After players had been amazed once by Vill-V's mode of movent, they were once again shocked by her thod of attack.
The livestream chat in Elysia's stream filled with a flurry of clattering keystrokes.
Pardofelis, who had been occasionally chatting with Elysia, suddenly felt a strong sense of déjà vu upon seeing Vill-V stomping on that Gatling gun.
Wasn't this...
Exactly the sa pose Vill-V had when she went wild with her Gatling Snowball Cannon during the snowball fight in front of the Golden Courtyard a while back?
It seed that being ambushed and knocked down by Vill-V left a very deep impression on Hokuto.
Pardofelis muttered this to herself.
anwhile, Elysia had already wrapped up the battle quickly with Vill-V's help.
The story continued.
i pondered aloud, "These monsters… feel a lot like this amusent park."
"Well, it is Elysia's mory space," Vill-V shrugged. "Even the enemies here must have been affected by her—turned all pink and frilly?"
"Affected..."
i chewed on that word. Original content can be found at novel fire
"If Elysia's will can influence even the monsters' appearance, then if her state changes… would this 'influence' also change?"
"For example… before I ca here, I saw so strange enemies, almost like they were faded, and their forms resembled those monsters in Griseo's studio."
At that line, Elysia's hand paused slightly over the touchscreen.
If "Elysia" herself changed, would that also alter the "influence"?
Hmm...
Elysia rembered when she'd voiced the Faded Fairy before.
So in the coming story, will the Faded Fairy actually appear?
Linking all that together—
Maybe "Elysia" didn't know what had happened to her, transford into the Faded Fairy, and that's why she vanished—and why those faded monsters started appearing?
Elysia felt like she was starting to "get it" again.
In-ga, Vill-V, hearing i's question, didn't seem to be thinking quite so deeply as real-world Elysia.
She simply suggested i go ask Griseo directly about the faded monsters.
And the story promptly shifted to Griseo's perspective.
Griseo was fretting over what to paint today.
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So Kosma suggested they take a walk and investigate a bit while they were at it.
But they hadn't walked far when—
Griseo noticed a strange color, and upon closer inspection, found Honkai beasts.
The ga entered battle phase.
"Huh? We get to control Griseo in battle?"
Elysia blinked: "Does that an Griseo's ready? I wonder how she feels to play?"
She took the controls with a hint of excitent.
Of course, being her first ti, she didn't figure out that holding down the branch button triggered two different attack types—and what conditions triggered each one...
But she did hear Griseo's ultimate line when she used her burst.
"Brush, submit to !"
Elysia: "..."
She had suspected this mont would co eventually, but hearing it suddenly still felt surreal.
[Didn't think it would happen for real… 'Brush, submit to .']
[Roar, Kosma!!]
[When it cos to s, MiHoYo really knows what they're doing, 23333]
[If they're already this prepared, Griseo is definitely joining the Hyperion sooner or later—it's just a matter of when.]
[Maybe MiHoYo is waiting for a lucky date or sothing.]
...
Players began looking forward to Griseo boarding the Hyperion.
Seeing how enthusiastic everyone was about "Brush, submit to ," Pardofelis, ever business-minded, suddenly had an idea.
What if she got real-life Griseo to perform "Brush, submit to ," and recorded it?
Surely lots of people would be interested in that video, right?
Maybe… it's a path to serious cash?
Pardofelis started getting excited.
Though it was still just a thought in her head, so it didn't affect the others.
Elysia continued cheerfully controlling Griseo in combat.
After wiping out a wave of Honkai beasts—
The battle seed to be over, and she was about to relax.
But new enemies (faded monsters) appeared soon after, emitting an unnervingly strange aura.
"Griseo, get behind ."
Kosma stepped forward imdiately, shielding Griseo as he stared down the faded monsters. With one hand clenched, he prepared to strike.
BOOM——!!
Before he could move—
A bolt of red lightning crashed down from the sky, instantly wiping out all the beasts.
i, wrapped in thunder, stood coldly by their charred remains with her blade in hand.
Her long-awaited stylish entrance slamd a massive wave of cool points.
[i's entrance this ti is seriously badass!]
"Herrscher of Thunder…"
Kosma looked at i, his tone filled with curiosity—clearly confused about her sudden arrival.
i replied bluntly: "We had sothing to discuss with Griseo. So we ca."
"…We?"
Kosma was still puzzled when—
"Of course, too!"
It all happened in a flash—erging from a puff of smoke behind Kosma was Vill-V, with a sharp claw resting lightly against her neck.
Vill-V stepped back half a pace: "What is this? Does everyone just have to press sothing lethal against my neck today?"
Kosma stared at her, analyzing the situation.
Since she ca with Raiden i, she must also know what's going on.
He withdrew his claws. "Don't do that again. This isn't a ti for 'performance.'"
Speaking of which, Vill-V and Kosma's relationship was rather… peculiar.
Vill-V sees Kosma as a blue-thread connection, but Kosma views her with a red thread.
Why?
It all relates to that so-called "performance" Kosma ntioned.
Once upon a ti, Vill-V and Kosma did a magic show together.
Things like… sawing a person in half, sword-pierced barrel, water tank escape...
Hmm, by Vill-V's standards, those sound pretty normal, right?
But... what if Vill-V had intentionally used props with no safety chanisms?
Let's just say, among all the complex ties between the Fla-Chasers, theirs is particularly real.
After being the one on the chopping block, it'd be strange if Kosma didn't glare at her now and then.
Still, i wasn't paying much attention to that right now. She asked Griseo about the faded monsters.
Griseo shook her head, saying those monsters had nothing to do with her.
So then… what in the paintbrush-world is going on?
Everyone seed to have stumbled onto a major mystery.
And neither i nor the Fla-Chasers were the type to sit around—they decided to investigate actively.
Conveniently, Griseo could still trace remnants left by the faded monsters.
Under her guidance, they arrived at a plaza.
"It's here."
Just as Griseo spoke—
Dozens of bizarrely shaped monsters surged in from all sides.
"They've appeared… the [Faded] monsters."
"Hmm? That one…"
As everyone fought back the monsters, one particular figure at the rear caught i's attention.
She felt like she'd seen it sowhere before.
Though puzzled, she still helped take down all the monsters with the others.
After the battle, Griseo shared an important discovery.
"How strange… Why is this? Two kinds of strange colors…"
"Those faded monsters have my paint on them… but the other kind, it doesn't. It's just… just a [familiar feeling]."
[Paint, but the colors are weird? Only Griseo can perceive colors among the Fla-Chasers, right? I have a theory—could the culprit be soone who can copy abilities?]
[Copying powers? Does any Fla-Chaser have that kind of skill?]
[Familiar feeling? Don't say it's Grandma Mobius… (scared)]
"..."
"Doesn't Griseo's comnt make you think of anything?"
Mobius suddenly spoke up for no apparent reason.
"Hmm?" Elysia made a soft questioning sound.
"One kind had her paint. The other didn't. Do you rember Griseo's final Rembrance?"
Mobius continued smoothly.
"Griseo once wanted to paint a portrait of Elysia to give her as a gift."
"But in the end, she couldn't bring herself to put even a single brushstroke on the canvas. So the painting remained completely blank."
She spoke like soone reciting a textbook—clearly, she rembered every detail of Griseo's Rembrance.
"Doesn't that tie in exactly with this idea of having 'no paint'?"
"…Mobius, are you saying these faded monsters are related to Elysia?" soone asked.
"I'm just offering my thoughts."
"..."
After listening to Mobius's analysis, Elysia wore a thoughtful expression.
This ant—
The possibility of a link between the faded monsters and the Faded Fairy had just risen dramatically.
But… what exactly was that link?
And what on earth was the Faded Fairy?
It couldn't be… Elysia got bored one day and dyed herself, right?
Hmm… although knowing Elysia, she really might do sothing like that…
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