Retired Screenwriters Returning to Work...

[Elysia: My, my, what a pitiful Herrscher. You actually got beaten to tears. Want Pink Fairy Lady to comfort you?]

[Sirin: I wasn't beaten to tears! No, wait, that wasn't me! ☆]

[Wendy: What a weak Herrscher...]

[Sirin: You're not in any position to... No, the Herrscher of the Void in the video isn't in any position to be judged by someone who got knocked out with one punch by Anti-Entropy's lousy mechs! ☆]

[Wendy: Who are you calling someone who got knocked out by one punch from a mech?!]

[Sirin: Who else could it be but some Herrscher who embarrassed herself beyond all measure? ☆]

[Wendy: I was worn down first, then ambushed! If I'd been at my peak, no matter how many mechs came, they wouldn't have been my match!]

[Sirin: Yes, yes, yes. If you hadn't been worn down by those students who hadn't even graduated yet, you definitely could've beaten those mechs~ ☆]

[Wendy: You, you, you...]

[Sirin: Oh my, no way, no way. Is some little kid about to cry?~ What, are you going to run off and tell your big sister Bronya?~ ☆]

[Wendy: Aaaah! You inherently evil Herrscher of the Void, I'll personally—]

Wendy was practically furious out of her mind. She glared fixedly at Kiana, who was lying on the bed beside her. From the earlier comments, she had learned that Sirin, who had been mocking her in the Livestream Room, was currently inside this Grassworm's body.

A faint turquoise glow lit up around her body as she used the Gem of Desire's power once more. She was just about to become the Herrscher of Wind again...

"Aaaah, Wendy, don't look at me like that!"

Kiana was trembling in Mei's arms. It wasn't that she was afraid of Wendy, but Wendy was no longer the enemy she had once been. In a sense, they were teammates now, so Kiana felt a little awkward about fighting her. More importantly...

"The one who mocked you was Sirin! Why are you coming after me, Kiana?!"

Kiana had truly suffered an Unforeseen Calamity.

[Bronya: Wendy, calm down. Don't act rashly!]

[Wendy: Big Sister Bronya...]

[Bronya: Even if you beat up Kiana, Bronya would have no objections, but beating her would do nothing to Sirin.]

[Theresa: That's right, Wendy. And if you want to fight Sirin, your current strength isn't enough. If you truly want to fight Sirin, you'll need to completely master the Gem of Desire's power.]

[Wendy: Big Sister Bronya, Principal Theresa...]

[Wendy: Okay, I understand! I'll definitely master the Gem of Desire's power, then defeat that Sirin myself!]

[Sirin: If you can do it, then give it a try. I'm quite looking forward to seeing what a Herrscher defeated by a toy can accomplish. ☆]

The light around Wendy gradually faded, and she sat back down on the bed.

Seeing that the issue had been resolved, Mei sighed in relief. She didn't want to fight Wendy either. At that moment, she suddenly felt something strange on her Slime. Looking down, she saw a white Grassworm wriggling around on her Slime with a blissful expression.

"Hehehe~ Mei smells so nice..." The Grassworm thought, Opportunities to snuggle with Mei so openly don't come often... Every time I wanted to snuggle with Mei before, some little shorty would come and ruin it. This time, I can finally enjoy it to my heart's content!

Eh! Wait, why had it suddenly become so quiet?

Kiana opened her eyes and met Mei's dark smile...

"Mei... if I said I was just too scared... would you believe me?" (〃'▽'〃)

"What do you think... Kiana..." (?＿?)

Bang!

Congratulations to Kiana for successfully receiving one red envelope from Mei.

"Wuwuwu... That hurts, Mei." (*?????)

Mei actually didn't mind Kiana snuggling up to her, but at the very least, they should do it somewhere no one could see!

Under the strange gazes of the doctors who had fled when Wendy erupted, then returned after realizing everything was fine, Mei's face turned bright red as she hid beneath the blanket.

The video continued.

The scene shifted. Before they knew it, evening had arrived. Facing the sunset, A-Quan watched the setting sun as though she were witnessing her own desolation...

"I'm the hugely popular Herrscher of the Void, La Signora! How could I possibly fall in a place like this? I can still..."

A-Quan's eyes were filled with confidence. At that moment, she no longer seemed like the bullied, weepy Spring Elf, but the Honkai Queen—the majestic Herrscher of the Void!

At this moment, the Queen was about to descend once more!

But the next second...

"Bleurgh...!"

The Queen's descent had failed...

The imposing and cool Queen turned back into A-Quan, who clung to a trash can and vomited uncontrollably.

And the setting sun from before vanished as well. It turned out that all of it had merely been A-Quan's fantasy.

When Himeko saw A-Quan, who had seemingly been about to deliver some incredibly cool line, suddenly start vomiting, all her anticipation vanished at once.

"Looks like her body's overloaded..."

I'm such an idiot for ever having expectations for this shut-in, Himeko thought to herself.

As Ai-chan watched A-Quan's style abruptly shift, then shift again and again, her expression was practically turning into Bronya's.

Ai-chan recalled the imposing Herrscher of the Void from the original plot, then looked at the pathetic, vomiting A-Quan before her. Who could have imagined they were actually the same person?!

"Come to think of it, I remember you didn't get beaten up in this battle either, right?"

Ai Yi also had a question she had wanted to ask ever since this team-building event began...

"If you wanted to win, how were we supposed to continue acting afterward?"

Ai Yi truly had no idea what A-Quan was thinking. She hadn't heard anything about A-Quan looking for a screenwriter lately, either. Unless...

Could A-Quan have a talent for screenwriting?! (???) If that were true... given A-Quan's intelligence, Ai Yi was certain she could trick a screenwriter into working two jobs for the company while receiving only one salary.

Just as Ai Yi had mentally drafted the A-Quan's Screenwriter Plan (the company's exploitation plan) all the way to "retired screenwriters returning to work," A-Quan's words shattered her plan...

A-Quan raised her head from the trash can, her eyes filled with wisdom.

"Eh? Why didn't you say so sooner? Bleurgh..."

The moment she finished speaking, she started vomiting again.

Clearly, Ai Yi's screenwriter plan had been declared dead before it even began.

Although the screenwriter plan was gone, this team-building event still had to continue. In order to keep the others from discovering her "screenwriter (exploitation) plan," Ai Yi explained to A-Quan:

"I only just realized that too. After all, the budget for this time can be spent however we want."

This might affect her image as a perfect administrator, but it was still better than being called a "heartless administrator."