No one expected Silver Wolf to speak up at this moment; her voice was still very small, perhaps because she could manage a few more words when facing Stark, a guy she had just become familiar with.
But the one in front of her was a stepmother…
Silver Wolf, already accustomed to feeling inferior, felt her voice almost drown in the air as she spoke, eventually pressing her lips together.
Sweat couldn’t stop emerging from her palms…
She quietly looked at the two adults.
“Err, is that not okay?”
She thought she had made the right choice; had she overstepped?
Silver Wolf quietly observed Stark’s expression, but Stark just felt that this daughter had said it perfectly.
Giving him and Nihilux a way out!
He gave a thumbs up, a good assist.
Silver Wolf lowered her head, the corners of her mouth rising by two pixels, quietly imitating the thumbs-up gesture—this seemed to mean praise, right?
She had secretly seen it on other people’s screens.
[Find the long-lost mother (Completed)]
[lv0 → lv1.]
“…”
Nihilux also breathed a sigh of relief at this moment; she wasn’t afraid of anything, it was just that the troublesome matter of taking care of a daughter…
It was better to leave it to the “biological father”…
Everything would return to normal, and then she just needed to play the role of the stepmother from a distance; this was exactly the perspective an observer should occupy.
She looked at Silver Wolf.
The little girl appeared expressionless, but in reality, she was staring at Stark’s hand, not paying any attention to the stepmother at all.
As expected…
The first person a child meets when they open their eyes to the world is very important; she had guarded Punklorde for several years, only to have it stolen in the end.
This feeling…
It was truly, too Elated!
Nihilux suddenly laughed, and the proprietress laughed along with her, staring so hard that Silver Wolf felt uneasy—were the people met today all weird?
Is this still Punklorde?
“Little girl, are you sure?
I won’t give you special treatment just because you are his daughter, and, did you see what was on the sign?”
“Room and board included, no wages.”
“Once you come, you aren’t allowed to just leave; you have to work.”
“Mm…”
Room and board.
For Silver Wolf, this was something she had dreamed of, although the woman in front of her might not like her, it didn’t matter.
She didn’t need to be liked by anyone…
Just surviving was enough.
“In that case, Silver Wolf, right?
There’s a room in the basement from now on, it belongs to you two.
You go in first; I still have some words to say to him.”
“???”
Stark raised his head in stress, meeting the Elated smile at the bottom of Nihilux’s eyes.
An old lover catching up?
“A-Yun…
you shouldn’t reject me, right?
After all, we haven’t seen each other for so long; even without mentioning the past, we should sit down and have a good chat.”
A clean, small hand rested on Stark’s shoulder.
Nihilux’s hand…
Soft, smooth, but now was not the time to focus on that; his Adam’s apple rolled secretly, and his shoulder was being pinched until it hurt.
System?
Don’t play dead!
Starting off with such high intensity…
“Wolfie…
you go in first.
There should be hot water here.
Do you know how to bathe yourself?”
Silver Wolf was stunned; she didn’t know.
“I…”
“…Mm, I’ll wait for you inside.”
The strange environment made the Wolf Cub feel some wariness and worry.
Yet she nodded silently, not denying it, and immediately lowered her head and walked towards the place Nihilux had just pointed out, her petite back slowly disappearing.
A bit uneasy, and a bit awkward.
Ah…
Stark saw it; he really wanted to help, but he couldn’t escape, only able to miss an important moment in Silver Wolf’s life, facing the majesty of an Emanator of Elation directly.
By the way, is this transmigration correct?
What’s the difference between learning a quadratic equation once and being asked to do calculus, or being given a newbie set and told to fight the Demon King directly?
Silver Wolf gradually walked away, and her footsteps could no longer be heard.
Silence returned to the restaurant.
Thus, Nihilux finally turned her head and stared at Stark with a smile, looking him over carefully, but apart from looking very handsome, she couldn’t find any anomalies.
An ordinary person?
But could an ordinary person directly avoid her lock-on, appear out of thin air above a game cartridge blessed by Aha, and also attract Aha’s high attention?
Letting that guy step in personally?
She had clearly felt Aha’s glance just now, but the glance was rejected?
Truly an overwhelming ability.
“Fictionologist?
Memokeeper?”
“Which Emanator are you?”
“Why can’t I be the Aeon themselves?”
“Pfft…
Based on my understanding of the universe, there doesn’t seem to be someone like you.
So…
who are you?”
Stark expressed opposition.
Wouldn’t Aha do that?
He was barefoot and not afraid of those wearing shoes; anyway, the worst that could happen was death.
If he died, it would just be a failed world mission.
He would just run to the next world, it was just a bit of a pity for the daughter he had just acknowledged; how could he let Silver Wolf lose her father at such a young age?
Stark decided to try harder, quickly bluff his way through, and then take Silver Wolf to see their future little nest.
“I am Akivili, um…
just the one who went against the Terminus.
Now I have lost my Aeon powers.
You transfer me 250 billion Credits to help me get back to my old job.
When I regain my godhood, I’ll make you the first Emanator under the Trailblaze, directly replacing Aha.”
“I didn’t come here with any other purpose, just to take care of the Wolf Cub, trust me.”
“…”
The corner of Nihilux’s mouth couldn’t stop twitching.
This joke was not funny.
That Aha is the first Emanator of the Trailblaze is not something just anyone can know; at least one has to be familiar with the Astral Express to know it.
And Akivili’s death…
It dates back to a thousand years ago, the whole universe knows this, but almost no one knows the relationship between the Trailblaze and the Terminus, as well as a certain conjecture.
Very clearly…
His identity was indeed not simple.
But even if Stark knew more, what did it have to do with her?
She wasn’t planning to fight Stark anyway, so if he didn’t want to talk, forget it.
A soft laugh echoed in the restaurant.
“Oh, Akivili, I am Aha!”
“My dear, now you can’t escape.
We can be together forever.
I want you to help me wash clothes, cook, tidy up the restaurant, and also take care of our daughter every day.”
“Oh, right…”
“There’s not much money in the restaurant.
You think of a way to earn some, otherwise the little Wolf Cub and I will only be able to drink the northwest wind.
For the sake of us two, you have to work hard!”
Nihilux was unexpectedly easy to talk to; she seemingly didn’t care about adding new members to this game, or rather, are all Elation-seekers like this?
They rarely lose their cool.
Unless their goal is completely broken, before that, since Aha has stepped in to play, what reason does Nihilux have not to keep her company?
“You just believed it?”
“Uh-huh, I don’t care…”