The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

The ultimate turning point in Unit 03's life was undoubtedly Twilight Street and the subsequent Herrscher of Death incident, bar none.

Compared with this, whether it was being defeated by Kevin before or being stabbed to death by the Herrscher of Sentience and becoming a Artificial Herrscher later were all minor matters.

From the most dazzling hero to a helpless burden, she began her long life of bearing the burden, until she was completely crushed.

Because this matter was relatively complicated, everyone present knew about it, but most of them didn't know the whole situation…

Would there be a fight later? After all, Elysia had set a ban—but what if she herself wanted to fight? It's not easy to punish a permission dog(Elysia)…

No one knew what Lihua was thinking, they were just paying attention to Lee's experience on the screen. Even Pardofelis showed a smile and happily raised her tail: "Hehe, this is when I met Sister Lee, she picked me up…"

"Pardo, we usually call this situation stealing…" Looking at Pardofelis, who was crying and being carried back to Aponia's sanatorium by Lee on the screen, Eden sighed and silently pointed out the error in Pardofelis's wording.

"St-Stray cats can't be said to be stolen!" Pardofelis blushed, "It's just picking up! Sister Lee saw how cute I was and wanted to take me home…"

Looking at Pardofelis, who was still firmly deceiving herself, Eden could only let her be, after all, the poor child only had this fantasy…

The story of Twilight Street was unexpectedly relaxed. Lee only needed to play and tell stories with the children, and occasionally dismantle a few bases of bad guys outside.

And the people in the sanatorium, whether it was Kalpas or Aponia and Pardo, were obviously not the high-level officials of Fire Moth HQ who made things difficult for Lee—until Lee discovered the large number of Honkai patients in the basement.

Lee's first reaction was to immediately deal with all the Honkai patients, but Aponia's words made her freeze in place.

'Do these people deserve to die?'

Looking at herself on the screen saying these words with compassion, Aponia's heart was only tormented at this moment.

No one in this world deserved to die, this was something she still firmly believed in—but, she wished she had never said it out loud.

She was too young and selfish at that time. Her mind was full of her own seemingly compassionate stupidity, and she didn't know what it meant to make a decision that she couldn't bear the consequences of… and she didn't know that the words she said to others would completely push a person into a future without light.

If she hadn't said it, if Lee had never seen her from the beginning, she might have had a happy ending.

But Aponia could only regret, and now even if she wanted to change her past choices, it was impossible.

Lee finally didn't kill those Honkai patients on the spot, but just silently returned to her room alone, holding her phone and looking through the contacts helplessly, trying to find someone who could help her solve the current situation.

[Aponia is too much of a holy mother, she can't even be responsible for her choices and still insists on making them, it's outrageous]

[Is this the first time Lee wants to find someone else for help?]

[After all, she could solve problems with her own fists before, but now this problem can't be solved]

[Hurry up and kill, kill, kill, kill the minority to save the majority, become a Honkai version of Kiritsugu]

[I'd say Lee is just too concerned about face, why should she care if it's troublesome for MEI, just ask them for medicine! Anyway, it's a big deal for Aponia to gather so many Honkai patients, it should be solved by these leaders]

[After all, if the higher-ups found out, with MEI's personality, she would probably really kill all these patients…]

[But as everyone knows, if a gun appears in a scene, it will definitely go off. Similarly, Lee's special constitution can't just appear once…]

[When Lee saw Su's contact in the address book, her eyes lit up, recalling that she had successfully saved Su with her blood during the Third Herrscher incident.]

[??? Wait, why do I smell the scent of knives(bad thing)?]

[Big sister, you can't have this constitution!]

[Bad news: It's the apocalypse--Good news: There is a cure for the apocalypse virus--Even worse news: The cure is your blood]

[If Lihua's situation is exposed, she might be drained dry.]

Not only the players' bullet comments, but even the eyes of everyone in the Elysian Realm had gathered on Su and Aponia at this moment.

It's just that the gazes at this moment were definitely not friendly—probably to the extent that if Elysia hadn't set a ban, the two would have respawned at the Elysian Realm resurrection point five or six times.

"Sister Nia, you, why did you manage so many people!" Pardofelis was a little anxious. "Those people all have Honkai sickness, if you can't save them and gather them together…!"

"Aponia… You really talk too much." Kosma's arm was trembling. If it weren't for the lack of tools, it should have long turned into the claws of a demon and ripped off the other party's head.

"It's not a good thing to say whatever comes to mind, Aponia." Subconsciously, Elysia remembered Lee, who was pale and covered in needle holes.

If she hadn't heard such words back then, if she had been more selfish… Would the whole story have been different?

"To demand others to do things that you can't even do yourself, even if it's from a moral standpoint, this behavior is absolutely not worthy of praise." Eden closed her eyes, trying to calm her mood.

"Aunt Aponia, bad…" Even Griseo rarely showed an angry expression at this moment.

Facing these accusations, Aponia couldn't say anything, she could only lower her head silently—after all, she had nothing to defend herself with, even she herself had been regretting her decision back then for thousands of years.

If she hadn't said those words to Lee, if she hadn't let her bleed to save people, if she had directly stopped her final self-sacrificing plan at that time…

"Um, I don't think everyone should condemn Miss Aponia too much…" Lihua said with difficulty. "Although I'm not as familiar with Miss Lee as you are, from this video, she should be a very opinionated person, right? If she didn't agree with Miss Aponia, I don't think Miss Lee would be so easily swayed by a few words… Maybe she actually had such thoughts herself."

Since her main body's task now was to act as a substitute to attract firepower, she had to be more like her.

But Lihua was worried about going too directly, so she still beat around the bush a little… After all, being a substitute was one thing, but if these lunatics calmed down after the kebab, she could still slip away—but if she was identified as Unit 03, she would be finished!

Everyone around knew what Lihua said, but they couldn't use such a reason to persuade themselves to give up their anger—but when they saw that face say such words, everything suddenly became so convincing.

After all, if Lee was still here, she would probably say something like this to exonerate Aponia…

No one responded to Lihua, but they silently looked away.

Kalpas was the only one who didn't focus on Aponia, after all, he already knew about the stupid thing the other party did. His gaze was coldly staring at Su.

"You also drank her blood."

"…Yeah."

"Then you don't deserve to live."

Kalpas had not forgotten how this person suspected her during the Herrscher of Dominance, locked her in the deepest place, and had to face the Herrscher alone in a situation where even breathing was difficult!

He previously thought that this person just had some friendship with that stupid woman… But if even the blood and flesh he survived on came from Lee, what qualifications did he have not to stand on Lee's side?!

"…Yeah." To all this, Su could only silently admit.

Having done something wrong, even the most eloquent wise man could not raise his head in front of a straightforward rough man.