I just hope to live a leisurely life in the world of anime.

###Chapter 437 Old Stories (Part Two)###

"So, what advice did you give Celia?"

An Shu continued, following her lead. She wasn't surprised by her deep, expansive eyes.

"Um, well, I'll tell you a secret..." Aurelia suddenly lowered her voice, leaned forward, and beckoned to An Shu, making him lower his head as well, before whispering, "I had her blow up your sister's bedroom! Ha..."

Although it's not really necessary to do such a movement, it just adds to the atmosphere.

"Hehe..." She chuckled to herself after she finished speaking, "Afterwards, you didn't see that stupid woman's livid face. It was hilarious! That stupid woman... hahaha..."

"Eh..."

An Shu smiled slightly.

The thought of that icy older sister suddenly showing a different expression is quite amusing.

"Hmm, I haven't finished yet. Do you know how I taught Celia?" Aurelia took a few breaths, wiped away the tears streaming from the corners of her eyes, and continued.

"Eh," there's a process involved.

An Shu's curiosity was piqued once again.

"After I blew up your sister's bedroom, I made her form this hand gesture with black mist..."

Aurelia kept her lips tightly pressed together, afraid that if she laughed too hard she wouldn't be able to speak.

The hand that had just been retracted under the mink fur was extended again.

First, she clenched her fist, then extended her slender, jade-white middle finger!

A gesture universally understood throughout the world!

"Pfft... Ugh!"

Although the specifics were unknown, the imagery was so vivid that the girl, who had been trying to keep a low profile, couldn't help but burst into laughter and quickly covered her mouth again.

"Hahahahaha... You know what, it really cracked me up, back then... hahahaha... that woman An Yu, ha..."

"Hahaha……"

She had just been smiling, but this time An Shu couldn't hold back and finally let her voice out.

Seeing her initially lifted my spirits.

Laughing so hard she could barely breathe, Aurelia gestured with her hands to add, "The key is that Celia put in some effort; that mist that formed the middle finger took a full three days to dissipate on its own, tsk tsk tsk..."

She calmed down, and her laughter gradually subsided.

"She wasn't caught, was she?" An Shu asked worriedly after laughing.

However, he guessed that it might be unnecessary.

"Haha, of course not. She's very shrewd. She blew it up and ran away. She was the first one to leave among all of us."

really.

"But, but, does the book think this is the climax of the story?"

"Hey, is there some kind of twist?"

"There was no reversal, of course, but there's more to come."

"Hmm, what's wrong now?"

"Of course it's Sylphella! How could we miss out on something this fun! Remember Sylphella? Although she looks pure and dignified on the outside, and even walks with a halo behind her head, she's actually the most cunning of all of us." Aurelia pouted; she didn't like that girl before.

After all, I had been tricked by that seemingly harmless guy quite a few times because of my carelessness.

"Well, that guy has no good intentions towards anyone except you."

"Well... actually, Sylphella isn't that bad, she's just not good at expressing herself."

"Not good at expressing herself, huh? Forget it. I don't believe someone who, if she went to another world and there was a Goddess of Light there, would beat her up for no reason, strip her naked, and stuff her into a trash can, would be bad at expressing herself." Aurelia exclaimed in exaggerated surprise, then continued, "Like Celia, she also blew up your sister's room once."

"Did you leave a middle finger too?" the girl couldn't help but interject.

She found her older brother Anshu's former "friends" quite interesting!

Aurelia glanced at her, then refocused her gaze on Anshu, and casually replied, "No, she only has her little finger. It's made of dots of light."

"Uh...uh..."

Perhaps because she had a low threshold for laughter, the girl had to cover her mouth again and try to keep the volume down.

But as she laughed, she suddenly felt something was off. It was clearly funny, so why was she unmoved? She'd been laughing quite happily just moments before!

An Shu also found this strange.

Before he could ask for details, Aurelia gestured for her to finish.

Having talked for so long, she was a little thirsty, so she picked up her teacup, took a sip, and continued, "Then Sylphella ran away too. The moment she saw how Celia acted, she knew I was the one who taught her. So before she left, she came to find me, gave me her contact information, and said she was going to look for you too. But I'll tell you about that later..."

Oh dear, I hadn't really thought about how to organize my thoughts before I saw the book, so what I'm saying now is a bit disorganized.

Originally, their little tricks would have been nothing to An Yu, a mere clapping motion. But that foolish woman didn't bother to remove them, letting those two hand gestures remain for three days. During the day, the black fog thickened, and at night, lights flickered—it was such a sight! It's a pity the book wasn't there then…”

With a slight sigh, Aurelia suddenly narrowed her eyes and changed the subject: "But... Parintin said that she secretly cried in her room that night."

Parintin, her sister's henchman, that "righteous one." An Shu would never forget her.

Why was Parintin crying?

"Is the book pretending to be stupid again? Why is Parisin crying all the time? But it's An Yu, your sister, although I don't know if it's true or not."

###Chapter 438 Old Stories (Part 3)###

"Well, books are so boring. Don't always look at me with such a blank expression! Can't you be a little surprised or something? You know, I can't believe that stupid woman actually cried."

After a long silence, An Shu shook her head and picked up the teacup she hadn't touched since: "After all, she's a girl, and you girls like to be sentimental."

"Perhaps she's just sentimental... but the book is definitely still angry with her."

If he had heard this kind of news before, he would have exaggeratedly questioned himself. Now he seems indifferent to everything. Is that really the case? No, it probably isn't.

Aurelia was certain that he wasn't such a heartless person. On the contrary, he possessed a girl's sensitivity and emotionality, provided that he hadn't changed at all after all these years apart.

An Shu shook her head: "I never get angry!"

The tea soothed her throat, and An Shu didn't know where the tea leaves came from, but she found them unexpectedly bitter.

"But how did Aurelia know about this?"

Compared to Sylphella, it was actually Parintin who was truly bad at socializing. In An Shu's memory, she was always the image of someone riding a tall, fine horse, taciturn yet elegant and natural.

If she had known that she had stumbled upon this information by chance, she wouldn't have gone out of her way to spread the word about Aurelia.

“When I went to say goodbye to my older sister the next day, I couldn’t find her. I only ran into Parintin, so…” Aurelia leaned back in her wheelchair, fiddling with a strand of her curly hair, “I chatted with her a little longer. She probably didn’t know I was leaving, so she asked for my opinion, to see if there was any good way. Well, what could I do?”

"..."

"However, I specifically asked Parintin about the details of that night. Do you want to know?" Aurelia kept them in suspense, tilting her head slightly.

"……What"

"According to Parintin, that silly woman is crying while hugging her teddy bear, and it seems she's been calling your name as she sobs. Well, thinking about it, it's actually quite pitiful. Locking herself in her room alone, crying while hugging her teddy bear, with no one to comfort her. Hmm, I think that teddy bear is the one you gave her back then. All in all, it's quite a surprise to see this side of her, who's usually so cold."

She tilted her head back, seemingly sighing or reflecting, but still revealing the starlight hidden in her eyes.

"So, does the book give you a sense of vengeful pleasure?"

Sensing that the atmosphere was about to become somber again, she made a half-joking remark.

"……No."

"Wait, why does it sound so abrupt? Actually, yes, it does exist."

"Aurelia!"

"Hmm, what's wrong? The book's getting angry, hehe~ How funny, the way it's gritting its teeth is so cute~ But, I'm not teasing you anymore, I haven't finished yet. Hmm, but let me ask you one more time, do you still want to hear it? If you don't, then I won't say anything more."

Aurelia asked for his opinion because he had been avoiding them all these years.

The result is self-evident...

"think."

"Okay, then continue."

"Actually, there's not much to say next. Let's just go over the timeline. That day, because of that incident, you were thrown into the Black Void by the eldest sister. We went to question her, but she rejected us all."

"Back then, you knew all the evidence pointed to you, and it was impossible not to believe it. But we all knew you wouldn't do such a thing, so we had no idea what was wrong with our eldest sister that day."

"Our investigation made progress on the second day after you went in, and by the sixth day, everything came to light. It really was just an 'accident' targeting you. There was no murderer, no setup, just a 'coincidence.' You know our essence is 'the composition of all worlds,' which can also be called our 'essence.' It was a coincidence that the world made for you."

"Actually, there was a similar coincidence once before, but that time it was more of an accident than a coincidence—that was your birth. We're all girls, and you... well, I'm getting off-topic..."

“Then my eldest sister fastened a ‘seatbelt’ to ensure her return and went to find you in the Dark Sky herself.” Aurelia paused, looking at him intently.

After a while, seeing that he didn't react, she continued to speak.

"Because you're no longer in your original position; you drifted away on your own. The book was fine on its own, without any worries, but you have no idea how scared we were back then. That place was a forbidden zone. If you had gotten lost in the depths, you might never have been able to get out. You couldn't use your abilities there."

“When you drifted away, you must have encountered a little bit of resistance, right? My older sister said that she had drawn a circle specifically for you to ensure that it would find you. The reason she didn’t tell you was because she thought you would understand on your own, but you still ran away.”

"We originally wanted to go together, but that stupid woman issued a ban. She has a lot of power and the authority to restrain everyone. She's a power-hungry dog, there's nothing we can do! I guess she's afraid we'll get lost inside... so we have to wait outside."

"The first time, it took six days and seven nights to find her. I remember it very clearly. It was a rare occasion that everyone was together, and we gathered around the very edge of the area. She came back, but she didn't bring you with her."

"I don't know how she found you in that place where you couldn't see anything, but I can guess. I think she must have been groping her way along, relying on fate. It's ridiculous, isn't it? Actually, she couldn't do anything about 'fate,' otherwise she would have found you long ago."

"The book should know how hard it was for your eldest sister. The Youkong itself is an abstract concept, you could say it's abstract, but in reality it's not even abstract. Space and time don't exist in it. That is to say, when your eldest sister was looking for you, she slowly groped her way along, but she could very well turn around and jump to another place without any sense of direction. She might even have passed you by without even realizing it."

"The difficulty of finding you in there is comparable to finding a needle in a haystack. Note that this is not an exaggeration; finding a needle in a haystack might be even easier."

“She searched for five years, until the moment you could feel her breath. She was just about to set off. She came back and forth a total of seventy-eight times, each time to comfort us and then leave again immediately.”

"For us it's five years, but for my eldest sister it's uncertain. It could be as short as a few seconds, or it could be as long as hundreds of years."

"Then you came back out of nowhere, um...actually, I'm curious about that too, Book, how did you come back?"

After a moment of silence, An Shu replied, "...I jumped out on my own, so I should be a little better than my sister at her peak."

Upon hearing this, Aurelia immediately became excited: "Hey hey hey hey! That means we can finally beat her up! You haven't forgotten our promise, have you? If one day we can beat her, we'll give her a good beating and make her cry!"