The next day, Jun An arrived at the location Susannah had proposed as promised. It was indeed a region in the Middle East.
"Senpai!!!" Susannah waved at Jun An. "Over here, over here!"
Jun An saw Susannah waving at him and quickly went to meet her.
Today, Susannah was wearing a beautiful sailor uniform. Her tied-up yellow hair was also let down, perfectly resembling a pure high school student studying in Japan, thoroughly embodying Susannah's naive and inexperienced characteristics.
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"Se- Senpai, why are you staring at me like that?"
"It's nothing. I just think my girlfriend looks very pretty today." After paying Himeko several rounds of tuition fees, Jun An had also learned a few sweet words under her guidance. However, as a transmigrator clearly older than his appearance suggested, Jun An himself found such lines very greasy, but he had to admit, Himeko truly understood the mindset of young girls better than he did.
"R-Really!!!" Susannah truly couldn't withstand this kind of offensive. After all, Senpai called her his girlfriend and praised her for being pretty!
"Misteln said Senpai has a desire to destroy beautiful things suppressed deep in his bones. Although I don't understand what that means, as long as I dress like a pure young girl, Senpai will definitely like it!"
Misteln... Jun An hadn't expected someone he thought was an ally to backstab him like this.
"Right, speaking of Misteln, where did she go?" Jun An looked around. "Didn't she come back with you?" When they parted ways, Misteln had agreed to research with him how she puts on clothes, as well as Prometheus No. 17's charging port.
"Misteln already went ahead to the wedding venue." Susannah said, "Let's hurry too!"
Jun An and Susannah then took a car together to the wedding venue.
It was a place resembling a desert oasis. Rather than a church or restaurant, it looked more like a palace built by desert nobility. In the relatively high temperatures of the Middle East, having flowers, trees, and water here truly presented the appearance of a Middle Eastern tycoon's wedding.
"Speaking of which, this is Chen Tianwu's wedding, right?" Jun An couldn't help asking curiously, "What does his wedding have to do with your family?"
Jun An remembered digging out the cores of Anna and Chen Tianwu. Because both still retained human consciousness and cooperated internally to fight the Herrscher personality, Jun An spared their lives. Anna returned to Schicksal to recuperate, and Chen Tianwu returned to World Serpent to rest. Later, Chen Tianwu sought Jun An out for a heart-to-heart talk, quit World Serpent... and then things got too busy, and Jun An couldn't remember much more.
After all, the difficulty of the Herrschers in this world was practically double or even triple that of the original story. Furthermore, there was the malicious setting where characters became weaker after being whitewashed, resulting in Jun An basically fighting all the Herrschers while injured. He really didn't have the spare energy to remember too many things. And in a world where the later Herrschers had increasingly inflated stats, the most worry-free one, ironically, was the Herrscher of Corruption.
Thinking back, Jun An instantly felt exhausted... If it weren't for the System being flexible and supportive enough, frequently finding ways to give him missions to boost his stats, and even letting him show off a bit sometimes, Jun An felt he would have kicked the bucket long ago.
"Senpai, have you forgotten? You were the one who recommended him to Dad as a bodyguard." Susannah explained, "During the Great Eruption period, the world was in turmoil. It was you, Senpai, who introduced Mr. Chen Tianwu to Dad, so my family didn't encounter any life-threatening danger during the Great Eruption."
"Oh! I remember a little." Jun An couldn't help recalling that year, the scene when the Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Rock appeared together. That was one of the more memorable battles among Jun An's many fights. If Jun An hadn't had Sirin move the battlefield to Oceania, the entire Coral Island would have been gone.
But even so, Oceania still lost a tenth of its landmass to freezing, the cold current nearly destroyed the atmosphere causing a devastating climate catastrophe for Earth, and the Fourth Divine Key in the sky worked urgent overtime for a long time to repair it, while Jun An also worked overtime melting ice in Oceania for a whole day. And then, Chen Tianwu on land suddenly turned into the Herrscher of Rock, his power comparable to the Previous Era's Herrscher of Rock who sank the Mu continent, nearly causing tectonic plate shifts, leading to minor earthquakes and volcanic eruptions for half a week.
Jun An had to fight two Herrschers on the sea surface in one day. In the end, they even evolved; the Herrscher of Ice devoured the Herrscher of Rock's core, creating the Herrscher of Rimestar Ice, upgrading Jun An's combat difficulty once again. That was a battle won only through the joint efforts of World Serpent and Schicksal (Jun An and Mei were in World Serpent back then). Top combatants from both sides, excluding the decision-makers, were deployed. Even Li Sushang appeared ahead of schedule to barely dig out both cores and win the fight.
Later, Chen Tianwu wanted nothing more to do with Herrschers and left directly. Jun An then took the opportunity to introduce Chen Tianwu to Susannah's father, who was a potential father-in-law candidate at the time. Although Chen Tianwu wasn't considered top-tier combat power, he was at least a cyborg and had been a World Serpent executive; protecting a family was sufficient.
Jun An nodded, roughly sorting out the connection. "So, during the Great Eruption, Chen Tianwu did indeed render meritorious service repeatedly, right?"
"Mm, he became Dad's good friend. Even this venue was specially built for Mr. Chen Tianwu a month ago, funded by my Dad." As Susannah spoke, her small, restless hand kept moving closer to Jun An's, but due to the height difference, she couldn't reach his hand, touching his arm instead.
Jun An understood implicitly and took her hand in return. Susannah hesitated slightly, then blushed profusely.
—Senpai is so proactive!!!
—Wh-What should I do! Could this really be my lucky day!!
—This is too wonderful!!
Susannah's heart was already pounding wildly. This was Senpai Jun An! The Captain of the Hyperion who fought against Herrschers, embodying love and justice, emotion and peace! A great man admired by countless Valkyries, worthy of being written into textbooks! Such a Senpai actually took her hand proactively!!
Susannah, whose mind easily wandered, instantly decided she would never wash this hand again for the rest of her life!
Er... Jun An really wanted to retort about Susannah's overly dramatic inner monologue, but he had to admit Himeko was right. If Jun An wanted, he could probably trick her into bed with ease, without needing to deliberately please Susannah at all.
However, Jun An's original purpose certainly wasn't to trick a child into playing spanking games with him, but rather to wander around here and hide from Kiana. After all, if she wasn't calm, Jun An really didn't dare meet her. Because right now, he truly couldn't win against her.
Susannah gave the invitation to the staff member, then pulled Jun An's hand, indicating this person was with her, and they entered together. That staff member said a few words in a local dialect Jun An didn't understand, teasing Susannah. Susannah blushed, nodded, then gripped Jun An's hand tighter, walking forward with her head down, and sat in the assigned seat.
"What did she say?" Jun An asked curiously.
"N-Nothing!" Susannah shook her head, but her face was unusually stiff and hot. "Just- she thought we looked good together, like a couple..."
"We are a couple today." Jun An held Susannah's hand. Her hand was a bit cold, like a cooling ice cube in this rather hot Middle Eastern weather. Coupled with her delicate skin, it was truly hard to let go. He instantly understood why Pardofelis liked hiding behind Kevin in the summer; having a mobile air conditioner nearby was really great. If Kevin were here, Jun An would want to hide behind him too.
"Couple..." Jun An asked curiously, "To what extent should we probably act?" Jun An worried that being too reserved would expose them, while being too open might make Susannah dislike it.
"Any extent is fine!" Susannah answered without hesitation. "Senpai taking his very precious time to help is already worthy of my immense gratitude. As long as Senpai wishes, any extent is okay with me!"
Jun An looked at Susannah's jiggling chest and immediately had a bold idea, but ultimately, it was just a thought. It wasn't like he hadn't touched large ones before, but one so large on someone so young, he did indeed want to try. Of course, just thinking about it; it was ultimately impossible to do such things at someone else's wedding banquet.
But he still couldn't help thinking, As expected of a child from a rich family, already surpassing Bronya and Seele of the same age by so much at such a young age.
Soon, the wedding ceremony began. Taking the stage were Chen Tianwu in a suit and the bride in a wedding dress. After some speeches, the two kissed and were joined together as husband and wife under the witness of the priest. The flower girl for Chen Tianwu was precisely his younger sister, Chen Tianwen.
After that came the stage for congratulating the newlyweds. The first to congratulate them was a slightly plump middle-aged man. He wore white clothes, but Jun An could see many gem decorations beneath his clothes, looking every bit the wealthy man. Susannah's father also gave a lengthy speech, the gist of which was that over the past few years since the Great Eruption, Chen Tianwu, as his bodyguard, had repeatedly helped him avoid attacks and thwarted numerous assassination and kidnapping attempts.
Due to Chen Tianwu's outstanding performance, Susannah's father quickly came to regard him as family, even specially building this hotel for him to repay his life-saving grace over the past two years. In short, while flaunting wealth, he was also explaining that Chen Tianwu's strength was superb and he was indeed doing very well.
As Jun An continued listening, Susannah's father slowly walked over.
"Susannah..."