Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"Joyce...what time is it now?"

In the office, Mr. Otto Apocalypse's face screamed "I want to cultivate immortality, I have boundless magical power!" Beside him, his old friend Joyce wasn't much better off, with messy hair and panda-like dark circles under his eyes...

"What time is it....?"

Joyce, whose consciousness was already somewhat blurred, glanced at her watch and subconsciously answered—

"Just a little?"

"I asked you what time it was last time—and you answered one o'clock, old friend, are you sure you didn't misread it...?"

Mr. Otto, who was also working overtime to the point of delirium, searched his hazy memories and subconsciously responded with a...

Then the two fell silent...

"Where's Yang? Yang—?"

Joyce, seemingly thinking of someone else in the room, turned her head and mumbled something, searching for that other person...

"..."

Naturally, Joyce received no response; Walter Young, or rather, Joachim Nokianvitanen, had already slammed his head onto the table before the two of them could...

"...How many days has it been, Otto?"

"I don't know, maybe it's the third day...or the second day?"

Mr. Otto, having downed his coffee in one gulp, stared at the calendar, lost in thought...

"If your daughter ever comes back... we old folks won't have to suffer much..."

"I remember you prepared for your wedding a long time ago... but we just never had the time..."

"Yes...but there's no rush...no rush—"

With a clatter, Mr. Otto followed in Walter Young's footsteps, his face making intimate contact with the tabletop, and he drifted off to sleep like a baby...

"Someone come here... Otto, he—"

splat—

Unfortunately, Mr. Joyce's plea for help didn't last long either, as he too perished at his desk.

However, it seemed that today was a lucky day for a shift change, and soon after, another group of people entered the silent office.

"Hey?! Is anyone here? The genius magician Miss Velvey and Bronya are here to relieve us!"

Pushing open the door, she was surprised by the silence inside. Wilvi shouted loudly...

"No need to call them, Vilvie—the three of them have already fainted..."

Su, who was also there to relieve the shift, shook her head helplessly at the three people lying motionless in the office...

"Miss Bronya, please inform Miss Amber and the others to take these three gentlemen to the sanatorium to rest..."

Looking at the slumped Otto and the others with a slight headache, Sue turned to Velvi—

"This can't go on... Velvi, have you convinced Möbius yet?"

"Uh... how should I put it? Halfway to success?"

Vervi paused for a moment, watching as the medical team burst in and laboriously carried the three grown men onto a stretcher—

"Möbius absolutely refused to lend Klein to handle the documents... but she did relent and agreed to lend Prometheus 17 to help us with the documents—"

"However, she said this will take some time—I've already finished debugging the unit for number 17, and May and Möbius are doing the final compatibility tests..."

"Hmm... what about your Void Treasury...?"

Sue doesn't seem to intend to release any of the labor force—

"Void Treasury? When we set off, I sent it to choose a body to help us... Judging by the time... it should be here by now, right?"

Velvi glanced at her pocket watch, then looked around... and there she saw a blonde beauty with a figure somewhere between a young girl and a mature woman...

"The vastness of the void...?"

Wilvi asked somewhat uncertainly...

"it's me..."

The great magician received a somewhat muffled response...it seemed that using this body had displeased Void Treasury...

"Isn't it pretty good-looking...?"

“That Otto guy locked up all the Soul Steel bodies—except for this one. I think he did it on purpose!”

The blonde woman gritted her teeth and muttered, wishing she could kick someone...

"Oh... the person you're trying to settle scores with was already unconscious when we arrived—you probably won't be able to get your revenge today."

"Anyway, come over and help me process these documents..."

--

That night, at the former headquarters of the Heavenly Mandate, now the headquarters of the People's Federation Council.

"Phew...finally done."

Vervi twisted her wrist and breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at her companions who were also almost resting.

"We also have to thank those three brave souls who were working themselves to the bone this morning... I don't know if they were working overtime to the point of exhaustion or what... but they also revised most of the papers we were processing... By the way, are those three alright?"

Velvi looked at Prometheus 17, who had also arrived at the scene to help not long ago... At this moment, she was talking to Bronya, who had been somewhat curious about her.

"Mr. Otto Apocalypse, Walter Joyce, and Mr. Walter Young?"

Upon hearing Virvie's question, number 17 turned her head, seemingly searching the online database—

"The three gentlemen have been placed in the sanatorium established by Ms. Eden and are currently in good condition."

"Very good—then let's go check on them after we finish processing the last few documents!"

.....

Of course, things don't always go according to plan—those three men who escaped overtime would eventually have to pay the price...

A piercing warning echoed over the sky island—and not far from the moon, a massive, dark red ring-shaped stargate appeared.

"Time to go home~"

Of course, the instigator had no idea what someone on Earth was thinking at that moment—our Miss Snow was simply happily carrying a bag of super contracts signed with the Destiny Organization from another world, preparing to lead a few guests to her home for a visit.

Chapter 553 My boy, what did you bring back?

"You're saying... a huge circular gate has appeared near the moon? Where's the image?!"

Just as Velvet and her companions were about to rest, the alarm sounded, and their relaxed state instantly tightened. They grumbled and demanded real-time images from the Schicksal intelligence officer...

"Uh...okay! Calling in monitoring stations near the moon."

The intelligence officer reporting on the screen saluted and then lowered his head to continue operating the system, preparing to transfer the surveillance. Meanwhile, the commotion outside the office temporarily drew the attention of Wilvie and the others.

“Mr. Otto, and Mr. Joyce, you should be resting now... instead of coming here....”

Outside the door, Miss Eden's voice was urging some men who suffered from PTSD upon hearing an emergency alarm to go back and rest...

"Let me go, I can keep working for another five hundred years—"

"Otto, go back and rest!"

"Joyce, you should go back and rest too!"

Miss Eden, who was about to lose control of the two men, received help from Miss Karen and Miss Einstein just as she was about to slip away...

The two grown men deflated instantly upon hearing their wives' voices.

"What are you doing...???"

The office door opened—before the intelligence officer could even bring over the surveillance footage, the great magician, Miss Velvey, muttered to herself that she'd fire this Allied intelligence officer sooner or later, while watching the chaotic scene outside...

Otto was pinned to the ground by Miss Kallen using a grappling technique, seemingly to be dragged back, while Joyce was seized by Einstein, who arrived at lightning speed in a mecha... What appeared before Miss Velvet resembled a scene of domestic violence...

"Um, if you and your spouse have a conflict... could you perhaps resolve it somewhere else? This is an office area..."

After racking her brains for a long time but still unable to figure out what these people were doing, Wilvi scratched her head.

“You’ve misunderstood, Velvet… Mr. Otto and Mr. Joyce just heard the alarm and suddenly rushed towards the office as if they had triggered some kind of PTSD…”

Lady Eden, seeing the bewildered look on Wilvi's face, explained it to her...

"I couldn't stop these two men from working so much overtime that they might develop psychological problems, so I notified Ms. Karen and Dr. Einstein..."

"Um... Eden, I remember that Qianjie and Aponia were also helping out at the sanatorium you were in charge of managing and repairing, right?"

"They didn't stop those two?"

As she watched the two men still struggling to climb into the office, Velvi's lips twitched—

“Miss Karen, Dr. Einstein, please let them go... Let's talk inside the office... It's not good to be seen outside..."

"...Alright."

After a moment's thought, the two women released their partners, and the two men rushed into the office...

"Perhaps we should find you two a psychologist..."

Eden watched as two dark figures darted in and shook his head helplessly.

"Su is inside. Let him take a look at these two guys. If all else fails, go and call Aponia over too..."

"That's true... Oh, right... Speaking of bringing Aponia and Qianjie... actually, they were stopped—but according to Qianjie, those two ran away from the sanatorium faster than Pado herself..."

"...So they didn't stop them?"

That's right.

Eden nodded.

"Oh right, I remember there were three carried over... What about Walter Yang?"

As Velvi stroked her chin and led Eden back to the office, she seemed to remember something and asked a question out of curiosity.

"Mr. Yang...indeed, his initial reaction was the same as these two...but at that time, Dr. Tesla was visiting him."

Miss Eden gave a strange look...