Yu Xunge and Dawn Cicada silently worked to make up for their mistake.
Qihua watched with a cold expression for a while before leaving, expressly forbidding the other players from helping.
Dawn Cicada mocked her in a low voice. "Weren't you acting all tough earlier?"
Yu Xunge's expression remained unchanged. "When you're strong, you live like someone strong. When you're restricted, you live like someone restricted."
"..." Dawn Cicada's expression twisted for a moment. How could anyone make "being a coward" sound so refreshingly refined?
Yu Xunge suddenly stopped what she was doing, blew up a balloon, and handed it to Dawn Cicada. "For you."
Dawn Cicada held the balloon with a blank expression and saw its information-[Useless Balloon].
She looked at Zai Jiu Xunge and found her happily continuing to blow up balloons, putting each one into the Gashapon Machine as she finished.
Noticing her looking, she even said cheerfully, "It's been ages since I last managed to use this skill successfully."
Dawn Cicada said sarcastically, "You're so optimistic."
Yu Xunge paid no mind to her mockery and said with perfect assurance, "That's how we people of Zai Jiu are."
She sat cross-legged on the ground, a small mountain of white petals piled before her. Picking up a soft brush and a potion, she patiently began tracing restorative magic runes onto the petals, with the [Crown of Flowers Murder] manual lying beside her.
It was not exactly a waste of time. Although Qihua had erased some of the contents, most of the material about [Crown of Flowers Murder]'s habits and characteristics remained, and some of it covered areas she had yet to research.
Her strength had grown too quickly. She had barely had any time to study the Flower Branch she had obtained at the end of "My World."