The clear, azure seawater, the swaying ripples, the horizon's gradient from golden to pale red, the spotless, boundless deep-blue sky, and the exceptionally faint wisps of clouds.
This was one of the most soul-stirring kinds of beauty among the myriad sceneries of the human world.
"Wow! So beautiful! Silver Wing, Mei! Look quickly!"
The white-haired dumpling immediately cried out, sharing the peerless scenery she had discovered with her companions.
"Yes, it's very beautiful."
Compared to Kiana, Mei had much more of a young girl's reserve. Resting one hand on her full chest, she stared blankly at the colors bleeding across the horizon.
Even though only a little over four months had passed, she felt a sense of the passage of time, as if the seas had changed into mulberry fields and the people of the past were no more.
Sakura quietly looked at the scenery that could serve as a wallpaper even with a casual snapshot, feeling a sense of seeing the light of day once again.
To avoid being affected by the Herrscher of Finality's attacks, the Elysian Realm facility was located nearly ten thousand meters deep underground in Greenland, making it quite literally a place that would never see the light of day.
Sakura didn't mind this sort of thing, but she turned her head to look at Elysia.
The fairy, who was always overflowing with enthusiasm no matter the time or place, should have been cheering and jumping for joy, yet at this moment, she had grown uncharacteristically quiet.
It wasn't until this moment that Elysia finally felt a bit of the reality of leaving the Elysian Realm.
It had been too long.
Truly, too long!
Even though the Elysian Realm was a data world, and the Flame-Chasers could preset tomorrow's weather to whatever they wanted, it was ultimately all fake.
"The outside world is such a wonderful place. The things worth talking about are countless, and the beautiful scenery worth remembering is as numerous as the stars..."
Elysia recalled the events of her childhood when she traveled the world.
She had encountered many things, met many people, and became Elysia.
If it were the real Elysia, she definitely wouldn't have wasted her time for fifty thousand years in the dark, sunless underground Elysian Realm.
"Eh? Elysia, are you crying?"
The white-haired dumpling noticed the pink fatty's unusual silence. Turning her head to look, she happened to see crystal tears falling into the wind.
"Hmm? Does Kiana-chan want to see me crying? You really have a bad heart~!"
Elysia turned around and propped herself up. Her expression lightly retracted, a demure quietness arising naturally. With her brows and eyes slightly lowered, there was a sense of gentleness and frailty:
"Ah, who asked me to have absolutely no resistance against a cute, pretty, and lively girl like Kiana."
"Uh..."
Faced with Elysia's blatant teasing, Kiana-cat's body gave a slight shudder. Scratching her head, she tiptoed over and defensively pulled Silver Wing and Mei in front of her.
She didn't know what was going on either.
Elysia was extremely beautiful—fair skin, pretty face, slender waist, long legs, perky chest, and a plump bottom. As for her personality... being a bit lively was quite nice too. Theoretically speaking, she completely fell into Kiana's strike zone.
But Kiana inexplicably felt a kind of pressure as if facing a creature higher up on the food chain, making her afraid to say any flirtatious remarks.
Right now, she only dared to sweet-talk Mei. As for Silver Wing... if she dared to flirtatiously ask to drink Silver Wing's nectar, the other party would dare to drag her into her room at night.
She was for real!
Having been made to blush furiously by Silver Wing several times, Kiana thoroughly didn't dare to mess with her anymore!
She could only bully Mei.
"Ahem, let me tell everyone a fairy tale~"
Miss Fairy stretched her long, beautiful limbs. Placing one hand on her hip, her right hand loosely gripped the air as if holding a microphone, switching to a slightly sweeter broadcasting tone:
"Legend has it~ that at the end of the world sits a paradise. The protagonist of the story embarked on a journey to find it, but everyone said that this paradise didn't exist."
"The protagonist didn't give up..."
Her hymn-like tone narrated the tale.
Tesla and Einstein were listening in the distance, conversing in low voices. During this time, Tesla let out several shocked "Holy shit!"s, all of which were muffled by Einstein, who had come prepared.
"More and more people gathered beside the protagonist who harbored a dream. People with a common will, they advanced together toward the destination in their dreams, and they finally arrived at the paradise."
"The people cheered and jumped for joy, shouting its name—"
The pink-haired fairy was capable of hyping up the atmosphere of Fire-Moth team-building events, so telling a story was naturally a piece of cake. Her cadenced voice fully mobilized the emotions of everyone present.
Everyone who heard the fairy tale pricked up their ears following Elysia's deliberate pause and drawn-out tone, wanting to know the name of that paradise.
And then, they heard it.
"Gaia!!!"
A shout that seemed capable of shattering the earth startled everyone, including Elysia, causing them to turn toward the source of the voice.
"Well, the atmosphere was built up perfectly."
The gray-haired girl revealed a smile as well-behaved and cute as a little angel.
Mei was left completely stunned in the wind.
"Silver Wing! Bad!"
The atmosphere she had worked so hard to create was ruined. Elysia immediately puffed out her cheeks, looking like an inflated pufferfish, forcefully glaring at Silver Wing with a completely harmless gaze.
Within the span of four months, Elysia had long since known about the fact that Silver Wing and Bronya shared the same body.
The method to determine which of the two was using the Bronya vessel was very simple: the one who spoke more naturally and smiled more cutely was Silver Wing, while the one with a kuudere flavor was Bronya.
As for the relationship between Silver Wing and Bronya, some Flame-Chasers, like honest people such as Hua, subconsciously believed it was a split personality.
However, those who were more familiar with them, such as Elysia, Sakura, and Mobius, could all realize that the relationship between the two was not that simple.
Though no one took the initiative to ask.
"I will cry! I really will cry!"
With tears in her eyes, Elysia put on an appearance of weeping softly like a stringed song.
"So, what was the name of the paradise?"
It had to be said that a slow-reacting brain sometimes also had its advantages. Just like Kiana; although she was also startled by Silver Wing's sudden howl of 'Gaia'.
But her attention still lingered on the end of the fairy tale, on that paradise built through the concerted efforts of the protagonist and their companions.
"Is there even a need to ask this question?"
The gray-haired girl sat, her slender jade-like legs wrapped in white pantyhose hanging down, swaying slightly.
"Filled with flowers, birds, and love, a flawless paradise... an eternal Elysian Realm... there is only one name that fits this description~"
The gray-haired girl jumped beside Miss Fairy, making a gesture of revealing the answer like a magician.
"Elysia!"
After a brief moment of stunned surprise, Elysia's smile suddenly bloomed. She opened her arms and fiercely hugged Silver Wing from behind.
She even leaned down and took a deep breath at her fair, tender neck before letting out a fairy-style sweet laugh.
"Mhm-mhm~ As expected of my absolute bestest friend, you understand Elysia so well! Only this name can bring out my cuteness!"
If you subtracted her strength and beautiful body, Elysia's current actions were somewhat like those of a perverted woman eagerly sniffing a cute loli.
"I recorded it, you know. How about I play it for Eden when we get back to the Elysian Realm?"
The little angel's soft whisper from her embrace made Elysia's body stiffen. She slowly raised her head, seeing the gray-haired girl smilingly waving her phone in front of her eyes.
Elysia suddenly had a hallucination that the little cutie in her arms had spread angel wings behind her back, only they were a bit black.
A fallen angel.
"What the heck, so you went around in such a big circle, only to end up praising yourself in the end!"
Kiana scratched her head gloomily.
However, in her heart, she added some filters to the name Elysia, pondering whether she should have Silver Wing weave a fairy tale for her too. That way, when she chatted with others about her name in the future, she would have a story to tell.
"Tch, isn't this way too narcissistic?"
Tesla couldn't quite take it. She crossed her arms, gave a shudder, and dragged her old gal pal to a spot further away: "Mophead, is this gal really from that civilization fifty thousand years ago?"
"I don't think she's lying, nor is there a need to lie," Einstein nodded.
"Specifically?"
"She said this matter involves World Serpent's highest secrets. Although she trusts us, she'll probably be staying with World Serpent for a while longer, so it wouldn't be appropriate to directly sell out their background."
"No way, is she really this frank?"
Tesla complained, grabbing her twin-tails.
After all, the people of Anti-Entropy were all honest folks.
A complimentary term.
Just like this time, the friendly relationship between Silver Wing and World Serpent only existed within the Elysian Realm. Wanting to freeload off their intelligence and equipment was a pipe dream.
And since she hadn't established a connection with St. Freya, if she wanted to head to New Zealand quickly, she could only contact Anti-Entropy.
She couldn't exactly take a commercial flight there, right?
Even if Silver Wing didn't mind, the weather environment in Oceania and its surrounding maritime zones had been exceptionally harsh recently, causing flights heading there from all over the world to be delayed.
"Alright, let's ignore where those two came from for now. What's the deal with their current state?"
Data streams flashed across the red-framed glasses, and a faint light flickered in Tesla's eyes—the light of a thirst for knowledge.
Those two didn't have human bodies.
Nor were they Honkai Beasts, pseudo-Herrschers, or anything of the sort, but rather special lifeforms never seen before.
Distractedly scratching her messy, light-blue natural curls, unbothered that her hair had become what Tesla called a "bird's nest," Einstein had actually been pondering this question ever since her brief conversation with Silver Wing ended.
"Let's have Miss Silver Wing explain it to us."
Einstein looked toward the gray-haired girl who was walking over with a lollipop in her mouth.
The gray-haired girl shrugged: "Actually, I wasn't too sure how to define their form of existence before either, hmm... but now I have some clues."
Using Rin's Authority of [Digital] could allow Sakura and Elysia to detach from the Elysian Realm for long periods, but this method of detachment left the two without any combat capability.
The Authority of [Memory], on the other hand, could reproduce the abilities of the memory entity of someone completely corrupted by Rin. This form was somewhat similar to the Memokeepers of the Garden of Recollection, who shed their physical bodies and survived in the form of memes.
Yet it lacked certain important factors of the Memokeeper's script, making up for it with data.
The combination of the[Digital] and [Memory] Authorities forged a unique existence that possessed certain characteristics of both Digimon and Memokeepers, lying somewhere between the two.
"I shall tentatively call them Digital Memospirits."
In the game, Jizo Mitama's rated power was summoning samurai spirits to fight, and its active skill after Divine Awakening was still 'Summoner'.
It was just that, this time, what was summoned was no longer just an artificial idiot of a samurai spirit.
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