“I don’t remember this step being in the plan?”
MEI looked at Elysia, who kept taking photos of Mobius after forcing her into a pink dress.
She turned her head and discovered that Yuji was also taking the chance to snap a few photos himself.
He even planned to exchange some of the better ones with Elysia.
“Don’t mind it so much, MEI. Although this wasn’t in the original plan, you have to understand that plans never keep up with changes. This is just part of the deal.”
“That’s right, that’s right. Don’t you think Mobius looks really cute in a pink dress?”
MEI couldn’t quite keep up with the strange trains of thought of these two people, so she turned to look at the still-lying Mobius.
The still-unconscious Mobius was being posed into various positions by Elysia, but no matter what pose she was put into, it could not hide Mobius’s beautiful and charming appearance.
“Remember to send me a copy later.”
Hearing MEI say something like that, Yuji was so shocked that he almost dropped his phone.
Not long ago, Yuji and MEI had carried the unconscious Mobius to the car.
Following behind them was Elysia, who had just joined the ranks of the kidnappers.
“Aren’t you going to introduce this one?”
“Of course. You already heard her self-introduction just now. What I’m about to say is the important part.”
“What do you mean? My self-introduction was clearly excellent. Am I not a girl as beautiful as a flower?”
MEI watched Elysia getting closer and closer and felt she was a bit difficult to deal with.
She really could not handle this kind of personality.
“Yes. Then let me give an equally important introduction! This beautiful lady once single-handedly took down the Second Herrscher.”
“That’s not quite right. The soldiers who kept fighting hard also contributed a lot♪”
MEI understood.
In plain terms, the two of them combined could not defeat her alone, so they could only follow her demands.
As for the contributions of the soldiers that Elysia mentioned, MEI believed they truly existed, but she believed Yuji even more.
In other words, the main force was Elysia.
Putting it another way, this Elysia’s combat strength could be compared to a Herrscher.
However, MEI believed that her own advantage did not lie in combat.
In certain aspects, she would never admit that Elysia was stronger than her.
(Breasts)
“Tsk…”
Yuji heard MEI’s soft tongue click and immediately understood what it meant.
MEI had subconsciously made a small comparison.
As for how he could tell, MEI’s eyes had been staring the whole time.
After returning to MEI’s home, Elysia somehow pulled out a pink dress from somewhere.
She then placed Mobius on MEI’s bed and planned to change her clothes directly.
Of course, while changing her, Elysia did not forget to push Yuji out.
Only after she finished changing did the group photo session begin.
The still-unconscious Mobius was dreaming.
In her dream, after all kinds of efforts, she finally defeated the Honkai and allowed humanity to evolve.
The higher-ups of The Flame-Chasers begged to hand over the funds to Mobius.
Then the dream ended.
The awakened Mobius had not forgotten her current situation.
She kept her eyes closed and lightly felt her surroundings with her body.
“No ropes? Nothing at all? Are they that confident…?” Mobius muttered in her heart, then thought of Elysia.
That made sense.
With Elysia joining them, of course they would be confident.
“Wait, my clothes feel wrong.” In just three short seconds, Mobius had already used her clever little brain to think of various possibilities of this and that.
She carefully felt around.
Her body had no special reactions, so it should not be what she had imagined.
“Yuji’s Honkai Classroom is now in session! Kids—no, what do you do if you don’t understand the Honkai? Come to the little Honkai classroom.”
“First, if you want to understand the Honkai, you first have to understand what the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta are.”
Yuji somehow took out a potted plant.
Pointing at a leaf on the plant, he said:
“Think of this leaf as one universe, while the [Imaginary Tree] is the existence that carries the entire world. It is the birthplace of all truths and laws.”
“Time flows along the trunk of the [Imaginary Tree]. Like a tree crown, it branches out into infinite worlds. Every branch is a form of civilization’s existence. Every flower and leaf is the present and past they left behind in the dimension of time.”
Yuji looked at MEI, who clearly understood, then at Elysia, who clearly did not understand but was pretending to understand, and finally at Mobius, who was pretending to sleep.
He then somehow took out a cup of water.
“Everything in the universe is made of quanta, and quanta possess uncertainty. When a quantum is observed, it collapses from countless uncertain parallel universes into one specific universe.”
“Think of our universe as a cup of water. Around it there are still countless similar but not identical cups of water. Now, let the water in all the cups overflow, flow along the walls of the cups, and gather into a small puddle in the center of the table.”
“This puddle does not belong to any of the cups, but every drop of water in the puddle could come from any of the cups. And between parallel universes, there truly exists such a miraculous dimension. This puddle is the [Sea of Quanta].”
“The Tree and the Sea are naturally opposed, and [Honkai] is a screening mechanism born from the competition between the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta.”
“[Honkai] is a periodic natural disaster, and at the same time it is the rhythmic adjustment of the universe. After it erupts, it produces a highly efficient and dangerous energy—Honkai Energy. And after every major Honkai eruption, a Herrscher will be born.”
“The time of Honkai eruptions has no pattern, and its forms of manifestation are also unpredictable. It may appear as war, infectious disease, climate disaster, comet impact, or even the descent of giant divine soldiers.”
“Moreover, the Honkai will also rise along with the level of civilization.”
“And after that comes Bubble Universes…” (This is for the many readers who don’t care about the settings. I’m not deliberately padding the word count.)
Looking at MEI, whose expression had already become solemn, and Elysia, who had not understood a single thing, Yuji, who had talked for so long, calmly drank the water he had taken out.
In reality, this setting was already a very ancient one, but its intensity was very high.
As long as it could scare Mobius, it was enough.
As for things like the Cocoon of Finality that came later, there would be no problem telling them about those afterward.
Mobius was also the type who understood with just a single point.
The fact that they had not tied her with ropes or done anything dangerous (changing clothes and taking photos did not count) showed that Yuji and the others had no malicious intent.
And the fact that she could hear everything from beginning to end the moment she woke up clearly meant this was deliberately said for her to hear.
As for whether Mobius believed it or not, half a year later she would have no choice but to believe it.
When the Third Honkai Eruption broke out, she would only be able to admit that this was reality.
Mobius, still wearing the pink dress, sat up.
Since they already knew she was awake, there was no need for her to keep pretending.
“Ara♪, our Dr. Mobius is awake!”
“Shut up. Stop pretending. You clearly knew I was awake. If you just wanted to mock me, then there’s no need to say anything.”
No matter how she thought about it, Mobius never expected that MEI and Yuji’s plan from beginning to end had been a gamble.
They were gambling that she would not treat the lives of everyone in the entire Far East as a joke.
And they even spoke about the Honkai right in front of Mobius.
Was this a rebuttal to her earlier claim that they knew nothing about the Honkai?
“You’re already shaken, Doctor.”
“And you! Elysia, you shut up too!”
What surprised Mobius even more was that the external help she had invited had ended up backstabbing her.
As expected, she and that girl simply did not get along.
The moment she saw her, she felt that nothing went smoothly.
And this pink dress on her body was clearly Elysia’s masterpiece.
Although with Elysia present she was not worried about that man taking advantage of her, looking at it now, Elysia was the real danger.
“I already know your plan now. But you don’t actually think you can get something for nothing, do you?”
Mobius suppressed her voice and tried her best to calm her mood.
Looking at the three people with “that’s exactly right” expressions on their faces, she almost died on the spot.
Those two were one thing, but Elysia, why are you joining in on the fun too?!
You have to calm down, Mobius.
It’s just freeloading.
It’s only freeloading…
“I can’t calm down at all!”
Right now, there were only two choices in front of Mobius.
One was to believe Yuji now and get freeloaded.
The other was to wait until the Honkai truly erupted and then believe Yuji, inviting them over to freeload.
With Mobius’s personality, she would never swallow this silent loss, but she also would not disregard the lives of everyone in an entire region.
Some people thought she did not care about lives, but in reality she was the person who cared about lives the most.
She also knew that everything was inseparable from that man, so…
“…I agree.”
“You made the correct choice, Dr. Mobius.”
“Don’t rush. But I have a condition.”
Yuji was just wondering what condition Mobius would propose when she turned around, first went into the room, and changed her clothes, causing the bright-eyed Elysia a wave of disappointment.
After coming out, Mobius took her phone and reported that she was safe to Klein, then told Klein to put away the backup plans that had been prepared for her disappearance.
This was clearly telling Yuji that if they kept her tied up for too long or killed Mobius, she would definitely drag a few people down with her.
“Before stating the condition, I still have three questions.”
“First, why did you make such an irrational move.”
She was referring to the kidnapping.
After all, Mobius knew that if she did not believe them, once the Honkai erupted she would invite them back.
And everyone present was smart (except Elysia).
They could not possibly fail to guess that Mobius had countermeasures against kidnapping.
“Because of Elysia. I calculated everything but never calculated that you would use that method to draw Elysia over.”
“Sigh. In short, the original plan was to gamble the entire region. If you didn’t believe us, we still wouldn’t let you directly refuse our entry into The Flame-Chasers. At that time we would still have ways to make you believe.”
“Even if you never believed us, when the Honkai erupted you would have no choice but to believe.” MEI added.
“But the kidnapping was because of the agreement with Elysia. I promised her I would take photos of you wearing a pink dress.”
Yuji directly pushed Elysia forward, making Elysia a little dissatisfied.
“It was clearly you who deceived me first. Forget it, I’ll forgive you this time.”
“Thank you for the great magnanimity of the beautiful Miss Elysia!”
Looking at the clowning Yuji, Mobius was not satisfied.
“Just for Elysia? Only for this?”
The reason she had suffered this treatment was actually because of her own backup?
As expected, I hate you, Elysia.
“Using the lives of everyone in an entire region as a wager, just to gain my trust! You two… are simply lunatics!”
Mobius looked at the two students, Yuji and MEI.
They clearly looked honest and like good students, yet the moment they made a move it involved the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Mobius suddenly felt that MEI was not the least bit like her father.
As a famous electromagnetic scientist, Raiden Ryoma’s cautious personality was something Mobius still knew about.
“Second question. Those messages were sent by you, right?”
“Of course, Dr. Mobius. You should be able to guess my purpose—to attract your attention.”
After all, if they wanted Mobius and MEI to form a connection, they would at least have to wait until MEI published a paper on relativity and then went to the seminar on the Mu Continent.
“Third question. Why do you know so much about me and the Honkai?”
“I’m sorry, Dr. Mobius. It’s not the time yet. I cannot tell you.”
Mobius stared into Yuji’s eyes for a long time, then said: “Tomorrow I will go to your school and take the two of you into my laboratory. My condition will be told to you after you enter.”
“What about me? What about me?” Elysia looked at Mobius excitedly.
Meanwhile, Mobius silently sent a message telling Klein to hang a sign on the laboratory door that read “Elysia and dogs not allowed.”