I was transported to a broken world, yet my dreams are connected to Star Iron?

　Ai Li took Ling Mo's small hand and lifted it slightly: "Are you treating Ling Mo's wound?"

　"That's not how you treat a wound."

　Snake sneered, "Su might die of anger if she sees this."

　"What? Sue wouldn't do that, but Möbius..."

　A hint of curiosity appeared in Ellie's eyes: "You seem quite concerned about Lingmo, is something wrong?"

　"Who cares about her! I, I just..."

　Mebius was speechless for a moment. She suddenly realized that from Ellie and Suzumo's perspective... she shouldn't have known about Suzumo's existence at all?

　"Ahem, I just happened to see two of you in Paradise, so I came to take a look."

　"Huh? So it wasn't because you cared about Suzuma, but because you cared about me?"

　Alicia covered her face: "It's rare to encounter Möbius playing such a direct shot! It was so sudden! Miss Fairy couldn't defend against it at all!"

　"?"

　Mebius was furious. She was completely under Alicia's thumb, though of course she would never admit it.

　"Who cares about you, Alicia! All I care about is this little pink mouse. Such valuable experimental material is being wasted on you! You might as well take her to me, where I can study her properly and find out what's going on with her."

　"See that, Suzumo?"

　Alicia gently pinched Rinma's cheek: "This is the green wriggling snake I just told you about that eats children in Paradise!"

　"But……"

　Lingmo blinked. Although she didn't know why Snake seemed to recognize her, her years of experience in Galgames told her that she should try to increase Snake's favorability as soon as she entered a new environment.

　"I feel that Dr. Mebius is quite normal... at least according to the information in my Stigmata, she is not a bad person."

　"?"

　"Saint, Saint Mark?"

　Snake has gone offline for who knows how many times today.

　What is meant by the information obtained from the Stigmata?

　You mean this guy who looks just like Ellie, has the power to corrupt, and inexplicably appeared in the outside world, and even has holy marks on his body?

　Oh, what a coincidence! Who is the only person in the world who fully understands the Stigmata mechanics and who worked with Mei to develop the Stigmata Project?

　"That's right, actually there are no bad people in Paradise, okay?"

　Completely unaware of the brainstorming session that Mebius was currently engaged in, Ellie smiled and gently rubbed Suzumo's cheek: "Although Dr. Mebius may seem rather 'fierce,' she is actually a very gentle person."

　"You see, Dr. Möbius didn't refute it, did he?"

　"Tsk... I can't be bothered with you."

　Snake forced herself to calm down, then looked at Lingmo with some seriousness.

　"Little Pink Mouse, I think I heard some terms that are a bit interesting... As payment for your invasion of Paradise, how about you explain a few things to me?"

　"Another quiz game?"

　Lingmo looked at Airi with some difficulty.

　"Don't worry, just explain it normally."

　Ellie smiled and gave Möbius a helping hand: "I'm still here!"

　Lingmo then looked at Möbius.

　"Hmph, I suggest you stay away from Alicia. That girl... is just a traitor."

　Seeing Lingmo's pleading look at Alicia, Snake snorted and then got to the point.

　"You just said you have holy marks on your body? Can I take a look?"

　Instead of asking about the pointless topic of how the stigmata were obtained, Mebius decided to directly examine Suzuma's stigmata.

　"Here... is this."

　Suzuma stretched out her hand, and on the back of her hand, a pattern exactly the same as Alicia's mark appeared, just as Suzuma wished.

　"...?"

　The snake's eyes suddenly widened, as if its pupils had been shocked.

　"W-what's wrong? My Stigmata... is there something wrong with it?"

　Lingmo asked somewhat guiltily.

　After all, according to customer service representative Xiaoqi, her Stigmata were given to her entirely with the help of the system by Xiaoqi and Aili, which is completely different from the genuine innate Stigmata of Siles and Bronya. At least, Aili's Stigmata is basically just a Herrscher power amplifier for her.

　Mebius did not speak.

　Because she can't speak right now.

　She had also studied in depth the evolved Stigmata of the current civilization through the World Serpent cadres who came to the trial, and basically, they had not deviated from the Stigmata Project.

　The stigmata on Suzuma's hand does indeed deviate somewhat from the original stigmata, and the traces of modification by the Primal Power are clearly visible...

　But this stigmata... seems to really be her work, at least this change should have been proposed by "Mebius".

　Snake felt she was losing control of her expression.

　She desperately wished that when she opened her eyes, she would find that everything that had just happened was just a dream.

　"...The second question."

　Clinging to the last shred of hope, Snake asked the next question.

　"Where did the core of the Herrscher of Corruption within you come from?"

　"This is a bit complicated... I'm afraid you won't believe me if I tell you."

　Lingmo's expression turned somewhat awkward.

　"During the second Honkai Impact of the current civilization, the Second Herrscher, Sirin, and I had a rather... close relationship. And because I wasn't careful at the time, although I had the ability to resurrect, I also died several times. So, in order to prevent me from being killed again, when Sirin went to the moon to seek help from the Honkai will sealed there, she specifically asked how to make me survive."

　"Then, the Honkai Will directly gave her a completely sealed Corruption Core..."

　Okay, now there's no need to ask.

　Mebius felt a sudden darkness engulf his vision.

　This core of corruption was given by Prometheus. So, under whose plan was Prometheus implanted into the Honkai Will?

　In particular, Suzuma said that she also has the ability to revive.

　It's so hard to guess whose child this is.

　Now, not to mention others, even Mebius himself doesn't believe that this matter has nothing to do with him.

　"and many more……"

　Alicia, who had been listening quietly, suddenly sharpened her gaze.

　"Resurrected? Died several times?"

　Immediately afterward, Möbius, realizing what was happening, also turned a serious look at Suzuma.

　"?"

　Lingmo suddenly felt a little sweaty.

　Wait, weren't you guys just arguing? Why are you suddenly targeting me?

　"Lingmo~"

　Alicia "gently" took Suzumo's hand.

　"Could you tell me the story of the Second Honkai Impact in detail?"

　Chapter 128 Ellie: Something's not right. Is Mebius being a little too concerned about Suzumo?

　"The second collapse..."

　Lingmo's lips twitched. If it were anything else, she might have some confidence, but the second collapse...

　Putting aside the fact that she had just transmigrated and hadn't adjusted her mindset, which led to a bunch of absurd manipulations, she was in such a "life-or-death" state that she didn't really know how to describe it.

　She had a strange premonition that if she told the truth, her fate might be rather grim.

　But I have a stronger feeling that if she doesn't tell the truth, things might get even worse.

　After much deliberation, Lingmo decided...

　It's better to have a short, sharp pain than a long, drawn-out one. Tell me!

　"Ahem, the story of the Second Honkai Impact begins more than a decade ago."

　"At that time, I inexplicably found myself near a Babylonian laboratory due to amnesia..."

　"Wait, amnesia?"

　Snake interrupted Lingmo's story.

　"Uh...right."

　Amnesia is a relatively reasonable explanation that Lingmo could come up with without revealing that she had a second timeline, and it also describes her state when she first transmigrated.

　For some reason, after hearing that Lingmo had amnesia at the beginning of the game, Snake's face showed a look of sudden realization.

　"Then, I was 'voluntarily' captured and taken to the Babylonian Laboratory as one of their experimental consumables for researching artificial Stigmata. At that time, I lived with a little girl named Sirin..."

　As Lingmo slowly narrated, different expressions gradually appeared on the faces of Ai Li and She She.

　At first, Snake was able to spare some attention to what the Babylonian laboratory was researching, but after hearing half of it, her face darkened.

　Especially after Suzumo's disconnection led to Sirin's series of tragedies, Snake's expression seemed to be recalling some unpleasant past.

　And Ellie...

　How should I put it? Judging from how tightly she was gripping her own hand, Lingmo felt that she was definitely going to be in big trouble soon.

　"In short, the final result is that I carried Sirin's soul through my own core and later put her back into Kiana, a clone formed by the genes of herself and Kevin's offspring. Cecilia, on the other hand, was not seriously injured and woke up early. Now, we can actually try to clone a suitable body and we should have results in about one or two months."

　"..."

　The tea party fell silent.

　"Uh, you guys... say something, please."

　Looking at the two silent people, Lingmo felt a little sweaty.

　“Lingmo…”

　Ellie held Lingmo's hand very seriously and looked into her eyes.

　"I think...you might need to adjust your mindset."

　"wait wait wait!"

　Suzuma quickly retorted, "I haven't died even once since the second Honkai Impact!"

　"That's only because the erosion core that Sirin found for you gives you a higher margin of error."

　Ellie said angrily, "Your mentality hasn't changed at all! If another loophole appears that requires you to risk your life to fill, you'll definitely still fill it with yourself."

　"Ugh, there's absolutely no way to argue with that..."

　Lingmo, whose face had been roughly rubbed by Ai Li, immediately went limp and collapsed onto the table.

　"Hmph, how dare you talk about her like that, Alicia."

　Snake snorted: "You two are essentially cut from the same cloth. If you were in that situation, you would have made the same choices. Or do you think you haven't made enough self-sacrificing actions?"

　"If you ask me, since we can't change the mindset of you idiots, we might as well spend our time improving our strength. At least that will reduce the number of times you have to gamble with your lives."

　"Eh?"

　Allie looked at Mebius with curiosity, as if she had discovered a new continent: "Mebius... I feel like you're a little different today?"

　"Wait, where is the difference!"

　A hint of guilt flashed across Mebius's face, but she quickly masked it: "I just couldn't stand you two idiots trying to outdo each other here!"

　"Really……"