Chapter 25: The Version Update Is Way Too Fast, Right?
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What a strange person.
When seeing Elysia, Sin couldn’t help but have such thoughts.
As a Stigmata bearer, the Stigmata she possessed not only allowed her to manipulate time to a certain extent, but also gave Sin the special ability to see the evil in other people’s souls.
However, Sin had never told this secret to anyone.
She really liked Bronya, not only because of their orphanage days, but also because the other’s soul was extremely pure.
Sin actually didn’t dislike Seele, she was just jealous that the other occupied Bronya’s attention, and even that soul color she admired had changed because of that coward.
That change should be good, right?
For a long time in the past, she would try to view the relationship between Bronya and Seele this way.
But when Seele left, everything changed.
At first, she was shamefully happy.
After all, Seele’s departure meant that the space beside Bronya was now empty.
But.
When she saw Bronya’s dim and lifeless soul color, Sin knew that she probably would never be able to replace that coward’s position in Bronya’s heart for the rest of her life.
How inappropriate, just because of that coward’s departure, it became like this.
Until much time had passed, when Mama Cocolia told Bronya there was a way to save Seele, Sin finally saw again that color that made her heart flutter.
So, even if she was very jealous of that coward, even if she had to help Mama Cocolia do such excessive things, she still wanted to save that coward.
No matter what, everyone from the orphanage should be together and complete, right?
But the man in front of her—
Sin looked at Elysia who was wearing Jiang Qiao’s appearance, with a trace of confusion in her eyes.
Of course, she couldn’t possibly see through the fact that the other’s inner self was actually a girl.
But Elysia’s pure soul did shock Sin.
“Does such a pure human really exist in this world?”
While doubting in a low voice, Sin had no intention of stopping.
No matter how brilliant the other’s soul was, it didn’t matter for what she had to do!
She wanted to save Bronya, save Seele, and meet Mama Cocolia’s expectations.
Obstacles and such, she just needed to kill them all!
— The Titans that Sin brought indeed caused great trouble for Elysia and the others.
These steel beasts were simply not something ordinary human strength could contend with.
“So annoying, these big guys’ shells are really too hard!”
Kiana rolled away from a Titan’s heavy punch, gasping for breath, staring at the big guy in front of her and couldn’t help but curse angrily:
“Only hiding in turtle shells, have the guts to come out and fight me!”
Of course, there couldn’t be any response, because the Titans that Sin brought were unmanned models.
But this also showed that the white-haired fluffball was really getting desperate.
Indeed, there was no way around it. She used all her strength to swing out a strike, and the Titan might at most lose some paint or get a dent, while the recoil made Kiana’s palm bleed.
Even using the electromagnetic hand cannon that Elysia got from Jiang Qiao, it had almost no effect.
The most miserable was still Mei, holding a thermal blade, after several strikes, if there were a pilot inside the Titan, they would kneel and shout: Master Mei, stop scratching, stop scratching, repainting is expensive!
It was truly the most embarrassing round.
“Hmph, don’t waste your effort. This is a war machine used against Honkai Beasts. With the toys in your hands, trying to destroy Titans is just a pipe dream!”
Piloting a Titan, Sin sneered mockingly.
Holding an electromagnetic bow, Elysia sighed: “Indeed, at this level it’s quite troublesome, but we can’t just stop here!”
“At this point, we can only—”
My turn, call for backup!
Emergency backup service, activate!
Elysia: “Miss Elf urgently requests assistance, come quickly!”
Yunyun: “I’m coming!”
“Help me, Miss Yunyun!”
Elysia made a quite playful gesture of cupping her hands and calling out, though it looked somewhat strange with her current appearance as Jiang Qiao.
“Huh? Who’s Yunyun?”
Both Kiana and Mei were confused, and even Sin, as the enemy, couldn’t understand:
“Are you brain-damaged?”
Suddenly shouting a random person’s name, in others’ eyes it would definitely seem that way, right?
“And this ridiculous name, hmph, are you trying to make me laugh?”
“Mocking a girl’s name is very rude~ Be careful of retribution, getting struck by lightning?”
“Retribution? I’ve never known what retribution means! Titans, crush her…”
Sin, who didn’t take it seriously at all, was about to give the attack command, but before she could finish speaking, the entire underground parking garage was covered by blinding lightning, followed immediately by a young girl’s childish but full of vigor voice:
“— Thunder Strike!”
Boom—
The blinding electric light dissipated. Sin, who opened her eyes, was somewhat confused by this sudden lightning, but when she saw those several Titans that were smoking black smoke and completely charred and paralyzed, her pupils instantly constricted, and she cried out in shock:
“…What happened?”
While she was in a daze.
Elysia came close to Yunyun, who was holding a staff and wearing a wizard hat, and while marveling at the results, said with sparkling eyes:
“Mm-hmm~ Amazing, you so easily took down those big guys.”
“And Yunyun is actually such a cute beautiful girl?”
“No… no, not at all.”
Yunyun instinctively stepped back a few steps. Although she knew that the person in front of her was actually a girl inside from the group, she still maintained a certain distance, then said somewhat modestly:
“I didn’t expect it to be solved so simply either.”
When she came to this world and saw those Titans, she was startled, so she tentatively used one of her most skilled intermediate magic spells, Thunder Strike, as an opening move, and ended up destroying several Titans in one go.
Kiana came to the side, looking at the petite Yunyun who made her feel like she could take on ten of her, and said somewhat incredulously:
“Huh? So that lightning just now was cast by this person?”
Are you kidding me? Can humans actually discharge electricity?
Instinctively, when she looked at Yunyun, she thought of a certain electric mouse.
“Mm-hmm~ Let me introduce you. Yunyun is my friend who specially came to help us, just like that Hu Tao you two met before.”
“By the way, she’s a mage who can use magic!”
“Ma-magic?!”
“So that just now was magic?”
Mei looked like she was doubting life itself.
Oh God, what has this world become?
Honkai Energy was already enough, and now even magic from movies and novels has popped up.
This version update is way too fast, right?
Kiana couldn’t help but complain:
“If you have this kind of helper, why didn’t you call her out earlier!”
Because there were too many problematic things, they even overlooked the fact that Yunyun had appeared out of thin air.
“Sorry, she had something to do earlier…”
Elysia scratched her cheek.
Due to the nature of limited-time commissions, the use of such external aid naturally had to be very cautious and precious, only to be used when absolutely necessary.
In the follow-up supplementary plan that Jiang Qiao made for her, even the timing for using external aid was thoughtfully marked out.
Although she wanted to chat, remembering Jiang Qiao’s instructions, Elysia still shook her head:
“Forget it, let’s not talk about this now. Let’s deal with the enemy in front of us first.”
“Right.”
Kiana nodded, then looked at Sin Mal, who was now alone piloting a Titan, with ill intent, showing a kind smile:
“Hey, shorty, what did you just say? Say it again?”
You’re sweating buckets now, aren’t you? Kid!