Chapter 67

Regarding who exactly was Bai Jingyue's girlfriend, no conclusion was ultimately reached, especially after Jishen Qiusha also got involved. As the sky grew darker, it was time to go to sleep. Although Zuo Tian Leizi and Shiba Misaki had argued fiercely over Bai Jingyue, their relationship was still good. When it came time to divide the rooms, Zuo Tian Leizi and Shiba Misaki shared a room with Jishen Qiusha, while the Misaka sisters and Bai Hezi shared another room.

Because he had not been in close contact with his parents for a long time, Bai Jingyue decided to stay with them that night.

Faintly, the noise from the room next door, where Bai Hezi had tried to pounce on Misaka Natsuki and was electrocuted, could be heard. However, Bai Jingyue's room was eerily quiet.

Bai Jingyue sat facing his parents, enduring their scrutinizing gazes, without saying a word.

"Yue, what exactly is your relationship with those girls?" Bai Chen finally broke the silence, as the head of the family, he took the initiative to start the conversation.

Bai LanYe was also very curious about this. Her son had grown into a boy who attracted girls, but was the relationship a bit too complicated?

Bai Jingyue sighed. The relationships were indeed very complex, but wasn't there only one truth?

"My girlfriend is Zuo Tian Leizi, and only her."

"What about the other girls?" Bai LanYe was not mistaken; as a woman, she could judge the truth in the words of Shiba Misaki and Jishen Qiusha.

"......Just ordinary......friends......" Bai Jingyue himself did not fully believe this. Not to mention Jishen Qiusha, with Shiba Misaki's recent advances, Bai Jingyue's defenses had loosened considerably. He could calmly say that Zuo Tian Leizi was his girlfriend, but he could not deny the ambiguous relationship with Shiba Misaki.

As Bai Jingyue's mother, Bai LanYe saw more. When they arrived in the afternoon, everyone except the little sister called Misaka Natsuki kept glancing at Bai Jingyue. It seemed her son had attracted more attention than she had imagined.

In the end, Bai LanYe did not voice her suspicions. It was better to let Bai Jingyue handle such troublesome matters himself. She gave Bai Chen a look, and Bai Chen, receiving the message from his wife, let Bai Jingyue off.

"Let's leave it at that. Go to bed early tonight."

"Okay."

While things calmed down here, the other room became noisy.

"Jishen Qiusha! Come clean, what did you mean by what you said today!" Although she could use her powers, Shiba Misaki had developed the habit of not using them on her friends unless necessary.

"Jishen, why did you say that today?" Zuo Tian Leizi also wanted to know what was going on.

"......I like him. Yue gave me a new life, so I like him."

Although they did not know Jishen Qiusha's exact background, this reason left the two of them speechless. They had approached Bai Jingyue because he had given them a new life, so they had no grounds to refute her.

However, they were not too worried. Like Misaka Mikoto, the slightly cold Jishen Qiusha would find it hard to attract Bai Jingyue's attention.

And indeed, Bai Jingyue also thought Jishen Qiusha was just playing around. He had not shown her the true face of Aureolus and killed him as in the original story, so he did not expect her to like him.

In fact, Jishen Qiusha's affection for Bai Jingyue was not because he sealed her powers, but because he had given her a taste of family life. Bai Jingyue's efforts for his friends in the darkness had deeply moved her and indirectly cleared up the misunderstanding about Aureolus.

The two of them still let Jishen Qiusha off. For them, the biggest rival was still each other.

Gradually, the time came to midnight, and a mysterious wave spread throughout the world. Meanwhile, Bai Jingyue, who had not slept to be prepared, used all his strength to create a defense that enveloped the entire inn. It was the power of freezing—Bai Jingyue had frozen the seams between this place and the outside, temporarily isolating the space. He only lifted the defense when the power wave ended.

In fact, Bai Jingyue had been preparing this defense for a long time. He had set up the defense everywhere except the key points during the day, and only completed it in the critical moment. Originally, he was not sure if the Angel Fall would occur as in the original story, but it was good to be prepared.

After the Angel Fall was completed, Bai Jingyue went to an open area behind the inn to think about why it had happened. The cause of the Angel Fall was the ritual site unintentionally set up by Touma's father using collected religious artifacts, and the trigger was the Touma couple leaving home.

In the original story, it was triggered because the Touma couple came to see Touma. But now, Touma was still in Academy City, so it could only be assumed that the Angel Fall would still occur even if Touma did not come out. Was this the fixed path of this world?

【Forget it, I shouldn't think about these things. The path of the world? Such things involving the essence of the world are beyond my understanding. I should think about how to deal with this situation.】

The next morning, sitting in front of the inn, Bai Jingyue watched the group playing on the nearby beach. Suddenly, his expression turned cold, and an ice pillar appeared behind him, blocking a sudden attack.

"Can I consider this a declaration of war on the [Science Side], Mage?"

The attacker ignored Bai Jingyue's question and asked, "Question one: Were you the one who performed the ritual?"

Bai Jingyue had guessed who the attacker was—an angel using the name of a mage to investigate the truth. But even so, what did it matter?

"I will ask one last time, is this a declaration of war on the [Science Side] by the [Magic Side]?" As he spoke, countless ice shards appeared above Bai Jingyue's head, ready to fall at the slightest provocation.

Bai Jingyue was really curious about what the angel would do. If it came to a fight, he was not afraid. As long as no one else saw, solving the angel would prevent a war.

At that moment, a female voice called out, "Stop!"

Hearing the voice, Bai Jingyue dispersed the ice shards. He did not expect Kanzaki Kaori to come; it seemed a fight would not happen. Of course, if Kanzaki Kaori was here, there should be one more person—

"Phew, that was close, ne~ I'm glad I made it in time, ne~" —Tsuchimikado Motoharu!

Seeing the newcomers, the attacker also put down their weapon. It was better to be cautious with too many unknown factors.

"What? Are you willing to talk now?"

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