Chapter 609

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

Nahida: "But as for other parts of the universe, I have no idea."

Stelle: "Could the bomb just be a decoy?"

Stelle: "Is the forbidden spell the real weapon?!"

March 7th: "What kind of spell, when spoken, would swallow the entire world in darkness.."

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

Hu Tao: "???"

Hu Tao: "The things you're imagining have surpassed Hu Tao's own thought process!"

Miss Qingque: "Everyone, calm down!"

Miss Qingque: "I believe the spell this doll speaks is not at all what you imagine."

Miss Qingque: "Let's hear what this so-called grand spell it actually wants to say."

The video continues.

【Speak! Let me test your mettle!】

Stelle crossed her arms,

signaling the doll to go ahead.

She wasn't afraid!

【Hah, darling, you're far more bold than I am.】

【Let me gather my thoughts.....】

【..... The ritual is ready.】

【Listen closely, and hear the most ancient, most primal trembling etched into human genes—】

【Haska, Haska, little Hua Huo—!】

【Haska, Haska, liiittle Huaa Huuoo~!】

Stelle: "....."

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

Stelle: "What a terrifying spell!!"

March 7th: "Pfft hahaha!!"

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

March 7th: "Are you trying to laugh me to death?!"

Paimon: "Haska, Haska, liiittle Huaa Huuoo~!"

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

Xiao: "I knew Hu Tao's doll would never take the usual path."

Xiao: "This abstract, adorable, and catchy spell—how did she even come up with it?"

Hu Tao: "Does it even need thinking?"

Hu Tao: "Just tweak the Clock Boy's lines a bit, isn't that enough?"

Stelle: "Oh come on, this is outright plagiarism!"

Stelle: "Strongly condemn it! (laughing. jpg)"

The video continues.

After hearing the doll's spell,

Stelle fell silent for a moment, then walked away quietly.

Not long after, she encountered a blue flame.

【Hello, human.】

【We meet again—I never expected to see you here.】

【I'm aboard this luxury cruise, savoring the sugar-coated bullets of Penacony's consumerism.】

【And you? Are you here for sightseeing?】

Furina: "Huh?"

Furina: "A flame that talks?"

Paimon: "No!"

Paimon: "It's a blue flame that talks!"

Paimon: "Ah! I get it!"

Paimon: "It's a ghost flame!!"

Hu Tao: "What ghost flame?"

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

Hu Tao: "But will-o'-the-wisps aren't this intelligent—they don't even speak."

March 7th: "This thing looks familiar."

March 7th: "Isn't it Suiyang??"

Huo Huo: "I... if I'm not mistaken, it is indeed Suiyang."

Stelle: "Wait, isn't Suiyang supposed to gather on the Luofu Xianzhou?"

Stelle: "Why is it here in Penacony?"

Xiao: "What exactly is Suiyang?"

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

Brother Dan Heng: "It has the ability to absorb people's emotional memories and turn them into nourishment."

Marani: "Sounds like quite an extraordinary fire!"

Marani: "But just a little flame like that, is it really that powerful?"

Stelle: "Don't be fooled by its small appearance — the scariest thing about it is that it can possess you!"

Stelle: "If you let your guard down and let it possess you, then you're done for!"

Paimon: "Po-possess?!"

Paimon: "Boo, how scary!"

Paimon: "Way scarier than will-o'-the-wisps!"

Marani: "Then with something so dangerous, Young Lady Stelle still chats with it?"

Stelle: "I'm not afraid — I'm a Stellaron Hunter!"

Stelle: "Besides, not all Suiyang like to possess people."

Marani: "Oh, got it, got it!"

Marani: "Just like not all Finned Dragons bite people — there are good Suiyang too!"

The video continues.

【You remind me of an old friend.】

Stelle looked at this ball of blue fire,

recognized it as a Suiyang, and felt a touch of sentiment.

【Old friend? No, I'm not a person.】

【I'm a Suiyang. I used to live in Suiyuan of Luo Fu.】

【I was passionate about studying Luofu Xianzhou subcultures, but slowly, I discovered that Luofu Xianzhou subcultures have their limits too.】

【Long story short, I forgot the middle part — in any case, I eventually came to Penacony.】

【I wanted to study subcultures completely different from those of Luofu Xianzhou, and the results really made my eyes pop out of my head — if I had eyes, that is.】

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

【They call it me... me...】

The Suiyang puzzled for a long time, but still couldn't recall what it was actually called.

【A charming villain?】

Stelle muttered hesitantly.

【It's meme, yes, that's the one.】

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

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