March 7th furrowed her brow, suddenly remembering something, and turned to Xu Zixuan beside her to ask.
“Right, you were next to them just now.
Do you three know each other?”
“His name is Caelus.
Her name is Stelle.”
Xu Zixuan introduced them with composure, then gave a slight smile.
“And I…
am their father.”
After all, of the Stellarons inside Stelle and Caelus, one had been personally crafted by his own hands.
To call himself “father”…
wouldn’t be too far-fetched, would it?
“Huh?”
March 7th’s eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.
“You’re their dad?
But…
you don’t look that old at all?”
“Dad?”
Stelle looked up at Xu Zixuan, her eyes revealing a trace of confusion, yet also carrying a hint of indescribable familiarity.
“Aye, my dear daughter.”
Xu Zixuan reached out with a smile and gently ruffled Stelle’s hair.
“So, I’m your son, which makes me Stelle’s older brother, right?”
Caelus revealed a look of sudden realization.
In fact, ever since he woke up, Caelus had felt Xu Zixuan looked very familiar.
So he was his dad!
No wonder he felt so familiar.
Xu Zixuan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly like that.
“No!
I’m the older sister.
You’re the younger brother!”
Stelle immediately spoke up to refute him.
“No.
I’m definitely the older brother.
You’re the younger sister.”
Caelus showed no sign of backing down either.
“I was clearly ‘born’ first!”
Stelle argued her case vehemently.
“Is that so?
But didn’t you just say…
you couldn’t remember anything?”
Caelus raised an eyebrow and countered.
“This is the only thing I remember very clearly!
I came first!”
Stelle’s tone was resolute, her hands on her hips, allowing no room for doubt.
This little brother actually wanted to “usurp the throne” and become the older brother?
Absolutely not!
“Stop fighting, you two.
Stop fighting!
You can’t kill anyone like that.”
Xu Zixuan casually fished two machetes out of his pocket and handed them to Stelle and Caelus.
“Take these.
This way you can hack someone to death!”
March 7th: …
Dan Heng: …
“Wait…
are you really their father?”
March 7th scratched her head, feeling the world had gone so insane she could no longer make sense of it. Find the original chapter at g.com.
Dan Heng’s eyelid twitched slightly as well.
The more he looked at Xu Zixuan, the more the guy resembled a Masked Fool.
Plop…
The smiling mask once again tumbled out of Xu Zixuan’s pocket.
Xu Zixuan: …Aha, you absolute disaster!
Stirring up trouble again, are you?!
Dan Heng: …Confirmed.
He’s a Masked Fool!
“Oh, Xu Zixuan, you dropped your mask.”
March 7th blinked.
“Why does your mask look kind of familiar?
Feels like I’ve seen it somewhere before?”
“No, you must be mistaken.”
“It’s just inconvenient having so much stuff in my pockets.
This thing keeps falling out on its own.”
Xu Zixuan nonchalantly put the mask back into his pocket.
Sigh…
March 7th actually didn’t recognize the thing.
That’s a relief.
But Dan Heng probably recognized it.
And Aha, you damn well better stop messing around!
You gave me a mask, and I didn’t even hold that against you.
And you still pull stunts like this?
Wait a minute.
This mask…
could Aha have transformed into it?
Xu Zixuan couldn’t help but start to suspect.
“Is that really the case?”
March 7th scratched her head.
She really did feel this mask was awfully familiar.
Like she’d seen it in the data archives before.
But if she couldn’t remember, then she couldn’t remember.
The data in the archives, Dan Heng would definitely remember!
And since Dan Heng hadn’t said anything, then there must be no problem at all!
“Dad, tell us.
Which one of us is older.”
Seeing Xu Zixuan pull such a wild stunt, Stelle’s eyes lit up.
Oh right, isn’t their dad right here?
Who’s older and who’s younger, how could their dad not know?
Stelle grabbed hold of Xu Zixuan’s arm, her tone carrying a hint of childish whine.
“Dad, you tell us…”
Caelus also folded his arms, his gaze falling on Xu Zixuan, awaiting a fair verdict.
The two siblings had chosen not to take the machetes Xu Zixuan offered, opting instead to have Xu Zixuan settle the matter.
Oh man, another choice to make.
His indecisiveness was acting up.
Xu Zixuan hated making choices the most.
“How about this?
I’ll do ‘eeny, meeny, miny, moe,’ and whoever it lands on is the older one, okay?”
Xu Zixuan proposed an excellent suggestion.
March 7th: …
Dan Heng: …
Stelle: …
Caelus: …
“That’s way too sloppy!”
“Hey hey hey, are you really their father?!”
March 7th couldn’t help but chime in from the side.
“Of course it’s important!” Stelle and Caelus turned their heads and spoke in unison.
Alright.
These two were definitely either brother and sister or sister and brother, no doubt about it.
“Sigh…” Dan Heng let out a long breath, looking utterly beleaguered.
“Now is not the time to argue about this.
March, you take them to the Master Control Zone to rendezvous with Asta first.
I’ll go find Arlan and bring him back.”
“Mm, sounds good.
You be careful.” March 7th nodded.
After splitting into two groups, and after hearing March 7th’s briefing, Stelle and Caelus finally understood the current situation.
“By the way, are you really their dad?”
While introducing the situation aboard Herta Space Station, March 7th asked curiously.
She really had a hard time imagining that Xu Zixuan was already the father of two kids.
“It was fake.
I was just joking with you guys.”
Xu Zixuan shrugged and spoke with a smile.
Seeing how pure and innocent March 7th was, Xu Zixuan couldn’t bear to keep deceiving her.
Truthfully, Dan Heng had probably figured it out immediatly.
He just hadn’t said anything.
“What?!”
“Fake?!”
March 7th’s face was full of speechless disbelief.
“You actually tricked us!”
Stelle looked as if the sky had fallen.
“You tricked me into calling you Dad.
I’m so heartbroken…
I want compensation for emotional distress!
Without at least tens of thousands of credits, I’ll never recover!”
Stelle found a corner and hung her head, tracing circles on the wall.
“So you were this kind of person.
We misjudged you.”
Caelus also squeezed in beside Stelle.
The corner went from holding one person to holding two.
“Hey hey, go comfort them, quick!
The trouble you stirred up, fix it yourself!”
March 7th, seeing the “grief-stricken” Stelle and Caelus, hurriedly urged him.
“What’s the rush?
No need to hurry.”
Xu Zixuan, on the contrary, was very calm.
Stelle and Caelus were clearly fake-crying, their eyes even sneaking peeks over this way.
Whoever believed they actually thought the sky had fallen would be the one falling for the trap.
“How about this.
To show my remorse, I’ll give you these.”
Xu Zixuan pulled two crystal-like objects from his pocket.
They displayed a gradient shifting from orange to blue, exceptionally beautiful.
If someone from his past life were present, they would surely recognize these as “Stellar Jade.”
“Wow, nice stuff.
What are these?”
Stelle’s and Caelus’s figures instantly reappeared right beside Xu Zixuan.
“These things are called Stellar Jade.
Aside from looking pretty, they don’t really have any special use.”
“Of course, they can be sold for credits.”
Xu Zixuan spoke with a smile.
Although in the game, Stellar Jade served as an extremely valuable core circulating currency, in the actual world of Honkai: Star Rail, this item was really just like gold or silver.
An ordinary equivalent of value.