!Livestream
[Seele: Pfft—Bronya???? What are you even doing!!!]
[Serval: Hahaha, she's trying to fool valerius?]
[Natasha: Sigh… the plan was good, but sadly…]
The people of Belobog were speechless.
Sure, her idea wasn't bad.
But Lumine had already sold them out.
valerius already knew the Cute Voice Fist was on Arataki Itto.
[Jing Yuan: Heh, interesting.]
[Furina: Enough, Lumine takes the blame for this one.]
[March 7th: Yeah, yeah, if it weren't for her, this might've worked.]
[Paimon: ...…Lumine didn't mean to.]
[Kaeya: Stop defending her, we all saw it.]
After clinging to valerius and acting cute for a while, Bronya finally straightened up.
"You've been controlled by me. You can't move for three minutes."
Blushing, she turned around and walked away.
"Heh."
valerius reached out and grabbed her.
"What did you just say? I didn't hear clearly."
"Uh…"
Bronya's face fell.
Can't you just be stupid once?
She turned back.
"I used my skill. You're not allowed to cheat."
"Did I cheat?"
"Uh… yes, you did. You totally did."
"Heh."
He stepped forward and leaned close to her face.
"I'll give you one more chance to phrase that properly."
It's over!
Seeing that she couldn't fool him, Bronya sighed deeply.
She tilted her head back, exposing her pale neck.
"Fine. Do it. Eliminate me."
She looked righteous and fearless.
But her hands were hidden behind her back.
In her palm, she was holding a golden object.
"Heh… give me back my pocket watch first."
"Y-You… what pocket watch?"
"The one you stole from me just now."
Waaah!
Bronya was about to cry.
Why could she never trick valerius even once?
When she pretended to use Cute Voice Fist earlier, her hand had brushed against his watch.
In that instant, she sensed something abnormal.
It felt like whenever the watch was present, time flow returned to normal.
This thing couldn't be allowed to stay with valerius.
Even if she got eliminated, she had planned to take it away.
So she stole it.
But valerius noticed immediately.
"I'll give it back if you tell me what it does first."
Since elimination was inevitable, Bronya decided to struggle one last time and buy time for her teammates.
"Heh. As long as I have this watch, wherever I go, time returns to normal."
"So…"
"So the outside world hasn't actually passed much time at all?"
"Correct."
Bronya froze.
So all her plans…
Were completely useless?
"Alright, explanation's over. Give it back."
Helpless, she reluctantly returned the watch.
[Attention—Player Bronya has been eliminated!]
The system announcement echoed in everyone's ears.
Bronya had been eliminated.
Keqing, who was still moving through the castle, froze.
She hadn't expected two teammates to be eliminated so quickly tonight.
"I need to hurry."
Opening the map Bronya had given her, Keqing adjusted her direction and sped up.
Livestream
[Luocha: Miss Bronya, what do you think were the odds of fooling valerius?]
[Bronya: No idea, but he probably hasn't realized yet… right?]
[Luocha: Then it all depends on Miss Keqing now.]
[Yanqing: Huh??? What's going on?]
[Beidou: There's more to this!!!]
[Sparkle: Oh my god, another reversal?!]
[Yae Miko: Explain. What happened?]
[Luocha: Heh. Have you forgotten what magic Miss Keqing learned?]
[Ningguang: Spatial Gate.]
[Luocha: Exactly. As long as she sets a coordinate, she can teleport there with points.]
[Feixiao: So you're relying on Keqing to dodge valerius?]
[Luocha: Dodge? Why dodge? Can't we just kill him?]
[Asta: !!!!!]
[Zhongli: Oh~ Have you discovered something?]
[Luocha: The underground maze. The blueprint Bronya found clearly marked it. There's also a strange room highlighted specially.]
[Herta: The room covered in runes.]
[Luocha: Probably. We might find something there.]
Before being eliminated, Luocha couldn't watch the stream, so he wasn't certain.
But either way, it was worth investigating.
[Kujou Sara: So… you were all acting?]
[Bronya: Yes. From the first day, we knew we couldn't win just by running.]
[Jiaoqiu: Impressive. I thought you fell for valerius's trick. Turns out he was the one fooled.]
[Yae Miko: Even Itto acted that well?]
Yae Miko didn't believe it.
That airhead?
Acting?
Impossible.
[Luocha: Uh… Mr. Arataki Itto really knew nothing.]
[Kamisato Ayato: …..]
[Kuki Shinobu: ....]
Yeah.
Better not involve him in delicate plans.
[Silver Wolf: What about Firefly? Was she acting too?]
[Bronya: Yes. She was part of the plan.]
[Paimon: I knew it! Lumine would never betray us!]
[Bronya: Uh…]
[Luocha: This…]
[Jing Yuan: Pfft—got it. Lumine really did betray them.]
[Fu Xuan: But not completely.]
Everyone understood.
Lumine had leaked some information.
But not all of it.
She wanted to play both sides.
Sadly, she hadn't expected valerius to kick her out directly.
[Dr. Ratio: One question—when did you make this plan?]
[Luocha: On the first day, when we got the Cute Voice Fist.]
[Yukong: Meaning?]
[Luocha: As long as we had Cute Voice Fist, we were safe. If valerius wanted to eliminate us, he'd have to split us up. So we created secret signals that day.]
[Herta: So the fake Lumine was exposed from the start?]
[Luocha: Yes.]
[Yanqing: If you knew she was fake, why still fall for it? You had Cute Voice Fist—why be afraid?]
[Jing Yuan: Cute Voice Fist costs points. If they only relied on that, even if they won, how many points would they save?]
[Yanqing: That makes sense.]
Now Yanqing understood.
They didn't just want to win.
They wanted to win big.
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