Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 141 Part 1

Chapter 141: Listening to the Wind’s Song

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— Although she did indeed feel jealous, perhaps because of 【Elysia】’s proactive mitigation earlier, this somewhat base emotion should not have become the catalyst for Wendy’s transformation into a Herrscher.

Towards Elysia, she didn’t harbor much ill will.

After all, although Miss Fatty lacked quite a bit of intelligence due to information gaps, with her personality, getting along well with cute girls like Wendy and Totori would be a piece of cake, wouldn’t it?

At least, Wendy was indeed very interested in the amusing stories she told.

In the room specially prepared for Wendy by Dr. Rylia at Dr. MEI’s request in the 4th Research Institute, the two conversed happily.

At the same time, they would also look forward to the sweets that Totori praised endlessly.

After all, for girls, sweets are wonderfully delightful things.

Especially for Miss Fatty — I, Ellie, love eating sweets the most!

But—

Time passed minute by minute. Ten or twenty minutes could perhaps still be explained by Totori’s mention that the pastry shop was quite far from here, but when this time stretched to nearly an hour, they both became somewhat restless.

“Beep beep beep~”

The concerned Wendy proactively dialed Totori’s number, but what came through was a series of unsettling busy tones.

“Hmm… that child probably encountered something and couldn’t answer in time, right?”

Miss Fatty, who blinked her eyes, also felt something was amiss, so she proactively suggested:

“I’ll go outside and look around. Wendy, just stay here obediently~”

This was also an instruction from Dr. MEI and the others.

Dr. MEI and the others believed that since Wendy’s instability was so high, even with the insurance left by 【Elysia】, it would be best to keep her in a quite stable environment.

To prevent Wendy from feeling imprisoned or restrained, which could trigger resentment and lead to accidents, both Elysia and Totori, who had contact with Wendy, would serve as her guards in an alternative way, stabilizing her emotions.

During this period, Mobius and Vill-V would be responsible for preparing the evacuation of New Zealand’s citizens.

Direct evacuation of the entire country was impossible. A migration and evacuation on a national scale was not something the current Fire Moth could accomplish, or rather, no single force could possibly achieve such a thing.

All they could do was issue warnings through Fire Moth’s authority as much as possible, then reinforce existing civil defense facilities to give them a certain degree of defensive capability against major Honkai eruptions.

But Dr. MEI ultimately miscalculated.

She hadn’t expected that the fatal problem’s key link would not be with the about-to-awaken Wendy, but rather… with that girl called Totori.

— From Totori’s colleague, Elysia learned the location of the pastry shop that Totori frequently visited.

But when she went to the pastry shop, she didn’t see Totori’s figure.

The owner said that Totori had indeed come, but left half an hour ago, and she was cheerful when she left.

Elysia, who walked out of the pastry shop, frowned tightly, a sense of foreboding flashing through her heart.

She didn’t choose to return to the research institute, but searched around the area.

Finally, in a certain corner quite close to the research institute.

She discovered the missing Totori.

…In a pool of blood.

Blood stained the hem of the girl’s skirt, and beside her were packaged sweets that had been knocked to the ground.

“Totori!”

Elysia, shocked and furious, came to the girl’s side, completely unaware of what had happened.

The only thing that gave her comfort was that Totori still had breath, though very weak, she was indeed still alive.

Fortunately, she still had the medicine she got from her group friends.

Yunyun’s big red potion temporarily pulled Totori out of danger.

But—

Sensing a gaze, Elysia looked in the direction of the stare, only to see Wendy, who should have been staying at the research institute.

“Wen…”

Elysia, who instinctively sensed something was wrong, wanted to say something, but after Wendy witnessed Little Bird lying in a pool of blood with her own eyes, this seemed to be too late.

Recalling that scene, Elysia hung her head and blamed herself:

“It’s all my fault. If my stomach hadn’t growled so inappropriately then, Totori wouldn’t have encountered such a thing, and things wouldn’t have turned out this way.”

“…This was also my oversight. I didn’t expect that child would have such a great impact on the 4th Herrscher.”

Dr. MEI also sighed.

Despite all precautions, she hadn’t expected the problem to arise not with Wendy, but with the guard personnel she had arranged.

Elysia could have gone with Totori, and originally Elysia wanted to do so, but because of her prior instructions to Elysia, to better prevent any accidents with Wendy, Elysia didn’t follow.

In the end, it turned out this way.

“You need not blame yourselves. If it was done by someone with ill intent, even if we had avoided this time, the same thing would have happened sooner or later.”

【Wendy】, having learned the reason, sighed and comforted the two.

Even if it were him instead, it would have been useless.

After all, he couldn’t keep an eye on Little Bird at all times either. As a human with free will, Totori couldn’t possibly be under such constant surveillance.

There would always be moments of oversight.

“How is that child’s condition?”

“After emergency treatment, she’s temporarily out of life-threatening danger, but she won’t be able to wake up for a while…”

MEI said, sighing with emotion: “After the 4th Herrscher awakened, she immediately left the scene. Thanks to that, we made it in time to save her.”

The area around a Herrscher is often where Honkai energy is most abundant, especially for a newly awakened Herrscher like Wendy. Fortunately, Totori had Elysia’s protection by her side. Even though the current her couldn’t properly recognize that power, through 【Elysia】’s development, Miss Fatty’s body could provide a certain degree of protection to those around her just by being there.

And Wendy left quite promptly too. Otherwise, if the dying Little Bird had stayed near a newly awakened Herrscher, even with Miss Fatty’s protection, she probably wouldn’t have lasted long.

“Where did she go?”

“According to satellite monitoring, she seems to be in Tonga in the central Pacific waters.”

While speaking, MEI pointed to the mobile terminal in her hand. “The 4th Divine Key has been deployed to space. Through Vill-V’s modifications, we can observe situations around the globe through this satellite.”

“Currently, Fire Moth has intervened due to the outbreak of the Fourth Eruption.”

“But actually, New Zealand, where the major Honkai eruption occurred, isn’t the biggest problem—”