Taking a closer look at it—good grief!
Pei Guang really did say good grief out loud.
The waterlon had eyes and a mouth. Not only were they lifelike, they were crooked, twisted into an uncanny sort of "abstract beauty."
Stelle looked at him with shining eyes. "Ah Guang! Well? Fun, right?"
Pei Guang stared at the effect in silence.
After a long pause, he finally nodded. "Fun. Very fun. It's just… there's a debuff. Sotis when you hit soone, it'll make them go berserk. Berserk ans all their stats increase and they fight even more aggressively."
Stelle hissed, "Ooh! That sounds really strong. Let try it?"
Pei Guang: "Sure."
Stelle pulled out her bat, and Pei Guang slotted the waterlon effect onto it.
Firefly had been quietly watching them fiddle around. But when she saw Pei Guang finish attaching the effect to Stelle's bat, her expression froze.
From her perspective, Stelle's bat had turned into a strange waterlon. At the tip of the bat, a pair of disturbingly real eyes and a wide, toothy grin were staring straight ahead.
Stelle asked eagerly, "Well? How is it?"
She swung the bat a few tis as she spoke. Watching that swing, Pei Guang once again fell silent.
Every ti Stelle swung, the waterlon's mouth twisted into an unnervingly ecstatic smile. The expression was so grotesquely abstract that just looking at it made your head throb.
And those eyes… just one glance made Pei Guang recall unpleasant mories.
Not just Pei Guang: even Firefly shivered and instinctively hid behind him. She could feel the hostility radiating off Stelle's bat.
In terms of efficiency, maybe the weapon wasn't that strong. But watching Stelle swing it, all Firefly felt was her brain trembling and her body recoiling in protest.
Seeing their reactions, Stelle smugly kicked her bat and slung it over her shoulder. Then she turned to Pei Guang with shining eyes. "Ah Guang! Let's go test this special effect out!"
Pei Guang pointed at Sparkle, who had already been pulled out of the trash can and looted. "Well, isn't she right here? And no one around is paying attention. Why don't you test it on her?"
Firefly hesitated. "That… doesn't seem right…"
Stelle bead. "I think it's perfect! She dropped it, so of course she should be the one we try it on. Besides, she drank our coffee, she's out cold like a baby. Ten minutes of guaranteed sleep, just like Sampo. She's practically perfect test material!"
With that, Stelle poked Sparkle's butt lightly with the bat. She didn't use force, just a little jab to test the weapon's special effect.
The mont the bat touched, everyone present heard a strange, mocking voice.
"Brothers, who even gets this? Absolutely ridiculous. A Masked Fool, sleeping on the job? Is she trying to bore to death? She's an embarrassnt to the Masked Fools. Honestly, forget the truth, if I were the one pretending to be a Fool, at least I'd be more entertaining than this."
As the cursed waterlon sneered, its expression twisted rapidly: mocking one mont, disgusted the next.
Even without listening to its words, just watching those shifting expressions made both Pei Guang and Firefly feel an overwhelming urge to smash it.
But the problem was, the cursed waterlon was a special effect bound to Stelle's weapon: at its core, it was still just a bat.
They couldn't exactly grab Stelle's bat and spend all day playing with her bat, could they?
Pei Guang and Firefly both suppressed the urge to act, while Stelle looked at the bat in her hands, planted a kiss on it, and said with joy, "Perfect! I love this special effect! Waaaah, finally I've got a proper effect of my own!"
At that mont, not only Pei Guang and Firefly fell silent—even the mokeepers and other existences watching the commotion around them were speechless.
After all, getting hit by that thing ant either losing your sanity or going berserk outright.
Compared to everyone else's silence, Stelle was genuinely thrilled. Ever since Dan Heng got his Pink Fluffy Bunny, she'd been waiting for an effect on par with his.
Her bat had followed her faithfully from the very beginning, and now it finally had an amusing special effect to go with it.
She hadn't expected to actually get one today: and all thanks to Pei Guang. If he hadn't caught such a lucky star, she'd probably still be stuck with ordinary firework effects.
At that instant, Stelle absolutely adored Pei Guang.
With her new treasure in hand, she leapt straight at him like a koala, hugging him tightly and rubbing her head against him. "Ah Guang! My Ah Guang~ you're the best! I feel so full of energy now!!!"
As she spoke, Stelle pulled out her bat and started swinging it, while Pei Guang barked loudly, "Get down! Get off ! And keep that bat away from !"
But Stelle only clung tighter. Let go? No way! This was her treasure trove, she wouldn't let go even if March 7th showed up. Not that March could, since she was out shopping right now.
Stelle smirked proudly, but soon noticed Firefly watching silently nearby. "Hey? That one over there, what's your na again?"
Pei Guang introduced, "Firefly!"
Stelle nodded. "Oh! Firefly, co here! While Ah Guang's luck is hot, let's absorb so of his luck together."
Firefly hesitated. "Would that even work?"
Stelle nodded vigorously. "Of course it works! Anyone who's been around Ah Guang always has great luck. No matter what trouble cos up, with him there it always works out. No matter what danger, it turns into safety. That's the invincible Ah Guang!"
For so reason, seeing Firefly gave Stelle a sense of familiarity. And since she looked so pretty, Stelle's mischievous side stirred as well. So she pulled Firefly into the "luck-draining" too.
Firefly wavered, but seeing Stelle's expression, she took a deep breath, stepped closer to Pei Guang, and leaned in slightly.
"I'll absorb so too~" Firefly said, half convinced by Stelle.
In this mont, she was absorbing from Pei Guang purely wanting to gain so of his good fortune, with absolutely no other thoughts.
Looking at the two girls flanking him, Pei Guang was speechless.
Were they succubi or sothing? Absorbing from here of all places? And besides, his so-called luck was just "always losing bets" level: was it really worth drawing from?
But since they seed happy, he let them be.
He did, however, make one point clear: "Fine, take my luck if you want. But don't go jinxing by calling invincible. Got it?"
Stelle: "Got it! Invincible Ah Guang!"
Firefly: "Got it! Invincible Ah Guang!"
Pei Guang rolled his eyes.
Firefly had been such a proper girl, but it hadn't even been long since eting Stelle and she was already picking up her habits. It made him genuinely regretful.
While the three of them were fooling around, Sparkle, lying on the ground, began to dream.
A terrible dream.
In it, she was napping with a purple-skinned egg. But as she slept, suddenly an obnoxious voice whispered in her ear.
"Brothers, who even gets this?"
"Absolutely ridiculous."
"A Masked Fool with no fun."
"A girl of leftover scraps."
"Can't even imitate anyone properly."
The voices circled endlessly around her ears.
What had been such a comfortable sleep was broken by these taunts, until finally she couldn't bear it anymore. Her eyes snapped open.
"Enough!"
She looked up at the black sky of the dream world, her clothes soaked through as though she'd been subrged in water. It was just a dream, yet she was sweating so much her dream-body's clothes were drenched.
But as she rose, she saw a scene that left her stunned.
Not far away, Stelle was hugging Pei Guang with a strange waterlon in her hand. On it, a pair of eyes and a mouth were staring at her with a look that made her want to gouge them out on the spot.
The mont she saw that waterlon, her head echoed again with those sarcastic voices: "Brothers, who even gets this? Absolutely ridiculous."
Sparkle wanted nothing more than to jab out those eyes, sew up that mouth, and throw the cursed talking waterlon on the ground to stomp it into pieces.
Both Pei Guang and Stelle noticed her furious awakening.
Seeing Sparkle awake, Stelle pulled out so coffee. "Ah! Got too happy looting her corpse—ti to shove the pacifier back in."
"Pacifier?"
Sparkle instinctively turned her head.
Beside her, she spotted a trash can. Next to it was an IV stand, but instead of a needle at the end, it was attached to a pacifier.
Her expression twitched instantly. She was always the one playing tricks on others: never had she imagined that today, she'd be the one getting played.
It wasn't even that being played was the worst part—the worst part was that against Pei Guang, she'd had no way to resist.
How could this be allowed? If the other Masked Fools ever found out, this joke would follow her for dozens of Amber Eras.
As that thought crossed her mind, both Pei Guang and Stelle began to move.
Seeing them, Sparkle's pupils contracted.
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