Chapter 258: Elisa, Don't Look at Me (4K Bonus 78)

The scene turned awkward in an instant.

Unlike the resolute resister, Young Lady Mermaid, the betrayer, Young Lady Starving Dragon, easily accepted Herbert's proposal.

Yes, I didn't see anything!

"... Ah!?"

Young Lady Mermaid froze for a moment upon hearing this, then her eyes suddenly went wide as she stared in disbelief at this traitor who had so casually betrayed the Beipantong Alliance.

Didn't we just agree to be an "unbreakable" alliance for life, and that we'd absolutely never give in easily?

How could you surrender so easily?

"Valentina!? How could you do something like this!"

When faced with her ally's interrogation, Young Lady Starving Dragon made the wisest choice—telling a barefaced lie with her eyes wide open.

"I don't care! I just didn't hear it!"

She stuck to her guns, insisting she hadn't heard a thing!

She shook her head rapidly, muttering: "It doesn't matter if you don't forgive him, as long as I forgive him, that's enough!"

???

At this moment, the aggrieved Fu Leimei was nearly grinding her silver teeth to dust.

How unfair!

You you you... how dare you make me the bad guy?

Do you think you're the only one who wants to forgive him?

I want to too!

Fu Leimei gritted her teeth, squeezing curses out from between them: "You! You... this insidious flying giant lizard!"

But Valentina didn't care at all, immediately retorting: "Hah! Long fish-person, shut up!"

"You... hmph!"

"Ha."

Seeing signs that the "Hmph-Ha Duo" were about to start arguing again, Herbert, who had been at the eye of the storm, smiled slightly and nodded in satisfaction.

He flicked his sleeves, hiding his achievements and fame deep within.

Veteran gamers all know one truth.

When you face two or more enemies alone, a head-on clash is certainly not the wisest choice.

The best option is undoubtedly to divide and conquer!

If you have the conditions to separate the enemies, take them out one by one.

If not, sow discord, let gaps grow between them, and wait for them to tear each other apart before reaping the fisherman's profits.

Now...

They had already been successfully broken from within by him!

The dam had already cracked; now he just needed a little more time to widen the fissure.

Herbert gave a light cough just as the two were squaring off again, drawing both parties to glare at him simultaneously.

"Hmm?" ×2

He couldn't help but laugh at the two perfectly synchronized angry snorts.

"Hehe."

You two are quite in sync in this strange sort of way!

"Ahaha, seeing you two get along so well, umm... I won't disturb you then, ha!"

Feeling the fury of the two, Herbert smiled slightly, placed his hand on a door that had appeared out of thin air beside him, and winked at them.

"You two have fun getting cozy, and try to sort out who's senior and who's junior... ahem, I mean, decide on a little winner."

Who's the elder sister, who's the younger sister—you two can sort it out yourselves.

Herbert had figured it out by now: these two were annoyed with each other, but they really didn't harbor genuine malice.

They didn't even truly dislike each other.

Anyway, you can't kill each other, and neither of you will go for the kill, so just argue away.

"You two play first, I'll go check on the others."

Herbert waved at the two, pushed open the teleportation gate, and revealed the Deep Water Prison beyond the doorway.

"Well, I'll be right back, no need to wait for me."

He spoke at top speed, then took one step forward and escaped the Endless Maze before both parties could grab him at the same time.

"Hey! Stop! You're not allowed to leave—"

"Herbert! You come back here—"

Click.

His trailing foot passed through, the door dissolved, and the voices behind him vanished instantly; Herbert, having escaped a calamity, let out a long breath.

Phew!

Feeling his clothes—half scorching hot, half ice-cold against his back—he couldn't help but laugh.

One more second and I'd have been done for today!

"Haha, that really was thrilling!"

Sure enough, that True Person was right—women below the mountain are all tigers—hmm?

Herbert's brow twitched as a more reasonable "hypothesis" suddenly occurred to him.

Wait, does this saying mean that women below the mountain are actually tiger-girls among the monster girls?

Oh, no, it should be tiger yao.

No matter how you put it, Master is also one of us who likes monster girls!

If you think about it that way…

"Though the mountain has a tiger, one still goes toward the tiger's mountain!" seems to have a new interpretation.

Heard there's a tiger girl on the mountain, but insists on going to find her.

And that heavyweight one—"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub."

This one, uh, ah, um.

As for the tiger's den…just hearing it sounds dangerous.

Forget it, forget it, let's not talk about it.

Mm.

The Chinese language, vast and profound indeed.

Keep learning, learning has no end!

"Alright, let Valentina and the other one have a nice little 'exchange' for a while first. I'll use this time to go find some other little sisters~"

Now then, the question arises.

Which lucky monster girl should he look for?

Herbert first stayed in the Deep Water Prison for a while, then continued walking toward even deeper areas.

"Good, coffin-mimic mimicry, I choose you."

It just so happens that last time I forgot about her, so this time I'll make it up to her.

But how does one get to the Lightless Prison?

Take the old route through the barrier?

Walking there directly is fine, it's just that compared to the teleportation gate the speed is a bit slow, and Swivney would notice.

He wasn't in a hurry to see Swivney yet, wanting to continue tempering her temperament a bit more.

So the optimal choice is, same as before, using the teleportation gate to teleport directly in front of Elisa.

But using the teleportation gate has another unavoidable problem.

Need to return to the Endless Maze, this transit area—and doing so would inevitably run into those two dangerous monster girls again.

They were already furious after letting Herbert escape, and now if Herbert went back to taunt them, it would be purely flirting with death over and over.

That scene, wow!

Really just thinking about it feels thrilling.

Herbert hesitated for a moment, then couldn't help the corners of his mouth curl up.

He hadn't thought this idea was that great, but now thinking about it like this—isn't this just very interesting?

Going all-out reckless in a place where you definitely won't die, both safe and thrilling.

Isn't that delightful?

"Good! If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub! Go for it!"

Herbert took a deep breath, then pushed open the teleportation gate, returning to a corner of the Endless Maze.

After returning to the Endless Maze, he didn't pause for a moment, immediately opened the second teleportation gate, and dove right in.

Click-clack, click!

All his movements flowed like clouds and water, silky to the extreme, taking no more than half a second in total.

And within five seconds of Herbert's figure disappearing, a shout suddenly came from the distance.

"…Hm? He's back! Over there!"

"Chase!"

Another five seconds passed, and two figures came charging in furiously.

Boom!

The two monster girls who should have been attacking each other made a joint appearance, arriving together to strike!

Unfortunately Herbert had already escaped, and they could only come up empty.

"Tch, he got away again!"

"Hmph!"

Valentina and Fu Leimei let Herbert slip away once more, both looking a bit unhappy.

Mm, quite displeased.

We're really about to get angry now!

"…Hmph."

"…Ha."

The two turned their heads, silently exchanged a glance, then each turned away with a pout.

At this moment, the same sentence naturally surfaced in both their hearts—

It's all your fault!

……

……

Lightless Prison.

Having landed perfectly, Herbert gave a slight smile toward the other side of the door, and raised his eyebrows smugly.

"Good, successfully escaped once more!"

What legendary dragon? What legendary sea siren?

Nothing more than this.

None of them are my match.

Good little sisters, you still need to train~

After preening over his own escape ability for a while, Herbert withdrew his gaze and looked around at his surroundings once more.

This time he had deliberately set up the teleportation gate outside the black iron coffin, his aim being to avoid being intercepted halfway by Svani and coming straight over to harass Eliza.

"Look who's back?"

He turned around and greeted her warmly, already prepared to compensate her properly with one bout of major bleeding (the physical kind).

But, after clearly seeing her current state, his expression turned strange.

"Hey! Eliza, be happy! The first person I came back to see is... you? Huh?"

Herbert fell silent.

He stared blankly at the skirt hem wedged in the middle of the coffin lid, sticking up high, and blinked in bewilderment.

Hi!

Oh, it's a butt — I thought it was a sea anemone!

... But a butt isn't right either!?

"Why is it a butt?"

Herbert pondered what the scene before him actually meant, several thoughts flashing through his mind.

Hypothesis one: The mimic chest has evolved to the mimicry stage and learned to use a human-shaped lure to capture more prey.

Hypothesis two: Eliza is playing a game of "Step Brothers, I'm Stark!" preparing to seduce the model Holy Knight, the Warden Herbert.

Hypothesis three: Eliza is engaging in some unique PLAY, the mysteries of which outsiders cannot fathom.

Hypothesis four: This Bai Chi vampire had an accident during one of her escape attempts, then "accidentally" got her body ruthlessly stuck by the coffin on the way back, ending up in this awkward halfway-neither-up-nor-down position.

"..."

Herbert thought it over, then decisively ruled out the fourth hypothesis.

I've heard this one before!

What "I just happened to sit on it," what "I put an eel in to clear the drain and it crawled up while I was on the toilet," what "friends were just messing around and stuffed it in"...

You cunning devils, stop making excuses!

How could there be such coincidences in this world? So many accidents?

It's not a coincidence.

It's not an accident.

There's only one truth — you did it on purpose!

Although one option had been eliminated, the remaining three hypotheses couldn't be sorted out.

But no matter which one, it didn't seem to make much difference.

Oh no.

Eliza came for me.

"This girl is going this far for holy blood? She's even ready to sell her looks."

This...

Wanting to eat that badly? Is it really that addictive?

Just as Herbert was thinking, his eyelid suddenly twitched and his expression turned subtle.

Because, just now, he noticed that the seemingly still body had suddenly begun to tremble lightly.

Clack, clack, clack...

The massive black iron coffin trembled lightly along with her body, letting out soft clacking sounds.

And the frequency of the trembling grew greater and greater, more and more violent.

"Hiss... what's going on here?"

The vampire stuck in the coffin seemed immersed in One's Own World, not noticing that Herbert had quietly arrived.

Her eyes were closed, her lips tightly bitten, and only a few extremely low sounds leaked out from her tightly shut mouth.

"Mm! Ah! Mm—"

A moment later, after the vampire's body's trembling reached its peak.

Clack! Clack! Clack!

Just as Herbert was guessing whether Eliza was going to break free from the coffin by this special method, her body abruptly and without warning jerked to a halt.

Everything returned to calm.

All the trembling vanished.

Then, the taut body relaxed, the straightened legs dangled limply to the ground, and the entire vampire went limp and collapsed softly.

Herbert:

At this moment, looking at this scene, the white-haired youth seemed to have suddenly realized something.

This image, I think I've already seen it in some indescribable places.

He quietly twitched his nose, the corner of his mouth twitching.

Hey, are you okay?

He specifically took a look, confirming that Eliza's hands were also firmly stuck inside the coffin... how did she do it?

So, she reached the peak purely through imagination?

Eliza, why have such a good imagination?

And use it all for this?

Eliza's image in Herbert's heart became extraordinarily grand.

What a strange woman.

After hesitating for a moment, the corner of Herbert's mouth suddenly curled upward.

He felt that if he startled her right now, it would be quite amusing!

The moment this thought surfaced in his mind, his body had already moved on its own.

While the vampire was savoring the aftertaste, he—this fellow who shouldn't have been here at all—suddenly spoke up.

"Ahem… um, Miss Eliza? Are you alright?"

"You look sick. Would you like me to examine you?"

The instant Herbert's teasing words left his mouth, a tremendous thud rang out from beneath the coffin.

Thud!!!

That crisp sound was as if someone had fiercely punched the coffin lid—presumably a fist, right? Surely no one would use their head to knock, right?

"Who!?"

The coffin mimic grew extremely agitated and panicked.

"Who's there… wait! Herbert!"

Eliza was first terrified, then relieved after catching the scent, and then panicked again once she realized.

The young lady vampire's emotions changed three times in a single second, leaving Herbert clicking his tongue in wonder.

Truly amusing.

"You saw just now!?"

Eliza couldn't see behind her, didn't know what posture Herbert was in at this moment, didn't know his reaction.

He saw?

No, when did he get here?

He…

The more she thought about these things, the more her heart was in turmoil, and the more she felt a strange, thrilling sensation.

Not good!

Eliza's body jolted, and she shouted in agitation: "Y-you you you, go away! Go away right now!"

After realizing something was wrong, she could only cry out weakly:

"Go, don't look at me! Don't look at me—"

While frantically shouting, under the intense stimulation, Eliza's body actually began trembling again.

Click, click, click…

Accompanied by her body reaching its limit, Eliza's mind collapsed under the intense stimulation.

Click!

Her taut legs suddenly kicked out, and the entire vampire once again went limp.

She, a mighty legendary vampire, a powerful being capable of fighting dragons…

At this moment, fell into a slumber like an infant.

(End of Chapter)