In a dark underground chamber, Furina gradually regained consciousness.
She felt herself tightly bound to a reclining chair, while "Doctor" Dottore sat at a nearby table, reading through his research notes and reports.
"Ahhh!!! Neuvillette, help !!!"
Furina's eyes welled up with tears as she cried out desperately for help.
"There's no need to scream, Lady Furina."
Dottore set down his papers, turned to look at her, and spoke in a slow, deliberate manner.
"No one will find us here."
"To , you are nothing more than an experint—yet an incredibly precious one."
"If you cooperate, I may grant you so privileges."
"And, if you perform well enough, returning you alive is not entirely out of the question."
Furina stopped crying, realizing that tears were useless.
She was now completely at Dottore's rcy, a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
Nervously, she looked at him and asked in a trembling voice, "Doctor Dottore... w-what exactly do you plan to do to ?"
"Nothing much. Right now, I simply want to understand why you are immune to the influence of Eerie power."
As he spoke, black and crimson flas ignited in the palm of his right hand.
Furina stared in shock at the scene before her.
So it was true—Dottore had already mastered the power of the Eerie to so extent.
"While you were unconscious earlier, I injected you with Eerie energy three tis, but it had no effect at all..."
"I wonder if things will be different now that you're awake?"
"See how rciful I am to such a precious test subject like you?"
"I didn't even forcefully wake you up—I waited for you to regain consciousness naturally, just so you could be in a good mood."
The next mont, Dottore directly injected a surge of Eerie energy into Furina's forehead.
"Ugh... ahhh!!"
Furina let out a cry of pain, but still, there were no signs of her being overtaken by the Eerie.
"Oh? So you do react to Eerie energy after all."
"That rules out the difference between being conscious and unconscious as a variable."
As he spoke, Dottore picked up his pen and jotted down so notes in his notebook.
"But why, then, are you still unaffected by the Eerie's control?"
Dottore removed his mask, revealing his red eyes as he carefully examined Furina.
"Are you aware of your own condition? Can you tell sothing that I don't already know?"
"Why do you look so terrified? Do you think I've been taken over by the Eerie?"
"No, don't worry. I'm perfectly lucid right now."
"My eyes have always been red."
"If you refuse to speak, that's fine. I'll find my answers through my own experints."
"Now... I've thought of a new hypothesis."
"Could it be that your resistance to the Eerie has a threshold?"
"If the energy injected in a single dose—or the accumulated total—exceeds that threshold, will you finally succumb to the Eerie's control?"
..............
The group followed behind Arlecchino as she spoke:
"All of us Harbingers have received authority bestowed upon us by Her Majesty the Tsaritsa, granting us power beyond that of ordinary mortals."
"Though the vast majority of Harbingers rarely make use of this power."
"This power is both a gift from Her Majesty and a ans of surveillance over us."
"Every move we make, every word we speak—perhaps all of it is under Her Majesty's watchful gaze."
"But Dottore... he is now attempting to erode and expel this power from his body. He must be using the Eerie power to achieve this."
"Having failed his mission to obtain the Gnosis of the Raiden Shogun and the Gnosis of the Dendro Archon, Dottore has already drawn the dissatisfaction of both the other Harbingers and Her Majesty."
"And now, with his current actions, this can already be considered outright betrayal."
"I always knew that Dottore joined the Fatui not out of loyalty to Her Majesty, but simply to gain access to resources and further his own experints."
"But I never expected him to go this far—to outright choose the one path he should never have taken."
"Does he truly believe that just by grasping a sliver of the Eerie's power, he can beco invincible?"
"Then again, such insanity is entirely in line with his character."
As Arlecchino spoke, she ca to a stop.
They had arrived at the ruins of Fort Coppelia, in Fontaine's Morteau District.
"According to Her Majesty's directives, Dottore is down there."
The group quickly descended the staircase.
As they moved, Neuvillette spoke up, "Arlecchino, you wouldn't be helping us without a reason, would you?"
"Everyone who lives in this world has their own reasons and motives, one way or another," Arlecchino replied.
"I'm doing this for three reasons: first, to vent my own frustration and that of my children; second, to punish Dottore for his betrayal of Her Majesty; and third, to make you all owe a favor—sothing I can use as leverage in future negotiations."
Before long, the group arrived at the bottom of the ruins of Fort Coppelia.
In front of them stood a large, rusted, locked door.
"Is this the door?" Wriothesley asked eagerly.
"Watch break it down with a few punches!"
"No, it's over here," Arlecchino said, turning her gaze to the wall to the right of the door.
She gathered Pyro energy in her palm and struck the wall with a forceful blow!
The old bricks crumbled instantly, revealing a dark hidden chamber within.
Inside, Dottore and Furina ca into view.
"Dottore!!!"
Neuvillette's Hydro energy erupted in an instant, his expression filled with uncontrollable rage!
Everyone could clearly see that Furina's facial skin had been completely stripped away, leaving behind only raw, bloody muscle tissue.
Dottore was holding a scalpel, working on sothing inside her head...
"Oh? You actually managed to find this place?" Dottore looked slightly surprised at the sudden intrusion.
However, upon seeing Arlecchino, he seed to understand and let out a chuckle.
"Arlecchino, we are both Harbingers, and yet you've chosen to side with outsiders against ?"
"You, who have betrayed Her Majesty, have no right to speak," Arlecchino replied coldly.
"Dottore, you monster! What have you done to Furina?!"
Su Yuan roared, his face filled with fury as he looked at Furina, bleeding profusely and barely clinging to life.
"Monster?" Dottore chuckled lightly.
"Thank you for the complint."
"As for what I've done? As you can see, I'm rely performing a live dissection on Lady Furina."
"I'm truly curious—just how does the Eerie power I injected into her body keep disappearing?"
"Unfortunately, I don't have X-ray vision, so I can only resort to this crude thod—to observe and study."
As Dottore spoke, his aura grew increasingly cold.
"I was just getting into it..."
"So, are you here to interrupt my experint?"
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