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

Xia Yuan, wrapped in a quilt, sat on a snowdrift.

However, Padofelis beneath him kept twisting and turning, which interrupted Xia Yuan's thoughts.

"Pado...behave yourself and don't move around. If you keep doing this, we'll really be exposed."

"It's clearly Brother Xia Yuan, but you sat in a place you shouldn't have been sitting in. Now you're sitting on my stomach, and all those shiny chocolates are poking my back, meow!"

Padofelis, hidden under the snowdrift, shifted her body back and forth, seemingly trying to find a suitable spot.

Meanwhile, inside the carriage of the "Red Kite" train.

Blackie had already carried little Gretchen, who was tightly bound by iron chains, back into the cockpit and placed her beside Klein to keep him company.

After a moment...

Miss Hei hope seemed to notice the basket that little Gretchen had been carrying not long ago in one of the corners.

She lifted the cloth covering the basket, revealing a row of exquisitely crafted chocolates before her. Miss Hei Xi seemed to remember something... She remembered that Xia Yuan had once prepared the same chocolates for her.

She took a small bite.

The taste is slightly worse than what that bad guy made back then... cough cough, slightly better. This is also what he taught Seele to make. Back then, Seele dragged me along to help him.

In the midst of reminiscing, without realizing it... a slight smile appeared on Miss Kuroki's lips.

Perhaps it's the sweetness of chocolate, or perhaps it's the beauty of memories.

"No, no, why am I thinking about that guy now!"

Miss Hei hope shook her head, seemingly trying to banish the image of Xia Yuan from her mind.

But looking at the heavy snow falling outside the train, accompanied by the occasional howling of the cold wind, Hei hope couldn't help but worry about Xia Yuan's safety... Had she gone too far just now? If she wanted him to keep his distance from Xi'er, wouldn't it have been simpler to just lock him in her room? In this cold weather, what if that bad guy...

"【Red Kite】, return to the city station where you were previously located."

[Instructions have been issued]

[Heading to destination...]

"Ahem... I'll just sneak a peek at him. If he's friendly, I'll bring him in. If not, I'll let him stay out in the snow. I'm not worried about the bad guy's safety."

However, in Hei hope's hand, there was a piece of money that she had saved up over the years.

Chapter 159 is about Aunt Mei~

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Raiden Mei was using her rare vacation to escape the trivial matters that Theresa had assigned her and enjoy a pleasant holiday in the city.

until......

When she witnessed a figure she felt an overwhelming sense of nostalgia flash past a nearby building, she instinctively put down her coffee and involuntarily followed the figure's running trail.

Raiden Mei was surprised by the fleeting figure.

She didn't know if the fleeting figure was just her imagination... but Raiden Mei felt a special sense of familiarity with that figure. She slowly got up and walked towards the building where the other person had fled.

That memory resurfaced in Raiden Mei's mind.

Could that figure just now be the brown kitten that used to follow her? If so, then who is its owner...? Mei felt both anticipation and a little fear.

But Raiden Mei knew that this was just wishful thinking on her part.

As a memory entity, she should have disappeared long ago...

Mei kept wondering if things would have turned out differently if she had been a little faster.

But unfortunately, there are no "what ifs"...

"When did I become like this? Or should I stop thinking about it...? I should go see who the owner of that little cat [Canned Food] that looks just like Padoflis is."

If not, Raiden Mei wants to adopt and take it in.

When Raiden Mei arrived at the spot where the other person had disappeared, she carefully examined the huge claw marks left in the snow...

But the size of the other party is too different from that of [Canned Food]. Mei vaguely remembers that [Canned Food] should be a light brown kitten.

Just then~

A voice that sounded like a panicked young girl came from a building on one side.

"Oh no, oh no! That was a task personally assigned to me by Lady Theresa. Without Lady Su Chang by my side, I can't do anything at all. Waaah... Should I take some of my allowance and use real gold bars to pad it up?"

A cute blonde girl, who looked like a bank employee, was seen alone, covering her face as if she was crying. Raiden Mei had seen her before in Schicksal's logistics department.

Susana... that's the girl's name.

But the words the other person murmured to himself gave Raiden Mei a sense of long-lost familiarity.

"Hello, may I ask what happened here just now?"

Raiden Mei looked at the somewhat messy surroundings and asked the girl in front of her in a soft voice.

Hearing a voice beside her, Susana slowly removed her hands from her cheeks and quietly observed the person who had come, though a trace of tears remained in the corner of the girl's eyes.

When the girl saw that the person who came was Raiden Mei, Susana immediately straightened her body.

"Mei... Mei-senpai?!"

"I am a B-rank Valkyrie, Susana, and I am ready to serve you at any time. But please, Mei-senpai, don't tell Bishop Theresa about what I messed up. Waaah, please!"

Seeing the girl with her hands clasped together, her emotions gradually spiraling out of control, Raiden Mei comforted her:

“Susana, you’ve misunderstood. I was just on vacation in this city and happened to be passing through. By the way, what task did Bishop Theresa assign you?”

"Senior Mei, it's like this, Bishop Theresa has been engrossed in researching bitter melon juice, hasn't she?"

"This... really is Theresa's style."

Mei thought to herself.

The girl collected her thoughts and continued:

"Recently, there seems to have been a breakthrough in the technology field, but due to overcapacity, the logistics department of Tianming was tasked with distributing various forms of bitter melon-flavored snacks to citizens for free in different ways."

I'm in charge of promoting the bitter melon-flavored chocolate. My original plan was to distribute them to the public on Valentine's Day. If you like someone, be brave and eat this chocolate for your loved one!

Susana said somewhat embarrassedly, her hands behind her back.

Mei had already vaguely guessed what would happen next.

"But later..."

"Because not everyone can tolerate the bitterness of bitter melon, couples who have only tasted chocolate for a few seconds might say things like, 'Why didn't you eat this chocolate? Don't you love me?!'"

The two then started arguing and threatened to break up.

I had to comfort them for a long time before we made up. What was supposed to be a beautiful and romantic Valentine's Day turned into a happy breakup.

Hehehe~

Raiden Mei covered her eyes with her sleeve and chuckled lightly.

"Waaaah... Mei-senpai, please don't make fun of me." The girl said with a slightly aggrieved expression.

"Alright, alright, I'm not laughing anymore. So, what happened to Susana after that?"

Raiden Mei waved to the girl, signaling her to continue.

"So I had to find another way. Since this pile of bitter melon-flavored chocolates looks like shiny gold nuggets from the packaging, I plan to take it to the bank and hand one to every citizen who comes. Since they can't eat them, they can keep them as collectibles. It's a way of not wasting Lady Theresa's good intentions."

I'm afraid only Theresa would like to eat chocolate like this...

Immediately afterwards, the girl revealed what Mei most wanted to know about her experiences, which was also the reason she had come here.

"But, just as I put this pile of chocolates in the corner, in the blink of an eye... Mei-senpai, you absolutely can't imagine, a huge, talking, light brown orange cat barged in."

"Its tone at the time was like this..."

[Hey girl over there, does nobody want that pile of shiny, gold-nugget-like chocolates next to you?]

Susana mimicked the other person's tone.

"In a sense, nobody really wants these bitter melon-flavored chocolates... so I nodded blankly without thinking, and then it excitedly grabbed all the chocolates and carried them away."

"Waaaaah... Mei-senpai, did I mess this up?"

“Susana, you have to think of it this way. In a way, since it came to this city, shouldn’t it also be a resident of this city? Since the other party took it all, it means that the other party really liked that pile of chocolates. And Susana, didn’t you also complete the task that Bishop Theresa assigned to you?”

"Oh, right~"

Susana thought about it and realized that what Mei-senpai said made a lot of sense.

"Then, Susana, can you tell me which direction the other party ran in the city?"

Chapter 160: Interrogation by Aunt Mei

"Mei-senpai, that talking giant orange cat ran that way."

The girl, now free of her worries, is happily pointing in the direction where Raiden Mei disappeared, and after Raiden Mei leaves, she waves goodbye to her like a cute little bear.

Raiden Mei followed the direction Susana pointed out...

They continued their pursuit of the [canned] creature that seemed to be the constant companion of Padofelis, but its tracks disappeared at a temporarily maintained high-speed rail station in the western part of the city.

"Perhaps the traces were covered by the heavy snow?"

Mei gently patted the snowflakes off her hair and murmured to herself.

Just then, Raiden Mei, who was observing her surroundings, noticed that in the area that was covered in snow, there was a person sitting alone in a snowdrift, wrapped in a quilt and quietly looking up at the sky.

"In such cold weather, are there still citizens wandering outside?"

Maybe.....

The other party happened to have witnessed that creature.

But Raiden Mei thought about what Susana had said, and perhaps that creature was actually the other person in disguise.

With a sliver of hope, Mei slowly approached Xia Yuan and asked:

"Hello, I'm Raiden Mei. Excuse me for bothering you, but have you seen a large creature that looks like a light brown orange cat running in the snow?"

Mei's magnetic words echoed in Xia Yuan's ears.

But when Raiden Mei got closer to him, she was drawn to the aura emanating from Xia Yuan that was incredibly familiar to her...

"Why does he have Alicia's aura on him?"

Mei froze on the spot.

When Xia Yuan saw that the person who came was Raiden Mei... his previous guess was correct. The person chasing Pathophilis was indeed Aunt Mei, but at this time Pathophilis had not regained the memories that originally belonged to her.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

After a while.

Seeing that the other person was also staring intently at her, Mei couldn't help but ask.

Raiden Mei subconsciously put her fingertips to her lips. There shouldn't be any coffee stains on her lips, right? Could it be that she was walking too fast and didn't notice for a moment?

"Auntie, no...no, absolutely not!"

Hearing Mei's words, Xia Yuan came back to his senses and explained to her, but he inadvertently revealed his own deepest thoughts.

"Hmm?...Auntie?"

"Do I really look that old in other people's eyes...? I take care of my skin every day."

At that moment, Xia Yuan seemed to be swallowed up by the thousands of lightning bolts erupting from Mei's body, and his body was unable to move as if he had been electrocuted. Fortunately, she quickly withdrew the sharp yet resentful aura from her body.

In that instant, Xia Yuan realized he had accidentally said the wrong thing and quickly changed the subject.

"Yes, of course I've seen it. Doesn't it look like an oversized orange tabby cat, all fluffy, fat and round, with a big head and ears, and it can eat a lot?"

Xia Yuan waved his hands to gesture the other person's appearance.

Immediately afterwards...

Xia Yuan then felt a force coming from under the snowdrift he was sitting on, pushing him towards Raiden Mei.

"Brother Xia Yuan, you're the one who can really eat!"

Padofelis, hiding in the snowdrift, complained and shoved Xia Yuan's buttocks, which were pressing down on her, hard.

Xia Yuan instinctively grabbed onto the nearest thing to steady himself...

But the strange sensation coming from his hand made Xia Yuan glance at it subconsciously, and he immediately felt that something was very wrong.