When the Person Who Knows You Best Becomes Your Enemy.

"What happened?"

The two Mobius had only taken a couple of steps when they realized the others were gone. They realized this was Lin's trick and immediately began to look around for any new developments.

"Looks like you're planning to take them down one by one. You've got guts, Lin."

"That's right, and you're the first person I plan to deal with."

As Lin's voice faded, the two Mobius colleagues turned around and saw Lin walking out. The two Mobius sneered in unison, "Take care of me first? Elysia ranked me tenth. You don't really think I'm weaker than them, do you?"

"Or are you planning to team up with this fake guy next to me to deal with me?"

The other Mobius frowned. "Aren't you the fake one? Still pretending even now?"

"No."

Lin refuted Mobius's claim, extending a hand, "It's just because you're the easiest to deal with."

"..."

After a long silence, veins bulged on the foreheads of both Mobius.

What does this mean? Does this guy actually look down on her that much? He actually said she's the easiest to deal with?

However, before she could launch her attack, Lin snapped her gloved fingers, and the scenery before her eyes changed rapidly.

"This..."

"Smack!"

A resounding slap.

It comes from a much older memory, so distant that even Mobius thought she had forgotten.

A thin, barefoot girl stood on the dirty, damp floor in dim light, where the air smelled of decay.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, dripping down his sickly pale skin onto the floor.

She looked up at the man, who was even thinner than a skeleton. His sunken eye sockets were like bottomless black holes, making it impossible to tell whether he could still see people or whether he was a corpse.

Even though the man was so weak that he could barely lift a water glass, he could still easily make her bleed, after all, she was much weaker.

What sustained this walking corpse was the empty medicine bottle beside his feet, the pristine white pills all gone. Those thin white pills were the rope that kept the man alive, and also the cage that kept him in control of his emotions.

"Mobius... medicine... give me the medicine..."

As he hoarsely uttered the name his lover had given the girl, she smiled, quite suddenly, as if she had heard a funny joke.

The man's response was yet another resounding slap in the face.

The girl didn't wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, nor did she show any resentment in her eyes. She stared at the man with the distorted face.

It turns out that memories really do automatically beautify things; she only now realizes that he was even more disgusting than she remembered.

Human beings can be so ugly.

"What? You're saying I'm easy to deal with? You're trying to use my 'childhood trauma' that I don't care about at all to get rid of me? You've really picked the wrong person. Su might be a better fit."

The girl sneered at the man, "This will only make me more determined to do what I want to do, and no one can stop me."

"Mobius... give me the medicine!"

It looked like it was about to fall apart; the man roared and exhaled a foul odor.

"If you want medicine, make it yourself. Aren't you a pharmacist yourself?"

The girl responded coldly.

The man raised his right hand again, ready to teach the disobedient girl a lesson, but time froze at that moment. A black-haired man stepped out of the shadows, came to the man's side, and picked up the medicine bottle at his feet.

The label lists the drug's efficacy, dosage, and side effects.

"That's why you want humanity to evolve into a different form, one that doesn't rely on drugs and won't be defeated by the Honkai."

Lin approached the girl, saw her emaciated appearance and stubborn eyes, and squatted down.

"For you, is it about saving humanity, or saving yourself?"

Chapter Thirty-Four: When the person who knows you best becomes your enemy.

Drugs turn humans into monsters, while I make them more beautiful.

Mobius has always firmly believed in this.

Why did the man called father, a man whose death, even his wife, could not break him, have his human form and dignity robbed by a small pill?

Because humanity is not powerful enough.

In The Moth of Fire, Mobius witnessed countless deaths. People who were laughing and talking in the morning had their names etched in the cemetery by the afternoon. Did they deserve to die? No, they died simply because they were not strong enough.

They are indifferent to the lives of any person and scoff at the deaths of any person.

Because Mobius knew the outcome, she would make humanity perfect and indestructible.

In order to live forever and let the flower of life bloom forever, she would do anything.

Until an unreasonable person entered her world.

At first, she thought he would die sooner or later like other people who risked their lives, but he survived time and time again, at the cost of his life becoming increasingly fragile.

Ironically, what moved her was his vulnerability.

It is the flickering light of a candle in the wind that moves us, and it is the fleeting nature of life that makes life all the more precious.

The girl sat in front of the old and broken makeup mirror, looking at herself in the mirror. She couldn't tell whether she was the delicate child standing in front of her "father" or the grinning demon standing in front of the operating table in the cracked mirror.

The only surgery the demon hesitated and feared was the only surgery she couldn't decide on.

Her hesitation at that time made her ask herself honest questions.

"For you, is it about saving humanity, or saving yourself?"

The girl sat on a swaying swing, and the man gently pushed her back from behind.

"Human beings can be broadly divided into three stages: childhood, middle age, and old age."

"Children yearn for what middle-aged people have, while middle-aged people yearn for what children have, and the elderly yearn to live."

"Many people go from childhood to old age in just over ten years, but Mobius's life trajectory was the opposite."

The girl spoke with a mix of childishness and maturity.

"It's really hard to say whether she matured or shrank when she died."

She jumped off the swing and gazed at the man behind her with innocent eyes.

"And what about you? Do you pity her, or do you agree with her?"

The man stood before her, his dark eyes reflecting her youthful yet not childish face.

After waiting for a few minutes, Elysia saw Lin return carrying the petite girl who had fallen asleep.

"That's really easy to handle, Doctor Mobius."

Elysia stood in front of Lin with a smile, pinched Mobius's cute nose, and smiled.

After teasing her Elysia took the Mobius, looked up at Lin, and asked, "What about the rest? Should we do the same?"

"No, Mobius was able to resolve it so easily simply because she was very direct about my feelings."

Lin shook his head. "Next, I'll need to work with the Herrscher of Erosion."

"Oh~"

Elysia drew out the last syllable, looking at Lin with a meaningful smile.

Lin remained silent.

"I haven't met Xiaoshi yet. I heard she looks just like me, so she must be a cute girl too~"

"..."

There was one more question Elysia didn't ask: was it because of the Herrscher of Erosion's appearance or her existence that his attitude changed?

Let's give Lin some face.

...:

Treasure found...

Both Pardo thought this was what she was best at. Over the years, she had been honing her treasure-hunting skills by exploring the Imaginary Tree every day. She was certain that she was already more skilled than her living self.

Unfortunately, she wasn't good at something else.

That means acting alone.

So when she glanced over and saw everyone vanish without a trace, she was so frightened she almost spat her soul out of her mouth.

"Hey, hey, hey... Hey, hey, are you still there, my other self? Don't leave me alone."

"I, I, I'm here... You, you, you're the one who's here, don't leave us and run away..."

The two animal-eared girls sat back to back on the ground, covered in cold sweat. Their hair stood on end, and their tails stood up like antennae, like frightened kittens staring at every nook and cranny of the forest.

Meow~

At that moment, a clear meow startled the two women, and they turned their heads simultaneously.

"Canned Food?"

A tremor ran through the woods not far away, and both of them dispelled their fear. The Canned Food was useless, but having company was better than nothing...

Meow~

"Boom!"

The two Pardo watched silently as the furry ball of flesh crushed a Giant Tree from the middle.

Then, they saw a bizarre creature emerge, its body covered in muscles, standing upright, and topped with the familiar "Canned Food" cat head.

At that moment, they had only one thought in their minds.

So, the Canned Food was a female cat.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Heart-wrenching screams echoed from the woods.

"I think I heard someone scream."

"... Don't you think this situation seems familiar?"

The two Sues walked side by side to a lake that seemed familiar, and when they saw a small house that also seemed familiar, an ominous premonition arose in their hearts.

That time, due to someone's perverse sense of humor, he was made to wear a fairy costume and perform a scene where the Lady of the Lake agrees to marry the knight. This time, surely that person won't do it again? When he said he wanted to defeat them, he probably didn't mean this... right?

"Calm down. There are two of us now, which means one of us can go and the other can stay away."

One of them, Su, suggested.

"But who should go?"

Another Sue revealed the key point.

Simultaneously remain silent.

This is practically a blatant conspiracy.

"No, Raiden Mei also said that we don't need to follow the rules Lin arranged, otherwise we would be falling into his trap."

"But if we don't do as he says, won't we fall into another trap?"

"..."

Compared to the others, Su did not understand Lin's style well enough, but he was the one who dared not underestimate Lin the most.

"Continuing to drag this out like this is not a good solution."

One of them, Sue, said, "Then let's work together. First, check that house, and then search for the others."

That was the decision. The two of them went into the house together. Their abilities made them fearless of any attack, but it was precisely because no enemies appeared that they became even more vigilant.

After the two of them entered the house at the same time, the door behind them slammed shut.

A line of text appeared before them.