Chapter 10: Isn’t Having One Girl Like Me Enough?
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For the longest time, Mobius had always thought that the person she hated most might be that ugly father of hers, or perhaps those annoying superiors.
This viewpoint was completely refreshed with the appearance of a woman named Elysia.
This person, who was clearly just an ordinary soldier, had the audacity to repeatedly wander into her laboratory and interfere with her experimental progress. This made Mobius, who would forget to eat and sleep for the sake of her experiments, extremely furious.
And that wasn’t even the worst part. What she absolutely couldn’t accept was that this detestable woman would sneak into her room in all sorts of ways and then stuff her wardrobe with flashy little dresses!
Infuriating! Absolutely infuriating!
Yet this anger couldn’t be vented at all. No matter how harshly she spoke, that detestable woman would just smile at her and calmly chat with her as if nothing happened, like a piece of sticky candy that simply wouldn’t go away.
But now, look what she had discovered?
That detestable Elysia was actually groping her poor little dove chest in the corner of the base corridor?
Though she was quite surprised that this annoying woman had such hobbies in secret, Mobius felt more ecstatic than anything else.
Haha, finally caught you red-handed, haven’t I, Elysia? You walked right into this one!
Looking at the pink-haired girl who seemed completely unaware that her shameless behavior had been witnessed and appeared to be lost in thought, Mobius took a deep breath to compose herself, her mouth corners wildly upturned. Then came her mocking taunt:
“I never knew you had an interest in doing such things in public places. This is news to me, Elysia?”
“!!!”
Seeing the girl’s expression change from confusion to panic, Mobius, who had already anticipated all of this, was overjoyed. But she still maintained her usual image and launched a further attack.
“If your little companions knew about this hobby of yours, I wonder what kind of expressions they’d have.”
“Ahem, dear Dr. Mobius, you’ve misunderstood!”
Recognizing Mobius’s identity, Jiang Qiao coughed and hastily tried to explain, “I was just measuring my bust size.”
“After all, teenage girls grow rapidly. For a beautiful girl like me, the importance of body management, someone like Dr. Mobius probably wouldn’t understand, right?”
Her fists clenched! Her fists were clenched hard!
Fire ignited in Mobius’s eyes. This infuriating attitude, this soft blade hidden in silk. As expected, Elysia was indeed the person she hated most!
“Speaking of which, Dr. Mobius, for you to actually leave your laboratory for once and be willing to walk around, has something interesting happened?”
Jiang Qiao followed the attitude and approach that Elysia used with Mobius in his memories, deliberately starting to fish for information, his gaze fixed on the confidential document bag in the latter’s hands.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Mobius should have just attended a high-level Fire Moth meeting, and he might be able to learn something from her.
“Hmph, I have no interest in whatever hobbies you have.”
“Mind your own business, Elysia.”
Being as intelligent as she was, Mobius instantly saw through Jiang Qiao’s little scheme. She snorted lightly and warned:
“People who are too curious don’t live long.”
With that, she prepared to leave and return to her laboratory.
However, before leaving, Mobius still stopped in her tracks and turned back to leave one sentence: “Train hard in the near future.”
Watching that green figure, Jiang Qiao touched his chin.
Someone like Mobius wouldn’t give pointless advice.
He knew that she actually cared about and was concerned for Elysia.
So then…
Training hard meant that combat was about to occur?
“Could it be, the Second Eruption?”
The pink-haired girl furrowed her brow tightly, as if catching the scent of gunpowder.
This wasn’t just speculation drawn from Mobius alone.
In the previous time, she had also tried observing the staff in various parts of the base. Although those staff members might not know it themselves, they were undoubtedly making some kind of preparation.
“Sigh, the Third Eruption isn’t even resolved yet, and now I have to face the Second Eruption from the Previous Era.”
Jiang Qiao felt somewhat of a headache.
If he remembered correctly, Elysia had used her achievement of defeating the Herrscher in the Second Eruption to elevate her status and become a hero-like existence within Fire Moth.
In other words, the Second Eruption was very important for this body.
Moreover, he had no way to escape anyway, because Elysia’s current identity was merely a soldier of Fire Moth.
If the Honkai eruption came, he would definitely have to go to the battlefield.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qiao felt his head splitting with pain.
Damn it, the intensity of the Previous Era’s Honkai eruptions and the Honkai eruptions of later generations, their intensity levels were completely incomparable!
Although it wasn’t exaggerated to the point of some world line where everyone was nightmare-level, if the later era’s Honkai eruptions were normal difficulty, then the Previous Era was at least hard mode.
“I wonder how things are going on Elysia’s side.”
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Raiden Residence.
Raiden Mei had already resolved to go with Elysia to save Nagazora City, and also to make efforts to save her father. This could be seen from the katana she carried on her back.
Mei is going to start using violence!
That said, she didn’t know how to proceed and could only ask for Elysia’s opinion:
“What should we do next?”
“Hmm… let me see, first we need to find a girl named Kiana Kaslana.”
Elysia looked at the next target that Jiang Qiao had sent her and read it aloud.
“A girl named Kiana Kaslana?”
Mei found it somewhat strange, then looked at Elysia with suspicion, “Why do we need to find her?”
Don’t misunderstand, she didn’t know Kiana. The current her hadn’t encountered the white-haired fluffball yet.
It was just that the other party’s gender was female, and Mei was somewhat suspicious. Could it be that Elysia had some ulterior motive for wanting to find this girl?
Although this thought was quite absurd, just thinking about this possibility made her heart feel somewhat… sour.
It was probably the feeling of — isn’t having one girl like me enough?
Elysia immediately saw through Mei’s sourness and said with a smile:
“Hmm~ Is Mei jealous?”
“Alright, alright, I actually haven’t met that child named Kiana either, but she seems to be very important external support for our operation to save Nagazora City~”
Elysia emphasized the words “external support,” as if deliberately drawing distinctions between closeness and distance.
It was almost like saying: Mei and I are on the same team, that Kiana person is just a helper tool!
The girl’s expression instantly cleared up like clouds parting for sunshine, revealing a smile.
“Mm!”