I'm going to kill everyone who calls me Hill.

"zzzzzzz"

Without paying any attention to Elf who was lying in the room like a tired dog, the sound of deep sleep came from Xier's room.

"hateful……"

Elf said in a low voice, and seeing that Xier was asleep, she didn't disturb her loudly.

"How am I supposed to get back?"

Elf wailed as her magic power ran out. Isn't it completely impossible to go back?

"Shhhhhhh... don't make any noise..."

Suddenly a voice sounded in the dark room.

"who!"

Elf was shocked. Although her magic power was exhausted, it did not mean that she could not sense the breath. But just before that voice sounded, she did not feel any signs of life activity at all.

"Shh, shh, I told you to keep your voice down. What if the master finds out?"

Just as Elf was looking for the source of the sound, a silver-gray box quietly floated in front of her.

It was a box full of technology, with distinct corners. Its silver-gray color was still clear even at night, and stripes of flashing blue light were distributed vertically and horizontally in the middle of the box.

"This, this, this!"

Elf was confused again. What the hell was going on?

"Don't make a fuss. Haven't you seen high technology? Unfortunately, I was forgotten in a corner just after a few chapters were released. In this lonely night, only the bright moonlight can soothe my soul..."

The new Pinky Box turned its face toward the moon outside and sighed softly.

"Ah this..."

Elf looked speechlessly at the weapon box that was expressing its feelings towards the moonlight. It turns out that this thing of yours has a front side?

"Don't! Don't say words to comfort me, just let me express this loneliness quietly by myself. The waning moon hangs on the sparse toon tree, the clock stops and people are quiet. Who can see the lonely man walking alone, the misty shadow of the lone wild goose."

The faint verses of poetry came out of this high-tech box, which was quite incongruous.

"By the way, can you play games?"

New Pinky, who was reciting poetry just now, suddenly asked Elf.

"Eh?"

Elf was stunned. What was going on?

"If you can, come and help me. Who was playing online games just now and making such a fuss? How come this person with the ID [child's mother] is so powerful? Damn, she even mocked me! She even said that her child is better than me! How can I tolerate this!!"

The new Pinky Box suddenly transformed into a handle and handed it to Elf, and at the same time a screen was projected in front of Elf.

"what?"

"I forgot, you are a dog, you don't seem to be able to play games."

"Asshole, who said I can't? Watch this!"

Elf was so angry that she picked up the handle and placed it in front of herself. She put her two paws on the handle and started to operate it with a crackling sound.

"Ohhhh! Awesome!!!"

"Nonsense! Now you have seen how powerful I am!!!"

"That's it!!"

"Oh oh oh!!!"

In this way, the dog and the box established an unknown revolutionary friendship.

But when Xier got up in the morning, she saw a burnt Elf lying on the ground.

"Ah...what happened?"

"Who knows..."

Xin Pingqi Box quietly put away the handle and said as if nothing had happened.

Chapter 22: Hidden Enemy

'Boom dong dong'

"Sister Xier? Are you there?"

The sound of Nanoha knocking on the door came from outside, which made Xier, who was lazily lying on the bed, stunned. What was Nanoha doing here at this time?

"Here we go, wait a moment."

Xier tidied herself up a little, then opened the door, and saw a pair of pigtails dancing in front of her eyes.

"Good morning, Sister Xier!"

The energetic voice of Nanoha, who was wearing a protective suit, rang out, which made Seele feel different, because just yesterday she was discussing with Precia how to promote Fate, and today the real owner came to her door.

(but……)

Xier looked at Nanoha with a hint of sympathy and sighed for her silently (Poor Nanoha, you still don't understand that you have been clearly arranged...)

"Eh? Why do I feel like Sister Xi'er's eyes are so strange..."

Nanoha was frightened by Seele's look and couldn't help but shudder. It felt weird...

"looking for me?"

Xier yawned and said that she had consumed a lot of energy yesterday and had not fully recovered even after a night's rest. The consumption of resurrecting a person was much greater than she thought. Just resurrecting Alicia had consumed most of her energy, which meant that she had much less time to stay in this world.

"Aunt Lindy said the remaining sacred stone seeds have been located."

Nanoha smiled slightly. Finding the Holy Stone Seed meant that Fate would come, and she would have a chance to have a heart-to-heart talk with her.

"Oh? That's fast^"

Xier was stunned. She didn't expect that the remaining holy stone seeds would be found so quickly. Xier had prepared for the possibility that she wouldn't be able to find them in ten days or half a month. Didn't she expect Lindy to be so helpful?

"Yes, there was no news yesterday, but just now, the fluctuations of several holy stone seeds suddenly appeared at the same time. Aunt Lindy was worried that if it was delayed for too long, something unexpected would happen, so she asked me to come to you."

A pair of cherry-colored wings appeared at Nanoha's feet, and it was obvious that they couldn't wait to seal the Holy Stone Seed.

"All right……"

"This is the location of the discovery this time. I didn't expect the Holy Stone Seed to be hidden in the sea."

As she spoke, Nanoha had the Heart of the Rising Sun project a map of Haiming City. The location of the marked Holy Stone Seed was right near the sea. To be honest, if it weren't for the energy fluctuations emitted by the Holy Stone Seed, even with the help of Asura's staff, it would be impossible to easily find the location of one of them, let alone several.

"Thanks……"

Xier raised her new Pinky Box and received the data transmitted by the Heart of the Rising Sun. Thanks to the previous modification of the New Pinky Box, this weapon box now has multiple functions such as Bluetooth transmission and can perfectly receive all modern signals.

"OK, data transfer completed. Yawn~"

The new Pinky Box made a beeping sound, and an electronic sound with a mechanical beauty rang out, but Xier heard something wrong.

"Did you yawn just now?"

Xier looked at the weapon box in her hand suspiciously. Although it was very slight just now, she did hear a slight yawn coming from it.

"...No, Master, you heard it wrong."

New Pinky Box answered immediately.

"You hesitated, didn't you?"

"No, it's your illusion."

Xier put her eyes close to the weapon box and looked at it carefully, as if she wanted to find something wrong, but after staring for a long time, she didn't find anything strange. Finally, Xier gave up observing and threw the new Pingqi box back into the imaginary space.

"Sister Xi'er's magic device is really interesting."

Nanoha couldn't help but laugh out loud when watching the interaction between Seele and the new Pinky Box. It was the first time for her to see someone quarrel with the magic device she had raised through crowdfunding group number 456127940. After joining the Administration, Nanoha naturally came into contact with news she had never known before, such as only a small number of magic devices had high intelligence, while most of them were rigid AIs. Devices like the Heart of the Rising Sun and the Lightning Axe were rare. There was only one magic device like Seele's that could even quarrel with its own owner.

"Hush, don't mention it. I regret it so much."

Xier got a headache when she talked about this. This weapon box was good in every way except that it was too talkative. Every time it started talking, Xier thought of the traditional Chinese art - crosstalk - that she had browsed online before. If this thing was not made by herself, Xier even doubted whether it could be labeled "made in China".

"Ah, Aunt Lindy is looking for me."

Nanoha's Rising Sun Heart suddenly sent a message to remind her, and Nanoha remembered that she still had to go find Captain Lindy, so she said, "Then I'll go first, Sister Xier!"

"Wait……"

As Nanoha said this, she flew into the sky, and without even hearing what Seele said, she turned into a shooting star and wanted to fly away into the distance.

"Ah this..."

Xi'er's face froze. She wanted to ask Nanoha to take her for a ride, but Nanoha could fly but she couldn't! If they wanted to go to the Holy Stone Seed, they couldn't let Xi'er swim over there...

"Come to think of it... Is it so easy to activate the Holy Stone Seed?"

Xier felt very strange at this time. Although she and Precia planned to activate the Sacred Stone Seeds together, and then lure Nanoha and Fate to a decisive battle, and then let the feelings of the two people sublimate in the battle, but it shouldn't be so fast? The Sacred Stone Seeds should all be in a dormant state, and they should not be automatically activated without being stimulated? What's going on? Is it a coincidence?

"It seems that I should contact Precia first..."

Seele didn't want any accidents to happen at this critical juncture. She liked Fate and Nanoha very much and didn't want anything to happen to them at all.

Although communicating now might disturb Priscilla who was close to Alicia, Xier still felt it was safer to contact her.

"Hello? Miss Precia?"

"Oh? Miss Xi'er?"

Precia, who was connected to the call, was wearing an apron, holding a plate of breakfast in her left hand and another in her right hand, obviously making breakfast for Fate and Alicia. She had untied her knot and her face was full of smiles, with her long hair tied up on one side, looking like a full-fledged wife.

"What happened?"

After urging Alicia and Fate to have breakfast, Precia asked, she couldn't think that Xier sent a message at this time just to say good morning.

"I'll be frank. Have you activated the Holy Stone Seed?"

"Huh? Not really. I was taking care of Fate and Alicia yesterday."

After hearing Precia's words, Xier frowned. If that's the case, then...

"Do you suspect that there are other people who are also collecting Holy Stone Seeds?"

Precia expressed what Xier was worried about.

"That's right. I originally thought that only you and I were collecting the Holy Stone Seeds, but now that the Holy Stone Seeds have suddenly been activated, I have to worry about whether there is a third party force that is also collecting them."

Xier said worriedly that something that was once a sure thing suddenly became uncertain, which was a really bad feeling.

"It shouldn't be possible. The matter of the Holy Stone Seed is the result of my years of planning. Apart from me, no one else should know about the Holy Stone Seed, let alone collect it."

Precia said that she could guarantee this, and this was not just pure confidence. The matter of the Holy Stone Seed was triggered by her careful calculations. The world outside of management and the world without any magical technology were very difficult to find. The Earth was a world that Precia had carefully selected. If a genius wizard like Nanoha suddenly appeared, Fate's process of collecting the Holy Stone Seed would be very smooth, and there would not even be a trace of obstruction.

"This is strange..."

Xier knew that what Precia said should be true, but that would be even more strange. What kind of force could act without anyone knowing?

The more Xier thought about it, the more annoyed she became. The enemy was completely in the dark and there was no trace at all.

"That's it for now. I'll call you if I find anything new."

Xier thought about it and decided to hang up the phone for the time being. It would not be too late to contact again when she found more information.

"So... now"

Xier looked at the remote place on the map with a headache.

"Looks like it's going to run over?"

"Hey! Got it! New Pinky Box! Bike mode!"

"This should be much faster..."

Chapter 23: The Unbreakable Wall

"Huh...huh..."

"You're here! Sister Xier!"

At the shore of Haiming City, Nanoha and Chrono, who arrived earlier, were already waiting here. Nanoha saw Seele and greeted her immediately.

When she saw Nanoha, Seele knew that she had finally reached her destination. She pressed the handbrake with her right hand and used her waist to pull the bicycle from full speed to a stop with a tailspin. The high-speed bicycle stopped accurately in front of Chrono, producing sparks from the friction with the ground.