Esper X Family – Chapter 693 – Who Told Me To Be So Earnest?

The small-time streamer who had just started her broadcast quickly turned her lens toward the two winged horses in the sky.

This was, after all, a potential first sighting. She had to milk every drop of traffic from it!

Plus, she already had a small following, and the moment she went live, viewers poured into her stream.

“What? Horses with wings?!”

“Holy crap, this is insane! I thought a single thunderous horn was the limit, but now they can fly too?!”

“Wait, hold on. Are those people on their backs?!”

“Holy crap! There are! Are they zoo staff? Did the keepers max out their friendship with the ponies and trigger some bond evolution ¹ Ash’s Greninja. ?”

“No, wait! They look familiar! Is this for real?!”

At that moment, the streamer glanced at the barrage of comments and realized that her viewership was exploding.

Normally, her streams didn’t get much chat activity, but it was practically blowing up this time.

Could it be that was she destined for top-streamer status?

Before she could revel in her excitement for too long, she caught a flash of messages whizzing by in the barrage.

“People? What people? I only see two horses flying… Where are the riders?”

The streamer squinted and zoomed in, but still couldn’t spot anyone on the horses’ backs.

She even asked a tourist next to her, only to get a confused look in return.

“People? Who? Are you hallucinating?”

The streamer immediately thought her fans were pranking her again, and was about to fire back a retort when her viewer count absolutely skyrocketed!

“Holy crap! Tong!”

“I’m not seeing things, am I? Is that our beloved Streamer Yao Catty?!”

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“Where is this? I need to leave right now to bask in the glorious presence of Great Emperor Tong Yao!”

“Judging by this streamer’s reaction, it doesn’t look staged. Can she really not see them?”

“Isn’t it obvious? She’s definitely been eroded by the will of heaven… I mean, by Yao Catty!”

After the barrage’s reminders, the streamer finally realized just what a rare encounter she had stumbled upon.

Could this stroke of astronomical luck really be falling into her lap?

Barely suppressing the grin threatening to spread across her face and the thrill inside her, the streamer didn’t make a big deal out of it, nor did she expose Ye Yao’s presence.

She was a smart streamer who knew how to play her cards right.

Since Ye Yao was hiding her tracks, she clearly didn’t want to be disturbed.

The streamer wasn’t about to try and squeeze anything out of such an awe-inspiring existence.

She was content as it was.

Just inadvertently starting this stream and pulling in this massive wave of traffic was already a blessing of untold fortune!

Keep a low profile, cash in quietly, and stay practical. That was the smartest move!

“Ahem! I can only see two horses flying around, nothing else. I don’t know anything beyond that. I’m just streaming normally!”

Even though she couldn’t see the real scene on-site, she could always catch up online later.

Get the traffic and enjoy the gossip, two birds with one stone!

A while later.

The two horses descended from the sky.

Ye Yao and Mo Qiuli hopped off their mounts, looking thoroughly pleased.

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“That was so fun! So this is what riding feels like, and on magical little ponies, no less! I’m definitely going to remember this experience!”

Mo Qiuli hugged the pony’s neck affectionately, already treating the little pony like a friend, and seemed half-inclined to take it back to the Countermeasures Bureau to raise.

Although she had fought in the interstellar battle and weathered plenty of major battles.

Who wouldn’t want to raise a magical pony companion?

After all, the Magical Girl Alliance was seriously lacking in mascots.

A few more little critters would be great!

Ye Yao smiled faintly.

It wasn’t like she couldn’t just say a word and bring it into the painting world, anyway.

They were just ordinary unicorns. Ye Yao could arrange it with a single mention.

And if Mo Qiuli wanted to raise it into a magical pony later, that was fine too.

“Alright, let’s head to the next section. You can ride again anytime.”

“Uuu, the only downside is I didn’t get to ride on the same horse as you. Riding together is the only way to truly show the sincere friendship between magical girls, right?”

I’d be embarrassed to call you out on that!

Is that “friendship” you’re talking about even the legitimate kind?

Ye Yao silently grumbled to herself without exposing Mo Qiuli’s little scheme.

As for the winged horses, she could just leave them at the zoo to serve as a “big star”.

Then, Ye Yao turned around and fixed her gaze on a direction, spotting a certain small streamer doing a live broadcast on-site. It seemed that she was still trapped under the illusion’s effects, yet viewers elsewhere could see the real scene.

In response, the silver-haired girl simply raised a single index finger to her lips in a “shh” gesture, as if reminding everyone not to cause unnecessary commotion.

After all, if news of her presence here spread, there would probably be a flood of nearby onlookers swarming the zoo.

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Some would probably even call in sick just to join the fun.

With that, Ye Yao turned around and led Mo Qiuli away, brushing past the zoo’s keepers without drawing anyone’s attention at all.

It wasn’t until dozens of seconds later that a staff member received a phone call.

“What do you mean ‘Tong Yao is at our zoo’? And that she just flew a lap around the sky on a horse?!”

Well, then. That old winged horse was going to be enshrined.

Who knows, perhaps she would come back to ride it again sometime!

It was an honor to help keep a horse for Tong Yao!

Meanwhile, on the other side.

“My tracks are exposed, but we can still hang around a bit longer. We’ll leave after seeing the last animal.”

Ye Yao knew full well that it wouldn’t be that easy to keep the curious onlookers in line.

Without resorting to forceful measures or abilities, nearby folks would inevitably come running.

Before long, the zoo’s atmosphere would be even crazier than a holiday peak.

She just needed to slip away with the group before things got too lively.

“I wonder if the zoo has produced any Proof of Emperorship ² Ancient Chinese believe that Emperors are dragons… yet. It’s been a while, surely some big fat snake has turned into a dragon by now?”

Ye Yao was a little hopeful.

Although saying “snake” wasn’t quite right, as they were more like a python.

Only those with enough size had the capital to evolve into dragons.

Looking back, Ye Yao still thought that she’d been a bit overly imaginative back then.

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The relationship between snakes and dragons was like that of a Caterpie and a Rayquaza.

Normally, it was fun to joke around and talk about it casually, but that was about it.

And yet, Ye Yao had actually come up an absurd evolution path for them.

In myth and legend, there were always stories of pythons turning into flood dragons and then into true dragons. Now, that was actually within reach.

Still, to keep Brother Dragon from losing their prestige, Ye Yao had set the evolution bar quite high. Becoming a true dragon wouldn’t be that easy.

At the very least, one’s mental power had to reach S-rank.

Soon, Ye Yao and her group arrived near the zoo’s artificial lake.

A transparent barrier of mental power surrounded the lake, effectively sealing it off.

Even if someone was suicidal enough to try getting close to the water, they wouldn’t be able to.

Ye Yao sensed it and detected a massive energy source at the bottom of the lake. Clearly, the big fat snake was in the middle of evolving.

“So slow, I can’t even see any dragon scales yet!”

Ye Yao could see it perfectly clearly.

She suspected that the tropical rainforest section had a better chance of producing a flood dragon first.

“Ah, whatever. Let me give you a little push. Who told me to be so earnest?”

There was no other reason, Ye Yao simply wanted to see it happen.

Author Note

Awawa

Text: Adding to secret diary

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