Collapse 3: The girl who chased the fire moth

But in front of him, there were no Honkai Beasts as usual.

"Yes, but you don't need to panic."

From the shadows, a thin-looking figure emerged,

"The Houkai beast here has been dealt with by me, outsider."

"Oh? I've heard many names, but it's the first time for an outsider..."

Raiden Mei pulled out her weapon, pointed at the "stranger" obliquely,

"Are you the new Yingjie?"

"Outsider, of course you are an outsider. Paradise is our paradise, for [her], because the pure land where [her] exists, your existence is just noise."

The person in the shadow said coldly, Leiden Mei vaguely saw that there seemed to be a pair of conspicuous horns on her head.

"Oh? Really, then you came to see me to drive me away? Or to clear me up?"

It was impossible for Leiden Mei to shrink back because of this level of provocation, and retorted.

"Purge? No, even if it's a wild dog on the side of the road, as long as it has Alicia's permission, I won't say anything."

A white, almost sickly thin girl stepped out of the shadows,

"I'm just here to warn you that you'd better leave by yourself, before the doctor does anything."

"You are……?"

"You don't need to know who I am, outsider, you just need to know that you should leave now."

Melutina said coldly.

"Doctor you mean? Could it be that former civilized Dr. Mei?"

Of course, Raiden Mei couldn't walk away in despair just because of this sentence.

"Dr. Mei? Heh... use your face to say this?"

Melutina sneered,

"I'm not interested in you, nor in whether you are a Herrscher. I'm also not interested in the purpose of that Kevin outside. Similarly, I won't engrave you."

"I thought Qianjie was already rude enough, but I didn't expect there to be someone more arrogant than him."

Raiden Mei was provoked repeatedly and became angry.

"You might as well try it yourself, do you have the qualifications to despise me?"

"Try it? You are not qualified to try it with me."

"Chidori... draw the sword!"

Leiden Mei swung a knife that cut through the space, and the surging thunder and lightning raged in this space.

But when the thunder light dissipated, the Ying Jie who she thought was extremely arrogant was still standing there motionless, not even a single hair fell out.

"I will only say this sentence for the last time."

Melutina didn't care about what she wanted to do and what she did,

"Take the truth you seek... get out of here."

Then, she disappeared in front of Raiden Mei.

"Unexplainable guy... Is there more than one thousand eons in Paradise?"

Leiden Mei exhaled, retracted her weapon, and left without looking back.

……

Paradise Hall

"Huh? Have you met the new Yingjie?"

Seeing the swollen Raiden Mei, Alicia said in surprise after asking.

"Yingjie who hasn't appeared yet... have you met Dr. Mebius?"

Eden held the wine glass and looked drunk.

"Doctor? No, probably not. He is as disobedient as Qian Jie."

Leiden Mei frowned,

"Opening your mouth is [I'm not interested in you, and I won't give you a seal], [Leave quickly with your purpose] [You are not qualified to try with me yet]."

"Well... this person..."

Alicia froze for a moment, and exchanged glances with Eden.

"Who else is there but her?"

Eden said with a wry smile.

"Mei, don't you know this Yingjie?"

Alicia asked strangely.

"Me? How did I know her... Among the fusion fighters, I only know..."

Midway through Leiden Mei's words, she suddenly froze,

"Wait, don't tell me, that skinny pale baby fat is..."

"It's Melutina, huh? ~The ninth place of Chasing Fire Yingjie, Melutina of [Purgatory]."

Alicia stuck out her tongue,

"The mouth is as stubborn as her family's doctor, and the temper is as stubborn as her partner Qianjie...The [good girl] of Chasing Fire Thirteen, Melutina."

"..."

Raiden Mei stopped thinking.

……

"Sister Melutina, you don't seem to be in a good mood today."

Gracie stopped her brush and said while looking at Melutina who was motionless next to her.

"...Is it that obvious?"

Even Gracie couldn't help but say it, Melutina touched her cheek and asked.

"Well, it looks very unhappy."

Gracie nodded.

"Okay... I'm really unhappy. Gracie, do you like life with everyone?"

"like."

Gracie nodded.

"That's why sister Melutina likes it too... At this time, if someone wants to break all this, they will be unhappy, won't they?"

Melutina patted Gracie's head.

"Sister Melutina, don't you like that new sister?"

Gracie seemed to understand what she was talking about.

"I just don't want to be forced to change anything... Isn't this good? Even if it's data, even if it's appearance, for us here now, this is the only reality."

Melutina seemed to be talking to Gracie, but she wanted to talk to herself,

"The 5 years that [Melu Tina] experienced outside never belonged to me."

"However, Sister Alicia definitely doesn't think so."

Gracie said.

"Yeah, I sometimes wish..."

Melutina said,

"She's not that kind."

……

"This time it's actually about..."

"Enough, I don't want to know about the outside world."

"Wait, [Paradise Meddy], I know you don't want to get involved in my affairs, but this time..."

"I don't need to know anything, if you don't want it to happen, let that outsider go, [Reality Meddy]."

"Huh? No, you shouldn't be someone who dwells on the past, right, you probably haven't..."

"I've never dwelled on the past. But for me, it's reality."

"But we have things that must be done."

"You're right, for me, that thing is staying in the moment."

"you……"

…………

[No longer accept the burden of death, no longer bear the weight of abandonment, no longer alone. 】

If you are me too, shouldn't you understand?

I just want this moment to last forever, even if...

In exchange for life.

Chapter 3 About Raiden Mei being hated

"...Thousands of calamities."

"what?"

"Are you provoking me?"

"what?"

"Just now, did you press my card?"

"So what?"

"Are you on my side?"

"Huh? It seems so."

"...killed you."

"Just right! Let's try it!"

……

"It seems that you can't play it?"

Alicia put down the cards in her hand, looked at the two wrestling together, and sighed.

"All the time."

Kevin also put down the cards and folded his arms around his chest.

"Speaking of..."

Alicia seemed to remember something.

"kindness?"

"It seems that Mebius met Mei a few days ago?"

Alicia thought for a while and said.

"As Mebius, this timing is very strange."

Kevin nodded and said.

"Compared to that..."