December 5th. Nagazora greeted the gloomiest morning since the start of winter.
Beyond the glass curtain wall of the office tower, the sky was leaden gray, the clouds pressed down low.
Su Yu sat in his office chair, his finger lightly rolling the mouse wheel.
On the screen, backend data for the latest version of Honkai Impact 3rd scrolled past in dense rows, alongside a player comment section that was practically crushing the servers.
This time, the trending topics hogging the top spots were especially eye-catching: [Second Eruption] and [Firmament of the Void, Lonely Moon].
He flicked through the comments at random. All he saw was players wailing like ghosts.
[My heart was already shattered to bits when Sirin was being tortured in that lab.]
[Mama Cecilia was so gentle! Why couldn't that last hug have been a good ending?! Su Yu, you old thief, do you even have a heart?]
[Enough talking, tonight that blond Bishop Otto is getting hit with the Cleaver of Shamash in everyone's dreams!]
[Let's string up Su Yu the old thief like a kite! Everyone chant with me: wholesome, sunny miHoYo, swindles our tears, may your whole family die!]
[Wholesome and sunny, positive and upbeat! You say that's not a reunion? A reunion in the underworld is still a reunion!]
[Stop crying up there, the razor blades are already in the mail. All I can think about now is dragging that inhuman blond clown Otto out and lighting him up as a human sky lantern! How does Schicksal even have a beast like that for a bishop?!]
[Old Thief's stepping on a banana peel the second he leaves home today! No, a watermelon rind! My tears are worthless, are they?!]
Looking at the radical comments threatening to crawl down the network cable and go 'IRL' on him, Su Yu, the one who'd started it all, showed not a flicker of panic. Instead he unhurriedly picked up the black coffee beside him and took a sip, a playful curve tugging at the corner of his mouth.
Having players string you up like a kite was the highest medal an excellent game producer could earn.
He shifted his gaze downward. A translucent pale-blue light screen visible only to him had already drifted lazily up onto his retina, its text still carrying that System-brand smug, bouncy cheer.
[Long-term quest settlement in progress: Global Campaign — Honkai Impact 3rd: If You Don't Play, You're Not Skyborn]
[This plot critical hit successfully harvested a massive amount of emotion points! Host-exclusive benefits are being upgraded and settled as follows:]
[Total high-purity emotion points collected this settlement: 54,000,000.]
[Kiana Kaslana's life continuity has increased significantly. Reality Anchor physical lock radius extended to: 100 meters.]
[Note: Daily free-time storage cap raised to 5 hours. Maximum accumulated storage: 500 hours.]
[System Message: Look at that, a hundred meters! Host, think back to when you two were crammed onto a single bed, glaring at each other every time one of you so much as got up to use the bathroom. Shouldn't you be clinging to this System's leg and weeping in gratitude by now?]
Looking at the distance that had now become "100 meters," Su Yu felt the stiff ache in his neck ease a little.
From those tormenting days when he couldn't even get up for a glass of water without worrying about clipping Kiana into transparency, to this full hundred-meter radius, the girl could finally walk down to the convenience store below the office tower and buy her favorite fried chicken like a normal person, no free card required.
But the System's chime didn't end there. The text on the light screen suddenly warped slightly:
[System detection: strategic item reserves for future timeline changes have been updated in sync:]
[Spatial Transfer Device (Pocket Watch)]: The core item that ensures that when Project STIGMA erupts in Arc City, Kiana can travel between worlds to stop the Honkai energy bomb without expending her own Strength. Current charge progress: 75%.
[Saving Private Himeko]: Core rescue progress has advanced to: 65%.
[Valkyrie Armor Unlocked]: The "Void Drifter" amplification core module now qualifies for exchange and purchase. This armor can greatly assist Kiana in wielding the Authority of the Herrscher of the Void.
[System Note: The countdown's end draws closer by the day. Struggle all you like in your world. This System will accompany you in the most considerate manner all the way to the final curtain call~]
The sudden sappiness stalled Su Yu's already heavy mood.
He couldn't help rolling his eyes hard, and flatly made a "shut up" gesture.
"Enough. Quit playing the tragic System. Get lost."
After closing the System interface, Su Yu rubbed the bridge of his nose and turned to glance at the two-seater sofa beside him.
At this time of day, a white-haired dumpling should have been curled up there, hugging a bag of chips and smearing crumbs all over the carpet.
But today, the wide gray fabric sofa was empty. Only the odd-eyed kitten named Chongchong was sprawled in the exact center of the cushion with zero dignity, belly up, purring contentedly.
The Big Cat hadn't reported to the Director's Office all morning.
"The Big Cat didn't show up on time to sneak snacks today... really?"
Su Yu pushed back his chair, stood, and opened the heavy walnut door of his office.
He'd barely reached the corner of the hallway when a racket from the art team's area started making his forehead throb.
"Hehe... hehehe... Yes, yes, that's the look! Arrogant, ice-cold, with that top-tier sacred aura of 'you human rabble are all garbage'! Long live the Herrscher of the Void! Long live Her Majesty the Queen!"
Nuwa was practically plastered to her drawing tablet, her eyes glowing a near-fanatical green, a bit of drool even at the corner of her mouth in full dirty-old-perv fashion.
"Kiana, Kiana! Take a look at this one! I refined the shadow of the Herrscher of the Void's skirt from that top-down angle three more times! How is it? Doesn't it give you that suffocating feeling of a god descending, where you just want to drop to your knees and kiss the tips of her shoes? Hehe... hehehehe."
Meanwhile Kiana, whose clothes Nuwa was clutching to drag her along, wore the look of a salted fish who'd lost all will to live.
The white-haired girl leaned against the edge of the drafting table, hands in her hoodie pockets, eyes resting on the finished illustration on the screen.
In the picture, the Herrscher of the Void hung high beneath a dark purple Spatial Rift, her golden pupils full of lofty indifference, her silver-white hair whipping wildly in the void storm, her whole figure radiating a sacred, untouchable majesty.
Kiana's gaze swept over that face, identical to her own, then dropped to herself.
Dark hooded sweatshirt. Slightly baggy sweatpants. Two braids hanging messily over her shoulders. And on the edge of her collar, a smear of red-and-yellow seasoning from the barbecue-flavored chips she'd sneaked into her mouth in the break room.
No matter how she looked at it, she seemed like some little slacker coasting through school, counting on other people to carry her through finals.
The Herrscher in the illustration was a "queen" who made people want to kneel, so that even looking at her a moment longer felt like blasphemy.
And herself?
That person... that person shared a body with her.
So why were they two such completely different people?
From every angle, whether it was that mature woman's dangerous allure or that presence you couldn't tear your eyes from, she seemed to fall far short of the one who occupied the other side of her body.
For some reason, the things Sirin had said a while back surfaced in her mind again.
"What you fear is that once you tear off the righteous cloak of 'Valkyrie' and walk up to him to say 'I like you'..."
"He'll just ruffle your hair and say with a smile, like he's soothing a little girl begging for candy: 'Be good, stop fooling around.'"
"And you'll realize in despair that although we share the same body, the same face... only I am 'a woman' in his eyes. And you're just an idiot who'll never grow up and has no charm whatsoever."
The mocking golden eyes in the mirror overlapped with the Herrscher's eyes on the tablet before her.
"Kiana? Are you listening? What do you think of this one, anything that needs changing?" Nuwa leaned in and poked her arm with her stylus.
"Ah... um, I think it's great. Nothing to change."
Kiana forced a smile, her hand sliding deeper into her hoodie pocket, and asked in a small voice.
"Nuwa... what do you think is so good-looking about that Herrscher of the Void, anyway?"
"Great question!"
The instant she heard the topic, Nuwa's radar as a professional veteran pervert switched to full power. She slapped her thigh and launched into a fluent analysis.
"You just don't get it, Kiana! The Herrscher of the Void's best point is that extreme contrast and aura of abstinence!"
"Think about it. A god so arrogant she considers it a crime for a human to even touch the hem of her clothes. That lofty coldness actually makes people feel this wildly intense urge to conquer her!"
"You want to watch her fall from the throne, to see human warmth stain those golden eyes... Waaah, just thinking about it, I could pull three more all-nighters for concept art!"
Nuwa rattled on, her stylus even leaving afterimages as she waved it around.
But to Kiana's ears, those words only weighed her mood down further.
Of course... if even Nuwa found that person this charming, then in Su Yu's eyes the Herrscher of the Void must be very charming too, someone he very much wanted to conquer, right?
Otherwise... how could that guy, in that spiritual space no outsider could ever reach, have done so many...
So many overstepping things that made even her blush just from seeing them?
The moment she thought of the scalding warmth and tangled breaths that had been synced over to her, Kiana's mood inevitably sank into a deeper trough.
"What are you two chatting about so early in the morning, corrupting my studio's employees?"
Just then, Su Yu's voice rang out, laced with a smile.
Kiana jolted all over like a kitten caught red-handed and scrambled to her feet.
The instant her eyes met Su Yu's, a flush she couldn't tamp down shot from her neck all the way to the tips of her ears.
It had been like this lately.
The moment she saw Su Yu, her whole body went rigid, every cell clamoring with discomfort.
Fine, to be honest, she was avoiding Su Yu.
Otherwise, with her usual habit of practically gluing herself to the Director's Office sofa, how could she be sitting so obediently in the art team's room at this hour, holding a little meeting with Nuwa?
Nuwa's gaze circled the beet-red Kiana, then Su Yu's helpless face, and her instincts as a heavy-duty internet surfer told her everything at once.
"Ohhh~~~~"
Nuwa dragged out the vowel in a deeply meaningful snicker, snapped her tablet shut, hugged it to her chest, and backed away.
"Got it, got it! I'm totally fine on my end! Looks like the Director has urgent, important business with our main model. Kiana, hurry up and go with the Boss, don't hold up your daily work~"
"Ah, um... okay."
Kiana wanted nothing more than to escape Nuwa's teasing stare and trailed after Su Yu with her head down.
Su Yu walked ahead, listening with some amusement to the Big Cat's footsteps behind him, far heavier than usual.
They crossed the hallway together. Just as they were about to push open the Director's Office door, a scene flashed through Kiana's mind.
It was from not long ago, in this very office, where she'd sprawled out and slept like a log with her head on Su Yu's knees.
Back then, it had felt perfectly natural.
But now.
Those absurd synced images of "thighs," "heat," and "friction" began spinning through her head like a revolving lantern.
She felt that if she sat down in that office, she would surely die of suffocation.
If Su Yu knew her head was full of those sticky images, would he think she was strange?
Would he think she was some shameless pervert?
Su Yu's hand was already on the doorknob.
Kiana finally couldn't take it anymore. She shot out a hand and clutched the back hem of his clothes. "Um... can we, can we go talk on the rooftop?"
Su Yu turned and looked at the girl who couldn't even meet his eyes, a flicker of worry crossing his own.
But in the end he said nothing, only nodded gently. "Sure. Whatever you want."
December in Arc City. The cold wind on the rooftop cut like knives.
The moment Su Yu stepped through the iron door onto the roof, the oncoming chill made him squint.
He instinctively glanced at Kiana beside him. She wore only a thin hooded sweatshirt.
Without a second's hesitation, Su Yu unwound the gray cashmere scarf from his neck, stepped closer, and reached to wrap it around her.
But seeing Su Yu's body suddenly close in and his hands reach out, Kiana, already in a state of extreme sensitivity, flinched backward a full step by reflex.
Both of them froze where they stood.
The cold wind whistled through the gap between them, and the atmosphere congealed awkwardly.
Kiana quickly realized how hurtful her reaction had been. She waved her hands in a panic and babbled loudly.
"Ah! Th-that... I'm not cold! I'm a Valkyrie of the Kaslana family, my body's tough! You're the one to worry about, Su Yu. You stay up every night making games, and if you catch a cold, the studio's progress will be totally wrecked, and Nuwa will definitely cry herself to death!"
Su Yu didn't back off. Instead he stepped forward again, took the scarf, and wound it around the girl's neck, loop after loop, gently but firmly.
"No amount of layers will keep out the wind. Use the scarf for now. I'm not in the habit of making a girl stand in front and take the wind."
The scarf had been a Christmas present from Elysia during the Winter Giveaway.
Kiana actually owned one in the exact same style, but that scatterbrained white-haired dumpling had left it behind in her dorm base on Hyperion and never brought it over.
"Thanks..."
Kiana buried most of her face in the thick cashmere.
The scarf still held Su Yu's body warmth, along with a faint masculine scent.
That scent turned her face red as the most blazing summer sunset on the horizon, her heartbeat nearly leaping out of her chest.
Wrapped in a gentleness that almost intoxicated her, Kiana even greedily burrowed her face a little deeper into the scarf.
But to keep from making a complete fool of herself, she bit down hard on the tip of her tongue. The sharp sting cleared her head a little.
She took a deep breath and tried to make her voice sound as breezy as ever. "Um... Su Yu, did you call me out here for something important?"
Seeing her finally regain a bit of liveliness, Su Yu smiled and relayed the settlement information from the System.
"Yeah. Good news."
"The System's long-term quest just had its stage settlement. The limits on your activity in the real world have officially been relaxed from the original range to a 100-meter radius."
"Your daily free time has also been extended to 5 hours."
Su Yu had expected that on hearing this, the ever freedom-craving white-haired dumpling would squeal with excitement on the spot, then bounce around like a little kid, dragging him by the hand in circles across the rooftop.
But no.
Kiana's expression froze in an instant.
She didn't wear the dazzling smile Su Yu had predicted. Instead she slowly lowered her head, sinking into a silence that made him a little uneasy.
In Kiana's field of vision, the seams in the metal rooftop beneath her feet stood out with striking clarity.
A 100-meter radius...
It was a big number, big enough that she could even leave the office tower by herself to go shopping.
So why didn't she feel even a trace of happiness? Why did she feel... a little sad instead?
Logically, a larger radius meant she was growing freer.
But emotionally, it was no different from being told:
— You have less and less reason to stay by Su Yu's side.
Even though the range they could move in together kept growing, Kiana inexplicably felt she was being pushed away from him.
What was even more fatal was that as the countdowns the System had given crept closer, the harsh reality she'd always dodged with "I'm dumb, I don't want to think about it" finally, inescapably, tore away every disguise.
Arc City's defenses needed someone to defend them.
Honkai was lying in wait.
And she, Kiana Kaslana, was fated to go to that battlefield of Honkai and Destruction and stop the Honkai energy bomb that was about to reduce everything to nothing.
It wasn't that she lacked confidence in winning that fight. She had simply... suddenly realized a cruel question.
She stops the Honkai energy bomb from erupting. She saves Arc City. And then what?
Right. Then what?
Then, would she be able to return, like an ordinary girl, to this real world with Su Yu, the studio, and the strawberry pies, and go on with those noisy yet utterly happy days?
No.
It wouldn't happen.
Though Kiana was often called an idiot, when it came to her own ending in the torrent of fate, she was clearer-eyed than anyone.
Once the countdown hit zero, once she was truly free and returned to the original Honkai world.
What awaited her, the unfinished fight, was a return to that devastated world to fulfill her destiny as its "Savior."
And that meant... she and Su Yu would face a parting in the truest sense.
Though Su Yu had said to her more than once in the dead of night, looking into her eyes, "Whatever we face in the future, I'll face it with you,"
the world-crossing pocket watch in his hands, as the System had made perfectly clear, was only a pass that "could carry one person."
Unless Su Yu went insane, let himself be swallowed by the core rift of the Honkai invasion in the real world, and gambled his life on a vanishingly small chance of forcing his flesh through the barrier between two worlds.
But the risk of Su Yu being shredded to pieces in spatial turbulence was something Kiana could never, ever bear.
And besides.
No one could guarantee that once the invasion was over, Su Yu's world wouldn't face a fresh round of catastrophe.
Su Yu was this world's Anchor. He had to stay here to protect this real world, full of their shared memories and countless important friends.
Even if Su Yu were truly willing to throw away everything for her, truly wanted to follow her to that world, Kiana would use her last ounce of strength to push him away, sobbing.
Because she knew perfectly well that she had a mission of her own.
And Su Yu had his own mission as this world's savior.
So... the freedom progress bar the System had handed out was no fairy-tale release at all. It was a timer announcing that the day of their parting was drawing near.
The day she finally gained complete freedom, no longer restricted, would probably also be the day she had to leave Su Yu.
"Kiana?"
A voice beside her interrupted her spiraling thoughts.
Su Yu looked down at her. "You don't seem very happy. What happened? Can you tell me why?"
Kiana lifted her head, trembling.
She pressed her lips tightly together and buried her chin deeper into the scarf. Scalding tears welled in her eyes, but she couldn't get out a single word.
Su Yu was already exhausted enough.
During the day he spun like a top between the studio and the battlefield, busy as could be.
If her petty, selfish, wretched little girl's feelings of love made Su Yu shoulder even more while he was already carrying the world, then she, Kiana, would be far too inconsiderate.
"Ah... here we go again. That nauseating, self-satisfied sense of mission and responsibility."
The proud yet icy voice of the Herrscher of the Void rang faintly in Kiana's ear once more, right on cue, edged with mockery.
"Kiana, in the end you're still the same coward who only knows how to retreat."
Kiana ignored the voice in her head.
She looked at Su Yu in front of her and drew a deep breath. Just as she resolved to use "Kaslana coldness" to say some heartless, irreversible words to draw a line between them—
Clap! Clap! Clap!
A brisk round of applause suddenly rang out from the shadows at the rooftop's corner, smashing the nearly suffocating air to pieces!
"Alright~ Great Producer, and adorable Kiana, your tearjerker act... ends here!!"
Su Yu and Kiana whipped their heads around at the same time.
From who knew when, that pink ponytail, so eye-catching against the gloomy winter day, was already bouncing lightly in the wind.
Elysia hopped over with a skip, and she was even holding two glittering plastic signs, one in each hand. One said [YES] in big letters, the other [NO].
In fact, with the perception granted by his Bright Mirror Sword Heart, Su Yu had sensed this pink troublemaker approaching several minutes ago.
He'd assumed Elysia was just playing some everyday "bishoujo stealth game," and hadn't expected her to jump out at a moment like this.
Elysia slipped between them with a light catwalk step, her smile brighter than the winter sun.
She raised a hand and slapped the big [NO] sign right up against Su Yu's forehead.
"Honestly! Miss Pink Elf can't stand watching this, okay?!"
Elysia puffed out her dumpling cheeks and accused them in a pained voice.
"When the mood is this perfect, shouldn't you, as the boy, Su Yu, grab our anxious little Kiana and hold her tight in your arms?"
"Eh... huh?!"
"Hehe, no need to hide it! Though I definitely, absolutely did NOT eavesdrop on what you two were saying around the corner~"
Elysia blinked her pink eyes slyly.
"But with the top-tier 'romance radar' experience I, Elysia, have accumulated over years of roaming every shoujo manga out there, this is absolutely that classic scene, right?!"
"The male and female leads misunderstand each other in the cold wind, the female lead is about to say something heartless that hurts them both, then the two part on bad terms and each hug a pillow and go emo until dawn..."
Listening to Elysia's neat, self-consistent fantasy of a "primetime 8 PM melodrama," giant black question marks popped up over both Su Yu's and Kiana's heads at the same time.
"Sure, a tragic love plot like that has great tension in a game, but in real life, I don't like that kind of development!"
Elysia suddenly planted her hands on her hips and lifted her chin slightly, her delicate face full of pride.
"The ending of this story should naturally be rewritten by the most beautiful Miss Pink Elf herself—"
As she spoke, she spun a pretty circle in front of them on her high heels, the [YES] and [NO] signs tracing graceful arcs through the air.
"Su Yu! And Kiana! Listen up. Miss Pink Elf now commands you—"
"Get married right here, right now!!"
Kiana: "Huh?! W-wait... Elysia, what nonsense are you spouting?!"
Su Yu: "?"
Elysia giggled, thrilled that her prank had landed.
She clapped the signs together in front of her chest. "Oh my~ how was that, did I scare you? My elaborate setup performance wasn't wasted! The looks on your faces, I want to snap a photo and hang it in the hall of the Golden Courtyard~"
"So what you're saying is..."
Su Yu rubbed his aching temples, thoroughly beaten by this fairy.
"You came all the way up here just to mess with us for fun?"
"Of course not! Miss Pink Elf is very mature. How could she do something so boring?"
Elysia's smile took on a hint of mystery.
"Actually, what I said wasn't entirely wrong, you know."
"After all... the reason I made a special trip up here is that the Golden Courtyard has a very important commission that simply must be entrusted to our loving pair!"
Kiana poked her flushed face out of the scarf, looking dazed. "An important commission?"
"Hehe, the commission is actually very simple. Su Yu, and Kiana!" Elysia planted her fists on her hips. "For the coming days, I'd like you two to play little Griseo's temporary daddy and mommy!"
"Huh?!"
This time, Kiana's shriek nearly scattered the dark clouds over the rooftop.
"Oh my, don't be so quick to act surprised, let me explain slowly~"
Elysia looked the picture of innocence.
"Skyward Elementary School's finals are almost here, and tomorrow happens to be the annual school-wide end-of-term sports meet."
"Our adorable little Griseo just happened to draw lots to be her class's core competitor! But the problem is..."
"Ato and Blanka, those two big dummies, are busy with their research lately."
"Eden has a global-tour online concert gig tomorrow, and even I got dragged in as a special opening guest."
"And Kalpas... he's been so busy lately fighting ingredients in the kitchen for the Master Chef contest that anyone who walks in gets chased out with his cleaver."
"As for Kosma... ah, that poor kid. To keep from failing math at finals, he's locked in a room by Daisy for hardcore tutoring right now. You probably won't see him before finals~"
Elysia ran through the whole troublesome crowd of the Golden Courtyard in her head, then spread her hands and reached her conclusion.
"So, you see, in the whole organization, the only guardians with time, energy, and an idle schedule who can go to the school and back Griseo up... are just the two of you~"
Before Su Yu and Kiana could recover from that avalanche of information, Elysia had already bounded forward and, without a word of discussion, shoved the sign marked [YES] into Su Yu's hand.
Then she raised a finger to her lips and made an adorable "zip your mouth shut" gesture at him.
"Got it, bad Su Yu? Don't you dare refuse now! Over these past few months, as game director, you've been leaving early and showing up late all the time, and I haven't even settled that account with you yet! So tomorrow's answer can only be YES!"
Holding the plastic sign, Su Yu turned helplessly to look at Kiana beside him.
Sure enough, hearing she'd be playing Griseo's "mommy" with Su Yu, Kiana was already in a state of complete brain overload, ready to blow at any moment.
Her first instinct was to refuse.
No way, absolutely not!
Right now, if she stayed with Su Yu for more than three minutes, those intimate images would start spinning through her head like a revolving lantern.
If she also had to play "married parents" at an elementary school sports meet,
she'd be burned to ash by shame within a single day!
But just as Kiana opened her mouth to say no—
Elysia, as if she'd predicted her reaction long ago, rubbed the corners of her tearless eyes and spoke in an aggrieved tone.
"Oh dear... if Kiana really doesn't want to go, then Elysia can only risk breaching tomorrow's gig contract, get spat on by everyone as an untrustworthy little fox... and reluctantly go attend as Griseo's 'daddy and mommy' with Su Yu myself..."
"Sigh, Kiana, can you really bear to see me become an untrustworthy Miss Pink Elf, and then have to go through the trouble of playing loving couple with Su Yu at an elementary school? Boohoo."
Boom!!
Those few sentences went off on the rooftop like a Honkai energy bomb packed with concentrated vinegar.
All of that weighty "Kaslana sacrifice and mission."
All of that tangled "too insecure to dare to love."
The instant she heard that Su Yu would be "daddy and mommy" with another woman, all of it was seized by the possessive instinct of a cat.
Let Elysia and Su Yu be husband and wife for a day? No! Absolutely not!!
"I'll go! I'll go! I'll go! Who said I wasn't going?!"
Elysia instantly dropped her act of being about to cry and hummed twice, thoroughly satisfied.
"OK~! Deal!"
"With such a young, well-matched mom and dad, our adorable little Griseo is entirely in your hands tomorrow!"
As she spoke, she hummed a lilting tune and turned to leave.
Just as she was about to step through the iron door, Elysia suddenly stopped in her tracks.
"Oh, right! Remember, absolutely remember, you can't be late for tomorrow morning's opening ceremony, okay?"
"If little Griseo ends up sad at school... I'll represent everyone in the Golden Courtyard and inflict upon you two the terrifying punishment of Miss Pink Elf~"
Su Yu looked at her ill-intentioned smile, his eyelid twitching wildly.
"...May I ask what exactly your terrifying punishment is, Miss Pink Elf?"
Elysia tilted her head. "Why, of course... making you two eat three days of [Cold Fish Mint Salad]~"
Su Yu: …
Kiana: "...?!"
"Okay then, see you tomorrow, adorable mom and dad~"
As the pink skirt vanished behind the door, the rooftop settled back into the stillness of December.
"Su Yu..."
Kiana stiffly tugged at the scarf around her neck, her voice trembling.
"Fish mint... isn't that the one Nuwa took a single bite of last time and then threw up for three whole hours? That... demon-realm plant?"
"Yeah."
Su Yu sighed heavily and patted the sign in his hand that read YES.
"So... for the sake of our lives, tomorrow we absolutely can't be late."
"Oh..."
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