Amidst everyone's lingering shock, Flandre quietly fluttered her wings and landed right next to Hong Meiling, who was currently acting as a human barricade blocking the crowded medical doorway. Leaning directly into the gatekeeper's ear, she asked in a tiny whisper that only the two of them could possibly hear:
"Is it really alright to reveal the Fairies to the Terrans? There's no race in Terra that matches they're description."
Hong Meiling immediately made a sharp, exaggerated shushing gesture, glancing warily at the nearby Terra native operators before leaning down to reply in a thoroughly suppressed voice:
"The actual genetic concept of a 'fairy' fundamentally doesn't exist anywhere in this world. But the word 'fairy' was a structurally similar ecological concept that Lady Patchouli managed to dig up after aggressively searching through hundreds of ancient foreign history books for a long time. It's just a cover story so we don't confuse the locals."
Flandre nodded her head, a look of sudden realization dawning on her small face.
While the two of them were huddled together whispering, a certain mischievous, white-furred rabbit shuffled her way casually over to Flandre's side. She crossed her arms, a smug look on her face as she nudged the vampire.
"Hey, little girl! Your expeditionary team has caused me quite a bit of administrative trouble by dragging me across the border like this. Shouldn't you show some respect and give me some personal benefits or snacks as compensation?"
Flandre tilted her head in confusion, her colorful crystal wings tilting along with her as she thoroughly looked the tiny rabbit girl in front of her up and down. After a long silence, she blinked and asked, "Are you... Lord Inaba Tewi?"
Hearing Flandre identify her so easily, Inaba Tewi puffed out her chest, looking immensely satisfied with herself. "Aha! You certainly have excellent eyes, little girl. Since you instantly recognize the presence of me, the Great Inaba Tei, I suppose I can reluctantly choose to forgive your sudden summons."
"Lord Inaba Tewi is the literal, living incarnation of luck; I've heard from Sakuya that it brings incredibly good fortune just to catch a glimpse of you in the wild," Flandre followed up with genuine curiosity. "So, did you come all this way across the rift specifically to help save Sister Yelena?"
Inaba Tewi crossed her small arms and nodded her head with a thoroughly proud expression. "That's exactly correct! That old perfectionist Eirin Yagokoro simulated the precise parameters of this radical treatment plan several times back in the clinic, but the biological stability was never strong enough, and the internal energy was constantly prone to catastrophic deviations. That's why she specifically begged me to come along for the ride. She fundamentally needs me to use my absolute probability manipulation to keep this entire transformation cycle locked into its optimal structural state and safest direction."
Flandre turned her head to peer back through the heavy glass viewport at the massive ice sculpture resting in the center of the room. She noticed that almost all of the medical personnel and guards had already retreated completely to the edge of the doorway.
Only Letty Whiterock and Cirno remained physically standing within the freezing interior of the isolation ward. At this exact moment, the biting, sub-zero cold radiating from the sculpture was being steadily and precisely controlled within a perfect two-meter radius around the ice block, preventing the rest of the room from freezing over.
The person actively stabilizing this thermal boundary was, naturally, Letty. As a powerful Yuki-onna, she possessed the absolute, innate ability to manipulate the density of winter cold to a supernatural degree. She could effortlessly strengthen the localized effects of freezing temperatures while simultaneously compressing its physical range of influence. This unique environmental mastery was the exact reason Eirin had invited her onto the team.
Although Cirno was technically capable of generating a similar level of raw sub-zero output, her baseline personality was far too chaotic and flighty. For a long-term, high-stakes spellcasting procedure that required unwavering, steady control for three consecutive days until Yelena officially woke up, Eirin simply didn't dare let the idiot take the administrative lead.
"Hey... can I go find Dai-chan and the others to play now?"
Now that her mandatory medical task was officially completed and her tear had been harvested, Cirno shifted from foot to foot, cautiously whispering her question to Eirin who was standing next to her.
Knowing full well that Cirno was physically incapable of sitting still for more than five minutes, Eirin had absolutely no intention of keeping her trapped inside a sterile hospital room. To be entirely precise, given her hyperactive nature and flighty personality, if she were forced to stay cooped up here and suddenly had a random flash of 'genius' inspiration, she might actually cause a catastrophic explosion that would ruin their side's hard work.
Therefore, rather than monitoring her here, it was far safer to let her loose outside. Eirin turned her head to look at Flandre standing near the threshold.
"Flandre, be a dear and take this noisy little thing back to your quarters. We will handle the precise environmental adjustments from here."
Seeing the exit queue form, Inaba Tewi immediately raised her hand, indicating that she wanted to abandon the boring medical ward and head back to relax as well. Eirin didn't offer any refusal, only requesting that the rabbit leave behind a localized residue of her passive good fortune within the room's parameters to double-ensure Yelena's structural safety during the transition.
The moment the group emerged from the decontamination airlock and stepped through the main doorway, Talulah and her entire administrative entourage immediately rushed forward, their eyes locking onto Flandre. The tense crowd only breathed a massive, collective sigh of relief after Flandre gave them a bright smile, indicating that with Eirin personally supervising the biological conversion, there would absolutely be no structural problems with Yelena.
After walking completely out of the main clinic gates, everyone saw the colossal figure of Buldrokkas'tee still standing perfectly motionless by the frame like an ancient stone sentry. Upon seeing the Gensokyo delegation emerge, the old Wendigo slightly lowered his massive, horned helmet in a silent inquiry.
"Old Stubborn, don't worry at all! Sister Yelena is going to be perfectly fine," Flandre chirped cheerfully, running up to pat his armored greave. "The current treatment plan is proceeding very smoothly under the ice. In just a few days, we'll all see a fully recovered Sister Yelena walking around!"
Buldrokkas'tee didn't utter a single vocalized sound through his speech synthesizer, but everyone present could instantly feel that the heavy, suffocating atmosphere of dread surrounding the old general had relaxed considerably.
"I'll take my friends back to our settlement first," Flandre said, turning to wave goodbye to Talulah and Alina. "I'll come back to check on Sister Yelena again in a couple of days!"
After saying her brief goodbyes, Flandre took the lead, guiding Hong Meiling, Inaba Tewi, and the skipping Cirno back toward the designated residential sector assigned to the Gensokyo settlement.
However, the very moment they arrived at the perimeter of the courtyard, Flandre could already hear a massive swarm of high-pitched voices chirping, buzzing, and chattering loudly in a state of absolute, chaotic panic.
"Oh no! Do you think Cirno is currently being eaten by the tall monsters?!"
"No, no, no! I think it's way worse! Cirno must have been strapped to a table and dissected by that scary, glaring doctor woman!"
"Uwah! This entire moving iron city is so scary! I want to go back to the lake!"
As the trio walked around the corner, they saw several elemental fairies huddled tightly together in a panicked circle, wildly discussing erratic military strategies on how to launch a grand assault to "avenge" their missing leader.
"What on earth are you guys babbling about?!"
Cirno marched into the clearing, her head suddenly full of visible question marks as she stared at her panicked subordinates.
"Cirno! You're actually okay!"
The first to fly over was a green-haired fairy. Her eyes filled with tears of pure relief as she threw her arms around Cirno, hugging her tightly.
"Dai, of course I'm completely fine! I am the absolute strongest entity in the universe, how could a puny hospital ever do anything to me?!" Cirno declared boisterously, letting out a loud, foolish laugh while planting her fists on her hips.
Hearing Cirno's obvious, unscientific boasting, the surrounding fairies immediately crossed their arms, expressing a collective wall of vocal disbelief. Cirno instantly grew incredibly anxious, her face turning red as she began gesticulating wildly, jumping up and down to physically demonstrate her immense power.
Before her tantrum could escalate into an accidental blizzard, she was suddenly and effortlessly suppressed with a single, firm hand planting itself on top of her head by the newly arriving Remilia.
Looking around this courtyard entirely full of troublesome, hyperactive little creatures, Remilia rubbed her temples, feeling a massive, throbbing headache coming on.
"Flandre," Remilia sighed, turning to her younger sister. "According to our geographical scans, there is a relatively large, pristine pond located about seventy or eighty kilometers directly south of this mobile module. The terrain and natural energy signature there look quite optimal. Go contact Alina and the others right now to ask if their organization has any active development plans or military arrangements for that specific sector. If it's currently unoccupied, let's borrow it from them for our temporary use."
Remilia glanced back at the fairies who were currently trying to climb up a structural steel pipe. "It is structurally a very bad idea for these wild fairies to live confined inside these cramped mobile modules. They're going to tear the infrastructure apart out of boredom."
Flandre nodded obediently and immediately utilized her communication magic to contact Alina.
Alina had only just stepped out of the intensive care ward alongside Talulah when her device buzzed. After receiving Flandre's specific spatial request, she immediately informed Talulah about the fairies' housing dilemma. The two leaders returned to the central command office, unfurling a comprehensive topographic map of the region to locate the exact coordinates of the pond Remilia had mentioned.
The body of water was located deep within a dense, untouched primeval forest—the exact same wilderness where Flandre had previously encountered and brought back those giant, camel-like beasts. Because that specific wilderness sat right on the volatile, disputed borders of both the Victorian empire and the Leithanien suzerainty, and was entirely choked by treacherous jungle terrain, it was completely excluded from the Reunion Movement's active agricultural or structural development plans.
Alina immediately radioed back to Flandre, informing her of the land's status and explicitly indicating that the Gensokyo fairies could reside in that forest sector for as long as they humanly desired.
Upon receiving the official administrative clearance, Remilia decided not to delay their deployment for a single second. She ordered the immediate mobilization of the fairy swarm to transport them to the lake shores right away. After all, these little pests were getting far too noisy and destructive for her personal aristocratic patience to bear within the confines of the city.
Hearing that they were going on an outdoor trip, Flandre cheered and said she wanted to tag along for the fun. Within minutes, the entire grand, colorful procession of supernatural entities took off into the sky, flying due south in a spectacular, glittering wave.
Over an hour later, the massive airborne expedition successfully reached its target destination.
The moment their feet touched the lush grass, the various fairies scattered into the woods, wandering around the pristine shoreline. They were immensely satisfied with the localized environment. The sector was entirely isolated from any mundane human habitations, completely lacked the oppressive, metallic atmosphere of Terra's industrial tech, and because it sat untouched on the borders of three heavily armed nations, no mortal governor was willing to risk a diplomatic incident to develop it. Everything remained completely, beautifully natural.
The sudden arrival of these nature-born fairies would not negatively affect the original ecological environment of the forest in the slightest. On the very contrary, because fairies were literal manifestations of nature itself, their very presence caused the ambient, natural power in this area to become significantly denser. Within hours, the flora began to bloom vividly, turning the pristine lake into a highly attractive gathering place for many wild forest beasts.
Meanwhile, now that they possessed a vast, unrestricted playground to call home, the fairies immediately commenced a brand-new round of chaotic games and pranks. Since fairies fundamentally had absolutely no need to construct physical houses or complex architectural dwellings—for them, utilizing the endless sky as their quilt and the grassy ground as their bed was the daily ecological norm—as long as it was structurally confirmed that they could safely play here, there were no major logistical issues left to resolve.
After successfully settling the chaotic swarm into their new lakeside paradise, Remilia finally took Flandre's hand and flew back toward the Reunion Movement's mobile fortress.
A staggering number of powerful, high-tier personnel had crossed over from Gensokyo during this massive deployment, and back at the base, they had an even greater pile of complex diplomatic and miscellaneous matters waiting to be officially handled.