Honkai Impact 3rd, Paradise Typewriter isn't for making this kind of game.

"Details?"

Fu Hua then began to observe the two people in the seats.

Judging from the name that the girl named Gretchen murmured while drawing...

Chapter 221 Möbius, who loves ketchup

This is a young girl named Gretchen and a nun named Aponia sitting next to her.

The two should be mother and daughter.

However, judging from their hair color, pupils, and appearance... there should be no direct blood relationship between the two. Perhaps the blue-haired girl grew up in a church, or perhaps she was adopted by the nun alone.

Aponia slowly stood up and handed the two newly sculpted, adorable little figurines to Xia Yuan and Fu Hua respectively.

"Thank you for your understanding. I'm glad Gretchen didn't cause you any trouble. Oh... by the way, please accept these two statues as a small token of my appreciation."

Fu Hua initially wanted to decline, but her partner Yuan was hinting that she should accept him.

Xia Yuan could tell from the nun's words and actions that she was someone who cared about others far more than herself. If he and Hua did not accept her kindness, she would definitely feel guilty and troubled.

“Sister, thank you for your kindness. We will accept it without hesitation. We wish you and your daughter a pleasant journey.”

"I'm glad you like it."

Seeing that Xia Yuan had accepted her statue, Aponia's expression relaxed considerably.

But just as Aponia withdrew her hand, it suddenly froze in mid-air, and she saw the future and fate of others once again.

A picture appears deep within Aponia's pupils.

Xia Yuan slept peacefully in the train compartment. The compartment door was slowly pushed open, and a mysterious black shadow was cast on the wall by the dim light in the train corridor, making his shadow appear exceptionally long.

The shadow cast on the wall vaguely revealed the sword at the other person's waist.

The dark figure raised his sword, ready to kill the still-sleeping Xia Yuan. As blood stained the wall, Aponia's premonition of the future came to an abrupt end...

Aponia's lips twitched slightly, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

She wanted to say it, but didn't know how to explain it to the other person. She had possessed extraordinary abilities since childhood, and every thing she foresaw would inevitably happen in the future.

She had tried to stop it, but each time it was to no avail.

On the contrary... with her intervention, the other party's future will evolve in an extremely bad direction. Moreover, how can she tell a stranger, a traveler, that he is destined to suffer a terrible fate?

The relationship between the two seems more like that of partners, or even more like a couple on vacation.

She simply couldn't bring herself to say it...

Aponia's eyes became quite sad.

"May fate protect you... and keep you away from danger. Please be careful, sir."

Aponia's sudden serious expression puzzled Xia Yuan.

What exactly caused the other person to become so sad? Or was it that at some point just now, the scene triggered some unpleasant memories?

"I will pay close attention."

The other party's current state was not suitable for continuing the conversation, so Xia Yuan and his partner politely bid farewell to the nun.

The detective's intuition seemed to be telling Xia Yuan that he might encounter unknown dangers on this train journey, and the advice given to him by the nun named Aponia was more like a warning.

The darkness lurking in the corners is stirring...

Sitting in the row behind the mother and daughter was a green-haired girl wearing a lab coat, her eyes revealing a maturity beyond her years.

The white lab coat worn by laboratory personnel is unique to them.

The long sleeves were casually rolled up by the girl, which seemed out of place with her petite figure.

It looks very out of place.

What caught Xia Yuan's attention even more was the girl's pupils. He had been a detective for many years and had seen many strange and unusual people, but he had never seen pupils like these on anyone else.

At least humans wouldn't possess vertical pupils resembling those of snakes...

The girl was eating the free lunch on the train rather casually. Judging from her expression, the food didn't seem to suit her taste, and she was fiddling with the knife and fork on her plate.

However, based on Xia Yuan's brief observation, he believed that the other party's mental age was at least similar to his own.

"Is it possible for an adult's soul to possess the soul of a child?"

Xia Yuan shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.

What's wrong with me? Is it the monster from the painting of that girl named Gretchen... that doesn't belong to reality, that's affecting me, or is my brain still foggy and I haven't woken up yet?

Without any scientific basis, he cannot always rely on his detective intuition to make preconceived notions.

But then, the green-haired girl's unusual behavior caught Xia Yuan's attention again. She put her knife and fork on the plate and looked at the small packet of ketchup that was served on the plate.

The bright red packaging immediately caught the eye of the green-haired girl.

As if awakening some kind of instinct, the green-haired girl squeezed it out onto a small plate, eagerly licking the tomato juice off the plate, completely disregarding her image.

The market had already bottomed out.

The green-haired girl even wiped the crimson stain from her lips with her fingertips, then put her fingers in her mouth and sucked on them.

In contrast, however...

The green-haired girl barely touched the lunch piled high on her main plate.

"Oh my God, what did I just see? The plates she licked were cleaner than the ones I wash at home! This is amazing! Maybe I should introduce her to a job..."

Looking at the clean little plates in front of the green-haired girl's seat, Xia Yuan's thoughts were about to surface.

Sudden.....

The green-haired girl seemed to sense that someone was watching her.

Seeing the girl suddenly look up in his direction, Xia Yuan deliberately lowered his top hat, stopped paying attention to her, and quickly led his partner Hua through the aisle next to the green-haired girl.

The green-haired girl felt that the two figures looked somewhat familiar as they left.

I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.

But the green-haired girl didn't pay any attention to the two of them. Instead, she pressed the bell on the table and asked for more tomato juice... The tomato juice left on her tongue continued to stimulate her taste buds.

Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something.

She took out a thick notebook that she had been using to prop herself up from under her bottom, and casually wiped off a little dust with her sleeve. The cover of the notebook still retained a trace of the girl's body heat.

Opening the first page of the notebook, I found several lines of text.

Chapter 222 Fu Hua, hug me~

[Experimental report data on the negative impacts of biological gene experiments on the human body.......]

[Written by Dr. Möbius]

The side effects of that experiment not only shrunk her body, but also affected her mind to some extent, making her gluttonous like a child.

A few rows behind the green-haired girl sat a person wearing a fox mask.

She was wearing slightly tight black clothes, and her face was completely covered by a hood, but her slender figure made it clear that she was a woman. She was gently wiping a group photo.

"Rin, wait for me... I will definitely save enough money to help you get treatment."

She was murmuring to herself.

Her voice was very soft, but it revealed a firmness and a deep determination.

Xia Yuan, who was passing by, only vaguely saw a pair of sisters in the photo album the other was holding. Cherry blossoms were falling in the courtyard, and the younger sister was nestled in her older sister's arms, quietly gazing up at the falling cherry blossoms in the courtyard.

She seems to cherish that group photo, or perhaps she's missing someone from the album.

However, the girl named Rin in the photo album...

She looked as if she had contracted some kind of disease; her skin was unusually pale, and several very obvious crimson lines were spreading outwards from her slender arms.

"Who?!"

The other person seemed to have noticed Xia Yuan's spying, and her hand subconsciously reached towards the side of the seat near the window.

Fu Hua suddenly sensed an invisible killing intent.

She quickly grabbed her partner's hand and walked briskly towards the front of the carriage.

After Fu Hua and Xia Yuan left, the female passenger wearing the fox mask slowly put her hand back to her leg and quickly put the group photo away, placing it on the inside of her chest.

The killing intent vanished...

Fu Hua breathed a sigh of relief. If a conflict had occurred within that brief distance, she wasn't sure if she could have protected her partner.

The killing intent came quickly, and it went quickly too...

The fact that the other party could conceal their aura so quickly suggests that their identity and background are probably not simple.

"Ninja? Professional killer? Assassin? Mercenary? Or samurai?"

Several professions immediately came to Fu Hua's mind.

She was imitating her partner to figure out their true identity.

"Hua, you saw it too, didn't you?"

Xia Yuan, who was walking side by side with Fu Hua in the middle of the carriage, suddenly spoke up.

"Hmm, the other person subconsciously put their hand on their waist, and considering the long strip of white cloth they had tied around their waist, I think it was probably a katana-like weapon."

Fu Hua replied, recalling the veiled woman wearing a fox mask from earlier.

"These days, don't trains check for prohibited items? Such obvious stuff gets brought on board without even being checked; at least it should go through security... This world is getting more and more dangerous, and being a detective is getting harder and harder!"

Xia Yuan rested his hands behind his neck and chatted with his partner in a manner unique to the detective world.

"Being a detective is no easy job..."

However, Fu Hua seems to have gotten used to it.

Although his partner was a renowned detective, he would often complain to him in his spare time about things like, "Being a detective is tough, the pay should be doubled"—utter nonsense...

Suddenly, Xia Yuan cupped Fu Hua's hand in his.

Years of martial arts training had made Fu Hua's hands less delicate than those of an ordinary woman, but her slightly thick palms gave Xia Yuan an unparalleled sense of security that no other young lady could match.

"Hua, you saved me again just now."

"I really don't know if it weren't for you, I would have considered giving up the high-risk profession of detective."

"Once we find out the cause of your father's death, why don't we retire honorably together and take up a minor official position with Theresa, collecting our salaries in peace?"

Xia Yuan looked at Fu Hua with a sincere expression.

"Hmm... But Yuan, aren't we currently being kicked out of the police station by Theresa to investigate this jewelry theft case? Besides, isn't it a bit much to just sit in the police station doing nothing and drawing a salary all the time?"

However, the honest and straightforward Fu Hua clearly did not understand Xia Yuan's intention.

"It's alright... Hua, I'm sure Theresa won't mind."

Just then, Xia Yuan suddenly saw an old acquaintance from his past memories, Gray Snake. Gray Snake seemed to be checking the time on his wrist, as if he was waiting for someone.

There were two untouched cups of coffee on the table.

"It could be him! When did Gray Serpent get out of prison?"

Gray Serpent held a cane in his hand, and his single, scarlet eye looked in the direction from which the sound came. He had clearly heard the footsteps of Xia Yuan and Fu Hua approaching.

"Hua, do as I say from now on."

Xia Yuan's current goal is to meet Padofelis and investigate the jewelry theft case.

As for Gray Snake, this kind of arms dealer in the gray area, he doesn't want to have too much interaction or conflict with him right now.

Hug me~

"it is good."

Fu Hua answered decisively; she would not question any decisions or judgments made by her partner.

Yuan is always right.

Sometimes, a partner's seemingly strange behavior or actions always hide a deeper meaning.

And so...

Xia Yuan faced Fu Hua, his arms tightly wrapped around the back of his partner's neck, while Hua carried Xia Yuan in a princess carry, though the other seemed to have lifted him too high.