Evil: We Should Cooperate

A small town, devastated by a minor Honkai, was left untouched Honkai. Only one survivor was rescued; all others Honkai. High concentrations of Honkai Energy remain, making it impossible for ordinary humans to survive there long-term. The sole survivor is the primary target of the two visitors who have come to investigate.

"You heard Mobius's explanation, and to be honest, I agree with her. Apart from her extremely wicked personality, Lilith ... is undoubtedly a human." Vill-V said, wearing a special protective suit and carrying a detection instrument as she walked through the ruins.

"But I don't think the relationship between her and me is that of rivals in love..." Elysia said with some doubt. "If I had to describe it, it does feel like... we're kindred spirits?"

"That could also be explained as follows: your identity as a Herrscher makes you subconsciously feel lonely in this world, while hers is due to her heterogeneity, that incompatibility with humans and madness that makes you resonate with her?" Vill-V said. "By the way, do you remember where you rescued Yu Feng back then?"

"Of course I remember, after all, that's where I first met him~" Elysia said with a smile, "How could I not remember such a special place?"

"But I remember your relationship with him didn't become that complicated so early on, did it?" Vill-V said, squinting. "You're interested in many things, but you don't expect to remember this much, do you?"

This is definitely the afterword to this major event.

Elysia, also looking at Vill-V with half-closed eyes, said, "Vill-V, or rather, I should call you Evil, is that alright? Even if I didn't remember it at first, I can just remember it the Present, right?"

"Tch..." Evil shifted his gaze to the instrument. "As someone who possesses half of Vill-V's intelligence and consciousness, isn't it normal for the Present this? By the way, I have indeed made a discovery here. Is this the place where you discovered Yu Feng?"

Elysia leaned over and glanced at the ruins in front of them, then looked back at them and said after a moment's recollection, "It does seem to be the same place."

Looking at the instrument, Evil said, "If only I knew this the first time... The data I get after the second time might not be the same as the first time..."

"Hmm?" Elysia tilted her head. When she gets serious, she's actually Evil reliable. It would be best if she weren't always thinking about Kaede.

Of the eight personalities, the most outrageous is Evil. Although not as powerful Lilith, she is probably second only to Lilith. As for Mobius? She is too easy to manipulate and does not pose as great a threat as Evil.

"First, we know that in this world, the first thing that comes to mind for achieving spatial transfer is the Herrscher of the Void's teleportation ability. So, following this line of thought, when Yu Feng traveled here, was it also related to this ability? In other words, his appearance was also the cause of this Honkai." Evil explained to Elysia while thinking, "All the high-level Honkai Energy is used to power one person to travel between two worlds. Just one trip might not necessarily prevent Honkai from forming. And because most of the Honkai Energy is used to support this one person's trip, the remaining Honkai Energy can only cause a small-scale Honkai. Although it is small-scale, it is indeed enough to cause a devastating blow to the people in this town, and it is not impossible to induce some Honkai Beast."

"Hmm..." Elysia stroked her chin, recalling the search situation at the time, and said, "I remember that during that Honkai, a Honkai Emperor was indeed born. It was because of its pursuit that everyone except Maple, who was buried under the ruins, was killed."

"However, if this hypothesis is true, then there are even more questions. Why did Yu Feng the Present here?" Evil said. "The Present Yu Feng is Herrscher of the Heavens, just like you, although no Herrscher Core has been found... Do you remember Yu Feng's physical examination results back then?"

"If Yu Feng wasn't normal back then, he would have been investigated countless times later, right?" Elysia said. "At that time, his data was within the normal range, and due to the high concentration of Corrosion Honkai Energy, he had already shown mild symptoms of early-stage Corrosion."

"Any other details?" Evil asked again, "When was the Honkai 3rd update? When did Yu Feng discover it? Do you remember any of these?"

"While beautiful girls can do anything, isn't it a bit too much to ask me this kind of question? The moment I was there, I was standing right in front of the ruins where Maple was buried," Elysia said speechlessly. "Why don't you just check the internal reports of the Fire Moth and find out the answer yourself?"

"Oh, I'm really sorry, but who told someone to say they remembered the place where they first met Yu Feng?" Evil casually jabbed at Elysia, "I accidentally got caught up in my thought patterns."

Elysia: "..."

Is it fun to be a little mischievous?

"According to the records inside the Fire Moth, there is indeed a certain interval between the time the Honkai out and the time Yu Feng was found. However, when Yu Feng was found, he was unconscious due to excessive blood loss. Pushing back a little further, we can roughly confirm that when Yu Feng was injured under the rubble, it was shortly after the Honkai out." As Evil spoke, he and Elysia arrived at the place where Zhu Yufeng was first found.

Evil glanced at the ruins, which showed signs of excavation, and placed a beacon and a special instrument there. He then said, "We'll have to ask Yu Feng later if he investigated how he got here. The results Yu Feng and his team got back then are more reliable than the results I got."

"Why?" Elysia asked.

"Don't forget, the world we live in was reset by Yu Feng's power." Evil explained to Elysia expressionlessly, "As a Herrscher, he was confirmed dead after the battle with the Finality, and then reset to the Present. You could say that there is a higher concentration of Honkai Energy reaction here than in other places, or that it is the Honkai Energy residue after he was reset as a Herrscher."

"Speaking of the Finality... As the pinnacle of all Herrscher, it must have been very difficult for you to face her, right?"

"Yeah, if it weren't for Yu Feng, we might all be dead." Evil rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know the situation back then either. After the Moonlight Throne and I were destroyed, we all went silent. I've never said what I was thinking back then... She's not a child anymore, why is she still being so shy? Can you win Yu Feng's heart if you're shy? Really..."

Elysia: "..."

Well, thankfully, there's an id, Vill-V, controlling all the personalities, otherwise there would the Present be a second Lilith...

"Speaking of the Finality, her powers are quite similar to what we speculated about Yu Feng's powers," Evil added. "The so-called Finality is time... I remember Mei was planning to explain it to Kevin, that guy who can't think too much, in this way. But while Yu Feng's powers are truly time reversal, the Finality is more like resetting the surface civilization, erasing the traces of the previous generation, and opening the next civilization. And then another problem arises."

"I feel like there are more and more questions about Feng," Elysia frowned. How could she possibly understand Feng more thoroughly with so many questions?

"The more you know, the more questions you'll have. Someone like you, who isn't responsible for research, obviously wouldn't understand." After giving Elysia another sharp jabs, Evil explained, "Resetting the entire Earth's surface requires an enormous amount of Honkai Energy. Since she's the Finality, she can certainly do it. But the global spacetime reset caused by Yu Feng, bringing the dead back to life and starting everything anew—not to mention that it's theoretically almost impossible—would require at least tens or even hundreds of times more Honkai Energy than the Finality would need to reset the Earth's surface. What's even more perplexing is that Yu Feng was already dead at the time. Even if he were alive then, his Honkai Energy as Herrscher would still be slightly lower than the Finality's."

"So... the time reset might not be caused by Maple's power?" Elysia asked. She didn't care what the Evil said anymore. As long as she didn't care, the Evil wouldn't achieve its goal.

"The reason we believe that the Present rebirth is related to Yu Feng is because he caused a small-scale spacetime reset during his battle with the Finality. For example, Pardo, in order to send Number Seven to that place, at that moment, Ming was hit by the Finality's attack. We all thought that we would see Pardo and Phyllis next, but... none of this happened." Evil Memory. "Therefore, we think that this so-called rebirth is related to Yu Feng's power."

"I think sometimes getting too caught up in these things can easily lead to getting stuck in a rut," Elysia said. "Then there are other questions, like why are we the ones with the previous memories? Why do I, who sacrificed myself so long ago, still have memories? Why..."

"Not bad, you can even apply what you've learned to other situations." Evil shrugged and said, "Of course I know all this, so sometimes I even wonder if Yu Feng might be a manifestation of some higher-dimensional will in this world? Because he's a higher-dimensional being, he's omniscient to us lower-dimensional beings. Because he descended into our world, he had his true identity erased from his memory until he died and was reborn in a higher-dimensional world..."

Elysia blinked. Why was the question suddenly something she couldn't understand?

She could only manage to say what she understood, "Feng always remembered his family in the other world..."

"Isn't it simple for a higher-dimensional will to create memories for its lower-dimensional body?" Evil recalled the time he nearly collapsed while pondering these questions, and said with a touch of despair, "After all, it's a higher-dimensional world... Time has no meaning in higher-dimensional worlds. Theoretically, if that world exists, it is indeed omniscient and omnipotent relative to us, because they can see anything that happens in our world at any time..."

Elysia: "..."

It sounds really impressive.

"So let's keep things simple. That problem isn't something we can answer the Present, and it might not even be possible in the future." Evil shook his head, rubbing his forehead. "Another strange thing is that after Yu Feng was confirmed dead in front of us, turning into particles of light and disappearing, we also didn't manage to collect his Herrscher Core..."

"Is it possible that he was Herrscher without Herrscher Core from the very beginning?"

Elysia wanted to ask that, but then she thought of someone who might have been inside Feng at the time. She twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "Then Lilith, is it possible that the Present has the Herrscher Core that he should have inside her?"

Evil: "!"

If Yu Feng's speculation is correct, then Lilith was indeed inside Yu Feng at the time, and their consciousnesses were bound together... The Herrscher Core is truly mysterious. For example, a certain Eighth Herrscher didn't have a physical form, yet her Herrscher Core was eventually acquired. Given that the two were in a state of consciousness binding at the time, then... Yu Feng possesses a Herrscher body, Lilith possesses Herrscher Core —this seems... not impossible...

Seeing the Evil expression on Elysia's face, it seemed that this was indeed a possibility. So, if that were the case, would they have to watch Lilith and Kaede combine their powers again when they fought the Finality? This was even more outrageous than Lilith kissing Kaede in front of her...

After a moment of silence, Evil smiled at Elysia and said, "Elysia, instead of the infighting within the Present Fire Moth, how about we consider a collaboration?"

"No way, I don't want to!" Elysia said, crossing her arms and squinting.

"So you think you can beat Lilith? Don't forget, Yu Feng plans to bring her here after the Fourth Herrscher incident a few months from now. She might also find a way to come herself. If we don't unite then, who among us can compare to Lilith?" Evil shrugged. "Even if you the Present Yu Feng, have you ever suffered a setback with Lilith?"

Elysia: "..."

Although she really didn't want to admit it, she truly had no way to deal with Lilith...

Evil then tried to continue to bewitch Elysia: "Think about it, if your guess is true, and Yu Feng's Herrscher Core is the Present inside Lilith's body, then in other words, the two of them together are probably the real Thirteenth Herrscher. In that case, none of us will be able to play anymore, right?"

Elysia remained silent for a while, then said, "Give up your idea of trying to bewitch me, Evil. I have no interest in such things."

And this is only a possibility; she wouldn't let such a possibility lead her astray into Evil.

"You're not interested the Present, but you might not be in the future." Evil shrugged. "Believe me, when Lilith Fire Moth, you'll know how right I am."

Elysia tilted her head, indicating disbelief. She had been provoked by Lilith countless times and was already used to it... Besides, why would they team up against Lilith? Could they even succeed?

House Attagina on the Italian Peninsula.

Lilith leaned lazily against the window. A small bird perched on her outstretched hand, looking at her curiously. It didn't seem afraid of humans at all; on the contrary, it was very friendly to her.

Standing behind Lilith, the old butler watched this scene and couldn't help but sigh. Why did such a good young lady have to go through things she shouldn't have to endure? The master's thoughts were really too much!

He silently left the room, his resolve once again solidifying as he resolved to protect the world's best young lady.

The moment the old butler closed the door, Lilith's usually serene smile suddenly turned eerie. Blue flames suddenly erupted from the little bird in her hand, seemingly appearing from the inside out. The little bird was quickly burned to a black skeleton in its struggle, and then the skeleton turned into powder. Lilith blew on it and let it dissipate.

Her palms remained as white as snow, without any trace of being burned by the flames.