What if your Honkai Star Rail was like this?

Chapter 405: Chapter 404: Selection of Expedition Members

Top floor of Cloudstone Heavenly Palace, the private bath reserved for the Chrysos Heirs.

At this moment, the Chrysos Heirs had gathered together: Aglaea, Anaxa, Castorice, and the Tribbies had all arrived. In front of them, a purple mechanical figure stood there with elegant movements.

It was none other than Lygus.

Click clack——

At this time, the space above an empty area suddenly cracked open with a fissure. Several figures walked out from within. Phainon still made his entrance with his signature sunny laughter: ”Big Brother Lygus, I’ve brought the guests.”

Behind Phainon, Stelle and the others walked out one after another.

Upon seeing them, a hint of joy appeared on Lygus’s smooth and delicate cheeks. He took the initiative to greet them: ”Guests from beyond the sky, your arrival brings great joy to my heart. Thank you for your support of the Flamechasing.”

To be honest, when she saw Lygus this time, Stelle subconsciously felt an extra trace of suspicion in her heart——after all, in that previous dream, ”Cyrene” had already appeared in advance and informed her of Lygus’s true nature. Although it felt a bit strange, it was better to be careful.

”······What’s wrong? Miss Stelle?”

Seeing that Stelle’s complexion looked a bit unnatural, Lygus worriedly took a step forward and reached out to touch her forehead: ”You didn’t rest well, did you? Alas······ Okhema’s daylight never ends. People who have just entered the holy city indeed aren’t used to it.”

Lygus leaned in closer to Stelle and carefully looked her up and down: ”I believe that a cute girl like you should take good care of yourself. Yet now, for our sake, you’ve gone through so much trouble several times.”

”I will say it again here: Thank you, beautiful guest from beyond the sky.”

After saying this sentence, as if he had thought of something, he quickly looked toward Dan Heng and the other and added: ”Ah, you two are cute as well.”

Dan Heng/Sunday: ······

Dan Heng lightly coughed: ”······Thank you for your concern, Mr. Lygus. But right now, your meeting should still take priority. We are only observers and shouldn’t steal the spotlight.”

During this Amphoreus journey, basically most of the polite small talk was handled by Dan Heng. In the past, this was usually done by Welt or Himeko. But this time only three people had come, so this task naturally fell to him.

Stelle would occasionally blurt out strange remarks, while Sunday had too strong a capitalist vibe and wasn’t suitable.

Lygus smiled lightly and nodded. He cleared his throat and spoke in a clear voice: ”Comrades, today I have a piece of good news to announce here.”

”The moment we have waited for many years has finally arrived. Nikador, who has been hiding for many years, is about to meet his end. All these years, he thought that sending out avatars would be enough to continuously wear down Okhema’s strength. But unfortunately, under the detection device developed by Lady Aglaea, his main base has finally been discovered by us.”

”Now, we only need to select a few brave warriors to head to Nikador’s lair and annihilate this great threat that has plagued the holy city for many years in one fell swoop.”

”Chrysos Heirs who wish to go eliminate Nikador, please raise your hands.”

——Almost at the same time, Aglaea and Anaxa raised their hands simultaneously.

The crowd fell into silence. As if by prior agreement, they took out popcorn, sunflower seeds, and cola from their pockets and began waiting for the two to argue.

Anaxa snorted coldly and looked at Aglaea: ”Just with that small frame of yours, you also want to challenge Nikador? Hmph. Truly ignorant and fearless, overestimating yourself.”

”With your physical strength, forget about fighting Nikador. Even just walking into the depths of Castrum Kremnos would leave you half-dead from exhaustion, wouldn’t it?”

”Ha!”

Aglaea let out an unceremonious cold laugh, hands on her hips, and retorted: ”Still the same primitive-man way of speaking as always. A person has a brain but doesn’t use it—what’s the difference between that and a monkey?”

”Don’t forget, even the location of Castrum Kremnos was found thanks to me. Without me, you wouldn’t have even a shred of hope of obtaining the [Strife] Coreflame. Just for that alone, it wouldn’t be too much for you to kowtow to me!”

Anaxa drew two golden swords from his waist: ”Aglaea, do you want to test whether my swords are sharp?”

Aglaea similarly drew two handguns: ”My guns are not dull either!”

From the moment they opened their mouths to drawing their weapons, the two of them had only spoken three sentences each.

Stelle watched this scene and scratched her head in confusion: ”This is really strange. Why don’t the two of them just go together?”

Hearing this, Phainon immediately explained in a low voice: ”Oh, it’s like this. Actually, the two of them have gone out together before. But everyone discovered that during battle, Teacher Aglaea’s bullets would always automatically fly toward Lord Anaxa’s back. So later, Lord Tribbie and the others restricted them from teaming up again.”

Stelle: ”Ah? So does that mean Teacher Aglaea was the one who wasn’t being proper first?”

Phainon looked a bit troubled: ”This······ can’t really be said that way either. Because before that incident happened, Anaxa once threw Teacher Aglaea into a pile of monsters and ran away first by himself.”

Dan Heng, listening silently from the side, suddenly felt a familiar sensation welling up:

Hiss——This feeling······ why does it seem like I’ve seen it somewhere before?

”You two, stop!”

Just as the one gold and one green figures were about to start fighting, Tribbie suddenly jumped between them with a ”hey-yo” and said crisply: ”You two, if you fight again, I’m going to teach you a lesson!”

The group of figures behind her: ”Mm-hm!”

Only then did Aglaea and Anaxa stop. But it was obviously impossible to make them give up just like that. So Anaxa spoke first:

”The Coreflame I seek is only [Strife]. Therefore, in this battle I must take action. Mr. Lygus, Lady Tribbie, please make your judgment.”

Lygus nodded slightly. What Anaxa said was not wrong. His immortal body had a great connection with [Strife], and his own childhood experiences were also inextricably linked with Nikador. This battle held great significance for him.

It was a reasonable reason.

Thinking this, he looked toward Aglaea: ”Aglaea, we all know Anaxa’s reasons well. What about you? Do you have any reason why you must go?”

Aglaea spoke righteously: ”Of course!”

”First, the relationship between [Strife] and [Reason] has always been bad. This is beyond doubt.”

”Second, Nikador is a war god comparable to Kephale. His strength is formidable. If there is no demigod taking action, it would truly be unsafe.”

”Third, my recent research has achieved a new generation breakthrough. As long as it is operated and used reasonably, it can even shoot down the stars in the sky. It’s perfect to test it on Nikador.”

After finishing, Aglaea even specially added: ”If you want to see my latest invention, I can demonstrate it on the spot. Oh, of course, I’ll have to use Anaxa as a wooden training dummy.”

Anaxa: ”hks······”

”Mm······”

Lygus touched his chin and pondered for a while. Suddenly he said: ”You just said that without a demigod following it wouldn’t be safe. So are you actually worried about Anaxa’s safety?”