Who am I? Where am I? What just happened?
The holy nun Aponia was completely bewildered, having no idea why things had turned out this way.
She had just discovered the unknown side of the two genius scientists, and in the blink of an eye, they were both incapacitated before her.
On the left, the soaking wet magician was twitching slightly with her eyes rolled back. Perhaps the all-encompassing sensation in the water had overwhelmed her brain with countless waves of pleasure.
On the right, Mobius, who should have escaped, fell from the sky and created a pit. The mistress of the Elysian Realm was miserable in her own territory, splashing out a pit full of groundwater.
Four people came, but after just a short while, she was the only one left standing.
It seemed... she too would ultimately be unable to escape this fate of bursting like a cheese-filled cake.
But that was fine too. By atoning for the sins she committed against this child with her own body, she wouldn't have to betray her good friend Elysia.
Even if it meant enduring all the suffering and evil with this lewd body of hers, Aponia would willingly accept it.
"Rin, whatever you want to do, I will bear it all!"
The nun clasped her hands together, knelt on the ground with her legs together, as if confessing to the gods in the heavens, begging for forgiveness for the impure act she was about to commit.
However, the sakura-haired girl merely glanced at the self-important nun and sneered, "Aponia, do you think you can earn my forgiveness so easily?"
What was physical suffering? Mental torment was the revenge that would satisfy her.
She had appeared here because Mobius had targeted her sister, not to have a deep conversation with these three lewdly-figured women.
One thing at a time, she never intended to vent her resentment on Aponia's body.
Making her watch as she hurt the people around her, letting her spirit weep and collapse in torment—that was the ending she most desired.
"Rin, you…"
"Aponia, don't call me so intimately. I'm not that familiar with you."
With that, the sakura-haired girl turned and left, giving Aponia no chance to salvage the situation.
The kneeling, praying nun wanted to say something, but in the end, she could only watch the girl's departing back and sigh softly.
No matter how she wanted to take revenge on her, she could only bear it silently, because this was her mistake.
With a complicated mood, Aponia stood up and looked at her two companions, her expression also becoming complicated.
"What should I… do with them?"
Vill-V was half-submerged in the water, twitching incessantly under the caress of the current.
Mobius lay in the pit she had created, the muscles around her body and her butt moving in rhythm with the wind and water.
Having only just seen the true nature of these two companions today, Aponia, though deeply shocked, had to consider moving them to a safe place.
After all, this place was very close to that Herrscher. If he saw their current state, he might just make two more cheese-filled hot dog buns.
Just as the nun was in a bind, a faint sound came on the weak wind: "Take us, hmm~… to Mobius's laboratory."
Vill-V's eyes were rolled back, her severely dehydrated lips trembling as she made the effort.
Half her body was in the water, but that didn't stop her dehydration. In fact, it would make her dehydrate at the fastest possible rate.
If she, with her tenfold sensitivity, had ended up like this, she couldn't even imagine what would happen to Mobius with her thousand-fold sensitivity.
Aponia: "Okay."
She was now the only support for these two genius scientists.
With her seemingly delicate arms, she picked up Vill-V under one arm and lifted Mobius with the other hand.
Crystalline liquid dripped from the corners of the two incapacitated girls' lips, making the holy nun's face flush red.
"God! Please forgive my impure thoughts!"
…
"Finally… it's dealt with!"
Her lithe body collapsed onto the cold floor like a boneless snake.
Mobius's alluring figure, outlined by her long dark green dress, was still trembling unconsciously for some reason, but from the chest up, she could now think and move normally.
Vill-V, who was rehydrating, glanced over and commented on this temporary solution: "Blocking the feedback nerve signals at the spinal nerves to protect our genius brains is indeed a good solution."
But!
"If you had this solution, why didn't you bring it out sooner!"
The evilest Vill-V's eyes were bloodshot, wishing she could tear this fellow genius scientist apart.
If this person had produced this solution earlier, she wouldn't have suffered for so long, and at least her brain could have functioned normally.
Mobius: "I saw you hadn't mentioned it, so I thought you were enjoying it."
You really couldn't blame Mobius for this.
Vill-V's main research areas were Imaginary and mechanics, so she couldn't handle this problem. Her own research focused on biological sciences and Imaginary, making it easy for her to deal with this.
In her mind, Vill-V was, in any case, a genius scientist as smart as herself and should have understood the principle of adapting to circumstances.
If she didn't want to suffer such shameful torment, she would have asked for her help, even if it meant losing face.
But unexpectedly, she just carried on with her tenfold sensitivity and started working, showing no intention of asking for help.
It was hard not to suspect she had some special hobbies.
Vill-V: "…"
She had to admit, Mobius had a point.
Her pride as a genius wouldn't allow her to yield, so naturally, she never considered asking Mobius for help.
Bringing it up now seemed more like looking for trouble.
She decided to change the subject: "Is there any way to get this hateful thing off of us?"
Above the table, the two genius scientists looked composed and sat upright.
Below the table, Mobius's serpentine waist swayed naturally, and Vill-V was no better off.
The contest between the thousand-fold strong and the ten-fold weak was materializing right now.
Mobius sighed. "No. If there was a way, I would have done it long ago. Would I have let that girl Rin get the drop on me?"
She didn't know what was going on.
This shameful Honeysuckle Crest was as hard to get rid of as a maggot in the bone.
Even though that Herrscher of Corruption, Rin, could interfere with this thing, she couldn't do it no matter what, and could only let the power of a thousand-fold strong take effect on her body.
Vill-V was a little disappointed. "It seems the only way to stop this is to find that man."
Tenfold was just the beginning; a thousand-fold didn't seem to be the limit.
Tenfold was still bearable; at worst, she could just rehydrate and be done with it.
If she became a thousand-fold strong like Mobius, then it would truly be out of control. She wouldn't even have the face to step out of her own door.
Mobius's expression changed several times. "I want to try a little harder!"
Before becoming a thousand-fold strong, she could slowly study this thing, perhaps gain some new inspiration from it, and add to her pursuit of the path of [Infinity].
But now, just the unceasingly shaking water cup in her hand was tormenting her. It had reached a point where it had to be dealt with urgently.
Vill-V thought of a feasible solution: "How about we let Aponia try with [Discipline]?"
Mobius: →_→
"You go ahead. I only have one personality. I can't handle the same kind of torment as you."
Aponia, standing to the side, felt the ground was wet, slippery, and sticky, making her feel uncomfortable all over.
In order to leave this uncomfortable place as soon as possible, and also to free her two companions from their torment as quickly as possible.
Aponia made a decision: "Let me go and discuss it with that Herrscher. He is not a very evil existence."
That's right, the Inner World Protagonist wasn't evil, just a bit like Elysia in that he liked the beautiful girls around him and was always ready to pick up his holy sword and storm the palace.
Vill-V and Mobius exchanged a look, seeing a consensus in each other's eyes.
"Alright, you go."
Anyway, Aponia was just sitting here idle. She might as well go find that Inner World Protagonist and make a contribution for them.
Maybe that guy would have a sudden burst of kindness and remove the sensitivity multiplier on them?
Aponia left, but the two genius scientists didn't get up from their chairs to continue working.
"Vill-V, can you still stand up?"
"The ground is a bit slippery, I can't stand up. What about you?"
"I seem to be stuck."
"…"
Damn you, Inner World Protagonist!
…
"Finally… I'm out."
After leaving Mobius's laboratory and walking an unknown distance, Aponia's furiously beating heart finally began to calm down.
Heaven knows how uncomfortable she had been sitting in front of Mobius and Vill-V.
She almost felt as if she were a nun imprisoned in a goblin's nest, and outside the prison were the two of them welcoming the Inner World Protagonist in an a kneeling/prostrating pose emoticon.
It was simply terrifying, and the wet, slippery feeling on the ground only deepened this stereotype.
Escaping from there, Aponia even felt a sense of rebirth.
Stopping in an unknown area, Aponia casually eliminated a few patrolling Honkai Beasts and walked in the complete opposite direction of the Inner World Protagonist.
Mobius and Vill-V had ended up like this, and the female members of the Elysian Realm were falling one by one.
Before completing the task they had given her, she had to at least ensure the children's safety.
Hua was a big girl now and could be ignored; Pardofelis was very lucky and could always find a way out of danger; the most at risk was Griseo, pure, innocent, and very cute.
Aponia sprang into action, searching for Griseo's whereabouts in the Elysian Realm.
As her guardian, the nun knew very well where the little painter would go. It didn't take long for her to find the little painter painting in her church.
"Griseo, why did you come here?"
A kind smile made Griseo feel exceptionally close. The blue-haired girl pattered over on her delicate bare feet and threw herself into Aponia's motherly embrace.
"Mama Aponia~~"
Her clear voice was refreshing, but as Griseo's adoptive mother, Aponia clearly felt something unusual in the girl's tone.
There was nothing wrong with her body, nor did she have the same pink flower patterns as the two genius scientists.
At least… not yet.
Griseo buried her head in Aponia's ample bosom, letting the hand stroke her head, and began to tell her what she had encountered earlier: "I met a big brother, and he told me a story."
"What story?"
At that moment, Aponia saw the future again.
In the depths of the starry sky, a seven-colored light like a rainbow was shining.
Griseo confided, "A long, long time ago, there was a little painter just like me…"
The content had some minor discrepancies, but the overall story was more or less the same.
The ending of the story from Griseo's mouth remained unchanged: the cute little painter was imprisoned by an evil woman from the starry sky and gave birth to seven lovely little babies.
Seven…
And the starry sky and seven colors she had just seen in her vision…
"…"
With the story and the prophecy corroborating each other, it could no longer be considered a coincidence.
Aponia stroked the little girl's head. "Griseo, do you think this story is true?"
"Griseo doesn't know."
Griseo refused to lift her head and face reality.
She had thought that her future self, who carried out Project ARK, would at most be alone in the starry sky, letting Kosma do what he wanted to do.
But she never expected that there would be a bad woman in the depths of the starry sky, who would beat her real-world self to her knees and drag her back to have seven lovely daughters.
"Is that so?"
Aponia's expression was as gentle as ever, but she had already silently made a decision in her heart.
"Griseo, can you paint a picture for Mama?"
"What kind of painting does Mama Aponia want?"
The girl's small face was full of innocence, having been rescued from her earlier predicament by her skilled adoptive mother.
"Just use the colors on Mama's body to paint a work that you want to paint."
"Griseo understands."
The gentle nun sat beside the easel, watching the work, which used the colors from her own body as raw materials, gradually take shape.
In the sacred hall, the holy nun sat in the center with her hands clasped in prayer. On her left and right, two blurred figures raised their cups.
The theme of the painting was full of sanctity and holiness, but the seventh hand lifting the tablecloth and the blackness within instilled a deep sense of unease.
"It's done."
The blue-haired girl was very satisfied with her work.
But the nun had already seen the deep meaning in this painting: "Griseo, Mama will definitely help you rescue that cute little painter. She will definitely have a beautiful ending."
"Really?"
"Really."
The little girl beamed with joy. "Thank you, Mama Aponia."
"Griseo, you are a good child."
Therefore, you should not have an unhappy ending.
The light of righteousness shone on Aponia's face, the light of the Mark of Conquest shone on her leg.
At this moment, she bestowed a sacred meaning upon her upcoming actions.
This was not only for her atonement to Rin, but also to give Griseo, who was carrying out Project ARK, a chance to be saved.
"Griseo, you stay here with Kosma. Mama will be right back."
After comforting her adopted daughter, the holy nun left her domain and walked towards the direction where the Inner World Protagonist was.
Griseo wanted to follow, but was stopped by Kosma.
"Griseo, Aponia doesn't want you to know."
The innocent boy didn't know what price Aponia would pay to save the trapped Griseo, but he believed that Aponia, as a mother, deserved to have her final dignity preserved.
At the very least, Griseo should not know what she paid, so that only the image of a kind mother would remain in Griseo's heart.
"Okay."
The blue-haired girl was very disappointed, but she still followed Kosma's arrangement.
"Kosma, let's go sketching."
"Okay."
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