The Paladin on the Infinite Tour

"...That's all. Since Su Shang brought it up, I'm going to have to tell it sooner or later. It's okay to keep it secret from you." Fu Hua sighed, "That was more than five hundred years ago. It happened, because of some reasons at that time, I accepted seven apprentices and taught them Taixu Sword Qi."

"Seven Swords of Taixu?"

"Su Shang told you."

The Seven Swords of Taixu.

The seven disciples of Taixu.

This is a somewhat unpleasant past for Fu Hua.

"I accepted seven disciples with the intention of letting them help me fight against the Honkai Impact in various parts of China. After all, no matter how powerful I am, I am only one person and cannot take care of the whole of China." Fu Hua came to Ixia, He leaned against the sink and said, "It's just that maybe there was something wrong with my education method, or maybe I didn't agree with the ideas of my apprentices. In the end, I was killed by the seven of them one night." once."

"——!?"

The past events that Fu Hua told in an understatement made Alexia's eyes suddenly open in anger!

Master...was once killed by seven apprentices? !

"It's not quite accurate to say it's killing. As a fusion warrior, the Honkaiju factor I fused is Garuda, and I have a self-healing ability comparable to that of an immortal body. It's almost impossible to die, but because of the energy that penetrates my brain With one sword, I lost most of my strength and memory - I told you before, I lost my strength and memory due to some experiences, and the time I was killed by the seven disciples was one of the reasons."

Moreover, it is the biggest reason.

Alexia clenched her hands in disbelief: "Why would they do that? Killing the master... something like this -"

"[Divine Sound]." Fu Hua said one word, "It is a kind of thought stamp imposed on me. It is a technological product of pre-civilization. It can be regarded as a kind of subconscious hypnotherapy. By stimulating the brain subconsciously, It makes the human body evolve in a direction that is more adaptable to Honkai energy. After being exposed to the divine sound, the muscle strength and nerve response will be greatly improved, and the rejection reaction of the hypermutable factor on the human body will even be reduced."

"The Sword Heart Technique of Taixu Sword Qi is an application of the divine sound. Once you accept the divine sound, you will unknowingly form the idea of ​​[collapse must kill], which is difficult to eradicate. In a sense , it can be regarded as a side effect of practicing Taixu Sword Qi."

"——!?"

Exia felt surprised again, but...if it was Shenyin, it didn't seem like she couldn't understand it? After all, he had been influenced by Shenyin before.

And having said that——

"The Seven Swords of Taixu...did they kill you to get rid of the influence of Shenyin? Master."

"I think most of the reasons are this, and maybe there are other reasons. But now, I won't continue to pursue it. - Let's get down to business. I was reborn more than ten years after I was killed, and I The first thing I wanted to do after I woke up was to find the seventh disciple and find out what happened back then. Unfortunately, due to an unexpected mistake, Su Shang's mother, my seventh disciple Qin Suyi, died. "

"Su Shang will fight with me. To put it bluntly, it is to avenge my mother. Needless to say, the result is that both Su Shang and I will lose. It was about that time that I formed a contract with Otto, although the actual implementation took a long time. Later. As for Su Shang... I didn't think at the time that Otto took her away to save her life. After all, Heiyuan Baihua couldn't save her from that injury."

"——This is the past between Su Shang and I. There is nothing worth talking about."

Fu Hua said this, his voice and expression looked a little lonely.

Meeting Li Sushang again after more than five hundred years, and revisiting the not-so-good past, coupled with the random thoughts on the way back, made her feel somewhat heavy.

After hearing what Fu Hua said, Aixia clenched her fists: "If I have the chance, I really want to go back more than five hundred years ago."

"Eh? Why?"

Fu Hua was a little puzzled by this lackluster sentence.

"Because this way I can beat my senior brothers and sisters to death." Ixia said, "I don't know who the senior brothers and sisters are, and I don't know that they are in the relationship between Taixu Sword Qi and Shenyin. What impact did you receive and what did you do? But...if I were in the same position, I would never betray you, master."

There aren't many people Alexia respects.

Otto counts as one, Kevin counts as half, and then there is Fu Hua - as an apprentice, how can you not respect the master?

If he had been five hundred years ago, none of the Seven Taixu Swords would have been able to escape!

"...It's all in the past."

After a moment of silence, Fu Hua chuckled: "There's no need to be serious about the past now, Ixia. That ended more than five hundred years ago, and we have more important things now. What to do - do you have time tonight? I want to ask you about the treatment."

"ah......."

Fu Hua's change of topic made Alexia scream in embarrassment.

"Tonight... uh... can it be another day, master? Tonight - no, I probably won't be free at all in the last few nights."

"Yes, yes, but have you been so busy lately?"

"Well...it's not that I'm busy. In fact, it's just something I decided ten minutes ago." Alexia looked at her master with some embarrassment, "Actually, in the past half month, Anna and I have had a baby. The reality of husband and wife, and... isn't Bianca back today? So I just want to get things done with her. "

Fu Hua: "——!"

Rita pricked up her ears and eavesdropped: "——!"

6.Advice

Half a day flies by.

Night fell quickly.

As the time came after six o'clock in the evening, Anna and Sajou Aige, who had gone out for special training, also returned home. Because of the return of Bianca and others today, according to the practice of the Exia family, tonight they have to prepare a party. A big table dish to celebrate.

The current situation is indeed like this - if you ignore the somewhat uncomfortable dining table atmosphere.

"...."

At this moment, the eyes of almost everyone at the dinner table were focused on a certain person... to be more precise, they were focused on a certain part of a certain person's body, because that was something that had never been done before. It was something they had never seen before, so this made many people feel that they had seen it wrong.

As the person who attracted a lot of attention, Shatiao Aige, who was still in Soul Steel's body, just smiled calmly: "What's wrong with everyone? You keep looking at me, don't you want to have dinner? If you don't eat, you will be killed." It needs to be cold."

Duang!

I don't know whether it was intentional or accidental, but when Shajo Aige said this, her upper body twisted slightly.

The vision of Kiana and others was suddenly greatly impacted!

(Seriously...what the hell?!)

Looking away, Kiana covered her eyes.

If her memory is correct, Shajo Aige is tied with Bronya as the last person in this family. She is the type who can see her toes when she lowers her head. She is so flat that she can be called a deserted person. The earth, whether it is in front or behind, or above or below, is completely gone.

Objectively speaking, judging from the appearance, Shajo Aige is only good-looking.

But why haven’t we seen each other for only half a month——

(That’s comparable to Aponya in The Land of the Past! What happened in the past half month!?)

Kiana cares about this very much!

First, a strange woman appeared at home, then my brother and instructor Anna took care of business, and now there is a genetic mutation in Shajo Aige... They were only away from home for half a month. That's all, why did this home become like this?

"Speaking of..."

Sitting on a seat facing south, after taking a bite of the sashimi prepared by Mei Raiden, Bianca suddenly said: "Aige, what's going on with your body?"

(Nice! Sister Bianca!)

(Good question, Hollander!)

(Sure enough, this kind of thing can only be left to Bianca...)

Several people who had been watching Shajo Aige cheered inwardly, and Shajo Aige, who was asked this question, just smiled slightly: "Ah, do you really care about this? In fact, it's nothing, I just finally made up my mind. , I just asked Bishop Otto to prepare a soul steel body for me."

"Is it your soul steel body? It feels quite different from your ghost state."

"There are indeed some slight differences in physical specifications, but as long as the prince likes it, it will be fine." Said Aige said, folding her hands to support her.

"...."

Looking at that eye-catching part, Kiana and others couldn't help but look down at themselves - the huge gap!

(This is not a subtle difference! Sister Shatiao, how can you cheat like this!)

"However, since Bianca and you are all back today, I have to move out of the prince's room."

"Eh?"

Upon hearing Sajo Aige's abrupt words, Bianca and Rita paused slightly in their movements.

"Are you sleeping in my and Aixia's room these days? Ai Ge."

"After all, I didn't have my own room price before, and I was too embarrassed to use your room casually. Someone might live in those empty rooms in the future, so I just wanted to make it more convenient and sleep with the prince." Shatiao Ai Ge explained, "By the way, there's something I need to tell Bianca -"

"Is it possible that you and Anna have already reached the last step with Alexia?"

Before Shajo Aige could say it, Bianca said it first.

Shatiao Aige's expression calmed down a bit: "Do you know?"

"Exia told me just after we got back. I was quite surprised."

"...Is it just an accident? Aren't you angry? We got the better of you." Shajo Aige's tone and attitude became slightly more proactive.

Bianca still said indifferently: "Don't be angry. What's there to be angry about? There's no need for us to prioritize ourselves. We're all a family. What's the point of competing for priority? But ...To say that I am really dissatisfied, so tonight Ixia is mine, you should be okay with it, right?"

"Hmm~~~~ Let's do this."

The corner of Shatiao Aige's mouth raised slightly: "Okay. Anyway, Anna and I have been eating alone for half a month, so we have to digest it if we are too full."

Although from Sajo Aige's own point of view, she didn't want to quit, she also knew what Alexia was thinking. Since Bianca said so now, the room on the fifth floor will definitely be occupied by them tonight. Book the venue for two people. Even if she passes, I'm afraid she will have to wait until Bianca's attention is distracted before taking over.

In this case, she would just take a break today. After all, after spending half a month together, Shajo Aige had resolved all her dissatisfaction and longing for the past year or so.

and--

(No matter what, Bianca comes first, so let’s not argue with her here.)

Shajo Aige thinks so.

only......

"To be on the safe side, let me give you a piece of advice, Bianca."

"Advice? What advice?"

"You'd better be prepared to not be able to get out of bed tomorrow."

(————!)

Shajo Aige's words directly caused the atmosphere at the table to freeze again for a moment.

None of the people present had zero knowledge of physiology and knew some of the related sequelae - but it was really a bit... to be pointed out directly like this...

Bianca's cheeks turned slightly red: "...Is it really that serious?"

No matter how you say you can't get out of bed, it's too much, right? Bianca is still confident in her physical fitness. It's just that she and Ixia finished the things they haven't done. She shouldn't be reduced to the point where she can't get out of bed tomorrow, right?

"Don't underestimate Prince's physical strength, Bianca." Shajo Aige shook her finger, "Let me give you a more detailed example. In the past half month, I haven't done anything before five o'clock in the morning. Have you closed your eyes?"

"————!"

...

A few minutes later, when she returned to the restaurant from the toilet, Ixia took one look at the strange atmosphere on the table and scratched her head in confusion.

Why are they all keeping their heads down and saying nothing?

And what’s with this sense of déjà vu, as if you’ve just finished talking about some private things?

(What did they talk about while I was squatting in the pit?)

7. The unsinkable moon tonight

At half past eight in the evening, dinner time ends on time.

Although the atmosphere was like that after returning to the dining table, it didn't matter what the atmosphere at the dining table was like to Exia.

(Yes, the most important thing for me today is...)

On the fifth floor, in Alexia and Bianca's room.

After taking a shower early and changing into a bathrobe, Alexia sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a personal terminal in one hand and browsing some information boredly. If it were yesterday, by this time he would have been pressed to the bed by Shajo Aige, or he might have pressed Anna to the bed himself.

But today, because Bianca had booked him all night tonight, he could now stay alone in the room without being disturbed by anyone.

But even so——

(It’s over...seems a little nervous?)

Alexia could feel her heartbeat speeding up.

Obviously speaking from experience, he has grown from a fledgling recruit to a experienced veteran in the past half month. He is just stepping onto the battlefield as usual. Logically speaking, he should be accustomed to it.

But now he felt nervous for no reason.

(...Maybe it’s because the target is Bianca.)

Throwing aside the personal terminal that displayed a bunch of junk information, Alexia looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling, and couldn't help but think of the experiences she and Bianca had experienced over the years.