Chapter 269

Sampo: "Of course!"

Sampo: "Old Sampo here is an upright gentleman!"

Sampo: "I don't do things like cheating and swindling."

Stelle: "Laugh to death, if Sampo doesn't cheat or swindle, pigs will fly starships!"

Sparkle: "Mm-hmm, I agree with Little Grey-hair!"

Sampo: "Sister, there's a problem with what you said."

Sampo: "Everything I, Old Sampo, do is a deal based on mutual consent, how can you say I'm cheating and swindling?"

Stelle: "You know it in your heart!"

The video continues.

【Wait, why is there a pangolin in her bedroom?】

Stelle listens to this doll's words,

And asks with a frown.

【Oh, how shameful!】

【Didn't Uncle Parker teach you well when you were a child?】

【You have to ask the right questions at the right time!】

【I know why you came!】

【You took a bribe from that guy, that hypocritical and corrupt leader of the Sparkle Gang, the scum who wants to sit in the mayor's seat of Sparkle City—Brother Sparkle!】

【This evil city has fallen!】

【As a Sheriff Doll, I cannot sit idly by, and now only this Imaginary Neutron Bomb can completely purge you all and give this Sparkle City a reshuffle!】

【If you want to defeat me, then you have to face Sparkle-sama's dogs—they are my loyal partners, you can't beat them!】

Furina: "Uh... it's really abstract!"

Miss Qingque: "I'm saying, this is too crazy, right?"

Miss Qingque: "To be a Fool, is such a mental state required?"

Miss Qingque: "Then the threshold is high enough, right?"

Stelle: "I think I can reach the threshold."

March 7th: "Ahem... that's true."

March 7th: "After all, you can chat enthusiastically with these dolls."

Sampo: "Everyone, don't misunderstand, not all Fools can have a mental state as outstanding as Sparkle's."

Sampo: "She is the Fool among Fools, an outstanding one!"

Sparkle: "Oh my, Sampo, you finally said something Sparkle-sama loves to hear~"

Mualani: "So... will Miss Stelle be bitten by Sparkle-sama's dogs next?"

Hu Tao: "Should... not, right?"

The video continues.

After this Sparkle doll finishes speaking,

A few Dreamjolt Troupe Gas Dogs actually jump out from somewhere!

They look at Stelle,

And start biting without a word.

But they are taken out by Stelle, who pulls out her baseball bat,

And knocks them all down in a few moves.

【I was actually defeated by Brother Sparkle's hateful minions...】

【But you will never succeed—because I am just a cute-looking doll, not an Imaginary Neutron Bomb at all!】

Stelle: "Holy crap!"

Stelle: "Sparkle's dogs really jumped out to bite me!"

Stelle: "Fortunately, I was more skilled and knocked them all down."

Stelle: "Really scary!"

March 7th: "There's actually a doll with dog bodyguards."

March 7th: "This is just as rare as that doll that couldn't talk before!"

Sparkle: "Heh heh, congratulations, Little Grey-hair, you wasted some time here again!"

Hu Tao: "I don't think it matters much, right?"

Hu Tao: "You said ten minutes before, but this has long passed ten minutes."

Sparkle: "The final interpretation right of ten minutes belongs entirely to Sparkle-sama~"

Sparkle: "Sparkle-sama says it hasn't exceeded ten minutes, then it hasn't!"

The video continues.

This doll is undoubtedly not a bomb either.

After shouting a few words of unwillingness,

It goes silent.

Stelle doesn't pay much attention to it,

And continues to walk towards the real coordinates of the bomb.

But after walking for a while,

She meets another doll.

【Welcome to the Radiant Feldspar, honorable lady!】

【I am a dangerous bomb, and also an outlaw who despises public order and good customs.】

【I wish you a wonderful day here.】

This Sparkle doll is called the Outlaw Doll.

【You look and sound not very dangerous.】

Stelle thinks this doll has a bit of high quality.

【Really? Damn it, if you don't feel excited enough now, I don't mind showing you what true danger and madness are.】

Boothill: "Damn it!"

Boothill: "How did this Outlaw Doll learn my catchphrase?"

Boothill: "What does it mean?"

Stelle: "Calm down, it should be because it thinks you speak with quality."

Stelle: "So it imitated you."

Boothill: "Wubbaboo's, judged as a clumsy imitation!"

March 7th: "This crazy doll is going to show true danger and madness!"

March 7th: "It won't suddenly explode, right?"

Paimon: "But... the bomb at the coordinates isn't it either?"

Lumine: "I feel like at most it's the same as the doll just now, calling people out to beat up Miss Stelle."

Lumine: "It's useless."

The video continues.

【To tell you the truth, the reason I became an outlaw isn't because I'm a damn bomb, but because I've mastered a damn ancient, crazy, and profane spell that is intolerable to humanity.】

【Do you want to experience it?】

【I can recite it to you, but Sparkle-sama is not responsible for any consequences.】

Mona: "Oh?"

Mona: "Could it be that this doll has mastered some unspeakable forbidden spell?!"

Mona: "This is dangerous!"

Miss Qingque: "Forbidden spell??"

Miss Qingque: "Is there really such a thing?"

Nahida: "There are indeed some forbidden spells on the Teyvat continent."

Nahida: "Triggering a forbidden spell often leads to very bad things."

Nahida: "But as for other parts of the universe, I don't know."

Stelle: "Could it be that the bomb is just a smokescreen?"

Stelle: "The forbidden spell is the real weapon of mass destruction?!"

March 7th: "What kind of spell is it that, once uttered, the whole world will be swallowed by darkness..."

March 7th: "Ugh, it's just like in the movies, it's scary just thinking about it!"

Sparkle: "???"

Sparkle: "The things you're imagining actually exceed the brain circuits of Lady Sparkle!"

Miss Qingque: "Everyone, calm down!"

Miss Qingque: "I think the spell this doll is talking about is definitely not what you all think."

Miss Qingque: "Let's just listen to what kind of high-and-mighty spell it's actually going to say."

The video continues.

【Speak up, let me test your mettle!】

Stelle crosses her arms,

signaling for the doll to go ahead and speak.

She isn't afraid!

【Heh, baby, you're way crazier than me.】

【Let me brew, let me brew...】

【... he ritual is ready.】

【Prick up your ears and listen carefully to that most ancient, most primitive shudder that humans have engraved in their genes—】

【Spark-ska, Fire-ska, little Sparkle—!】

【Spark-ska, Fire-ska, lit-tle~ Spar-kle~!】

Stelle: "..."

Stelle: "Ahhh, what did I just hear?!"

Stelle: "What a terrifying spell!!"

March 7th: "Pfft, hahaha!!"

March 7th: "That's the spell??"

March 7th: "Oh my god, are you trying to laugh this lady to death?"

Paimon: "Spark-ska, Fire-ska, lit-tle~ Spar-kle~!"

Paimon: "Heehee, that's so fun to say!"

Lumine: "I knew Miss Sparkle's doll wouldn't do anything ordinary."

Lumine: "I really don't know how she came up with this abstract, cute, and catchy spell."

Sparkle: "Does that even need thinking?"

Sparkle: "Wouldn't it be fine just to modify Clockie's lines a bit?"

Stelle: "Oh, this is shameless plagiarism!"

Stelle: "Strongly condemn! (Funny. pg)"

The video continues.

After hearing the doll's spell, Stelle

is speechless for a moment, then silently walks away.

Not long after walking, she encounters a blue flame.

【Hello, human.】

【We meet again. I really didn't expect to see you here.】

【I'm currently on this luxury cruise ship, tasting the sugar-coated bullets of Penacony's consumerism.】

【How about you? Are you here for sightseeing?】

Furina: "Huh?"

Furina: "A ball of fire that can talk?"

Paimon: "No!"

Paimon: "It's a ball of blue fire that can talk!"

Paimon: "Ah! I know!"

Paimon: "This is ghost fire!!"

Hu Tao: "What ghost fire?"

Hu Tao: "Paimon means will-o'-the-wisps, right?"

Hu Tao: "But will-o'-the-wisps aren't this intelligent; they can't talk."

March 7th: "This thing looks quite familiar."

March 7th: "It's a Heliobus, right??"

Huohuo: "If... if I'm not mistaken, it is indeed a Heliobus."

Stelle: "Good grief, aren't Heliobuses gathered on the Luofu Xianzhou?"

Stelle: "How did it run all the way to Penacony?"

Lumine: "What exactly is a Heliobus?"

Dan Heng: "A strange energy-based lifeform."

Dan Heng: "It has the ability to absorb people's emotional memories to use as nourishment."

Mualani: "That sounds like a very complicated fire!"

Mualani: "But just this little flame, is it really that powerful?"

Stelle: "Don't look at its small size; the scariest thing about this is that it can possess you!"

Stelle: "If you're not careful and let it possess you, you're done for!"

Paimon: "Pos... possess?!"

Paimon: "Ooh, that's so scary!"

Paimon: "Much scarier than ghost fire!"

Mualani: "Then why is Miss Stelle chatting with such a dangerous thing?"

Stelle: "I'm not afraid, I'm a Stellaron vessel!"

Stelle: "And not all Heliobuses like to possess people."

Mualani: "Oh, got it, got it!"

Mualani: "Just like not all fin-swimmers bite, there are good Heliobuses too!"

The video continues.

【You remind me of an old friend.】

Stelle looks at the blue flame,

recognizes it as a Heliobus, and feels a bit sentimental.

【Old friend? No, I am not human.】

【I am a Heliobus, originally living in the Garden of Serenity on the Luofu.】

【I was keen on researching Luofu Xianzhou subculture, but gradually, I discovered that Luofu Xianzhou subculture also has its limits.】

【Skipping the beginning and the middle, in short, I eventually came to Penacony.】

【I wanted to study subculture completely different from the Luofu Xianzhou, and the result really made my jaw drop—if I had a jaw.】

【I discovered that people here don't treat subculture as culture.】

【They call it a mem... mem...】

The Heliobus struggles for a long time, unable to remember what it's called.

【A charming villain?】

Stelle mutters hesitantly.

【It's a meme, yes, that's it.】

【They even have physical forms. I became good friends with one of the sharp-toothed, clawed meme lifeforms.】

【It was very interested in Luofu Xianzhou Vidyadhara culture, so I gave it a Luofu Xianzhou name, and it was very happy.】