At Mei's house.
Just as Mei was preparing the meal, Kiana arrived with Elysia.
Opening the door and seeing the familiar white blob, Mei smiled and invited her in.
"Kiana, welcome."
After inviting Kiana in, Mei noticed a pink-haired stranger following behind her.
It was Elysia, going with the flow and pretending to be Lucius.
Upon seeing Mei, Elysia's eyes instantly brightened. She stepped forward and greeted her enthusiastically.
"Oh what a cute girl, interested in getting acquainted? ♪"
So Mei looked at Kiana puzzled, while Kiana looked at Mei with confusion.
In Kiana's eyes, this pink-haired girl was obviously Lucius in disguise for doing something bad again—absolutely certain, since she'd personally seen Lucius transform into this appearance.
At the same time, she automatically assumed Mei recognized Lucius in this state, thus expressing incomprehension at Mei's puzzled gaze.
Mei didn't understand who this overly familiar pink-haired person was, so she automatically categorized her as a friend of Kiana's or Lucius's, then invited her in and locked the door behind them.
She couldn't wait for more people to taste her cooking—that way she could find deficiencies and continuously improve.
After being invited to sit, Elysia kept examining Mei.
Don't misunderstand—she wasn't enchanted by the other's appearance. She just felt this cute purple-haired girl made her feel very close, as if... encountering her own kind.
Elysia wanted to continue chatting, but after inviting the two to sit, Mei entered the kitchen. As a guest, it wasn't appropriate to disturb her.
So while Mei was cooking, Elysia shifted her attention to Kiana.
Although saying this was somewhat impolite, she felt that compared to the purple-haired girl just now, this white-haired girl's eyes carried clarity unpolluted by knowledge.
Elysia was confident that with her well-honed social skills, she could definitely extract quite a bit of information about Lucius from her mouth.
Then she began conversing with Kiana.
And the result didn't exceed her expectations. With her extraordinary conversational talent, she successfully obtained quite a bit of information about Lucius from Kiana, who didn't notice at all.
Just as Elysia was trying to continue extracting information, Mei brought out the prepared dishes and said to the two:
"Father said he'll return later and told us not to wait for him."
"I'll prepare something special for him then, so let's eat first."
Finishing, she looked at the two expectantly.
Elysia looked at the food on the table. Although it couldn't be called extravagant, it was definitely abundant, with excellent color and aroma, constantly teasing her taste buds.
"Wow, such incredible culinary skills ♪"
But the amazed Elysia didn't notice that after seeing the food on the table, Kiana beside her was on high alert.
Based on her past experience, if the evaluation standards for food were divided into three aspects—appearance, aroma, and taste—then Mei had put all her talent into the first two. As for the third aspect, that was negative!
Therefore, the more enticing the food looked, the more terrifying the taste.
But Elysia knew none of this.
She looked at the plate of pink glutinous rice dumplings before her, her eyes sparkling.
"Such cute dumplings, they smell so good ♪"
Seeing the surprise on Elysia's face, Mei showed extremely expectant eyes, pushing the plate of dumplings before her and saying: "Worry-Free Dumplings. Please enjoy."
The pink dumplings drizzled with amber-glossed honey, the clear fragrance of glutinous rice stirring her sense of smell, making the Pink Fairy Lady's appetite soar.
"In that case, I'll dig in ♪~"
Elysia picked up a spoon, scooped a small dumpling from the plate, and elegantly placed it in her mouth.
Chew chew chew, swallow.
"This taste..."
Elysia's body froze.
Then...
"Thud!"
Elysia collapsed onto the table.
And seeing the pink-haired person beside her so utterly defeated, Kiana showed confusion.
Lucius, what's going on? How did you collapse in one go?
You weren't this fragile before. Can you handle this or not?!
Just as she was puzzled, she saw Elysia suddenly rise. Only now those beautiful eyes were completely hollow, as if she'd lost her soul.
But soon, the light in her eyes reappeared—this was the powerful physique of the Herrscher of Origin!
However, the moment consciousness returned, her gaze locked onto the pink glutinous rice dumplings before her again.
"Such cute dumplings, they smell so good~"
"In that case, I'll dig in ♪~"
So under Kiana's horrified gaze, Elysia again used the spoon to scoop up a dumpling and place it in her mouth.
Chew chew chew, swallow.
"Thud!"
Elysia collapsed onto the table again.
Then, the Herrscher of Origin's physique began exerting force. She woke again.
And so... she locked onto the dumplings before her again.
One bite, chew chew chew.
Thud!
Another bite, chew chew chew.
Thud!
So next, Kiana watched as Elysia collapsed onto the table again and again, then sat up from the table again and again.
Until the entire plate of dumplings was finished.
...
Outside Mei's door, looking at the desolate street, Elysia suddenly snapped back to herself.
"Wait, what was I just doing... right, I was eating at that girl Mei's house."
"By the way, how am I here?"
Elysia didn't know how she'd walked out of Mei's house. Right now she only felt nausea from her stomach.
"What did I just eat?"
She instinctively tried to recall, but her brain emitted a sharp explosion, forcing her not to remember the taste she'd just experienced.
"No, can't think, can't think! I absolutely cannot recall that taste!"
Elysia covered her head with one hand, gritting her teeth. Looking at Mei's door behind her, she felt a slight tremor in her heart.
After her condition recovered somewhat, she covered her violently beating heart and couldn't help muttering to herself.
"Could I actually be... feeling fear..."
This feeling was even more terrifying than facing off against a Judgment-class Honkai beast—ten or even nine times more terrifying!
"Wait, I don't think I came here to eat..."
At this moment, Elysia finally remembered—she'd come here to find Lucius and beat him up while she was at it.
And so far all the clues had converged on this girl named Mei.
Elysia looked back at Mei's door, contemplating whether to go back and continue probing for information.
But looking at the door, she had a very ominous feeling in her heart.
So after deliberating for a while, she decided to follow her heart.
"Forget it, I'll try my luck at Eden's place instead..."
...
By the time Elysia shakily arrived at Eden's residence, her condition had mostly recovered.
Looking at her best friend's luxurious residence in the Far East, Elysia couldn't help sighing.
"Sigh... Miss Fairy suffered too much damage. I must quickly replenish beautiful girl energy."
However, she didn't directly enter Eden's residence. After all, her purpose in coming here was to figure out Lucius's whereabouts—catching up with Eden was secondary.
With Eden's understanding of her, going in directly wouldn't fool her.
So this time she had to be safe and prevent Eden from recognizing her. And the clever Pink Fairy Lady already had a method.
When going to Mei's house earlier, she'd already probed quite a bit of information from Kiana, learning how Lucius impersonated her.
What Lucius could do, she, Elysia, could naturally do too.
So Elysia opened her magical makeup kit, used a strange spray to dye her hair light purple, then attached brownish-red colored contacts.
Once the disguise was complete, what appeared in the small makeup mirror in her hand was already Elysia dressed as the Faded Fairy.
However, although her appearance had changed greatly, there was still a big difference in temperament. She probably still couldn't fool Eden, that peak of the acting world.
So Elysia held the makeup mirror in one hand while rubbing her face with the other. Soon the gentleness on her face in the mirror gradually faded, replaced by an attractive sinister aura.
Elysia greeted the mirror.
"Hi ♪~"
"No, it should be... Hi ♪~"
"Hi ♪~"
Finally, Elysia showed a satisfied smile.
"Very good, perfect disguise."
"The current me definitely won't be recognized as me by Eden."
"Next, let me go probe Eden..."
Just as Elysia was thinking this, she heard a clear female voice ring out.
"Huh... Lucius?"
"Dressed like this, are you going to do something bad again?"
The moment this voice appeared, Elysia's beautiful girl radar was triggered.
As she turned around, unsurprisingly she saw a wild beautiful girl.
She had blue hair and blue eyes, waist-length hair tied in a single ponytail hanging behind her, wearing a waist-tied white dress paired with black knee-high socks. Her cool features couldn't hide the vitality radiating from her.
It was Shigure Kira.
Clearly, this was another girl who knew Lucius.
Elysia's eyes brightened. Just as she was about to step forward to chat and replenish beautiful girl energy, Shigure Kira grabbed her wrist first and walked toward Eden's residence.
"Come with me."
The moment Shigure Kira grabbed her wrist, Elysia felt an extremely ominous feeling in her heart.
She thought of the terrifying experience of being dragged by Kiana to dinner just now.
So she quickly stopped and asked with alarm: "Wait, you're not dragging me to dinner, are you?"
"Treat you to dinner?" Shigure Kira paused, then said: "Well... that's not impossible, but now's not the time. Before that, I'd like you to appreciate my singing voice."
Shigure Kira's face showed extremely strong confidence.
"After such a long time of correction by Miss Eden, I feel I've made obvious progress. Lucius, come help me appreciate it!"
Hearing that Shigure Kira wasn't dragging her to a final meal, Elysia breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn't eating, that was good. Listening to singing shouldn't involve anything dangerous, right?
Moreover, this blue-haired lady was clearly also Lucius's acquaintance. Perhaps she could also obtain information about Lucius from her.
Thinking of this, Elysia's face smiled again. She originally wanted to display a perfect smile, but quickly realized she was currently playing the Faded Fairy, so she hurriedly changed to a sinister smile.
"Sure, I'm also looking forward to your singing voice ♪~"
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