The story of the black silk female knight

However, Valensa immediately turned off the new message vibration notification function on the Dimensional Hardware Store member terminal after figuring out how to set it up, to avoid getting socially frustrated like she did in the morning.

The incident in the morning was actually fine. After all, there weren't many people in the cafeteria of the girls' dormitory in the command department, and everyone knew about the relationship between Valensa and Tia. Even if it was misunderstood as some kind of exciting little game, it wouldn't matter.

Anyway, Tia forgot to turn on the silencing barrier when the fairies fought at night, which happened twice. As a result, the other girls in the dormitory joked the next morning that the two of them had such good voices that they could sing opera.

In short, what happened in the restaurant was a bit of a disaster, but not too terrible. At most, it will just give the girls in Tia's dorm another reason to tease her in the future, but it's not enough to make her run away to another continent overnight.

However, if such a thing happened in a very formal social setting, such as a large aristocratic party or when meeting the king, Valensa would really have to consider asking the Sun Goddess if she could be transferred to a Sun Church on another planet ahead of time... with her family.

. . . . .

Two days later, having completed some preparations, Asakura Mai arrived as scheduled, responding to Valensa's friend's invitation to come to the capital of Fran.

"Wow! Is this Sasha's world? It's so amazing! It's so much better than Sister Wei's cyberpunk world, which is like a steel jungle! I love it here!"

As soon as Asakura Mai landed, she ran around the streets of Fran with a happy face, and would take out her phone to take pictures of the more magnificent buildings and pretty girls she saw.

Asakura Mai had clearly made preparations in advance. She was wearing a magical girl-style dress that she bought from a cosplay clothing store. It was the most popular limited-edition skin for a well-known mobile game character.

Having learned from Valensa beforehand that people with black hair and black eyes are rare in France, Mai Asakura dyed her hair and wore colored contact lenses to avoid standing out too much—she had brown hair and blue eyes like Valensa.

Given Asakura Mai's age and personality, her image in Valensa's eyes suddenly overlapped with Elena's, causing Valensa's heart to pound wildly, and her long-dormant sister complex almost relapsed.

She is not Elena, she is not Elena, she is not Elena...

After silently chanting for a while, Valensa's rapid breathing returned to normal, and she chased after Asakura Mai with a doting smile on her face.

"Sister Sasha!"

Mai Asakura affectionately took Valensa's arm and wandered around the streets of the capital, picking up anything that caught her eye and then looking at Valensa with her big, watery eyes.

What else could Valensa do? Of course, she bought, bought, bought... Anyway, most items at the roadside stalls wouldn't cost more than one gold coin, so it wasn't a big problem.

When she arrived at the entrance of the Church of the Sun, Mai Asakura was even more excited, especially when she saw the nuns wearing high-slit nunneries and stockings. Mai Asakura's breathing quickened and her body temperature rose, and she almost fainted.

...Your XP system is completely exposed, Sister Wu.

Valensa smiled gently and, with obvious affection, stopped the nuns and asked them to take a photo with Mai Asakura.

Mai Asakura was overjoyed, even a little dizzy, until she entered the spellcasting room that Valensa had prepared in advance in the church, and she quickly regained her composure, panting heavily.

She wasn't here to play in another world today; she was here to use her unique divination magic to pinpoint the culprit who almost destroyed her second home.

Chapter 166 The Strange Witch's Strange Divination

Before coming to Valensa's place, Mai Asakura had introduced her divination methods to Valensa by posting updates and replies on the community function of the Dimensional Hardware Store's member terminal.

This divination technique is not a skill inherited by the Asakura family, but rather a golden legendary item that Asakura Mai herself obtained by drawing at the Dimensional Hardware Store. It is quite powerful, but also has many limitations and is very troublesome to use.

Besides spending several days preparing the necessary items, the divination must be performed in a heavily guarded place, preferably a place favored by the gods, such as a shrine or church.

This divination technique seems to be a way of peeking into the secrets of heaven, and its use can trigger a natural phenomenon similar to a celestial tribulation. Previously, Mai Asakura could only use it within the great barrier of her family's shrine... She didn't know this the first time she used it, and almost got taken away by the celestial tribulation.

The most blessed place in the capital of France is naturally the Cathedral of the Church of the Sun... Valencia had already prepared an empty room there, just waiting for Asakura Mai to arrive.

Asakura Mai was indeed quite wild while playing on the street, but she suddenly became serious after entering the spellcasting room.

Snapped.

Mai Asakura first snapped her fingers, causing her magical dress to transform into a shower of cherry blossoms. A few seconds later, the petals gathered on her body again, transforming into a red and white shrine maiden outfit.

Her long, brown-dyed hair and blue contact lenses returned to their original black color as she donned the shrine maiden outfit.

jingle.

Mai Asakura took out the bell she had used to suppress the massive black cyclone. While ringing the bell, she murmured sentences that Valensa couldn't understand, walked in a circle three times, and then knelt down.

Next came three slightly larger items, which Asakura Mai took out one by one from the sleeves of her shrine maiden outfit, which seemed to have a storage function.

The first item was a large black suitcase, big enough to fit a petite girl like Chiba. The suitcase was full, and there were clearly a lot of things inside, which should be the divination tools that Asakura Mai had prepared in the past two days.

The second and third items were a set, which piqued Valensa's curiosity.

These two items are an eight-way dance mat and a game console with a built-in monitor, which looks a lot like an all-in-one computer.

Asakura Mai connected the dance mat and the game console together, then pressed the power button on the game console, turning it on even though it wasn't plugged into a power source.

There were no options to choose from. Shortly after the game console's screen lit up, it became a screen composed of 64 small squares, each containing a picture and a simple text description.

Mai Asakura opened the first large black suitcase she had taken out and took out one strange item after another, placing them next to the game console. Each time she placed an item, Mai Asakura would press another button on the game console besides the power button.

As Asakura Mai takes out props from her suitcase and presses buttons, one of the small squares on the game console screen lights up.

At this point, Valensa roughly understood... those strange props in the suitcase must be the conditions for Asakura Mai to use divination, and the divination ability itself was this dance mat game machine.

However, those props were really strange.

There was a bag of glass beads that were exactly the same color but different sizes; a watch whose second hand wouldn't move but whose hour hand was spinning wildly; a primary school girl's cotton socks that still smelled of sweat; a bundle of banknotes from a small country with a face value of hundreds of millions; a blood-stained white shirt; a flattened safety helmet; and a bag of snacks that was only half-eaten...

They're all strange items that aren't exactly valuable, but are also very difficult to collect.

Mai Asakura kept taking these props out of her suitcase until it was empty and 58 of the 64 squares on the game console screen were lit up before she stopped.

"I really can't find the rest... The items required to activate this thing are completely random each time, and some of them are really too strange."

After pushing the suitcase aside, Mai Asakura explained to Valensa with a grumbling tone:

"It doesn't matter if you have a few less. Actually, you can start the divination as long as you can collect more than 32 items on the screen. However, the more items you collect, the more information you can get, so I always try to collect as many as possible each time I use it."

"Yeah, these things are pretty strange."

Valensa nodded, then glanced curiously at the squares that Asakura Mai hadn't been able to light up. She almost couldn't hold back after only looking at three.

Bullets that happened to collide and merge on the battlefield

Cherry blossom petals that are hit by bird droppings and fall to the ground faster.

The game cartridge broke the moment the final boss was defeated.

"It's really too strange."

Valensa sighed sincerely, then asked curiously:

"These things are a bit strange, but with your abilities, Sister Wu, you can easily create them artificially."

"No, no, it can't be manufactured artificially. Even if it were, it wouldn't be of any use. I've tried."

Mai Asakura waved her hand:

"The activation item required for this thing has a time limit. Not only can't I create something after seeing the requirement, but anything that appears after the requirement is displayed is also not allowed. Only those strange things that existed before the requirement was displayed are allowed."

"I see... It seems that taking shortcuts really doesn't work."

Valensa nodded. Having satisfied her curiosity, she didn't disturb Mai Asakura any longer and stepped aside to watch her performance quietly.

Asakura Mai took a few deep breaths and did some warm-up exercises before taking off her wooden clogs and putting them aside. She then stepped onto the dance mat wearing only the white socks that came with her shrine maiden outfit.

The 64 small squares on the game console screen disappeared after Mai Asakura stepped onto the dance mat, and the interface turned into a rhythm game interface that required pressing multiple directional keys at once, along with cheerful music.

Valensa glanced at it; the rhythm game interface had 16 arrows appearing each time, in 8 directions, requiring Asakura Mai to finish the dance within 5 seconds.

It should be quite simple, right? For cultivators whose physical strength and reaction speed are far superior to ordinary people.

However, after watching for a while longer, Valensa realized that it wasn't as simple as she had imagined... Asakura Mai on the dance mat soon started breathing heavily and seemed to be struggling a lot, as if her physical abilities had been suppressed to the level of an ordinary person.

It would indeed be quite difficult for an average person with good physical fitness to play this dance game.

What would normally be the time it takes to chat for a few minutes in a song seemed exceptionally long to Asakura Mai. When the music finally stopped, she was drenched in sweat, her thin shrine maiden outfit clinging tightly to her body, and she collapsed onto the dance mat.

Chapter 167 Divination Results

"Little Wu, are you alright?"

Valensa hurriedly asked with concern, but didn't dare to go up and help her directly... She didn't know if Asakura Mai's divination had ended yet.

"Hmm... It's alright, the divination went quite smoothly, but I'm exhausted, my calves are killing me."

Mai Asakura wiped the sweat from her face and naturally opened her arms to Valensa, saying in a coquettish tone:

"Come and lift me up, Sister Sasha."

"coming."

Valensa then walked over to the dance mat and helped Asakura Mai up so that she could lean comfortably against her.

"Boom..."

Mai Asakura squinted and rubbed against Valensa with obvious enjoyment, then lifted a leg encased in white stockings from under her shrine maiden skirt and placed it in Valensa's hand:

"Sister Sasha, look, my calves are so sore they have hard lumps."

"Then let me rub it for you."

Valensa was surprised that she didn't have any impure thoughts about the white stockings offered to her. Just like an older sister taking care of her hardworking younger sister, she used very professional massage techniques to massage Asakura Mai's calves.

"Hmm... Sister Sasha is so gentle, she feels like a mother."

Mai Asakura looked so comfortable she was practically melting, and her eyes closed involuntarily, as if she might fall asleep in Valensa's arms at any moment.

However, Mai Asakura quickly struggled to sit up from Valensa's arms and patted her face to force herself to cheer up.

"I got information about that bastard through divination! Sure enough, the previous two divinations about him failed because we're from different worlds! This divination went very smoothly!"

As she spoke, Asakura Mai took out her blessing bell again, shook it rhythmically a few times, then pointed at the game console screen, shooting out a beam of spiritual energy:

"Because I didn't prepare all the random items required for the divination, the information I obtained from the divination may not be as comprehensive... However, I can consciously control the information I want. I chose that bastard's name, age, current appearance, and recent activity area, and I divined all of these."

"Being able to divine these things is already a great help, Sister Wu."

Valensa didn't hold back her praise:

"With this intelligence, we can find that bastard."

"...Well, I'll leave the rest to you, Sister Sasha. This divination has really taken a toll on me, I want to go back and rest."

Mai Asakura, looking exhausted, leaned against Valensa and took a couple of breaths before pulling out a pre-prepared Polaroid camera from her sleeve. She took a picture of the game console screen, which was already displaying the divination results, printed the photo, and then carefully handed it to Valensa.

"If you can, Sister Sasha, please call me when you find that bastard! He committed unforgivable crimes against me and hurt many of my classmates and friends. Even if I can't kill him with my own hands, I must watch him die with my own eyes!"

"it is good."

Valensa nodded without the slightest hesitation:

"When we beat that bastard, I'll definitely call you, Sister Wu, for help!"

"Okay, then I'll go back and rest now, Sister Sasha."

Mai Asakura then revealed a lovely smile. With Valensa's help, she tidied up the game console and dance mat one by one, and then waved goodbye to Valensa.

"Until we find that jerk, Sasha, please invite me to come here a few more times... I really, really love this place, it's amazing!"

"Okay, next time you come, I'll take you out for a good half hour of fun."

Valensa smiled and waved, watching Asakura Mai's figure fade and disappear.

After seeing Asakura Mai off, Valensa looked at the photo in her hand.

The photo was very clear; the results of Asakura Mai's divination were all neatly arranged on the game console screen within the photo.

Name: Savat Langdon

[Age: 139 years old]

[Current appearance: See Figure 1]

[Recent activity area: See Figure 2]

The first image is a portrait painting that is identical to a photograph. The man in the painting has a pale face, a sparse beard, and dull, empty eyes, revealing no thoughts whatsoever.

He wore a tan turtleneck trench coat and worn-out black rain boots, the kind of outfit that wouldn't stand out on the street.

Figure 2 is a map showing three continents separated by oceans, which should represent the entire planet Eve. In the region north of the Frenoia continent, beyond the Barren Ridge, a soft white spiritual energy has created an oval-shaped area.

That should be the target's area of ​​operation—the third human political entity on the continent of Frenoia besides the Kingdom of Fran and the Four Islands Alliance, the America Commercial Union, popularly known as the Industrial Nation or the America Industrial Nation.

"So he went to America... No wonder we haven't been able to find any trace of him in Fran for over a year."

Valensa sighed and then took the photos to find Lika.

Lika had met the necromancer and even fought him a few times, which ultimately confirmed whether Valensa's connection of the clues was correct.

"It's him, there's no mistake."

Lika glanced at the photo and immediately confirmed it: