Didn't you go to Teyvat to earn money to support me?

“But Miss Alvitt may not understand. Although these outfits are very popular in the Chinese internet community, they are not of much reference value to junior brother in terms of general aesthetics.” Raiden Mei smoothed her long hair and said dismissively, “In fact, whether it is Balenciaga or Valentino, the quality is far inferior to the uniforms of the Valkyrie of Destiny. There is a big difference in terms of comfort, quality, luster and feel.”

"After all, the Valkyrie's daily exercise level far exceeds that of ordinary people, so it's impractical to design clothing based on the requirements of ordinary people." Shen Liang has recently been quite interested in the clothing industry and understands that the clothing of extraordinary individuals is of a high standard.

"So, Alvitt's attempt backfired; she might as well have dressed normally?" Rita chuckled.

"After all, my junior brother wouldn't like those flashy but impractical brands."

Shen Liang shrugged. He didn't press the matter further. Actually, he wasn't as averse to so-called "flashy but impractical" trendy brands as Raiden Mei had guessed. Men don't care about brand differences; for them, as long as a girl looks good, nothing else matters.

Whether it was Balenciaga stockings bought out of vanity or expensive stockings from the Destiny Standard, he had no prejudice. After all, he was just a kind and open-minded boy. In fact, before he understood the Extraordinary Side, he also picked these so-called high-fashion brands when buying clothes for his sisters. The little ones were jumping around and making noise every day, and they needed new clothes every two weeks.

Although these luxury goods are a waste of money—poor quality and expensive—Shen Liang didn't care. Luxury goods inherently possess the value of satisfying people's aesthetic desires. Just like the stockings and underwear he bought for Anna and Xin Hai, it's perfectly normal for them to tear on the very day they were bought.

However, it's perfectly normal for a young lady like Raiden Mei to look down on certain trendy fashion brands. Truly noble people don't need luxury goods to prove their nobility. Kiana, Sirin, Anna, Mei, and even most of the Valkyries of Schicksal are like this; they themselves represent the extraordinary and superior. Rather, it's more accurate to say that most luxury brands need them to wear them to prove themselves.

At this moment, Shen Liang looked down at the long legs of the two girls on his left and right. Perhaps because Mei and Rita were both tall and slender mature women, their stockings were black, which were more mature and showed off their leg shape. Raiden Mei was wearing small leather boots with stiletto heels of about 10 centimeters, and the maid was also wearing high heels of about 7 centimeters.

Well... in essence, Shen Liang felt that the two of them were not much different from the style of Aylvit, who meticulously studied the art of attracting men in Asia.

"What are you daydreaming about, Junior Brother?" Raiden Mei nudged him.

"I think we're all in the same boat," Shen Liang said frankly.

Mei followed his gaze and saw herself. After a moment's thought, she understood. She was both annoyed and amused. She looked up and saw Rita, who had also realized what was happening. The latter immediately smiled.

“It’s different.” Taking advantage of the fact that no Valkyries were paying attention, Rita quickly pinched Shen Liang’s face, her breath warm on his cheek. “Completely different. Rita’s maid outfit was designed by Schicksal’s equipment department. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it’s just stockings; it’s made of high-density molecular materials that can’t be cut by ordinary knives. It also has heat resistance that can withstand temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius, and it’s non-conductive…”

While speaking intimately close to her, the maid subtly took Shen Liang's right hand and silently placed it on her slender yet taut thigh, encased in delicate stockings. Her voice, already sweet and gentle, became even more alluring at this moment, "How is it? You weren't lying, were you? Little Pandora thinks Rita... how does she feel?"

It feels amazing!

The soft, silky texture and the sheer black fabric seem to reveal smooth, delicate, snow-white skin and soft yet firm leg lines. In the palm of your hand, everything proclaims that this woman is the most alluring goddess in every man's heart.

The feel of her skin is far superior to any of the beautiful girls Shen Liang has ever encountered! The maid is truly a rare beauty. Compared to girls like Anna and Xin Hai, who are still just budding and have well-proportioned bodies, Kelita is in the prime of her life at twenty, and has fully blossomed. She is perfect, somewhere between the purity of a young girl and the charm of a mature woman!

"Very good." Shen Liang couldn't refuse the praise in his heart and nodded in approval.

Rita's smile became even more alluring, and she moved a little closer to Shen Liang, allowing him to feel as he pleased. Shen Liang was never one to be shy or timid, and since Rita was forcibly holding his hand, he couldn't pull away. Even if someone saw them, it would be Rita's own doing and wouldn't affect his image, so he simply relaxed and shamelessly pinched and rubbed her hands.

"I didn't expect Little Pandora's technique to be so good." Rita squeezed her legs together like a ragdoll cat being petted by its owner, closed her beautiful eyes, and made a comfortable "mmm" sound.

While the boy and the maid were intimately evaluating the quality of the stockings, the other Valkyries looked as ugly as if they had just eaten the shards of a broken bottle that Sirin had smashed.

Yes, although sitting on the sofa and their view was partially blocked by their bodies, all the Valkyries could see Rita pressing Pandora's little hand against their thighs! Even if they couldn't see exactly where that tender little hand was touching, it didn't stop them from imagining a story of about four thousand words from Rita's slightly flushed expression.

The girls were absolutely furious... absolutely enraged!

Pandora, the son of the White Flower, is only sixteen years old. Looking at her, she seems like an innocent and naive young boy, almost like a once-in-a-millennium beauty straight out of a female-oriented novel. To the discerning Valkyries who only accept yuri (lesbian) relationships, she's like a perfect Lin Daiyu fallen from the sky. But before they can even say, "I've seen this girl before," the blond-haired lad from the Ningguo Mansion next door has already lifted her skirt and started groping her.

And these "Jia Baoyus" could only watch.

Damn it! Rita Rossweisse really does have blond hair!

However, the moment of intense anger didn't last long. Raiden Mei couldn't tolerate the scene any longer. She slammed the broken wine glass onto the table, then reached out and grabbed Shen Liang's left arm, forcefully pulling him back to his position. Rita, of course, wasn't going to back down either, holding Shen Liang's hand firmly with a forced smile.

"Miss Mei, don't use so much force. Little Pandora can't withstand the struggle between an A-rank Valkyrie and an S-rank Valkyrie."

"Since you know that, let go! Rita, you're openly flirting with my junior brother!" Raiden Mei pulled and tugged, but when she saw Shen Liang's pained expression, she quickly loosened her grip a little, but still said angrily, "Let go of my hand! My junior brother has a girlfriend!"

Rita smirked and, taking advantage of Raiden Mei's momentary lapse in attention, grabbed Shen Liang's arm and pulled him to her side. "Oh? Standing up for Miss Kiana? Are you disciplining Rita as Miss Kiana's best friend?"

"Don't play word games with me. I'm speaking as Pandora's senior sister to stop you from making advances towards Pandora!"

"Miss Mei seems quite angry. She was just calling me 'Mei' a moment ago, and now she's just calling me 'I.' Oh, I see. You only refer to yourself as 'Mei' in front of little Pandora. Such a close sibling relationship doesn't really need to be taught a lesson by Kiana-sensei~" the maid said sarcastically. "But since it's just Miss Mei who can't stand it, isn't it a bit of meddling?"

"You think I'm meddling?"

“Miss Mei, you are at most Pandora’s senior sister, or rather, that’s just a nickname between you. Pandora has not joined St. Freya, so you are not even senior and junior sisters.” Rita narrowed her eyes. “But Rita’s relationship with Pandora is probably much deeper than you think.”

"Rita!" Shen Liang whispered a reminder.

"Don't worry, Mr. Pandora, Rita won't betray you. This is just between women, so please keep your mouth shut." Rita gave him a threatening look, then chuckled. "Otherwise, the IOU Rita gave you is still valid. How about I settle the debt for you today?"

Shen Liang shut up without any backbone. Although he really wanted to "settle accounts" with Rita, letting Rita say these things at this time would be like provoking his senior sister. He didn't even dare to imagine what would happen if Mei knew that his beloved junior brother was a little harlot who even an S-rank Valkyrie had tried to taste. In her anger, Raiden Mei would probably have a fierce battle with him.

At the same time, Raiden Mei was stunned. She repeated with an incredulous expression, "You and your junior brother... are much more advanced than me?"

"Don't take this 'in-depth' literally," Shen Liang quickly explained in a low voice. "Rita and I fought against the Judgment-class Honkai Beasts together in Aisha. This is classified information that shouldn't be circulated. Mei-nee, you understand, we're comrades who have shared life and death."

Raiden Mei no longer wanted to hear Shen Liang's explanation.

She just felt a little tired.

Yes, the mere title of "senior sister" seems to carry no real weight or significance. This relationship doesn't warrant any reason to stop Rita.

She was just an ordinary friend, while Rita was his comrade-in-arms who entrusted their juniors to each other on the battlefield against the terrifying Judgment-class Honkai Beasts.

Let alone touching her thigh or acting like a hooligan, even if it were a real contest with Kiana, Rita wouldn't be entirely without merit. In fact, based on their camaraderie alone, most of the Valkyries at headquarters would likely support Rita in pursuing her true love and encourage her to fight with the little princess of the Shaniat family.

Shen Liang clearly wasn't indifferent to Rita. What boy could be averse to such a stunning beauty like Rita? Thinking about it that way, she was being blind. What right did she have to speak up for Kiana? If Kiana really came here and Rita forcefully tried to steal Rita away, she probably wouldn't feel like she'd been cheated on. Instead, she'd happily say, "Okay, okay, Miss Rita, come to my house tonight to discuss how to divide Ryoko, okay? My house is quite big." Then Rita would have to seriously consider how to protect herself.

Thinking about it this way, was she just using Kiana's name... to do what she wanted?

Without Kiana's help, am I not even allowed to express my dissatisfaction?

So this is what kind of person I am.

Such a person... is a bit weak.

Raiden Mei let out a helpless chuckle, and Rita raised her beautiful wine-red eyes, giving her a thoughtful look.

"Oh dear, this isn't fun anymore," Rita said softly. "Has Miss Mei given up?"

“I have never joined the battlefield,” Raiden Mei said in a low voice.

Shen Liang looked at the two women who had suddenly stopped, completely bewildered.

"Honestly, this makes Rita feel really guilty. Rita still prefers Mei's conflicted yet defiant self from before." Rita said slowly, "Look at you, you don't look like a woman who didn't join the battle, you just look like a woman who failed on the battlefield."

Raiden Mei didn't respond, but a visible hint of anger rose on her face. "Rita, I'm warning you, if you provoke me again, I..."

"So what? A defeated general should just obediently withdraw. What else can you do? Keep bluffing?" Rita shrugged. "Miss Mei, if you want to stop me, you're not good enough right now."

"I……"

The other girls in the bar looked on with pity. They'd been watching for a long time, and now it seemed the two most powerful women around Little Pandora were finally about to settle their differences. S-rank was still S-rank, and the blond guy was still blond guy; Rita had clearly won big!

"So, during your time at headquarters, Pandora belongs to Rita." The maid smiled lightly and released Shen Liang's hand. She was both smug and disappointed. Smug because she had effortlessly defeated Raiden Mei and gained the right to spend time alone with Shen Liang in London. Disappointed because Raiden Mei didn't even have the ability to pique her interest; this seemingly aloof but actually timid girl didn't even have the courage to step onto that stage.

What a foolish girl... If she doesn't even have the courage to pursue her own happiness at the best age of her life, she will regret it for the rest of her life.

Being a maid is a profession meant to bring happiness to people, and Rita doesn't like seeing others miss out on something and regret it for the rest of their lives.

She had already witnessed this unpleasant thing once when she was very young.

“Oh, right,” Rita decided to give her one last nudge, speaking softly in a voice only Shen Liang and Mei could hear, “Miss Mei, many girls in Schicksal deeply admire Little Pandora. They are all very, very good girls, such as Miss Alvitt, Lady Durandal, and so on… Rita, on the other hand, is not a selfish person and will share the beauty of Pandora with everyone. I think you, who have already withdrawn, won’t mind, right?”

Raiden Mei's expression changed drastically.

Chapter 42 There are two incredibly cute girls in this world

"I imagine you wouldn't mind since you've already withdrawn, right?"

This is a provocation that no woman with normal values ​​could tolerate, let alone someone like Aylvit or Durandal. How can you so casually talk about sharing your ambiguous partner with someone else? Do you have some kind of mental illness, or some unspeakable fetish? Do you only get excited when you hide on the sidelines and watch other women devour your possessions bit by bit?

Simply unbelievable.

Raiden Mei was utterly intolerant. Faced with such vicious provocation, she finally abandoned any pretense of politeness. Being misunderstood by Pandora… so be it. Regardless, she couldn't let a woman like Rita, devoid of any moral compass, be with her junior brother!

How could my pure and well-behaved junior brother be led astray by this kind of woman!

Raiden Mei's hair was crackling with faint lightning. In a fit of rage, she suddenly stood up, ready to unleash a furious shout and drag Shen Liang away from this chaotic bar, but the next second, she was forced back by the sound of the wind rushing towards her!

"Ha~ Humans, what are you all discussing so enthusiastically? Hiccup. Let me... let me join in!"

The white-haired girl, slightly drunk, swayed unsteadily in mid-air, wrapping her arms around Raiden Mei's neck, her voice sweet and innocent, "Hehehe, Raiden Mei... Miss, um~"

She sniffed Raiden Mei's long hair and let out a cute hiccup: "It smells so good... Did you spray perfume on yourself? For... my Pandora? Hahaha, Kiana, that idiot, I told her... I told her to be wary of all the girls around Pandora!"

She laughed.

The entire bar fell silent instantly.

Everyone's gaze became incredibly complex, a mixture of disbelief, unsurprising, and utterly exasperated.

Raiden Mei had just managed to gather her emotions and stand up when Sirin slapped her shoulder hard. Her cold and beautiful face flushed red and then turned pale. Having something she didn't want to reveal so blatantly exposed, her anger instantly turned into shame. Her shoulders trembled for a long time, and she didn't know how to respond.

"No... I didn't spray perfume specifically for my junior brother."

"Oh? It's clearly... clearly the one Kiana likes to use the most. I thought you were deliberately imitating Kiana, after all, you spent a lot of time with Kiana." Sirin loudly revealed everyone's secret, "Learning from your best friend's method to deal with your best friend's boyfriend... Hehehehehe, you human... amazing!"

Raiden Mei's face turned ashen!

Shen Liang was equally ashen-faced!

Sister Xilin! Sister Xilin!

Is he sick? Is he sick?

If you're drunk, just go to sleep and stop causing a scene! I already feel awkward enough with you calling yourself "Queen," and now you're simplifying it to "King"? Are you going to call yourself "I, the Lonely One" next time?! Do you know how much you've made my senior sister cry? Do you really not understand what's appropriate and inappropriate to say, or are you just pretending?!

"Oh, right, and you too, you... stupid human!" Sirin released Mei, then casually strolled through the air, landing lightly in front of Shen Liang like a little oriole. Then she gave a silly smile.

Shen Liang suddenly realized that something terrible was about to happen.

The little queen, her face flushed from drinking champagne, openly raised her right leg, which was covered by knitted stockings. Because they were footed stockings, Celine's clean toes were exposed. Her feet, which rarely touched the ground, didn't even have calluses, so they were small and delicate, like those of a young girl.