"I was killed by the serial killer?"
Fu Zhu was completely stunned. Wasn't he the serial killer?
What was this? Did I kill myself?
No, Fu Zhu imdiately realized. There was only one person who could pull off sothing this absurd: Sparkle.
He had borrowed her identity, and she knew the entirety of his plan. Only she had the ability to pull this off.
"Alright, I get it. Give your location, I'm coming to find you now."
Since he had already figured out who the culprit was, Fu Zhu certainly wasn't going to let her get away with it. Pranking him? Sparkle had better prepare for her butt to be turned into a blooming flower.
"Okay, big bro..."
Xing was typing, but as she did, she seed to notice Firefly peering into the video call from the edge of the screen. Xing blinked, then pointed at the Firefly in the video with a look of disbelief. "Big bro, the pretty girl standing next to you, could she be..."
Before Xing could finish, Fu Zhu had already received the location she sent and hung up the call directly.
Xing stared at the dark screen of her phone. Her own reflection in the sleek, black surface blinked back at her, just as bewildered.
"How is my new best friend with my big brother?"
The shock of seeing Firefly with Fu Zhu again was in no way less than the shock she'd felt when she first discovered March 7th had a crush on her big brother.
Sothing was very, very wrong here!
---o---
A dozen or so minutes later, Fu Zhu, along with Firefly and Acheron, found Xing's group beneath the statue of the Clockie. Before Fu Zhu had even gotten close, Xing was already waving at him excitedly from a distance.
"Big bro, over here!"
Fu Zhu led his group over. As the two parties converged, they all looked at the newcors in the other's team.
Fu Zhu's gaze fell on a mature woman in a purple turban standing next to Hiko, while Hiko and the others' eyes landed on Firefly and Acheron, who were with Fu Zhu.
Fu Zhu was the first to speak, asking Hiko's group about the mysterious woman in the turban. Although he had already learned her na and faction from his minimap, the reason she was with them was still a mystery.
[Garden of Recollection - Black Swan]
"Hiko, who is this lady with you?"
Black Swan took a proactive step forward. However, her movent was less like walking and more like... floating.
"Black Swan, a mokeeper from the Garden of Recollection. I wish to cooperate with the Astral Express, so I am temporarily traveling with Ms. Hiko. Of course, Ms. Hiko has not yet given her reply."
Fu Zhu nodded understandingly. As long as she wasn't so unknown person with a mysterious identity, it was fine. He then turned his head to look at Firefly and Acheron beside him, his gaze lingering on Firefly.
Although Acheron being an Envoy of Nihility was more shocking, she was ultimately just a passerby with little connection to the group. Firefly, on the other hand, was different. She was a Stellaron Hunter, the Astral Express's "mortal enemy."
"You tell them yourself. I don't want to hide things from my companions."
At first, Xing was just happy to see her big brother reunited with his real self, Firefly. She was about to greet him when she heard Fu Zhu say this. She imdiately sensed that things were not as simple as they seed.
Hiko and the others also realized that Firefly's identity was likely not what it seed, and they all turned their focus onto her.
Firefly looked at the gazes of the group, her expression hesitant. After a long, conflicted mont, she finally worked up the courage to speak. "My na is Firefly. I am also... Sam, of the Stellaron Hunters. I'm sorry for hiding it from you before."
The second half of her sentence was directed at Xing.
Firefly thought that after revealing her true identity, the group would show so hostility towards her. But in reality, Hiko and the others just nodded with understanding, and that was it. They didn't even say a few words of questioning.
The contrast left Firefly a bit surprised. She couldn't help but ask, "Don't you have anything to say? I'm a Stellaron Hunter... in a sense, I'm an enemy of the Express."
Welt calmly spread his hands. "That is true. But an enemy is not always an enemy. What's more, the one who brought you here is Fu Zhu, and we don't see any restraints on you. That is enough to prove my point."
Xing also crossed her arms, grinning with her teeth showing. "My big bro trusts you, and I trust my big bro. That ans I trust you too!"
March 7th also nodded in agreent from the side, but when she looked at Firefly, her words carried a hint of jealousy.
"Be that as it may, why do you always bring back pretty girls, Fu Zhu?"
Fu Zhu didn't know how to respond to March 7th's question. He could only let out a dry cough and shift everyone's attention to Acheron.
"And there's this one. Acheron, will you introduce yourself, or should I do it for you?"
Acheron spoke up, "You can call Acheron, a Galaxy Ranger. I am traveling with Mr. Fu Zhu due to so coincidences."
Just as Acheron was introducing her fake identity, she secretly sent a ssage to Fu Zhu.
"Mr. Fu Zhu, please help maintain this identity as a Galaxy Ranger for the ti being. I need to et the real Galaxy Rangers to hand sothing over to them, so I must impersonate them to get their attention."
Fine. Since Acheron had asked so politely, Fu Zhu agreed.
Just as everyone had finished their self-introductions, a television with two arms and two legs suddenly walked over from the side. Its screen displayed a chibi-style avatar of Sparkle.
"Hehe, so sorry to interrupt your chat But the great Sparkle has so bad news to tell you"
Fu Zhu and the others imdiately focused their attention on the television. The chibi-style Sparkle on the screen seed to co to life, her eyes swiveling to land on Fu Zhu.
"Hehe, to the mbers of the Express, your progress is currently the slowest If you don't speed things up, be careful that soone else gets the legacy. When that happens, don't co crying to the great Sparkle for not warning you"
Fu Zhu crossed his arms, narrowing his eyes at the Sparkle on the television. "What are you trying to do?"
Sparkle humd, her eyes fixed on Fu Zhu. "The great Sparkle just wants to prove that even without a certain soone, she can still put on an interesting performance!"
"Do you want to know the truth of everything? Then go find it! The great Sparkle has hidden everything in this moria bubble!"
A moria bubble suddenly erged from the television and hovered in front of the group. The television then let out a burst of sparks and declared itself broken.
"If~ you're not afraid of dying, then co find the great Sparkle!"
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