Although Huohuo was still a bit scared, looking at the Heliobus she had captured stuck onto her flag, a small sense of confidence rose within her.
"Thank you, Mr. Pei Guang..."
Huohuo expressed her gratitude to Pei Guang, because she understood that without the so-called weapon effect he had given her, she wouldn't have had a chance of defeating this terrifying creature.
Pei Guang: "No need to be so polite."
Stelle nodded and said, "Just call him Ah Guang, like we do. Remember, whatever you do, don't call him 'big brother'!"
Stelle said seriously, "In Ah Guang's world, 'big brother' seems to have... a bit of a weird connotation~ Anyway, he's emphasized this point many times."
Pei Guang looked at Stelle: "If you remember everything I emphasize so well, why can't you help me get rid of my debuffs~"
Stelle crossed her arms and said proudly: "Because I'm doing it on purpose!"
Pei Guang clapped: "Good, good! As expected of you. Looks like today I'll have to sacrifice family for righteousness!"
Stelle: "What? You want to kiss me~? Hmm~ I'm getting a little shy~"
Watching the two start to mess around, Huohuo nervously said, "This isn't the time to play, right? Shouldn't we figure out how to get out of here?"
Pei Guang: "Huh? We can't get out? You already captured the Heliobus, and we still can't leave?"
Huohuo: "I don't know either... maybe this place wasn't created by this Heliobus? Maybe it just accidentally got caught up in it?"
Hearing this, Stelle sucked in a breath and turned to Pei Guang: "So... we beat up the wrong guy?"
Pei Guang said seriously: "No big deal. If we hit the wrong one, then we'll just hit the next Heliobus that shows up. Besides, we still have to help Huohuo collect ten Heliobi to make her a transformation device."
Stelle looked at Pei Guang: "Sounds good. So how do we get out?"
Pei Guang: "Worst case, we just teleport. But personally, I suggest we stick around a bit. After all, the one who created this space must not be simple."
While Pei Guang and Stelle were talking, Huohuo, who had been listening carefully, suddenly noticed something strange: the Heliobus on her flag seemed to move.
"Everyone, the Heliobus... it's waking up! Let me roast it! I have experience roasting Heliobi!"
Huohuo's voice interrupted Pei Guang and Stelle's conversation. Pei Guang turned to look at the Heliobus on Huohuo's flag and just then, Cirrus, as if sensing something, suddenly opened her eyes wide and stared straight at Pei Guang.
"Boss! You're my boss! I was wrong, I was really wrong! I didn't create this space! I didn't even play rock-paper-scissors with you!!!"
Upon waking, Cirrus immediately floated to Pei Guang's side to beg for mercy, and continued quickly, "I don't have the ability to create this kind of illusion! The one who made it is called Furynox, not me, not Cirrus!"
Pei Guang stroked his chin, observing Cirrus and asked, "Oh? Then why would this Furynox set up something here? Wouldn't it be more effective to create this kind of illusion in a city?"
Huohuo looked at Pei Guang and said, "Could it be... they're having a team-building event?"
"Team-building sounds way too real."
Hearing this, Cirrus fell silent. After a moment's pause, she proudly said, "It's not team-building! We're gathered here because a thousand years ago, this Fyxestroll Garden was the battlefield where the great Heliobus Ignamar fought against a certain Cloud Knight general. The Creation Furnace shattered, Heliobi fled, and now, the fragments that once formed Ignamar have returned out of their lingering wish to battle the general once again."
When Cirrus said this, Pei Guang turned his gaze to Stelle and Huohuo: "Ah, I see. Lost back then and now wants a rematch. Next, it'll brag about how it and the Cloud Knight general were neck and neck, fifty-fifty. If we say otherwise, it'll accuse us of bragging."
Cirrus originally wanted to argue, but hearing Pei Guang's words, she showed an expression like she had seen a ghost.
"How do you know exactly what I was going to say?"
Pei Guang spread his hands: "I don't even need to guess."
Huohuo nodded: "A lot of plays have that kind of plot..."
Tail also popped out and agreed, "Exactly, when we watched them together, there were so many scenes like that... You saying it out loud now is just embarrassing."
Even though Tail didn't like most of the people around, the one he disliked the most was Cirrus. Cirrus gave him the feeling of being full of scheming.
As Huohuo's mighty Tail, he despised that kind of underhanded trickery the most. Tail even decided secretly: if he ever regained his freedom, the first one he'd eat would be Cirrus.
What? Huohuo? That little thing isn't even enough to stick between his teeth: not worth eating! Hmph!
At this moment, Cirrus felt extremely awkward. To escape the awkwardness, she quickly changed the subject.
"Hmph, not all Heliobi fragments were captured and put into the Creation Furnace after that battle. I thought you, Tail, had escaped, but I didn't expect you to be subdued by a tiny fox girl. What a joke."
Hearing this, Tail became angry and glared at Cirrus: "Oh, you're so amazing? If you're so amazing, how did you get subdued by her? Hah, I saw it clearly: you got stabbed from head to tail with her toilet plunger, like... like a turd stuck in a toilet, completely tamed by the plunger."
Cirrus: "You're asking for death!"
Tail: "Hmph! Huohuo! Go! Stab it to death with your toilet plunger!"
While they spoke, Tail flew onto Huohuo, shaking the flag she held. Staring at the flag in Huohuo's hand, Cirrus froze in place. Seeing such a terrifying item, Cirrus shuddered! But soon after, she began to mock.
"You have the nerve to talk about me? Weren't you also subdued by this little girl?"
Tail said, "Me? Hmph! Huohuo, come tell it how it was, how this great one got subdued."
At that moment, Tail looked extremely proud! Back then he had felt ashamed about how he was caught, but compared to Cirrus now, he felt he was amazing.
Pei Guang and Stelle looked at Huohuo curiously.
Huohuo, feeling a bit aggrieved, began recalling, "When I was little, I once found a dying little flame in a corner of the Xianzhou Luofu. I felt soft-hearted and placed it on my tail. But I didn't expect that Tail would try to eat me.
Thankfully the judges arrived in time and I escaped. The tears I've cried out of regret over the years must have flooded my brain back when I made that decision."
Tail muttered unhappily, "Saying 'eat' is too much, right? Besides, if I had been conscious back then, would I have tried to eat such a tiny thing that couldn't even fill the gap between my teeth?"