Infinite: Starting from Resident Evil

But... she turned to look at Shen Ye, and when she saw his gaze fall on her, Shen Ye nodded and said, "It's worth it."

Unlike the black-haired witch, Shen Ye guessed that Joan of Arc had another meaning behind her actions. Perhaps she wanted to use Luca to tell her some information about her background. Although he didn't know why Joan of Arc was making things so complicated, Shen Ye was too lazy to think about it.

But he was wrong. Bayonetta was right. Joan of Arc sent Luca over to play a trick on her sister.

Seeing that Shen Ye had no objection, Bayonetta pondered for a while, then reached out to Luca, and the lipstick in Luca's hand flew into her hand automatically.

"Tell me everything you know."

"Shall we find a place to sit down? It's hard to explain in a short time." Luca smiled slightly.

“Mr. Cat.” Bayonetta didn’t respond immediately, but turned back to ask Shen Ye for his opinion again.

“Okay.” Shen Ye nodded and pointed to a bench by the roadside. “That’ll do.”

The four of them then walked over to the bench.

only……

A bench can seat a maximum of three people, and Shen Ye and Bayonetta naturally occupied the two sides of the bench, and then Shen Ye placed little Ceresa in the middle of the two of them.

Luca was then embarrassed to find that he had nowhere to sit.

However, he was also a very easygoing person. After shrugging helplessly, he simply sat down on the ground and slowly began to talk about the contents of the manuscripts he had found among his deceased father's belongings.

"Legend has it that in Vigrid, there exist two powerful races, one of which is..."

…………

Although Luca's professional skills as a reporter were subpar, his storytelling was quite good, so vivid and engaging that Shen Ye, who knew the plot, was somewhat captivated by his story.

After Luca finished explaining why Bayonetta was imprisoned at the bottom of the lake, he made a welcoming gesture to Bayonetta: "Bayonetta, you are the forbidden child who combines light and darkness, so welcome to the future, five hundred years from now."

"Five hundred years?" After hearing Luca's story, Bayonetta was shocked. She never imagined that she had been imprisoned for a full five hundred years.

She frowned and said, "So that means I'm from five hundred years ago?"

Luca nodded: "Yes, people from five hundred years ago."

Upon hearing the words "ancient people," Bayonetta's brows furrowed even more, as if she had remembered something.

However, she has something very important to ask Shen Ye now.

"I'm 500 years older than you, you won't mind, will you?" Women are still very sensitive about age, especially the age difference between men and women.

“There’s an old saying in our country: ‘A woman three years older than a man is like holding a gold brick.’ You’re five hundred years older than me… I could be holding over one hundred and fifty gold bricks.” Shen Ye said with a smile, “To me, you’re a rich woman, and I’ve struck it rich.”

Witches are a long-lived species, with an incredibly long lifespan; five hundred years is nothing to them.

Shen Ye is now eternally youthful, so a difference of 500 years or even 5,000 years doesn't matter. You should know that the android twins Devialet and Popola are more than ten times older than Bayonetta.

"Then I'm relieved." Bayonetta smiled with relief, patted Shen Ye on the shoulder, and said, "I'll take care of you from now on."

After saying that, she began to think about something else. After listening to Luca's account of the witch's history, and hearing Joan of Arc mention her former name, she recalled many memories.

Looking at little Seresa sitting between the two with a somewhat suspicious gaze, Bayonetta tentatively asked, "Little Seresa, is there anything truly important to you?"

Little Ceresia didn't know why "Mommy" was asking this, but she did have something she thought was very important. She immediately took out a gold pocket watch from the small pocket at the back of her skirt and handed it to Bayonetta.

"Mommy, this is my birthday present! Little Ceresa has been with me all this time!"

When Bayonetta saw the gold pocket watch in little Ceressa's hand, which was exactly the same as the one on her chest, she fell silent. She remembered that her pocket watch was also a gift from her mother when she was a child, for her birthday.

So she began to sort through the jumbled memories in her mind, connecting them together, and then, based on her earlier guess, she arrived at a startling conclusion.

"Could she be me from five hundred years ago?" Bayonetta's pupils suddenly contracted.

This conclusion was... utterly unbelievable to her.

Moreover, she became her former self's mother...

Wait a minute, Bayonetta turned her gaze to Shen Ye, especially after hearing little Seresa call him "Daddy" again, she covered her face in despair.

……

(Should I raise a witch???)

Chapter 542! Ethical tropes never go out of style.

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My past self actually called my current man "Dad"...

Although she didn't mind playing some romantic games with Shen Ye, it seemed... a little embarrassing, right?

"Mommy, what's wrong with you?"

Just as Bayonetta was feeling a little embarrassed, little Ceresa put away her pocket watch and looked at her with a face full of curiosity.

Bayonetta took a deep breath and slowly said to her, "It's nothing... By the way, from now on, you're not allowed to call him 'Dad' anymore..."

"Why?" Little Seresa asked, puzzled. She was already used to calling him "Daddy."

"There's no reason why, it just won't work."

Actually, he's your future husband...

What wife calls her husband "Dad"... unless...

Suddenly, Bayonetta noticed a strange smile flash across Shen Ye's face. Although it was fleeting, she still managed to catch it.

An unimaginable thought popped into her mind: "Could he have known all along that little Ceresa was me?"

Thinking of this, Bayonetta began to recall the expression on Shen Ye's face when he coaxed little Seresa to call him "Dad".

"His smile back then... looked like he'd succeeded in his evil scheme..."

"He really knew that little Ceresa was me... But how did he find out?"

However, although Bayonetta had some doubts, they did not turn into suspicion. Even an ordinary reporter, after investigation, was able to find out part of her background. A superhuman who had made a pact with a powerful demon, knowing these things didn't seem like a big deal...

Bayonetta mentally defended Shen Ye's actions, but anger was inevitable.

The black-haired witch narrowed her eyes as she watched Shen Ye start teasing little Seresa again, making sure that Seresa called him "Dad" in almost every three sentences.

Bayonetta completely forgot that there was a person named Luca next to her. Her eyes gleamed with a dangerous light, but her tone was very calm: "Mr. Cat..."

After hearing little Seresa call him "Dad" again, a satisfied Shen Ye, without even looking up when Bayonetta called him, asked, "What is it, Miss Cat?"

"Aren't you happy to hear me call you Dad?"

"Yes... oh no, Miss Cat, what are you saying? I don't understand." Shen Ye responded instinctively, immediately putting on an innocent expression.

"Stop pretending, I know everything." Bayonetta looked at him intently, then said to little Ceresa, "Give me your pocket watch."

“Okay, Mommy.” Although she didn’t know what had happened, little Ceresia took out the golden pocket watch again and handed it to Bayonetta.

After receiving the pocket watch, Bayonetta took it off from her chest and placed it in front of Shen Ye, one in each hand.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Shen Ye roughly understood what she meant; it seemed she had already discovered it.

“Except for the gem on your pocket watch, everything else is exactly the same,” Shen Ye answered honestly.

"In my memory, this pocket watch was a gift from my mother for my birthday. There was only one of its kind in the whole world, but now there's another one that looks exactly the same, and it's not a replica... What do you think that means?"

"Hehe..." Shen Ye didn't say anything, but just chuckled a few times.

“Mr. Cat, so you already knew, didn’t you?” Bayonetta glared at him, annoyed. “Jeanne said my name is Ceressa, and her name is Ceressa too. She also has the exact same pocket watch as me, and she calls me Mom, which proves that her mother looks a lot like me… Sigh, actually I’ve felt something was off for a while, but I only realized what was wrong now.”

At first, when she heard little Seresa say her name, she felt very strange. However, she couldn't bear the little girl crying and didn't think about it too much. Now it seems that Shen Ye may have realized that little Seresa was her at that time.

After listening to Bayonetta's words, Shen Ye scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Actually, I originally wanted to tell you, but I was afraid you wouldn't believe me. In fact, I didn't really believe it myself at the time."

He actually lied; he just wanted to hear Bayonetta call him "Dad" when she was little. Erotic themes never go out of style.

But Bayonetta believed him: "That's true. If you had told me back then that little Ceresa was me, I probably wouldn't have believed you."

She then looked at little Ceresa, who looked bewildered by their words, and muttered to herself, "But why don't I have any memories of you? Have I forgotten even such an important memory?"

As she was wondering, Luca, who was also somewhat confused by their conversation, asked in a low voice, "Miss Bayonetta, I think...I think...I think I heard you say that this child is you?"

“It’s none of your business.” Bayonetta glanced at him, then looked back at Shen Ye: “We have to take her back and make sure she’s safe. I don’t want anything to happen to her that could affect me.”

"I will protect her." Shen Ye nodded; this was exactly what he was worried about.

“But how can you get her back?” Luca interjected.

“Take her to Sun Island first. After all, she said she came from there, and she doesn’t seem curious about this place at all, so she’s obviously lived here for a while…” Bayonetta said, her brows furrowing again. After figuring out little Ceresa’s background, she remembered something else: “Mr. Cat, do you think the father she’s talking about might be…”

"That's the only possibility." Shen Ye understood what she meant, nodded, and then smiled, "It seems your father might be the mastermind behind all this!"

"What does he want to do?" Although she had confirmed that her father was still alive, Bayonetta was not happy. She had no memory of her father, only a vague memory of her mother. Moreover, based on everything she had experienced, she felt that her father must be plotting something.

Looking down at the dark left eye embedded in the pocket watch, Bayonetta thought of the legends Luca had just mentioned, and also of the words of the slain angel.

“We are all just victims, victims of His resurrection.”

"So, that 'He'... is the creator god?"

“But what does my father want to do by resurrecting the Creator?” Bayonetta couldn’t understand, but she knew she had to stop him.

Thinking of this, Bayonetta stood up from the bench and said to Shen Ye, "Mr. Cat, let's get going."