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Chapter 61: Rabbit or Donkey?

"What if Miss Forget-Me-Not isn't an assassin?"

"What do you mean?"

Hearing Mei, Sakura felt a hint of confusion.

"I mean, you can join the Flame Chasers. Become my subordinate."

"I... become your subordinate?" Sakura was extremely shocked. "You don't mind that I tried to assassinate you?"

"You were just a tool hired to assassinate me. The source is the employer who hired you," Mei analyzed calmly. "You managed to injure Kevin, which already proves your strength. If you join the Flame Chasers, we'll gain another powerful combatant (if you can become a Fusion Warrior), and I'll get the information I want. It's a win-win situation, so why would I refuse?"

"Okay, I agree to join the Flame Chasers."

Sakura wasn't resistant to joining the Flame Chasers. She had already prepared herself to be killed. But if she could live, who would want to die? Whether for herself or for her sister, Sakura wouldn't let go of this chance to survive.

"Welcome to the team. Shall we talk about your real name now? Forget-Me-Not can't possibly be your real name, right?"

"Sakura, my name is Sakura."

"Alright, Sakura. Next, let's talk about your employer."

What happened next in that laboratory, no fourth person knows. A few days later, the body of a high-ranking member of the Flame Chasers was found in his home, stabbed eighteen times. The cause of death was ultimately ruled as suicide.

However, this didn't attract much attention. People's eyes had already been drawn to something else.

That was, The fourth Fusion Warrior of the Flame Chasers had appeared.

She was a female warrior with cherry-blossom-colored long hair, named Sakura.

The fused Honkai Beast gene was... Yaksha.

The third volume concluded at the moment Sakura became a Fusion Warrior.

Luo Yu had originally planned to finish both the Seventh Herrscher and the Eighth Herrscher in the third volume. But as he started writing, Luo Yu realized that sometimes, some things are beyond his control.

Take this third volume, for instance. Luo Yu found that just writing about the Seventh Herrscher wasn't enough, and writing about the Eighth Herrscher would require too much space.

In the end, Luo Yu decided on a compromise, ending it at the point where Sakura became a Fusion Warrior. This way, the next volume could start from here and continue until the Eighth Herrscher was defeated, with the content being roughly enough for one volume.

Luo Yu was woken up by the ringing of his phone.

He answered the call, saying angrily, "Who is it! Waking someone up so early in the morning!"

"Teacher Meng Yu, it's a hit! This time it's really a hit!"

Machida Sonoko's voice was filled with excitement and fervor.

Hearing his editor's voice, Luo Yu sobered up, and his morning grogginess disappeared.

"What is it, Sonoko? A hit? When has it ever not been a hit?"

"This time is different, Teacher Meng Yu. The sales of the previous two volumes were mostly propped up by your old fans. This third volume clearly shows new readers have joined."

"Is there anything else? If not, I'm hanging up."

"Wait! Teacher Meng Yu. With this great opportunity, aren't you really going to hold a book signing? You haven't held a single one since your debut."

"We'll see if I have time. I'm hanging up."

Book signings. He hadn't held one once during his three years of middle school. At first, he didn't want to reveal his identity, and now, he just found it too troublesome.

It was best if he didn't have to hold one. He'd keep delaying it until he absolutely couldn't anymore.

The massive success of the third volume was within his expectations. After all, Luo Yu felt that the Flame Chasers truly began with the Seventh Herrscher.

With the Seventh Herrscher as the dividing line, the Herrschers before were relatively normal, while those after became increasingly exaggerated.

One played with memes, another sank a continent by being a sneaky old man. These two were still considered mild.

Look at the Herrschers with double-digit numbers – what divine beings they were. The Tenth was involved in human infighting. If not for Dr. Mei risking her life to lure out all the thousand-man Herrschers, with the higher-ups of the Flame Chasers still engaging in infighting even at the end of the world, humanity in the previous civilization would have been finished long ago.

As for the Eleventh, he was a heavyweight. Fusion Warriors are powerful, right? This one single-handedly turned the elite group of Fusion Warriors into the Thirteen Flame-Makers.

There's not much to say about the Twelfth, Bell. His only notable achievement was leveling the last three surviving cities of humanity.

The reason for the qualitative change in Herrscher strength was the appearance of Fusion Warriors.

Looking back at the entire history of Honkai, the previous civilization had essentially lost by the time of the Twelfth Herrscher. Their battle against Finality was merely preparation for the next generation.

With these thoughts, Luo Yu, after finishing his morning routine, prepared to go online and see what the silly netizens thought of this volume.

Entering the familiar forum, he was greeted, as expected, by comments praising the Flame Chasers:

"Volume 3, I'm a huge fan! The fight between Kevin and the Herrscher of Flame made my blood boil."

"Yeah, Teacher Meng Yu introduced new lore in this volume. Fusion Warriors are just too strong."

"Who do you think is stronger among the current four Fusion Warriors?"

"That's obvious, it's Kevin! He's the male protagonist!"

Honkai Scholar: That's hard to say. Although Kevin has a record of killing Herrschers alone, the novel also states that Elysia was evenly matched with Kevin during their sparring sessions. Mobius's combat power aside, just having the ability to revive makes her very troublesome. As for Sakura, while she could injure Kevin when she was still human, it was only mentioned at the end that she became a Fusion Warrior. Her specific combat power is still unclear.

Holy crap, it's a Honkai Scholar big shot.

Big shot, please remember me!

Elysia's Dog: Let's put combat power aside for now. Don't you guys think Prometheus-sensei's illustrations of the female characters are beautiful? Especially Elysia with her fairy ears! I'm absolutely blown away!

Are you dreaming, upstairs? I never walk my dog when I go out with Elysia!

Good grief! Are Liu, Guan, and Zhang forming a brotherhood in your mouths?

Ignoring the comments about wishful thinking for a while.

Prometheus-sensei's illustrations are truly lifelike, especially Mobius. Did you guys notice that after becoming a Fusion Warrior, Mobius's eyes turned into snake pupils?

It looks like a side effect of the ultra-mutation surgery. However, I did notice the side effect of Sakura's surgery.

Isn't that stating the obvious? Do you think we brothers are blind to such an obvious change?

That's right. Luo Yu posted an illustration of Sakura with ears at the end.

It's just an animal-eared girl, don't get so excited. But I've never been able to tell what kind of ears Sakura has on her head.

They look like rabbit ears?

You in front, do your rabbit ears look like this? Look closely, these are clearly donkey ears!

Pfft!

Seeing this, Luo Yu chuckled.

It seems that no matter the world, Sakura's ears are always misunderstood.

Chapter 62: Going on Vacation?

Moving past the discussion about Sakura's ears, Luo Yu continued reading.

By the way, have you guys read the new Flame Chasers comic?

Read it, read it! The art style is absolutely amazing!

Right, right! The first time I saw it, I thought Prometheus-sensei himself had drawn the comic. But after looking closer, I realized there was a slight difference in art style compared to Prometheus-sensei's, though it felt just as exquisite.

If the comic author's name is her real name, then this is quite normal.

Huh? Mashiro Shiina, what's so special about that name?

You don't know?

Do I have to know?

Do a search for the name Mashiro Shiina yourself.

!!! What the heck, how did someone like that end up drawing a comic!

Who knows? But it's a good thing for us, after all, such exquisite comic art is a pleasure for us.

That's true.

Luo Yu decided not to read any further. After all, he had seen what he wanted to see.

Mashiro's drawing of the Flame Chasers had also been successfully published. With Mashiro's own talent and the excellent quality of the Flame Chasers, Luo Yu wasn't worried about the comic's performance at all.

Should I slow down my writing speed a bit? That way, I can wait for Mashiro's manga and my novel to update simultaneously.

This thought crossed Luo Yu's mind, but he immediately dismissed it. It was too unrealistic.

Even if Mashiro drew manga as fast as possible, it would still be very difficult to catch up to the current progress of the novel.

Let's just let nature take its course.

As he thought, Luo Yu habitually sat down at his computer, ready to start typing. (The setup in Luo Yu's bedroom was basically the same.)

He turned on the computer and then realized.

This... this isn't right. Didn't I come home for vacation? Why am I preparing to work again? This habit is bad! I must break it!

Having made up his mind, Luo Yu resolutely started downloading his favorite games, planning to spend the rest of his vacation with his two unfilial sons in the game.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

A sudden knock on the door.

"Come in."

After receiving Luo Yu's reply, Luo Xingchen opened the door and walked in.

Seeing Luo Xingchen, Luo Yu asked, "Dad, is there something you need?"

Luo Xingchen's mouth twitched, and he said, "Do you really think I come to find you every time for something?"

He was met with Luo Yu's expression that seemed to say, 'Isn't it?'

"Alright, I actually do have something to tell you this time."

Luo Yu immediately put on an expression of 'just as I thought' and said, "Please, go ahead."

"You know about the Totsuki training camp, right?"

"Of course, I know about that." Luo Yu calculated the time and realized the training camp was happening in the next few days, but, "What does that have to do with me?"

"You don't seem to have much going on lately, and I happen to have an invitation from Old Man Nakiri. Why don't you take Mashiro and go have some fun? Oh, and you can bring those girls from your club too."

"Didn't you ask me to come home for the holiday to spend time with us? Are you already trying to kick me out?"

"It's fine, the training camp starts in two days, so you can still spend two more days at home with your mom and me."

"Alright. I'll go take a look then. It just so happens I'm free these days anyway."

"Okay, that's all I needed to tell you. You can go do your own thing now. I'm leaving."

With that, Luo Xingchen left Luo Yu's room.

Luo Yu, however, felt that this matter wasn't as simple as it seemed. But it didn't matter; he'd deal with whatever came his way.

Still, he needed to ask the girls for their opinions.

Luo Yu opened his phone and tapped on the group chat, starting to @ everyone.

Luo Yu: Are you all awake? I have a question for you, do you want to go on vacation?