"No way? You actually hypnotized Kafka? Just who are you?"
Sensing the commotion here, even Silver Wolf couldn't care about continuing to demand her weapon back. Half her body still hung on Ryuga's arm, but she turned her head in surprise to look at Kafka with her hands raised in surrender, as if witnessing something absolutely impossible.
It was common knowledge that Spirit Whisper manipulators were most easily immune to Spirit Whisper. What kind of monster could defeat Kafka in this field?
Facing such questioning, Ryuga shook his head.
"It's just Spirit Speech."
The words of gods possessed power that mortals could not disobey—this characteristic was present even in the most ordinary Heretic Gods.
Even a casual remark from an ordinary Heretic God was an unbreakable divine oracle for humans. Even Grand Knight-level existences were no exception, which was why Heretic Gods were absolutely unbeatable opponents for ordinary humans—most people couldn't even muster the will to resist.
Ryuga's Spirit Speech naturally wasn't this simple. In the mythological domain, having mastered Cross-Christian mythology, he combined the basic characteristics of Divine Words with the One True God's characteristic of Word-as-Law. The Spirit Speech he spoke possessed compulsory power that transcended authorities.
Besides this, the Dragonia's Primal Spirit Speech also possessed power comparable to or even surpassing authorities. These Spirit Speech-type skills combined became a skill that even Kafka had absolutely no power to resist.
If Ryuga truly intended, he could destroy an entire planet with just a casual sentence.
Whether in mental domination or reality domination, this power exceeded common sense in strength.
"Tch!"
Hearing Ryuga's calm tone, Silver Wolf clicked her tongue slightly.
After exchanging glances with Kafka, they both realized the situation was bad.
This time only the two of them were teamed up, but both had fallen.
What should they do? Even if the other party had no killing intent, it seemed very likely he'd hand them over to the Interastral Peace Corporation to collect bounties exceeding ten billion credits.
Realizing this, Silver Wolf hesitated before speaking.
"Um... I can give you one—no, ten account passwords with balances of twenty billion credits each. Can we reconcile?"
A wise person submits to circumstances. As for those credits, they weren't her money anyway.
Hearing this, Kafka's mouth twitched slightly.
This child was still playing tricks at a time like this—wasn't her courage a bit too much?
Giving account passwords didn't count as truly giving money. Such large-scale fund movements would definitely be investigated by the Interastral Peace Corporation. If Ryuga agreed, all subsequent responsibility would fall on him.
"Reconcile?"
Hearing this request, Ryuga looked somewhat amusedly at the girl before him.
"Remember the question you asked earlier? Answer it and I can consider it."
Hearing this, Silver Wolf was slightly stunned, then immediately recalled her question before attacking—"Tell me, who's weaker now?"
Now to answer herself—wouldn't that mean admitting she was a weakling?
Her face immediately flushed red.
"Impossible! You might as well kill me! I'd rather wait for Sam to come rescue me than admit defeat!"
For the hacker girl, the one thing she absolutely couldn't admit was being a weakling.
Watching her stubborn appearance, Kafka felt tired.
With the strength Ryuga had displayed, even if both Sam and Blade came, they'd probably be captured on the spot—they couldn't rescue them at all.
At this moment, having executed Ryuga's command, she barely regained the ability to speak.
Let an adult like herself handle negotiation matters.
So after adjusting her emotions, she prepared to speak.
"May I ask—"
Just two words out, suddenly, the girl's soft murmuring attracted everyone's attention.
The three looked toward the sound and discovered the previously sleeping grey-haired girl had just awakened, rubbing her eyes sleepily while looking at the scene before her.
The first person the grey-haired girl saw was the black-haired, black-eyed man directly in front of her.
Like a bird's imprinting phenomenon, her gaze toward Ryuga quickly became intimate and unguarded. The knowledge remaining in her brain made her understand the other party's identity.
"Dad!"
Ryuga was slightly stunned, not expecting this result.
In the game, the Stellaron Spirit hadn't viewed March 7th as mom either!
Then, the grey-haired girl's gaze moved to Silver Wolf beside Ryuga, focusing on Silver Wolf's slender figure.
"Mom?"
Questioning thus, as if failing some kind of judgment, she shook her head slightly and turned toward the purple-haired lady closest to her.
After seeing Kafka's gentle and ample bosom, she relaxed and called out intimately.
"Mom!"
Hearing this call, Kafka's originally magnificent yet dangerous eyes immediately became gentle yet helpless.
After confirming her parents, the grey-haired girl spiritedly turned back to look at Silver Wolf and confirmed this girl's identity.
"Auntie!"
"#!"
Silver Wolf instinctively looked down at her own chest, veins appearing on her forehead.
"What standard is this little brat using to judge?!"
Bullying her for being small, was it!
The excited grey-haired girl didn't notice Silver Wolf's dissatisfaction. After looking back and forth at the three before her, noticing Silver Wolf hanging on Ryuga's hand, she immediately said seriously to Ryuga.
"Dad, don't bully Auntie. Even if she's a bit short, everyone's still family!"
Hearing this, Silver Wolf finally couldn't take it anymore. She even gave up demanding her weapon back and glared at the grey-haired girl.
"Damn it, Kafka don't hold me back—I'm going to punch her!"
The Stellaron Hunters' civil war erupted, and the scene became very chaotic for a moment.
Several dozen seconds later, the scene finally returned to normal.
Not because Kafka stopped Silver Wolf, but because Silver Wolf couldn't beat the Stellaron Spirit.
Having lost her power, she was just a little girl—not even as tall as the other party, not to mention the other had a Stellaron attached, her constitution definitely wasn't bad, able to pin down Silver Wolf with one hand.
"Since Mr. Ryuga has no malicious intent, I'll be frank. I hope you can adopt Stelle and take her on a brand new journey on the Astral Express."
After exchanging names, Kafka bowed to Ryuga with her request.
"Stelle?"
Speaking the grey-haired girl's name, Ryuga glanced at this future Trash Can King.
"Wuu wuu wuu, are you and Dad getting divorced, Mom?"
The grey-haired girl looked at Kafka with teary eyes. Clearly having an adult female body type, when acting spoiled she was just like a child.
"..."
Hearing the girl's words, Kafka's face darkened.
Truly worthy of this child—even with amnesia, she could still be this abstract.
She'd already explained their relationship several times, but Stelle seemed completely unable to listen, still believing Ryuga was her father.
"Adoption can be set aside for now. If it's fostering on the Astral Express, that shouldn't be a problem."
Ryuga nodded, not refusing the other party's request.
"However, can you tell me your reason for doing this? Why must she join the Trailblaze faction?"
Ryuga asked curiously.
"Whether for this child or for me, this is the best ending."
Kafka gave this answer.
"Though I don't know the details of this ending either, this future is related to an Aeon."
With other people, Kafka wouldn't reveal such secrets. But she'd already become Ryuga's prisoner, and Stelle had recognized this guy as her father.
In this situation, any future related to Stelle would almost certainly involve the man before her. Concealment would be unnecessary.
If not afraid of causing too much change to the script, she might not even hide the final plan.
"I understand."
Regarding such vague words, Ryuga roughly guessed the other party's purpose.
While sighing at the Stellaron Hunters' audacity, he nodded.
"This child's matter is no problem. However, as an exchange, I need you to help with something too."
"What favor?"
"Help me ask Destiny's Slave... does his future script still have my presence?"
Ryuga asked somewhat curiously.
If the other party could incorporate him, this variable, into the destiny script, then that person's abilities were worth paying attention to.
But if they couldn't, then that person's abilities were questionable.
Peering into destiny—having mastered numerous fate deity authorities, Ryuga could do this too.
"Good!"
Kafka immediately nodded. She was also interested in this question, and it wouldn't affect anyone she cared about, so naturally she wouldn't refuse.
"May I ask—"
After negotiations concluded, very interested in Ryuga's origins, she prepared to ask more.
Suddenly, she heard a girl's voice.
—"Excuse me, where is Lord Ryuga? Oh! Thank you!"
This signature lively tone was obviously from March 7th.
She immediately withdrew her curiosity and looked at Ryuga.
"Sorry, Mr. Ryuga, I should be going. It's not appropriate for us to interact with the Astral Express at this time."
Birth mother doesn't meet adoptive mother... probably there was such a rule?
"Mom!"
Hearing this, Stelle immediately let out a pitiful cry like sticky candy.
Seeing this, Kafka skillfully reached into her coat and pulled out fifty credits, handing them to Stelle.
"Be good, go play with Dad!"
"Okay!"
Receiving fifty credits, Stelle crisply saluted, then immediately pattered over to Ryuga's side.
Fifty credits bought out her reluctance to part.
Truly worthy of the Meme King.
"Then, farewell."
Ryuga didn't try to keep them. The moment he spoke, all restrictions within Silver Wolf and Kafka's bodies were lifted, restoring their power.
"Oh, take this!"
Seeing Silver Wolf seemed ready to leave, Ryuga raised the driver in his hand, preparing to return it.
But unexpectedly, Silver Wolf who'd been crying and making noise to get it back earlier didn't reach out to take it.
Instead, she puffed her cheeks glaring at Ryuga, fire in her eyes as if looking at an eternal rival.
"Hmph! I don't need your charity. You wait—when I defeat you next time, I'll personally take back what I lost!"
Clearly, she had the pride of not accepting charity.
Regarding this, Ryuga was somewhat surprised.
"Don't you need a weapon then?"
"No problem, I have backups!"
Leaving these words, Silver Wolf looked deeply at Ryuga, firmly engraving this opponent in her heart.
Then immediately activated backup hidden energy. The goggles atop her head opened a spatial transfer portal, leaving Ryuga a dashing back view.
Just then—
"Bye Mom! Bye Auntie!"
Stelle, snuggled beside Ryuga, waved to both of them.
Hearing this, Silver Wolf immediately stumbled, nearly falling over.
Unfortunately the dimensional portal had already closed—no way to go back and settle accounts with Stelle.
And one second after both Stellaron Hunters disappeared, the energetic pink-haired girl burst right in.
"Lord Ryuga, are you alright?"
Seeing the girl who suddenly appeared with eyes full of concern for Ryuga, Stelle was puzzled for two seconds before her eyes widened.
"Dad, is this the second mom you found?"
Hearing this, March 7th's eyes also widened, scanning back and forth between Ryuga and Stelle, covering her mouth in surprise.
"Dad?"
Just two minutes apart—Lord Ryuga gave birth to such a big daughter?!
To be continued…