Mei's Helplessness

"Please have some tea."

After their previous conversation, Dong Moxuan was brought into Mei's home. Sitting on the sofa in the living room, he faced Mei, who was wearing the Senba Academy uniform.

At that moment, the young lady was serving Dong Moxuan tea like a perfect lady.

"So, you were actually my father's former colleague, and you came to Changkong City this time for work. But your bank card was frozen, leaving you penniless, so you came to seek help from my father?"

Looking at Dong Moxuan, who picked up the teacup and gently sipped his tea, Mei had no intention of pouring herself a cup. Instead, she watched him with a hint of suspicion in her voice.

Just now, Dong Moxuan had told Mei everything about his circumstances. He had only made some minor changes to a few details, but that wasn't important.

"That's right."

After hearing Mei's words, Dong Moxuan set down his teacup, and his expression turned serious.

The following conversation would determine whether he spent the month living with a gentle housewife or ended up sleeping on the streets.

"Back when we worked together, Big Brother Ryoma once told me that if I ever ran into any difficulties, I could come to him for help."

Unfortunately, that guy can barely take care of himself now!

As soon as Dong Moxuan finished speaking, this somewhat gloomy thought surfaced in Mei's mind.

However, she didn't show it. She merely looked at Dong Moxuan, her eyes filled with suspicion.

"Then... what evidence do you have that you're a friend of my father's?"

That was right. Mei hadn't believed Dong Moxuan's story.

After all, no normal person would trust someone who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, whom they had never seen before, and claimed to be an acquaintance of their father.

If not for Mei's sixth sense telling her that Dong Moxuan wasn't lying, she probably wouldn't have bothered with him at all.

But intuition was just intuition. If Dong Moxuan couldn't produce solid evidence, Mei would immediately judge the young man's words to be a lie.

As for whether bringing this young man of unknown character home had been unwise...

Well, Mei was quite confident in her own combat ability.

Although Mei's strength at this point was nowhere near what it would be later in the story, she was definitely no ordinary person.

According to the manga's setting, Mei at the very beginning of the story, even without using the Third Herrscher's power, wasn't much weaker than Kiana at that time.

And Kiana's strength back then probably wasn't much weaker than that of a B-rank Valkyrie.

Mei's strength at this point might not have reached what it was at the beginning of the story, but defeating an ordinary Honkai Beast was still no problem.

Reality was different from a game. For the sake of gameplay and balance, the Honkai Beasts in the game were about the same size as the Valkyries.

The Honkai Beasts in reality were much closer to those in the manga.

As for the Honkai Beasts in the manga...

Forget everything else. Just take the one that sent Paramecium flying and directly caused Mei's Herrscher transformation. Whether it was Temple-class or Knight-class, that Honkai Beast stood several dozen meters tall and looked as though it had wandered over from the neighboring Ultraman set.

So the Valkyries of this world really were incredible...

As for ordinary Honkai Beasts, even if they weren't several dozen meters tall, they had to be seven or eight meters at least!

A seven- or eight-meter-tall Honkai Beast could slap Immortal Crimson Kite into a Shenzhou tablet with one swing of its arm. Mei could defeat one of those beasts alone. Tell me, weren't you scared?

That was also why Mei wasn't afraid that Dong Moxuan might be a bad person.

"I have evidence!"

However, this weak, pitiful, and helpless dead apostle named Dong Moxuan truly had no ill intentions toward the future member of the Three Great Herrscher Families.

Faced with Mei's doubts, he immediately declared that he had evidence.

"Look, this is a photo of me and Big Brother Ryoma."

As he spoke, Dong Moxuan pulled a photograph from his clothes and handed it to Mei.

Mei took the photograph Dong Moxuan offered her. The moment she glanced at it, her expression froze.

"Mr. Dong Moxuan..."

Mei took a deep breath, as if suppressing her emotions.

She turned the photograph toward Dong Moxuan and forced an extremely ugly smile.

"This is the photograph you were talking about?"

The photograph did indeed show two people together. One of them was Dong Moxuan, but the other wasn't Raiden Ryoma. It was a voluptuous blonde woman with a full figure.

Raiden Ryoma's head had simply been pasted onto her body in an extremely crude edit, filling the entire photograph with an air of "high technical skill."

"Um..."

Looking at the black-haired, long-haired girl's unpleasant expression, Dong Moxuan cautiously said in a soft voice, "Maybe Big Brother Ryoma trained especially hard during that period, so his chest muscles looked a little bigger?"

Mei: "..."

Seeing Mei open and close her mouth as if she wanted to start swearing, Dong Moxuan hurriedly pulled another photograph from his clothes.

"Sorry, I took the wrong one by accident. This is the right one."

"..."

Mei silently took the second photograph from Dong Moxuan.

Then she saw Raiden Ryoma in the photograph, along with an old man in a black suit standing across from him.

Well, the old man's head had been edited to look like Dong Moxuan.

Mei: "..."

Dong Moxuan: "..."

After the two stared at each other for a long while, Mei seemed to have reached the limit of her patience and was about to explode and start cursing. Dong Moxuan gave an awkward smile and handed over a third photograph.

"..."

Mei took the third photograph from Dong Moxuan and decided that if it was anything like the previous two, she would throw this bastard out immediately.

However, Dong Moxuan seemed to know that Mei's emotions were already near the breaking point, so he stopped fooling around. The third photograph he handed over hadn't been edited at all. It truly showed Raiden Ryoma and Dong Moxuan.

Raiden Ryoma was wearing a blue shirt, while Dong Moxuan wore a white lab coat. They had their arms around each other's shoulders, looking like a pair of close brothers.

"Phew..."

Seeing that the man had finally stopped fooling around, Mei let out a deep breath.

As a well-bred young lady, Mei had never lost her composure like this before.

It was just that the man in front of her was far too annoying, making her unable to resist the urge to hit him.

Should I say, he really is the friend of my irresponsible father?

Just like her father, he was no good either.

Because of a certain unscrupulous dead apostle, the evaluation of a certain daughter-obsessed father in his daughter's heart had fallen another notch.

"Mm, there's nothing wrong with this photograph."

Rubbing her temples helplessly, Mei acknowledged Dong Moxuan's identity.

Although the photograph in her hand could also have been edited, Mei's intuition told her that Dong Moxuan wasn't lying.

Besides, whether Dong Moxuan was her father's friend wouldn't have much effect on the decision she was about to make.

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