As the saying goes, three women make a whole opera.
But what if the three gathered together were all utterly bewitched by Seele, each armed with her own killer skillset and an endless bag of tricks — three Duck-Ducks who were allotropes of one another?
The spectacle went well beyond a mere opera.
Caelus cracked melon seeds in perfect comfort, perched on a little stool.
He watched the three Duck-Ducks scheme, snipe, and throw sparks over "himself" with the same relish a man might bring to the Hundred Schools maneuvering against one another in the age of Qin.
The bigger the ruckus, the better — and every so often he had Seele toss another log on the fire, sending the catfight spiraling up another level. The whole business left him warm and loose from head to toe.
The beauty in the dark teal cheongsam stood obediently behind him, a pair of soft hands kneading his neck with exactly the right pressure. The exquisite sensation of all that snowy softness pressing in was, without question, the finest possible bonus to the moment.
It was Ruan Caelus time.
Caelus's sheer fluency at running a body on multiple threads had steamrolled Stelle, and for now he had seized total control of this one.
On the couch, Stelle had been happily playing animal chess with March 7th. The instant Caelus stole control of Ruan Mei's body out from under her, she balled up her little fists with practiced familiarity, fully intending to settle it in a live duel.
"One turn each, a set stretch of time apiece. Perfectly fair!"
The excuse rolled straight off Caelus's tongue, and it successfully talked the bristling Stelle back down for the moment.
Strictly speaking, it wasn't entirely a con.
Caelus simply wanted Stelle to take her sweet time mastering the essence of dual-track control.
Because that way, when Stelle's real body was writhing on the bed, overcome, hearts swimming in her eyes, Stelle Mei would reflexively mirror every last twitch and gasp of her, flawlessly.
That adorable scene — just picturing it set his skin itching. Caelus could hardly wait.
But before he sampled the marvelous new game, there was one piece of business to handle.
While the three Duck-Ducks were busy double-dealing and backstabbing each other with great enthusiasm, the fight thoroughly deadlocked—
Seele scooped up her Brother Caelus and carried him off to her own room.
She poked her little head out through the gap in the door, glanced toward the three Duck-Ducks, then eased the door shut with one pale hand, sealing off the noise of the outside world.
"Brother Caelus~"
The indigo-haired girl stretched, sparing nothing in displaying the astonishing appeal packed into that petite frame.
A bosom full and lush as heaped fresh snow, hips curving up ripe and pert as peaches, skin fine and flawless as porcelain and faintly aglow.
Enough to turn anyone who laid eyes on her into a Seele addict in a heartbeat — reason evaporating, pledging lifelong devotion to her on the spot.
"Seele feels like she's already full~"
Seele and Caelus were, in the truest sense, one person. For ordinary people it would be like the left hand talking to the right — verbal communication was meaningless between them.
These words were for the benefit of Black and "White" Seele, idling in the back of the body.
[Eh?!]
Sure enough, White Seele's panicked voice went up in the mind space at once.
[A-another Seele! Wh-what are you planning to do?]
[Heh, you really are a little dummy. You can't even tell?]
Black Seele let out a lazy sigh, a trace of exasperation in it, laced with a doting note she'd never admit to.
She was reclining elegantly in a Gothic princess chair of black and red.
[Take a page from the other Seele. This is exactly the moment to go on the offensive! Seize the chance!]
Her tone had the flavor of a mother despairing over a hopeless child, and her lips curved in a wicked, delighted arc.
[My guess~ she's definitely going to use this chance to stake her claim! Right under the noses of those three Bronyas, doing that kind of thing with Brother Caelus… mm-hmm~ making it absolutely clear to them that Brother Caelus and Seele are the couple here!]
[Ehhh!?!?]
In the mind space, White Seele — who had been curled meekly in her white-and-blue storybook princess chair — was so shocked she nearly pitched headfirst out of it.
Her fair little face flushed a heady scarlet at visible speed, her body trembling with sheer mortification. Her slightly parted lips could only manage a small, adorable breath of sound, and her sea-blue eyes spun into dizzy spirals.
[Th-that kind of thing!!!]
The other Seele had already been intimate with Brother Caelus — had even shoved control of the body over to her once so she could experience it firsthand — but just remembering it was enough to leave the innocent White Seele wishing she could faint where she sat.
Let alone at a time like this, in a place like this…
[N-no! Absolutely not! Sister Silver Wolf, Sister Haxxor Bunny, Sister Bronya — they're all right outside!!!]
White Seele let out a wail like an overloaded steam engine, so embarrassed she was ready to detonate on the spot.
[So they're outside. What does that have to do with us and Brother Caelus?]
Black Seele gave a dismissive little hum, her tone carrying that swagger and glee unique to her.
As a veteran Seele addict, Black Seele's first priority was Seele's happiness.
Beyond that — compared to Bronya, Caelus was more to her taste. She shipped Seele and Caelus.
This play right here? This play was called a counter-backdoor!
[That's not what I had in mind, but since Seele's put it that way, maybe I should give it a try?]
Seele's voice came through brimming with laughter and a sliver of mischief.
A nice thrilling round of getting ravished right in front of the big sisters… even she couldn't imagine how tight it would clench the instant Silver Wolf, Haxxor Bunny and Little Duck came bursting into the room and she handed the body over to White Seele.
[Nnngh—!!!]
White Seele's flustered wail rang through the mind space.
[Kidding~]
Now, to business.
"Let's begin, then."
Caelus was putting on a one-man double act.
If you thought of Caelus as some higher-dimensional abstraction, then at this moment:
His left hand wore the Caelus suit, and the words had just left it.
His right hand worked an exquisite Seele doll — slender fingers turned over with elegance, and a black-and-white spear embroidered with delicate hundred-flower patterns appeared out of empty air. The Divine Key: Black Abyss White Flower.
Affection had already climbed into the middle-to-late sixth stage, where Divine Awakening had a high probability of success.
"Mm!"
The "Seele doll" the right hand controlled nodded on cue, closed her eyes, and opened the System interface in her mind.
She found Divine Awakening with practiced ease, tapped it with a thought — confirm!
"Card Swap — awaken, Black Abyss White Flower!"
Seele called it out crisply, deploying a meme that neither Black nor White Seele understood in the slightest.
Hmmmm—!
The spear blazed with pure, spotless white light. Energy beyond description seeped out of the void and wrapped it into a cocoon; pure soul-force pulsed, spinning ribbons of light that circled and danced.
Cracks and fissures began to appear, creeping slowly outward toward the edges…
The whole process looked like a caterpillar breaking free of its chrysalis as a butterfly.
At some critical threshold, the cocoon of light, streaked with holy arcs, shattered with a roar!
The motes of light dispersed, revealing the graceful figure curled at the core.
Radiant long hair, flowing like quicksilver spilled across the ground, drifted softly in an invisible buoyancy.
She had only just been born into the world, yet her brow carried a settled gentleness and grace, the kind that belongs to a wife and mother.
Beneath that pure, guileless face was a body that held both the ripe allure of a mature woman and a devil's temptation — snowy peaks standing proud, and below a waist too slender to fill a grip, hips curving with a fullness so perfect it stopped the heart.
A pair of long, moon-pale legs stretched out with nothing to cover them, radiating a lethal pull woven from sanctity and seduction alike.
"Heh. I'm not surprised in the slightest."
Caelus looked at that familiar face and smiled — relief and satisfaction both.
Every Stigmata of the Schariac family bore a face identical to Cecilia's.
And this was the old partner that had once fought at Cecilia's side, steeped in the light of her life and her will.
So when it underwent Divine Awakening, it wore a face exactly like hers.
Did that check out?
It checked out way too well!
[Leylah… so that's where she came from?]
In the mind space, Black and "White" Seele were both blank-faced.
They counted Caelus's yo-yo as a friend of sorts. Seele hadn't been present when Caelus performed the Divine Awakening in the Scalegorge Ancient Sea, so this was the first time either of them had witnessed one.
The key point being — the two of them used Black Abyss White Flower on a regular basis, too.
Black Seele paired with the Black Abyss; she handled it beautifully.
And now that familiar weapon had turned into a gorgeous woman — a big sister with the married-woman aura cranked to maximum?
"If Master keeps staring like that, I'm going to get shy~"
The white-haired beauty, who looked about twenty, colored faintly, and both Black and White Seele just gaped.
Her tone was bright and lively, like a supersized Kiana.
Nope — a younger version!
Caelus's heart started thudding in a thoroughly undignified way.
"My fault, is it? You're a high-tier energy lifeform now. You can create your own clothes."
Caelus shrugged.
"Eh? So that's how it works? Hahaha…"
The girl — a creature fit to be called one of the world's rarest treasures — tilted her head and laughed, a little sheepish, with a touch of natural airheadedness about her.
Then the remaining light of the cocoon drew in over skin as smooth and new as a newborn's, veiling the view.
It formed a simple, pure-white off-shoulder gown, the chest adorned with black and blue floral accents. Ivory-smooth calves swung with a lively bounce, bare feet treading empty air — like moonlight shining into a person's heart.
"Master~ you have to give me a pretty name~"
The white-haired beauty clasped her hands behind her back and bent forward, beaming.
A True Name input interface popped up in his mind.
Caelus's first instinct was Cecilia — and then a bad feeling followed right behind it.
He thought it over and let it go.
After all, he'd have to face Kiana again someday. Naming her Cecilia would be openly taking liberties with his precious Kiana~!
"Celia. How's that?" Caelus asked.
"That's just changing one syllable."
The white-haired beauty stuck out her sweet little tongue playfully. "Not an ounce of sincerity, Master. Not bad~ Fine, whatever! I think it's pretty good~"
Coming from someone radiating that much wifely poise, the gesture had a gap-moe charm that made the heart stutter.
"Then it's decided."
[System Notice: True Name inscription complete — Celia.]
"Lia, do you have any particularly vivid memories?" Caelus asked, studying her without letting it show.
"Master, you really mustn't go playing Cao Cao the wife-thief~ Besides, I'm not Cecilia."
She paid no mind to the gaze burrowing into her cleavage. The starting point of her memory was the moment Caelus pulled her; one hundred percent of the time in her head had been spent with Caelus, or with the other Caeluses — Seele, Silver Wing, and Raven. He was the only family she had in the world.
The white-haired girl puffed out her snowy cheeks and complained, faintly aggrieved: "I was only just born. Are you going to marry me and turn me into somebody's wife?"
"Ummmm… does your own wife count as somebody's wife?" Caelus rubbed his chin.
"Of course she counts!" Lia declared with total conviction.
"Does she?"
"She does."
"Then why doesn't it feel like it?"
"Hehe, if Master uses that body in the space with me, then it will~"
Lia clasped her hands behind her back and bounced on her toes in high spirits.
Caelus blinked.
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