Saving the world, such a laughable idea was undoubtedly a fantasy.
After all, how could the power of one person change the world?
But—
In Jiang Qiao's eyes, saving this world was not a pipe dream.
For example, the most feasible solution—doing nothing.
Simple and feasible. He just had to do nothing, find an absolutely safe place to hide, and wait for the original plot to unfold. This world was destined to be saved by the efforts of many people.
Doing extra things would only change the already set result.
If it wasn't for the encounter with Elysia, Jiang Qiao would probably have chosen to do this.
As long as he found opportunities to improve his relationship with the girls in the meantime, he could then live a peaceful life with the girls after the story ended.
But, this was just a hypothetical.
His encounter with the pink fatty had indeed changed his rational and pragmatic thinking.
"If Elysia could selfishly use my weak body to save Nagazora City, then why can't I also selfishly choose to use Elysia's body to save the world?"
Just like Elysia had said, being selfish was a girl's prerogative. So, he could also exercise this prerogative now, right?
After all, that pink fatty was the one who had done it first. He was merely doing the same.
Jiang Qiao held grudges very well.
If he had the power, then he would absolutely not just sit back and watch everything unfold according to the original plan.
He wanted to use his method to change and save the world, to save... two worlds!
"Elysia, you should be more or less able to use that power now."
Happy with the decision that Raiden Mei had made, Jiang Qiao seemed to have remembered something, and reminded the chubby lady.
"Ah?"
The chubby lady was a bit slow to react, but she quickly realized.
"Is this the power you called Origin?"
Looking at the wondrous light in her hand, feeling the power, Elysia widened her eyes.
So that's how it was. It wasn't because she was too much of a failure.
Actually, this so-called power of Origin belonged to Jiang Qiao!
That made sense. That made a lot of sense.
It was normal that she couldn't use Jiang Qiao's power with her own body, wasn't it?
The chubby lady subconsciously ignored the fact that she had used this body earlier when it was still in its basic form.
"Ahem."
Jiang Qiao's expression was a bit strange.
Elysia was indeed using the power of Origin, but she was using the immature Origin's power, the little copy that he had obtained in a manner similar to copying and pasting.
Although a part of it had gone with him when he swapped bodies, a part of it still remained in his own body.
Although it was incredibly weak, it was precisely because of this that Elysia, a newbie who refused to accept her identity as a Herrscher, could use the power of Origin.
How should he say this?
The real Herrscher of Origin couldn't use her authority in her own body, but she had to go into someone else's body to barely use what was left behind... If Elysia knew this fact, the chubby lady would probably be very upset!
After hesitating again and again, Jiang Qiao still gave up on revealing the cruel fact to the chubby lady who was having fun with her scraps.
Considering that he didn't have much time left, he needed to finish the things that he must do here in the future with this body.
"Mei, Kiana, the two of you come closer to me."
"?"
Although they were a bit confused, they still came closer silently.
Hey, you couldn't deny it.
Although they clearly knew that the "driver" in this [Elysia] was originally the male Jiang Qiao, the two of them didn't feel any resistance. Kiana even couldn't help but take a sniff.
Jiang Qiao ignored this small movement, but instead raised two index fingers and placed them on each of their foreheads.
The close proximity made Kiana and Mei blush.
But—
"Look into my eyes. Don't move them~"
The next moment, the originally charming azure eyes changed to divine pink ones, and the divine patterns within them were shining brightly.
—The authority of Origin turned at this moment.
"?!"
Kiana, whose whole body shivered, was the first one to show a reaction. One of her eyes had instantly turned a divine orange-yellow, revealing a bone-chilling coldness and killing intent.
Little sister, this is just for you!
The next moment, a crystal flower pattern appeared in her eyes, being drawn and taking over.
On the spot between her eyebrows, the faint, small crystal flower also gradually faded away.
"After this, you don't have to worry about the problem you've been worried about."
The slightly weary girl's voice rang out in Kiana's ear. Her pupils shrank slightly, and she couldn't help but look at Jiang Qiao with disbelief, but the latter didn't say anything and directly gave a similar mark to Raiden Mei.
Those were the marks of Origin.
By consuming a large amount of Honkai energy, she used the authority of Origin to leave behind a "restriction" on their bodies.
Their purpose was so that while Jiang Qiao was gone from this era, these two wouldn't create a big mess.
"Doing something like this is really tiring."
Jiang Qiao sighed after finishing what he had to do.
Doing this was even more tiring than when he had used the authority of Origin earlier to extinguish all the Honkai energy sources of Nagazora City with a single arrow.
In order to prevent his identity from being exposed, the amount of Honkai energy he had stored in his body was very small.
The fact that he had been able to shoot that arrow was thanks to the Honkai energy that had come from the large Honkai energy reactor that Cocolia had left behind.
The pink girl clenched her hand, felt the emptiness in this body, and shook her head.
It was really uncomfortable to feel like he had been completely drained.
"...What did you do to them?"
Elysia, who had been watching the whole time, clearly noticed something was wrong, and asked Jiang Qiao softly.
Even though she wasn't very sensitive to Herrschers now, there was no way she wouldn't notice Kiana's momentary abnormality. She wasn't blind.
"I'll explain to you later. Elysia, you must stay in Nagazora City for some time, using my body."
"Why?"
The chubby lady was a bit puzzled by this request.
Although she figured that she wouldn't be able to leave Nagazora City for a short while, why had Jiang Qiao specifically reminded her of that?
Looking at herself, who was a little dazed, Jiang Qiao was a little speechless. His own body was a top student. How did this chubby lady make him seem like a fool?
Resisting the urge to feel embarrassed, he patiently explained:
"Although I have extinguished all Honkai energy sources in Nagazora City with one arrow, the Honkai energy that Cocolia had released earlier won't just disappear."
Even the Herrscher of Origin couldn't just eliminate all the Honkai energy from an entire region.
That belonged to the domain of Herrscher of Binding and Herrscher of Finality .
And due to Mihoyo's mischievousness, Nagazora City was the place closest to the Imaginary Tree in reality.
If they didn't take time to clear out the Honkai energy that Cocolia had released in Nagazora City, then even if they stopped this incident, this city would still experience a Great Honkai Eruption because of the naturally increasing Honkai energy.
Originally, this matter had to be done by him, using Elysia's body, and spending some time here.
But, his commission time wouldn't allow him to do that. Not to mention, the [Elysia] of the Previous Era couldn't just disappear for a long time.
The current Elysia wasn't just a random person who could go wherever she wanted. She was a registered soldier of Fire Moth, and even the hero who had defeated the Second Herrscher. If she disappeared for too long, there would naturally be consequences.
The girl's slightly hurried voice rang out in her ear, with a hint of schadenfreude:
"If you can use that power now, then the safety of this city is up to you, Elysia."
"I'm almost out of time, bye-bye~"
—Nagazora City wouldn't be very peaceful for a while.