Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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Hearing Alicia ask this, Roland raised his head slightly, looked at her still smiling expression, remained silent for a while, and then continued to speak.

"If someone else asked me this question, I would probably answer them that we and the Flamemoths are all comrades-in-arms in the fight against the Honkai, we are not enemies at all, there's no question of us being enemies or adversaries. But if it's you..."

At this point, Roland changed the subject.

"...When I dealt with those two guys who tarnished Anti-Entropy's reputation, you were the one who led the team there, right? You handled everything after that, so you already knew my answer before you even asked me this question."

Roland looked into Alicia's eyes, without backing down or hiding anything, and told the whole truth.

"I either don't do it at all, or I do it thoroughly. That's me."

Alicia wasn't surprised by Roland's answer, but she tried asking a second question.

"Can't we discuss this further?"

Roland shook his head slightly.

“I allow for legitimate opinions when making decisions, but I generally rarely change them—because in a significant number of cases, I take into account the thoughts and feelings of my own people when I make decisions.”

“I know you and those who came to Anti-Entropy because of you. The original members of Firemoth were just disappointed with Firemoth and did not want to wipe them out. You may still have friends in Firemoth.”

“I have already taken your situation into consideration.”

"For example, I won't destroy the Fire Moths through direct warfare. I'll let them die in the happiest way possible. And before that begins, I'll also poach the talents I've set my sights on and can recruit, including your friend... Alicia. That's how I'm taking care of you."

"You may think I'm a dictator, but if I could, I would treat every true companion as a friend. If I could pursue the most perfect ending, I would definitely like everyone to be able to reach the end with a smile. No matter how much effort it takes to achieve such an ending, I will do my best."

"But often the outcome is not so perfect. If I consider you, I have to ignore the interests of others. There must be a compromise."

"Because I am the leader of Anti-Entropy, everyone is my comrade. I cannot only consider you. I'm sorry."

Roland told the truth, but Alicia maintained her smile, and there was not a trace of malice in her eyes. She didn't even change her tone.

"Oh dear, look at what you're saying! Is that really how you see me?"

"I was just curious about your ideas, and I also thought that there were some people on the Firemoth side who could be won over, but I didn't expect that you had already considered this part."

"If that's the case, my curiosity will be satisfied, and I won't have to worry about the things my other companions are worried about. I don't really have any other opinions."

As Alicia said this, she looked at Roland, and her smile became a little more pronounced.

"After asking about these things, I felt that if the future was in your hands, then many people would have a better ending."

"I will try my best to do that."

Seeing Roland nod very seriously to her, Alicia smiled and turned around, seemingly intending to leave.

However, before leaving, Alicia suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Roland, Eden has already arranged things on her end and has come to see you. She seems to want to meet you."

"Yes, I'll go talk to her later."

Roland nodded in agreement.

"That's good, I'll head back now~"

"Next, you'll start your poaching plan for the Firemoth, right? I'm so excited to see who gets poached!"

Watching this woman, who seemed to be immune to unhappiness, walk to the door, Roland finally breathed a sigh of relief and spoke again.

"Seele, the former Herrscher of Death, has been rescued, and Himiko, the former Herrscher of Flame, has also been rescued—they will become the fighting force against the Honkai."

"Alice, you're in charge of them now."

"I hope you can reassure them and make them realize that the power of the Herrscher is neither good nor evil; it is the user who determines it. Therefore, the power of the Herrscher can also be a possibility in fighting against Honkai, and some of the Herrscher's authority may even become the key to transcending the end."

"Although we may not be able to save every Herrscher, now that we've come to Anti-Entropy, even the Herrschers are our comrades."

“And anti-entropy will never abandon its companions.”

When Alicia heard Roland entrust Seele and Himiko to her care, she simply nodded, as if she understood and was prepared to complete the task.

She quite liked the task.

But as Roland continued speaking, and with his eyes fixed on her, Alicia knew that these words were spoken by Roland to her.

So even Alicia sighed after hearing it.

"You've figured out all my cute little thoughts! You'd better take responsibility!"

"And now I can clearly figure it out, but just now you seemed so clueless. Did you do it on purpose? Even with cute girls, it's not good to play pranks like that. I'll get a little upset."

At this point, Alicia put her hands on her hips.

"But after all, it's me, so it's not like I can't understand you."

"But you should be gentler with other cute girls, so they don't get upset because of you."

After saying this, Alicia turned and left without giving Roland a chance to speak, not even closing the door. This was a stark contrast to the extremely polite and honest Hua just now.

However, Roland simply shook his head at this.

He had actually wanted to have a serious talk with Alicia for a long time.

So even though he knew what Alicia meant, he still righteously and solemnly recounted all of this.

After all, Alicia was just a representative of the members who came from the Fire Moth. These words were not directed at any one person, but at everyone in this group.

Only with this attitude and this statement can Alicia have an explanation when she returns, and can they feel more at ease.

Moreover, Alicia herself probably has some ideas of her own—after all, she has some good friends on the Fire Moth side, and if he doesn't make things clear, then Alicia will probably try to poach them herself.

So it's best to explain it to her beforehand.

After finishing this task, Roland stood up from behind his desk, intending to go see Eden.

But as soon as he got up, he saw a message coming in.

This message didn't come from any of the Anti-Entropy individuals; it was hacked in from the outside. The fact that the other party was able to bypass the firewall established by Velvi and hack right in front of us shows that they have a very high level of technical skill.

However, it may be a case of oversight, or it may be that Velvi was more skilled. All the equipment Roland used was made by Velvi, so although the other party hacked in, they could not take any confidential information from Roland. Moreover, the other party's contact information accurately showed the other party's address and name, and even a profile picture that Velvi had obtained from somewhere.

The person who hacked into my side and then contacted me was none other than myself.

It was... Möbius!

Then her first words were—I am a researcher at Firemoth, and I want to join Anti-Entropy!

....

108. Möbius's Understanding

"I was able to hack into your computer, that should be enough proof of my abilities, right?"

Mebius originally wanted to look at something more, but she found that apart from being able to hack into the files, she couldn't actually read them, so she had to give up on that part of her plan.

This also reminded Mebius of the time when he first saw Anti-Entropy, when Roland stood before Velvi.

When Roland said that Vervies was a scientist no less capable than her, Möbius didn't really care.

After all, ever since she joined the Fire Moth and stopped publishing papers regularly, every few years a scientist would emerge in the academic world of Mu Continent claiming to be no less than Möbius. But in reality, when she was publishing papers regularly, only Mei received such an evaluation, and it was given to her by herself.

Could it be that she slowed down the pace of talent development in academia while she was still working in the field?

She felt this even more strongly when she saw the anti-entropy firewall.

After all, the fact that she was able to infiltrate speaks volumes—Möbius was a very capable biologist, and her achievements in other areas were also considerable, making her quite impressive compared to mediocre individuals, but insignificant compared to her achievements in biology.

Therefore, the fact that she could defeat him in an area where he was not good at it means that the other party was just an ordinary person.

But at this moment, Mebius became somewhat interested in this Vervie.

At least, the other party is not mediocre.

“That’s true, but you don’t need to prove your abilities. I’ve had high hopes for you from the beginning. If you let me choose four of the best scientists of this era, then I might choose you, Einstein, Mei, and our Velvet.”

"So I welcome you to Anti-Entropy. There's no need for any of that pretense or probing, Dr. Möbius."

Even Mebius was somewhat surprised to see this news.

"They actually found me. Was it reverse tracking? But I'm in the headquarters of the Moth of Fire, the most heavily guarded experimental zone... It's not surprising that real people like those Entropy Fusion Warriors could get in, but the fact that they could reverse track me without alerting Einstein and Mei, or record my constantly changing IP addresses."

"Vilvie...maybe she's actually quite formidable."

Velvi had been captured by the Fire Moth several times, but she always managed to escape. So, for someone like Mebius who was focused on research, the name Velvi sounded familiar, but that was all. This was the first time she had actively tried to remember the name.

Mebius was thinking this, but her hands went back to the keyboard.

"Since that's the case, I'll be frank. I intend to switch to Anti-Entropy, but as you probably know, I'm different from Alicia and the others. If I switch, then the Firemoth will probably focus all its efforts on Anti-Entropy."

"And if I'm going to Anti-Entropy, I don't plan to go alone..."

Mebius originally wanted to bring some experimental equipment and materials, but after thinking about it, she felt that even with her entropy-reversing abilities, it would be difficult, so she omitted that part.

"...At least I'll bring my assistants with me, a total of... three assistants."

When it came to the number of people, Mebius hesitated for a moment.

Her assistant was recently replaced by a young man named Klein for some reason... She had high hopes for this young female scientist, and the woman was indeed very capable.

She absolutely had to take Klein with her. If Klein didn't leave, she'd rather not go to Anti-Entropy at all!

Besides them, there were Danzhu and Cangxuan—but they were more like assistants than helpers. After Klein joined the team, the workaholic Klein took on almost all the work, and Danzhu and Cangxuan became complete layabouts in the research institute.

Basically, it involves buying a few cups of milk tea and running errands.