Xiaohei, Xiaobai-The Mighty Huo Xiaohei!

"Uh... Yuhao?"

Ning Tian looked at the two people fighting tooth and nail inside the room and called out tentatively.

The moment she spoke, both Huo Yuhaos turned to look at her in unison.

The one with purple hair brightened and spoke first with a grin, his voice brimming with restless energy. "Tian'er, you're awake?"

Huo Yuhao: "..."

Ning Tian froze for two seconds, then immediately picked out the real one. Whoever called her "Tian'er" definitely wasn't the Huo Yuhao she knew.

"Huo Xiaohei! Stop fooling around."

Huo Yuhao raised a hand, intending to draw his double back into the mask. Instead, black mist flashed, and Huo Xiaohei vanished on the spot.

The next instant, he darted behind Ning Tian, hefting a matte-black revolver engraved with dark-purple raven feathers.

"I knew you'd try that, Huo Baibai!" He laughed over Ning Tian's shoulder, sounding immensely pleased with himself.

A vein throbbed at Huo Yuhao's temple.

Wait, where did this guy get a revolver? Could the power of Elation create things out of thin air too?

He suddenly understood why Sparkle was always chasing her double around in the neighboring Honkai: Star Rail universe—

Give anyone a double this good at causing trouble, and they'd be itching to smack him too.

Ning Tian's body reacted before her mind did. Ice-blue light burst from her palms, and a pair of crystalline Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion Pincers instantly covered her hands. Cold spread across the floor.

"Soul Skill: Emperor's Pincer Kill!"

She stabbed backward. The razor-sharp ice pincer grazed Huo Xiaohei's clothes and struck nothing but a wisp of dispersing black mist.

A giggle rang out overhead. A pair of illusory black raven wings spread behind Huo Xiaohei as he hovered by a ceiling beam, swinging his legs. He even wiggled his backside and