Chapter 50: Topaz Pressures Stelle, Everyone Gets Angry!!

In the video.

Stelle was walking down the corridor,

and soon followed the directions, arriving at the door of her room.

【Stelle: Strange... why is my room door open? Huh, is he...?】

Stelle walked to the doorway,

only to find the door of her room

standing wide open.

And when she walked in, puzzled,

she found that inside her room

stood a familiar figure—

that figure was Topaz!

【Topaz: What a coincidence, we meet again.】

Topaz sensed the newcomer's movement

and turned around to offer a greeting.

【Stelle: We meet again, friend!】

One doesn't strike a smiling face—

because she had received Topaz's credits,

Stelle very warmly called Topaz a friend.

【Topaz: That's right, friend!】

【Don't be nervous, I just came to soak up some good fortune. It's your room now, but half a system hour ago—it was still mine.】

【A lucky building number, a lucky floor, a lucky room number—I went to great lengths to book such a treasure spot... It's yours now, take good care of it, friend.】

Topaz smiled and explained why he was here.

【Stelle: You gave up this room for me?】

Stelle was a little surprised by Topaz's words.

【Topaz: What else could it be? You think the Family just handed it over for free?】

【This Penacony is the genuine article of a Land of Dreams. Across the entire galaxy, how many people would spend half their lives just to get one ticket to the Dreamscape Hotel?】

【Think carefully about what sort of figures get to stay here. If I hadn't schemed and planned, would the Family dare offend those big-name celebrities just to open a back door for you, this 'uninvited guest'?】

【So sit down and let's chat—fair or not, I have that right, don't I?】

Topaz gradually revealed his true colors, hitting Stelle with a moral high-ground bind right off the bat, leaving her utterly speechless.

Stelle: "Good lord, Topaz, you're trying to gaslight me?"

Stelle: "I never asked you to give up the room, so what gives you the right to morally blackmail me!"

Stelle: "If you hadn't taken it upon yourself to give me this room, I'd have already taken over Brother Dan Heng's room!! (furious. jpg!)"

Seeing Topaz pressuring Stelle in the video, she immediately got fired up!

Furina: "Yay, the villain's done pretending now, about to show his sinister true colors!"

Xiangling: "Mr. Topaz, how are you going to argue against this?"

Himeko: "Mr. Topaz, whatever schemes you have against Stelle, the Trailblazers cannot agree to it!"

Lumine: "Yeah, we won't agree!!"

Paimon: "Quack quack, won't agree!"

Topaz: "....."

Looking at this scene, Topaz felt utterly unable to defend himself.

Boothill: "Heh, the company's trash are as hypocritical as ever."

Topaz: "Friend, I don't have any grudge with you, do I?"

Boothill: "Holy crap, I've got a beef with the company—anything from the company rubs me the wrong way!"

Boothill: "What? You got a problem with that?"

Topaz: "....."

In the video.

【Stelle: You should go find Sister Himeko, or Mr. Welt to talk to.】

Stelle shook her head, feeling she had nothing to discuss with Topaz.

She wasn't a strategist, nor an old-timer of the Trailblazers—

negotiating was not her job.

【Topaz: Wrong, the person I need to find is you.】

【Simply put, friend, I need your help. You may not know this yet, but Penacony is far from as simple as it looks. The Family's eyes are everywhere here—I don't want to spell it out, you understand.】

【My goal is simple: help the company take back something that belongs to it. If you're willing to help me, once it's done, you'll receive a generous reward, and the protection of 'Preservation.'】

Topaz's words were startling, giving Stelle quite a fright.

He was actually plotting against the Family—this was something Stelle hadn't anticipated.

【Topaz: After all, you're different from the others. You're special—special enough to flip the entire table. That 'power'—don't you want to use it? Or... don't you want to break free of it? Don't you want to use it to make a name across the universe?】

【That power everyone fears yet craves is right there in the grip of your hands...】

【... Miss 'Stellaron,' am I right?】

Seeing Stelle somewhat lost in thought, Topaz pressed his advantage step by step—temptation and threats alike.

After such a two-pronged approach, Stelle's composure wavered just slightly.

Brother Dan Heng: "No wonder you're among the IPC's upper echelons—you even know such secrets."

Brother Dan Heng: "But you shouldn't harbor ill thoughts toward her... Mr. Sandgold!!"

March 7th: "That's right, you scoundrel, don't you dare lay a hand on Stelle!"

Pam: "Pam can't stand by and watch her own passengers be bullied!"

Pam: "If you truly do anything to her, Pam will call in some long-kept favors to demand an explanation from the company!"