Bing Qing looked at Hai who was coming towards them and then at Elena who started to go after him.
Although Elena and Hong Li-Wei would eventually arrive at Hai, he would arrive at her and Stella first.
"Stella, prepare yourself." She commented, but received no answer.
Looking slightly upwards, Bing Qing saw Stella looking at Hai, or more exactly, his bare chest while a thin line of drool escaped her mouth.
"Wha-?" Bing Qing stopped her words when she felt a slight breeze caressing her tails.
She immediately jumped away while looking at Hai who had appeared where she was.
"Huh… This is harder than expected~" Hai commented with a small amused smile.
"Huh. We work harder." Kryn added.
"If the princess said, then this humble servant obeys." Hai said while turning towards Elena and Hong Li-Wei.
Kryn smiled hearing his answer. She found it quite funny to be called princess, but also a bit satisfactory.
"Go, horse." Not knowing what came over her, Kryn suddenly uttered those words.
Hai laughed slightly at her words, but didn't comment on it.
*SPLASH*
Soon, Kryn and Hong Li-Wei arrived close enough to touch each other and started to wrestle between themselves.
Of course, Hong Li-Wei easily overpowered Kryn, but Hai is the most efficient mount in the modern times, so he was able to always swiftly get her away when she was just about to lose her bandana.
Looking at Elena while maintaining a smile, Hai suddenly made an unexpected move.
*SPLASH*
"Wah-? Young master, this is cheating!" Elena exclaimed after Hai kicked some water at her eyes.
"In love and war, there is no thing such as cheating, hon. Well, actually, in love there is, but that isn't the case." He commented and sidestepped dodging Stella's sneak attack.
"Give up, Hai. You're surrounded." Hong Li-Wei stated in an attempt to avert his attention for a moment.
"Nice, now I can fire at any side." A grin formed on his face while he brought his right leg back and stretched it.
Then, Hai did a big swing with his leg.
*SHAA*
"WHAT THE F*CK!?!?" Bing Qing shouted when she saw a wave coming towards them.
Elena narrowed her eyes a bit and crouched down.
Then, she jumped higher than the wave.
And the wave was 1,5 meters tall.
Bing Qing looked at the incoming water and positioned herself.
Then, she punched the wave and bore a hole through it.
*SPLASH*
"Wah~ So violent~" She looked at Hai when she heard his words and her eyebrow twitched.
"Stella, make sure to take the damn bandana this time around." Bing Qing said while vanishing from where she was.
Elena didn't fall behind and suddenly appeared near Hai.
Hong Li-Wei was already stretching her arms before she arrived, so when they appeared near him, Hong Li-Wei was already touching Kryn's bandana.
She swiftly grabbed it and pulled it off.
However, the instant she tried to pull it off, she felt as if something escaped her hands.
She watched with widened eyes as Hai and Kryn disappeared like an illusion in thin air.
"What!? He can do it? Is that even legal?" She asked confused. She is pretty sure that the limitations the artefacts place on them wouldn't let someone do this kind of thing.
"Of course, sweet. Everything isn't about how much you have, but how useful you make your little. Oh, by the way, you have quite the soft shoulders. Be sure to do exercises to maintain your health, ok?" She suddenly heard a voice coming from above.
Hong Li-Wei raised her head and widened her eyes when she saw Hai leisurely sitting on her shoulders while Kryn was holding her bandana with a victory pose.
Hong Li-Wei touched her forehead in disbelief, but she didn't feel her bandana there, so she could only accept her defeat.
Elena simply shrugged her shoulders while accepting defeat. She wasn't that much bothered with it as this was only a game for fun.
"OOORRRRRYYYYAAAAA!!!!" They suddenly heard a war cry and felt a presence coming towards them.
Hai looked with a deadpanned face towards Stella.
"Idiot. If you are going to do a surprise attack, don't scream." He said before jumping away from Hong Li-Wei's shoulders.
Looking at Bing Qing's exasperated face, Hai felt a bit of pity for her to having to bear with Stella, even if for a brief period of time.
*SPLASH*
Landing on the water, Hai checked on Kryn and saw that she was a bit dazed due to his sudden move.
"Kryn, you good up there?" He asked with a bit of worry.
Kryn shook her head before answering him.
"Hum." She hummed a short reply before focusing on their incoming enemies.
Bing Qing arrived near Hai and instead of simply approaching him, she did something else.
With how annoyed she was with Stella and with how Hai kept doing things that should have broken the rules, she decided to play a bit different.
Grabbing Stella's right leg, Bing Qing suddenly used Stella as a human, or rather, vampire whip and swung her towards Hai before releasing Stella and letting her fly.
Stella widened her eyes at the sudden action and couldn't react on time.
Hai watched in disbelief as a vampire was hurled at him and dodged a Stella missile.
Stella missed Hai and only then she noticed what was happening.
Quickly coming back to her senses, Stella controlled her center of gravity and spun her body.
She grabbed Hai's long hair and used it as a grappling hook to pull herself towards him.
Hai's eye twitched when he felt the twerp using his hair like that.
Stella arrived at Hai and hugged his body.
She then swiftly made her away upwards and stood on Hai's right shoulder, while Kryn moved to the left one.
Kryn looked at the blond vampire who had invaded her space and felt insulted.
With fire lit in her eyes, Kryn didn't bother with rules and directly kicked Stella's belly.
Stella felt a tickle on her belly and held in the will to laugh.
Kryn took advantage of the moment and moved her small arms towards Stella's bandana, but was denied her victory when Stella dodged her attack.
Meanwhile, Hai looked at Bing Qing who started to run towards him in a battle stance.
Hai's face right now was priceless.
He was looking in disbelief at her and his expression could only be defined as "stupid".
He looked at his aunt, the judge and only saw her grinning at him while giving a thumbs up.
Turning back to look at Bing Qing, he saw her throwing a jab at his chin.
As Hai was using his left hand to support Kryn, he used his right one to fend off Bing Qing's attack.
Bing Qing didn't give up and threw a flurry of attacks at him which he swiftly avoided without a problem.
Meanwhile, Hai had gotten a bit annoyed at Stella constantly using his hair to avoid falling so he decided to deal with her.
Bringing his right hand up, he spanked Stella's ass.
*PAH*
Stella widened her eyes at the sudden sensation and her attack froze.
She desperately held in the euphoria that the spank brought her.
Kryn didn't pay attention to her state. When she noticed that Stella got distracted, her eyes narrowed and she got up on Hai's shoulder with her two feet.
Then…
Kryn jumped and sent a flying kick with her two feet at Stella.
Stella widened her eyes when she felt someone kicking her chest and looked downwards while she was slowly being sent away.
She looked at Kryn who had an expressionless face with her lips slightly arced upwards.
Stella was then sent off Hai's shoulder, however, Kryn had forgotten to snatch her bandana.
Hai swiftly moved his hand without even looking and grabbed Kryn before putting her back on his shoulders.
As Stella was flying, she once again held on Hai's hair pulled herself towards his right.
Hai's eye started to twitch uncontrollably and he suddenly extended his right arm towards her.
"Gah-!?" Hai grabbed Stella by her neck and started to choke her while avoiding Bing Qing's attacks.
Stella felt her windpipe being constricted due to his strength, but instead of feeling that desperate feeling of wanting more air…
She felt uncontrollably ecstasy.
She looked at Hai with fervent eyes and a flushed expression while drool rolled down her chin.
"Harder…. Daddy…" She whispered while she was slowly starting to stop holding her euphoria in check.
Hai's face contorted and veins started to bulge on his face.
'This b*tch….' He was already annoyed at her pulling his hair like that, but now she is even enjoying being choked?
Hai simply brought her towards Kryn.
"Kryn, please take her bandana. I can't take this anymore." Hai said while using his feet to stop a punch from Bing Qing.
"Huh." Kryn nodded and took Stella's bandana.
Looking towards Bing Qing who didn't stop attacking him, Hai tried to hold in his annoyance before talking with her.
"Bing Qing, one more attack, and I will kiss you." He stated and noticed how she immediately stiffened.
Bing Qing slowly retracted her hand and got out of her fighting stance.
Hai sighed slightly seeing this.
Then, he looked at a euphoric Stella and noticed that her underwear had got slightly darker.
Looking away, he dropped her on the water and didn't comment on it as he was still annoyed at her pulling his hair.
It would be a lie to say that Hai wasn't annoyed.
Elena's ears perked up when she heard this. She didn't know about it.
Chang Hua also started to pay attention to his thoughts.
While they rested from their first match, Hai gave everyone a slight snack before sitting on a floating bench he made with his ice magic.
Hai still had his slight smile and was looking at the frozen garden while having a calm demeanor.
Everyone by now was silently listening to Hai's thoughts while trying to understand what is it that he is talking about.
When his words were heard by the girls, they suddenly froze.
Elena looked at her young master with widened eyes and shaking pupils.
She didn't know about it.
Chang Hua stopped drinking her alcohol and looked at Hai with surprise written all over her face.
Bing Qing looked at him while having difficult to accept what he just said.
Stella was already out of her ecstatic state and looked at Hai with pity.
Hong Li-Wei blinked her eyes repeatedly and her heart clenched while she looked at him with sadness in her eyes.
Kryn was the only one who was clueless about what was happening.
'Laila?'
[Nothing Kryn… It's nothing… Please don't worry…] Laila's message flashed before her eyes, but Kryn could easily notice the sadness in it.
Hai was looking away from them so he didn't see their expressions, however, that would only be the case to someone else.
'So it was true.' He thought while pretending he didn't notice anything.
'System.'
[Yes host?]
'Run a scan through yourself and find the bug.'
[I'm sorry, what?]
'You heard me.'
[Ok… I will do it now.]
Hai kept eating an apple while he waited for the system to be finished with its scan.
[*DING*]
[No bug has been found host.]
'I see. Thanks anyway.' Hai said before getting up.
'If it isn't a bug, then it's probably a feature. I will test it later.'
He turned towards everyone while ignoring the gloomy mood and clapped his hands.
"Now, now, why those faces? We are here to have fun. Shall we go for another round?" He asked while walking towards them.
*SPLASH*
*SPLASH*
Kryn ran towards Hai before stopping in front of him.
As Kryn was only around his waist in height, Hai looked down and saw Kryn looking at him in the eyes.
She raised her arms towards him and said nothing.
"Pfft!" Hai almost couldn't contain his laugh when he saw her asking to sit on his shoulders so cutely like that.
He picked Kryn in his arms and put her on his shoulders.
Kryn looked towards everyone who was now smaller than her and a small proud smirk appeared on her face.
"Shorties." She said.
Everyone looked at her in disbelief, but Kryn paid them no mind.
She gripped Hai's head and pointed forwards.
"Tatakae." She said with a straight face.
"…" Once again, everyone didn't know what to think.
"Pffft! Hahahaahahahahahahaahahaha!!!" This time, Hai couldn't contain himself and laughed at her antics.
Everyone looked at Kryn and a laughing Hai before noticing a small smile on Kryn's face.
The girls suddenly understood that Kryn did that on purpose.
Elena smiled.
'And to think that a child would solve something for us.' She thought this, but was grateful towards Kryn. She hasn't seen her young master laughing like that for a long time.
At the same time, the girls looked between themselves and understood that they could most likely all hear his thoughts.
Although Elena and Hong Li-Wei already knew about each other doing it, they were a bit surprised when they noticed that the others also could.
After a few seconds of laughing, Hai stopped and turned back to them.
"Now, shall we?" He asked them with a raised eyebrow.
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