Since Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi became deities, they have each made two trips to the Maldives every year, staying there for three months at a time.

On the surface, it’s naturally for work; after all, even though ten years have passed, and the initial fervor of their Nobel Prize win has cooled, they remain pivotal scholarly authorities in academia.

Moreover, both of them have maintained a regular life for their daughter, even though they each go to the Maldives alone, staying there for three months before returning, resulting in them both being absent from Tokyo for two months annually.

If they hadn’t deliberately adjusted these two months to coincide with Little Yixi’s vacation, allowing her to go to the Maldives with them, the little girl might have already objected in her heart.

However, there are gains to be made even amidst the losses. This arrangement means Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi spend two months every year together in Tokyo, which is the time Little Yixi looks forward to the most each year because both her parents are at home, spending time with her and also celebrating her birthday.

This year will be Little Yixi’s eleventh birthday, and she has been looking forward to it since three months before Hiromi Jounouchi went to the Maldives.

For Little Yixi, her annual birthday party is her most anticipated day, because, in addition to having her parents by her side, her grandmother, who always lives in their hometown, comes to Tokyo to celebrate with her too.

Even her grandparents from faraway China come to Tokyo once every other year. They didn’t come last year, so this year they’re sure to come to celebrate her birthday with her.

Every year at this time, Dad cooks a lot of delicious food himself, inviting Little Yixi’s classmates and friends to their house to help celebrate her birthday.

And each year, her parents also give her a beautifully chosen gift, something she anticipates second most on her birthday.

Her very topmost anticipation, however, is a secret she hasn’t even shared with her parents.

On the night of Little Yixi’s fourth birthday, after the birthday celebration, she was already lulled to sleep by her mom. However, after Hiromi Jounouchi left her room, a furry paw nudged her awake.

When she opened her eyes, she saw two cats standing by her bedside—Audis and Xiao Lan, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi’s pets.

Back then, Little Yixi thought it was just the two little cats playing a joke on her. After all, they were her parents’ pets, who had grown up playing with her and knew her well.

However, that evening, Xiao Lan and Audis started speaking to her: “Your Highness, the most noble Princess, please accept the sincere invitation from the Airou Cat clan to attend a banquet we have specially prepared for you. The pumpkin carriage is ready.”

Presented like a fairy tale, Little Yixi was initially a little scared, but the presence of Xiao Lan and Audis made her decide to follow the two little cats into the light circle they’d summoned.

Going through the circle, Little Yixi arrived in a world very much like a fairy tale, even more so than Disneyland, which her parents had taken her to.

Cats walking on two legs, an apparently frightening but actually kind old Skeleton like a neighborhood grandpa, all sorts of bizarre yet slightly cute magical creatures, and four very amiable sisters towards her.

They all lived together in a village built by the hardworking cats, beside which stood a tree taller than the entire village, and they all lived a happy and joyful life together.

The cats prepared a grand banquet for Little Yixi, and the splendid fireworks lit up the night, making Little Yixi feel as if she was in a dream.

Even though she had already eaten cake and various delicious dishes made by her dad at her birthday party that day, when the cats placed a large pot in the square big enough for her to swim in, and then brought out mountains of fruit and roast meat, Little Yixi couldn’t hold back and indulged herself.

That was the happiest birthday Little Yixi ever had, especially when the seemingly frightening skeleton grandpa summoned a beautiful blue flying dragon to carry her soaring in the sky, and the four sisters, calling themselves the 6th Destroyer Squadron, took her racing across the sea. Little Yixi felt that this was the happiest thing in the world.

The only thing that made Little Yixi feel regretful was that the cats told her that Ailu Village’s existence was a secret, and she could only enter here after midnight on her birthday each year and had to leave before the sun rose the next day.

Moreover, she couldn’t tell anybody else about this secret because once the existence of Ailu Village was known to others, the peaceful and happy lives here would cease, and the entire Ailu Village and its residents would be killed by the dreaded Great Demon King.

Faced with the serious warnings from the Airou Cat mayor and skeleton grandpa, Little Yixi could only bury this secret in her heart, not even telling her parents.

As she kept the secret, Little Yixi eagerly counted down the days to her birthday each year.

There are the adorable cats, the kind Skeleton grandpa, the forever young sisters of the 6th Destroyer Squadron, and the super tree known as the World Tree by the cats, with the Holy Woman Sister and the Vampire Uncle living beneath it, all of which seemed to belong only in fairy tales.

For Little Yixi, it was simply the most ideal and dreamlike existence a child could dream of.

However, she wouldn’t have imagined that everything in Ailu Village was a gift prepared for her by Yu Chen, who intentionally let her in only once a year to heighten her anticipation and avoid her getting too excited and unable to keep the secret.

As this year’s birthday approached, nearly-eleven-year-old Little Yixi was no longer the little girl she once was, she had grown taller than the sisters of the 6th Destroyer Squadron.

So, naturally, this year’s banquet would not be as overly childish and whimsical as before, with more novelty and engaging elements added.

To meticulously prepare a fairy tale-like birthday party for his daughter, Yu Chen had already personally arrived at Ailu Village early to oversee the preparations.

“Commander, what gift do you plan to give Yixi this year?” Akatsuki stood next to Yu Chen, watching the busy cats with him.

After ten years, the cat population had expanded, and now Ailu Village was more of a thriving town than a village.

Hearing Akatsuki’s question, Yu Chen smiled and said, “There is a gift I have been preparing for ten years, and it’s finally time to give it to her.”

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