Text Game: It All Began when a Cat-eared Girl Took Me In-Chapter 205 - 171: When Did That Pervert Meet My Mom?!_1
In the inn.
Liya held her two daughters tightly in her arms, feeling a multitude of emotions. Listening to her daughters’ sobbing made her want to cry as well.
But Liya was still holding back.
Among the wonderful things in life, a long-lost reunion between family members certainly counted as one of the finest.
So at times like this, one should smile.
Why cry then?
Then, why couldn’t I help myself?
Amidst her daughters’ sobs, Liya too found it hard to control the tears welling up in the corners of her eyes.
She quietly wiped her face and looked towards Lena, who was also wiping away tears, and said softly, "Lena, thank you for taking care of Wei’er and the others. I’m sorry for not explaining their situation to you earlier and for letting you take such a big risk to care for them."
Initially, Liya had taken Lena on as an apprentice on a whim, as those with the talent of the Creation Series were incredibly rare.
Lena possessed such talent.
And practioners of the Creation Series, no matter which path they followed, naturally had a tremendous advantage in their mastery of rune skills compared to skill practioners of the three major classifications: the Phenomenon Series, Spirit Series, and Strengthening Series.
Liya didn’t tell Lena about her daughters because she didn’t want her to get too involved in her own affairs.
Yet, an accident still occurred.
Liya hadn’t expected to disappear for three years. During these years, Wei’er and her sisters must have had a very tough time, probably eating poor quality food.
After all, in a rundown place like Grey Stone Street, even if you had money, it was hard to buy nutritious ingredients. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
As a result, Wei’er now looked about the same age as Aina...
Aina was only around thirteen now and could grow a bit more if she ate better. It was unexpected that Wei’er was still so frail, just like the little girl who used to lie in bed with Little Aina three years ago.
Liya secretly hugged her daughter tighter, feeling heartbroken for her own flesh and blood.
She was her own daughter, with a face much like her own, and by rights should have a fine figure too—after all, both her mother and grandmother were outstanding beauties in their prime.
Of course, she knew that the Mutant Factor must have had an effect. But would this child ever grow up now?
If she hadn’t disappeared for these three years, perhaps she might have helped Wei’er’s development become a bit more normal, at least not a child’s body even after reaching adulthood...
Thinking of this made Liya feel sad.
Wei’er felt the changes in her mother’s gaze and became puzzled.
Why did her mother look at her with such heartache?
Wasn’t she still alive and well?
Aina stopped sobbing and leaned into Liya’s embrace, her head against Liya’s chest. Her delicate little nose twitched, and the wolf ears on her head subtly perked up.
It wasn’t the same as the snow outside—why did her mother carry a heavier scent of Brother Luo Xi?
Could it be that Mom had come into contact with Brother Luo Xi?
Liya gently stroked Wei’er’s head and said tenderly, "By the way, Wei’er, today is your birthday, right?"
Wei’er wiped away the tears on her face and nodded obediently, "Mhm."
"That year, Mom promised to bring you back a snow plum blossom, but I ended up breaking my word."
Liya reached out her hand towards the outside of the house, and instantly, a large number of snowflakes were drawn by her hand, condensing into the shape of two blossoms on her palm. White rune symbols flickered, reconstructing the snowflakes into two lifelike snow plum blossoms, exuding a faint fragrance.
From the side, Lena asked, "Teacher Liya, have you progressed in your rune skill to beyond master level? Is this the work of a Tier Five Grandmaster?"
"Almost there, but I’m still at Tier Four. To break into Tier Five, I’ll need to... make a trip back home."
As Liya spoke towards the end, her tone grew heavy, but after looking at her lovely daughters once more, she reaffirmed her resolve.
Even if she loathed those bastards back home, she still had to return at least once more to obtain the formula and Omen necessary for the subsequent path to Sublimation.
Why were Hiss and Noss pursuing the path to Tier Five?
Unlike the great power consolidated within Tier Four, the strength of Tier Five was truly above and beyond normal reasoning.
This was evident from her exquisite mastery of rune skills.
Even though she had not reached that level yet, after three years of refinement through the power of the Winter Divine Tree, her rune skills had advanced from master to grandmaster level. With this expertise alone, she was confident that even with numerous Tier Four Transcendents as opponents, they would be no match for her.
"Even the thickest snow will eventually melt. When the spring breeze blows, the scars across this land will sprout new shoots and bloom with beautiful flowers."
Liya said softly, placing the two blossoms into her daughters’ hair.
She smiled and said, "Let’s go home, back to Grey Stone Street. Lena, you come too. I’ll cook dinner myself to celebrate Wei’er’s birthday today."
"Mhm."
Lena nodded happily.
She had long been curious about where her teacher’s home was.
Suddenly, Liya felt her eldest daughter stir in her arms.
She looked down and asked, "What’s wrong?"
Wei’er’s red eyes dodged her mother’s gaze and she said softly, "About that... our home on Grey Stone Street, there’s not a single thing left. Everything was taken away by someone."
"Huh?"
Liya was utterly confused.
What in the world did she mean by ’taken away’?
"Who did it?!"
Liya suddenly felt a surge of anger: "Was it Noss? Is he dead yet? If not, I’ll personally see to his end."
"It wasn’t Rat King Nos... He’s probably already dead."
Liya frowned: "Then who was it?"
She had left behind some Tier Four scrolls at home, which weren’t many, but surely enough to fend off those petty criminals after trading some for money. And if Nos had wanted to harm Wei’er and her sisters, no number of Tier Four scrolls would have been enough.
"No, it was someone else who temporarily took everything."
Wei’er didn’t know how to explain the situation with Luo Xi.
"He had a kind of spatial storage ability. We originally planned to move everything away and go to another town, but after entering Winter City, we’ve been trapped here until now."
Liya said warily, "Who is this ’he’? Male or female? Where is he now?"
Wei’er: "...."
What kind of reaction is this, Mom?
Lena felt that something was off and snuck into the restaurant, starting to eat her bowl of noodles.
She wanted to mourn for the young man named Luo Xi.
You’d better not come back.
Perhaps you really will die, oh~
Wei’er somewhat stuttered, "He has things to do, so I don’t know where he is now..."
"Then when will he return?" Liya asked.
Wei’er looked at the falling snow outside and said with a somewhat forlorn expression, "I don’t know where he is either. Maybe he’ll return soon."
Liya looked at her daughter suspiciously.
Suspect.
Very suspect.
But, thinking that Wei’er had also come of age, it was not right for her to meddle in her feelings any longer, as long as the other person was of decent quality.
She didn’t want her daughter to follow in her footsteps.
Arranged family marriages or anything of the sort would never again befall her descendants.
Liya suddenly remembered the young man she had met in the Divine Tree.
It can be said that it was that young man who saved all the people here, including herself.
That young man seemed to have said his name was Luo Xi and that he was friends with Wei’er and the others.
Liya suddenly laid her hands back on her daughters’ heads.
Under their puzzled gazes, Liya said seriously, "Someone asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."
"Huh? Who is it?"
Wei’er froze on the spot.
"He said his name is Luo Xi."
Liya sighed, "His sincere spirit and self-sacrificing quality are things I cannot bring myself to do. I can say that I was able to return here thanks to his sacrifice—he saved all of us."
"Luo Xi, sacrifice? Has he died again? No, he met with you, Mother?"
Wei’er’s forehead involuntarily bore a ’╬’.
What’s going on with that freak?
Why would he meet my mother under such unclear circumstances?
Aina’s body trembled slightly.
Her tea gold eyes immediately brimmed with tears.
"Did Brother Luo Xi die?"
Up to now, Little Aina had not witnessed Luo Xi’s death and resurrection firsthand, so upon hearing the news of Luo Xi’s death, the spirits of the wolf-eared Little Lolita were brought down once again.
Were those snowflakes carrying Brother Luo Xi’s scent produced after his death?
Liya was also taken aback.
What’s with Wei’er’s reaction?
And what’s going on with Aina?
Wait, the person Wei’er mentioned who emptied their house, was that Luo Xi?
Was the relationship between that young man and her two daughters really just that of ordinary friends?
Regardless, that young man had died.
Apart from those spirit-based necromancy skills that could turn a body into a walking corpse or resurrect it for a period of time,
death was irreversible, an iron law of this world.
She could only hope now that the two children would not be too heartbroken.
Liya rubbed Wei’er’s and Aina’s hair and said, "Let’s go. In any case, let’s return home for a visit. I’ll teleport us all over there directly. The Divine Tree Barrier is still in place, so it seems we will need to teleport a couple of times. No matter. Are those guys in the restaurant also your friends, Wei’er? Should we bring them along too?"
"Um..."
Wei’er was still immersed in her mother’s words about Luo Xi’s ’self-sacrifice’ saving everyone.
Aina was also grieving at the thought of what would happen if Brother Luo Xi could never return.
Meanwhile.
[Traveler, you have been resurrected to a safe location]
[Ding! You have exited the special place, and your sync time has resumed. You have 30 minutes remaining.]
Luo Xi lay motionless in the underground chamber filled with foul air.
Tired, unwilling to move.
Just waiting for the sync time to end, and then his consciousness would leave the Dream World.
In these few days, he had been playing the game with high intensity, constantly syncing, dying, and rewinding several times.
If another player faced the situations he’d been through, they’d probably have been done in the first round.
[Note: Trash Traveler, you are now just one step away from abducting two beast-eared Lolitas. Don’t give up... Oh? Something unwelcome has happened. Trash Traveler, fend for yourself~]
Luo Xi: "?"
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Blind guess some readers would say the Chapter is too short~ No saying that! (〃＞﹏＜〃)
