"Brother, don't do that, Brother!" Seele watched Shun keep slapping himself and felt her heart ache.
But the more Seele reacted this way, the harder Shun slapped himself. The key issue was that he couldn't actually hurt himself. Whether it was his transformed Abundance Emanator-like physique or the constantly active Abyss Flower, both were rapidly healing the marks from the slaps.
"Brother, stop it. This was just the other Seele's prank. It's not your fault, and Seele really likes Brother too." Seele grabbed Shun's hand and held it gently in hers, her face full of smiles.
"Sigh…" Seeing Seele like this, Shun lost all his temper. He thought to himself: "Is the way this little girl likes someone really what I'm thinking?"
Although she was only his adopted sister, experiencing something like Destined Sky was something Shun really didn't want to go through.
But what could he do? It had already happened, and it was the other Seele who had taken the lead. The kind of maneuver where she kissed him halfway and then switched — Shun had never even imagined such a thing.
"Brother, don't mind it. Seele doesn't take it to heart. The other Seele really likes playing pranks. If Brother feels too embarrassed, then just spend the whole day with Seele today."
"That works too…" At this point, Shun didn't have the face to refuse Seele anymore. As long as she didn't suddenly ask him to kiss her again, he would most likely soften his heart.
Yesterday when Seele returned home, she had talked about many things with Fu Hua, such as: Although Shun looked rather flirtatious on the surface, he was unexpectedly pure-hearted inside and quite conservative in his thinking.
To win over someone like him who wouldn't take the initiative, one had to actively express affection toward him, raise the favorability to a very high level, and also make Shun himself realize that the emotion had changed in nature.
Give Shun some mental preparation in advance, then take the initiative so he couldn't refuse — this was the method Fu Hua had come up with for Seele.
You ask why Fu Hua would come up with such an idea that goes against ethics? Come on, she's an old person. What's wrong with an elderly woman hoping for both sons and daughters, and a house full of descendants!
If you insist on asking what kind of mindset someone who has been the Red Kite Immortal for five thousand years actually has, you might not even understand it yourself! In any case, when it came to Seele, Fu Hua was the first to approve.
The entire afternoon, Shun spent with Seele holding onto his arm. It wasn't until the sky grew dark that Shun treated Seele to dinner and then walked her back to the dormitory.
Thankfully, the other Seele didn't take over during dinner. If she had suddenly done it again without warning, Shun felt his poor little heart really couldn't handle it.
Moreover, whether it was his imagination or not, he felt that today's Seele was much more clingy than before. He wondered if it was the influence of that kiss.
Thinking of this, Shun wanted to slap himself a few more times — "I really deserve to die!" — but since Seele was right beside him, he couldn't actually hit himself.
"Brother, you can send Seele here. The rest of the way, Seele can walk by herself." At the entrance of the St. Freya dormitory building, Seele said to Shun.
Shun glanced at the dormitory building that was already very close. There wasn't much distance left, so he nodded and said, "Alright, then I'll stop here."
Really, Shun felt he truly wanted to get away from Seele quickly. This entire afternoon, Seele had been holding onto his arm. Although the girl's chest wasn't very developed yet, the influence from the orphanage had kicked in early, causing Shun to feel restless all day.
He only felt at ease after watching Seele go upstairs. Although the current St. Freya had very few people who could defeat Seele, and her ability to quantumize at any time made her almost undefeatable except against certain mechanic-type enemies.
But long-standing habits still made him unconsciously worry about her safety. In Shun's heart, Seele was still the obedient little sister who needed protection.
Although today's events might have changed things a bit, people's stereotypes weren't so easily altered.
It would still take Seele a long time to gradually change her own positioning. One could only say that being a little sister was Seele's disadvantage, but also her greatest advantage.
Seele swiped her access card, returned to the two-person dormitory she shared with Fu Hua. "Big sister Fu Hua, I'm back!"
The moment Seele entered the dormitory, she happily said to Fu Hua, who was playing a gacha mobile game on the sofa.
Hearing the noise from Seele's side, Fu Hua paused the game that was still idling and looked toward Seele, asking, "How did it go? Was it smooth?"
Hearing her Master ask this, Seele, who had originally felt there was nothing much to it, suddenly became shy. Her two fingers awkwardly played with her long hair, which had grown a bit longer than shoulder length.
Speaking of which, she had started growing her hair long because Brother liked long hair…
"It… it went pretty well. But Brother doesn't seem to have those kinds of thoughts yet. Still, today's progress was quite smooth."
At the very least, she was no longer just a simple little sister in front of Brother.
Fu Hua looked at her little disciple acting all bashful and didn't bother asking what had happened. It was better to let the children handle it themselves.
Actually, she was quite looking forward to holding a grandchild… But to be honest, according to the records in her notes, among her many disciples, only her seventh disciple Qin Suyi seemed to have given birth to a daughter.
The key issue was that her relationship with that grand-disciple didn't seem very good, so she never had any particularly close little ones in her memories…
If her current two disciples could… she believed that with Shun's personality, any child he had would be very likable and clingy as long as they inherited even a bit of their father's shamelessness. And if they were as obedient as Seele, they would also be very endearing.
Why was she suddenly thinking about this? Fu Hua felt she had really become too relaxed. She hadn't even thought about how to solve Honkai, yet here she was thinking about such things…
"Never mind. I don't plan to interfere in your affairs anymore. In any case, your Master will support you both." Fu Hua believed in Seele's sense of propriety. The considerate girl definitely wouldn't push too hard. Seele surely understood the importance of taking things step by step.
"Mm, big sister Fu Hua, Seele understands." Seele nodded heavily, her still-blushing face full of seriousness.
Speaking of which, today's smooth progress was largely thanks to the other her.
"Seele, thank you!" Seele said inwardly to her other self.
After a while, an arrogant cold snort came through. "You know it. To deal with this guy, you have to do it this way. Although he can be quite sharp sometimes, most of the time he's like a block of wood."
"Hehe, Seele understands!" Seele felt that the other her had seemed more energetic lately. Was it because of Brother?
Speaking of which, the reason she had chosen to believe in Brother in the first place was because the other her had given her a push!