39: Valvinia

Valentine laughed happily, walked over to the beautiful woman, and patted her shoulder.

"You've worked hard, Sister. Did you encounter any danger when you went out to purchase supplies this time?"

The beautiful woman tossed her hair, a hint of pride in her tone.

"It's all for the safety of the family and our people, it's no hardship."

"This time, we didn't encounter any enemies or sandstorms. It's just that the price of medicine has risen a bit."

"Oh, is this Fang Yun? The person who helped you?"

The beautiful woman first chatted with Valentine for a few sentences, then turned her gaze towards Fang Yun.

Valentine, hearing his Sister's question, slapped his forehead and said with a slight apology:

"Ah, I was so happy to see you return safely that I forgot to introduce you for a moment."

As he spoke, Valentine brought his Sister over to Fang Yun and Toke.

Toke, Valentine's Sister naturally knew.

So, Valentine reached out, patted Fang Yun's arm, and said to his Sister:

"Come, let me introduce you."

"This is Fang Yun, who helped Toke and me. He is a powerful mercenary. On the way back to the family, in just an instant, he annihilated all the Nightwalkers who attacked us."

Valentine's Sister smiled brightly after hearing Valentine's introduction, extended her hand, and said to Fang Yun:

"Hello, Fang Yun, I am Valentine's Sister, Vavinia. My brother has roughly told me about you. Thank you for helping my brother and Uncle Toke."

"When I heard my brother say you were very powerful before, I was wondering if you would be a very tall and strong person."

"Now that we've met, you look pretty much as I imagined."

Fang Yun also showed a big smile, reached out, and shook hands with Vavinia.

"Hello, Vavinia. I am Fang Yun, it's nice to meet you."

"Valentine and Old Tok are already my friends, mutual help is only right. No need to thank me."

"As for my physique... my physique is quite different from most people in my hometown. In my hometown, it's relatively rare to find someone as tall as two meters and very strong like me."

Fang Yun said this aloud, but he was thinking about something else.

"My goodness! Valentine's Sister is actually also a 'Valentine'!"

"This is good, from now on, I can't use the abbreviation 'Valentine' when referring to Valentine, I should call him 'Valentine'."

"Speaking of which, Vavinia's hand is really smooth and soft."

"This skin texture, this feel, is incredible, I could play with it for a year."

"Is this really skin that someone living in the Badlands can possess? Could it be that Vavinia is naturally beautiful?"

Just as Fang Yun was letting his thoughts wander, he heard Valentine cough.

"Cough."

Hearing Valentine cough, Fang Yun subconsciously shifted his gaze to Valentine's face.

Seeing Valentine's slightly unfriendly and warning gaze, and his eyes fixed on his left hand.

Fang Yun then realized that he had been lost in thought just now, his mind wandering for a bit too long, and the handshake with Vavinia had lasted a bit long.

After an awkward cough, Fang Yun released Vavinia's hand and said to Valentine:

"Cough. Since your Sister is back, shouldn't we go eat now? What do you think, Valentine?"

Valentine saw the slightly awkward expression on Fang Yun's face and stared into Fang Yun's eyes for two more seconds.

Seeing that Fang Yun's eyes were full of sincerity, Valentine finally replied:

"...Since Sister is back, let's go eat."

"Sister, you must be hungry too."

Vavinia nodded, then smiled slightly at Toke and Fang Yun.

"Thank you, Uncle Toke and Fang Yun, for waiting for me."

After speaking, Vavinia turned around and followed Valentine towards the "dining hall" in the Buckle Family Camp.

Seeing this, Fang Yun and Toke also quickly stepped up to follow.

Fang Yun quietly came to Valentine's side and said to him:

"Valentine, should I call you Valentine from now on? Otherwise, won't calling you Valentine all the time get confused with Vavinia?"

Valentine tilted his head to look at Fang Yun, thought for a while, then replied:

"Hmm..., actually, for convenience, people in the family all call me Valentine and call my Sister Vavinia."

"So you don't need to worry about confusing me and my Sister because of that."

"However, if you want to call me Valentine, that's fine too. If you don't find it troublesome."

Fang Yun chuckled.

"Not troublesome, not troublesome."

"Then it's settled, I'll call you Valentine from now on."

While responding to Valentine, Fang Yun thought to himself:

"I might meet more 'Valentines' in the future. To distinguish all the 'Valentines', it's wise to use their full names as titles."

...

Valentine's tent was not far from the "dining hall" of the Buckle Family Camp.

The "dining hall" in the camp, rather than a dining hall, was more like a gathering place for family members that combined multiple functions such as a bar, restaurant, and convenience store.

When Fang Yun and his group arrived at the dining hall, some members of the Buckle Family were already there.

Under the curious gazes of the people around him, Fang Yun, Valentine, Vavinia, and Toke found a four-person table and sat down.

The reason the surrounding Buckle Family members did not look at him with hostility, as they did when Fang Yun first arrived at the camp,

was because Karl had already posted a notification on the family's public channel, a notification about the family's imminent revenge on the "Nightwalker Settlement: Black Hand."

And among the supplementary information of that notification was a simple introduction to Fang Yun.

Therefore, most of the Buckle Family members now basically knew that Fang Yun was not an enemy, so no one looked at Fang Yun with hostility anymore.

Fang Yun didn't pay attention to the surrounding Buckle Family members he didn't know, but instead began browsing the dining hall's menu through a temporary data connection.

"Let me see what there is to eat in this dining hall."

"..."

"Bush, Gorman. You have such a big dining hall, why isn't there anything good?"

"The best dish is just an intermediate synthetic food, barbecue mixed stew pot."

"The name is quite long, but isn't that just a variant of a self-serve barbecue?"

"Could it be because this dining hall is a 'public dining hall' for all members of the Buckle Family, rather than a 'private dining hall', which is why there are no 'high-grade delicacies'?"

"It's not impossible."

"Alas, it seems I might have to wait until I enter Night City to eat high-grade synthetic food."

Fang Yun kept complaining in his heart while browsing the menu.

After reading through the entire menu, with the mindset of "since I'm here anyway," Fang Yun ordered the dish he was most interested in—the intermediate synthetic food barbecue mixed stew pot.

"Although in this level of food, the concept of skill is unlikely to exist, let me try my hand!"

"Cough, sorry, wrong scene. It should be, come on, let me see the chef's skill."