"..." What is this situation... Li Xuan silently stared at the scene before him, a little at a loss...
Scattered snack bags, empty soda bottles on the floor, shoes also tossed on the ground... The living room, dark in broad daylight with the curtains drawn, gave Li Xuan the feeling that his home had been burglarized...
"Did our house get robbed?!" Li Xuan couldn't help but ask Liv behind him in astonishment. Everything had been normal when he left this morning.
"Uh... No, it's that Liv didn't clean up properly." Liv shook her head hastily with an apologetic look. "It's Liv's fault..."
"..." Li Xuan reached out and patted his Maid Liv's head without saying anything, then walked straight into the room. He and Liv definitely didn't have the habit of eating so many snacks... so...
"Clack clack..." The crisp sound of rapid keyboard typing reached Li Xuan's ears. The clattering of the keyboard made even a pseudo-otaku like him, who had been one for over a decade, feel a sense of awe... That typing speed, he had lost!
"..." Li Xuan tiptoed into the living room and finally got a clear view of the figure sitting in front of the computer... Any lingering hope he had instantly vanished...
"Yaoye?!" Li Xuan exclaimed in disbelief.
"..." Yaoye-hime, who was sitting seriously at the computer, paused her hands for a moment. Her long, smooth golden hair trembled slightly.
"Bro-brother..." Yaoye, still with a Homu Brand Potato Chip in her mouth, turned her head in a fluster. Her pair of golden eyes stared nervously at the surprised Li Xuan.
"Honkai... God's Domain?!" As Yaoye turned, the computer screen that came into Li Xuan's view showed the massive game he had played before, "Honkai God's Domain"... a game with an ultra-high degree of freedom combining combat and social interaction, jointly designed by the geeks of St. Freya High School's science department and other companies.
"...Yaoye, you know how to use a computer?!" Li Xuan looked at his sister's fair hands still on the keyboard with disbelief and complex feelings... She was just a child a few days ago... and in just a few days, she had become an otaku girl.
'Why are you so skilled...' Li Xuan thought of Yaoye's fair hands hitting the keyboard as if touch-typing, that speed... Newcomers are all monsters.
"I just learned by watching..." Yaoye hurriedly turned off the computer screen, turned around, and said with a sincere expression.
"Learned by watching?!" Li Xuan was dumbfounded. You can learn how to use a computer just by watching?.
".Then you shouldn't have made the room so messy..." Li Xuan sighed and didn't plan to investigate further. He bent down and picked up the snack bag at his feet, throwing it into a nearby trash can.
"Sorry, brother~" Yaoye apologized sincerely, her hands placed on her chest. Her large, watery eyes blinked at Li Xuan, giving him an inexplicable sense of guilt...
"Ahem... Master." Liv suddenly tugged on Li Xuan's sleeve to remind him, "The Honkai Beast Egg has started to hatch..." Liv pointed to a small table against the wall where a white, oval egg sat quietly.
"It's already starting..." Li Xuan quickly snapped back to reality. Now was not the time for trivial matters. He walked over to the Honkai Beast Egg in a few steps. Sure enough... the originally white eggshell now had several long cracks...
Beneath the cracks on the Honkai Beast Egg's shell was a pink glow. Under the observation of Li Xuan's right eye, the cracks were slowly widening and deepening. It was obvious that the Honkai Beast Egg had completed its incubation stage and was about to hatch.
.... Li Xuan watched as a new life was about to emerge, and he felt a strange sense of anticipation... He turned his head and saw Yaoye beside him, also curiously looking at the slightly shaking Honkai Beast Egg on the table.
"Why do I feel a sense of familiarity?..." Yaoye-hime muttered to herself.
"What's wrong..." Li Xuan asked Yaoye, confused.
"No, it's nothing, brother~..." Yaoye tilted her head and remained silent.
"It's coming out!" Maid Liv suddenly said with excitement, immediately drawing the attention of Li Xuan and Yaoye.
"Crack!~" The cracks on the white eggshell completely split open, revealing a smooth pink membrane underneath... A small bump appeared at the top of the egg, as if it was about to break through at any moment. A violent burst of energy suddenly emanated from within the egg.
"Everyone, be careful... The egg is about to explode." Li Xuan was the first to react. The ability to slightly sense energy granted to him by his Stigmata allowed him to hastily shield Liv and Yaoye.
"BOOM!!" With a loud bang, the pink membrane exploded under the impact of a violent energy surge. The white eggshell fragments on the membrane shot out like darts. Fortunately, Li Xuan and the others had moved away early on and weren't hit.
"That's..." Li Xuan raised his head and looked in the direction of where the Honkai Beast Egg had been. The egg was gone, replaced by scattered fragments of the shell. A white sphere floated in mid-air, with a golden ring hovering above it, like an angel from Western mythology.
"A Honkai Beast?" Looking at the floating sphere, Li Xuan more or less determined that it was a flying-type Honkai Beast.
"..." Suddenly, Yaoye, who was behind Li Xuan, silently walked towards the miraculously floating sphere and slowly extended a slender, fair index finger to touch it.
"Wait... Yaoye, be careful..." Li Xuan wanted to reach out and pull Yaoye back. After all, it was a Honkai Beast, and no one knew if it would attack people.
"Hello there..." Before Li Xuan could pull Yaoye back in time, her finger had already gently touched the sphere as she spoke softly. A smooth, hard sensation came from her fingertip, and a strange sense of familiarity arose in her heart...
"Squeak..." With a crisp cry, the sphere floating in mid-air suddenly unfurled the six wings that were wrapped around its body, much to Li Xuan's surprise. Unlike the purplish-red Honkai energy glow he had seen on other Honkai Beast wings, the wings unfurled by this sphere shimmered with a soft golden light...
Its spindle-shaped body was like a teardrop, and the golden ring above its head resembled that of an angel... The wings spread out on either side of its body shimmered with a soft golden radiance.
'This is... a Honkai Beast?!...' Li Xuan felt that his Honkai Beast was a bit different... My Honkai Beast might be a fake...
"A glimmering golden Honkai Beast..." Liv muttered blankly.
(End of this chapter)