"Moshi moshi~ Are you awake? If you're awake, it's time for a beating~
_Ryn considerately whispered in Maheśvara's ear. With the all-purpose Honkai energy, there was no need to worry about the size difference preventing Maheśvara from hearing him._
Maheśvara shivered all over. Who knew what she had been through? After being knocked out by Kukulkan for the first time, she was captured by Ryn. Then, Ryn kept saying he wanted to interrogate her, but it was always Kukulkan who knocked her out...
Ryn saw Maheśvara move and knew she had woken up, so he shouted directly.
"You're awake? If you're awake, then hurry up and confess! You don't want another taste of Kukulkan's knockout stick, do you!"
"That's right, hurry up and talk, don't waste my precious time! There are still many new era delicacies waiting for me to taste!" Kukulkan held a baseball bat, bouncing around eagerly. If Maheśvara dared to say no, Kukulkan would whack her again with the bat.
Maheśvara looked at the bastard master and servant duo before her and, for the first time in her life, felt so wronged she wanted to cry.
"You just keep hitting me. You've been hitting me for so long, but you never said what you want me to confess! If you don't ask, how can I confess!"
Ryn and Kukulkan both froze for a moment, then looked at each other.
Ryn and Kukulkan said in unison, "You didn't ask?"
Ryn & Kukulkan: "I thought you asked!"
Ryn: "If you didn't ask, why were you knocking her out so quickly with your stick! I thought you asked and she wouldn't talk, so you hit her!"
Kukulkan: "Boss, you kept talking about interrogation, so I thought you had already asked... and that I was in charge of beating a confession out of her..."
"Ahem..." Ryn coughed a couple of times to get the conversation back on track.
"Speak. I shouldn't know you, right? Why did you attack me?"
Crack—
The binding chains restraining Maheśvara were snapped by her. Then, Maheśvara's form continuously shrank, finally transforming into a human form, standing before Ryn.
Judah silently retrieved the broken chain fragments from the ground, then looked at Ryn with a wronged expression.
"I told you the binding authority couldn't hold her... now it's all broken..."
Ryn patted Judah's head, "My bad, my bad. You can go first. I'll help you fix it tonight."
"Mhm..." Judah nodded and left the underground area with the chains.
"You ask me why I attacked you?" Maheśvara looked at Ryn angrily and roared at him, "You don't know what you've done yourself?!"
"Do I need to know? Who the hell are you! Why are you yelling so loud! I don't even know you, and you're asking me what I did, how would I know!"
Ryn looked at Maheśvara warily. According to Kukulkan's description, this creature might be a Honkai Beast pervert, and her mental state might be questionable. Who knows, maybe she'll accuse him of sleeping with her daughter next.
Maheśvara: "You bastard, you tricked my daughter!"
Ryn turned to look at Kukulkan and pointed at Maheśvara with an "I-knew-it" expression.
"Kukulkan, you were right, her brain is not normal. Let's send her to the lab later for Yiselian to dissect and study."
Kukulkan was a bit baffled. Maheśvara has a daughter? Then why did she want to mate with her? Didn't she know she was a faithful Honkai Beast? But sending her directly to the lab was out of the question. It was rare to find a Honkai Beast she could chat with, it would be a pity to kill her.
"Why don't we ask again? Let's not send her to the lab... If all else fails, just give her to me. I'm quite lonely as a single Honkai Beast, it would be nice to have a partner."
Maheśvara heard them already discussing her future and shouted excitedly, "What are you talking about! I'm telling the truth! Are you trying to play dumb and deny it!"
"Lady, how did I trick your daughter? I only have a few Honkai Beasts, and the ones I didn't tame, I basically killed. I definitely didn't trick any little ray Honkai Beast!"
"Not a Honkai Beast, it's Elysia... do you remember this name?"
"Elysia? Sounds familiar, I think I've heard it somewhere. But I don't think I know her? You must be trying to trick me!"
Seeing that words were useless, Maheśvara opened her mouth and spat out a large pink sphere that was even bigger than her human form.
Ryn looked at Kukulkan, then at Maheśvara. "Can all you Honkai Beasts do this?"
"Huh? Is this hard to understand? We just shrink our external form, the space inside our bodies is still the same as before. I have several small worlds inside me. Boss, do you want to come in and take a look?" Kukulkan pointed to her stomach, then opened her mouth, indicating that Ryn could just enter through her mouth.
"Let's skip that. Maybe next time when you're back in your original form, I'll go in and take a look. It's too weird when you're in human form..." Ryn reached out and held Kukulkan's chin, closing her mouth.
While Ryn and Kukulkan were chatting, Maheśvara unwrapped the large pink sphere layer by layer, revealing the object sealed within.
No, it was a corpse.
A pink-haired girl in a light pink formal long dress lay there quietly, her hands clasped in prayer on her chest. Her exquisite and flawless face, paired with her long, elf-like ears, added a touch of agility to her, making one think she was just lost in a dream if not looking closely.
"This is your daughter Elysia? An elf? Hey! I've never seen this person before, don't you dare say I tricked her!"
"Heh..."
Ryn circled around Elysia, carefully examining her condition.
"The living dead? Her body is still alive, but her consciousness is in a superposition of existence and non-existence... where is her soul?"
"I don't know, it was taken by someone..."
Maheśvara's eyes dimmed a little. Elysia should have been dead, but the Cocoon of Finality reversed the fact of her death, rewinding her time to before her death. However, once a person dies, their soul detaches from the material world.
The Cocoon could reverse the time of the material world, but it couldn't reverse a soul that had already disappeared, especially since the soul had been taken away by someone this time.
Ryn: "My condolences... but I still have no memory of this person named Elysia. I'm sure I don't know her."
Maheśvara: "Hehe... but we all know you..."
Ryn: "Then you must have mistaken me for someone else? It's fine, I have experience with this. I've met many people in other worlds who look very similar to those around me. Just treat them with a normal attitude. Although we are all counterparts, our different life experiences lead to completely different personalities and so on..."
Maheśvara shook her head. Ryn's appearance and the aura on him both proved that he was the one she knew. But why didn't he know her or Elysia...
He must be playing dumb again! Trying to run after getting what he wanted! Maheśvara raised her hand and threw a punch at Ryn.
With a clang, Maheśvara was knocked unconscious by Ryn with a bat.
"Phew... I still think her brain is messed up. Kukulkan, she's yours now, keep her in line. If you can't, send her to Mobius's lab and let Yiselian handle her."
Ryn shouldered the "Tianqi limited edition baseball bat" and turned to leave the underground area.