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“Divine Key: Jizo Mitama? What is that?”
Hearing this name from Elysia’s mouth, Mei was quite confused.
“I do know about Divine Keys. My old man has one in his hands, I remember it’s called Judgment of Shamash. But I’ve never heard of Jizo Mitama.”
Kiana remembered the one her father wielded, then looked at Bronya beside her and asked:
“Hey, shorty, you’ve been with Cocolia for so long, have you heard this name before?”
“Bronya is not a shorty! Stupid Kiana!”
“You’re the stupid one!”
The duck and the bug were truly natural enemies, they started arguing after just a few exchanges.
“Hey hey hey, don’t fight!”
Elysia hurriedly tried to stop them, but the result was just both of them turning away and snorting coldly.
After losing her killer move of being beautiful as a flower, Miss Fatty’s combat power had simply plummeted.
A moment later, Bronya still chose to speak:
“…Bronya has never heard of the name Jizo Mitama either. The Divine Key that’s rumored to exist in Anti-Entropy is said to be called Star of Eden, but Divine Keys are originally relics from the Previous Era anyway, so it’s normal for there to be ones we don’t know about.”
“But since you mentioned Jizo Mitama, could it be that—”
“That’s right, the Divine Key Jizo Mitama is somewhere in this Nagazora City.”
Elysia said this with a proud expression, as if she wanted to shock the other girls.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t even shock herself with this statement, because Miss Fatty still didn’t understand what Divine Keys actually were, or what the so-called Previous Era was.
The other girls were even more clueless.
Her idea of using Mr. Jiang Qiao’s extensive intelligence network to show off had failed as expected.
Mei showed some difficulty:
“Even if you say that, Nagazora City is so big, how exactly are we supposed to find that Jizo Mitama thing?”
“That’s actually not too bad. While we can’t determine the exact location, Jizo Mitama seems to be roughly in the direction of some underground station.”
Unlike the useless Miss Elysia, Jiang Qiao was quite precise in his intelligence handling and arrangements, never leaving them with any unnecessary burden.
“Through these crystal flowers, you can find traces of Jizo Mitama.”
When saying this, Miss Fatty’s cheeks visibly puffed up, looking quite unhappy.
Of course, the reason was simple.
These crystal flowers in her hands weren’t made by herself, but were sent over from Jiang Qiao’s side through the chat group.
Elysia was quite indignant about this.
Everything else was one thing, but why did even making crystal flowers require you to make them and give them to me?
The techniques for using Honkai Energy were all taught by herself to bad Jiang Qiao!
— Jiang Qiao had no particular thoughts about this.
It was all providing help, who provided it didn’t matter.
But unlike simple Honkai Energy technique crystals.
The crystal flowers he made contained the power of Origin within them.
Only through the power of Origin could they find the donkey ears sealed and isolated by Oath of Judah.
Elysia was naturally somewhat skeptical after hearing this.
The power of Origin?
It wasn’t like she couldn’t use it!
Children, listen to my wish: Transform!
Origin Authority: Indifferent.
From embarrassing to very embarrassing, from very embarrassing to grief and indignation.
In the end, Elysia could only give up her idea of making crystal flowers herself and obediently use the ones Jiang Qiao gave her.
Now, even in flower-making, which she was best at and most confident in, she had been completely outclassed by bad Jiang Qiao (tragic).
…
As the most brilliant and outstanding singer and artist of this era, the liveliness of Eden’s concert tour far exceeded Jiang Qiao’s expectations.
Even though the concert hadn’t started yet, the cheers alone conveyed the audience’s enthusiasm and love for Eden.
Among them were no shortage of fans who had come from all over the world.
“Ah~”
A girl’s surprised cry wasn’t uncommon at Eden’s concert.
After all, the venue was quite lively, so some unexpected collisions were very normal.
“Ah, sorry! Sorry!”
A white-haired, quite handsome young man who looked very energetic first showed surprise, then very apologetically extended his hand to the pink-haired girl he had bumped into, asking with concern:
“Are you okay?”
“Mm-hm~ I’m fine.”
Only then did the young man named Kevin have the chance to take notice of the girl he had accidentally knocked down.
Pink hair, a face as beautiful as a flower, and summer clothing that suited the season perfectly highlighted the girl’s charm. Her bright blue eyes, partially hidden, contained some lively laughter.
“Such a cute girl.”
Instinctively amazed by her appearance, Kevin’s words of praise slipped out.
Hearing this, a playful smile appeared on the other party’s face. She raised her slender index finger and lightly tapped Kevin’s chest, saying with a smile:
“Mm-hm~ You’re quite good at making girls happy, young man.”
“But next time, watch where you’re walking. Since it was unintentional and you have such good taste, I won’t hold you responsible, okay?”
“Uh… yes!”
Nodding in confusion and haste, watching the girl’s retreating figure, he remembered that their next meeting would be at the banquet after the Third Eruption.
Slowly opening his eyes, the white-haired young man with an extremely stern expression, wearing some organization’s standard coat, showed a rare hint of nostalgia in his eyes.
— So he had already met her for the first time back then?
Too much time had passed, and such distant memories had become somewhat blurred.
How strange that at this moment, he would recall memories related to her.
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Kevin’s mouth, but gradually, this smile returned to its coldness.
Nothing could ever go back to the way it was before.
Although he didn’t know why he had suddenly recalled those memories, perhaps he no longer had such qualifications now?
Slowly raising his hand, looking at something grasped through black gloves, he sighed softly.
The sea’s scenery reflected in his blue eyes, within which the figure of someone with a bob cut could faintly be seen.
Kevin gently caressed the cherry-colored giant tree beside him, counting the years of companionship, it should have added nearly 4,500 more rings by now, right?
Time passed bit by bit, and the remaining life of this new civilization was becoming increasingly urgent.
— My dear friend, have you found your own answer?
What trapped this man was never any Divine Key or so-called Seed of Sumeru.
— But rather her, and the past left behind by his former comrades.