I really only stop

"……Um."

Although comforted by everyone, because of the incident just now, Celica still couldn't lift her emotions:

"Then, let's go to the dinner party."

"it is good."

With a comforting smile on the corner of her mouth, Lilian gently grabbed Celica's little hand:

"Everyone, come with us, the dinner is ready."

"Ah."

Lu Xi and the others looked at each other and raised their legs to follow.

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As if a repeat of the last incident, following in the footsteps of Queen Lilian, Lu Xi and his party once again came to the beautiful garden under the starry sky in memory.

For Lu Xi and the others, they may have seen it once, but for someone else——

"Woooh!!! So when we were imprisoned in a small dark room, Lu Xiqing and you guys actually hid in such a beautiful place and ate such delicious food?!"

Sending a small cake into his mouth with exquisite technique without any trace, Xia Li completely abandoned his graceful and wise elf sage avatar, and stuffed his mouth full of food like a real bear child :

"Umm, it tastes so good! I'm so envious of Lu Xiqing who can eat twice in a row!"

The stupid elf who stuffed his cheeks like a squirrel, probably only saw this once in his life.

"Your pointy elf ears and your beautiful green hollow dress are crying?"

I really couldn't bear to look directly at the elf skin that usually gives people the impression of being "noble and polite", being tossed so much by Xia Li, Lu Xi slightly turned his eyes sideways:

"Why did you choose you as an elf sage? It's too dramatic."

"No, no, compared to us, we are more curious about Miss Nana's side."

Looking sideways at the soft girl sitting on Miss Saint's lap, Xia Li deliberately lowered her voice:

"Did Lu Xiqing guess what [role] Miss Nana is playing?"

"Of course I guessed it, but in this space, we have to judge who we are playing from the mouths of other [NPCs]. Since none of the NPCs can see Nana, it is even more impossible for us to know who her character is."

Shrugging helplessly, Lu Xi handed Xia Li a piece of paper, signaling her to pay attention to her image with her eyes:

"However, I have an intuition that Nana is likely to be one of the four [failed] cards."

"The cloak man?"

Xia Li suddenly realized and slapped his forehead:

"That's right! The face and body are covered, which really fits Miss Nana's current situation!"

"Don't be too happy."

Seeing that this fake was a bit smug, Lu Xi immediately poured cold water on her:

"I asked Nana earlier, she didn't have the impression of feeling bad luck or hearing the bell when we failed at [difference point], in other words, we didn't even know why she failed."

"Isn't that bad?!"

Xia Li was terrified, and even squeezed the small cake in his hand to deform a bit:

"What if this ghost place must [all members succeed] to escape? We don't know how many times there are chances of restarting!"

When entering BE earlier, the sight of everything around him collapsing and black flames surging into the sky was so terrifying that even with Xia Li's big heart, he couldn't help feeling a little apprehensive.

Last time it restarted inexplicably, what if it was really burned by the black flame this time?We are still young, we don't want to die here without knowing why!

Just fake one hundred and eight [Energy Scroll·Release·False] and blow this place to ashes!If you can blow up the exit, you can escape smoothly. If you accidentally blow up yourself, you are unlucky!

"—Relax."

"Eh?"

While Xia Li was thinking about the dangerous way to escape, a sentence from Lu Xi must have made her a little dazed:

"Relax what?"

"That black flame, the real body is probably not [Black Flame]."

Lu Xi carefully considered his words and tried to tell Xia Li the information without revealing more:

"Think about it carefully, when your body was swallowed by the black flames, did you not feel the burning sensation, but only a slight warmth?"

"Hiss...it seems like this is really the case?"

Xia Li frowned:

"But, isn't that because we have matured in an instant, so we don't feel any pain?"

"It's still very mature, are you a barbecue?"

With an annoyed glance at the fake that is still playing tricks until now, Lu Xi shook his head:

"All in all, I don't think the black flame is real—"

"—Then let's trust Lu Xiqing~"

"?"

Looking at Xia Li who blurted out in front of him in disbelief, Lu Xi didn't react for a moment:

"Believe it?"

"Of course~ After all, it was Lu Xiqing who said that~"

Smiling, he stuffed a small cake into Lu Xi's mouth, as if expressing emotion, Xia Li whispered:

"When we were active in the city of Rhine with the face of Lu Xiqing, no matter where we went, we were greeted with warm greetings and kind jokes, and these were things that we couldn't get when we couldn't open our hearts to others. ——So we were thinking, to gain the trust and love of so many people, Lu Xiqing must be a trustworthy person! So we also trust your judgment!"

"...Mmmm."

Looking at the bright and clear smile on Xia Li's face with some discomfort, Lu Xi scratched his cheek subtly:

"I don't know if it's because the character of [Dead Child] is too deep in my heart, but now you show such a clean and innocent smile, I feel a little uncomfortable."

"……Eh?"

Xia Li's smile instantly froze on his face.

"……Feel sorry."

Lucy poured her a non-alcoholic drink apologetically.

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Seeing that Xia Li ran to the other side to taste the food, Lu Xi pressed his finger on his adventurer card.

The reason why I couldn't tell Xia Li just now was actually this.

【The intuition of the beast】.

No matter what the situation is, as long as I encounter hostility, attack, or factors that are not good for me, I can automatically activate the [Time Pause] associated with this skill.

However, at the end of last time, when my body was swallowed by black flames, this skill was not activated.

This is very unreasonable. With the absoluteness of the skills taught by the big sister, even if I can't think about jumping from the top of the Sanctuary Cathedral, [Time Stop] should be triggered when I am about to touch the ground—in other words, that Perhaps the Black Flame is just a fake with a superficial appearance and no real lethality.

...However, leaving those things aside, the key now is to try to guide things in a direction that is beneficial to us at the [point of divergence].

"Lord Tiamat, can you please shoot down that star?"

Hearing this familiar inquiry again, Lu Xi looked up in Lilian's direction.

--coming!

Chapter 540 The Unknown Mind

"Eh? Mmm..."

Facing the question heard for the second time, Celica first glanced at everyone's direction hesitantly, and then nodded after receiving affirmative glances:

"Well, I can."

"That's great~"

I was very happy to hear such an answer, and Lilian's mouth burst into a beautiful and dazzling smile:

"I've known for a long time that you will never disappoint. Then, as promised, the target is the star of South 256, and Osiris has locked it in advance with the alchemy array."

As if responding to the Queen of the Sky's words, just after her words fell, a beam of pure white light shot up from somewhere in Osiris, aiming impartially in the direction of a certain star in the sky—— It's nothing else, but the [troublemaker] who brought Lu Xi endless troubles before.

"Okay, I see, so—huh?"

Celica just wanted to re-read the shameful lines that broke the table twice before, and just opened her mouth, but was suddenly embraced by a figure a little taller than her into a warm embrace.

The smell in her arms was nice, different from Yushia's, but equally reassuring.

"Thank you very much, Lord Tiamat."

Holding Celica tenderly, Lilian brought her mouth to her ear and said softly:

"Despite the opposition of many, this matter is important to me, and I couldn't be happier to have your support, which is equally important to me."

"Eh? Oh, oh..."

Lilian held her in her arms at a loss, feeling her trembling body, Celica subconsciously stretched out her little hand and patted her back lightly.

In front of others, she will always be the queen of the sky who is extremely politically intelligent and courteous to everyone. However, in the eyes of Celica at this time, this girl with blond hair and twin tails is like a bird that has never soared high. The fledglings who have passed by are a little helpless, a little dazed, and even have only themselves to rely on.

Although I don't know who the [Tiamat] I played is, but if he can be trusted and relied on in this way, that Tiamat will definitely show the same kindness to accommodate this [Queen of the Sky].

"……Thank you."

The same words of thanks, but this time the purpose of expressing thanks is Celica's comfort just now.

When Lilian raised her head again, her usual confident and polite smile was restored:

"Then, Lord Tiamat, please help me shoot down that star."

"Ah."

Without hesitating too much, Celica folded her hands together and aimed at the [Troublemaker] locked by Osiris from a distance—then, she shot that shocking blow again.

【boom! ! ! 】

At this time, Lu Xi no longer wanted to complain about "Why did the ray hit so fast?" "How did the rumbling sound come from the universe?" "Aren't all the stars all stars? How come meteor showers come from it?" Such unpleasant questions— — Not because of anything else, just because of the scenery in front of me.

meteor.

A rain of meteors.

First one, then two—followed by countless.

If the sky and the earth were turned upside down, the azure night sky would look like a clear lake, and what flashed across it would undoubtedly be retrograde fireworks.

One after another, they flashed at the edge of the sky for a moment, and then disappeared completely.

Night sky, breeze, retrograde fireworks.

The scene in front of me is so dreamy, and the beauty permeated in it, even makes people doubt the authenticity of what they see.

Is this really what my power can cause?

Just as the instigator of this scene, Celica, was also looking at the night sky in astonishment like everyone else, she suddenly felt a warmth in her palm, and when she looked sideways, Lilian beside her didn't know when she quietly grabbed her little hand, Hold it tightly in the palm of your hand like a treasure.

"so beautiful."

As if aware of Celica's puzzled gaze, although Lilian's gaze was still on the night sky, there was a warm arc at the corner of her mouth:

"Can I hold your hand a little bit?"

"Eh? You can, but you can..."

Tilting her head and looking at the girl beside her, for some reason, Celica felt a subtle feeling in her heart:

"But why are you holding me?"

"Hey~ It seems that Lord Tiamat's understanding of [Humanity] is still not as deep as before~"

Without directly answering Celica's question, the girl with blond hair and ponytails just smiled brightly, her eyebrows and eyes curved into sweet crescent moons.

After staring at the grand scene in the night sky for a long time, she murmured, as if she was wondering, but also as if she was talking to herself: