Fu Hua knelt halfway on the ground, holding Luo Lin with one hand, and gazed at the wounds on her body with crimson eyes.
Those wounds, along with Cheng Lixue's anxious face and the still burning Grassland, vanished together.
"Sigh... just as I suspected..."
Fu Hua attempted to inject a bit more Honkai energy into the girl's body, scanning her to confirm she was indeed unharmed. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
"...Rushing toward the pseudo-Herrscher like that, did you think you wouldn't die?"
"Thank goodness the class monitor arrived..."
Hearing a hint of closeness in Fu Hua's reproach, Luo Lin scratched her head with embarrassment. "Actually, I was confident I could kill that pseudo-Herrscher..."
Fu Hua could see that. When she acted, the three spears on Agatha's body had already severely affected her. The fluctuations of Honkai energy within her disrupted her control over flames, allowing Fu Hua to easily dodge and deflect the attacks.
"Yeah, if you weren't in such a bad state, maybe you could have killed that guy..."
The white-haired immortal rubbed Luo Lin's hair and raised a question, "But I clearly saw you give up struggling in the end and lay down waiting to die. Care to explain why?"
"Well..."
Fu Hua looked at Luo Lin's obvious embarrassment and hesitation, patting her head. "Let me guess, for example, dying here wouldn't really affect the you in the real world. Maybe you would even have a chance to start over afterward, right?"
"Class monitor, please don't tell me you figured that out without using Fenghuang Down..."
"You know Fenghuang Down, huh? Seems like our relationship is indeed quite good..." The Immortal Phoenix blinked, chuckling.
"And is that difficult? Not everything requires Fenghuang Down to know the truth. I used to be a detective, you know."
Blindsighted, you found a clue.
"From your reaction, I didn't guess wrong—you did indeed have many adventures after going to the parallel world."
"Class monitor..."
"I'm not the class monitor you know, Luo Lin."
Fu Hua pulled up the bewildered Luo Lin, brushing away the nonexistent dust on her, and calmly said, "But it's okay for us to get to know each other from now on."
"My name is Fu Hua, once known as the 'Jingwei' the immortal wandering the land of Shenzhou, now an S-rank Valkyrie of Schicksal, fighting to protect humanity."
After introducing herself, the white-haired red-eyed person reached out to Luo Lin.
Without hesitation, the girl grasped the offered hand.
"I'm Luo Lin, a B-rank Valkyrie of Schicksal. I fight for all the beauty in the world!"
"Very well."
Fu Hua nodded and, while reciting the authentication code for the Intelligence Department, pinched the glowing Fenghuang Down.
—All of it was the truth.
"The intermediary sent by Bishop Otto is me, Luo Lin. Interested in telling me what this place really is?"
The Immortal Phoenix surveyed the empty system space with interest and asked, "Like what I just saw, that should be what happened during the Second Eruption, right?"
"Um, well..." Luo Lin originally wanted to call her class monitor, but after some thought, she changed her mind. "This place is actually like Schicksal's Memorial Arena System, but its simulation ability is stronger. It can not only simulate powerful enemies but also manifest scenes like you just saw."
"Interesting. Would you mind telling me where you got it?" Fu Hua, with interest, touched the floor of the system space. "If such a magical item exists in the parallel world, perhaps we can find similar things in our world too?"
Luo Lin's mouth twitched. "I'm not sure about that. It just suddenly appeared in my mind... And others can't appear in this space like you do..."
"After all, this is the deepest part of consciousness..." Fu Hua sighed. "When you return to Schicksal Headquarters, Bishop Otto should have you report to the Research Department to examine what kind of existence this space is."
"Yeah..."
When Luo Lin saw Fu Hua appear in the system space, she realized that this place would attract her attention. Fu Hua, who hadn't fallen out with Otto yet, would definitely pass this information on to him.
The Bishop would definitely study the system on her body to see if it could help his plans.
Thinking like this, before anything was discovered about the system on her body, as long as she behaved normally and didn't betray Schicksal or humanity, her little life would be safe with Otto.
But when Luo Lin returned to Schicksal Headquarters and saw Otto again, she would probably have to swallow a dose of Fenghuang Down...
The girl sighed with a complex expression.
Fu Hua looked at Luo Lin finishing her thoughts and timely spoke, "By the way, Luo Lin, I need to thank you... Thanks to this thing's help, I've recovered some forgotten memories."
"Recovered old memories...?"
Luo Lin widened her eyes. "When are those memories from?"
Fu Hua organized her thoughts and said, "It's almost from the time of the Second Eruption, along with some ancient stories from Shenzhou..."
"Are there no memories from before that?"
Luo Lin asked cautiously.
Like the previous civilization, previous civilization, and so on.
"Why do I feel like you're more concerned about these things than I am..." Fu Hua glanced at her with a slightly strange expression. "Just these things, nothing else."
"Um... okay." Luo Lin scratched her head with some disappointment. "If Fu Hua is interested, you can come to me again... Maybe I can help you recover more memories?"
"Although it's good to recover memories, it's better to refrain from strolling around your consciousness too much."
Fu Hua waved her hand, explaining, "Human consciousness is actually a quite sophisticated and fragile thing. Using Fenghuang Down multiple times can not only burden you mentally but also potentially cause some unknown effects..."
"Is that so... I understand..."
"Alright, it's time for me to leave."
The Immortal Phoenix took out Fenghuang Down and injected Honkai energy into it—
"...Nothing happened."
"...Is something wrong?"
"I seem... unable to return temporarily?"
Luo Lin raised an eyebrow, seemingly realizing something. She quickly opened the system panel and soon found an anomaly—
On the Support interface, the two words "Fu Hua" were flashing with a rainbow light.