Elysia stood at the tavern entrance, discovering quite lively sounds coming from inside.
Vaguely, she seemed to hear things like "Long live Elysia."
Thus, she confirmed that inside was her fan group holding a gathering.
Although there were also some incomprehensible phrases like "Second Fire Moth" and "Heaven Punish Moth Rebels," these should just be the small group's exclusive terminology, right?
"If I go in like this, they'll definitely be very surprised, right?"
Elysia took out a small mirror. After confirming her appearance had no problems, she pushed the door open and entered.
"Hi♪~"
"Miss Pink Fairy has arrived. Isn't it surprising?"
The people in the tavern were attracted by her voice. After seeing her figure, the noisy voices instantly disappeared, leaving only silence.
However, unlike what Elysia expected, although the people in the beer hall indeed showed surprise, they didn't seem very shocked—as if they'd already known she was coming.
Elysia's raised hand froze somewhat awkwardly.
However, she wasn't left awkward for long. After a brief standoff, the atmosphere heated up again.
"Wow, it's really Lady Elysia!"
"Your Excellency, we revere you!"
"Lady Elysia, lead Fire Moth to greatness again!"
...
Amid the noisy voices, Elysia was welcomed in.
Simultaneously, she also saw her own large portrait hanging in the tavern's most prominent place.
After seeing this huge photo, Elysia frowned.
Although she was smiling brilliantly in the image, for some reason, she felt a very awkward sense of dissonance.
"Speaking of which, when did I take such a photo?" Elysia wondered.
At this moment, she also walked onto a speaking platform that had just been set up, following everyone's welcome.
"Lady Elysia, please give orders!"
Everyone looked at Elysia with serious expressions, their gazes determined, as if about to charge onto a battlefield the next moment.
The suddenly serious atmosphere made Elysia freeze. She showed a flawless smile, joking:
"Come, listen to me. Relax. After all, I'm not some Herrscher, right?♪~"
"Moreover... we're colleagues fighting together. Saying 'orders' is too uncute."
Although these people were all her fans, Elysia didn't think people supporting and loving her were her subordinates.
Elysia's words were extremely infectious. Combined with her strange affinity akin to a charm aura, just a few sentences made everyone present rapidly increase in loyalty.
If she had an attribute panel, she'd probably see "Loyalty UP" prompts flashing above everyone's heads.
For those present, when looking at Elysia on the speaking platform, they seemed to see a sun emitting pink radiance.
One after another raised their hands, tears streaming down faces, mouths shouting words like "loyalty."
Ultimately, their words all gathered into one sentence.
"Lady Elysia, please make Fire Moth great again!"
"..."
Watching the 'fan group' members crying en masse, Elysia felt puzzled.
No matter how she looked at it, the atmosphere was somewhat wrong. So... was this really her fan gathering?
Just as she puzzled, someone asked: "Lady Elysia, when shall we undertake the great enterprise together?"
Hearing this, Elysia's gaze gradually sharpened.
"Undertake... great enterprise?"
Savoring these words, an ominous idea arose in her heart. They... couldn't be wanting to do things like rebellion, right?
After thinking, Elysia asked in euphemistic tone: "Let me ask, you're not doing anything violating Fire Moth regulations, right?"
"Your Excellency, what do you mean by violating Fire Moth regulations?"
"It's... it's... rebellion?"
With these words, everyone looked at her strangely, as if not understanding why the great Elysia would ask such a meaningless question.
However, out of respect for Elysia, they still said: "We ourselves are Fire Moth. Why would we rebel against ourselves?"
Lucius had already said before—to firmly occupy righteousness and legality, ensuring those old bastards couldn't make issues, Second Fire Moth absolutely couldn't say externally they were rebelling.
Must even promote the opposite—the old bastards on the other side were the rebellious ones.
For Lucius, doing this was still to buff these anti-human small bastards, ensuring they'd muster courage to charge forth rather than suddenly compromising and surrendering at critical moments. Otherwise, how could he see rivers of blood?
By now, under Fenghuang Down's interference and collective atmosphere's influence, no one thought they were rebelling.
Quite the contrary—they believed the old bastards opposite were rebelling, while they themselves were orthodox, wanting to make Fire Moth great again!
Elysia carefully observed everyone's expressions, discovering their faces were extremely sincere. In other words, they didn't think they were rebelling.
Thinking of this, Elysia breathed relief.
She'd thought these people wanted to use her name to rebel!
Right, if truly rebelling, that would surely be an extremely serious matter. How could they rebel under a fan group's name?
However, since not rebelling, the so-called 'undertake great enterprise together' should be fan group team building—meaning... fan meeting?
Once this train of thought opened, Elysia completely understood.
But another problem arose—she'd never held a fan meeting and fundamentally didn't know what to do.
However, she quickly thought of her good friend Eden. As a big star, she'd definitely know how to organize such activities.
"In that case, why not consult Eden~" Elysia thought.
Considering the time needed for learning, Elysia left herself a rather ample timeframe, then said to everyone: "How about one month from now? Miss Fairy will definitely give everyone a surprise♪~"
Hearing Elysia say this, everyone's faces filled with joy.
They'd thought it would take a year or half-year to prepare before punishing Moth rebels. Didn't expect it could be so fast.
However, since Elysia said so, she must have a perfect strategy.
Then what else to say? Just believe. Loyalty!!!
After setting the date for undertaking the great enterprise, Elysia chatted with everyone, gaining deeper understanding of these fans.
Originally she thought these fans gathered because of her personal charm, but quickly discovered they just appreciated achievements she'd left in Fire Moth—a kind of fanaticism similar to strong person worship.
After learning this, Elysia wasn't as happy anymore.
However, she didn't dampen everyone's spirits, just acted more as a listener.
After listening a while, she discovered these fans mostly discussed tactical problems and dissatisfaction with Fire Moth and United Government.
Some with extreme emotions even cursed old bastards' inhumanity. Some even called to punish Moth rebels—sensitive topics.
But Elysia didn't find it strange. After all, Fire Moth upper echelon's inhuman behavior was plain to see. Those old bastards didn't even think to hide it. Most Fire Moth middle and lower members had complaints. Supervision wind had long endured within Fire Moth.
Even from supervision groups Elysia had mixed in, these fans were already quite peaceful—at least didn't want to kill whole families.
Suddenly, Elysia discovered her communicator received a reminder. After opening, it was actually from Kallen who'd just become a friend.
[Kallen: Lucius, this person is too despicable. I temporarily can't track him. Miss Elysia, please take over]
[Kallen: This is the last location where I lost track]
[Kallen: (Location)]
Elysia looked at the location and was surprised to discover it was just a few hundred meters from her current position.
After thinking, although not hopeful about catching Lucius, she still decided to take a look.
At this moment, people in the tavern, after supervision, returned the topic to Elysia. The focus of dispute was the fan group leader position's ownership.
Since already confirming Elysia as leader, the second-in-command position became everyone's competition focus.
After all, although slogans shouted sky-high, overturning those old bastards was essentially still for power.
[I have seniority. I should be leader's deputy!]
[Old seniority as deputy? Then why don't we just invite an old bastard back?!]
[I'm Lady Elysia's most loyal follower. I'm intimately familiar with Lady Elysia's deeds!]
[Nonsense! I'm the people's choice!]
...
"Everyone is such enthusiastic people~"
Seeing them argue extremely intensely but showing no signs of physical conflict, Elysia didn't manage it.
Taking advantage of everyone's focus shifting, she silently walked toward outside the tavern, preparing to check where Lucius disappeared.
However, when she reached the tavern entrance about to push the door open, her entire person froze.
Through the one-way transparent glass on the door, she saw a figure standing outside, trying to push the door open.
This person—except for light purple hair color and brownish-red pupils—looked exactly like her!
Elysia froze. Her gaze deepened.
...
Time rewinds a few minutes.
On a street near the tavern, Lucius disguised as Elysia was humming a tune, walking happily toward the tavern.
Although it took some time, he'd still successfully dealt with Kallen who was chasing him.
After realizing she had unreasonable intuition, he knew he definitely couldn't shake her off in the short term. In that case, he could only be unethical.
Thus, Lucius used Francis's identity information to register Kallen for many extracurricular tutoring classes, successfully drowning her in endless homework waves. For a long time ahead, she couldn't track him.
"Very good, didn't delay much time. Now go to the tavern to continue the great enterprise."
His so-called great enterprise was naturally using the revived Second Herrscher to create sufficient oppressive force on humanity, thus forcing Fire Moth to temporarily assume United Government authority according to the 'Honkai Disaster Period Emergency State Act.'
Simultaneously, using Elysia's fame to gather Fire Moth vermin, then guiding these vermin to fight Fire Moth's old bastards. He behind the scenes as instigator, ensuring old and small bastards both died after Fire Moth assumed United Government authority.
After these vermin died enough, he could harvest a preliminarily cleaned Fire Moth that had also taken over United Government power.
Then, taking advantage of the power vacuum period, merge Fire Moth into Schicksal, obtaining a Schicksal organization temporarily controlling United Government authority.
Finally, through defeating the revived Second Herrscher, heavily farm reputation for newborn Schicksal organization. Afterward, whether to lift emergency state and return authority... couldn't be decided by United Government.
Lucius walked toward the beer hall while reviewing the plan. Each detail was confirmed. But besides this, there was one important issue.
That was...
"Absolutely cannot let Elysia know!"
As someone who grew up with her, Lucius dared say he absolutely understood her best—no exceptions.
He was clear—Elysia absolutely couldn't agree to him doing this.
Elysia at the current time point possessed absolute power. If she could directly use invincible power to beat United Government to their knees, then suppress entire human civilization, then help him advance the script—that would naturally be best.
But Lucius knew this was impossible. Otherwise, he wouldn't have left the orphanage to work alone back then.
Therefore, absolutely couldn't let her know. Otherwise, he'd definitely be finished. Might be beaten to his knees!
Fortunately, he'd planned for Elysia's problem early. Not long ago, he'd already convinced Eden to invite Elysia to visit Mu Continent.
Then she'd spend a long vacation at Mu Continent. By the time she reacted, the rice would already be cooked.
At that time, Fire Moth would be gone. She could only pound the ground crying that she couldn't do anything.
However, he also prepared to separate the Faded Fairy identity from himself. Then, killing and arson while impersonating Elysia would all be done by evil Faded Fairy. He, Lucius, would still be Elysia's good big brother.
He also knew Elysia, this elder-disrespecting person, had always tried to beat him to his knees. But with her wisdom, how could she achieve it?
"Hehe, such a perfect plan—how could it possibly fail?"
"Mere pink piggy, just obediently be a little sister for life!"
While pondering, Lucius arrived outside the tavern.
Before entering, Lucius took out a small mirror, looking at Elysia's face on the mirror surface while adjusting his smile.
"Ahem... Hi♪~"
"Very good, perfect disguise."
After ensuring the disguise was flawless, Lucius placed his hand on the door, preparing to push it open.
Suddenly, chill suddenly arose in his heart, making even his pink hair fade to light purple.
"Wrong, this feeling... very wrong!"
Lucius's face even paled. Withdrawing the hand on the door, he placed it on his heart.
"My heart, are you also trembling?"
He felt a terrifying crisis coming from before him—just separated by a door.
According to his past experience, even when being chased by Chariot-class Honkai Beasts wasn't this terrifying. Only one possibility existed for this situation.
—Elysia, she's behind this door!
Simultaneously, Lucius discovered another terrifying thing—what appeared here now was still his main body.
More terrifyingly, even using Herrscher authority, he couldn't possibly be her opponent.
In other words, next moment he'd be caught by Elysia.
Once caught... he'd definitely be dead!
Cold sweat instantly flowed out.
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