Another weekend.
In that familiar cold drink shop near Chiba Academy, Lucius and Kiana sat facing each other.
Today's Kiana still looked the same as she did a few days ago, wearing a blue short jacket with a black tight top underneath.
Her waist-length white hair was tied into a high ponytail, leaving only a stubborn tuft of hair sticking up on top of her head.
At this moment, she was leaning forward at the table, one hand propping up her cheek.
Her mouth held a straw, listlessly sipping the cold drink in front of her.
From time to time, she let out a soft sigh.
Watching her look as if "I have something on my mind" was written all over her face, Lucius suppressed his laughter and asked with a straight face:
"Good brother, how's your relationship with Mei lately?"
Hearing Lucius's inquiry, Kiana's hand propping up her cheek trembled, nearly knocking over the cold drink on the table.
Not knowing what terrible thing she thought of, her face paled and her body couldn't help but shiver.
"Recently, Mei has been practicing her cooking skills and often invites me to eat at her house." Kiana's face showed suffering. "I can feel her enthusiasm, but I really can't take it anymore..."
Looking at the melancholy on Kiana's face, Lucius's eyes became somewhat evasive, and he felt inexplicably guilty, because the reason Mei was so enthusiastically inviting Kiana to visit was actually his fault.
It was he who, under the pretext of strengthening classmate relationships, had convinced Mei to pull Kiana over to eat together.
After all, as his good brother, how could he only watch himself suffer? Of course, they should share blessings and eat hardships together!
But just as a trace of guilt arose in his heart, Lucius suddenly thought:
He was eating Mei's cooking for 30 crystals a day, to save hundreds of millions of people in East Asia and even all of humanity. No matter how you looked at it, he occupied the moral high ground!
Besides, as good brothers, how could he eat alone? When there were good things, of course he had to share them with his good brother.
Thinking of this, the guilt in Lucius's heart instantly dissipated, replaced by full determination.
Kiana naturally didn't know what Lucius was thinking. Just thinking about Mei's cooking, the originally stubborn tuft of hair on top of her head wilted down, and her little face became bitter.
However, she quickly comforted herself.
"I found that these days, Mei's meals can hardly knock me out anymore, which means her cooking skills are improving. Maybe it'll become delicious soon..."
That's because your body is gradually adapting to the toxicity of her meals.
Lucius silently complained in his heart, but to avoid making his good brother explode, he rationally didn't say it out loud.
"So, good brother, you called me out this time, it's not just to discuss Mei's cooking with me, right?"
"Of course not."
Hearing Lucius's question, Kiana's face showed contemplation, as if organizing her words.
"These days I've been having strange dreams..."
"Oh, dreams?"
Kiana recalled and said:
"Yes, dreams. Some chaotic dreams. Some make people feel uneasy, while others feel extremely warm."
"In my dreams, I saw something like a laboratory that felt very uncomfortable. I also dreamed of a tall tower under heavy snow, Honkai beasts covering the land."
"I also dreamed of scenes like a school campus, a huge battleship tearing through the sky, and many people whose faces I can't remember clearly."
Listening to Kiana's account, Lucius's expression gradually became strange.
"Mu, do you know something?"
Meeting Kiana's suspicious expression, Lucius nodded.
"What you remember should be some memory fragments from within the stigmata. They should come from the flower similar to you 50,000 years in the future."
"My counterpart who embraced the Cocoon?"
Lucius nodded.
Hearing this, Kiana was somewhat worried.
"These memories won't affect me, will they? Like causing some mental problems or something?"
Lucius thought for a moment and answered: "Probably not."
"What do you mean 'probably'?"
"Because I can only guarantee this thing is harmless. As for whether there are any other unexpected situations, I'm not clear either."
...
Watching Kiana's departing figure, Lucius fell into thought.
He really hadn't expected that loading stigmata onto Kiana would cause this situation, because the stigmata he himself loaded didn't have this problem.
Lucius temporarily didn't know the reason, but he thought that stigmata produced by the system should have no side effects, right?
But thinking about how this broken system could even get the time wrong, he suddenly began to doubt his own thoughts.
At this time, a vibration came from his pocket.
Lucius took out his communicator. Someone had sent a communication.
Opening the communication, an image came from the other side. It was a woman wearing a top hat and strange clothing decorated with gears and machinery.
"Teacher V, when did you arrive?"
This person was the famous V, whose true identity was one of the Previous Era's Thirteen Flame-Chasers—Spiral, Vill-V.
At the same time, she was also his good brother from one meal's worth of friendship. Lucius called her Teacher V.
"Partner, I have some not-so-good news here."
This time she wasn't lively but rather quiet. Lucius wasn't surprised, after all, his friend was a master with split personalities. The one communicating with him this time seemed to be a relatively quiet personality.
Vill-V said expressionlessly: "Ryoma was abducted by someone."
"???"
"Teacher V, did you mess up this game?"
Hearing Lucius's words, the Vill-V on the screen was somewhat ashamed, but the next moment, her expression changed and her entire temperament became flamboyant.
"Don't worry, he can't be lost. I placed a tracker on him."
With Vill-V's words, the communicator's screen flashed, and the scene suddenly changed, showing Ryoma's experiences during this period.
He saw Ryoma board a plane, saw him stop at the entrance of a pachinko parlor, saw him lose all the money on him, saw him get knocked out by a pink-haired woman wearing a mask and dragged away.
"Do you need me to send someone to catch him back?" The Vill-V in the screen showed a smile full of malicious intent. "Just right, I have some interesting little gadgets to try."
Lucius shook his head. He wouldn't be surprised if Vill-V pulled out a nuclear bomb from her magical wonderful toolbox.
If he really let her act freely, Nagazora City would probably be overturned.
"Since Ryoma has already returned to Nagazora City, I'll take over from here."
"What are you going to do?"
To this, Lucius's mouth pulled into a confident smile.
"That would naturally be... to use the doxxing weapon."
Although Sakura wore a mask, Lucius still recognized her at a glance.
And previously, he had already doxxed Sakura.
Her preferences, savings, three sizes, interpersonal relationships... Lucius knew everything clearly.
So, Lucius dialed a number.
"Ring ring ring!"
With a dialing tone, the other side connected.
"Who is this?" A female voice came from the communicator.
"May I ask if this is Miss Sakura, the Poison Cocoon organization assassin whose sister is in room 212, Building 3, Area B of St. Louis International Hospital?"
"..."
"Who are you!!!" Sakura's incredulous voice came from the communicator.
Hearing this, Lucius smiled crookedly, like a standard villain.
"Hehehe."
"Miss Sakura, your sister is in my hands."
"If you don't want anything to happen to her, you know what to do, right?"
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