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"So... the final arrangement is that, until the more detailed test results come out, Feng will stay in the ward where Astaroth is?" Disaster said, biting her straw.

She was sitting in a coffee shop, next to Kosma, and across from Michael.

As she spoke, her gaze kept shifting between Kosma and Michael. Now she knew that the person who had quietly left breakfast without disturbing her and Amo while they were kissing was Michael. But... for some reason, Amo and Michael seemed to have an instant connection.

Michael had only recently joined the Fire Moth, and Amo and Michael had only known each other for a few days. At least in her memory, Amo had never met Michael before, and she was almost always with Amo... Therefore, there shouldn't be a childhood sweetheart relationship like that between Maple and Lilith...

However, why did she always remain silent when communicating with others? Why did Amo talk so much more when talking to Michael? This made Disaster feel even more unhappy. What's more, it seemed that the two of them were hiding something in their conversation.

There's a feeling of "I'm Amo's girlfriend, but I'm the outsider in the end."

"Yes, although Astaroth doesn't care where she'll be placed, when I talked to her before, her only requirement was that Feng could spend time with her regularly," Michael said with a smile. "However, I didn't tell her when the council representative asked me about it later."

"Once those words are spoken, it will become the basis for the council to force Maple to send Astaroth to the Deepest Place Abyss. Given Maple's personality, he absolutely does not want that to happen," Kosma said thoughtfully. "Moreover, the Deepest Place ... is certainly not a place for a child..."

Not only Astaroth, Griseo also went to the Deepest Place. However, at that time, before he returned from his self-exile, Astaroth was there to take care of him, in addition to Aponia.

Thinking about this, Kosma actually felt somewhat guilty towards Astaroth. He was one of those who feared Astaroth because of Astaroth dangerous abilities. After he returned to the Fire Moth, Astaroth and Griseo could only meet in private. Later, he even asked Maple about it, and Maple's answer was...

That was Astaroth's own choice.

The Ninth Herrscher Astaroth, accidentally injured Griseo, causing Astaroth to avoid seeing Griseo for a period of time afterward. This was also one of the reasons why Astarte didn't want Griseo to get close to Astaroth. So, that child...

He saw Astaroth as Fallen Angel with dangerous abilities and amazing achievements, but he also overlooked the fact that she was just a child a few years older than Griseo...

If I hadn't questioned Kevin and Feng's behavior and style back then, leading to a break with them and not even asking what the situation was, if I hadn't been prejudiced against them because of their status as Fallen Angel, why would the two children only be able to secretly meet when I'm not around?

Kosma harbored resentment over this incident. He even wondered if Griseo's recent lack of closeness to Maple was because of his past actions, where he felt he didn't support Maple's relationship with Astaroth, leading to her distancing herself. Although he himself felt that Maple probably held a higher position in Griseo's heart than himself, making it unlikely...

He tried everything he could to rebuild the friendship between the two children, but on the one hand, Griseo seemed determined not to go out, and on the other hand, Kaede felt that Griseo might genuinely not want to go out.

This gave Kosma a real headache.

(Wait, all along, I seem to have overlooked something... Griseo... she's 18 years old now, not the 18 she looks like...)

Michael said that Astaroth meant that it didn't matter if she went to the Deepest Place herself, as long as Feng could accompany her regularly. This made him suddenly realize something.

It's not that Griseo doesn't want to go out; it's that Griseo doesn't want to give up Maple, and then she feels that everything she had before should belong to Astaroth, so she's conflicted and that's why she doesn't want to go out.

He seemed to have overlooked something because of Griseo's appearance: Griseo was also a child like them, but in most cases, they would exclude Griseo when discussing certain matters, Griseo her like a child in their Indian culture.

But people eventually grow up, Griseo's experience is no longer that of a child.

Moreover, Kosma also knew one thing: Griseo was very good at hiding some of her thoughts...

Kosma still remembers when Griseo her birthday years ago, Zhu Yufeng made all sorts of arrangements and underhanded operations just so that she could have a chance to play with Ugar. When Ugar was on his back, they were responsible for providing cover while he and Griseo were video chatting... It's true, it's been a long time since he's seen Griseo smile so happily.

The last time I saw her smile like that was when Hen and Blanca were still alive in the previous life. After that... due to the side effects of the Fusion Warrior surgery, Griseo almost never showed any expression anymore. After that, although Griseo was no longer affected by the side effects, her expressions changed almost as little as Maple's, and when she did change, the change was very small.

(I need to talk to Maple about this later... No, since I can think of it, Lilith and Elysia probably thought of it even earlier than me... And, in that case, Griseo really needs to be willing to contact Astaroth first... Besides, since SEELE can become human again by extracting the Herrscher Core, can't Michael do the same? And, when the Eleventh Herrscher was created, Michael was already an adult, so there wouldn't be any problems.)

Kevin and the others have been shipping this couple for so long, and I'm only getting into it now, but Kosma doesn't think it matters.

In fact Kosma and Michael had a good relationship. In their previous life, they had similar ideas. They would rather suffer two harms themselves than let others have the best of both worlds. As a logistics soldier, Michael had many opportunities to interact with Kosmo. So, during casual conversations, Kosma knew that Michael liked Zhu Yufeng.

She also knew that she desperately wanted to pull Zhu Yufeng back from that path of no return.

Unlike him, Michael didn't really care about being Heroes; she just wanted to help as many people as she could.

He didn't know that Michael later went mad because his obsession was too deep...

"What are your plans after this?" Kosma asked. Because Disaster was there, he felt that if he met Michael alone, it would cause Disaster to misunderstand. So when he met Michael, he didn't avoid Disaster but went with Disaster.

But this means that when it comes to certain things, you can only use riddles.

"Arrangements? I think it's best to let things take their course," Michael said with a somewhat helpless smile. "However, I haven't changed at all, and I won't."

"Hmm...that's right, there's plenty of time ahead," Kosma said. "If you need any help, I can..."

Kosma's words abruptly stopped as he felt the strange gaze from the person beside him, and a hand gripping his waist... Feng had previously told him that Elysia would pinch his waist when she was in a bad mood, so was Disaster... in a bad mood now? He needed to seriously reflect on where he had said something wrong...

Michael chuckled softly when he saw the change in Kosma's expression. From the moment she met Kosma, she noticed that Disaster's gaze was strange, as if it were scrutinizing her. When she was chatting with Kosma, it was hard not to notice Disaster's gaze constantly moving over her, Kosma, and herself.

Kosma seemed too busy confirming things with himself to pay attention to his girlfriend's thoughts. Although Kosma brought Disaster along to avoid any misunderstandings, some of the conversations between Kosmo and Disaster, which Kosma couldn't keep up with, still caused some Disaster for Disaster.

However, compared to Feng, who lacks self-awareness and is good at slacking off, Kosma is considered to have high emotional intelligence among the Flame-Chasers of the Fire Chaser.

That's not right either; there are only a handful of male characters in "The Fire Moths".

"You two seem to be having a good time, but could you say something I can understand?" Disaster said somewhat discontentedly. Apart from the conversation about Astaroth, she couldn't understand anything else.

She was quite familiar with this kind of chat, sometimes when Feng and Elysia talked, they would use chat in a way she couldn't understand.

So why would Amo have such a long chat with Michael he hasn't known for very long? Something's fishy, definitely something's fishy!

Although she understood and trusted Amo's personality very well —Amo after all, Amo's actions for her in the Eighth Herrscher case were the most compelling evidence—this kind of conversation, which only she couldn't understand...

Could you make it a little less?

Moreover, she had just compared herself to Alice and Mobius. Although she was not as good as Elysia and Mebius and was a bit worse Lilith, she was not inferior to Michael, was she?

Michael's gaze became somewhat playful. She wasn't entirely indifferent to something, because Lilith had deliberately teased her about it many times before... so she was quite sensitive to these kinds of thoughts.

"Yes, indeed, some things should be made clearer, but perhaps Kosma feels it's a bit inconvenient to say it directly." Michael quickly adjusted his mindset and said with a smile, "I like Maple, so I'd like Kosma to do me a small favor."

"Huh?!"

Disaster was taken aback.

My favorite... is it maple leaves?

Suddenly it wasn't an accident anymore... Let her think about the Present now. Besides Elysia and Lilith, who are leading the pack and seem to have formed an alliance, there's also Pardo, whom she supports, as well as Mobius, Vill-V, Sakura, and so on...

It's not surprising that Michael is added to the Present... Lilith can be a childhood sweetheart, and judging from Michael's tone and their previous conversations, Michael and Maple probably knew each other a long time ago, or maybe Michael had seen Maple when she was on a mission before. If it was love at first sight, then Seele could probably be considered as well.

The only surprise was...

Disaster glanced at Kosma and pinched his waist slightly.

Kosma: "?"

Why? Why are you still pinching me? Didn't Michael say...?

Disaster said irritably, "I never expected this, Amo, you actually betrayed me like this. I thought you would continue to support Pardo with me."

Kosma: "..."

Is it possible that he initially supported Michael, but the game started too early and Michael hadn't even entered the fray yet? So he had to side with Pardo along with Disaster. And this was just to balance things out a bit so that Elysia and Lilith wouldn't get too far ahead... Although, in reality, Elysia and Lilith were almost invincible, especially Lilith.

Michael shook her head with amusement. She'd witnessed more of the same things these Fire Moth few days than she'd in her previous life. In her past life, hardly anyone discussed Maple's other half; after all, Elysia, the only one who could rival Lilith, was nowhere to be found... If she had Elysia's incredible start, what would be the point of Herrscher of Reason?

In my past life, apart from the Feng-Lilith Faction, there were not only fewer other shippers, but also fewer people.

This life is really good, with both the craggy peaks and the towering trees in full bloom.

There are equally matched parties like the Feng-Lilith Faction and the Maple Love Party, as well as the Snake Maple Party, the Wei Maple Party, and so on. Here, I'd like to call out a certain super fanatic who puts up bets everywhere. Today he's on the Maple Love Party, today he's on the Snake Maple Party, and he'll run to whichever side has more fun.

There are even bizarre pairings like Kaifeng, Sufeng, and Jiefeng, which are quite popular among female warriors. They even secretly shared some of their own fanfiction with her. Michael said she didn't understand, but it was truly eye-opening.

Even in her past life, she didn't have this many things, much less this many strange occurrences.

Moreover, many people seem to have some misunderstandings about Feng? In some chapters about Feng, he is portrayed as a domineering CEO, which is particularly common and obvious among Su Feng fans... But the problem is that this guy is only outwardly stoic, but inwardly he is cunning and immature.

He also has some mild social anxiety, and in his previous life he was basically manipulated by Lilith, although he often managed to turn the tables on her because of his straightforwardness.

In short, he has nothing to do with domineering CEOs.

I also have to Beifengge here. It's this guy, B. He's involved in all sorts of fandoms, including the Kaifeng faction, the Sufeng faction, and the Jiefeng faction. He even wrote several chapters that made girls exclaim "god-level" (or "divine").

Are you really not afraid of getting beaten to death by Feng one day?

Anyway, Michael plans to show these to Zhu Yufeng later. As for what happens after that, it's up to Beifengge to decide; it's none of her business.