And so, on Stelle's side, her entire body suddenly floated up into the air out of nowhere. Mysterious patterns appeared beneath her feet, forming an unknown array.
The moment the array took shape, Jing Yuan's gaze instantly froze.
In his perception, the space where Stelle was located had been sealed by an invisible force.
Moreover, there was a power currently executing a program whose concept was named "extraction."
"Uwaaaah——!"
Cirrus's miserable scream rang out across this stretch of heaven and earth. It was incomparably shrill and made one's hair stand on end.
As the array beneath Stelle's feet began to rotate, Cirrus's screams grew even more intense and quickly evolved into pleas for mercy.
"Don't! Don't!"
"Please don't continue! I was wrong! I won't dare do it again!"
"I'll do anything you want!! Stop quickly——"
"Ah no, no, no——!!!"
Green flames separated from Stelle's body surface and gradually converged into a ball.
Leon's palm curved slightly and drew it over.
At this moment, the array beneath Stelle's feet transformed into points of light and dissipated. Her entire body slowly descended from mid-air and her feet touched the ground.
She opened her eyes, looking somewhat dazed.
Her gaze landed on the ball of flame suspended in Leon's palm, and only then did she understand what had happened.
Cirrus, this guy...
It had probably, maybe, possibly, should already be——dead?
Judging from the situation, it was likely the spiritual kind of death.
"Family! Are you okay?"
"Sister, sister, how do you feel?"
Guinaifen and Sushang quickly stepped forward, looking at Stelle with full of concern.
"Do I have such a hard background? What could possibly happen to me?"
Stelle smiled and waved her hand, pointing at the ball of fire in Leon's hand.
"What's Cirrus's current condition?"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's gazes converged on Leon.
"This… how is this possible?!"
However, before Leon could open his mouth, Tail let out a shocked cry and simultaneously hid behind Huohuo in fright.
Even Huohuo was completely dumbfounded, looking adorably dazed.
The Tail who feared neither heaven nor earth had actually… hidden behind her, and even his speaking voice was trembling?
"Tail?"
"You… you extracted all of Cirrus's emotions?"
Tail didn't respond to Huohuo. Instead, he peeked out half an eye from behind her and, with a trace of hope, directed a question at Leon.
Cirrus's main body… if his perception wasn't wrong, it was just like a Heliobus that had never consumed human emotions before.
Pure like a blank sheet of paper, possessing only the most basic consciousness.
Using an appropriate analogy to describe it, it was similar to a newborn animal, retaining only instincts and a tendency to be curious about humans.
The cold aura emanating from Leon disappeared in an instant. He glanced at Tail and a smile reappeared on his face.
"Something like that."
With a casual toss, he threw the Heliobus in his hand toward Hanya.
"I'll leave it to you Ten Lords Commission to deal with, Miss Hanya."
Hanya came back to her senses, took out the Cangyue Gourd and absorbed the flame. The way she looked at Leon was no different from looking at a ghost.
"…Your gaze is a bit rude."
"Sorry. This humble one is seeing such a scene for the first time. I am still shocked in my heart."
"I'll be damned…"
After hearing Hanya's words, Ah Xian's face was full of shock.
"Brothers, has Cirrus received its boxed lunch?"
[Yes.]
"What about the endings in the other branches?"
[It was hung up and beaten by Jing Yuan with two fingers, but the possession of the冥差 was not released. It was only sealed again.]
"In other words, only in Leon's route will Cirrus be eliminated?"
[To be precise, only in Leon's route, and only if you also choose to provoke Cirrus and anger it, will this ending be achieved.]
[If you don't argue with Cirrus, its fate will be similar to the other branch routes.]
[This should be what Father mentioned before—the method to cause a Heliobus's spiritual death.]
"What is a sense of security? This is what you call a sense of security. Ah~~ I love Leon to death!"
Ah Xian grabbed the Leon body pillow on the bed and pulled it over, hugging it tightly and rubbing her face against it vigorously.
Her expression was that of a yandere, filled with intoxication and infatuation.
For the regular viewers in the live stream room, the amount of electricity her current behavior could provide was, at most, enough to light up a single light bulb.
Child's play level.
"Seeing that once I'm threatened, without a second word he takes action to resolve the guy who dared to create the threat…"
"Who understands this feeling of complete peace of mind?"
"Damn it, why can't I enter the 2D world? I really want to be **ed by Leon until my eyes roll back, tongue sticks out, and saliva uncontrollably flows from the corner of my mouth…"
"Just thinking about the scene where my hands involuntarily make a peace sign in cooperation makes me want to pick up a pen and draw it…"
[Draw it. You can draw it. This is what you do. We love watching this kind of elegant work!]
[Then I'll +1.]
[+2.]
...
Qingqiu Terrace.
No one had expected that Cirrus, who had schemed and put everything on the line, would meet its end because it was provoked by Stelle into flying into a rage out of humiliation.
Everyone could see that if Cirrus hadn't made a move against Stelle, Leon basically wouldn't have bothered to intervene.
The temperature in this space had changed too obviously. From the moment Cirrus re-possessed Stelle, it had dropped significantly, as if one had entered an ice cellar.
It had calculated everything, yet because of the anger in its heart it provoked someone it shouldn't have, and ended up like this.
Even though it brought this upon itself, it still made people sigh with emotion.
Jing Yuan looked at Stelle with a smile, and in his heart he was glad that he hadn't neglected the Nameless guests when they first arrived.
Leon's attitude toward the Xianzhou Alliance completely depended on how the Xianzhou Alliance treated his companions.
Moreover, Jing Yuan had a faint feeling—
He always felt that after waking from Dormancy, Leon had become even more extreme.
Perhaps his past experiences had deepened this extreme tendency of his.
But this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
It wasn't like there weren't extreme people around him, and they had done things that people would never forget for the rest of their lives...
With Cirrus dead, the remaining leaderless and already demoralized weak Heliobi were easily subdued and returned to the Lock Demon Tower by the Ten Lords Commission's underworld messengers.
The Heliobus calamity that had occurred in Fyxestroll Garden during this period of time could be considered to have come to an end.
...
Ghost-catching squad gathering point.
Seeing Stelle and Leon arrive, Hanya nodded in greeting to the two of them.
"You're here. Just now I already helped Huohuo redraw Tail's seal. Next, we need to deal with the emotionless Cirrus."
Stelle's gaze landed on the flame dumpling beside Huohuo and she couldn't help but smile.
"Don't you want to leave this place?"
Tail: "If this Lord were still a pure Starfire Essence, of course I would float beyond the heavens."
"But after being tainted by your human emotions and worldly affairs, this Lord's freedom has long since stopped being so simple."
"Right now this Lord is already in the most free state possible. There's nowhere to go."
Huohuo explained: "According to Ten Lords Commission regulations, the Heliobus Tail should still be supervised by a Judge. So Lord Tail has been handed over to me."
"Tch." Tail said disdainfully: "Who supervises who isn't certain yet."
Huohuo didn't retort this time and continued with the remaining content.
"…Also, when Lord Tail wasn't around, the other Heliobi all bullied me. It's still more reassuring when Lord Tail is here."
Hearing this, Tail raised its flame tail: "Hmph hmph. It's not too late for you to realize this Lord's goodness now."
Stelle teased with a pout: "Tsk tsk. It really is a tsundere."
"..." Tail immediately felt a bit unhappy.
But what could it do about being unhappy?
This little girl herself wasn't scary, but the ultimate calf-protecting killing star next to her was countless times more terrifying than anyone in the Ten Lords Commission.
If she said it was tsundere, then it was tsundere. That was still better than provoking that terrifying nuclear good squinting eyes expression