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

Of course, Mobius was shaped to be exactly this dangerous—most of her words can't be trusted.

But whether they're true or false, Raiden Mei still has to play detective herself.

All her intelligence has been forced into the spotlight.

When she first came to World Serpent, Raiden Mei was still just a housewife.

Now she's completely transformed, become a great detective.

With insufficient information and both sides untrustworthy, the plot suddenly got brain-burning.

[Was this work originally a mystery genre?]

[I don't get it, I really don't get it.]

[Promise me, don't make things hard for your own people, hurry up and reveal the truth.]

[But it's all just a cover... fast-forward to the knife, the one they'll cut down is definitely our favorite.]

["Who killed Elysia?"]

Obviously, if Elysia had done anything to blame heaven and earth, her memory body wouldn't be preserved here.

So Raiden Mei chose to interact more with the other Flame-Chasers, trying to learn more information from them.

Mobius is the top-level dangerous element among the Flame-Chasers.

Humans have limits, so she advocates that to fight the Honkai, humanity needs infinite evolution—even if it means no longer being human.

On the Flame-Chaser relationship web, her connections with others... are very delicate. The four most meme-worthy categories are:

Want to research, already researched, want to research again, research repeatedly.

[After some investigation, Raiden Mei returned to the place they first met and chose to confront Mobius head-on.]

[All guesses are weaker than the truth.]

Raiden Mei went all in!

Passed out, woke up, still planning four chapters today.

Why is Mobius from the world without Honkai so small?

I'm into that ()

Snake addiction flared up, Snakey, my Snakey, small, soft, wicked, sexy, want to be tightly coiled by Snakey...

Chapter 48: To the Other Me in the World

[Trouble always comes knocking uninvited. After triggering the strange situation in The Past's Paradise, Raiden Mei got to know its administrator, Klein.]

[Then World Serpent sent the cadre Raven to obstruct her, trying to take her back. Perhaps she was already close to the truth.]

Elysia supporting her only proved she was doing the right thing.

Gray Serpent opposing her only proved she was doing the right thing.

Now Raiden Mei firmly believed she was walking on an absolutely correct path.

[Raiden Mei gathered information everywhere. She witnessed and learned about the form of the Flame Chasers, the truth of Klein's death, the technology of consciousness transfer, and Mobius's ability of immortality... Raiden Mei learned more and more related information.]

Mobius's story, and her personality, could be filled in quite a bit at this stage.

At least now, the framework of Mobius's story wasn't just her madness anymore.

But the little story wasn't over yet. Mobius's most unexpected point had yet to appear.

[Meeting Mobius again, Raiden Mei received all her Infinite Stigmata. Then Raiden Mei returned to the place they first met and encountered Mobius once more.]

["Big sister, do you remember what I said to you when we first met? What I wanted... was for you to take me away from here."]

["Stop joking, Mobius. You're the master of this place yourself, there's no need for me to—"]

[Raiden Mei sensed it, but it was impossible. Mobius was just a memory body...]

[Mobius had been tempting her all along... using vague truths as bait, step by step, luring Mei into her palm.]

[Now, Mobius had finally succeeded.]

[And her goal was Raiden Mei's body.]

But obviously, the last character related to a snake who tried to take over someone else's body...

Everyone knows how that turned out.

[At this point, there was only one way out—battle. Only one person could leave today.]

[Mobius sank into the ground, dark green liquid surging out, but sharper. Mobius transformed into... a monster-like form, half-human, half-snake, just like her attire. Was this the form Raven mentioned?]

[This was man-made Honkai, the true form of a Flame Chaser—Infinite: World-Devouring Serpent.]

["Don't tell me you still think... you have a chance to stop me now?"]

["In the past, it took three Flame-Chasers working together to achieve this. Do you think you can do it alone?"]

[The great battle was about to erupt. Winning might be a bit difficult.]

[However, many opposed Mobius. During the battle, Klein, as Mobius's assistant, chose to stand with Mei and offer her help.]

There were simply too many matters left unresolved among the Flame-Chasing Heroes.

Mobius's memory body... and the real Mobius were people from two different time periods.

Though Mobius was mad, she hadn't started out that way. It was only after the Thousand-Man Herrscher, after the death of Klein—her sole understanding companion.

The current Klein was an Armed Doll she had created, a continuation of Klein.

But in the end... Klein's death had still changed her.

["It's over, Dr. Mobius. No... perhaps I shouldn't call you that anymore."]

["Klein... why...?"]

["You should have understood me... You knew I would do this five thousand years ago... You never opposed me..."]

["Why... now... are you here to hinder me...?"]

The two faced off. A classic post-defeat trope—just a bit of talk-no-jutsu, and this incident would be wrapped up.

Seeing this, the audience breathed a sigh of relief. Surely, next would come the memory body Mobius admitting her mistake and reforming, at least leaning toward goodness a little?

After all, she was one of the Flame-Chasing Heroes, and she shared a bond with Klein. She couldn't possibly be deleted.

So they were certain the following plot would be a cliché redemption arc.

Watching Su Nian write up to the holographic projection left by the real Mobius, smiles had already appeared on the audience's faces.

[Mobius's projection spoke at length. Each death was like a snake shedding its skin, but her body grew smaller and smaller with each one. Reverse-growth resurrection from death did not equal infinite life.]

[Through her experiences, Mobius began to doubt herself, to fear the unknown that resurrection brought. Instead of retaining infinite possibilities, what finally woke her up was the death of Elysia... the person she had once despised most.]

[But her death made Mobius understand one thing: she was actually... also a failure?]

[All things must eventually pass; only death is eternal.]

[Having understood this, in the final days of the Previous Civilization, Mobius gave up on resurrection and embraced death.]

["Mobius, the other me in this world... can we say a proper goodbye?"]

With that said, the projection seemed nearly at its end.

The audience's smiles grew wider.

[Oneself is one's own medicine—I save myself!]

[A redemption spanning fifty thousand years? Cleverly arranged—relying on no one else but yourself]

[What's this, you can actually write a good ending after all...]

And then, their smiles froze on their faces.

Smile? They couldn't smile anymore!

[Mobius reached out her hand toward her memory body, and the other responded in kind...]

[But the two never touched each other.]

[Mobius channeled her power, and "liquid" formed into sharp arrows, piercing through the projection.]

This was the result of free will.

Another twist.

Redemption? Unnecessary.

["Walk your path... become you...? Don't make me laugh..."]

["What I want to do... is transcend infinity... transcend all possibilities..."]

["Your path... is nothing more than one... insignificant kind among them... that's all."]

[Why? The two were clearly the same individual, yet now their attitudes toward infinity were completely opposite?]

[Was it truly because of a friend's death that one had a great awakening?]

[No! Everything was because... Mobius's death was caused by her!]

[As a genius, even if just a memory body, if she had ill intentions, she could plant a suggestion in the real Mobius's mind without the "self" ever noticing...]

["Remember the last time she came to sync memories? That's right... during the synchronization, I used that gap... to bury a tiny seed in her memories."]

["Thank you, Klein... Only today have you finally let me know... that not only has it long since taken root and sprouted... but it seems the harvest has been quite bountiful."]

[She didn't need to become another Mobius.]

[Now, she was the true Mobius! The only Mobius!]

Now that's the right flavor.

"For a mad person, a redemption arc and turning over a new leaf would be nothing but a desecration."

Madness and pursuits incomprehensible to ordinary people—that was Mobius's greatest trait. How could it simply be erased?

Mobius's personal charm wasn't just about being a tsundere and having a sharp tongue!

The mischievous side, the scummy side—that was also part of her.

She would not become a positive character, nor did she need to.

[Everything was Mobius's plan, and now this clichéd melodrama was about to end.]

[Mobius had been stalling during their conversation, and in that time, she deleted the data here and closed the anchor points. Klein would only lose a bit of data, but Raiden Mei's probability of leaving alive was once again infinitely close to zero.]

At the same time, the fleeing Mobius was still planting flags over at Elysia's place.

One of the Past's Paradise's iconic scenes! The Pink Wriggly Snake.

["Not quite, Mobius. Someone who can make both you and me this interested—how could you possibly get your hands on them so easily?"]

["Elysia, don't you think your arrogance has limits? Do you really believe you can save her?"

"Ah, right—haven't you always wanted to see me wear pink?"

"I'm in a pretty good mood today. If she can still walk out of the Past's Paradise alive... I'll put it on for you right away. How about that?"]

Chapter 49: A Hard-to-Handle Negative Personality? Consider It Handled!

["Fine, then go ahead and wear it."]

[The moment Mobius finished speaking, Raiden Mei immediately picked up the conversation.]

["What...?!"] Mobius's grim face showed only shock. How was this possible? How could Raiden Mei still be alive?]

Ever since Mobius's blunder this time, Honkai Impact 3rd had gained a few strange "nicknames."

Island Exploding Crow, Purple Electric Dragon, Pink Wriggly Snake... or Green Pufferfish would work too, since Mobius, in this incident, was teased by Elysia for puffing up like an angry blowfish.

[It turned out that Raiden Mei had used her Herrscher Authority, drawing the attention of the Honkai, and entered that pure white space again, temporarily pulling the two of them out of danger.]

[Then, without hesitation, she left the Honkai hanging and returned to the Past's Paradise, right when Mobius had just planted her flag.]

If the Honkai truly had a will, it would be cursing its luck right about now.