Chapter 122: I Can’t Do Anything
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“Strange, didn’t I just see soone familiar?”
Standing on the back of the Spirit of Origin, the pink-haired girl scratched her head trying to recall what had just happened, but the next mont an oncoming wave interrupted Jiang Qiao’s thoughts, forcing her to focus on the scene before her.
“Oh well, never mind~”
Throwing all those ssy thoughts to the back of her mind, the fair jade feet wearing anklets stepped on the sowhat slippery back of the Spirit of Origin. 【Elysia】 blue eyes with hints of pink gazed at the endless sea surface, revealing a hint of excitent.
Although the speed made it impossible to experience the cruise ship’s ocean voyage, the sea scenery could still be enjoyed~
The only regret was missing out on the cruise experience. That ticket was so expensive, and it even had mbership restrictions.
She had heard that the restaurants and spa services on board were top-notch in every country. She had gone through great trouble to use 【Elysia】 connections to get that expensive ticket from the organization, but left before really experiencing it.
“Sigh, such a sha.”
The girl sighed with such thoughts, full of regret, but in the next mont displayed a smile at lightning speed.
Although she didn’t get to experience it this trip, it didn’t matter~
At worst, she’d find a rich woman to support her later~ Once she latched onto Eden, riding luxury cruise ships a few tis would be easy as pie~
…She just didn’t know where that rich woman had run off to now.
Because she’d been constantly worrying about Honkai-related matters and her exchanged abilities often went haywire, she hadn’t paid much attention to her since the last concert.
“After this matter is settled, I’ll go find Eden to play if there’s a chance?”
But before that—
The pink-haired girl looked at the turbulent waves ahead, the corners of her mouth curving upward:
“— Ti to start accelerating!”
The Spirit of Origin beneath her feet seed to understand her words, letting out a ray-like call.
Then, its broad wings flapped once.
— Compared to a luxurious cruise ship journey, a solo surfing trip with one person and one fish seed extraordinarily thrilling.
The only problem was that this person and fish pair didn’t seem very well-behaved.
For example—
Mr. Turtle was leisurely taking his daily stroll today.
The ocean had been much more restless lately compared to usual, but for marine creatures familiar with the underwater scenery, there wasn’t much change.
What should be eaten was still eaten, what should be eaten by others was still eaten by others.
The restlessness of the fish schools made Mr. Turtle shake his head, but he didn’t pay much attention.
Young folks these days… just can’t keep their composure.
But—
The next mont.
“Hmm~ Look what I found?”
The human language that rang in his ears, which marine creatures normally shouldn’t understand, beca comprehensible to even the turtle after deliberately using the authority of Origin. However, for its ager brain, it was sowhat difficult to understand.
Although difficult to understand, this didn’t prevent it from feeling that the face appearing before it was dangerous. Mr. Turtle, whose danger instincts were triggered, imdiately prepared to flee, but…
“Taking a stroll? Ehehe, then let give you a little ride?”
Before it could even react, the pink-haired girl who had grabbed it was already riding that strange large ray, beginning an underwater speed tour.
“— No need to thank , I’m just a kind-hearted elf?”
Looking at the unfamiliar sea area around it, with the girl’s sweet voice still echoing in its ears, the turtle fell into brief silence before having a question — where is this?
It wasn’t the only victim of the “sea elf.”
At least, the number of marine creatures that the interested Jiang had taken along for a ride had already approached the size of a reinforced battalion.
Shells, sharks, orcas… there seed to be nothing that human wouldn’t dare take along for a spin.
— Looking at the monster beneath 【her】 feet, no fish dared to move.
And after she left, the fish that had been “visited” by 【Elysia】 would all tell their children:
“If you don’t behave, an elf from who-knows-where will appear and take you away.”
— Underwater urban legend: The Sea Elf chapter.
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50,000 years later—
“…i, I hope you’ll stay here.”
Elysia made such a request to Kiana and i — after telling them everything.
But to this, i, after a brief silence, asked back:
“…Do you think we’re burdens?”
— No need for “do you think” — actually, they both had good self-awareness about themselves, at least i did.
She was very clear that whether compared to Kiana or compared to Elysia, she was so insignificant.
But i was still very unwilling and hurt.
She didn’t want to be left behind.
“How could I think that?”
Although that was indeed the truth, and Elysia was very clear about it, but — she would absolutely never say such words to her companions, right?
“I just don’t want you to be involved in dangers that shouldn’t be your responsibility to bear.”
Saying this, the white-haired girl was incredibly sincere.
The battle at Nagazora City was an unavoidable necessity due to circumstances, because they were extrely lacking in combat power, and i and Kiana were directly or indirectly affected parties — more importantly, the decision to involve them wasn’t actually made by Elysia, but by Jiang Qiao instead.
And for this trip to New Zealand, Elysia, trying to make her own decisions, finally made such a request to the two after weighing and agonizing over it repeatedly.
But undoubtedly, faced with this request, the white-haired fluffball’s eyes widened:
“I refuse! I’m a Kaslana! That bad woman Cocolia ran to New Zealand, she definitely doesn’t have good intentions! Even if you don’t take , I’ll find my own way there!”
“Besides, you’re using my body!”
Saying this wasn’t because Kiana cared about the safety of her own body… well, she did care sowhat, but compared to caring about her body’s safety, the current white-haired fluffball cared more about Cocolia.
If she used her body’s safety as a reason, Elysia would have no reason to stop her, right?
Moreover, she wasn’t weak!
The white-haired fluffball clenched her fists and puffed out her chest, full of confidence.
Now, she felt she could do anything!
Although this boy’s body was embarrassing at tis and made it hard to flirt with i, when it ca to combat, Kiana was particularly fond of 【Jiang Qiao】 performance.
Although the strength couldn’t compare to the natural monster strength that ca with 【Kiana】 Kaslana bloodline, in this body, she had a sense of unrestricted freedom to act as she pleased.
Moreover, there was a very powerful force in this body. Although she couldn’t fully utilize its effects and didn’t understand what exactly it was for.
Just the shallow application of it made 【Jiang Qiao】 strength already exceed 【Kiana】 by ten tis, or even nine tis… no wait, at most 5 tis! Actually, at most 0.5 tis!
How could Kiana, the original owner of 【Kiana】, admit that 【Jiang Qiao】 performance was stronger than her own body?
Wouldn’t that be saying she was weak!
— Being this strong must be entirely thanks to this lady’s talent!
Miss Fatty, unaware of Kiana’s thoughts, felt sowhat helpless.
She wanted to leave i behind because she felt she might not be able to protect her well — even with Jiang Qiao’s support, if she were to be… slightly careless and not react in ti, even if bad Jiang Qiao was incredibly capable, he couldn’t bring the dead back to life, right?
As for Kiana, although she didn’t have the sa strength concerns as with i, she still didn’t want Kiana to get involved in such dangerous matters.
Besides worrying from a danger perspective, there was also… concern for 【Jiang Qiao】.
If Kiana encountered any danger and sothing happened to the 【Jiang Qiao】 body as well, wouldn’t bad Jiang Qiao be unable to return… Don’t misunderstand! She wasn’t worried about bad Jiang Qiao! Miss Elf was worried that if 【Jiang Qiao】 got broken, wouldn’t that bad guy have to stay in her body forever?
Such a thing was unacceptable!
Oh… right, there was also Kiana! She was very worried about Kiana’s safety too! She couldn’t let Kiana go down with bad Jiang Qiao’s body and get a ga over, right?
Such a thing, she could accept for herself, but how could she… how could she drag other girls into it!
Not a bit of it was out of concern for bad Jiang Qiao. Elysia was completely worried about her own body and other girls!
That’s right, exactly like that!
Unfortunately — what the white-haired fluffball loved most was saying NO to those who thought they were looking out for others!
This New Zealand trip, I, Kiana, am definitely going, even if the heavens and earth try to stop !
Seeing that her persuasion failed, Elysia sighed, then looked at i, saying very seriously and gently:
“i, if you want to co, you can co along… It’s okay, I just hope you can be safer.”
“I…”
“i, you should co too, don’t be afraid — I’ll protect you!”
Compared to Elysia’s worry about i, Kiana was full of confidence, even already planning whether she could find a chance to play hero and save the beauty to capture i’s heart.
Little did she know, this one sentence made i, who had originally wanted to say: I want to go together too, directly speechless.
Didn’t the aning of protection equate to saying she was a burden?
“…No, I won’t go.”
Speaking the words of refusal with great difficulty, a sense of powerlessness arose in i’s heart.
No matter how much she wanted to join them, she absolutely, absolutely didn’t want to accompany them as a burden.
So, whether it was out of concern for them or i’s remaining self-respect, both made it absolutely impossible for her to say:
I want to go with you! Such words.
The girl slowly lowered her head, clutching 【Jiang Qiao】 clothes in her hands.
…I can’t do anything.
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