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Chapter 10: Arlecchino: ’You already have children?’ · Oct 08, 2026

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1 Chapter 1: The Invitation from the Erudition 2026-10-08
2 Chapter 2: The Arrival of the Harbinger ’The Captain’ 2026-10-08
3 Chapter 3 -: 3 The Tsaritsa’s Invitation 2026-10-08
4 Chapter 4: Seizing the Doctor’s Seat 2026-10-08
5 Chapter 5: When The Lady Met Little Lady 2026-10-08
6 Chapter 6: Rosalyne’s Invitation 2026-10-08
7 Chapter 7: Guess I’ll Have to Squeeze In and Share a Bed with the Girl 2026-10-08
8 Chapter 8: Columbina, Completely Shaken 2026-10-08
9 Chapter 9: Childe and Columbina’s Shock 2026-10-08
10 Chapter 10: Arlecchino: ’You already have children?’ 2026-10-08
11 Chapter 11: Praise from Arlecchino 2026-10-08
12 Chapter 12: Arlecchino, You Don’t Want Your Children Hurt, Do You? 2026-10-08
13 Chapter 13: Rosalyne: ’My Colleague Skipped Work, and I’m the Fool Picking Up the Pieces.’ 2026-10-08
14 Chapter 14: The Raiden Shogun Strikes… and Falls 2026-10-08
15 Chapter 15: Yae Miko’s Fear 2026-10-08
16 Chapter 16: Yae Miko’s Forced Smile 2026-10-08
17 Chapter 17: Yae Miko: ’Even my beauty lost to Kamisato Ayaka~’ 2026-10-08
18 Chapter 18: Ayato Can’t Keep It Together 2026-10-08
19 Chapter 19: Ayaka’s Counsel and Her Lie 2026-10-08
20 Chapter 20: Kujou Sara’s Resolve 2026-10-08
21 Chapter 21: Ei Revives… But as a Puppet 2026-10-08
22 Chapter 22: Turning Inazuma into a Second Fontaine, and Ei’s Defection 2026-10-08
23 Chapter 23: These Days, Nobody Believes the Truth 2026-10-08
24 Chapter 24: Sending Kamisato Ayaka to Deliver a Message to the Resistance 2026-10-08
25 Chapter 25: La Signora’s Shock, Ayato’s Resolve 2026-10-08
26 Chapter 26: Ayato’s Broken Heart, Kokomi’s Panic 2026-10-08
27 Chapter 27: Raiden Ei/Shogun: ’Arrest the Arbiter of Knowledge? Me?’ 2026-10-08
28 Chapter 28: Hiiragi Clan Head: A Wise Man Bends to Circumstances 2026-10-08
29 Chapter 29: The Greedy Raiden Ei: ’I Am a Child, After All.’ 2026-10-08
30 Chapter 30: Kamisato Ayaka: ’Yoimiya, This Is for Your Own Good!’ 2026-10-08
31 Chapter 31: Kamisato Ayaka’s Crumbling Resolve 2026-10-08
32 Chapter 32: Kamisato Ayaka: ’You’re Just Bullying Me…’ 2026-10-08
33 Chapter 33: Yoimiya Breaks Out in a Cold Sweat 2026-10-08
34 Chapter 34: Yoimiya: ’Little Ei, your daddy’s such a bully!’ 2026-10-08
35 Chapter 35: Raiden Ei Decides to Give Up on Treatment 2026-10-08
36 Chapter 36: Raiden Ei: ’I Was Not Throwing a Tantrum!’ 2026-10-08
37 Chapter 37: Yae Miko: ’That Raiden Makoto… she’s not real, right?’ 2026-10-08
38 Chapter 38: Raiden Makoto the Straight Man, Kamisato Ayaka in Panic 2026-10-08
39 Chapter 39: Kujou Sara Wants to Silence Witnesses 2026-10-08
40 Chapter 40: Ayaka’s Concern 2026-10-08
41 Chapter 41: The Gentle Raiden, the Stern Raiden, the Clueless Raiden 2026-10-08
42 Chapter 42: Ei’s Grievance 2026-10-08
43 Chapter 43: Makoto’s Misunderstanding 2026-10-08
44 Chapter 44: Kamisato Ayaka: ’Ei? How did you get so big?’ 2026-10-08
45 Chapter 45: The Hopeless Case of Raiden Makoto 2026-10-08
46 Chapter 46: The Century’s Hardest Question: Raiden Ei’s Good Points? 2026-10-08
47 Chapter 47: A Misunderstanding? Raiden Makoto’s Awkwardness 2026-10-08
48 Chapter 48: Dottore Loses His Cool and Strikes 2026-10-08
49 Chapter 49: Dottore’s Death, Ei’s Unease 2026-10-08
50 Chapter 50: Ayaka’s Fright, Ningguang Stretched Thin 2026-10-08

Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Arlecchino: “You already have children?”

Columbina glanced down.

Sure enough—since leaving the city, their hands had never parted.

Arlecchino had noticed long ago, but unlike Childe, she was rational enough not to mention it.

After all, though they were all Harbingers, the Tsaritsa had never forbidden romances among them.

Perhaps she thought that those capable of reaching this rank had no such... needs.

And even if they did, it wasn’t a matter worth worrying over—so long as it didn’t affect Fatui plans.

But Columbina was a special case.

She wasn’t even human, and could never truly fall in love with one.

”Why not?”

Su Ran countered instead.

He was holding a girl’s hand.

She hadn’t refused.

They were both single.

Why would Childe, of all people, object?

He and Columbina were the very image of a perfect pair— talent and beauty combined.

Did a mere battle maniac have any right to interfere?

”...So it’s me who spoke out of turn,” Childe muttered.

His eyes widened, though.

So soon, and he’d already claimed the most dazzling flower among the Harbingers?

No wonder he’d been able to seize the Doctor’s seat the moment he arrived.

This man was truly ferocious.

Childe quietly raised a thumb in admiration.

An accomplishment worthy of respect.

But Columbina pressed her lips together, wondering how she might explain—When Su Ran spoke again.

And nearly knocked both Childe and Arlecchino off their feet.

”It’s late. Arlecchino’s right, the children should be asleep by now. Let’s head back—little Columbina is still waiting for me to tuck her in.”

”...Little Columbina?”

Childe nodded on instinct—then froze.

He turned, staring.

”Columbina should hardly be that young anymore... Don’t tell me you’re some ancient monster?”

”What are you thinking? I don’t mean the Columbina beside me. I mean the one in my workshop. Little Columbina looks exactly like her mother~”

Su Ran raised his brows, giving him a knowing look.

Childe’s mind spun straight off course.

What?! Already? In just a few days? They even have a child?

Had he... overslept for a year?

Arlecchino, too, fixed Su Ran with a doubtful look.

Even if Columbina was unusual, surely she couldn’t give birth in mere days?

”If you’ve got time, you should both visit my workshop. Little Columbina and the others love having aunts and uncles drop by.”

Su Ran extended the invitation warmly.

Aside from the Doctor and Scaramouche, he was on friendly terms with most of the Harbingers.

”...Not just one?”

Now it wasn’t only Childe— even Arlecchino was shaken.

”There are five~”

He shot her a meaningful glance.

Let her chew on that.

The two of them stood rooted, watching Su Ran lead Columbina back toward the city.

”...Looks like you’re not the only Harbinger with children anymore,” Childe muttered.

The strange atmosphere made him toss out a half-hearted joke.

But it didn’t earn so much as a smile from Arlecchino.

”Didn’t expect it—you’re a bit of a mischief-maker yourself,” Su Ran said as they walked back to his workshop.

”I just think it’s fun.”

Columbina didn’t deny it.

When he’d spoken of ”children,” her thoughts had drifted to the five little figures in his workshop— herself, Rosalyne, Sandrone, Arlecchino, and even the Tsaritsa.

Rosalyne and Her Majesty already knew of them.

Sandrone and Arlecchino did not.

Drawing them out to see those little ones... would be amusing.

Especially Sandrone, the shut-in.

It had been so long since Columbina had seen her outside.

She missed her.

If Su Ran’s creations could lure her from her cold workshop, it would be worth it.

Look at him— clearly the same type of researcher, yet capable of interacting with people.

Sandrone, by contrast, was a pitiful child, bound only to her machines.

And unlike his adorable works, hers were... hardly endearing.

So Columbina had simply gone along, smiling as if the children were real.

Her perfect act had left Childe and Arlecchino utterly convinced.

”I wonder what Arlecchino’s face will look like when she sees a child version of herself?”

Su Ran rubbed his chin, anticipation gleaming in his eyes.

Unlike the children of the House of the Hearth, Arlecchino-chan was his creation.

Not only her master—he was her father.

If the real Arlecchino accepted her as a child...

would she see herself as the mother?

It was possible. After all, this wasn’t one of her orphans.

But perhaps not.

Arlecchino-chan recognized Su Ran as her master, her father.

That didn’t mean she’d accept her ”prototype” as a mother.

She, too, was strong-willed.

”Having such a lookalike child... Arlecchino should be pleasantly surprised, no?”

Columbina’s bright outlook led her to expect the best.

Their path wound closer to his workshop.

Her steps slowed, hesitation creeping in.

”...Inside your workshop, is there really only one bed?”

Though she wasn’t human, she still knew shame.

”You’re the one who wanted to stay, aren’t you? I’ll be leaving Snezhnaya in three days. Isn’t one bed enough for you? Besides, I am a handsome guy. I don’t mind.”

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