Yu Muyang had no idea how he got out of Mobius’s lab.
He watched Elysia pull him along and felt something was off.
[Did I suddenly become popular?]
[That shouldn’t be right.
I haven’t shown any shocking power yet.
Why is everyone suddenly sticking to me?]
[I don’t get it, but I respect it.]
[Maybe this is just a strong person’s instinct.]
Elysia looked back at him, let go of his hand, and smiled.
“Mobius didn’t do anything weird to you, right?”
“No.
I just became the assistant of the First Laboratory.”
Became Mobius’s assistant?
She moved fast.
She actually managed to trick Muyang over to her side.
Looks like I’ve been underestimating her all this time.
At the same time, Mobius stared at her empty doorway and fell into deep thought.
Where is my lab door?
Elysia!!!
Elysia didn’t keep pushing Yu Muyang for more talk.
They still didn’t have that much to chat about.
Forcing a conversation would only make him suspicious.
Even if there was a good chance he would cover for himself, she didn’t want to gamble.
So she took a step back and agreed with him to meet again during recruit training.
Once Yu Muyang nodded, she left happily.
Yu Muyang also cared about the recruit training.
After all, Kevin and Hua would both be there.
If he could meet them and get a little familiar, maybe with his current strength he could even give them some pointers.
…
Recruit training came quickly.
The death rate on the front line was still high.
For soldiers who wanted to join The Flame-Chasers, the sooner the better.
Kevin had already been in The Flame-Chasers for several days.
In that short time he learned what kind of organization it really was.
MEI had joined with him, but the moment they arrived, Mobius took her away.
It was clear that researchers got treated very differently from ordinary soldiers like him.
Still, Kevin didn’t feel discouraged.
He believed he would see MEI again through his own efforts.
Hua was also on the training ground.
Even after several days, she still hadn’t fully recovered from the disaster a few days earlier.
She joined The Flame-Chasers maybe out of hatred for the Honkai, or maybe because she felt lost about her future.
Either way, she was already here.
She would just take things one step at a time.
The head instructor for the new recruits was Ato.
The Flame-Chasers really lived by the motto “if it’s useful, work it to death.” Ato was the head of the Combat Department, yet he still had to go to the front line and personally train new recruits.
Yu Muyang arrived at the training ground as promised.
He stood beside Ato and Elysia and looked down at the recruits.
He quickly spotted two familiar faces.
Hua and Kevin.
“Is it okay if I stand here?” he asked, a little unsure.
“You’re my vice-captain now.
Of course you can♪~”
Elysia’s bright smile made many of the recruits below lose focus for a moment.
A girl this pretty was also a Flame-Chasers soldier?
“Ahem.
The recruits are still watching.
Mind yourselves a little.”
Ato felt helpless with these two.
Both of them were stronger than him, and neither was the type to cause trouble, so he usually gave them plenty of leeway.
Elysia just giggled.
Yu Muyang scratched his nose and stayed quiet.
His eyes stayed on the two people below.
[Yo, isn’t that Hua?
Haven’t seen someone this weak in fifty thousand years.]
[The current Hua is still so green.
She must still feel pretty lost at this stage.]
Hua suddenly heard a voice by her ear talking about her.
She looked up in confusion.
Elysia had been watching Kevin and Hua the whole time.
When Yu Muyang started talking in his mind, only Hua looked up.
Kevin didn’t react at all.
Elysia gave a small nod.
Looks like Kevin can’t hear it.
Is it because Kevin is a guy?
[Look at Hua’s confused little eyes.
She must still feel lost and unsure about joining The Flame-Chasers.]
[Don’t worry, Hua.
When your Garuda appears later, I’ll help you take down that Honkai Beast.]
[But without any surprises, Hua will still end up in the Fifth Squad.
Himeko is usually pretty unreliable, but when it really counts, she can be trusted.]
[What a pity.
If it weren’t for the Seventh Herrscher incident…]
[Forget it.
There’s still time.
For now I’ll just keep an eye on Hua and Kevin so they don’t go down the wrong path.]
After that, the voice stopped.
Elysia couldn’t help turning to look at Yu Muyang.
Wait, what about the Seventh Herrscher and Himeko?
Don’t leave it hanging like that!
She pouted a little, clearly unhappy with him stopping halfway.
Hua was still a bit dazed.
She was now sure she could hear someone speaking right next to her ear, while no one else could.
That person even knew which squad she would join, called Himeko by that name, and seemed to know things about Himeko’s future.
Did this world really have so many strange things?
Hua slowly looked toward the people standing on the platform at the front.
Ato was explaining the rules for new recruits.
Elysia was a girl, so the voice didn’t match.
Himeko was digging in her pocket, looking like she wanted a smoke.
Only the person standing next to Elysia kept glancing her way from time to time and hadn’t spoken a single word out loud.
Hua wasn’t sure if she should tell anyone.
Right now the only person she knew in the entire Flame-Chasers was Himeko.
But she couldn’t just walk up and say, “You’re going to have trouble during the Seventh Herrscher period.”
With Himeko’s temper, she would probably get a slap to the head for that.
Better to keep watching for now.
“Alright, training starts now.”
The moment Ato spoke, the instructors stepped forward and led their groups into training.
Seeing the recruits begin, Elysia smiled at Yu Muyang.
“How is it?
The quality of these recruits isn’t bad, right~”
Yu Muyang nodded.
[Of course the quality is fine.
This batch alone produced two Flame-Chasers.
Normally only a handful of soldiers ever become Flame-Chasers.]
[After the Fourth Honkai ends, there’s still Kosma.
Dystopia isn’t a Flame-Chaser only because she didn’t live to the end.
Otherwise there would have been one more.]
[Who else was there again?]