Volume Five: Return from the Other Shore - Chapter 422: A Fated Reunion (?)

The rescue force of Nid, late at night on the fourth day of their expedition --

Beautiful silver light condensed at the foot of the bright moon, carrying her flying through the air.

With no troops or attendants by her side, she had long ago used various seemingly normal reasons to send away the squad assigned to her by the Second Division commander, and was happy to have some peace and quiet.

The cool spring night breeze caressed her long, jet-black hair, and the Gold Silver Orange, and orange moonlight shone upon her, making her look like a goddess of the moon, beautiful and holy.

--If her hand hadn't slipped inside her cheongsam's high slit to play with her panties.

"Hmm~~♪ Xiao Ye ~~~"

While playing, she hummed the name of her beloved, but being severely tone-deaf, she couldn't find the right pitch at all, and her humming was anything but pleasant to listen to.

The panties she's wearing now aren't her usual light black drawstring panties; they're a light pink pair adorned with small floral patterns. She secretly found them in the luggage of a pink-haired single mother—and they're the original, unwashed, vintage pieces her owner had only worn a few days before leaving them unwashed! ☆

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, where did you go? Come back quickly so I can replenish my Ye Jiang's love energy~"

She continued to play with the panties she was wearing, sometimes pulling them up, sometimes smoothing out the wrinkles. The softest fabric that had once clung tightly to her beloved's [censored] was now covering her [censored], which was really exciting... Oh dear, just thinking about it made her a little wet again.

"Tsk tsk, I'm really getting worse and worse. I need to control my fantasies and masturbation."

It's a good thing she still has some self-awareness.

"It's so lonely without Xiao Ye... and now I have to go pick up Xiao Nid, what a hassle..."

To be honest, Haoyue didn't care whether Nid lived or died, since it was none of her business. But that would probably put Xiao Ye in a difficult position, so she decided to save the kid for now.

"Let's just go through the motions for now, anyway, the chances of me running into him are incredibly slim (flag)... Hmm?"

The Moon Elf flying around her suddenly started behaving strangely, leaping and bounding about as if they had encountered something that was making them restless.

Moon Elf are very sensitive to high temperatures.

Could it be...?

Haoyue immediately lowered her flight altitude and squinted to observe below—she quickly spotted a thin column of smoke about to dissipate. If it weren't for the exceptionally bright moonlight tonight, even with her eyesight, she would have had difficulty noticing it.

Looking down along the plume of smoke, one could barely make out the campfire that was not yet completely extinguished.

"... Well, it seems my luck is just incredibly good."

She sighed inwardly. To be honest, she didn't want to have direct contact with men, but she would just have to make do for now.

The moonlight beneath them faded, and the bright moon descended upon the makeshift camp. In that instant—

"Oh?"

A sudden chill ran down her spine, making her dodge the ambush in the darkness. At the same time, she heard a hissing sound behind her, and a burning smell entered her nostrils.

"Strong acid?"

Starting from this point, dozens of streams of acid shot towards Haoyue from beneath the leaves and grass. Haoyue simply swung her sword, and an orange-yellow light enveloped her, blocking all the corrosive effects of the acid.

"Moon Elf, wipe them out!"

Instantly, a dense swarm of silvery-white light spots scattered in all directions, bombarding the direction from which the acid had come! From the rising dust came chirping sounds, and several eyeballs with membranous wings broke through the Moon Elf's encirclement, crashing into the bright moon—

"Miniature Moonstorm~"

With another graceful swing of her sword, a small storm of light swirled around her, tearing the strange eyeballs apart, leaving not a trace.

After confirming there was no danger, Haoyue removed the protective light barrier and looked at Nid, who had just been awakened. For some reason, there was a girl's severed limb next to him, despite his body being wrapped in bandages. Had he developed an interest in masturbating with the girl's severed hand during the interrogation?

"... Miss Haoyue?"

"So, it seems the severed limbs should be used while they're still hot?"

"? ah?"

"No, I was just talking to myself, don't mind it."

"Miss Haoyue, now that you've shown up, it seems Saleh has decided to risk the rescue after all."

"Saleh? Who?"

"The commander of the Second Division."

... I see.

He always called him "Second Division Commander, Second Division Commander," but Haoyue never really knew what the seemingly henpecked uncle's real name was.

It doesn't matter; he's obviously just a passerby anyway, why waste our attention on him?

"But..."

Haoyue looked around, but saw no one else.

"Where's the guy who brought you out?"

"--Miss Haoyue!!!"

As Nid shouted, Haoyue leaned back, narrowly dodging the flying bone blade. Simultaneously, two runes, one gold and one silver, appeared on her sword.

"Frost Moon!"

The cold light that froze the space spread wildly, like a icy dragon devouring the heat! The bone blade and the long tentacles connected to it were instantly frozen, the dark red muscles necrotizing into a cold gray, but this was not the end—the cold light extended along the tentacles, heading straight for the attacker!

"Moon Sea and Moon Storm - Moon Flood Dragon Bullet!"

The liquid silver light was immediately compressed into a ball by the silvery storm, forming an extremely viscous essence, which was also wrapped in a storm compressed to its limit! This light bullet, formed by the combination of liquid and gas, continued to condense and compress, even gathering the moonlight falling from the sky and the surrounding night wind!

"Go!"

The light projectile shot out with lightning speed, its sound like the roar of a dragon cutting through the air! Along its trajectory, everything—soil, rocks, vegetation—was sucked in, compressed and gathered by the violent silver light, threatening to reach its breaking point—

"Burst!"

With a flick of her sword, Haoyue unleashed the Moon Flood Dragon Bullet! The burst of light engulfed everything, and a silver pillar shot skyward. Haoyue was forced to deploy a light shield to protect herself and Nid from further damage...

"Looks like he's dead..."

"Uh, but Miss Haoyue."

You don't need to thank me.

"No, I just mean that she's the one who rescued me... and based on what I know of her, it's far from enough to kill her."

Huh?

Haoyue was taken aback. Only then did she remember the strange girl who had suddenly appeared in Sadington City. Although Sin Annihilation had only appeared for a few seconds before using her parasitic spinal cord to control Haoyue's movements, forcing her and Xiao Ye to leave the battlefield, Haoyue couldn't possibly have forgotten such a grotesque superhuman.

Just then, a loud shout pierced the night sky.

"Offered with the spine, and the snake-belly sword!"

The gray-haired girl roared down from the sky, her spine transformed into a gigantic serpentine sword. Haoyue frowned; specks of darkness appeared on her blade.

"Please wait a moment, it's a misunderstanding!!"

Straining his hard-won strength to stand up, Nid forcefully stopped the pointless skirmish.

"... Um?"

Xiao Wu was moving through the forest at an extremely fast speed, without making a sound. Like Haoyue, she had also dismissed the squad assigned to her, because it would only hold her back.

Just as she decided to send a message to the main force that "there is enemy activity ahead of here," she saw the towering pillar of light produced by Haoyue's Moon Flood Dragon Bullet exploding.

"That's... Qipao Woman? Could it be that she found Nid?"

Since that's the case, I have to get there.

Thinking of this, she immediately activated her divine communication device and sent a message to the commander of the Second Division.

Incidentally, she never knew the Second Division Commander's real name; she was so used to calling him "Second Division Commander" that she couldn't change it.

"Hello, Second Division Commander, this is Xiao Wu."

"Xiao Wu? Great! The situation up ahead—"

"I've probably found it."

"... Huh?"

"The Qipao Woman —no, Haoyue—seems to have sent a signal. I'll send you the local coordinates once I confirm."

And... for some reason, Xiao Wu had a strange feeling.

I'm about to meet someone extraordinary.

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I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so I only managed to write a little over two thousand words... Sorry...