Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Elysia, Holding a Grudge!

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Just as mentioned before, after Jiang Qiao fired that arrow without any attempt to hide it, anyone who wasn’t blind would inevitably notice this disturbance coming from Nagazora City.

Besides the responsive Schicksal headquarters and Anti-Entropy headquarters in North America, the nearest Schicksal Far East branch also received reports from Honkai energy detection instruments at the first moment and reacted accordingly.

The serpent lurking in the shadows was naturally no exception.

Logically speaking, before receiving designated orders, World Serpent should always remain in a dormant state, operating in the world’s shadows.

Even if the plan for Nagazora City was destroyed, for Gray Serpent, that wouldn’t be anything important.

But—

Looking at the powerful energy fluctuation bursting from Nagazora City in the video, Gray Serpent fell into silence.

“Have you analyzed the results of this Herrscher energy?”

The hoarse voice inquired to the other end of the communicator, where his colleague, World Serpent cadre Jackal, was located.

Unlike Su, although both were left behind from the Previous Era, Gray Serpent had never truly witnessed what kind of power that Flame-Chaser’s hidden ability actually was.

This was quite normal, after all, Elysia only truly displayed her power as the Herrscher of Origin at the moment of her death.

Except for the Flame-Chasers who had fought alongside her and had more or less witnessed the power she unconsciously used, Gray Serpent, who was merely Mobius’s creation, didn’t have the qualification to witness that power.

Even so, Gray Serpent still inevitably felt… unease?

How ridiculous, he was clearly just a machine, yet he would produce this kind of emotion that only humans possess.

Inexplicably, Gray Serpent found himself subconsciously recalling that strange man named Jiang Qiao he had encountered at Cocolia’s underground base.

Could it be that this Herrscher-level super-strong fluctuation was related to that man?

“The results are out.”

“What is it?”

“Through comparison with the database wavelength left by the previous civilization, this unknown Herrscher fluctuation should belong to…”

Hearing the hesitation from Jackal’s side, Gray Serpent’s hoarse voice revealed some urgency:

“What’s wrong?”

“This wavelength has a 97% match with the 13th Herrscher recorded in the database.”

Actually, this was already a conservative answer given by Jackal.

If she hadn’t considered the possibility that the database might have errors and omissions, and that the recorded Herrscher wavelengths weren’t comprehensive, among many other possibilities.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say this fluctuation was 100% consistent with the 13th Herrscher.

But—

“?”

“This is impossible.”

Gray Serpent didn’t hesitate for even a moment before marking Jackal’s result as incorrect.

How could there be such a high degree of consistency?

Even for Herrschers with the same abilities, the maximum between the previous civilization and current era couldn’t exceed 95%, because different people and different circumstances would have a certain impact on the Herrscher’s own wavelength.

As for 97%? This result was basically saying that the Herrscher wavelength used as reference data in the database had directly come back to life!

Moreover, what number Honkai eruption are we at now?

The 13th Herrscher has already popped up? This is detailed nonsense, not detailed reasoning!

“I think so too. This instrument hasn’t been maintained for a long time, so there might be some problems with it.”

Jackal’s side didn’t get angry about being questioned, but instead agreed wholeheartedly.

Actually, when this result appeared, the one who should be most unable to accept it in the entire World Serpent should be her.

After all, Jackal was World Serpent’s research specialist. Understanding science means being rigorous, right?

She’d rather believe the instrument was broken than believe this kind of result.

However, as a World Serpent cadre, after thinking it over, Jackal still wanted to seek Gray Serpent’s opinion:

“Do we need to report this matter to the Lord?”

“…Not for now.”

Logically, this kind of thing should be reported to the Lord, but Gray Serpent thought about how he currently had no presentable results in hand. Going to find the Lord empty-handed with an obviously fake message, although the Lord’s personality would definitely not get angry, he as a subordinate didn’t have the face for it.

“Let Raven investigate the situation in Nagazora City first.”

His foster daughter in the nearby city would soon arrive at Nagazora City, and should be able to obtain some clues.

As for the Gray Serpent deployed in Nagazora City? It seemed to have been affected by that energy fluctuation and was directly damaged, along with various machines within a 1-kilometer radius centered on the underground base that were also damaged as a result.

So, he could only trouble Miss Raven to conduct a manual investigation of the situation.

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Raiden Residence.

After Cocolia’s conspiracy was stopped, logically they should be able to return to their daily lives temporarily.

And the homeless Jiang Qiao (Elysia), needless to say, was naturally taken in by Mei.

The white-haired fluffball was also taken in.

After all, they were comrades who had shared hardships, and Mei was quite lonely by herself. Her house was also very large, so with the mindset of “taking in one is taking in, taking in two is also taking in,” she pulled both of them into her home.

However, looking at Elysia who was holding an iPod and listening to some kind of popular music, Mei took the initiative to speak:

“Jiang… Elysia, right?”

“Mm-hmm~ Just call me Jiang Qiao for now~”

“Is there such a necessity?”

Kiana, who had already figured out the situation between Elysia and Jiang Qiao, was somewhat puzzled.

She didn’t know what Jiang Qiao’s situation was, but if it was the two of them who knew Elysia’s truth, they shouldn’t need to continue the impersonation, right?

“Well, you see… Elysia sounds like a girl’s name, so the current me should naturally use the boy’s name Jiang Qiao instead!”

This was a lie.

Could Elysia possibly tell the two of them that she was actually being petty and wanted to get revenge on Jiang Qiao by doing this?

Using Jiang Qiao’s name to do bad things, imitating Jiang Qiao, and then making Jiang Qiao extremely embarrassed in front of her. Hehehe, Miss Elf, who had her plan figured out, was already prepared for the next meeting to return all the excessive things that bad Jiang Qiao had done to her!

She seemed to have already imagined the wonderful expression on Jiang Qiao’s face when he saw her imitating him so perfectly that he became exasperated and helpless, heheheheh!!!

Jiang Qiao, who could only watch helplessly as she imitated him without any way to stop it, crying and making a fuss in anger, how pitiful~ wuwuwu~

Miss Pink Elf, who was smiling brightly on the surface, now had her inner little devil Ely showing her fangs and raising her trident, thoroughly enjoying the scene of tormenting Jiang Qiao.

Looking at Elysia, who wasn’t hiding her inner thoughts at all and was almost showing them on her face, Mei, who roughly guessed her thoughts, hesitated for a moment before asking an extremely heart-piercing question:

“Do you understand Jiang Qiao?”