After that, Ryuuzaki, who had summoned the Divine Dragon Mecha, brought Fang Zheng and Mirai Kuriyama back to the ground. Before long, Shidou Hikaru and Fushimi Kazakiri also drove their Divine Dragon Mechas to meet up.
However... this really brings back memories.
Watching the three girls emerge from the light beam in the mecha’s chest and slowly land, Fang Zheng couldn’t help but feel nostalgic. It reminded him of a certain old mecha animation from his childhood, where pilots jumped up and were absorbed into the mecha’s chest. But when he grew up, it seemed no mecha animation did that anymore.
Hmm, luckily it’s not the short stature Dragon Godmaru, otherwise, they might have needed a public phone booth to summon it — where would Cifilo find a public phone booth?
Anyway, why did mecha animations stop doing that? It is much cooler than any cockpit or such.
It truly is a mystery.
"Little Bai, Senior Kuriyama, are you guys alright?"
At this moment, the three girls quickly ran over to inquire anxiously, while Mirai Kuriyama burped, then hurriedly covered her mouth, gesturing with her hand.
"It’s all good, we’re fine, no injuries."
"Really... that’s good..."
Hearing Mirai Kuriyama’s response, the three girls breathed a sigh of relief, and then Shidou Hikaru suddenly twitched her nose.
"Eh? What’s that smell? It’s weird."
"Eh?"
"Yeah, I smelled it too."
Fushimi Kazakiri and Ryuuzaki Kai smelled it too; they closed their eyes, took a careful sniff, then turned to look at Mirai Kuriyama, who blinked in confusion.
"Wha-what’s wrong? I don’t have any smell..."
However, before she finished speaking, Mirai Kuriyama paused. She suddenly remembered that she had drunk one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine... bottles of condensed milk!
"It’s, it’s, it’s not my smell, it’s the condensed milk’s smell!"
"Condensed milk?"
Hearing this, the three became more puzzled.
"Condensed milk doesn’t have such a weird smell though."
"I remember condensed milk should be sweet-smelling?"
"It feels kind of off..."
"Oh, it’s that Demon Creature’s smell! It’s that Demon Creature playing tricks!"
But Mirai Kuriyama wasn’t foolish; she quickly blamed the Demon Creature that had chased them earlier — anyway, Ryuuzaki Kai had already thrashed that Demon Creature with the mecha, so it couldn’t come out to protest even if it wanted.
"Oh, so that’s it."
Upon hearing Mirai Kuriyama’s deflection, the three girls did not doubt, nodding in understanding. Next, they discussed among themselves and returned to the Mage’s Mansion provided by Fang Zheng to begin bathing and changing clothes, with Fang Zheng naturally joining them, also soaking comfortably in the hot spring enjoying the dual delight of beauties and the hot spring.
After all, he was just an innocent Little Bai, soaking in the hot spring, watching the pretty girls, then sneaking in for a bit of fun, licking here and there, taking some snapshots to keep, wouldn’t be causing much trouble, right?
Since the law only targets humans, as a Little Bai, who would go after him?
While in the hot spring, they all shared their experiences; Shidou Hikaru and Fushimi Kazakiri’s adventures were similar to Ryuuzaki Kai’s. After being transported to the Temple by Fang Zheng, they immediately started the trials, subsequently earning the Demon God’s acknowledgment. But after that, they each encountered a Chaos Monster akin to Aztec, luckily they both overcame the Chaos Monsters with the help of the Dragon God Mecha, rushing to join Fang Zheng and the others.
And next, they faced the final boss.
"I wonder if it will be challenging..."
Fushimi Kazakiri seemed a bit worried, while Ryuuzaki Kai clenched her fist.
"No matter how difficult, we must eliminate the prime culprit as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late!"
"That’s right!"
Upon hearing Ryuuzaki Kai’s words, the other two nodded. On their way here to meet Fang Zheng and Ryuuzaki Kai, they also saw the current situation in Cifilo. It was obvious that the fusion of the two worlds was causing increasing conflicts, and many places had even begun to turn into wastelands, which made them extremely anxious.
Fang Zheng, on the other hand, was lying nearby, admiring the appearance of the four girls soaking in the hot spring while narrowing his eyes and thinking carefully.
From Fang Zheng’s point of view, the remaining bosses were not the issue; rather, the chaos behind the scenes was the big problem. Thus, he quietly followed the Magic Knights, assisting them in awakening the Demon God, in order to use these girls as bait to deal with the Chaos Demon God polluted by him. Meanwhile, he would lie in ambush, carefully observing the true location of the Chaos Core.
Having fought against chaos across so many worlds for so long, Fang Zheng gained a lot of experience. To deal with chaos, you must first bide your time, much like hiding in the bushes as Demacia, waiting for an opportunity instead of rushing to unleash justice. If the opponent gains victory, then due to chaos’s nature, it will quietly strike the remaining bleeding heroes, launch a surprise attack, and then continue sustainably.
This reminded Fang Zheng of the Gray Witch Kara from Lodoss Island War Chronicles. She would attach her soul to a headband, and whoever defeated her would have the headband transferred to them; this cycle would continue endlessly. Evidently, the chaos here was also a master of this technique.
Thus, Fang Zheng leaves a mind’s eye whenever confronting chaos, refusing to act until the last moment. It’s similar to pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, but this is purely for strategic considerations. Otherwise, given chaos’s nature, if Fang Zheng shows too much, it will either rush to attack him or retreat altogether—like Junko Enoshima in the Danganronpa world, who runs faster than Hong Kong journalists. If Fang Zheng wasn’t piloting the Void Glorious Ship, he couldn’t catch her.
Fang Zheng is not keen on playing this game of eagle chasing chicks, so he’d rather be the yellow bird hiding in the bushes, waiting to unleash Demacia’s justice...
Of course, this is predicated on his team not being wiped out; otherwise, all the justice and Demacia won’t help, and it’ll be game over.
The girls rested overnight at the Mage’s Mansion and then immediately summoned the Demon God, heading towards the Crystal Palace in the sky under Fang Zheng’s guidance.
This time, Mirai Kuriyama did not accompany them, as her abilities were useless in the sky. Fang Zheng was beside Shidou Hikaru, guiding the three girls to quickly find the previous Crystal Palace.
However, the Crystal Palace now was entirely different from when Fang Zheng first arrived. It looked exceptionally beautiful and stunning back then, but now it was pitch black, seeming as if blackened by smoke. Moreover, there was a bizarre, self-aware black smoke constantly expanding outside the Crystal Palace, intertwining with scattered crystals, forming a indistinguishable mass.
"That’s the place! Let’s go!"
Ryuuzaki Kai was the most impulsive, and upon seeing the pitch-black Crystal Palace, she maneuvered the Demon God to charge forward. Meanwhile, within the dark fog, a massive black mecha emerged, wielding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, looking formidable.
"That must be the Demon God corroded by chaos!"
Glancing at the black mecha, Fushimi Kazakiri quickly voiced. Fang Zheng silently nodded. When he arrived here earlier, he had a fight with Shagatu, and naturally knew this black centaur mecha was Shagatu’s Demon God. Though right now, this Demon God... hmm, how should I say... it’s somewhat... inappropriate for children.
"Look, they’re hugging together, right?"
Shidou Hikaru, naive and pure, extended her hand to point at the Demon God in front of her, questioning aloud.
"This posture is quite special..."
At this sight, Fushimi Kazakiri was also taken aback.
No wonder Shidou Hikaru felt puzzled; at the moment, a silver-white female mecha at the waist of the black mecha tightly crossed its legs and locked in place. Its body reclined backward, suspended upside down glancing at the three Magic Knights in front of it. One hand held a sword while the other clutched a magic wand, firmly sandwiched within the Black Knight’s waist. One could observe the silver-white mecha intermittently trembling as if attempting to sit up, only to be pushed down by the Black Knight’s force.
Any seasoned viewer, seeing this scene, would undoubtedly understand what’s happening here. Indeed, this is the world-famous and widely known Great Edo’s forty-eight hand one... well, those who understand, understand.
"Can they fight like this?"
Ryuuzaki Kai scratched her head, confused. Logically, the black mecha should piggyback the white mecha, right? What’s with this face-to-face hugging posture?
Only Fang Zheng silently watched the scene, indicating he had nothing to say.
They are still children, let them retain their pure and innocent hearts.
But come to think of it, is Princess Aimino and Shagatu constantly thinking about such things?!
Seeing this, Fang Zheng was also speechless. Chaos could twist people’s will but would merely distort; the essence remained unchanged. In other words, what these two mechas genuinely wanted to do was actually what their masters innately desired.
However... you two, with one imprisoned in another space and the other guarding the Crystal Palace, were thinking about this all day long?
Fang Zheng admitted his childhood was too unbearable to revisit.

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