You asked for healing, but you wrote Honkai Impact 3rd?

[After battle after battle, Raiden Mei encountered some of the Flame-Chasers in The Past's Paradise.]

[But her conversations with them were mostly superficial...]

Su Nian had already glossed over Raiden Mei's first meetings with them.

The Flame-Chasers had eccentric personalities—every type of person imaginable. And when it came to a successor they'd never met, one who was even a Herrscher...

Only Elysia could be relied upon without reservation.

[Through repeated challenges, the Flame-Chaser who left the deepest impression on Mei was a muscular man wearing a mask.]

[His behavior was a far cry from the "warmth" Elysia had described.]

Chijie—hot on the outside, soft within. That was how he could be described.

Though his temper was indeed a bit explosive.

[Then there was another Flame-Chaser, Mobius. Everyone warned Mei not to trust Mobius, not to approach Mobius, yet no one would speak of her directly.]

Almost everyone had cautioned Mei to be extra careful around Mobius.

The Moth of the Fire's survival manual had a mandatory reading item: "One Hundred Questions on Chijie's Mask."

And one piece of honest advice.

Never get on Mobius's operating table.

Only Hua was tough enough to survive—using all her luck on staying alive—to be repeatedly studied by her and still live.

[None of them told Mei much about Mobius, but Detective Mei, through bits and pieces of clues, had roughly pieced together something about her.]

[But these deductions only clarified the surface; the questions in her heart only multiplied.]

The Past's Paradise, as a database, operated far too inefficiently; as a trial ground for inheritance, its cost was far too extravagant.

She knew nothing.

[Seeking the truth, Raiden Mei was eager to take the plunge.]

[After battling Elysia and then talking heart to heart, Raiden Mei obtained... the meaning of The Past's Paradise, and the qualification to go deeper and meet Mobius.]

[Elysium Everlasting recorded a simple story.

Leave hope for future generations, not hatred or resentment.

Give all who come after the beauty they themselves never received.]

[Elysia earnestly shared all her insights with Raiden Mei.]

[Mobius was waiting for Raiden Mei's visit, as her first encounter with the dark side of the Moth of the Fire.]

[She gifted Mei a purple Crystal Flower, then departed. Raiden Mei crossed the threshold and stepped into deeper shadows.]

But what came next was a bit more... unsettling.

[Raiden Mei looked around. The scene was strange, but she saw no one.]

["Oh my, what a rare guest..."]

["Who's there?"]

["Herrscher big sister, how about we do something fun together?"]

[Raiden Mei's head snapped up. She saw... a giant—larger than her... no, several times bigger than Kurikara—a "snake."]

[The green hill she'd just seen was its fingernail. Raiden Mei was standing in its palm!]

[At first, Mobius seemed harmless, even friendly, but Mei quickly saw through her act.]

[Mobius was never one to be underestimated. Mei spoke with her without guard, and at Mobius's hint, Mei suddenly realized something, but... it was too late.]

["Come now... my little white mouse."]

[Shadows crept over her skin, seductive whispers slithered like serpents, seeping through the cracks of her thoughts—]

Good night. Managed to write 8,000 words today.

The 15-chapter bounty is maxed out on debt. This is chapter 7 of repayment.

Book recommendation time, written by a friend.

One day, after releasing a Genshin Impact fan game he made, Gu Jing accidentally transmigrated.

And not only that—this fan game's footage started broadcasting worldwide, and the protagonist was him!

So...

In-game footage:

Amber: "Gu Jing, your world won't have me anymore. It's okay, you have to be happy, Gu Jing. Gu Jing, how can I live without you!"

Arataki Itto: "Gu Jing, you're a piece of xx. Remember what I said. I'll curse you out on Inazuma's main street. Come on, Kuki, give him a show."

Klee: "You think you can fight? What's the use of being able to fight? In this world, you need connections, you need backing. Which gang are you from? Hah, just a small fry."

And so...

Gradually, Gu Jing became the root of all evil, a scumbag hunted by ten thousand.

Chapter 47: Detective? Better to Just Barge In

Raiden Mei's first meeting with Mobius was indeed far from pleasant.

The memory-construct Mobius seemed a bit too extreme, and she certainly harbored ill intentions.

But clearly, Mei couldn't possibly die here.

She was someone capable of fully and lucidly controlling the Herrscher of Thunder's power.

And with her identity as a "camera," Raiden Mei absolutely couldn't be killed off by Mobius like this.

Besides, no matter what went wrong, Elysia was still here.

But Su Nian cut the chapter off.

Right there.

Mobius's eyes narrowed slightly, her pupils tinged with blue and red light contracting sharply.

Finally, it was her turn—the images hidden within those words.

She seemed to see... this wonderful feeling...

Had Kevin and Elysia experienced this before?

Mobius's memory-construct also contained extraordinary power; just a brief taste left her craving more.

But before she could fully savor this mysterious force, her consciousness was abruptly yanked out.

Su Nian had written far too little about Mobius's storyline. She had just begun to experience it when the content ran out, unable to auto-generate the visuals, cutting the experience short.

Blue-balled!

Originally, Mobius had read these scenes with no emotional ripple, even feeling it was a waste of time.

She might as well return to the Mu Continent to continue her exchanges and studies.

Her poor assistant, Klein, was still left there working overtime, representing Mobius in dealing with the other experts.

But now Mobius had tasted this feeling.

Her heart instantly lost its calm.

Research... wasn't actually that important.

The mysterious, unknown event had left Mobius deeply fixated after experiencing it.

For a researcher like her, what could be more attractive than the unknown?

Nothing, presumably.

As a researcher, Mobius firmly believed that no supernatural power existed in this world.

But now, that belief was shattered.

What lay before her was no illusion—it was too real to be fake.

"Dr. Mobius, did you see it too?"

"Quiet. I'm thinking."

"Thinking about what? About another world's version of yourself?"

"..."

Mobius tucked away the dangerous thought that had just crossed her mind—the idea of capturing Su Nian and interrogating him.

Forget writing about The Past's Paradise—hurry up and publish a Mobius biography!

Let her go through everything related to Mobius, so she could better study the relevant matters.

This situation was far from as simple as it appeared on the surface.

But that idea wasn't really feasible.

Su Nian was a public figure now; kidnapping him into a dark room to force him to write on demand was obviously too risky.

Given Mobius's style, she should act like a snake, lurking in the shadows and slowly consuming her prey.

She'd just wait and see what Su Nian wrote next. After all, the flawless Klein was handling things over in Mu.

At that moment, Su Nian stopped his typing, rubbing his brow with some fatigue.

This segment of getting to know the Flame-Chasers was a necessary setup.

Only like this could the knives later cut deep and unforgettable.

Delivering a knife wasn't about stabbing blindly.

If it were truly random, there's no way thirteen characters dying over forty times wouldn't have sent the players into a rage.

It was precisely because of empathy, because of love for the characters, that their deaths became all the more poignant.

But the problem was, introducing every single Flame-Chaser like this made the length a bit too long.

Everything is for the sake of maintaining the persona.

Even if you want to fast-forward to the Past's Paradise popsicle-melting segment, you can't skip this part.

[For some unknown reason, after Raiden Mei lost consciousness and woke up again, she found herself back in the main hall of The Past's Paradise.]

[The destination she thought she'd reached—was it actually the starting point she'd set out from?]

[Mobius didn't hand over the sigil to Raiden Mei, but she kept tempting her here. Just then, Elysia arrived in time and snatched the opportunity away.]

[But the way Mobius addressed her was a bit concerning... "Traitor."]

This title stirred Raiden Mei's suspicions. Players who already had a stereotypical impression of pink-haired two-dimensional characters as secretly dark-hearted began to doubt this inexplicably warm guide from this point on.

In this world, there are characters like Yuno Gasai too.

The audience couldn't help but feel suspicious when they saw this.

Elysia's personality was so perfectly good that it felt unreal.

How could anyone be born with such pure and kind nature?

Everyone has been beaten down by society. Good and kind qualities might exist, but they've never been seen—rarer than finding a needle in a haystack.

They seem to exist only in humanity's ideals.

[Mobius warned Mei never to trust Elysia, that she was forever the least trustworthy one, not even a little bit.]

[But everyone warned Mei not to trust Mobius.]

Now... two world-famous paintings were born.

"Raiden Mei caught in the Asura field between Miss Pink Fairy and Miss Green Snake Lady."

And... "Kiana in Anti-Entropy."

Trust one of them, or trust neither?