Subaru Natsuki, who returned from the new Three Kingdoms

"do not want!"

Natsuki Subaru had only gotten halfway through his question when Shaula's expression suddenly changed.

She closed her eyes, covered her head with her hands, and rolled around in the sand.

"I hate it when my master asks me questions!"

"We've finally met, so let me get closer to you. Instead of standing here lecturing me, why not teach me all the loneliness I've accumulated over the past four hundred years in bed—"

She rolled on the ground, dragging out her words, then suddenly kicked her legs and pounced on Subaru Natsuki again with a pout.

Subaru took a step to the side.

Xia Wula missed his target by brushing against the hem of his clothes, rolled twice on the ground, and stopped still in the position of reaching out to hug him.

She lifted her face, her eyes quickly filling with tears.

"Master..."

The voice was so soft it sounded as if the whole world had abandoned it.

"You won't even let me hug you?"

"Even though you used to be cold, at least you were willing to let me be close to you..."

Subaru looked down at her, and the more he looked, the stranger he felt. He had a feeling that the Three Kingdoms this guy was talking about was not the same as his own Three Kingdoms.

People from the Three Kingdoms era didn't dress so revealingly!

However, since the other party was unwilling to take the exam, he didn't have any good ideas. He couldn't just draw his sword and attack, could he? General Natsuki understood the principle of innocence in cases of doubt.

But judging from her behavior just now, it's clear that she's different from that swindler named Ah something-or-other.

They are not the kind of people who deliberately pretend to be from the Three Kingdoms period to get close to others while actually having ulterior motives.

So Natsuki Subaru temporarily set aside his doubts about the Three Kingdoms' identities and instead asked:

Who are you?

"I am Xia Wula!"

Xia Wula sat on the ground, the sorrow on her face vanished instantly, and a bright smile returned to her face.

"Your dearest disciple! Shaula!"

Subaru was stunned for a moment.

"Shawula?"

He doesn't have any apprentices with that name!

No, he doesn't have any apprentices at all!

However, the name reminded Natsuki Subaru of the purpose of his visit to the Sage's Tower.

The kingdom is looking for a legendary sage whose name seems to be Shaula.

Could the great sage be this scantily clad girl in front of me?

But why does she always call me "Master"?

As Natsuki Subaru pondered, Shaula, who had just been sitting on the ground, pounced on him impatiently once again.

She hugged Subaru Natsuki's waist and rubbed her head against Subaru's stomach.

At the same time, she let out a voice like a lovesick woman:

"Master...hehehe...Master...I finally got to hug you, hehehe~"

Just as Subaru Natsuki was in a daze, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the entrance above the space.

"father!"

Subaru, are you alright?

Clarissa and Elsa, who was holding Melie, rushed down the stairs.

Just as they were searching upwards for the Great Sage's whereabouts, they suddenly saw a dark figure rushing downwards at an astonishing speed.

Fearing that Subaru might encounter some accident underground, they didn't have time to think and immediately chased after him.

But when they rushed into the room, they all stopped in their tracks.

They saw that the figure, moving at a speed that made their scalps tingle, was holding Subaru's waist with a look of ecstasy on its face.

It behaved like a large dog that had finally found its owner.

There was none of the fear and trepidation they had felt just moments before.

What shocked the three even more than this was their mother, Capela!

Capella was even more exaggerated than Shaula, hanging entirely behind Subaru Natsuki, with his buttocks supported by Subaru and his legs tightly wrapped around Subaru Natsuki's chest.

No! Who carries someone on their back by supporting their buttocks? Aren't we all supporting their legs?

Elsa had the strongest reaction among the three.

My brain is trembling....

Elsa's fingers slowly tightened inside her sleeve.

Mom actually broke the seal.

After the seal was broken, instead of running away or fighting Subaru, she became quite intimate with him...

The conjecture that Natsuki Subaru had just used to comfort himself was actually due to a misunderstanding that he had become a father was instantly overturned.

The bloody, irrefutable evidence was laid out before Elsa.

Subaru actually did get together with his mother...

The only person I've ever truly admired in my life has actually become mine...

dad...

I want to cry...

Just as the sour taste reached Elsa's nose, she saw Capella, who was hanging behind Subaru Natsuki, raise her head again and take a deep, intoxicating sniff of Subaru's hair.

Subaru Natsuki didn't react much. After all, animals recognize their owners by their scent, so it was only natural for Capella to remember his scent.

Elsa suddenly felt everything go black. The usually elegant woman now felt like howling at the sky to express the desolation in her heart.

Snowflakes are falling, the north wind is howling.

Melie nestled in Elsa's arms, glancing at Shaula, then at Capella behind Subaru. Her mouth opened and closed several times, but in the end, she dared not say anything. She only dared to silently think to herself:

Another one... How many people does a father need to be satisfied...?

A little while later.

The group arrived at an empty room on the second floor of the Sage's Tower.

[The method for calculating the number of floors in the Sage's Tower is easy to get confused if done in reverse order, so I've written it in an intuitive way, like having one floor above ground and two floors below ground.]

According to Xia Wula, this floor is where she usually lives.

The room had little furniture, just a bed covered with an old blanket and a few chairs that looked like they might fall apart at any moment.

Xia Wula sat with her legs spread apart on one of the chairs, her hands on her knees, staring intently at Subaru opposite her, constantly throwing him flirtatious glances.

Elsa stood to the side, straightening her clothes which had been ruffled by the wind and sand, and tried to calm her voice as she asked Xia Wula:

“You just said that you are not actually a great sage.”

"The true sage is your master, Friguel?"

Xia Wula glanced at her, but didn't answer, or even look at her.

Indifferent~

The dark green eyes lingered on Elsa's face for a moment before returning to Subaru.

She flashed that infatuated smile again.

Elsa waited for a while, then could only turn to look at Subaru.

Subaru asked:

"Shawula, is what you just said true?"

"Of course it's true."

Xia Wula immediately laughed.

"I am the disciple of the Great Sage, but the true Great Sage is you, my master—Flugel!"

"The reason why people think that I, Xia Wula, am the great sage is simply because you, Master, do not like to seek fame, so you often use my name to do things conveniently."

The room fell silent for a moment, and it seemed that everyone quickly accepted that Subaru was the Great Sage.

Clarissa's eyes sparkled.

So it turns out that Dad was the legendary sage Friguel who saved the world!

No wonder Dad is so strong, no wonder he can tame Mom so well.

Elsa, resting her chin on her hand, looked increasingly serious and bitter, lost in thought.

Mary's face gradually turned pale.

How could this be!

The legendary sage who saved the world turned out to be the lecherous fiend who seduced every woman he met.

Ruined!

This world is doomed!

She glanced at Subaru Natsuki twice, and then lowered her head in fear when she saw his gaze on her.

Upon hearing this, Capella merely tightened her embrace around Subaru. She didn't care whether Subaru was some kind of great sage or not. What truly mattered to her now was the woman before her named Shaula.

Something's off about this woman!

Something was off about everything, from the way she looked at Subaru to her repeated attempts to attack him! Capella had a keen sense of smell – a thief!

But what pleased her was that Subaru's performance this time was commendable. At least he didn't just give up and let himself be led by the nose like he did when he faced Rem last time—it seems he really remembered how I threw a tantrum before!

Capela smiled and sniffed Subaru's hair again.

When Subaru heard that he was a great sage, he was greatly surprised but could not believe it.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" He frowned and pointed to his face.

"Although I used the name Freuger before, that was only a couple of days ago. I still used my own appearance. How could I possibly be your master from four hundred years ago?"

Xia Wula tilted her head, completely unaware of what she was saying:

"Master, what are you saying?"

Subaru ignored her and continued to think:

Could it be because after changing his appearance, he casually took over Flügel's name, and as a result, even the person Flügel was erased by his own replacement?

This possibility sounds terrifying.

It turns out that the power of Heaven, with its myriad faces and countless manifestations, also possesses such a powerful aspect.

No wonder those guys could move freely between different camps during the Three Kingdoms period, and later they only needed to change their clothes, without even changing their faces, and they wouldn't arouse the suspicion of others.

But upon further reflection, Natsuki Subaru felt that it didn't quite make sense.

Guan Yu had several faces, but the real Guan Yu is still alive and well.

How can you possibly erase the original owner of a name when you borrow it?

But it's unlikely that you'll get any information by asking Xiawula directly.

If you ask her, she will insist that she is his master.

"Shawla," Subaru decided to rephrase his question, "what was your master doing before I arrived?"

Xia Wula raised her eyebrows and tilted her head in confusion:

"Master, did you bump into the toilet again and lose your memory?"

"Did your master often suffer from amnesia before? Or did he bump into the toilet?" Elsa asked with a surprised look.