Griseo's Changes

"I really didn't expect... This child has learned so much in such a short time. Even if the Tenth Herrscher is far weaker than any other Herrscher individually, it's still..." Hen looked at Lilim, whom he had created with his powers, with some complicated feelings, and said, "No matter what, this is still a bit outrageous..."

"Yes... although they are Artificial Herrscher created by the Mu Continent, in this respect, we must admit that there may indeed be genetic factors from Maple and Lilith." Kosma said, lowering his eyes. When he learned that Thousandth Herrscher had attacked the place where Griseo and the others were, he subconsciously panicked. Even though Astaroth was right next to Griseo at the time, Astaroth had indeed accidentally injured Griseo with Honkai Energy in her previous life while protecting Griseo undergo the Fusion Warrior surgery to save her life.

However, he quickly convinced himself, because Astaroth the Present had a good grasp of her power, and back then Astaroth faced a huge number of Honkai Beast, while the one that attacked Griseo and the others was just a single Thousandth Herrscher.

It was unexpected that, even without Astaroth's intervention, Lilim was able to single-handedly kill the Tenth Herrscher... Although the Tenth Herrscher who attacked them was also a child, he managed to deceive the others and get close. After all, he could still be considered a Herrscher, especially since it was achieved through a sneak attack...

(Or is it that between Herrscher, or rather, the core of the Herrscher of Reason can react to the Herrscher Core of the Thousandth Herrscher? Tinghen said that when Herrscher of Reason first met Lilim already possessed basic combat instincts... It's also possible that the Thousandth Herrscher exposed her Honkai Energy before making a move, thus triggering Lilim's instinctive vigilance...)

Kosma's inner speculation.

Kosma is quite concerned about the Present lack of the Tenth Herrscher Core, but he really can't help at all. After all, he can fight on the battlefield, but research is just too much of a challenge for him...

Kosma's gaze then fell on Disaster, who had been using magic tricks to tease Lilim. Disaster... had always quite liked children...

Especially the Present... Disaster has learned some magic tricks, and combined with her telekinesis, she often performs these tricks with the children when they visit the orphanage on weekends. But in front of Lilim... it becomes Lilim imitating her. Disaster conjures small toys with her magic, and Lilim can actually create these things out of thin air...

(Although everyone still can't agree on who Kaede's other half is, and Kaede the Present is basically giving up... well, whoever it is, I really like Lilim.)

Kosma thought to himself, after all, shipping is shipping, and having a child is having a child; others can distinguish between these things.

At most Elysia and the others will have mixed feelings... especially Elysia.

There are also those who completely give up like Pardo, who don't care who Lilim is with, as she can still have fun with Lilim anyway.

(For Feng, the biggest change in this upheaval was actually what happened with Mostima... The list of Thousandth Herrscher changed, and Lilith becoming Herrscher was something that caught all of us completely off guard. If Lilith hadn't noticed something was wrong and rushed over in time... I really don't know what Feng would be like the Present...)

While Disaster and Lilim were performing magic tricks together, Griseo and Astaroth were nearby. One of them quietly drew, and the other quietly read. However, Astaroth would occasionally join in, using her special abilities to conjure up a few butterflies or something.

Griseo was focused on drawing portraits of Disaster and Lilim playing together... or at least that's how it appeared.

Griseo picked up her paintbrush and looked at the outlines of two figures on the canvas. She seemed to be thinking about how to paint next. She paused her paintbrush for a moment. She inexplicably remembered the painting the Present had not yet finished. That painting was originally meant to be given to Brother Yu Feng. Several years had passed, and to this day, she still had not finished it.

It's not that she didn't want to draw, it's just...

She always wanted to change something, to add something to the painting, or to change the structure of the painting, but she couldn't do it. No matter how she painted, it would only end up like the one in her Sixth life.

"But... Sister Disaster and Kosma have both changed..." Griseo her eyes. "Why? Why hasn't Brother Yu Feng changed at all?"

She still remembered the paintings she had given to Disaster and Kosma in her previous life. In the painting of Disaster, the girl was leaning against a tree, resting with her eyes closed. Beside her was the harmonica she had given to the boy. The expression on her face was somewhat lonely. The boy was standing in the distance, seemingly about to come over, but that distance seemed so far away and unreachable.

There's also a painting by Kosma, depicting a young boy sitting under a starry sky, holding a rocket model, gazing up at the stars in solitude.

The Present, in the painting by Disaster, the girl is still leaning against the tree with her eyes closed, pretending to sleep. The young man has come to her side and is playing the harmonica that she gave him. The girl's expression is no longer lonely, but truly relaxed and at ease.

As for Kosma's drawing, although it's only half finished, Griseo already has a rough idea of what it will look like. The boy will no longer need to gaze at the stars alone, because the girl will stand beside him, and... the stars. Yes, Kosma's stargazing seems to have changed too...

Griseo didn't know how she got this ability, and she couldn't explain it. She only knew that she felt she should draw it this way, even though she was internally resisting the final result.

She tried to paint other people's portraits without following her subconscious thoughts, wanting to change the final result herself, but the paintings she produced were all shapeless lines and messy blocks of color.

"Speaking of which...it seems I can draw Elysia's portrait too..." Griseo pondered. She had also wanted to draw Elysia's portrait, but in the end, what Elysia held in her hand was a blank canvas. She didn't know how to start drawing, as if she could draw whatever she wanted, or as if the painting was already completed before she even started drawing.

The Present, although his "Sixth" about Elysia's portrait is more vague than that of other portraits, he is certainly no longer a blank slate.

Griseo had a premonition that when she finally finished painting Elysia's portrait, it would definitely be related to Zhu Yufeng.

She had realized to some extent that her paintings might contain the future destinies of others, just like her mother Aponia. However... Aponia could know the exact course of her fate, while the fate foreshadowed by her paintings seemed somewhat abstract. Abstract, in fact, she herself only felt that she should paint it this way, but she couldn't quite explain how much meaning it contained.

If it were the Griseo of the past, she would naturally choose to remain silent and not think too much about it. After all, she was just a 12-year-old child back then. But this time, including the age of her rebirth... she's probably almost 20.

Before her rebirth, she had already developed doubts and curiosity about the concept of "death," and... had truly experienced the myriad aspects of life after the Finality. Originally, before the War of Finality, Griseo had already left Earth on the Ark, but this time was different, which influenced some of her thoughts.

Griseo was fully aware of the efforts each person made to fight against their original fate after their rebirth, and all of their efforts were clearly visible in her paintings.

But this time, her paintbrush no longer possessed the same ability to "predict" in advance as before. For example, before the Eighth Herrscher event, she couldn't draw a portrait of Disaster, or before the Ninth Herrscher event, she couldn't draw portraits of her own parents. Only one person's portrait remained accurate from beginning to end, and the accuracy couldn't be changed at all.

The situation has become very clear: in that perhaps not-so-distant future, Brother Yu Feng... will still "die"... It's unchangeable, there's no way to change it, all of everyone's efforts so far have been in vain, and no one can save Brother Yu Feng.

"Why? Everyone has tried so hard... Brother Yu Feng even saved Mom and Dad, but why... can't everyone change Brother Yu Feng's painting?"

Griseo thought to herself that everyone's portrait was blurry before the turning point of fate, but only Zhu Yufeng's portrait remained quite clear and unchanging from beginning to end.

Griseo wanted to tell others about this, but she ultimately chose to remain silent because, to others, she was just a child, and indeed she was just a child. Astaroth was Fusion Warrior, but she wasn't... Even others wouldn't give her the opportunity to come into contact with the "outside world."

Besides, even if I speak up, what effect will it have? Will anyone really take it seriously? Will what I say have any impact on others?

Yes, she still wanted to believe that even though Zhu Yufeng's fate was already determined in her writing, it was not unchangeable. Because in the previous chapter, she had painted portraits of other Flame-Chasers, but in the end, everything changed. For example, the portrait of Vill-V. After the Finality battle, when Griseo entered the Spiral Workshop and looked up at the painting that Vill-V refused to hang up, she suddenly felt that the painting on it should not be like that anymore.

If this can be changed, then there's no reason why Brother Yu Feng's portrait shouldn't be able to be changed...

The young painter is prepared to rely on his own methods to explore the path ahead, which is already known but seems to hold some hope. Since the future fate of the knight of the dawn is already predetermined, why not look for a glimmer of hope in the portraits of other people?

This is the only thing she can do right now.

By the way... as long as I focus all my attention on this, I won't have to worry about what Lilim calls me. Lilim calls Astaroth "aunt," but Dad still wants Lilim to call me "sister"... Shouldn't I be in the same generation as Brother Yu Feng?

And Mom too, Ai Ai and Dad are from the same generation as Aunt Mobius... If this is the case, won't she really have to call Aunt Mobius "Grandma"? It's better if she calls Elysia" little sister".

Griseo was still somewhat resentful about being taken to Mobius's lab by Blanca to try and bring Mobius and Zhu Yufeng together. Of course, the most important thing was that she inadvertently glimpsed Danzhu writing a poem about Su Feng. Although she only read a little before Danzhu discovered her and quickly covered it up, but...

Griseo said she didn't understand, but was greatly shocked.

Danzhu assumed that since Gretchen was only a few years old, she might not be able to understand so many words. If it were Griseo at this age in the past, she certainly wouldn't have been able to understand them either, but the current Griseo ...

Anyway, despite being disguised as a child, Griseo was forced to see a lot of things, such as when her father went to promote the Love Maple Cult, and when her mother and sister Klein encouraged her to form the Snake Maple Party... In any case, they didn't hide it from her, and even took her along.

Calling out her own father, does she really think she hasn't noticed all this time? So she's trying to use herself to set up Elysia and Brother Yu Feng?

However, she didn't really care at first, since she didn't understand these things... Regarding the pairing issue, Griseo said that if she had to say, she actually started out as Feng-Lilith Faction, and she only ever supported this one pairing related to Zhu Yufeng. After all, Elysia rarely appeared in the same frame as Brother Yu Feng, while Lilith was always by Brother Yu Feng's side. Basically, whenever you could see Brother Yu Feng, you could also see Lilith...

The portrait of Lilith is also the earliest one in the previous series that is related to the portrait of Brother Yu Feng.

"It seems that Lilith's portrait hasn't changed much..." Griseo thought. After her rebirth, she never thought of painting a portrait of Lilith. She only painted it casually when she was painting it last time. Among the Fallen Angel, she had only painted portraits of Zhu Yufeng, Lilith, and Astaroth.

How about... I try drawing a portrait of Lilith later...

Griseo's gaze fell on Lilim, then she fell into thought again. Everyone said Lilim was the daughter of Brother Yu Feng and Lilith, but how did Lilim come to be? She asked her father, but he wouldn't tell her... saying that children don't need to know these things...