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The group’s favorite is the group’s favorite. Even the rich lady who can’t suppress her greed is willing to give March some “face”.
385.Sign it! I can do anything!
"Xiao Sanyue, now that things have come to this, I must make it clear to you."
When they came out of the corridor, Kong pointed at the folding table to Sanyue. When there were few passengers on the bus before, these relatively simple temporary rest areas had almost no meaning. But as more people came and went, they actually fulfilled Akivalli's original design.
Noshiro and Karin were playing karuta on a small table and folding chairs. Not far away, Asuna and Pam were sweeping the dust on the windowsill with a duster. The scene had a hint of the prosperity that Akivalli had pioneered when he was still alive.
"... Tell me?"
Having seen the solemn expression of the flight attendant several times, Xiao Sanyue probably understood that such an abrupt invitation would encounter difficulties. She took a deep breath and put the agreement drawn up by Ji Zi on the table, waiting for Sora to show his hand.
"From the very beginning of the travel plan, including when I boarded the bus, I was already prepared to get off the bus at any time due to force majeure. You should remember, right?"
"Well, when we were in the space station, you had already emphasized the possibility that Party A might be moody—" Pink-haired nodded repeatedly.
"It's because I can't even control my comings and goings, and the company can't enforce the agreement I signed. Even if I agree to start a family with you, when the time comes I have to leave, I will only have a very short chance to say goodbye."
Kong has already lost count of how many times he has said something similar. Party A here still has some humanity, but who knows if it will still be as tolerant of traversers like him as it is today after the test is over and its own rules are perfected.
"But you also said that this is the first time you've been able to call for reinforcements. I'd like to believe that this is a good start. Maybe this world is special and is willing to let you stay here—with Sister Haiya and the others."
Pink-haired rarely insisted on her own opinion and thrust her chest forward, her nose almost bumping into his.
"You kid."
Sora's expression softened again.
"Even if I may not be able to keep my promise? I always claim to do what I say."
"It's okay. This time, I, Uncle Yang, and Sister Jizi all agree. If you embark on a long journey, we will try to find you! Just like your companions in the past -" 9
"It will be a desperate and difficult journey..."
"Uncle Yang has already proved that you can meet again - he said that as long as you have faith, you will be able to create the magic to meet again!" Wu
"...Huh, why do you make Old Yang sound like a magical girl?"
March's breath had already blew onto Kong's face, so he had no choice but to press down on the pink-haired girl's shoulders and ask her to sit back so as not to attract Pam's strange gaze - she was probably worried that he and March would have a quarrel.
"...In principle, I agree to start a family...Really, I've considered being tied to one place many times before, but I always hesitate between giving up and having the wrong idea again, little Sanyue, little Sanyue..."
"Hey, so you agree?"
Pinkhair began to giggle.
"Don't laugh. It's rare for me to be serious with you. But let me make it clear first. I am very old, but in terms of experience as a father, I am far less experienced than Old Yang—"
"? Aren't you the same age as Uncle Yang?"
"But I've never raised my own child. Adoption is just financial support, and it doesn't involve much family affection. Asking someone to call me dad is too..."
"How about just writing it as guardian...?"
"It's the only way. Even I can't define my own generation. It depends largely on how you want to call me. My mental age is about the same as Lao Yang's."
In a sense, the pink-haired girl achieved a feat that even Bronya could not achieve - she successfully made Sora hesitate for a moment to confirm their kinship.
Every analysis was very logical, but when it came to himself, those commonplace things became obstacles - he picked up Ji Zi's draft and began to read the contents of the agreement with trepidation.
"…Isn't this just a normal family declaration acceptance form?"
"That's right."
"Guaranteed by Pinocchio's legal system... I remember it was Tongxie's territory? Jizi had planned to go there before. Is its credibility as strong as that of the company?"
"Well, it should be said that they are the relationship between the sovereign and the former overseas colonies. In terms of influence, especially in the economic aspect, Pinocchio is still quite powerful now."
The pink-haired girl spoke very logically and it was obvious that she had done her homework beforehand. She really wanted to have a formal home, which was why she was so serious about cramming knowledge into her goldfish-like head.
"You need to go to a local place to handle it... it's so troublesome."
"Let's sign, our original destination is here, and we will definitely go there later, so let's do the formalities. When we talk about home, we think of family, and Pinocchio is the family's territory. It sounds so romantic to become an inseparable family under the witness of Tongxie!"
"It's so hard to stay together forever, little Sanyue."
"The purpose of pioneering is to go to different places. If your goal is the world beyond the sea of stars, we can definitely accompany you to witness it - hehe! Even if you go ahead, we will follow! In the words of Sister Ji Zi, you are simply a natural pioneer - she also said that you are more suitable to be a navigator -"
"…You can sign, but I need to confirm the details with Ji Zi later. Also, have you told Dan Heng about this?"
"I've said it! Although Teacher Dan Heng was hesitant, he was very interested. I'll assume that he accepted it!"
"…Give him a copy of the same document…I will take this back to the house and show it to your sisters and ask for their opinions."
After Jiu decided to form a stronger relationship with the train crew, Kong felt a strong sense of anticipation and a strange feeling, as if years of persistence had been broken...
He selfishly took a step that he absolutely shouldn't have taken. He said it was to comply with the girl's expectations, but it couldn't change the fact that he also longed to run around with a group of acquaintances and friends.
The life of a time traveler is not at all stable. Any idea of settling down permanently, gathering some people to start a family, or forming a fixed team has turned into countless lingering regrets after leaving without saying goodbye again and again.
The reinforcements that arrived before and after the encounter with the train crew made him think more actively, and at the request of Xiao Sanyue, he reflected on his "problem" of always speaking ugly words in advance -
⑷ It is hard to say whether it is self-discipline or simply being prepared to make excuses later. What a born pioneer! He is obviously a born excuser.
3. “I’ll go right away—”
Little Sanyue, who was sure that Sora was going to sign, ran away happily, but Sora smiled like an auntie, and about a minute later he suddenly remembered that everyone seemed to have forgotten someone.
0Wait, Cocolia isn't included yet——She has only been a member for a short time, does Jizi plan to observe her for a while?
⒌Okay, that’s reasonable.
Sora observed a three second silence for the mother duck, and when he turned around he found that Noshiro Karin and Asuna both had "I'm easy to ride" looks on their faces, and their heads were stacked in a row from bottom to top, staring at the draft in his hand.
"Teacher, have you finally gotten the point? But why not at school? Woohoo, we always fantasize about you establishing a relationship with the great scientist of the millennium—"
The golden-haired boy pressed Noshiro's shoulders and rushed over, pressing her and Sora in the middle like a sandwich, with her pink face squeezed together in front of Sora's chin.
"Ah... starting a family with your students, unless you are an extremely powerful person, your teaching career and life will be over in a double sense."
"The teacher is such an amazing person—"
"I don't think I am."
Kong rejected Asuna's fantasy - that was not called starting a family, that was pure harem. He was a dirty man, but there were different ways to satisfy one's desires. He could barely distinguish between the admiration of his students and the feelings that arose from the high-pressure environment of the ship girls and Valkyries who had no food to eat.
He could only choose the adult students who liked him to the point of unity of knowledge and action, and understood the meaning of love to themselves. Ah, speaking of which, Kivotos was trying hardest to see him...
Probably Hinata.
It's hard for her, but I heard that she didn't get a good ranking in the chicken-eating competition...
"...Speaking of the situation at the academy - Karin, what was President Sorasaki's mental state like before you left? 九零：肆釟俬∥∑誀←九∝0⒌蒐」□索◇∧："
"It's fairly stable. Everyone in Kivotos knows that she ran for office to bring the teacher back. The student voter approval rate for the university program is as high as 99%. Now more than half of her campaign promises have been fulfilled. Even though we still have to work hard to get the chance to meet the teacher again... I believe her prestige has reached the peak of all her predecessors."
"so."
If the girls kept talking, Sora would become withdrawn to the point of becoming a string - he was such a jerk. The higher his prestige, the more frustrated Hina would probably be if she couldn't satisfy her own little thoughts during the election.
I hope to meet her - but I still have to follow the rules of the Total Power Battle and the Chicken Dinner Contest.
"...Noshiro, among the Donghuang ship girls...can you help me guess who is most likely to win?"
He felt slightly less guilty about the shipgirls. After all, everyone in the port area was an adult who could be responsible for their own actions.
"Without a doubt, it's Yixian."
Noshiro didn't need to think about it, as this was an open-book exam - even though she didn't deal with Yixian much, she clearly remembered the grand oath-taking ceremony between the commander and Yixian. It could be said that the girls of Donghuang invested one-third of their military pay that year into the celebration of the first Donghuang wedding ship, which happened to be the Chinese New Year. The scene of Yixian, dressed in bright red, being carried into the dormitory by Kong Heng amid the blast of firecrackers was still vivid in her mind.
"Besides her, unless you, the commander, specify that it must be a ship that can accompany you...accompany you...in night exercises——"
9 Noshiro blushed, not sure if it was because she hesitated to say something hurtful or because Asuna pressed her head against the back and she felt the size of the penis that was comparable to Daishichi's, so she started to stammer.
０ "Maybe Anshan...?"
4. “Can that kid win the exercise?”
8 "It should be possible to designate a camp. Huanchang and Binjiang were the most active in the exercise, and Zhenhai was also quite high-profile—"
4 "Isn't it completely impossible to determine the scope of the personnel..."
2. "Why are you suddenly concerned about the reinforcements? Didn't the commander say that he doesn't care who comes first or later?"
９ “…because of this agreement.”
Zero Sora shook the draft: "If they knew that I was planning to officially settle down on the train, the girls might have many reactions. Those with a strong control desire would definitely object. After all, this is something I couldn't even fulfill my promise to them... But if they insist on joining the kinship agreement without knowing each other, it will cause trouble for Himeko-"
5. "...After being away from you for such a long time, instead of being angry that you have started a family or established a new family... everyone is more content just to see you once."
"Is it really just as simple as meeting once?"
"…It would be nice to have a chance to reminisce about the night exercises with you. Everyone is pretty much the same, including me."
Noshiro's shy face, yet her forced seriousness in speaking threatening words, is sometimes really unbearable - after all, she is an experienced ship girl, not even a "little white rabbit". The pressure accumulated from fifty years of endurance is enough to make a completely passive child like Janus become extremely aggressive... not to mention other people.
As for Kong, whose face was exposed, Yao Ming was also in a very "deadly" mood at this moment.
"After landing, I have to consider how many people this agreement can bear to sign... Fortunately, Nian and Ling will definitely not reject this "family", and Liu Yun and Shen He probably won't care--"
"...Can immortals really be so free and easy?" Hua Lin was surprised that the master and apprentice group had no intention of "recognizing each other" in the air.
"At least Liu Yun can't do that. She has many people she cares about in Liyue, so she can't become a permanent member. As for Shen He, her training is not over yet. For the time being, she can follow us and see what happens one step at a time."
"It's so complicated." Asuna started to wag her tail again, and she relied on instinct instead of thinking.
"This is all caused by your teacher, I. You should use your brain more."
After tapping his forehead with the draft, Kong prepared to go back to the house to find the rich lady to continue the matters that he had not had time to complete just now, and by the way, ask her whether it would be more appropriate to ask a company notarization or a family notarization.
Just as he was distracted for a short while, his jade sign vibrated - it was a contact from Luofu officials.
[My benefactor, I have a request.]
Probably to prevent being eavesdropped, she first made a phone call and then switched to text input. After she returned to Xingchahai to report on her work at night, the broken jade sign finally restored the signal - the two of them were separated by a port.
[Is it yours or Tianbosi's?]
[Business request, when we were taking Lord Bailu back to Sichen Palace for a short rest, we encountered some obstacles... The Chiming of the Chamber of Commerce was not very clear about the changes in the clan, and they all came to Lord Bailu to ask for an explanation... Now she is very troubled. 】2
[How could she know what had happened... How long has it been since those people came home to visit? Or did the elders deliberately find people outside to disgust Jing Yuan?]⒋
[So I would like to ask you, Mr. Danheng, to take her to the train to hide. I know this will cause further backlash from Chiming, but this is also a way to avoid suspicion.]
At the end, she added a paragraph: [Also, Lord Bailu's departure from Xingcha Sea will also make it easier for me to act, you must understand.]
[Okay, I get it. I'll tell the conductor to pick her up. You should be thankful that we can still make room for her...]