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

What a case of "Zhong Wuyan when you need her, Xia Yingchun when you don't"!

As it turned out, this frequent exploitation of entering that mysterious space brought trouble afterward as well.

Mei's speed at eating her own words was extremely fast.

It was just that Mobius, in her battle with her, had been beaten into a battle-damaged state by Raiden Mei, with several holes torn in her clothes, revealing the delicate skin hidden beneath.

Under such circumstances, Mobius still hadn't changed into pink clothes.

What a terrible shame!

She even angrily turned and walked away, not looking back.

Snakey throwing a tantrum after a loss, but still adorable.

["You already knew Mobius's true intentions long ago, didn't you?"]

["Oh my, Mei, how could you think that? If I knew, I would have definitely gone to help you long ago, right?"]

["Did you not hear everything I said to Mobius just now? It was only when she thought she could finally leave The Past's Paradise that she told me everything."]

Nothing to say, only silence.

Suspicious, far too suspicious.

The most common phrase Raiden Mei found herself saying in The Past's Paradise had become "...".

["It was only recently that I learned that Flame-Chasers like Mobius, who have ulterior motives alongside their inheritance... might not be few in number."]

["Take you, for example, Elysia... isn't your true purpose, like the bow in your hand... always waiting to be unleashed?"]

[Raiden Mei had realized that Elysia's previous battle with her had definitely been holding back.]

Mobius's existence had taught her that Flame-Chasers weren't necessarily good people.

Raiden Mei's assumption that the memory bodies couldn't interfere with her thoughts was also wrong.

Mobius had shattered all her preconceptions.

The power of the memory body Mobius had already made her battle difficult.

Elysia's earlier fight with Mei had clearly not used her full strength.

If Mobius's feigned innocence couldn't conceal her malice, under these circumstances, could Raiden Mei believe that Elysia's acting skills were just a bit better?

Elysia had other motives.

Raiden Mei could only think of such a reason to plausibly explain why Elysia was so enthusiastic.

Because Raven wore a hood that obscured her face, so she didn't come over to strike up a conversation?

...That kind of strange reason didn't seem to hold up.

A reason like something you'd use to trick a child—probably only Kiana back in her St. Freya days would believe it, right?

With this stretch of plot, the second main storyline of The Past's Paradise came to a temporary end.

Su Nian finished sorting through this segment of the story.

The viewers in the livestream room were now exploding!

Holy shit, no way!

Bro, you really write madmen!

They thought it was a traditional cliché scene—Mobius would have a sudden awakening, then go through that "redeemed and weakened by a third" plot.

That kind of thing is classic; using it wouldn't be a mistake.

But Su Nian took another sharp turn!

The reality was the exact opposite of what they thought. Mobius was a complete maniac, and not just in this one matter.

When she got ruthless, she'd even kill herself!

No action, just listening to the holographic projection Mobius left behind finish speaking, then confessing the truth herself...

This wasn't even the "villain dies from talking too much" trope.

It was her stalling for time to set a trap.

She'd even considered the life or death of her "betraying" assistant, Klein.

The only mishap was that Raiden Mei didn't die, but that seemed almost irrelevant.

Aside from getting beaten up, Mobius suffered no losses at all.

If the protagonist of this story were Mobius, she would have already succeeded by now.

And what Su Nian wrote was coarse yet meticulous, even revealing the whereabouts of the real Mobius.

That the real Mobius's death was caused by her own memory body was something that caught them completely off guard.

The anti-cliché play was just too smooth, while maintaining Mobius's character and adding to the foreshadowing laid earlier.

Furthermore, Elysia, set against Mobius's backdrop, was so excessively good that it aroused Raiden Mei's suspicion, and theirs as well.

[A character like this should be shaped just so—having her own villainous charisma.]

[The classic series of the past used to have this kind of plot too, but now it's getting rarer. Making someone a villain that everyone loves for being bad, then forcing a redemption arc—that's the worst.]

[If Elysia showed up in some other work about truth, goodness, and beauty, I wouldn't doubt her. But she can even get along with Mobius? Instead of keeping her distance...]

[That title of betrayer—wait, why are there only ten of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers left by the story's finale? Didn't only one person, Sakura, die??]

At this moment, someone finally realized the numbers in Kevin's story didn't add up.

Details determine success or failure!

Su Nian said how many went up and how many died, but who were the eight that went? Which ones died? Who had something happen to them before that?

None of that was mentioned at all!

Everything Su Nian wrote had been streamed live.

But even so, there was still so much they didn't know.

As expected of the Pit-Digging Immortal! These holes haven't been filled yet.

Only now were they beginning to see the tip of the iceberg of the massive pits Su Nian had dug.

[Bai Qi couldn't dig pits better than you!!!]

[How many holes does this story have! Please, I want to see what happens next!]

Otto watched this segment of Mobius's performance.

It seemed his earlier worries were unnecessary.

Mobius's personality was hard to control, but Su Nian had boldly taken on the challenge. He'd originally thought the end of the Previous Civilization was Su Nian forcing a conclusion.

But unexpectedly, Su Nian had written this part so well.

Otto didn't even have this deep an understanding of Mobius. How had Su Nian managed it?

Been busy with a lot of classes these past two days, so I'm a bit swamped. Typing in the dorm isn't free—can't disturb my roommates' rest—so I can only use my phone to write.

It's slower, but no big deal.

The real fight hasn't started yet. Don't underestimate me!

Getting fired up! There's another chapter coming.

Chapter 50: MiHoYo Famous Actress Skips Work and Hires a Stand-In (Big Mist)

The impact of Mobius's segment here, even if it's just text, is powerful enough.

Her image isn't yet clear or direct.

But this passage links Mobius to all those great villains.

Different wills, but the same kind of bad-guy charisma.

Aside from Mobius herself, the rest of the audience was very satisfied.

Mobius couldn't be happy.

She had just entered that mysterious state again. In this part of the story, Mobius even entered the man-made Honkai state.

Her power was ten times, even nine times greater than before!

And for this great battle, logically, Su Nian didn't need to describe much. Mobius could rely on her genius brain to fill in the details herself.

Even if this experience ended with her getting beaten down by Raiden Mei, experiencing that kind of power was worth it.

But unfortunately, Elysia directly pounced on her. Normally, it would only take a blink to finish experiencing this battle segment, which should have lasted at least a few minutes.

But she was interrupted by Elysia just like that.

"Dr. Mobius, why didn't cute little Klein come along? I wanted to rub her face again."

"...Elysia."

"I'm here?"

Well, actually, not experiencing that feeling of being filled with power wasn't so bad.

She didn't really want to fight that much anyway. After all, Mobius was just a frail researcher.

Sure, she was a bit fanatical about the unknown, but without the influence of the Honkai, she wouldn't be so obsessive.

Klein was here, Elysia was here, and the other friends were the same.

Right now, she was just interested in what Su Nian had written.

But she wouldn't say her true thoughts.

Mobius stubbornly said, "...Don't stick so close to me... We're not that close yet."

"But seeing this... don't you think it's interesting? I kind of want to change the team's name. Dr. Mobius, please be a Flame-Chasing Hero with me for life?"

"Elysia, I've never thought being your colleague was a pleasant thing."

The prickly Mobius and the enthusiastic Elysia bickered and fooled around in the meeting room.

The main story of The Past's Paradise could be divided into three parts.

One part was Elysia, alongside the other Flame-Chasers.

One part was Mobius, alongside the other Flame-Chasers.

And one more part was...

The most mysterious of the Flame-Chasers, Aponia.

But before the third part began, Raiden Mei's journey encountered a brief interlude.

The miHoYo Famous Actress learned of Otto's movements from Raven and left to visit another set to help her wife.

At the same time, she met the "Will of Honkai" for the third time—that being Him.

But the story had to continue; now was not a good time to insert the main Honkai plotline.

This story was only The Past's Paradise.

However, Raiden Mei's departure this time was not just a small interlude.

It was because...

This action of Raiden Mei's brought a hidden danger to The Past's Paradise.

Here, Su Nian briefly describes that incident.

Great, another pit added to the pile.

The incomplete story framework was full of holes.

But it didn't affect their reading.

[Raiden Mei learned something from Raven—something that made her unable to rest easy. For that reason, she temporarily left The Past's Paradise.]

[And Raven, seeking to steal a moment of leisure, stayed behind for now.]

[But her plan to slack off didn't go smoothly. No sooner had Raiden Mei left than a data issue appeared in The Past's Paradise.]