Roar, Kosma

The Fourth Law incident has come to a temporary end, and what happens afterward is not of much concern to Zhu Yufeng and the others. They also do not need to keep an eye on the escaped Judgment-class Honkai Beast, Vayu.

"At least this time, Scotland wasn't destroyed, and after the Fourth Law was killed, Vayu is under surveillance. The sea city of Atlantis won't be destroyed either." On the way back, Kosma became unusually talkative. "Everything is going well. This time we will definitely defeat the Honkai, instead of repeating the same mistakes."

"Yes, your hometown was saved, and the casualties weren't too great. As for your relationship, you and Disaster are steadily getting closer, which is definitely going well," Zhu Yufeng said with a shrug.

"Yes, yes, you should cherish this opportunity!" Elysia said with a smile. "You play the harmonica so well, and now you finally have the audience you've always wanted."

"I..." Although Kosma was used to Zhu Yufeng and the others teasing him, he was still a little uncomfortable saying these things in front of a group of people. "Well... this time, we can prepare for everything in the future, and things will definitely be alright."

(I will never let the Eighth Law harm Disaster again, nor Blanca and Hen. I will save them too. I will never Griseo lose her loved ones again... If we are reborn, we can avoid the mistakes and tragedies of the past. Our civilization can still be saved.)

Kevin, however, remained silent, which was unusual for him.

"Kevin, why do you look so preoccupied?" Zhu Yufeng looked at Kevin. Although Kevin usually had a blank expression, he hadn't yet experienced the 50,000 years of waiting, and his ability to hide his emotions wasn't very strong. Anyone who knew him well could tell at a glance whether he had something on his mind.

"Don't tell me Lilith isn't here again," Elysia said, squinting. "Lilith hasn't officially gone through the procedures for the Fire Moth yet, so she won't be returning to headquarters on the same trip as us."

As for why Disaster isn't here, it's because she plans to stay in South America for a while to help some people affected by the Honkai. Kosma originally wanted to stay too, but Griseo's birthday is coming up soon, and since he and Disaster usually take good care of each other, Disaster asked him to return to headquarters first so she could deliver the birthday present to Griseo on her behalf.

Hua also wanted to do something within her power, so she chose to stay in South America temporarily.

Kevin glanced at the people around him, then looked at Zhu Yufeng and said, "Feng, we're friends, right?"

"You've always been my good brother." Zhu Yufeng shrugged, even though this good brother always acted recklessly out of the ordinary.

"Since that's the case, then... don't you have anything to say?" Kevin looked at Zhu Yufeng and said slowly, "Elysia... long before we met, she had already carried that cross of suffering. If it weren't for this life, we might have always felt guilty for never truly understanding Elysia. Now, we have a chance to make amends. Elysia... at least this time, we understand you."

"Although what you said makes me feel relieved, if you really understand me, why do you still try to matchmake Lilith and Feng?" Elysia said with some dissatisfaction, arms crossed. Understand her? The result of understanding her is that Kevin is always trying to sow discord between her and Kevin?

"That's a matter of rules," Kevin said, squinting.

The Feng-Lilith Faction's stance will never waver!

Elysia: "..."

So Kevin still needs to be taught a lesson!

But then again, why did Kevin suddenly bring up himself? It sounds like Kevin was referring to how he kept his lawyer identity a secret and ultimately chose to sacrifice himself for humanity, returning to the Honkai. Before that, Kevin wanted to ask Maple something... Could it be that Kevin knows something? And when...?

Elysia suddenly remembered the operation a few months ago. On the way back, she and Zhu Yufeng discussed the form of love. In the middle of the trip, they discovered that Kosma was trying to eavesdrop. So Kevin... Indeed, she and Feng were whispering so close together, there was no reason why Kevin wouldn't notice. However, Kevin hadn't said anything after that, so she didn't think much of it...

In other words, Kevin actually heard some of it?

I have a feeling that more and more people know Feng's secret. Although it should be a good thing, I'm still a little annoyed. After all, Feng told me willingly. Vill-V and Mobius were just eavesdropping, and Lilith was using cheat codes to spy. In summary, this can still be considered a secret between me and Feng. But what Kevin said...

"Kevin, what do you want to say?" Zhu Yufeng had the same thought as Elysia. His attitude was indifferent. Since Kevin had asked, there was no need to hide anything. There was no one else here, so he didn't need to worry about them not believing him. The only thing he needed to worry about was...

"It seems you and Elysia have both remembered," Kevin said, glancing at Zhu Yufeng and Elysia. "It's about what you two said on the plane after that mission. I've been paying attention from the beginning: 'knowing the whole story,' 'the unfamiliar world,' and the sudden investigation into your identity that Vill-V initiated afterward. Can you tell me what all this means?"

He hadn't made the connection before, but now that Kosma suddenly mentioned coming here to prepare for the future, a flash of inspiration struck him, connecting some things from before. Not only what Kosmos mentioned, but he also remembered that when Zhu Yufeng was chatting with him before, he emphasized that he was a chosen Heroes, destined to shoulder the future of humanity. When he was about to perish, Zhu Yufeng also asked him to make a promise, promising that humanity would definitely defeat the Honkai.

Kevin guessed that Zhu Yufeng had most likely already spoken to him once at that time, which was why he said that.

After all, Zhu Yufeng is also Heroes. He has borne more and accomplished more than I have. If he is the chosen one, then why isn't Zhu Yufeng?

Pardo, Sakura, and Kosma all looked over.

"It seems, Maple, you are indeed hiding something again. Elysia, you know too, don't you?" Sakura said, observing their expressions. In a short time, she had figured out the conclusion. First of all, Elysia definitely didn't know from the beginning; it must have been Maple who told her sometime after this incident. After all, she had witnessed the repair and warming of Maple and Elysia's relationship. And Kevin's comparison of Elysia's burden with Maple's unspoken secret was enough to show that Kevin believed what Maple was hiding was significant enough.

Since Elysia also knows this, it can basically be seen as not being a secret that can't be told. Why can't we tell them? They are comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side, people who have lived together, aren't they?

"Knowing the whole story," Vill-V's investigation, and the reversal of time...

Could it be that Feng has violated the law more than once?

Kosma thought about this even more deeply. Although he didn't say anything, you could tell from the way he stared at Zhu Yufeng that he was determined to get to the bottom of this matter.

Pardo looked left and right, sensing the tense atmosphere, and said, "Uh, there must be a reason why Brother Yu Feng isn't going to say. If he still feels uncomfortable, he doesn't have to say it. After all, everyone has their own secrets, right? We don't need to be so pushy, do we?"

Zhu Yufeng glanced at Pardo, who seemed to want to know but was still trying to smooth things over, sighed softly, and reached out to pat Pardo's head. "That's right. After all, from the very beginning when I told Elysia about this, I thought that one day I would be honest with you all. That day has come quite quickly..."

"No matter what you've been carrying, this time we'll walk alongside you. You won't be alone anymore," Kevin said. "Didn't we come here to make up for the mistakes we made? You and Elysia will never be alone again."

Elysia: "..."

Why does this sound so familiar? Has she said something similar before?

Zhu Yufeng glanced around, then slowly said, "To put it simply, before I met Elysia, I already knew the future of civilization, and your fate."

The group exchanged glances; this was pretty much what they had expected.

"This is 'knowing the beginning and the end of everything.' I can also tell you definitively that in the destiny I saw, civilization sank here and revived 50,000 years later. Kevin, Su, and Hua, as the only three survivors of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers, became the Vanguard, watching over the civilization of the Netherworld," Zhu Yufeng said. "Sakura, as the first Flame-Chasers to die in battle, perished along with Ling. After Elysia sacrificed herself, Aponia assimilated herself with the Elysian Realm at the cost of her life. Griseo boarded the Ark, and finally, more than two thousand years after the civilization of the Netherworld revived, she lost contact with Kevin and the others, Project Ark failed. The rest of them all died in the Finality battle..."

"Griseo ...she..." Kosma's pupils contracted. "So, this is...the reason why you so vehemently opposed Griseo's implementation of Project Ark, even going so far as to use your power to postpone it indefinitely?"

"That was a plan doomed to fail," Zhu Yufeng said. "Griseo is so young; she doesn't need to bear the burden of a plan that is destined to fail."

"Why are you so sure that future will definitely happen?" Sakura asked.

"Blanca and Disaster died in the Eighth Law Incident, and I couldn't save them. Hen died in the Ninth Law Incident, and I still couldn't save him. All the Fusion Warrior besides the Thirteen Flame-Chasers Heroes died in the Tragedy of Binding, and I still couldn't change anything." Zhu Yufeng looked at Sakura and said, "In the end... I only saved you, Elysia ... and I couldn't save her either..."

"Feng..." Elysia reached out and grasped Zhu Yufeng's hand, "This isn't your fault..."

"So, regarding the Eighth Law incident, you initially suspected that the Eighth Law's power was a memetic weapon, but no one believed you... Regarding the Ninth Law incident, you once wanted to fight alongside Hen, but the Council assigned you and the Fallen Angel Squad to kill Brahma..." Kevin said, looking at Zhu Yufeng, "The Tragedy of Binding, you even tried to bypass the Council to forcibly implement Vill-V's plan, all in order to... change the future..."

Zhu Yufeng nodded gently.

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Kevin asked again.

He fought back against fate time and time again, only to fail time and time again... What he went through, those who were merely bystanders could never truly understand; all they could feel was anger and regret.

"...we may not believe it," Kosma said.

"Huh? Wait... Thirteen Flame-Chasers? Isn't it Fourteen Schicksal?" Pardo realized the blind spot.

"Because in the original story, there is no existence of Feng." Elysia said softly, "He does not belong to the world we the Present. He is just a person from another world brought by a Honkai. Apart from knowing our story, he has no connection with our world."

Everyone: "!"

"Brother Yu Feng... is an alien like Jie Ge?" Pardo's little brain couldn't quite accept the Present information. To her, Earth was the world she understood.

"You could say that," Zhu Yufeng smiled. "It's just that my world doesn't have this 'Honkai' thing, but your stories are passed down in our world. At first, I also thought the story could be changed, but judging from the result..."

"You've always been so self-righteous," Sakura suddenly said. "Maple, you have no connection to our world, so why would you go to such lengths for us? Bearing this burden, even if you're misunderstood, betrayed, and hurt, why would you go to such lengths?"

"Now that I'm here, I have to do something, right? Rather than just waiting to die, I might as well take a gamble... to transform this imperfect story into the way I want it to be. So what if I'm self-righteous? I've been here, I have to leave something behind." Zhu Yufeng said, "Elysia saved my life, she was the first warmth and kindness this world gave me, and as Herrscher, she always fought for humanity, but in the end, she couldn't see the world she longed for..."

Cherry remained silent.

Everyone fell silent.

"As long as you're by my side, what does it matter if this story isn't perfect? We've fought together, cried together, laughed together..." Elysia said softly to Zhu Yufeng, "Even if nothing changes this time, I'll still feel satisfied because I have the person I love, and I'm experiencing this story with him."

"Elysia ..." Zhu Yufeng's expression shifted, "I..."

"What happened to Lilith and the others?" Kevin asked.

Elysia: "..."

Kevin, can't you see the atmosphere?

"Even the ten Fallen Angel within Lilith's fold are not actually part of this story. The story I know is the story of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers. If it weren't for my intervention, perhaps... you wouldn't know them either," Zhu Yufeng said.

Kevin paused for a moment, then said, "We will succeed, we definitely will."

Pardo looked at Zhu Yufeng in silence, and she remembered what Zhu Yufeng had told her, "No one is Heroes by chance, and neither am I."

The group returned to the headquarters in a solemn atmosphere.

Before stepping off the transport plane, Elysia looked at everyone and said, "Don't look so gloomy. Now the Present everyone knows about this, we still have a chance to do better, right? Little Griseo is coming soon with Blanca, so we can't leave a bad impression on her."

"You're right, Elysia." Kevin stepped off the transport plane first. "But I also need time to think things over before they arrive."

"...Me too," Kosma said.

After a moment of silence, Sakura said, "I... I suddenly remembered I have something to do, so I'll take my leave first."

Pardo watched the others leave and scratched her head. "Well... do we need to think about it too?"

Sister Elysia is right. So what if the story isn't perfect? What's meant to happen will happen. Let's experience it together, fight together, and make changes together, isn't that enough? Why think so much?

"Don't shut yourself off like them." Zhu Yufeng reached out and patted Pardo's head. "Just be yourself."

"Oh."

A few days later, the Mobius 'Griseo lab. Hen and Blanca didn't invite many people, considering that the reputation of a certain stubborn doctor, Fire Moth, was extremely bad. However, Blanca insisted that Mobius attend as well, so in the end, not many people showed up.

"Little Griseo is as well-behaved as ever~" Elysia smiled and pinched Griseo's cheek. "Come on, say ' Elysia- neechan'~"

"Elysia, Griseo has only recently learned to speak," Hen said with a smile.

Little Griseo blinked her eyes and suddenly said in a childish voice, "Little sister Elysia."

Mark. "???"

What did his daughter just say?

Everyone looked over, and they exchanged glances, their expressions becoming somewhat complicated.

Elysia, the person involved, was stunned for a moment, but quickly recovered and said with a smile, "As expected of little Griseo, so smart~ So, what should Dr. Mobius ask?"

Mobius: "???"

Elysia, are you looking for trouble?

"Grandma Mobius," little Griseo said in her childish voice.

Blanca's eye twitched, and she quickly said to Griseo, "Griseo, please ask Mobius."

If little Griseo keeps calling her that, what if Maple also thinks the age gap is too big? She still wants to see little Griseo as the older sister helping Dr. Mobius take care of the children.

"Pfft..." Hen couldn't help but laugh and said, "Children say whatever they want, children say whatever they want. She's just a kid, isn't what little Griseo said her first impression?"

Blanca glanced at the mark.

Hen immediately changed his tune. "However, children's understanding of some terms is still a bit vague. We can teach them later."

He will do his utmost to convince Griseo that what he said is true.

Kosma looked at Griseo, and then remembered what Zhu Yufeng had told him: Griseo had lost contact during the Project Ark. He felt a little guilty and stepped forward, saying in a somewhat uncertain tone, "... Griseo... I am Kosma."

"Roar, Kosma!"

Kosma: "???"

Kosma looked at Elysia and asked, "What did she teach Griseo?"

Elysia tilted her head. This wasn't something she taught her. She looked at Zhu Yufeng, and Zhu Yufeng looked at Tianyuban.

The case is solved; it was this guy who taught them.