"Junior Brother Lu, that look on your face... Have you found a way?"
Seeing Lu Ze's expression shift again and again, Zhong Yi brightened.
"Mm. More or less."
Lu Ze nodded.
"I'm about eighty percent sure I can make her cry."
"What about the other twenty percent...?"
Given the Illusion Alliance's underhanded methods, Zhong Yi felt a faint unease.
Lu Ze spread his hands. "I'll leave that to heaven's will."
Zhong Yi sighed. "So even Junior Brother Lu has moments when he's powerless..."
"No, I mean if she doesn't cry, I'll ask the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to beat her until she cries inside the Illusion Realm."
Lu Ze corrected him as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
"...That's the kind of heaven's will you meant."
Zhong Yi's mouth twitched violently.
"That said, the Fragment isn't easy to persuade... I'll do my best."
Lu Ze rubbed his chin, already considering what reason he could give the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao to become his trump card.
"What about you, Senior Brother Zhong? Have you found an approach?"
"Heh. When it comes to matters of the heart, that's my specialty!"
Zhong Yi thumped his chest, brimming with confidence.
"Huh???"
Lu Ze narrowed his eyes, looking utterly unconvinced.
He could imagine a Spell that made a rooster lay eggs. He could not imagine one that turned Zhong Yi into a lovestruck fool.
Having settled on his approach, Lu Ze chatted with Zhong Yi for a while. Then they went to the platform above the lake and entered their respective Illusion Towers.
"First, the adaptation..."
Lu Ze closed his eyes slightly and murmured to himself.
"To the Moon" was set in an imagined world with advanced technology.
After some thought, Lu Ze realized many elements of the original