[Galactic Baseballer: Boss, I asked Uncle Yang, and he said he knows her! He also asked me where you heard this name from. Are you also from "Earth"?]
[Galactic Baseballer: Could it be that you and Uncle Yang are fellow countrymen, Boss?]
[Conscience Farmer: Of course not... I'll explain the details to you later when I have time, Star. Chat later!]
Under Mabel's operation, not only the Farmhands in the Multiplayer Cabin, but also Star and the others who were formally recognized by the Bus and came to Stardew Valley, now possessed the qualification to speak on the Farm Public Channel.
Of course, Mabel also added a private chat function that was effective only for Suke, the Farmer. This greatly facilitated Suke's communication functions with other people after Stardew Valley connected to more and more worlds.
Although if this continued, there was an increasing trend towards it developing into a chat group stream, Suke couldn't care about that much anymore. In short, as long as it worked, it was fine.
After confirming the situation of Old Yang in the Astral Express crew via the public channel at light speed, Suke arrived in front of the main Farmhouse and pushed open the tightly closed door—
"Kong!"
"Triple limit! Rinshan Kaihou!"
"Come, come, come, a Yakuman for everyone, Mei-chan won't be polite~"
When the sound of Celestial Jade tiles colliding came from the table in the living room, Suke knew that Boss Mabel was up to no good again.
"Uwah, why is this lady so unlucky today? Every time I was just a little bit away from winning~"
The voice of the suffering March 7th, who had come to visit Stardew Valley with Star, rang out. She had thought that as a master of Celestial Jade who had been instructed by Qingque, she would wipe the floor with the other three!
One had to know that the other three at her table were all playing for the first time!
"Mash."
Fujimaru Ritsuka, whose point sticks had already hit rock bottom, had a tense expression.
"S-Senpai?"
"Spare me some point sticks, I've lost everything."
"Eh? But isn't that a bit inappropriate? Senpai, don't get too carried away..."
"Fine, it's okay if you don't spare me any."
Fujimaru Ritsuka fumbled in her bosom for a moment, took out a stack of documents with unclear meaning, and looked serious:
"Miss Mabel, this stack of documents represents the majority of my assets in Chaldea."
"Inside are the Saint Quartz given to me by various Heroic Spirits, as well as magic materials. Can I use them to exchange for another set of point sticks?"
"Up to you~" Mabel said lazily.
"Anyway, Mei-chan only wants that thing called [Ancient Fruit Wine]. I suggest you take these things to find that farmer first and ask how many bottles they can be exchanged for, then come back and continue playing with Mei-chan~"
"Otherwise, if you make a loss after the conversion, Mei-chan won't be responsible~"
"?? So we were gambling for items???"
On the side, March 7th's eyes went wide. Having been egged on to join the table in a daze because they were one player short, she had absolutely no idea that this table was actually gambling!
Wait, she didn't bring anything valuable with her at all! What if she lost all her point sticks?
She didn't know if that Mr. Farmer accepted credits here. Would she have to ask Star to bail her out in the end?
Suke: "..."
Thinking about it carefully, this unreliable Boss Mabel really checked all the boxes for alcoholism and gambling. He wondered if she had touched upon pornography too? What if she was actually a good girl?
"Brother?"
Abigail was the first to see Suke enter the door. Before Suke entered, she had been lying on the back of Mabel's chair watching the battle.
Adults not learning good things and leading children astray; the morals of this world were truly getting worse and worse!
"Oh my, speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives."
"Farmer, someone is looking for you to exchange for wine. Take a look at how much Ancient Fruit Wine these things of hers can be exchanged for at your place~"
Seeing Suke enter, Mabel leaned her head back against the chair, glanced at him, and spoke.
"Not exchanging."
"Don't think I don't know what you guys are doing. It's one thing for you not to learn good things all day, but leading children from other worlds astray to gamble... do you feel very proud of yourself?"
However, Suke categorically rejected Fujimaru Ritsuka's request, also to prevent them from being seduced by Mabel into sinking deeper and getting addicted to gambling.
If not for the fact that he still had things to ask her, he would have grabbed Mabel by the ear and pulled her up from the card table long ago.
"Tch, what do you know, farmer."
"Let me ask you, have you ever played chess with the Three Pure Ones and the like?"
"No. Why, have you?"
Suke looked at Mabel, not understanding what she meant by this.
Although, if she really had played, he wouldn't find it strange. Who knew if these top-tier Haji-Immortals had their own circle of friends.
"That proves my point. Even you haven't played. Naturally, I have to let them experience such a precious opportunity!"
Mabel pointed at Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash, and March 7th on the card table and said:
"You understand worldly wisdom, right? How can this be called gambling? Gambling with a big shot... playing a game aiming to win isn't wisdom; losing is wisdom!"
"Look at how clever this red-haired child is. You... what was your name again?"
"My name is Fujimaru Ritsuka!"
"Right, Fujimaru Ritsuka! Mei-chan thinks highly of you. If you encounter any trouble in the future, just come find me. I'll cover you!"
Mabel patted the table, feeling very gratified by Fujimaru Ritsuka's sensibility.
When would that farmer learn even a tiny bit of this sensibility? Then she wouldn't have to drink alone every day.
Mabel secretly glanced at her own loli figure and Lolita outfit. It was indeed that guy's XP.
Could it be that she needed to change her black stockings to white ones like his little lover?
'Senpai, is this really okay? This person is...'
Only Mash, who was whispering to Gudako with a lowered voice on the side, expressed her unease.
Who could be the existence addressed as 'Uncle' by Abigail, who held the Silver Key? It was so hard to guess!
'No problem! I'm doing this to deal with a potential crisis of Human Order in the future!'
Gudako patted the shoulder of Mash beside her reassuringly. It was a pity that the Throne of Heroes couldn't record information about Mabel and the others.
Otherwise, she really wanted to use Mash's shield to try and see if she could summon these people she had formed bonds with in the other world.
As for Suke's mood at this moment, he didn't want to say anything anymore.
You're amazing. You dare to compare yourself to the Three Pure Ones. If anyone else said that, they would have already been struck by lightning.
"Back to business. I have something to ask you."
"You said you went to the world of the girl named Seele. Bronya and Sin are very safe; only she was erased by reincarnation."
"Does that mean there is more than one existence of Seele?"
"And even if I return to the world where Bronya and Sin are now, there will still be a 'Seele' by their side, right?"
Combining the information given by Tripoka and Welt Yang, Suke made a deduction.
"Oho, very smart~!"
"Farmer, it's rare for your brain to work well for once. Have you finally become enlightened?"
Mabel exaggeratedly threw her head back, her silk-like purple hair scattering over the seat, and winked at him with those eyes that contained stars.
As if sighing with emotion that Suke's brain, which was almost stupid from farming, was finally sharp for once.
"That's why I said you don't need to rush to deal with her matters. After all, she's not familiar with you. The two little ones you are familiar with won't have any issues."
"In their perspective, they can't even sense what happened. It's just that the future they are heading towards is different..."
"Incorrect."
Suke detected the problem:
"It's not that simple, right? If it were just parallel worlds, how could the difference between the two sides be so huge?"
"And the point in time she is in shouldn't logically have such a big impact on the future..."
Leaving aside different characters—after all, people like Houraiji Kyusyou in the Honkai Impact 3rd world might also exist, but just be ordinary, nondescript high school students.
But it wouldn't make sense for the final boss to be different!
One is Old Ancestor Kevin, who was gang-beaten by Great Sage Sun and others. Although powerful, it strictly counts as internal conflict within civilization, and it was overcome without mishaps in the end.
But the other is the cosmic-level big boss, the Commander of Will, who directly elbowed the protagonist team into crashing halfway!
Isn't there a saying? Honkai Impact 3rd has a reunion on the Moon; Houkai Gakuen 2 has a reunion in the underworld.
From this perspective, the timeline difference between Honkai 2 and Honkai 3 actually began to diverge on the issue of whether the Previous Era existed...
...No, that's not right.
"...Wait."
Being looked at by Mabel's smiling face, Suke felt his pig brain was about to overload.
First, Mabel wouldn't lie to him. If she said Honkai 2 and Honkai 3 started to diverge from the Azure Waters arc, then there would be absolutely no problem.
The timelines of the heavens are like a tangled mess. For example, in Beika Town where a certain Death God elementary student exists, thinking about problems from within the situation is absolutely unreliable.
Then there is only one timeline that hasn't changed from the beginning and is absolutely reliable, which can explain the Azure Waters arc as the origin of the Honkai Impact 3rd world...
"Don't tell me you're saying..."
"Na..."
"No need to say it out loud. As long as you know."
Mabel timely stopped Suke's emotionally charged words. Although Suke was already a bit numb, he felt he had underestimated this Haji-Immortal, Mabel.
Could she be that kind of dirty thing that can really crawl out of the screen to give people a slap?
Holy crap, my cabinet moved; I'm not playing anymore!
"Oho, Mei-chan isn't sensing it wrong, right? Are you scared of me, farmer?"
Seeing Suke looking at her as if he had seen a ghost, Mabel let out a charming laugh:
"Do you want to come into Mei-chan's arms and let me comfort you? Mei-chan's chest is very warm, you know~"
Suke: "..."
The cold warmth of an airplane landing platform, right?
Okay, actually, saying he was scared was an exaggeration.
After encountering Meltryllis and Tripoka in succession, Suke actually had some psychological preparation.
Now that he confirmed his conjecture from Mabel's mouth, in a sense, it also resolved a weight on his mind, giving him one more person in the world who understood him.
Although he felt that Mabel might not be the only one who knew about this.
"The world of the girl named Seele branched off with her as the base point. If there's a problem with the base point, it will naturally cause the possibility of an entire world to disappear completely."
"Those existing before her won't be affected; they'll just follow into a new future. As for those after her... tsk tsk."
"There's a metaphor that's quite appropriate. You know 'Singularity', right? Of course, the specifics are more complex..."
Mabel continued to explain.
"Singularity? I'm familiar with this!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had been listening to Mabel and Suke's conversation in a fog, immediately chimed in upon finally hearing something she could understand:
"Where is the Singularity? Leave it to me to solve!"
"You two bosses might not know, but I am a Master of Singularity Cleaning!"
Human Order antivirus software Chaldea, is it? That is indeed very 'Cleaning Master'.
"Children shouldn't interrupt when adults are talking!"
Pressing down Gudako's enthusiastically raised hand, Suke had black lines all over his head.
Currently, the Salem story arc is over. On your side, the Earth is about to be bleached soon, and Chaldea is about to be savagely ravaged by the weakest Lostbelt which has "nothing but power". Worry about yourself first.
The weakest Lostbelt savagely ravaging the strongest Lostbelt... how could I dream such a dream?
Speaking of which, Suke remembered that the Bus seemed to have displayed a Fairy Knight Tristan from Lostbelt No. 6 before.
He wondered if anything had gone wrong over there. Suke was truly afraid; he was on the verge of falling into PTSD.
Especially considering that Fujimaru Ritsuka's current plot point was still quite a distance away from there.
"Then I'll ask one last question."
"Ask~"
"Assuming that the one who had her essence ground away by reincarnation and came to Stardew Valley wasn't this Seele, but the Seele of the other possibility... what would happen to her world?"
Suke pointed at March 7th, causing a question mark to pop up above the head of Little March, who had been confused the whole time.
March 7th: ?
No, why is this about her again?
She is just a passing photographer; she doesn't know anything, eh!
"What else could happen? Boom, explosion on the spot."
Mabel laughed loudly:
"And it would be a super explosion at the multiverse level. It's like pulling out an important pillar serving as the foundation in a magnificent building. And then... boom, boom, boom~~~"
"Let Mei-chan see... tsk tsk, this is truly spectacular!"
"This is even more interesting than all the Aeons in their world dying out. I wonder if the [Cognitive Folding] in that broken place, the Land of Return, can save it..."
March 7th: ???
She just came to play Celestial Jade. Why did it sound like her universe was about to face a super crisis???
Although she knew Suke and the others had simple identities and powerful strength, and this Stardew Valley farm that couldn't use Path power was also very mysterious...
But don't just casually say such dangerous things, hey!!!
"...So according to your logic, it's actually a good thing that this Seele came to Stardew Valley now?"
At least it was a matter where the loss was relatively smaller. Like choosing the lesser of two evils, Suke thought to himself.
"Mei-chan can't evaluate this."
Mabel reached out to Abigail, took a lollipop from her, and held it in her mouth like a cigarette.
"It's just like different numbers of people tied to two train tracks. With the train about to crush them, the person managing the switch lever can only choose to save one side. It's hard for others to comment on this kind of moral dilemma."
"However, you can try to save both sides... although in Mei-chan's view, you are just passing by holding a toilet plunger."
"Can't you save them even if you take action?"
"...I say, farmer, why do you have the illusion that Mei-chan is a good person who saves the suffering?"
Mabel felt surprised.
"Mei-chan went to her world before just to recycle a dormant, incomplete essence that shares the same origin as Mei-chan. Here, look."
Mabel took out a green crystal; green tentacles could be vaguely seen waving inside it.
One look and he knew it was a certain shameful idol, Miss K, who sank into the sea on the spot after being elbowed by a ship.
...No, could this be what Mabel extracted from that planetary-class Honkai Beast, Gana?
"But it's not impossible if you want me to take action. You just need to provide Mei-chan with another hundred bottles of that fruit wine, and conveniently accompany Mei-chan for a night..."
"You misunderstood. I was just confirming the difficulty level of solving the problem."
Suke rolled his eyes at Mabel, who had started stating conditions.
A hundred bottles of Ancient Fruit Wine? Keep dreaming! He wouldn't fall for the same trick twice!
He hadn't expected this slack-off Bubble to take action from the very beginning. He was mostly just determining if the situation was within the range he could solve.
If Mabel said even she couldn't save it, he would have to be steady and wait until he became a billion times stronger before dealing with Seele's matter—
He wasn't that kind of stubborn fool who would charge forward passionately into a difficult problem that even a Bubble couldn't solve.
But looking at it now, the situation might be a bit better than he thought. Although he still didn't quite understand why the Honkai 2 Seele was the one ground away instead of the Honkai 3 Seele.
If it was random, that would be fine. If it was premeditated, he might need to do some preparatory work in advance.
"Wait!"
"Well, Mei-chan thought about it. The conditions can't be too harsh. After all, Mei-chan is very gentle and kind~"
Look, look, she's becoming kind again.
"Come to the General Store tonight, and then give Mei-chan another fifty bottles of wine. Mei-chan will reluctantly go take another look for you..."
Suke ignored Mabel and turned to leave.
"Ten bottles... ten bottles is fine, right! Mei-chan will use money to buy them! I'll pay you the shipping bin price!"
"Keep dreaming. It's not like I lack money. Not even one bottle!"
"I won't sell to you even if I throw them all into the shipping bin!"
Suke broke free from the hand Mabel stretched out from behind to pull his hem. He really had to treat Mabel's alcohol addiction.
Alcoholism, gambling, partying... those who didn't know would think his Stardew Valley was some kind of criminal den!
As for Mabel's request for him to accompany her for a night and sell his body, Suke naturally ignored it.
Because it was said too directly, he felt it wasn't real instead. This Boss Mabel was definitely plotting some black-hearted scheme again.
"Eh, why..."
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