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

She blinked, hoping to get away with it and fool everyone.

Chapter 539 The requirements aren't high; anyone will do.

"Hmm... That's suspicious. Durandal, you're not hiding anything, are you?" The Book of Azure stretched out its small hand and pointed at Durandal as if interrogating a criminal.

"I....."

It was at this moment that Cangxuan Zhishu noticed the other party's unnaturally clenched right hand.

"Hmph, I saw right through you. Resisting will be punished severely, confessing will be treated leniently. Quick, tell me what you were doing this afternoon." Under the constant questioning from the Book of Azure, Durandal finally spoke up.

“Well, actually in the afternoon…” Durandal began to reminisce.

Before she went to look for Rita, Durandal was scrolling through photos she had taken earlier in the observation room. The photos appeared to be everyday group photos of other people on the ship.

Seele made an eggplant gesture at the camera, looking very happy. The Book of Azure sat on the brown sofa, eating dessert with gusto. Bishop Theresa sat beside Xiao Xuan, sipping bitter melon-flavored coffee, looking very dignified.

Next photo:

Seele and Miss Black Seele rested their heads on each other's shoulders, seemingly having accidentally fallen asleep while watching a movie.

"Hmm? A few photos are missing from the package I brought for Kiana. I think I left them in Schicksal's office. I should ask around." Durandal swiped her tablet and dialed Siegfried Kaslana's number. She just hoped her adoptive father wasn't slacking off.

[Waiting for the other party to answer...]

Meanwhile, on the other end of the communication, the vibration on the phone caught Siegfried's attention.

Durandal's profile picture is of Stan, the cat she and Rita raised together. Of course, she didn't submit to the World Serpent executives because she couldn't beat them.

[Daughter]: (The one who's not to be trifled with)

[Refuse] [Answer]

Kiana's communication records still appear at the top of the screen.

[Daughter] (the one who's easy to fool), I hope Kiana won't hit her old man's butt with a baseball bat after seeing her cheap dad's nickname for her.

"Oh, my dear daughter, you miss your dad so soon? Or have you already found someone you like and want to bring them to meet your dad? Don't worry, your dad is very understanding. There will definitely be no scenes like those in TV dramas. I don't have high requirements for you, my dear daughter. I just hope that the other person is not a Honkai Beast and is a human."

As for why Siegfried had such an idea...

He was terrified that his beloved daughter would insist on marrying someone more outstanding and stronger than herself. He would be so worried that there would be no such person on Earth, and he would have to look on other planets, but those would probably be beyond the realm of humans.

Durandal couldn't help but cover her forehead; her father was acting silly again.

She noticed Siegfried's attire and thought it looked like her dad was on vacation... Suddenly, Durandal seemed to realize something and quickly asked, "Wait a minute, Dad, you didn't go to work today?!"

"Oops~"

"There's not much work in the office, so I sneaked out for some fresh air. My dear daughter, please don't tell Theresa. Keep this a secret."

Siegfried spoke cautiously, his face close to the phone, with a mysterious air. He had a feeling that someone was secretly watching him, and that once that little guy became a bishop, he might actually do something like secretly sending a Valkyrie to monitor him.

Lookout room—

Durandal lowered her head, unable to see the other person's expression, and remained silent, like the calm before a storm.

Realizing his obedient daughter was about to explode, Siegfried quickly pulled out two Homu plushies. "Ahem... my dear daughter, let's not talk about that anymore. Look what I've prepared for you and Kiana. Homu and Hora, which one do you want?"

Siegfried kept shaking the souvenir doll in his hands.

That's how it is.

After telling Fu Hua and the Book of Azure about what her adoptive father wanted to help conceal, Durandal touched a strand of golden hair by her ear, feeling embarrassed. Other people's fathers were mature and steady as they got older, but her adoptive father felt like a completely unreliable middle-aged man.

“I’m sorry, Dad… I had no choice but to betray you for Rita and Mr. Xia Yuan.”

After all, she really couldn't lie. If she wanted to hide something else, she could only cover it up with something else that made her feel conflicted. But what awaited Mr. Siegfried was probably his final doom.

Leaving aside Siegfried and his beloved daughter, their story of a loving father and a filial daughter.

Standing next to Fu Hua, Cang Xuan Zhi Shu crossed his arms over his unremarkable chest and said energetically, "Hmph, Durandal, you really aren't good at lying." His expression revealed an air of "I'm a little detective after all."

"Don't worry, Mr. Siegfried should be unrelated to this case. Apart from that, Durandal, have you noticed anything suspicious?"

Fu Hua wrote down the other party's statement in her notepad and continued to question them.

"Something suspicious?" Durandal recalled, "Speaking of which, when I returned to my room last night, I heard strange noises coming from the kitchen. When I went over, I found the refrigerator door seemed to be open, and Xiao Xuan was lying there secretly eating ice cream. Would that count?"

Before Durandal could finish speaking, the Book of Azure interrupted her recollection.

"Alright, alright, stop talking. I swear, those things have absolutely nothing to do with this case. Next!"

Feeling guilty, Cang Xuanzhi grabbed her great detective, the blockhead, and hurriedly ran out of the lookout room. She couldn't let this "honest knight who can't lie" continue talking. If he kept going, she was afraid that he would reveal all her little secrets.

Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Durandal's tense body finally relaxed slightly.

Under interrogation from Fu Hua and the Book of Azure, concealing the story between Mr. Xia Yuan and Rita was far too difficult for her. This was all she could do; now she could only hope that Mr. Xia Yuan wouldn't reveal anything...

Clearly, something else must have happened after Durandal carried Xia Yuan to the infirmary.

But this was the one thing she wanted to keep hidden from everyone, not revealing what happened in the infirmary to anyone—not her adoptive father, not Kiana, and certainly not her adjutant Rita...

The next suspect—Seel Freya

【twin】

[A naive and easily fooled dessert lover]

Chapter 540 Seele's Confession

Although she is gentle and kind, she is easily manipulated by bad people. She is the type who might be sold out and even help the seller count the money. Just a small cake can open up her. In short, she is very naive and easy to fool.

"Huh? Is this for me?"

Looking at the vanilla ice cream dessert in front of her, Seele's sky-blue pupils suddenly flickered.

"Th...thank you."

Seele placed the dessert on the spot, which had been polished until it was sparkling clean. "Sweet food always makes people feel at ease."

"Don't feel nervous, Seele."

Fu Hua comforted the other party, while Xiao Xuan, who was sitting next to the blockhead and was supposed to be the victim, did not look like a victim at all. He ate the xiaolongbao that Rita had prepared not long ago to appease the glutton.

"I'm sorry, ever since everyone watched the 'Houmu Horror Night' that Xiaoyuan and Bronya made last night, I've felt uneasy..." Seele began to reminisce.

In the afternoon—

She was reading in her room, while Miss Kuroshi was playing games on the double bed, swinging her chubby little legs back and forth.

"Please, my other self."

A very familiar sound faintly came from the game console, the classic "I play by myself." "Gurgle," Miss Kuroki suddenly seemed to remember something and jumped up from the double bed.

Hearing the noise behind her, Seele instinctively asked, "Other me, are you going out?"

"I'm hungry. Go to the kitchen and get something to eat. Do you want me to bring it back for you?"

"How about we go together?" Seele hesitated for a moment, her little hands gripping the corner of the chair.

"Hey? Seele, you're not afraid to stay in your room alone because you watched a horror movie, are you?" Miss Black Seele couldn't help but tease.

She fondly remembers the way Seele blushed when she used to bully her. Of course, only she herself could bully Seele; anyone else who dared to bully Seele would have to ask her scythe for permission first.

"No...where is it?"

"Alright, alright, I'll be right back. Be a good girl and wait for me in your room." Standing in the ship's passageway, Miss Hei Xi looked at Xi'er with doting eyes, like an older sister. Of course, only she knew whether she was really hungry or not.

She wasn't just going to visit the bad guy; she was just passing by his room on her way to the kitchen, so she decided to teach him a lesson and then drag him to the screening room to watch a horror movie.

After Miss Blackie left, Seele waited and waited in the room.

Her gaze remained fixed on the door, but the other person never appeared.

"Why hasn't my other self returned yet after all this time?"

Seele seemed a little worried and decided to go out to look for the other person, but she couldn't find them anywhere in the kitchen, entertainment room, or dining room. Just as she was about to reach the warehouse, the gravity system seemed to malfunction.

Fu Hua, sitting opposite him, looked at the statement recorded in the notebook and nodded.

Seele's account is consistent with Durandal's, and the spaceship did indeed experience a period of gravitational imbalance.

"At that time, I wanted to get to the control room as soon as possible."

"Who? Who's over there?!"

But when she turned around and looked back, a dark figure flashed by and then disappeared in the blink of an eye. She thought of the horror movie "Houmu Horror Night" that her sister Bronya and Xiaoyuan had made together.

The dark figure that resembled Mr. Houmu from the movie made Seele shudder.

"Xiao Yuan, is that you? Xiao Yuan?"

She initially mistook the dark figure for Xiao Yuan, but before he could respond, he suddenly disappeared into the ship's passageway.

"I felt very scared... so I rushed back to the restaurant until Xiao Xuan ran over and said we had to assemble urgently." That's roughly what happened. Seele held the vanilla ice cream on the table and recounted her experience to Fu Hua and Xiao Xuan.

Seele held the ice cream dessert in both hands, as if only the ice cream dessert on the table could make her feel at ease.

"Hey Seele, did you see the Houmu doll I threw away near the control room?"

Xiao Xuan looked at Xi'er eagerly.

"No...no."

Seele suddenly turned her head away, not daring to meet the eyes of the two people sitting opposite her.

"Sigh, what a pity. We were so close to finding the truth and catching the culprit." Xiao Xuan sighed and took another bite of the xiaolongbao to calm his nerves.

"I'm...sorry."

Seele felt that she hadn't been of much help.

"It seems that someone did enter the warehouse. The dark figure you saw, Seele, is very likely the key clue to solving this case." Based on the testimony provided by the other party, then Mr. Xia Yuan, who played Houmu, is very likely one of the key suspects who knocked Xiao Xuan unconscious.

"So, Seele, did you finally find another Seele... who's dark-skinned, fierce, and not cute at all?"

Faced with the description in the Book of Azure Mystery, Seele shook her head.

"No, I waited for her at the restaurant because she mentioned in the room that she was hungry."

Fu Hua and Xiao Xuan, who were sitting opposite each other, exchanged glances and found a common suspect in each other's eyes—Miss Hei hope.

He claimed to be hungry but never ate at the restaurant, which undoubtedly makes him a suspect. Coupled with his violent tendencies, he had the motive to knock Xiao Xuan unconscious. Therefore, his motive and suspicion are far greater than those of Mr. Xia Yuan.

After Seele nervously left with her ice cream dessert... Fu Hua and Xiao Xuan began interrogating the other Seele.

"Hmph, confess now! Why didn't you eat at the restaurant? Where did you go during that time?"

Cangxuan slapped the edge of the long table heavily with his small hand.

Miss Hei hope was happily enjoying her spicy ice cream when Xiao Xuan's interrogative tone immediately made her impatient. She crossed her legs, raised her head, and retorted:

"Huh? What's there to explain? I didn't go to the restaurant because I suddenly wasn't hungry, and Seele couldn't find me because I wanted to wander around. Is there a problem?"

Miss Hei hope arrogantly turned her head away, looking down on the little detective and the blockhead sitting opposite her, as if she didn't respect anyone except Xi'er.

【twin】

[A stubborn but soft-hearted bad kid] — Seele Volleric (Red)

"Although they share the same name, this Seele is much more difficult to deal with. She's full of ideas, has a bad temper, and loves to play pranks."

Chapter 541 Hehe, Seele's number one chef!

"But even such a troublesome guy has weaknesses."

Xiao Xuan mysteriously kept it a secret.

"That's... hehe, Seele's number one chef!"

"Just like how I singled out that blockhead, that guy's obsession with Seele is even greater than Bronya's love for the Houmu doll. In a sense, the person who likes me the most is of course me, and you can't find any fault with that when it comes to Seele."

While Xiao Xuan was introducing Hei Xi's identity as a fan of the single-pusher...

Seeing the person sitting opposite her, with their head turned away and face tilted back, seemingly unwilling to communicate with the older generation, Fu Hua couldn't help but think of her own Xiao Shi. She sighed helplessly. Indeed, every family has its own problems, but it's not like there's absolutely no way to communicate with each other.

"Ahem, I think you've noticed, Miss Hei Xi, haven't you? Ever since the case happened... Xi'er has been feeling uneasy. It would be great if we could find out the truth as soon as possible."

Fu Hua's lips curled up slightly without her noticing. Cang Xuanzhi, standing beside her, stared wide-eyed in disbelief. He never expected that this old fogey, who was usually so dense, would actually have a breakthrough and come up with such a way to force the other party to talk. Indeed, solving cases requires a flexible bottom line.

As expected by the Book of Azure Mystery—

After a series of intense internal struggles, Miss Black Seele, who is the top chef and Seele's only supporter, finally spoke up.

"Okay, okay, I've confessed, alright?"

She slammed her hands on the table, clearly having gone through a mental struggle. Little Xuan, standing beside her, secretly gave the blockhead a thumbs-up and silently praised her, thinking, "My blockhead is finally getting some sense!"