime."
"Kiana, the class monitor is doing this for our own good. Just practice for a bit."
Mei advised Kiana from the side, while Takatsuki lightly tapped Kiana's head with a hand chop: "You idiot."
"Ah! You hit me again!"
Kiana clutched her head and glared at Takatsuki: "I wasn't wrong! It's obviously faster to level up by adventuring in the Dungeon!"
"Stop making a fuss, I didn't even use much force. You clearly have the best talent, you're the fastest among us to learn, so why are you still acting up?"
"Hehehe."
Hearing Takatsuki's words, Kiana gave an awkward laugh. She was actually just being lazy; it wasn't that she genuinely couldn't learn it, as practicing at home every day was incredibly boring.
In terms of talent, Kiana was indeed the most gifted among them all, truly worthy of the Kaslana and Schariac bloodlines. Next was Mei, perhaps due to her Stigmata and her prior training in swordsmanship, she learned both Edge of Taixuan and the Six Powers of martial arts very quickly.
Then came Bronya. Takatsuki, having reached LV3, had instinctively mastered the Six Powers, but he was still a bit clueless about Edge of Taixuan.
What was surprising was Bell. Due to his physical limitations, Bell's progress in learning the Six Powers was very slow, but perhaps because of his relatively simple nature, his progress in Edge of Taixuan was the fastest, second only to Kiana.
Unfortunately, there was no Honkai Energy in this world, nor was there Xuanyuan Sword for him to use, so Bell would find it difficult to exert much power until he raised the level of his Edge of Taixuan.
Time passed during training.
After arriving in this world, Takatsuki had originally wanted to pay attention to the main plot of the original anime, but after a moment of recollection, he realized that the main plot he knew had long been disrupted by himself, and a large part of it consisted of Bell's personal adventure stories in the Dungeon.
During this time, Bell trained with a few others in the morning, then went on adventures in the Dungeon with Welf and Liliruca, making Kiana incredibly envious, as Kiana was forbidden from entering the Dungeon until she had fully learned.
Bell would also return to the Hearth Manor every day. Although he often went to the Entertainment District alone, Takatsuki also took the time to visit Aisha and confirmed that Bell was just looking for Haruhime and wasn't being lured by anyone else, so he stopped paying attention.
The peaceful life made Takatsuki a bit puzzled. He originally thought that the exposure of his abilities would attract many people with ulterior motives, but to his surprise, there was no movement at all. In a few days, it would be the Denatus, which happened every few months, and at that assembly, Takatsuki, Fu Hua, and Bell's first titles would be determined.
So, for the past few days, none of them had gone adventuring in the Dungeon. Instead, they were temporarily resting and waiting for the Denatus to begin, while also keeping an eye on the market for any magic books for sale.
Part of the reason for not going to the Dungeon was that Takatsuki was waiting for a potential attack that Freya might arrange.
After all, Takatsuki didn't think his arrival would affect Freya's focus on Bell, but this calm, on the contrary, made him more uneasy, like the calm before a storm, making him feel a bit unsettled.
"Takatsuki-kun, what's wrong?"
Mei placed the potato cake she had just bought into Takatsuki's hand and asked with some concern.
"Nothing, just thinking about some things. We've been here for about two months, haven't we?"
Takatsuki held up the potato cake and took a bite. It was just a regular potato pancake, with some sauce in the middle.
Mei was about to ask further when Kiana, who had sidled over, interrupted her.
"Mei, Mei, how about we swap bites?"
Kiana pounced on Mei, extending the half-eaten potato cake in her hand forward. White sauce slowly oozed from the bite mark.
"Kiana, ours are both red bean cream flavored. Is there any need to swap?"
Mei replied with a slight chuckle: "If Kiana wants to try other flavors, we can go buy another one."
"Eh... Even though the flavors are the same, Mei's beautiful girl-flavored potato cake must be different from mine... Ah!"
Kiana hadn't finished speaking when Project Bunny, which appeared behind Bronya, pulled her away: "Perverted Kiana, can't you see Mei is troubled?"
"What do you mean, how am I a pervert? And Mei didn't say anything, did she, Mei..."
While Kiana and Bronya were bickering, Kiana wanted to ask Mei for confirmation, but then she saw Mei, who had been walking ahead, had already walked far away with Takatsuki, completely oblivious to the commotion behind them.
"You two, still bickering like this during the Monster Festival? Can't you learn from Fu Hua?"
Hestia walked over and separated the two bickering girls, then looked at the two walking ahead.
Mei seemed to be saying something to Takatsuki, then held up the potato cake in her hand. The two naturally fed each other, completely ignoring the others behind them.
"Mei... Mei and Takatsuki seem to have been getting a bit too close lately, haven't they?"
Kiana looked at Mei, who had just refused to feed her, and Takatsuki feeding each other, feeling dejected, then suddenly remembered something.
Just as she was about to ask for others' opinions, she saw the people around her looking at her with strange expressions.
"What kind of look is that? Was I wrong?"
Kiana looked around, and since no one else seemed to be answering, she turned to Bell, who was at the bottom of the Familia and the easiest to bully.
"Bell, tell me, was I wrong?!"
Bell didn't expect the fire to turn on him: "Ahaha, Liliruca and Welf and I have plans, I'm leaving first."
"Hey!"
With that, Bell ignored Kiana's shouts and ran off alone.
Leaving aside Kiana, who was tangled in thought, and Bronya, who was relentlessly mocking her from the side, Hestia and Fu Hua followed behind the two in front. Hestia said with some emotion: "Takatsuki-kun is a good child. Originally, I wanted to have a romance in the lower world, but as a goddess, I can't snatch a lover from my own children."
"..."
Fu Hua looked at Hestia with some alarm, which made Hestia say with displeasure: "What? I was just thinking about it. I've been single for hundreds of millions of years; don't I need to think when I meet someone I like? And for mortals in the lower world, the love of a goddess is too heavy."
"Fu Hua, you've also lived for tens of thousands of years, haven't you? Don't you have someone you like?" Hestia asked Fu Hua in a low voice: "Don't worry, I haven't told anyone about this."
Fu Hua wasn't surprised that Hestia knew about her situation. Instead, she thought seriously for a moment, then solemnly replied to Hestia.
"None."