"Hmm, Little Vita, I don't quite understand. Could you... explain a little?"
Vita tried to calm her somewhat flustered emotions.
She asked using her most familiar and intimate tone, trying to appear more natural.
"Eh~ it's not good to play dumb, you should have understood."
Elysia said with a smile, a hint of understanding in her eyes, clearly not fooled by Vita's act.
"Well, alright... but, how exactly are you going to do it?"
Seeing that playing dumb was useless, Vita changed the question, trying to probe for more information.
"You just need to take me there, and for the rest, you just need to cooperate, and it'll be fine~"
Elysia said it lightly, as if it were the simplest thing in the world.
"This, speaking of which, is quite troublesome. It will require some time to prepare."
Vita chuckled, but in her heart, she was calculating that it would be best to stay away from Elysia for now; this person was simply too unfathomable.
"It's fine, you just lead the way, and leave the rest to me~"
Elysia said, reaching out and grabbing Vita's hand, clearly afraid she would take the opportunity to escape.
"Ahaha, don't do that, Little Vita will be scared..."
Vita tried to break free, her tone a little feigned with grievance.
"Oh my, am I going to eat you or something?"
Elysia smiled and squeezed her hand,
"But according to your future self, your current performance is really interesting~"
"My future...?"
Vita's heart sank, and she was a bit dazed for a moment. Oh, Little Vita is really going to be sad now.
Finally, under Elysia's "sincere request," Vita "willingly" led Elysia on the path to Forlorn.
Along the way, Vita also changed her clothes, swapping the white robe she wore in the City of Salt and Snow for her usual attire.
After accelerating with the Wonderful Heart Value, it didn't take long for the two to arrive at the edge of the solar system, at the city named Forlorn... "Alright, we're here. Summon Kevin!"
Elysia stood still and said.
Vita looked bewildered: "?"
No, who did she just say to summon?
Elysia took out Kevin's summoning device.
With a flash of light, a white-haired man in combat gear emerged from an unknown space.
Kevin felt his body, nodded slightly, feeling good, and his strength should be sufficient.
Seeing this, Elysia smiled and said:
"Alright, Kevin, let's go."
Kevin nodded; he had already discussed the plan with Su and Hua in the live stream.
His gaze swept over Vita next to him, but he said nothing.
Vita was completely dumbfounded now: "??"
How could this man be here?!
She had been paying attention to Griseo's matters for a long time, and she knew a part of Griseo's comrades.
Especially this Kevin—this "Serpent" who had entered the Sea of Quanta thousands of years ago!
Even her direct superior was quite wary of him, so she had been extra careful in the Sea of Quanta during this time... "Ah, what is this... magic?"
Vita didn't want to say much; she could clearly feel that although Kevin's aura was restrained at this moment, the faint sense of danger lingered, making it hard for her to breathe.
Kevin looked at Vita and said:
"Regarding what you've done, I don't want to comment too much. You should be glad you haven't done anything more outrageous."
Vita nodded quickly, panicking internally:
"Yes, yes, yes, I understand. Please, go ahead, please go ahead."
Seeing this, Elysia smiled and mediated:
"Alright, Kevin, don't scare her anymore."
Kevin responded:
"Hmm, business first."
With that, the two rushed out of the city, leaving Vita standing alone, somewhat at a loss in the wind.
"This..."
For the first time, Vita felt her brain wasn't enough.
It was as if someone had started a private chat behind her back...
So she turned and walked into the city.
Gazing at the central area, her mind was in a mess:
What to do?
Even if she called out her divine lord, she probably wouldn't win, right?
Forget it, forget it. Since things have come to this, let's go see the others first. If something really happens, she can't do anything about it.
She dared not tell this to Sa, after all, her own authority was insufficient. If she told everything, and the boss ran away, then she would be completely finished.
But at this moment, Vita suddenly remembered what Elysia had said earlier:
"Wait, did she say she was going to help me?"
She fell into contemplation, unable to make up her mind for a moment.
Outside the city, a part of the spaceship's wreckage lay silently.
Elysia looked at the scene before her, a little surprised:
"The Ark... how did it become like this?"
[Vill-V: Who did this! Come out now! My painstakingly built Ark, and you've made it into this?]
[Pardofelis: Calm down, Sister Vill-V! There will definitely be a chance for revenge later.]
[Vita: Not Little Vita, don't look for me.]
[Su: To have the authority to invade the Ark, your methods are indeed clever.]
Su was one of the few who knew the full story of this matter, so he had shared relevant information among the Golden Courtyard family earlier.
[Mobius: Unable to solve the Honkai, just hiding somewhere unknown to steal energy from the Sea of Quanta. Can such a mind even be called a god? What a joke.]
[Mei: Such a quantitative change cannot lead to a qualitative change. Cognition cannot cover the body, leading to frequent slumber. This is not a wise choice.]
[Vita: But... we didn't have many other options back then.]
...Kevin picked up a crystal ball from the wreckage.
"This is...? Eden's merchandise from back then?"
Elysia leaned over and recognized it at a glance.
It was a very popular music crystal ball back then.
Kevin nodded; this was indeed what he had given to Griseo. He hadn't expected the quality of this crystal ball music box to be so good, surviving so much.
Subsequently, under Hua's guidance, the two arrived at a door.
[Hua: I opened this door back then with the authority of the city agent.]
[Hua: It was here that I first met Vita.]
[Kevin: No need for such trouble.]
Kevin originally wanted to use the Divine Key: Shamash, but the system did not provide him with another one.
Nor could he snatch the counterfeit Shamash from Little Kevin; that would be no different from stealing a child's toy.
However, although his current body was still that of a MANTIS, his strength was sufficient, and prying open this door with his bare hands was not difficult.
A part of the area behind the door would affect people's cognition, but for Kevin, who had maxed out his resistance, it had no effect.
Thus, Elysia and Kevin successfully entered the Ark.
Under Vill-V's guidance, they quickly cut off the power supply to the hibernation pod and soon arrived in front of Griseo...
[Bronya: It always feels like constantly looking at a walkthrough while playing a game; the progress is too fast.]
[Hua: After all, these are all things that have already happened in the past.]
[Elysia: Yes, after all, there's also Kevin, a powerful teammate~]
[Hua: If we have to deal with Sa next, it shouldn't be a problem.]
[Su: After all, Hua was only there in projection form at the time and couldn't exert her full strength.]
[Su: Elysia and Kevin have both arrived in their true forms, so the problem should not be too difficult to resolve.]