Chat Group: Starting by Swapping Bodies with Elysia?

Sakura's gaze was incredibly sharp—you mentioned having a little sister, right?

You have a little sister, I also have a little sister, we match, we're the same!

Bronya's unintentional "little sister" opening directly triggered the keyword, making Sakura, a super siscon, instantly gain a huge amount of Good feeling towards her.

Those with little sisters, those who love little sisters, are all good civilizations! (loudly)

Especially when the Duck talked about the story of how she and Seele were separated by accident, although this made Miss Donkey Ears realize that the little sister in Duck's words wasn't a blood relative—but is a little sister such a shallow thing?

Recalling her past with Rin, Sakura's gaze towards Bronya became increasingly gentle, like two peas in a pod.

Don't say anything else, I, Sister Sakura, will give you a Signet of Setsuna to play with first!

This action stunned Mei, who was beside her.

Sakura was the approachable and easygoing type. Perhaps because they were both from the Far East, she and Sakura got along quite well. But when it came to the Signet of Setsuna, Sakura had said—you need more practice.

It was different from before. The original Sakura directly gave the Tuna Cooker the Signet because even without it, the Tuna Cooker, as the Herrscher of Thunder, already had plenty of power. The Signet was more like a传承 of will, a spiritual growth for her at that time.

But now, Mei, who couldn't even become a Herrscher, was even weaker than the half-baked Duck. Probably only Pardo would give her a Signet unconditionally, oh… maybe there was also Mobius? If she didn't mind lying on the operating table as a research subject, Mobius definitely wouldn't be stingy.

But now, what was this?

Mei stared wide-eyed, dumbfounded.

I need trials to get a Signet, but you just give it to Bronya for free, what the heck? Is it New Year's already, are you handing out red envelopes?

I came first, how did it turn out like this!

Sakura didn't notice this—to survive in this world, you need a little sister. Do you have a little sister? If you have a little sister, you get a Signet!

"I hope this Signet can help you and your little sister reunite sooner. But apart from this, I don't have much to teach you." Sakura said with some regret. Although her combat ability was among the top among the Flame-Chasers, if it was just combat skills, she could still teach Bronya a lot of things.

But unfortunately, what Bronya currently needed most wasn't to improve her combat skills, but to master the power of the Herrscher of Reason.

And this clearly wasn't Sakura's area of expertise. Her swordsmanship, assassination skills, and even her extreme speed were far from it.

"In this aspect, perhaps you can try finding Vill-V or Su. They should be able to give you some good help… but before that, I suggest you find Hua first."

Although Hua was only slightly above Pardo in the last place, and her combat ability wasn't anything to brag about among the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, perhaps due to the influence of the "Garuda" genes, Hua, who wielded the Signet of Helix, was unexpectedly talented in guiding others, being an enlightening teacher.

As for Sakura herself, she planned to teach Raiden Mei next.

Although the power of the Herrscher of Thunder wasn't her area of expertise either, Raiden Mei, who came from the Raiden family, was skilled in swordsmanship and craved power.

Plus, for a long time, the Seven Thunders of Retribution was a weapon specifically assigned to her. She had some thoughts on how to teach Mei.

Sakura, a former assassin with extremely sharp senses, turned her head and looked in a certain direction.

"Elysia."

Looking at the pink-haired girl, her expression was normal, but her gaze occasionally fell on the handsome young man beside the girl—Jiang Qiao.

Considering everything, it was unclear whether Sakura's "Elysia" was referring to the former or the latter.

But what was certain was that when the title "Elysia" was spoken, Elysia, wearing Jiang Qiao's "skin", was a little nervous. But thinking of "Bad Jiang Qiao's clone"—the Elysia in the other person's words—beside her, she instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

Yeah, she's not calling me (confirmed).

"It's 'him.'" Sakura's gaze fell on Pink Fat Woman, her words carrying some inexplicable emotion.

Perhaps she did care about seeing the original Elysia, but what was more likely was that she had learned about the donkey ears and the Key of Erosion from Raiden Mei.

"Sakura—although he looks very similar to the one 'we' met, they're not the same person." SIM Elysia, comfortably playing the role of "Jiang Qiao's clone," explained to Sakura.

Having obtained "part of the original's memories" from Jiang Qiao, she naturally knew about the incident at Nagazora City's North Station.

It seemed Sakura also knew… oh dear, this is a bit troublesome.

SIM Elysia had a headache.

The matter of Rin had always been a "sensitive topic" that the Flame-Chasers tacitly avoided discussing. For fifty thousand years, everyone had a mutual understanding, but… well, it didn't matter.

She knew that Sakura had already sensed some of the truth, but in reality, revealing this kind of thing, with Sakura's personality, wasn't a good thing.

"Can you give me that thing?" Sakura's tone was quite calm, even sincere—but those familiar with her knew very well that Sakura wasn't calm at all at this moment, just suppressing all kinds of emotions in her heart.

SIM Elysia, knowing the whereabouts of the Key of Erosion, was a little helpless—after that bad guy took her away, she had to clean up the mess.

Fortunately, this wasn't a big problem.

"I'm sorry, Sakura, 'I' have already returned 'her' to her family."

Persuading Sakura like this, SIM Elysia felt a little resentful.

She should have let that bad guy try to take Sakura away too. That way, it wouldn't be so troublesome, and both sides would be happy… but this kind of thing was just wishful thinking, after all… Elysian Realm Pink Fat Woman's gaze flickered as she looked at the donkey ears.

Unlike SIM Elysia's helplessness, Original Elysia beside her was confused, but this didn't stop her from looking at Sakura's donkey ears with shining eyes.

A beast-eared girl! And unlike Pardo, who was a catgirl, this was a donkey girl! Which is basically… a horse girl! (realization)

The donkey-eared girl she saw at Nagazora City's North Station before made her somewhat obsessed. She just didn't know where Bad Jiang Qiao had taken the donkey-eared girl. Now, seeing the same type, Elysia just wanted to say—I'm healed!

It was a pity that this donkey ears wasn't dressed as pleasingly as the previous one. But Pink Fat Woman, glancing at the headphones, still had a slight smile on her lips.

The best way to get closer was undoubtedly through common interests, right? So—I, Elysia, also love music!

I, Elysia, love music, the beautiful Donkey Ears girl also loves music, we're best friends!

While Pink Fat Woman was trying to get close to "Horse Donkey Girl," Jiang Qiao in the Previous Era returned to "Elysia's" room—looking at the furnishings that hadn't changed much, everything was still the same.

This wasn't strange. After all, "Elysia" had recently been either flying around the world or rescuing people at Honkai eruption sites. The time he could spend at headquarters was very little.

Taking off the Flame-Chaser uniform he usually wore and changing into casual clothes, [Elysia] leaned against the bed and slowly adjusted the "authority" in this body.

It would take some time for the Global Network to be realized. After all, Mobius needed to give a reasonable plan, and MEI also needed to mobilize Fire Moth's internal resources, coordinating the research departments scattered around the world to conduct research on the physical level of the "Global Network." It couldn't just appear out of thin air with a Herrscher core—well, if it were the complete Authority of Truth, it could indeed do that.

Unfortunately, as a global, human-scale plan, the "Global Network" was essentially a project of the same scale as the "Stigma Project," and couldn't be carried out so hastily.

But before that, the construction of the "Key of Humanity"—the "Key of the Flawless"—could be done first.

Between his slender middle finger, an illusory gear-shaped ring appeared faintly. The Authority of Truth that Jiang Qiao possessed manifested in this form and began to circulate.

Through this authority, he analyzed the knowledge of the Divine Keys he had obtained before, all of it flooding his mind—of course, this was just a reference.

After all, unlike all other Divine Keys, the "Key of the Flawless," as Elysia's legacy, wasn't a "Divine Key" in the conventional sense. It was more like a symbol, without a physical form.

The silver hair ornament tied to his pink hair shimmered. With the help of Fenghuang Down, he could better "operate" on the consciousness level.

Like threads, weaving and intertwining.

Finally, turning into bits of pink starlight.

"Reliable me, is this the Key of the Flawless formed from the mature me?" Fairy Elysia, holding her magic wand, curiously floated to Jiang Qiao's side, looking at the bits of starlight with great surprise.

She tentatively touched it with her magic wand, and the starlight instantly dimmed, about to be extinguished, which made Fairy Elysia panic.

"Ah, why is it getting dimmer and dimmer!"

It's over, I'm screwed. Did I mess up and break the Key of the Flawless?!

A slender hand rested on Fairy Elysia's head, with a hint of amusement, "Don't worry, it won't break."

Although the Key of the Flawless was different from other "Divine Keys," it wasn't so fragile that it would break with a touch.

However—

"It's not yet the Key of the Flawless."

The pink light spots floated into [Elysia]'s palm, reflecting in his beautiful blue eyes. "If you insist, this thing can only be called the 'seed' of the Key of the Flawless."

"That scared me… but, a seed? Then when will it sprout?"

"Hmm… let me think—probably when it should sprout?"

Hearing this explanation, Fairy Elysia said angrily, "Huh? That's too perfunctory! Even reliable me, Fairy Elysia, will get angry if you fool a cute fairy!"

Her small figure, waving her magic wand, looked very cute.

"How could that be~ But I don't know when it will sprout either…"

"Let's let it grow well first, after all… a seed that hasn't sprouted is very fragile~ We must take good care of it~" The Honkai energy in his body flowed out from his fingertips, enveloping the light spots and turning into a bright bead.

"Until then—I'll leave it to you for safekeeping. A fairy from the Fairy Kingdom can definitely take good care of this newborn seed, right?"

"Hehe, of course~ After all, beautiful fairies are best at taking care of flowers, plants, and trees. Just leave it to me, Fairy Elysia. I will definitely protect it!" Fairy Elysia smiled happily, took the bead, and put it into her magic wand.

Just like the ball under Little Cangling's butt, Fairy Elysia's magic wand could also function as a "storage treasure" to some extent.

Although creating the prototype of the Key of the Flawless seemed to have only taken a moment, looking at the approaching night outside the window was enough to know the passage of time. Taking advantage of his free time, Jiang Qiao turned his attention to the inconspicuous chat group.

The most active ones were still Hu Tao and You.

Occasionally, Sin Mal would also appear.

It wasn't strange. After all, while Hu Tao was fine, You was the type who lacked companions. And Sin Mal… because of her family background, meeting a good sister she got along with was basically a lifetime bond.

What was worth mentioning was probably—

A new member seemed to have joined the chat group.

DieForCards: Eh, when did I join this chat group?

No, wait, it shouldn't be about when she joined this chat group, but rather, this chat group was clearly strange, right?

The blue-clothed, brown-haired girl, taking a break from work, looked at the inexplicable chat group interface in her head and scratched her head in confusion.

Chat groups were of course also popular on the Xianzhou Luofu. Of course, for Qingque, it was more like a way to relax during breaks, a way to spice up life. High-intensity online surfing was quite interesting.

But this one in her head… was clearly not right, right? Glancing at her Jade Sign, then at the chat group in her head, as a Diviner working in the Divination Commission, a member of the Xianzhou's official system, Qingque was certain that Xianzhou… at least the Xianzhou Luofu, didn't have such a thing.

But Qingque wasn't too panicked. After all, the universe was so vast, there were so many new things she hadn't seen. A chat group that inexplicably appeared in her head… maybe it was an accident caused by some researcher?

But the next moment, the calm Qingque panicked, because—

Jiang Qiao: Qingque, you're slacking off again!!!

Without considering the avatar, without caring about the nickname, the blue-clothed girl instantly had PTSD after seeing this familiar sentence structure, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.

Crap, it's Her Excellency the Diviner!

So, this chat group that appeared in her head was actually a trap set by Her Excellency the Diviner for her, Qingque, right?

The blue-clothed girl's face turned pale—because not far away was her immediate superior, the one who made her tremble in fear, the leader of the Divination Commission—Fu Xuan, the Diviner.

Just looking at that furious expression, she knew that Her Excellency the Diviner was in a very bad mood right now.

It's over, I'm screwed… I'm going to suffer again.

"Y-Your Excellency… I was wrong, I shouldn't have been chatting during work…" Qingque stammered nervously, but Fu Xuan, stopping, scolded her furiously, then gave her a bunch of new work.

"What chat group… How dare you not do your job properly during work hours and slack off! Have you finished all the work for this month?! I'll leave next month and the month after's Divination Path calculations to you!"

"Ah?"

"What ah? I want to see the report by the end of this month!" After saying that, Fu Xuan left angrily—actually, she was just angry because she was tricked by someone again, and Qingque just happened to be the one who got yelled at.

Looking at the departing pink-haired girl, Qingque, who was still standing there, finally reacted and almost burst into tears.

"...No…"

She had finally finished most of this month's work at the beginning of the month, leaving enough average workload for her to slack off later, but how did her workload suddenly increase?

And…

"This isn't right…"

Qingque looked puzzled.

Looking at Her Excellency the Diviner, how come she didn't seem to know?

…Wait, could it be that Her Excellency was pretending, just waiting to catch her red-handed?

Thinking of this, looking at Jiang Qiao's avatar and nickname in the chat group, Qingque was a little apprehensive.

Fortunately, her fellow group members came to the rescue in time.

Yunyun: Do you know her?

Jiang Qiao thought for a moment and typed two words: Just a stranger.

At this moment, Qingque's eyes instantly sharpened.

So, it's a fake!

With Her Excellency's meticulous personality, how could she be so "playful?"

This must be one of her acquaintances trying to scare her.

Realizing this, Qingque started to investigate the "traitor" among her acquaintances—if she caught them, wouldn't she drag them to the Golden Man Alley and give them a good beating?

Thinking of her doubled workload, a spark appeared in the blue-clothed girl's clear green eyes.

DieForCards: Qiao, wanna play mahjong?

Although she didn't know the other person's name, Qingque still used an intimate address based on Jiang Qiao's group nickname, just to lure this wicked brother out—after all, just thinking about it, trying to catch the "traitor," wasn't that too much effort?

If she invited this guy out, she, Qingque, could not only catch the bad guy, but also take the opportunity to slack off, wouldn't that be great? Hehe, maybe she could even extort a lot of money from this guy later.

Thinking of this, Qingque was a little smug—because of Her Excellency the Diviner, she hadn't been to the Golden Man Alley for quite a while.

Jiang Qiao, seeing this message, was a little speechless.

Traveling to another world required a Transit Pass, which cost ten points.

Although he did like mahjong, if you wanted him to pay to play… well, he was a little busy lately, they could talk about it later.

Therefore—

Jiang Qiao: No.

This directly brought Qingque, who was still fantasizing, back to reality. She looked at this message, her face full of pain.

Nmmd, come on! Why not come!

How am I supposed to vent my anger about the increased workload if you don't come?

Qingque, unwilling to give up, could only start pestering him.

DieForCards: Come on, work can be done later, we're one player short, one player short, do you understand?!

Qingque directly used her trump card—did he understand the temptation of being one player short?

She was certain that this guy with the ID Jiang Qiao was one of her acquaintances, and as for Qingque's acquaintances… every single one of them had been dragged into the "Diyuan Qiongyu" pit by her. So this time, Qingque had him in the palm of her hand!

Unfortunately—Jiang Qiao was unmoved.

Not going, not going, just not going!

Isn't it more enjoyable to sleep with Fairy Elysia in my arms?

DieForCards: Alright then, let's meet up next time?

This line appeared in the eyes of Elysia, who was in the Elysian Realm, taking the opportunity to peek at the chat group during her free time.

She was originally a little unhappy—she had wanted to get close to "Horse Donkey Girl" through music, but after she approached and started chatting, Sakura's personality did make Pink Fat Woman very happy.

But when she used the line—"What music are you listening to? Can I listen too?"—which was actually intended to bring them closer, Elysia regretted it.

She originally wanted to say—it sounds so good, what a coincidence, I also like this kind of music.

But the music in Sakura's headphones… directly made Elysia dizzy, she was completely dumbfounded.

—Ah… you like this kind of music?

Although she really wanted to continue according to the original plan, Pink Fat Woman, who couldn't bring herself to lie and say she liked that weird music, reluctantly gave up on the idea of making friends through "music."

Then, she took a look at the chat group.

She didn't know if she didn't look, but when she looked, what she saw was—

—Let's meet up next time?