After sending the Tool Goose off to keep watch over the dopey Saintess, Li Zihan chose to return to his own room.
Then, he saw the girl who had just woken up.
Her fair, smooth skin was exposed, her slender arms like fine jade. Gazing further down, he saw the girl's ample breasts and slim waist.
It was hard to imagine that at her age, her figure had already blossomed into something so graceful and elegant.
Perhaps this was where all the nutrition in Cocolia's Orphanage had gone.
Li Zihan gazed openly, pondering why, despite the identical meals, the other girls at Cocolia's Orphanage were all flatboards.
"Have you had your fill of looking?"
The girl, whose eyes were a magnificent crimson, saw the young man who had spent the night with her and spoke crossly.
Li Zihan looked at those vivid red pupils and quickly understood that it was "the other Seele" who was now before him.
Then he spoke.
"Nope."
This guy was abnormally honest in certain respects.
"..."
The girl, currently manifesting as her second personality, looked at the rather shameless fellow and felt an itch in her gums.
Although, because she and the little fool were essentially the same person, she knew, after discovering the little fool had given herself away, that she would one day be had by this bastard.
Frankly, Black Seele the Heroine wasn't very resistant to the idea.
Li Zihan was actually a rather perfect guy. His combat power was off the charts, his knowledge was extremely broad, he treated girls very gently, and he was also very handsome.
Aside from being a playboy who enjoyed watching a good show, he had basically no flaws.
If she could just find a chance to make him lose his memory, abandon his bad habits, and start over from scratch, she reckoned he would be a first-class man.
Unaware that the fellow's personality was actually a result of his attributes and Origin, Black Seele the Heroine had once considered whether she should find a chance to launch a sneak attack to see if she could knock Li Zihan hard enough to give him amnesia.
However, being non-resistant was one thing...
She didn't expect this day to come so soon.
Last night, her other self had been too shy and had shrunk away not long after their nightlife began.
With dual personalities, one was always out while the other lay dormant.
Miss White Seele had hidden herself away and hadn't come out since...
So she had been inexplicably forced to continue pinch-hitting.
The girl, who had entered the scene in a very bad situation, looked at the guy who had put her through the wringer last night and felt a slight urge to summon the scythe known as "Lullaby."
But she didn't.
She just silently pulled up the bedding, concealing her beautiful body.
"Now then, how should I address you, Seele's Big Brother?"
The girl, having roughly come to terms with the situation and not being overly angry, looked at the guy who had slept with her last night, sighed, and asked.
"Ah Li, Zihan, Big Brother, darling—all are fine."
The young man, who had ditched Durandal to go squat by the river for the dopey Saintess, thought for a moment and then replied to the girl still in bed.
"Of course, if you'd like, you can make up a title too."
---o---
"Is that so?"
The girl, who had pinch-hit last night and then, because Seele was too shy, had been helplessly forced to keep pinch-hitting, looked at the guy who had dragged her into quite a few "plays" last night.
After some thought, Miss Black Seele spoke with great seriousness.
"Then I'll just call you Perverted Big Brother."
Like an event rerun, following Ana, Miss Black Seele also stuck the "pervert" label on Li Zihan.
"Hey, hey—wouldn't just 'Big Brother' have been fine? Why add a prefix like 'perverted'?"
Hearing Miss Black Seele's words, Li Zihan was stunned and couldn't help but argue his case.
"Using a technique called magecraft to link my senses with my other self's—isn't that perverted enough?"
Miss Black Seele, who had heard her other self's very gentle cries of anguish during the "impact," said crossly.
"That's just a normal flirting tactic, isn't it?"
The young man, who had basically never stopped using magecraft when he was with Aoko and Alice, said this with righteous conviction.
This was also why, at that time, he had almost failed, despite possessing the Dracula Stigmata, a constitution close to that of a Heroic Spirit, and a recovery ability that could even regenerate severed limbs.
Alice would secretly cast spells like high-speed recovery on herself and Aoko, and then hit Li Zihan with negative buffs like physical debilitation.
If Aoko felt she was losing, she would simply rewind time.
In response, Li Zihan, not wanting to just give himself away, would naturally try to apply buffs like "shared senses" to the girls.
After all, it was a matter of dignity.
If he truly lost, telling Aoko and Alice about his plan for a Crystal Palace would definitely be met with extremely disdainful words.
"Little Han, having relationships with more girls places high demands on your body. Can you even handle it?"
"As we agreed, I won't stop you from seeing other girls, but if your body is left empty, I won't be making you any魔药 (móyào - magic potions) either."
Words like that were truly a bit hurtful.
"..."
Miss Black Seele fell silent.
A long while later, she finally spoke.
"Perverted Big Brother, you really are a super pervert!"
"Demonic, scumbag, a walking human cannon!!"
"Alright, alright, it's my fault. I won't do it like that anymore."
Looking at the girl's passionate expression, Li Zihan chose to continue performing a French military salute and then smiled sheepishly.
When a girl wasn't throwing a tantrum without reason, acting cowardly and admitting your mistake, then adjusting your response based on her reaction, might be a good choice.
This was something Rita had mentioned during one of their video chats.
Rita loved raising simulation games.
She seemed to be treating Li Zihan, who was very similar to her in some respects, as a character in a raising sim, trying to develop him into a character that girls would like.
---o---
"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."
Seeing the young man's prompt surrender, Miss Black Seele sighed and stopped adding more labels to Li Zihan.
Her red lips parted slightly. She gazed at the handsome young man with her vivid red eyes and then spoke.
"Perverted Big Brother, you did such excessive things to me and Seele last night. I should be allowed to make a request, right?"
"Go ahead. I'll agree to it."
Li Zihan looked at the girl's very faint smile and knew, roughly, that he might be in for some trouble.
But he didn't plan to refuse.
After all, he really had gone a little too far last night.
"Big Brother, can you finish the mission sooner, take Seele back to five hundred years in the future, and then... go with Seele to Siberia?"
The girl, who was born in the Republic of Estonia but had grown up in Siberia, parted her red lips.
"In Siberia, we are of marriageable age, are we not?"