After calming down the excited Vill-V, Aleph headed towards where Kurumi’s e sat. Beside her was a sleeping Klein. The tter’s head was resting on the sofa’s head.

  “Mobius-san asked me to take care of her.” She spoke with a smile. “You took your sweet time.”

  The inal and the e looked at each other. A momehe bck cat jumped into the shadow, only to return to Kurumi's inal form. She uantly sat on Aleph’s p.

  ‘...I always receive the hardest battles.’ Aleph thought as he felt the weight on his p. With his height, she was akin to a doll. He was several dozeimeters taller thahus he was able to have a full view of her—including what’s on her chest.

  “Hum…”

  The other Kurumi pouted slightly upon seeing it. She swiftly took Aleph’s left arm as a response.

  While the two Kurumis tested Aleph’s willpower, Vill-V watched this with a renewed uanding.

  “Hum. I see, I see…”

  Strange ideas started ing to her head. If Aleph knew what they were, he would have sshed her fundings by half.

  However, he was still preoccupied by the frontal attack of two Kurumis.

  ‘I didn’t think they’d be more troublesome…’

  Kurumi was someone Aleph sidered to be on par with Mei oeasing hierarchy. During the two years they were together, not once had he successfully teased her. Sakura and Hua were only ranked behind Mei sihey didn't tease him babsp;

  “Are you enjoying that view, Ain?”

  “...It has been decades. You still haven't ged, Ain.” The Kurumi on his left said. “Fufu, this is what makes you cute.”

  “...”

  Ironically, Kurumi posed a greater struggle pared to the ones Aleph fought in Shibuya.

  *****

  “You must have more time to spend. It’s the first time you supervised this operation.”

  In the operating room, Mobius remotely performed a surgery on Hua, who was inside a culture tank.

  The other presenside this room was her than Mei. Her arms were crossed underh her huge chest.

  Her indigo pupils stared ily at Hua’s operation.

  “It’s my responsibility as the director. I am not overstepping any bounds, no?”

  Sensing the subtle meaning behind Mei’s words, Mobius smiled in amusement.

  “No, you don’t. After all, it is your duty.”

  Silence swept over the two of them. Nobody gave the other a ce to leverage on.

  “I have already expected it. Your presen his life. It’s already a fohing. Aleph has his own thoughts… and we agreed to it.”

  “You mean, Miss Childhood-Friend?”

  Mei o Mobius’ words. Her snake-like pupils narrowed down.

  “How selfless. You aren’t the type of person to cede like that, director.”

  “I didn’t cede.” Mei replied. “I simply did not eliminate any petitors.”

  A hint of fidence could be heard from her voice.

  It didn’t take long before Hua’s operation ended. It was a plete success with Aleph’s blood in tow.

  The temosphere between Mobius and Mei heighte this moment.

  “You sound fident.” Mobius pointed out.

  “I am.”

  “You better nret this.”

  Mobius’ pyful tone did not elicit much rea from Mei, only a smile.

  “We’ll know ter. For now, it should be more important to deal with the operation, doctor.”

  *****

  {Analysis plete. Parsing…}

  {Result: The sed item has the recorded name “Evolution Cube”. It possesses a special-type of energy verted from dark energy…}

  A notice came out of Great Sage. The item it has been analyzing sihe past few hours was finished.

  “I didn’t expect her to sleep…”

  At first, Aleph was being tag-teamed by two Kurumis. It only ended when the e was taken back by the inal Kurumi. Without her teasing, she fell asleep while sitting on his p.

  “Evolution Cube…”

  His heart began speeding up as he read more about its reports. The analysis took ten mio be id out with the acc theories recorded o Sage’s database.

  Simply put, the Evolution Cube do ohing: to help people evolve.

  It wasn’t designed solely for humans’ use. It could be seen that it should have beeed by airely different ra airely different world.

  With the rather familiar terms detected by Great Sage on it, he knew which world it came from.

  ‘The sanctum…’

  Thinking of the two Sanctuary Keys he got before, Aleph scheduled a time to visit the Sanctum for the sed time. One of them was allocated for the First Sanctum taining material sce while the Third Sanctum tained biological sce.

  heless, Great Sage already gave out enough information on how to use it.

  His thoughts were interrupted by the rosy st ing up in his nose. He blinked and saw Kurumi’s golden pupil staring straight at him.

  Due to the angle, her colrbone was visible. He tried his best not to look at anything further down to it.

  “You are deep in your thoughts. What are your worries?” She asked while pying with his hand. “Was it the Herrscher?”

  “Partly. It’s already been twelve days.”

  The st time a Herrscher was left alone for seven days in the Previous Era, the Australian ti was scorched to the ground. Aleph could already see that the missing sixth Herrscher will be one of their greatest enemies prior to the Herrscher of the End.

  “Aence simir to the First Spirit…” Kurumi muttered. “She is dangerous, but not omnipotent.”

  Based on her experiences against the First Spirit, Kurumi khat even the First Spirit couldn’t do anything to Aleph’s artifact. It proved that no matter how strong one seemed to be, they weren’t as infallible as they seemed to be… iain situations, that is.

  “Don’t worry, Ain. You are not alone.”

  Just then, the door opewo tall dies walked in along with a gray-haired girl in a medical gown.

  “Senior…”

  Hua wao say something when it was cut short by the sight of Kurumi sitting on his p.

  It was, in Carole’s words, a very ‘couple-like’ thing to do.

  That was something Hua could've gotten had she been straight-forward of her emotions.

  Unfortunately…

  She was a little te in that regard.