Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

There was a gleam of surprise in Hina's eyes.

"So interesting! It's starting to make me laugh~"

Chapter 21 PAREO's Choice

PAREO's eyes slowly changed from emerald green to the bright blue of the false pupils.

Shizi was a little surprised. She didn't do anything to PAREO. However, she reacted quickly.

Shizi's virtual personality was copied from PAREO, so as the source of this ability, how could PAREO himself be so defenseless against Hina?

From the very beginning, when Hina's mental power just touched PAREO's soul, her ability was activated, and she copied a virtual personality that was exactly the same as the original one, allowing her to live outside, while the original body shrank inside and could only observe the outside world, not daring to take the initiative to attack.

PAREO watched her idol Hina manipulate her friends' minds at will and imprison her sister, not daring to take any action. Hina now seemed strange to her.

However, she actually felt a sense of relief, as if the second shoe had finally dropped and the worries she had told Saya about before had finally been confirmed.

As a fan, she naturally wants Riku to return to normal; however, she also has concerns: Is the so-called normal really a happy ending for Riku?

That kind of common sense-based lifestyle doesn't apply to everyone, and PAREO fully understands this because she herself has experienced similar things, but not as extreme as Hikari.

Hinata didn't really do anything to the others, did she?

But... the others are her partners, and even the smallest mental control is still control, and Saya herself is not clear about her own thoughts...

But even if I wanted to take action, what could I do?

PAREO kept hesitating like this.

Until now, Hina tried to make a move on Shizi.

"Hmm? Little Pareo, are you in here?" Pareo heard Hina's cheerful voice. She was powerless to answer, as all her energy was spent on creating virtual personalities.

A personality is created and then deleted by Japanese food.

She didn't dare to slow down at all. It was a tug-of-war, with personalities being built and deleted repeatedly, and neither side could temporarily gain control of their bodies. Hinata seemed to be at ease, attacking while asking questions with interest.

Although her spirit body could not sweat, PAREO still felt a great sense of crisis. She acted on impulse. Fighting against Hina in the spiritual realm, where Hina was already good at, PAREO didn't know what she was thinking, not to mention that she knew very well how talented Hina was.

Fortunately, after the inheritance, her mental strength is now much higher than that of Hina who just traveled through time. However, Hina's attacks are irregular, but they inexplicably cause the collapse of personality again and again, achieving the greatest effect with the least consumption. She really doesn't know if she can make the other party give up before her mental strength is exhausted.

However, she soon felt help from the outside world. It was as if a warm current was surrounding her body, and her mental strength began to recover rapidly.

It was Shizi. She took out a bunch of golden jade slips to assist PAREO. She wanted to use her own virtual personality to intervene in the battle, but after seeing the situation in PAREO's brain, she gave up. The personality in PAREO's brain flashed like a strobe, and she couldn't afford to use it with her limited inventory.

However, this is enough.

Pareo's pressure was greatly relieved, and Hinata noticed this: "You can answer now, little Pareo? Why didn't you do anything before, but stop me now?"

"Because...Hina-chan seems to want to hurt Shiko-san." PAREO answered.

"Hmm?" Hinata was confused. "I didn't mean to hurt her. It was just an experiment. She might feel a little pain, but that's it."

"But that's not possible." PAREO was uncompromising, "Because she is Shizi's classmate."

"Because she saved your life?"

PAREO smiled slightly, "You really do know everything, Hina-chan. Yes, she saved my life, several times, and indirectly saved CHU?-sama's life. To me, besides CHU?-sama, Shiko-san is as important as everyone in RAS and Hina-chan!"

The next moment, PAREO suddenly felt that the external attack had stopped. She opened her eyes and regained control of her body. Her whole body was bathed in golden light, and Shizi was vigilantly holding the cyan-gold jade slip and guarding beside her.

give up?

Just as PAREO had this thought, he heard Hina's voice behind him: "I thought it was interesting at first, but now that it has gone beyond 'trouble' and risen to the level of 'obstruction', I can't say anything about it anymore."

Shizi looked back and found that Hina had arrived there at some point, with a gloomy face, approaching the two of them step by step.

Shizi took a step forward and stood in front of PAREO.

Hina stopped, leaving a large distance between them, and stood facing Shizi.

"I just wanted to check what happened to Xiao Shizi, but I didn't expect to get an unexpected reward." Hinata's tone was completely devoid of its original vitality, and only remained cold. "But I got the result - multiple personalities can indeed avoid my abilities to a certain extent."

"Little PAREO can take advantage of this, can little Shizi do it? So, I checked Lisa carefully. Guess what I found?"

Rinna took out a piece of colorful jade slip and looked at Shizi's expression with amusement.

Shizi's pupils shrank suddenly. When...? She hadn't received any message from her virtual personality. Was it too late? She held her face tightly and showed a suitable expression of confusion.

However, before that, Hina caught the change in her eyes and sneered, "Is it true?"

"You're trying to trick me?" Shizi frowned.

"This is just what I stole from your room before." Hina shook the jade slip and took it back. "Is that so...are you going to betray me too?"

She stopped looking at Shizi and looked past him to look at Pareo: "Little Pareo."

"...Yes." PAREO was still frightened and shrank behind Shizi, not daring to face Hina.

"I have left Paspale." PAREO saw that Hina said this with a calm expression.

“……”PAREO did not answer.

"I am no longer your idol," Hinata said. "You don't have to put me on such a high pedestal anymore. In that case, are you going to obey me? Or are you going to oppose me?"

Pareo's pupils twitched, and she almost lost her composure. Shizi held her shoulders. She lowered her head and remained silent for a long time.

"What do you think...Saya-san?" she asked in a low voice.

"Saya asked me to save Hina," Shiko said.

PAREO looked at Hina. Hina nodded, acknowledging what Shiko said.

"Then..." PAREO gave a sad smile, "I will have to become Hina-chan's enemy."

At this moment, Shizi discovered that Hinata had an indescribable complex expression.

"Is that so?" She took a step back, disappearing with each step. "Thank you. I've made up my mind."

The corridor was deserted.

Chapter 22 Insurance

I don't know where Hina went.

PAREO suddenly had a bad feeling: "It's decided... means..."

Shizi didn't move, as if he had expected it: "Well, he probably wants to take Saya away with him."

The reason why Shiko made such a complicated plan and acted secretly was that she was worried that once Hinata found out that she couldn't maintain the situation, she would give up her life on the airship and her other friends and take Saya away directly. It would be difficult to find them at that time.

But now she is not panicking.

Hinata opened and closed her eyes, and was back in her and her sister's room.

The room was as dark as when she left it. Her sister lay quietly on the bed.

"Sister... I'm sorry," she sat on the bed and stroked her cheek, "I'm going to make a decision on my own again. I've said it before... You can hate me. But, I only have my sister left."

When there is only one uncontrollable factor, you can still be on guard, but when there are two factors, the risk outweighs the benefit. Not to mention, with PAREO's ability, she can quietly eliminate her influence on others, and I don't have the energy to be on guard against them all the time.

Just leave.

Although life outside is hard, as long as my sister is there, everything is acceptable.

There was a golden light flashing in her eyes.

not long ago.

"Please tell me more about Hinata's abilities." Shiko 10021 held a notebook in her hand and sat opposite Yusaki like an examiner. "No matter how small the details are, please tell me more."

Arisaki complained countless times: "You have said this countless times... Let me think about it... Ah, she can only take us to travel between souls when we are awake. Does this count?"

Shizi No. 10021 looked up from the notebook: "It's really useful. Thank you."

The golden light in Hina's eyes made Sayo slowly open her eyes.

"Good morning, sis." Hina smiled happily as she looked at the other's emerald green eyes that were exactly the same as hers, "We have to leave now... uh."

Her expression froze. She lowered her head and saw a paper dagger stabbed straight into her heart. The dagger was covered with scriptures and glowed faintly. There was no pain, but she felt that her control over others was weakening bit by bit.

The dagger was held tightly by a familiar hand. She looked up in astonishment and saw the sad and resolute expression on Sayo's face.

"...Originally, I didn't put all my chips on the so-called 'Caesar' operation." Shizi said as he walked with PAREO, "There are too many variables, and there is only one chance, so the success rate is not high. However, from the information from Arisaki, I also saw another layer of insurance."

"If we talk about Hinata's 'most relaxed' moment, how can the so-called dinner time be compared to now? She is alone with the person she trusts most in the world, and is about to leave together. And all her vigilance is focused on the two of us. She won't notice anything unusual about Sayo."

"After I found out that Hinata had left the room, I quietly used a jade slip to send a paper dagger to Sayo's hand. I didn't use a virtual personality, and it was all based on my own understanding of the entire ship's structure, so Hinata couldn't have discovered it. After that, it depends on whether Sayo can quickly understand the situation after waking up and make a choice."

"Even though things didn't go exactly as I planned, this insurance policy is still in place."

PAREO was still a little hesitant: "But this is equivalent to leaving everything to Saya-san who just woke up..."

But she stopped talking quickly. The two of them had already arrived in front of Sayo's room. Shizi gently opened the door.

Pareo saw that Hinata was kneeling on the bed, stretching her hand out to try to touch Sayo's face, while Sayo sat in front of her, and even though she was shaking, she did not let go of the hand holding the dagger.

The golden light in Hinai's eyes was completely extinguished.

"You have to trust your companions." Shizi said softly to PAREO, and finally a hint of pride appeared on his face, "I didn't watch so many hot-blooded anime for nothing."

Soon after, everyone gathered in the bar. Hina stood in the middle, restrained by Sayo, while Shiko and Pareo stood beside them, surrounded by others.

"...So, that's it. I think everyone has understood." Shizi finished explaining, revealing a look of relief. "Now, let's decide on the issue of how to deal with Hina."

But it seems that the others, especially those who have not yet been given virtual personalities by Shizi, still need some time to digest it.

"Well...well...that is to say, Hina-san controlled our brains, and then..." Rimi blushed and didn't dare to continue.

Sha Ling could only laugh awkwardly: "Aha, ahahahaha..."

"Looking back, I didn't feel anything at all..." Chu looked at Hina nervously. Hina was now a completely normal person, with her hands hanging down, not looking at anyone, letting Saya control her without saying a word.

Yukina muttered to herself, "Yeah... How should I deal with this..."

Everyone fell silent.

Logically speaking, it would be normal for Hina to mentally control everyone and imprison a member right from the start, and exile her. But firstly, Hina is just an ordinary person now, and throwing her out is tantamount to sending her to death. They are not so cold-blooded. Secondly, for Roselia and Poppin'Party, Hina is their friend. Although the others are not very close to Hina, they have to take the feelings of these two groups into consideration. They also know how much Shizi and PAREO like Paspaleo. After all, Hina's behavior did not cause irreversible consequences, so they are still inclined to deal with her leniently.

However, they didn't know what others were thinking. They looked at each other and didn't dare to express their opinions first.

"Everyone," it was Saya who spoke first, "I beg you...at least don't exile Hinata. Please let me supervise her from now on."

Hinata raised her head slightly.

With Sayo taking the lead, PAREO also stepped up: "I know this is willful, but I still want to keep Hinana! Please give her another chance!"

Even though they were enemies with Hinata just now, they seemed to have no grudges against each other and spoke sincerely.

Yukina glanced at them. Saya and Pareo looked at the others with pleading eyes. There was still no emotion in Hina's eyes, as if the soul had been pulled out of her, leaving only a puppet that could respond to the outside world.

Yukina looked at Shiko again. After the explanation, Shiko shrank aside and observed the reactions of others. She looked at the others and said, "Ms. Wu is the biggest contributor to the resolution of this incident. How about letting her decide?"

“Sure.” CHU? replied.

"No problem." Hong Xia said.

Others nodded.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Shizi, and PAREO and Saya also looked at her with pleading eyes.

Shizi smiled unchanged and spread his hands: "It's very simple. Drink three cups as punishment and nothing will happen. How about that?"

"Eh?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment. Even Rinna looked up.

Chapter 23: Hina was the first to be caught

Hong Xia blinked and said, "Xiao Shizi, this is not a trivial matter, take it seriously."

Feeling the atmosphere around him, Shizi also slapped his face awkwardly: "As expected... But, I really think so, it's not a big deal... In this case, the biggest victim this time is Saya herself, how about letting her decide?"

Yukina nodded when he heard that: "That's it. Sayo, what do you think?"

Saya calmed down and thought carefully: "The main victims this time are me, PAREO, and Wu, and the others were also mentally controlled. The three of us hope to be treated leniently, but the harm that Hinata has caused to others cannot be ignored. I suggest that Hinata be imprisoned, and the sentence will be decided through discussion."

"Rather, there is no other way." Shizi spread his hands, "If we can't exile him, and nothing can happen, we can only lock him up."

No one else had an opinion either.

"Where is the prison?" Shizi asked, "There are still many empty rooms on the airship."