Don't Bring Up My Cringe Past Again!

"Humans, hoping to bind the gods... indeed, it is a name that fits the key of constraint." Su said with a smile. He didn't know the specific process because he hadn't been to the moon, but hearing it from the people who experienced it at the time allowed him to see another side of Feng.

"Speaking of which, Yu Feng asked me the same question when we first met," Vill-V recalled with a smile. The current Vill-V is probably the Expert.

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Wait, let him think about it. The question he asked the Expert, Vill-V ... Masaka?!

Before he could stop him, Expert Vill-V continued, "He asked me if I could build a giant robot or something. He even came up with a name, Heavenly Thunder Zeus... I think that's the name. It's certainly a wild idea, and if conditions allowed, I'd love to make one myself."

"Heavenly Thunder • A Zeus?" Everyone looked at Zhu Yufeng, who looked utterly hopeless. "A youth without being a bit of Zhu Yufeng is a wasted youth," he said, adding that being a chuunibyou in public is a recipe for disaster.

Kosma's eyes were shining.

(Is that Heavenly Thunder • Zeus? Just the name sounds impressive, no wonder it's Feng.)

"...Handsome," he said.

Expert Vill-V quipped, "He even came up with names for the entire series back then, like twelve god-slaying spears, right?"

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Heh... hehe...

Elysia was a little unhappy. Damn it, why didn't she know any of Feng's secrets?

Wait, she suddenly remembered asking Feng a question... She looked at Zhu Yufeng: "Oh dear, I almost forgot about this if you guys hadn't brought it up. I remember when Feng was still in my team, I asked him what the scariest story he had ever heard was, and he said it was 'If you unfold, you'll definitely get stuck in a pit, and if you finish unfolding, you'll get bird eggs.' I didn't understand what it meant at the time, and he explained to me that it was a game term. As the strongest Fusion Warrior, you're actually afraid of this?"

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Is today a contest to expose his dark past? If this goes on, he might just pack up and run away!

"So Brother Yu Feng, you have this side to you too." Pardo said in surprise. At first, when Kosma talked about the Finality battle, she didn't feel anything, she just thought Brother Yu Feng was really cool when he said those words. But now, looking at it again... it seems like Brother Yu Feng is just being silly.

Suddenly, I felt a little closer to Brother Yu Feng. It turns out that Brother Yu Feng... is just an ordinary person.

"Maple does have a unique sense of humor in certain situations," Sakura said with a smile. "I also heard him sing a song softly once, but his voice was too low to hear clearly... It was something like summoning Aleister..."

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Sakura, have you betrayed us too?!

"Hmm, Feng helped me once during the Eighth Herrscher incident. I asked him if there was anything he could do for me, and he had me read a line." Su thought for a moment and said, "Starry Inner Sea, Platform for Seeing Things, From the End of Paradise, I invite you to listen. May your stories be filled with blessings. Innocent people, pass through! 'The Eternally Closed Ideal Land, Garden of Avalon.' At first, I thought it was a line from a play. Later, I consulted many books and even asked Eden, but I couldn't find any related text. Now it seems, Feng, you wrote it yourself, right?"

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Well... he just wanted to see if Su would notice anything, but thinking about how seriously Su recited the line back then, he suddenly felt like laughing. What should he do?

"Oh, he told me that too." Qianjie also activated his memory mode. "He asked me what it felt like to shout 'Let's die here!' on the battlefield. Hmm... Although it sounds imposing, I always felt inferior to others, so I never mentioned it again."

At that moment, Zhu Yufeng's communicator rang, and after answering, Mobius's voice came through. "Yu Feng, come to my temporary laboratory here now. I need your assistance with an experiment."

Dr. Mobius, you are my god!

"Since Dr. Mobius has spoken, I'll be leaving now." Zhu Yufeng turned around, intending to immediately leave the scene, when suddenly someone grabbed his hand.

"Kosma?" He looked at the still-naive boy with some doubt.

Kosma stared intently at Zhu Yufeng for a while before finally saying, "... Is there anything suitable for me to say?"

Zhu Yufeng: "..."

Is this never going to end?! Believe me or not, I'll teach Griseo to say "Roar, Kosma!" Wait a minute, I already taught her that... That's it...

He could only leave with the words, "When I have time," before hastily fleeing the scene.

"Did we go too far with our joke?" Vill-V couldn't help but chuckle as she watched Zhu Yufeng's retreating figure. Anyway, Feng wouldn't hold a grudge like that; after all, Feng knew quite a bit about his own embarrassing past...

He probably won't tell anyone...

Kosma was somewhat puzzled. Was this considered a joke? He thought Feng's lines and the Heavenly Thunder were all incredibly cool, except for what Elysia and Sakura said, which he didn't understand.

Just then, Kevin slowly spoke up, "I think Lilith knows more about similar situations."

The atmosphere fell silent again in that instant.

Mobius's laboratory.

"Doctor! Please feel free to ask if you need any help!" Zhu Yufeng said as he entered the room.

Mobius narrowed his eyes, then said somewhat displeasedly, "Yu Feng, I hope you won't always shoulder the responsibility of fighting the Honkai all by yourself. Besides, there are some situations that you can't change by being anxious now."

Zhu Yufeng almost burst into tears. "Doctor, you have no idea what I just went through..." But then he thought, "I'm afraid Mobius might reveal my embarrassing past again..."

He coughed lightly and said seriously, "So, Doctor, what experiment requires my assistance?"

Mobius took out a transparent container, in which a core emitting an eerie, dark green light floated silently. "As you can see, this is Shesha's Honkai Beast core."

Mobius suddenly hesitated. She looked at Zhu Yufeng seriously and said, "Try to touch this core and see if you can 'revive' Shesha. If you find anything wrong, be sure to tell me immediately."

Zhu Yufeng nodded, took the Rongxin containing the Shesha core from Mobius, opened it, and prepared to reach inside to touch the core.

Powerful Honkai Energy immediately overflowed from Rongxuan. Mobius's eyes narrowed, and he quickly grabbed Zhu Yufeng's arm, which was reaching into Rongxuan, with one hand. With his other hand, he picked up some kind of instrument, seemingly preparing to sever the connection between Zhu Yufeng and Shesha's core as soon as possible.

Even if Shesha is left with only one core, it can quickly revive under the right conditions, which is what makes it so terrifying. But something seems amiss.

Zhu Yufeng could feel the Honkai Energy emanating from him gradually flowing into his body, while the Shesha Core that he touched began to merge into his hand.

"Yu Feng, let go!" Mobius was about to cut the connection, but Zhu Yufeng stopped her.

"Don't be nervous, Doctor." Zhu Yufeng calmly watched the Shesha Core that was trying to integrate into his hand. He had a feeling that this might help him unlock something.

Suddenly, an unexpected change occurred. An intense pain, unseen for a long time, spread throughout Zhu Yufeng's body, causing his face to turn ashen in an instant. Meanwhile, a rare look of panic appeared in Mobius's eyes as she quickly considered whether cutting off Zhu Yufeng's hand could stop the phenomenon.

The half-melted core of Shesha seemed to have been rejected and "bounced" out of Zhu Yufeng's palm. Zhu Yufeng immediately withdrew his hand and closed Rong Xin's door.

Then Mobius pulled him aside and pressed him onto the operating table.

"PhD..."

Mobius completely ignored him, simply connecting the instruments one by one to him. Seeing the almost uncharacteristic anxiety and unease on Mobius's face, Zhu Yufeng chose to keep quiet.

Only after confirming that the instrument had not found any major problems with Zhu Yufeng did Mobius breathe a slight sigh of relief. She looked at Zhu Yufeng and asked, "Yu Feng, do you feel anything unusual in your body?"

Zhu Yufeng carefully examined himself and, to his dismay, realized he hadn't awakened any superpowers... Maybe he should cut off a piece of himself to see if he had Shesha's regenerative abilities?

"Not at the moment," he said.

After listening, Mobius sat wearily by the operating table. She said, "I was too hasty... I thought that now that you are the Herrscher's body, you could bring Shesha back to life, and that Shesha, influenced by you, would be more obedient than before. I'm sorry, Yu Feng..."

She knew she couldn't stop Zhu Yufeng's determination to fight against the Honkai. She had even experimented on herself before, but nothing like this happened.

Zhu Yufeng looked at the faint red lines that appeared from Mobius's fingertips to his wrist, symptoms of Honkai Energy Corrosion. Something seemed to be touched in his heart, and he began to reflect on himself.

Then, he reached out and grasped Mobius's hand. "Doctor, it's not your fault... I was the one who was impatient. I'm the one who should apologize. You're right, fighting the Honkai isn't just my passion... We don't need to rush, there's still plenty of time."

It's never too late to mend a broken fence.

He wouldn't wait until it was too late to regret it. The Honkai Energy Corrosion symptoms on Mobius's body were relatively mild; as long as he avoided contact with Honkai Energy during this period, they would subside on their own. However, if the red lines became obvious, even if the Corrosion area was small, amputation would be necessary.

"I'm sorry, Doctor..." He squeezed Mobius's hand.