Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

Suddenly, xx noticed that Yog's gentle smile had dimmed as he heard her speak, and his weak voice, mixed with a sigh, drifted into the air.

"Since he didn't say anything, there's no need for me to say anything more."

For some reason, this answer always gave xx the feeling of a star-crossed couple...

This is so strange! Sister Yuge, are you just a fan who has a crush on my idol, or do you actually know him?

Immediately afterward, in front of xx whose mind was in turmoil, the blue-haired girl walked past her and skillfully inserted two cosmic coins into the rusty payment slot of the old-fashioned claw machine.

"Actually, you shouldn't be too insistent on winning this plush toy."

The blue-haired girl continued,

"Compromise and not forcing yourself to accept things can actually help you progress and reach more distant goals."

As soon as she finished speaking, XX saw the doll that resembled the boss, which she had been trying to catch for a long time, suddenly being pulled out.

Yog breathed on the doll, then smiled, grabbed the doll with his hands crossed behind his back, and looked again at the dumbfounded xx.

"But you can't just eat anything."

She gave a naive smile, placed the doll in xx's hands, and then gave him some instructions.

"Because of my relationship with the mysterious Via, well, we're what you'd call an engaged couple."

She left with a smile, leaving the mysterious female protagonist, xx, standing there dumbfounded.

Therefore, within minutes, the mysterious Via outside the planet Logian received a communication request—

Ninja Artoria, the Assassin: Boss, you scumbag! You owe me a year of my youth and a year of my girlish heart!

aaaa Feel free to contact me anytime: ?

aaaa You can contact me anytime if needed: Don't act crazy if there's nothing wrong, or I'll deduct two days' worth of instant noodles from your paycheck.

After sending the reply, a somewhat bewildered Via muttered:

"...Has this girl gone insane from eating too much instant noodles? Maybe we should improve her diet a bit."

Afterwards, riding his Golden Steed II, who was working part-time as a local courier, he rushed into the desolate planet Logian.

"Excuse me, are you Ms. x·a with the last four digits HG74M? Your order of 'Oh my god, Amaterasu Omikami's 100 Selected High-Quality Foods and Sweets So Delicious They'll Make Servants Die and Come Back to Life - Two Pieces at a Special Price' from Dongying Zhouyu Food Co., Ltd. has arrived. Please sign for it. If you can, please leave a positive review. Thank you."

"Oh." Stepping out of the simple house, the gray-haired girl with a black hood wrote her name word by word, then pressed down hard on the delivery slip with one hand, coldly asking, "We've known each other for so long, why are you still talking to me like this?"

Her tone suggested she would kill someone if she didn't explain now.

"After all, you're a customer. In any case, I'm currently working part-time as a deliveryman to supplement my salary, so I still have to say these things. It's like saying 'Welcome' when you go to a shopping mall, something like that."

"Sorry, I've never left Logian, nor have I ever been to a shopping mall," the gray-haired girl replied casually, but she loosened her grip. "So, just call me next time."

"absolutely okay."

"...Won't you stay a little longer?"

"I have another order to deliver..."

"Oh." The gray-haired girl paused. "I bought too little. I'm sorry I can't keep you here for long."

"You can't say that; actually, there's no difference in quantity."

"oh, I understand now."

The gray-haired girl wearing glasses took off her black hood, opened the package, and handed another package to the mysterious Via.

"Please have this wagashi. Oh, I'll eat the other one, don't worry."

"So that's why you bought one more?"

Mysterious Via vaguely remembered that when buying this wagashi, the girl would usually only buy one at a time, which was normal, since she was the only person on this planet and therefore it was impossible for her to accumulate a large amount of cosmic currency all at once.

"I clicked it by accident."

"Okay, then I'll have one."

After finishing his meal in front of the girl, the mysterious Via then left the planet Logian.

And so, gazing at the departing sliver of starlight in the yellowish sky, the gray-haired girl, the mysterious heroine X·Alter, softly called out:

"We hope you will visit us again."

Free Bonus Chapter 3: May...Mitatron (8k2)

"The ultimate cosmic exam is tomorrow! I can't believe I'll have a second chance..."

It was a hot, starlit night.

Living in a rented room outside the academy, the mysterious heroine X sprawled on the table, listening to the cicadas chirping nearby.

They never stopped calling throughout the entire summer. The mysterious heroine used to love listening to them because it meant that the summer had arrived.

But now, the sound of that noise makes her feel like she's going crazy.

Although the Central Police University of the Universe is undoubtedly a more prestigious institution than the Chaldea Higher School of the Universe, it's just too tiring! I've condensed the effects of four hundred years of coursework into just one year.

Aside from being "invited" into this university by the mysterious Via with a special application contract filled with words like "guaranteed employment, high salary, good benefits (just kidding)," the mysterious heroine never expected that her Servant career would be in this place, where she would be tortured... no, trained to the point of being physically and mentally exhausted by the mysterious Tatron.

Upon first meeting Metatron, the mysterious female protagonist felt that this person was unfathomable. He wore a mask, had a powerful aura that seemed to be able to distort space, and exuded an aura of "Don't ask who I am, I am very strong".

What she didn't expect was that on the very first day, she received a bizarre request from the enigmatic Via from Metatron:

Squeezing four hundred years of curriculum into one year, and demanding training at the standards of agents and archangel detectives! This is a blatant provocation against the fundamental laws of Servant Personalities! I'm calling the police... and those third and fourth-level angels at my police academy are all headless... How come this guy in front of me is a normal human? This is so strange...

The eyes beneath Metatron's mask seemed to see through everything. He calmly glanced at the trembling, mysterious heroine X, then turned his gaze to the mysterious Via, staring at her departing figure for a few seconds with a complex look that X couldn't comprehend. Those eyes seemed to hold a thousand unspoken words: relief, worry, indulgence, and even a hint of... a deeply hidden aggression?!

That look seemed to silently declare a strong sense of ownership, making X shiver involuntarily.

But in the end, it all boils down to a low, somber statement made to the enigmatic heroine X:

"You need to do a good job. Since I've been asked to do this, I won't go easy on you."

On the first day of the physical fitness test, the mysterious female protagonist X was shocked.

Because the warm-up exercise was not a regular long-distance run or push-ups, but rather "dodging plasma fireballs falling from the sky while completing 100,000 high-speed sprints on a training field where the gravity is one thousand times that of a planet."

The mysterious heroine X was stunned. She felt her Servant body groaning under the strain. She looked at Metatron and tried to plead for mercy:

"Instructor, isn't this a bit too difficult? I'm just an ordinary, uh, Servant with a special obsession with Saber!"

The eyes beneath the mask of Metatron seemed to hold a hint of indifference as he calmly spoke:

"'Ordinary' doesn't fit here. Besides, Viagra trained a hundred times more in this environment than you did back then."

Then, before the mysterious female protagonist X could react, the gravity in the training ground instantly surged, and basketball-sized plasma fireballs began to fall from above. X immediately went into a chaotic frenzy, howling and dodging the fireballs while sprinting with all her might. The scene was quite spectacular, resembling a hamster with its rear end on fire frantically running away...

The strength training that followed the warm-up wasn't weightlifting, but rather disassembling a small meteorite by hand and then reassembling it back to its original state within a specified time.

The mysterious heroine X looked at the meteorite, which was dozens of times taller than her, and felt that her Servant career might be coming to an early end.

However, Metatron calmly took out a scroll filled with complex formulas and diagrams, and said:

"This is the structure and composition of a meteorite. We'll learn the theory for ten minutes first, then we'll begin the practical exercise. Time's on, let's begin now."

Ten minutes later, the mysterious heroine X's mind was a complete mess, but her survival instincts made her grit her teeth and rush forward. She imagined the stones as Artoria's face and used all her strength. Instantly, stones flew everywhere and dust billowed, creating a wild scene.

The mysterious female protagonist has turned into a groundhog, while Metatron stands by expressionlessly keeping track of time, occasionally offering a word of advice:

“Pay close attention to the direction of energy flow in the core area, otherwise it will cause an explosion.” “Or, this type of rock structure needs to be peeled off using special methods; brute force will only backfire.”

After two intense training sessions, the mysterious female protagonist X, completely exhausted, collapsed on the ground, unable to move.

Metatron walked up to her, and the mysterious heroine X thought she would be yelled at, but Metatron reached out and gently wiped her forehead like... like a mother wiping her child's sweat.

For a split second, even X's Servant Core paused for a moment.

How could this tyrant do such a thing? This contrast gave her goosebumps all over.

Then, Metatron said in a slightly gentle voice, "When Viagra was exhausted from training back then, I often took care of him like this; physical recovery is also very important."

In X's memory, during every training session, Metatron would often mention his boss, Mysterious Via.

“Wei Adam mastered this physical technique in three hours back then, but you took five hours. You need to improve.”

“Via hit the core on her first attempt at this high-difficulty shooting posture. You were off by 0.01 light-years. Go back and practice 10,000 times.”

Every time the mysterious Via is mentioned, Metatron's tone carries a subtle hint of pride and... indulgence. But every time she hears about "Via's past," the mysterious female protagonist X wants to rush up and shake Metatron's mask, shouting, "Enough! I have absolutely no interest in the boss's glorious achievements back then!"

I'm here to learn, not to listen to "what was Viagra like back then"! Stop torturing me with "whatever happened to him back then!"

However, even through the mask, Metatron's eyes held a kind of... eagerness for her son to succeed? Or perhaps, a kind of "sadistic mentality." It was as if Mysterious Via was the "child" she had painstakingly raised, and X, this "newcomer," had to reach the same or even higher standards to be worthy of her "child" and her approval.

This mentality was manifested in a "terrifying" way during one training session.

That training involved combat in a simulated space. The imaginary space was extremely unstable and could easily cause hallucinations. While X was fighting inside, he suddenly saw and heard the voice of Metatron.

"Via, it's cold outside, please wear more clothes."

"Via, the exam is coming soon, you must get good grades."

"Via, be careful when making friends. Don't be fooled by strange females. My big data doesn't lie."

The mysterious female protagonist was so frightened that she almost rolled out of the imaginary space.

What kind of hallucination is this?! How could it have turned out like this?! What kind of old mother is this?!

When she finally finished her training and stumbled back into the real world, Metatron was still the same masked, powerful figure.

So X asked, trembling, "Instructor...you...were you just now...?"

Mitatron calmly interrupted her:

"A hallucination in the simulated space? That's normal. It means your mind isn't stable enough. Back in the day, Viagra could fight, write papers, make friends, and do laundry all at the same time in this environment. You're still lacking."

"........"

The mysterious female protagonist feels she's being driven crazy by the "Via Adam Years".

Instructor Metatron, could you please use a different word?! The universe is so vast, have you only ever known one person, Mysterious Via, from the beginning until now?

My boss, oh my boss, sigh...

Of course, the mysterious heroine X wouldn't just let Metatron "manipulate" her like that. She would occasionally unleash her instincts as an "Artoria Slayer" and try to resist in various ways.

For example, during a physical training session, she deliberately imitated Mitatron's movements in hopes of attracting Mitatron's attention.

Metatron simply stared at her expressionlessly and said, "Imitation is pointless. Viagra studied various fighting styles over the years and eventually found the one that suited him best. You need to find your own path, X." The mysterious heroine X felt like she had punched a cotton ball.

On another occasion, X deliberately asked some tricky questions about Artoria during a theory class, trying to change the subject. For example:

"Instructor, from a biological perspective, why does Artoria have an ahoge (cowlick)?"

Mitatron paused briefly, then spoke in a tone as if researching extraterrestrial life: "This is an interesting question. Based on current observational data, the 'ahoge' (cowlick) of individual Artoria seems to be an organ with unknown energy responses that is highly related to their 'King Arthur' attributes. Its specific function is still under investigation. I can have it too, you see."

X was greatly shocked, completely unable to believe that Metatron actually had a cowlick... Oh right, I almost forgot that the instructor is blond, could he also be Artoria?

Impossible, impossible, I can't beat her at all, so it definitely isn't Artoria...

After all, there's nothing the female protagonist X can't do in Metatron's training programs; there's nothing she can't do.

Playing hide-and-seek in higher dimensions (one minute time limit, or you'll get lost in the spatial turbulence), engaging in philosophical debates with simulated cosmic-level disaster entities (if you lose the debate, you'll be physically annihilated), having a jump rope competition near a gravitational singularity (the rope is light), and clearing a blocked cosmic wormhole with your bare hands (inhabited by various strange, large cosmic creatures)...

Every training session made X feel like his worldview as a Servant was being refreshed again and again.

Therefore, after quickly extinguishing this terrifying thought, X began a course that was even more hardcore than the practical training in Mitatron: cosmic law, interstellar politics, multidimensional space theory, artifact identification, interspecies communication, and so on. The content was vast and profound, and these knowledge points came in like a tide, trying to completely destroy X's already not-so-solid academic foundation, which was already that of a slacker.

To make matters worse, the mysterious Via took on the task of tutoring the female protagonist X at night.

It was supposed to be tutoring, but in X's eyes it was actually just that after Metatron had pushed her physical strength to the limit, the inhuman boss was giving her mental "whipping".

In the dormitory, X slumped in a chair like a lump of mud, his eyelids so heavy they looked like they were weighed down by two meteorites.

This morning, the mysterious Via came to visit her and saw that she was undergoing a high-difficulty space distortion and traversal training, her whole body twisted like a pretzel.

To be honest, the female protagonist X doesn't want the Mysterious Via to come see her, because every time the Mysterious Via appears, Metatron will increase the intensity of her training to make her show her strongest form.

"Help! Boss!"

Mysterious Via just smiled helplessly and said to Metatron, "Instructor Metatron, isn't the training intensity a bit too high? She's only just started."

Metatron glanced at Mysterious Via with a profound look, a look that seemed to contain endless emotions, but it vanished in an instant, and he continued calmly:

“Via, in order for her to adapt to the work of the space police as soon as possible, the necessary intensity is necessary. She needs to grow up quickly so that she can better assist you by your side.”

Midatron emphasized the words "assist me," and to X's hardened ears, they sounded like a declaration of sovereignty.

The female protagonist, X, wanted to complain, but when she saw Metatron's unfathomable eyes, she chickened out.