For Protection Alone...

"Huh? What are you going to do with this?" Seele frowned as she looked at the Black Abyss White Flower in Zhu Yufeng's hand. "Don't tell me you're planning to take the Kevin Heavenfire."

"Uh... Brother Yufeng is using Kai's boss Tianhuo..." Pado stroked her chin and thought for a moment, "It doesn't seem... too out of place..."

"Could that Divine Key be stronger than Black Abyss White Flower?" Seele sneered. "Don't forget, back then it was Black Abyss White Flower that silenced the Finality for seventy-two hours, and even Heavenfire didn't know what to do!"

Of course! This is a key made from the core of my own Law, it's definitely stronger than that thing called Heavenfire!

Zhu Yufeng twitched the corners of his mouth and explained with some helplessness, "It's just that I don't really need the Black Abyss White Flower the Present, and you... as the former First Lawyer, are definitely the most compatible with the Black Abyss White Flower. Plus, this is your core material, so I'm giving it to you, which can be considered returning something to its rightful owner."

"Then what are you going to take?" Seele asked, frowning. "I don't really need it..."

Then she saw another golden sword, Black Abyss White Flower, appear in Zhu Yufeng's hand and fell silent.

"Huh? Huh—!?" Pardo's mouth dropped open. "W-w-w-w-wh... how come there are two Black Abyss White Flower? No, no, where did the other golden one come from?"

Zhu Yufeng clenched his fist, and the Black Abyss White Flower that had been conjured disappeared. Then he said to Seele, "The Present, can you believe that I no longer need the Black Abyss White Flower?"

Seele pursed her lips, stared at Zhu Yufeng without saying a word.

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Why does this girl look at me like I'm some scumbag who started a relationship and then dumped me? Wake up! Don't think you're some kind of magician!

Zhu Yufeng sighed helplessly and could only continue to explain, "At least, having this Divine Key can help you improve your the Present combat power. I... I don't want to see any of you get injured or killed."

Seele stared at Zhu Yufeng for a while before finally giving a reluctant look and saying, "Since you've said that, I'll keep it for you for now. Don't regret it later."

[Brother Feng is worried about our safety, and it's for our own good, isn't it? This truly proves that Brother Feng still cares about us.]

I knew that, but he couldn't just disregard his own abilities! How could that Black Abyss White Flower, which he casually conjured up, possibly have the strength of a physical body?

[Another Me...]

"So... what exactly was that glittering Black Abyss White Flower just now?" Pardo asked curiously.

"By utilizing the power of the First Law, and with the Black Abyss White Flower being the key to my divine power that I am most familiar with, I can easily simulate it," Zhu Yufeng said. "After all, the essence of the power of the First Law is understanding and creation. First, understand it, and then reproduce it through your own power."

"It sounds so complicated... Wait, Brother Yu Feng, how did you get first place...?"

Before Pardo could finish speaking, Seele covered her mouth and said, "Why are you speaking so loudly? Are you afraid no one will hear you?"

"Ah... oh... sorry, I got a little too excited..." Pardo said, touching her head. She immediately realized that what she said was inappropriate. Although there was no one else in the training ground, she was always worried that it might not be. If someone heard her say that, she would be in big trouble.

"It's alright, there won't be any outsiders here today." Zhu Yufeng smiled and said, "After all, after a fierce battle, the soldiers are all thinking about how to get a good rest. Only the two of you are so diligent in coming here to practice against each other."

Pardo had her hands behind her back, and her left toe was drawing circles on the ground. She couldn't very well say... that as a long-time "veteran" of the Fire Moth, she had fought on par with Seele, who had only been in the country for a few years, during training... It was understandable that she couldn't beat Hua and the others, since Hua and his group were truly battle-hardened, but Seele...

Seele crossed her arms, her gaze shifting elsewhere. She couldn't very well say... that as a former First Lady Lawyer, she had managed to hold her own against the most lazy of the Fire Moths from her past life during training... It was one thing to lose to Kevin, since Kevin and his group were truly indiscriminately attacking lawyers; after all, Pardo was the laziest among the Flame-Chasers, and yet, without relying on luck, she could still hold her own against a former Lawyer...

Zhu Yufeng glanced at this one, then at that one, and roughly understood what the two were thinking.

Feeling somewhat helpless, he felt a pang of guilt as his gaze fell upon Pardo. He didn't want Pardo to work so hard, since Pardo used to always try to slack off whenever possible. The Present Pardo working so diligently made him feel a little guilty.

For Pardo, her wishes have always been so simple. She doesn't have any grand ideals; she just wants to live a good life, and ideally, to be able to take a comfortable afternoon nap every day. If I told her right now that I was quitting and we were going to wander the world together, Pardo would definitely pack her bags and run away with me without hesitation...

Mostima, too, was always someone who liked to slack off and do nothing. But this time, to prevent the Fire Moth's network from being invaded and destroyed, she endured the pain Honkai Energy Corrosion by Honkai energy and several gunshot wounds, killed Gianna, whom she considered family, and used her last bit of strength to open the backup firewall...

It's not just them, but also all those other people who are running hard...

He really owes them so much.

If Lilith says this, she'll definitely criticize him again, saying that it's everyone's own choice and has nothing to do with him, but... that doesn't mean he can be indifferent.

On the path to saving the world, someone always has to make a sacrifice. He never wanted anyone he wanted to sacrifice for him. He didn't want to see anyone he wanted leave in front of him again, and he didn't want to experience the same kind of pain as the tragedy of the Restriction again.

At that moment, he clenched his fist so tightly that his fingernails dug into his flesh, drawing blood. But because of the special physique of the Fusion Warrior, it healed quickly. At that moment, he had never wished so much that he would leave alone, in exchange for the survival of the other Fallen Angel.

Call it arrogance or self-righteousness, this is his truest thought.

If the tragedy of the constraint were to happen again, and if he were to make the choice again, he would still choose to use the lives of other ordinary people to fill the upper limit of the Divine Blessing Barrier. He only wants to protect the people he cares about, while the others... are insignificant.

Happiness is a rare commodity, and for the sake of the person he wants to protect, he will not hesitate to plunder others.

This is Lucifer.

The Present, with the assistance of the Metatron's Cube in unleashing the powers of other Herrscher, compared to when she fought the Finality in her previous life, she can now stably control the Honkai Energy within her body and the powers she wields.

That's enough. It's more than enough to protect herself. Returning the Black Abyss White Flower to Seele will give her more means of self-protection and protection of others in critical moments.

Seele has always been like this; he's never lost a verbal battle, but his actions are always honest. At least... as the Present, Seele gets along well with everyone. In reality, Seele is much more humane than someone as useless as myself.

She said she hated the children chattering around her, but every week Seele would visit the orphanage to see the orphans. The old director who had adopted her had passed away not long after the Eighth Herrscher Incident due to the Corrosion of Honkai Energy, but even now, Seele would still occasionally go alone to mourn the old director.

She also has her vulnerable moments, but she is also so strong-willed that she doesn't want anyone to see her vulnerability.

Zhu Yufeng the Present still somewhat grateful that the Herrscher Core removal surgery was performed in a timely and successful manner, and both the Seele in front of her and the other Seele in her heart survived.

If the other seele disappears, the Present seele will probably collapse immediately, right?

After all, those two who are currently known are just like that... Veliona said not to worry about her, but in reality, the incident involving Thousandth Herrscher fully exposed that she is a proud and arrogant girl who is very afraid of being alone, even more so than White Seele herself.

White Seele can have many friends, but Veliona truly only has White Seele.

And the Present, the former Ming... well, although Seele often pushes the Seele who is more like White Seele to appear and interact with others, more often than not, White Seele will push Black Seele out soon after, letting her make more friends on her own.

Honestly... whether it's the former Ming Dynasty or the current Ming Dynasty, White Seele and Bai Seele are both the self-sacrificing type of girls.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yufeng lowered his eyes. The phrase "What has happened before will happen again" kept echoing in his mind. Did this mean that the world would still be destroyed? Would Elysia still leave in the end?

No, he would never let the latter retaliate; he didn't care about the former anyway, he never cared.

Furthermore, there's still no the Present on the matter of the 999 Thousandth Herrscher Cores. He had wondered if Lilith might be playing with her sister Gianna's Herrscher Core, but Lilith told him that she wasn't interested in it and only wanted to kill Gianna herself. However, watching Mostima kill Gianna would still be quite entertaining.

Did Lilith arrive at the scene and witness the whole thing?

There's clearly only one answer: she was absolutely present at the scene, but she chose to remain an observer... That's Lilith for you. She's always been like this, just as she's always said, "The only one I care about, the only one I love, is you, Maple. Aside from you, at most Elysia might pique my interest a little, but I never care about anyone else."

However, Lilith wouldn't just watch Mostima die, because she knew she didn't want that outcome, so even if she chose to stand by, she would still step in to save the day at the crucial moment.

That's why he couldn't blame Lilith for anything.

But that doesn't mean he had no objections; he simply told Lilith, "Don't let this happen again."

He didn't care what Lilith did to others, but he couldn't make fun of the lives of those he cared about. He told Lilith his bottom line, and Lilith wouldn't cross it again and again. This had always been their way of getting along.

Lilith would occasionally test the limits of his boundaries, but after observing his reaction, Lilith would decide whether to continue testing or not to touch him again based on her own reaction.

From beginning to end... I was completely controlled by this woman...

But the thought that even Elysia, the queen of lesbian romance in this Elysian Realm, couldn't outmaneuver Lilith suddenly made her feel much more at ease...

"The Present we can only hope that things will turn out well with Vill-V and Mobius..."

On the other side.

"Yes, Davien, unfortunately... our sister became one of the Tenth Herrscher during this upheaval. While we were all distracted by Fire Moth, she attacked Mostima, disabling Fire Moth's firewall and nearly causing the Fire Moth's secrets to be leaked." Lilith said to Davien, spreading her hands.

Davien remained silent. He wondered why it had to be his own sister. The last time they parted, Gianna had smiled and said goodbye to him. But soon after, in the safest place in the world, she became the Tenth Herrscher and participated in the great upheaval that nearly Fire Moth.

When he arrived, he saw all the departments still under maintenance. He never imagined that his sister would die because she became the Tenth Herrscher, not killed by the Honkai, but turned into Honkai by the Herrscher...

Having personally experienced the onslaught of Honkai Beast alongside Nahamah in Australia, Davien knew all too well that fighting the Honkai wasn't something that could be solved with mere words; it was simply a matter of...

"Then... what about Gianna's ashes?" Davien asked with some difficulty. He knew that the bodies of Herrscher were also important experimental materials. The body of the Second Herrscher had been dissected countless times. After that, apart from the Second and Eighth Herrscher Herrscher bodies were not recovered, and the Seventh and Ninth Herrscher who self-destructed, all the other Herrscher had been dissected for research.

The Tenth Herrscher is no exception, but this time, there are so many individuals among the Tenth Herrscher. Given the contributions the elder sister made to the Fire Moth, it's uncertain whether she can bring her younger sister's remains back to her homeland...

"Don't worry, our sister will come home. It was Feng who negotiated with her." Lilith said, shrugging. If Zhu Yufeng hadn't said so, she would have definitely taken the lead in dissecting her sister herself. But since her beloved Feng had said so... there was nothing she could do, right?

"Feng..." Davien's expression was complicated, "Really, we should thank him..."

"However, Feng has one condition: he wants Mostima to accompany Mostima back home after Gianna wakes up," Lilith said. "After all, Mostima has been taking care of Gianna most of the time since the Fourth Great Honkai."

"Well, that's certainly a reasonable condition. In fact... getting Gianna to come back with us would be the best outcome," Davien said, lowering his eyes.