“You really gave me a difficult problem.”
MEI sighed.
Properly handling Wendy as the 4th Herrscher really wasn’t an easy matter. Although Jiang Qiao could make Wendy like her by extracting the core, and that sea area hadn’t left any survivors, those Herrschers of Domination hiding in the dark obviously couldn’t fail to recognize her existence.
If she entered Fire Moth and her identity was exposed, the consequences would be quite serious… Of course, there were benefits too — she’d have another reliable assistant like Sakura by her side.
“Don’t worry, the body I prepared for her is specially adjusted. Just change her hairstyle and clothes a bit, and no one will recognize her. Moreover… that body is also genuinely human.”
Jiang Qiao certainly hadn’t failed to consider this problem. He didn’t choose to throw it to others to solve, but handled it properly himself.
The current Wendy was thoroughly an ordinary person. Even if there really were Herrschers of Domination who recognized her, the results detected by humanity’s current instruments would be no different from Elysia.
The drawback was that Herrscher power couldn’t be used unless she reclaimed the core.
This was also the limitation of Truth authority. Bodies replicated by this authority could theoretically only be original, meaning post-Herrscher transformation bodies. For safety, Jiang Qiao could only use Origin authority to a certain extent to make it more human-like by extracting Herrscher authority. If he had the Herrscher of Death’s ability to reconstruct genetic blueprints, he might have been able to do better.
“Alright, then let her join Fire Moth’s 4th Squad. I’ll also transfer Totori to headquarters later.”
MEI nodded readily.
If following normal personnel changes, Totori should evacuate New Zealand with the 4th Research Department and merge into the 9th Research Department in Mu Continent, or return to her hometown Shenzhou’s 8th Research Department. But considering the emergence of the Herrscher of Domination, for safety’s sake, it was better to bring her back to headquarters and keep her nearby.
“Are you leaving again?”
“Mm.”
“What, can’t bear to part with me?”
The girl smiled, her tone somewhat frivolous as she teased the intellectual girl before her.
MEI said somewhat irritably:
“No, it’s just that without you, we’ll have a lot more trouble.”
Although 【Elysia】 was a type who was much better at ordering people around than Elysia, and also more ‘annoying’, as a teammate, she was really reliable.
As for Elysia…
— Why don’t we use Sakura instead?
“Really, if Elysia heard such words, she’d really cry, you know?”
“I think she’s also quite reliable.”
Hearing the subtext, Jiang Qiao chuckled.
“Mm, as a chat partner during leisure time, she’s indeed quite reliable.”
Regarding this — only the magician Vill-V agreed.
As for the other two, did they really have such a thing as leisure time?
“Before leaving, go meet with Elysia first. If you leave without a word, she might get angry.”
“Mm.”
Although it could be done through the chat group, regarding this suggestion, the girl pondered briefly and felt it was better to meet in person. After all, for some unknown reason, the pink fatty seemed to harbor deep resentment toward herself.
— With Wendy’s ‘capture’, the Fourth Eruption had basically entered its conclusion phase. Next, they just needed to have Fire Moth’s troops appropriately clear out the spawned Honkai Beasts, then adjust New Zealand’s environment through the 4th Divine Key.
But the Previous Era couldn’t relax, as the threat of the Herrscher of Domination still lurked in the shadows.
Without being able to have Mr. Jiang Qiao take them through the level by cheating, this stage had to be passed by Dr. MEI and the others figuring out the specific situation of the new version Herrscher of Domination. Only by clearly understanding the properties of this brand-new Herrscher of Domination could Jiang Qiao find an entry point to handle it.
Of course—
There was also good news.
The appearance of the Herrscher of Domination was certainly a disaster, but its existence, besides causing mental collapse, would also make the ruling class’s control plummet — just like originally, even Fire Moth’s upper levels contained individuals of the Herrscher of Domination.
Although this would also put Dr. MEI and the others, as future management, into certain difficulties, the first to suffer would definitely be the original ruling class.
By then, Fire Moth could gradually expand its influence, replacing those nations with their own agendas and becoming the leader of humanity’s forces against Honkai.
Thinking about these things, using the remaining 【Wendy】 Herrscher authority to fly to the camp where Dr. MEI said Elysia and Ato were located.
After Pavana was eliminated, what remained for them was just cleanup tasks and rescue missions to save some civilians who might not have evacuated in time.
“Jiang… bad Jiang Qiao!”
Seeing 【Wendy】’s appearance, Elysia’s eyes lit up, showing some joy, even producing the thought of wanting a hug — after all, the current Jiang Qiao was still wearing that Molting Wings outfit, just that all those Honkai stigmata had disappeared. But for Miss Fatty who liked beautiful girls, this was already quite lethal.
Unfortunately, her ‘perverted’ heart ultimately couldn’t overcome her resentment. Miss Fatty pouted and puffed her cheeks, then changed back to that habitual address.
She was very angry!
They had gone to Wellington together, but after Pavana was dealt with, when she went back to find this bad guy, she learned from MEI that ‘she’ had already left to do other things.
Damn it, what was the point of leaving me alone!
“Next time, don’t leave me alone anymore. At least tell me when you’re leaving!”
“Mm.”
“Really.”
Looking at the girl who smiled and agreed, Elysia bit her pink lips with some dissatisfaction.
Acting so compliant — didn’t that make it seem like Ellie was throwing a tantrum!
Really a bad Jiang Qiao!
Miss Fatty, who hugged 【Wendy】’s shoulders, thought this way, but smelling that fragrance… it was quite nice. After molting, 【Wendy】’s original scent seemed to have changed somewhat again. However, while Miss Elysia was internally going “sniff sniff”, thinking that this was actually another girl’s body…
…That didn’t seem too bad either?
Feeling dissatisfied that bad Jiang Qiao used another girl’s body, yet also thinking another girl’s body was quite nice, and inside was still bad Jiang Qiao… Damn it, this was definitely bad Jiang Qiao’s fault!
“What about that child?”
“Who… oh, the child you saved? He’s with Ato… I even talked about him when chatting with Ato.”
“Speaking of this child…”
When Jiang Qiao was guiltily planning to slip away, the girl’s words, clearly full of resentment yet still smiling sweetly, rang in his ears:
“— About that child running away as soon as he sees me, do you have any clues, bad Jiang Qiao~”