Chapter 73: This Surely Can’t Go Wrong Again, Right?
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“Alright, since you got up so late, co have so breakfast~ I made this with my own hands.”
Elysia brought over a tray and placed it in front of Raven’s table. The al consisted of a steaming cup of milk and a bacon and egg toast sandwich that looked surprisingly simple yet refined.
Unlike the white-haired fluffball from the Kaslana family with terrible cooking talent, Miss Fatty might not have much education, but when it ca to daily housework and cooking, she was quite skilled.
Back when she was at the welfare ho, she often helped Mama Maria organize the place and prepare als for the other children. Many adults in Vostok Town praised her, saying that when she grew up, she would definitely beco a very virtuous beautiful girl.
“My cooking is much better than i. Go ahead and try it. Not eating breakfast isn’t good for your health~”
She had ntally prepared herself to be stuffed like a cream puff, or at least to be put in 18 different positions, but instead she had a wonderful night’s sleep, and when she woke up, soone had prepared a refined breakfast for her… Well, this was unexpected.
Looking at the al before her, Miss Dodo felt like she was living in a dream.
…Could it be that she wasn’t fully awake yet?
“If you don’t eat it quickly, it’ll get cold, you know?”
A magnetic voice urged her from nearby, but Raven felt as if a beautiful girl was sitting across from her.
She could feel the expectant gaze. Feeling sowhat dazed, she picked up her knife and fork, cut a piece of the bacon and egg toast, and put it in her mouth.
The taste was… quite ordinary.
Of course, one couldn’t expect Elysia’s cooking skills to be particularly exquisite, after all, Miss Fatty hadn’t deliberately studied this art.
Compared to taste, she probably cared more about the appearance of food.
Raven wasn’t unfamiliar with better food, in fact, aside from hastily prepared als, she had eaten many things better than this.
But sohow, none of them had given her this feeling.
It was warm and reassuring, sothing Miss Dodo had never experienced in her rcenary career.
“i and the others have already gone to school, and Bronya went sowhere unknown… Well, shall we go out and stroll around the city together later? I still haven’t properly seen this city, and you probably haven’t either. It’ll be fun~”
Jiang Qiao’s arrangent for Elysia was to act like a human-shaped vacuum cleaner. With the contingency he left behind, the Honkai Energy that Cocolia had scattered throughout Nagazora City would slowly be processed with Miss Fatty as the center.
This process would take considerable ti. Knowing this from his words, Elysia was well aware that to completely and quickly save this city, she needed to go out and walk around more.
Going alone would be too lonely though, so Elysia chose to invite Miss Dodo to accompany her.
“…Sure.”
Raven unconsciously smiled and nodded. It wasn’t like she had never been to this city before.
But that was basically always for missions or just passing through, she indeed had never properly looked at this prosperous tropolis.
…There’s probably nothing interesting to see here anyway, right? But since Gray Serpent told her to comply with this pink rogue’s wishes, all she could do was go along with it.
The Raiden Residence was located in Nagazora City’s residential district. Its location was quite good even by the standards of the entire city, as it was the residence of Corp’s president, Raiden Ryoma.
Today’s Nagazora City wasn’t as lively as it would be on holidays, but for this internationalized tropolis, it was still bustling with crowds.
Now Elysia had more ti to appreciate everything in this world.
However, while touring the shopping mall, although her eyes would sparkle when she saw appealing rchandise, she would show a sowhat regretful expression the next mont.
Being strapped for cash was like that.
There was no helping it, 【Jiang Qiao】 was essentially an undocunted person in this world. Even at her poorest, Elysia had been wealthier than the pitiful Jiang Qiao, because Mama Celia had prepared quite a bit of travel money for her.
As for the other companions, there was even less to say. Kiana had to work part-ti to make ends et, and although Ryoma had managed to leave i quite a bit before being imprisoned, since the Raiden family’s assets were mostly frozen, it was only enough for daily expenses.
Besides, asking them to lend money wasn’t sothing Elysia could bring herself to do.
The dignified Miss Elf was actually troubled by financial constraints, life truly wasn’t easy, Elysia sighed.
Seeming to notice this, and subconsciously not wanting to see her show such an expression, Raven rembered what her scumbag foster father had said.
Didn’t he say that all expenses related to this man could be reimbursed by the organization?
With this thought, Miss Dodo’s eyes lit up as she took the initiative to speak:
“Here, take this card. If you want sothing, just swipe it yourself.”
She produced a black card from sowhere and handed it to Elysia. World Serpent would cover the expenses on this card, and according to Gray Serpent’s aning, it could be used freely.
“Eh? Is it really okay?”
“No problem, go ahead and swipe to your heart’s content.”
It wasn’t her money anyway.
Miss Dodo sneered inwardly.
Since she’d been given such a task, how could she pass up such a good opportunity for shopping on the company di?
Besides, that bastard had said that making 【Jiang Qiao】 happy was the Lord’s order, so she’d have a reason to explain if questioned later.
If she wasn’t worried about going too far, Miss Dodo even had the impulse to have Elysia help her swipe for a villa and small island.
She’d been quite short on money for those, but if she could take advantage of this opportunity to mooch off him, wouldn’t that save her several years of hard work?
Gray Serpent had no idea that his foster daughter was already plotting how to reasonably fleece the organization.
— Funnily enough, the foster daughter he’d just sent out was already eating from inside while helping outsiders, who could even make sense of this?
Of course, even if he knew, he could probably only grit his teeth and silently foot the bill.
Given the Lord’s attitude toward Lord Elysia.
Forget just shopping on World Serpent’s corporate account, even if he directly gave most of World Serpent to Elysia, Kevin probably wouldn’t bat an eye.
Setting aside the potentially huge unnecessary expenses that World Serpent might face.
Currently, Gray Serpent was contemplating the next course of action.
Originally, according to the Lord’s intentions, they should prepare to collect the materials needed to restore the Lord’s body and help liberate the Lord.
But the Third Eruption in Nagazora City had failed, and just as they were about to target K-423 and Raiden i who were in Nagazora City, Lord Elysia had suddenly appeared.
Hiss, those two clearly had significant relationships with Lord Elysia.
Rembering the Lord’s intentions, Gray Serpent unhesitatingly abandoned these two targets.
So then…
The next direction would be the gems held by Schicksal?
According to World Serpent’s intelligence, in a few days, the failed Gem of Desire experint subject would apparently be transferred to Schicksal’s Atlantic branch in New Zealand.
Recalling how the previous two attempts had either been mysteriously disrupted by unknown Herrscher fluctuations, or had barely begun before receiving the devastating news that the Divine Key in Raven’s possession had been borrowed by Lord Elysia.
Gray Serpent felt sowhat anxious.
This ti…
It shouldn’t go wrong, right?
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