Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 3
Chapter 3: Raiden Mei: Don’t Come Over Here!
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“How truly wonderful.”
Staring at the beautiful young girl in the mirror, Jiang Qiao couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.
Though it was just a few words, that sensitive girl had sensed that he might know information that could save that city on the brink of death.
She had even sensed the reason for his hesitation.
So, Jiang Qiao didn’t answer immediately, but instead asked in return:
“Why would you think that?”
“Actually, I can’t be certain either. If I had to say, it would probably be a girl’s intuition~”
On the other side, Elysia, who was occupying his body, chuckled and honestly shared her thoughts through the chat group:
“I want to try saving this city, so… could you please tell me what you know?”
“Things have developed in a direction I didn’t want to see. This is exactly the situation I wanted to avoid by not speaking up.”
Jiang Qiao sighed.
He had already guessed that with Elysia’s personality, once she learned the details of the Third Eruption, she definitely wouldn’t just run away without caring.
As expected, that sensitive girl had still gathered some information from just a few words and set her sights on him.
Really, getting involved in dangerous situations like this completely went against his personal creed.
But—
“Even if I don’t tell you, you definitely won’t leave, right?”
Elysia: “Oh my~ You understand me surprisingly well. Could it be that you’ve been secretly paying attention to me? Of course, with Elysia’s style, I would absolutely never flee from battle~”
After learning that Nagazora City was about to experience a Honkai eruption, this girl who deeply loved humanity would definitely not choose to preserve her own life.
“Very cool words, but next time say them with your own body! Using someone else’s body is just too selfish.”
The pink-haired girl in the vanity mirror pressed her temples, a hint of dissatisfaction and helplessness appearing on her pretty face.
Elysia in the chat group fell into brief silence.
If it were her usual self, she would definitely respond with something like: “Being selfish is a beautiful girl’s privilege!”
But toward Jiang Qiao, Elysia couldn’t say such words.
After all, she was currently using Jiang Qiao’s body, and what she wanted to do was take risks using Jiang Qiao’s body.
— A girl’s selfishness should have limits too. If she’s too selfish, she’ll be hated by others!
If she were to justify this risk as a beautiful girl’s privilege, then Elysia wouldn’t even be able to convince her own heart.
She wasn’t that kind of shameless girl!
“Sorry.”
Elysia could only reply with such meager words.
She couldn’t change her decision.
Even though she was extremely reluctant to do such a shameless thing, her deep love for humanity still prevented her from just watching the people of Nagazora City suffer like this.
This kind of thing was truly painful.
“If we fail, I’ll have to ask you to keep being a girl forever, but I’m quite confident in my appearance~ So, sorry~”
Seeing Elysia’s reply, Jiang Qiao felt his fists had already hardened.
Saying something like that, he had no choice but to help!
Unfortunately, he had absolutely no interest in living as a girl forever!
What a hateful pink fatty!
In the mirror, the pink-haired girl’s expression became fierce and menacing.
Even if it was to protect his own body, the only path left was to save Nagazora City!
If he let Elysia go save Nagazora City with no knowledge, using his ordinary human body that even had a slight brain damage buff due to a certain tuna, wouldn’t that be basically suicide!
Whether it was his desire not to become a girl, or some special feelings toward the annoyingly foolish pink fatty, all of it made Jiang Qiao absolutely unable to sit by and watch.
“Fine, fine, I get it. I’ll help you! I don’t want to be a girl forever!”
Elysia: “Mm-hmm~ As expected, Jiang Qiao is a very kind boy!”
“How did you reach that conclusion? We haven’t even truly met face to face yet!”
Elysia: “It’s intuition~”
As always using extremely unreasonable logic, but this was indeed the pink fatty’s style.
Jiang Qiao in front of the vanity mirror irritably grabbed at his hair. Elysia’s hair quality was really quite good, silky smooth. Normally he would definitely give it a proper evaluation, but under the premise that Elysia had chosen to save Nagazora City, he had no such leisure.
The mastermind behind the Third Eruption was that Anti-Entropy executor, the civil war phantom god Cocolia.
Due to personal selfishness, wanting to control the 3rd Herrscher through her own means while further expanding her influence within the organization, that crazy woman’s various schemes ultimately led to this man-made disaster.
But the key right now wasn’t how to deal with Cocolia as the mastermind, but rather properly handling the core figure of this disaster — Raiden Mei.
In Raiden Mei’s heart, her father Raiden Ryoma’s image was so great and upright that she deeply revered her father.
When that idol in her heart was shattered due to Cocolia’s schemes, Raiden Mei’s entire world also darkened.
Combined with the environmental disparity around her, that cooking girl’s mentality was undoubtedly sprinting along the path toward the abyss.
Once Raiden Mei’s mentality completely collapsed, that would be the beginning of the Third Eruption.
The reason this damned place was dangerous was because Nagazora City’s lifeline was completely equivalent to Raiden Mei’s mental state. Who knew when that cooking girl’s mentality would explode?
Forget about the rooftop scene. If this were the game, Jiang Qiao would definitely believe it, but since this had become reality, he absolutely wouldn’t bet that Raiden Mei’s mentality would only explode at the rooftop scene.
After all, that cooking girl’s condition had already reached the critical point before that. The rooftop scene was just breaking through the lower limit.
Besides, who knew when that cooking girl would jump off the rooftop? What if it was right now?
This was why Jiang Qiao hadn’t considered saving the cooking girl. If the timing was wrong, rushing over would just be sending himself to death, he’d be killed by the eruption on the way.
Rather than betting on the cooking girl’s mentality and facing a bunch of additional risks to turn the tide, the most correct choice was to run away quickly.
But now, he could only risk his life to accompany the girl and go crazy with Elysia.
Elysia: “So that means, to save Nagazora City, we must first save that girl called Raiden Mei?”
Elysia: “No problem, I’ll go right away~ When it comes to saving beautiful girls, this Beautiful Miss Elf is quite confident~”
Seeing this message, Jiang Qiao held back a huge complaint.
You’re more than just quite skilled at it. Don’t even mention saving beautiful girls, counting the future Flame-Chasers, you’ve got both men and women completely conquered!
This wave of early-stage fatty versus early-stage red electric dragon could only be described as—
Raiden Mei: “Don’t come over here!!” (Cooking girl screaming)