My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 380: Turbulent Mind

Elysia gave her family members a head pat before asking them to enter the recovery chamber.

"Fufu, if you can’t recover at least a quarter of your prime by tomorrow, then we can’t take you on a vacation in another world. It’s also not very peaceful there, so you need to prepare at least that much." Elysia casually announced the requirement to join the family vacation trip.

"That’s only a quarter of the maximum. It’s easy. Then, I’ll go first!" Sylvia was the first one to enter the female recovery chamber.

The girls immediately excused themselves and entered their recovery spots. They weren’t in a rush like Sylvia, but they had a similar urgency because they didn’t want to miss the vacation event.

As for the male, they went to the recovery chamber next door.

"..." Rhea pulled the hem of Elysia’s sleeve and looked up.

"Alright. Let’s go." Elysia held Rhea’s hand and invited her Goddess sisters to soak in the hot spring.

Since Rhea couldn’t absorb spiritual energy to recover without help, then Elysia had to assist Rhea through Megami first.

The primary recovery chamber was booked for the core members. Everyone sat in a meditation position in the hot spring, wrapped only in towels. The recovery chamber was guarded by several mechanisms, and the atmosphere became very quiet because everyone wanted to quickly recover before the day changed.

"You’ve done your best." Elysia hugged little Rhea in her arms, then assisted Rhea in absorbing the pure spiritual energy in the air, water, and earth.

"Mm~" Rhea blushed slightly before closing her eyes in Elysia’s arms.

As the recovery event unfolded in peaceful silence, Elysia asked Megami to take over, but she still left some of her consciousness to assist Rhea remotely.

Meanwhile, Elysia returned to herself on Earth. At that time, Elena and Ai were preparing a car.

"El, you’re back. Let’s move to the city with this car." Elena waved her hand.

"Uh, how long have I been away?" Elysia rubbed her head. It felt like only an hour or maybe a day. She lost her sense of time.

"That’s seventy-one minutes. We got the engine working." Ai breathed a sigh of relief after fiddling with the problematic car engine.

Luckily, she only needed to smack some parts once for them to work. She then closed the car’s hood and wiped her hands with a handkerchief.

*Vroom* *Vroom*

Elena tested the gas pedal. She was ready to drive the car.

"Ah, okay..." Elysia hopped down from the aircraft, carrying the sleeping Erina in her arms.

That white SUV car was one that Erina lent to her five years ago, and it had been parked under seal all that time in her storage space...

"I’m in control. You’re the co-pilot." Elena pointed to the seat next to her when Ai approached her.

Ai nodded in reply, then went to help Elysia put the sleeping Erina into the car. "Ely, what about her? Her body evolution took longer than I estimated. She received divine blessings directly from you."

"Mm, she will wake up soon. I granted her a new power and evolved her original superpower. Her body will at least ascend to S-level to match her SSS-level spiritual power." Elysia gently stroked Erina’s cheek.

"Uhm-mm..." Erina rubbed her cheek against Elysia’s hand subconsciously.

"Ai, please put our aircraft into subspace and hop into the car." Elena waved her hand.

"Hum." Ai waved her hand, putting their stealth aircraft into their shared subspace. She then got into the car.

Elena drove the car, leaving the outskirts of the forest to get on the main road to Tokyo.

The distance from their starting location to the border was only ten kilometers. It didn’t take long until they arrived at the main road to the city area.

Elena checked the rearview mirror occasionally, feeling suspicious of a black sedan that tailgating her car continuously.

’That black sedan keeps following us.’ Elena informed Elysia and Ai of her suspicions.

’Then, try turning right at the intersection ahead and keep turning right until we arrive at this road again. If they’re still following us, then we need to do something.’ Elysia spread her advanced perception.

The car behind them was indeed suspicious. Erina had yet to inform anyone from the Minamoto Family, and those people probably harbored ill intention.

Ai looked back and averted her gaze. Their car turned once, and that black sedan was still following them. After arriving at the second turn, that car accelerated around the corner and overtook their car.

Yet, that black sedan suddenly stopped in front of their car. The road was only big enough for one car with concrete walls on both sides. The roads and surrounding areas were also pretty quiet. Those people were possibly robbers!

"Hold on tight and fasten your seat belt." Elena tapped Ai’s shoulder and accelerated their car.

The people in the black sedan got out. Four people immediately prepared to do something to their target. Instead of finding the white SUV slowed down by the blockade of their black sedan, it actually accelerated and hit their car with a loud crash.

*Crash!*

They reflexively avoided the crash, but the white SUV continued to accelerate and dragged their car to the intersection a hundred meters away.

"Turn to junk. We don’t have time to deal with you, thieves." Elena raised her middle finger to the thieves before accelerating the car to escape from the crime scene.

"Holy, our car was destroyed, but how is that car not damaged?" The chubby masked guy wondered in surprise.

"We need to find that person ASAP. She’s in that car. Find another car." The leader smacked his subordinate.

"Where do we look for a new car, boss? Anyway, who do you want to kidnap? Since when did we become kidnappers?" The chubby masked guy rubbed his head.

"Cut the crap, and get the thing done, or we’ll lose them! That car is in that garage. Take that." The leader smacked his subordinates and pointed to a particular car in the abandoned garage.

The subordinates immediately took the car and tried to catch up with their target. Unfortunately, the white SUV had driven quite far from that location, and they lost track of their target.

"Why not beat them to a pulp?" Ai asked in wonder.

"No particular reason. I just wanted to ram the car into them. If they dare come after us again, then yes... we need to beat them up into pulp." Elena gave a thumbs up.

"The air here is filled with pollution. The city area is more polluted, right?" Ai rolled her eyes and stared at the dirty air outside.

Luckily, she wore her face mask to filter the air. At that moment, she remembered that she didn’t need to breathe because she was a spirit manifestation!

"That’s probably because we’re still in the suburbs on the western border. The air quality is better in the downtown area." Elysia used her Sacred Vision to check their surroundings.

The thieves were no longer visible, and the city environment ahead looked much better than the border.

"Ah, uhm... Ellie? Where are we?" Erina gently rubbed her eyes as she was awakened from her sleep. She felt like she had slept for a very long time. Her body also felt so fresh and fit.

"We’re almost in Tokyo." Elysia pointed forward.

"Tokyo? We’ve arrived in Japan? Hm, I have to contact my father and Mio then." Erina blinked her eyes in surprise and checked her belongings.

However, she only wore a simple white dress, and her entire body was wrapped in bandages. Her belongings weren’t there, including her storage pouch!

"Ellie, is my storage pouch with you?" Erina looked aside.

"Yeah, I kept them for you. Here." Elysia returned Erina’s storage pouch.

Erina rummaged through her belongings and took out her superphone. She wrote a message to Mio, then put it on her lap, and then looked at Elysia. "Ellie, I’ll give you a new superphone soon, but could you lend me your SIM card?"

"Sure. I don’t know if this still works or not." Elysia handed over her SIM card to Erina without asking why.

Erina received the SIM card and plugged it into her superphone in dual SIM mode.

She checked Elysia’s incoming messages and contacts. Her contact was still there, but there was a foreign woman under her name. There were also some recent unread messages, and they came from that foreign woman!

"Linda? May I know who this person is, Ellie?" Erina pointed to her superphone and looked at Elysia with a meaningful smile.

"She is one of my chosen heroes." Elysia tapped her chin, unaware of Erina’s strange attitude.

"Your chosen hero? Then I’m very interested to hear what your chosen hero is like, Ellie. Am I included? Can you please elaborate more?" Erina leaned her body closer to Elysia.

"Hm, okay." Elysia then told Erina a short story about Linda. She also shared some details related to Satria and Maya because she thought that Erina’s connection and power could help them grow in the future. And, no, Erina was not her chosen hero.

"..." Erina felt a little jealous of Linda. Linda was one of three lucky people. These three people were very lucky to encounter Elysia and received a favor.

However, Linda and Maya were pitiful girls, pushed into a corner by fate with no other choice but to be dragged into the cruelty of the world.

However, she was not included in Elysia’s chosen heroes! That was probably because she was disappointing...

"Sorry." Erina looked down.

"Err, why are you apologizing? You are not my chosen hero because you are part of my family now, Erina. Anyway, I hope you can make arrangements to help Linda, Maya, and Satria with your connections." Elysia tilted her head slightly.

"Why does Linda get special treatment compared to the other two? Is she that special in your eyes?" Erina was happy but became a bit jealous again.

Those chosen heroes were just ordinary people until Elysia helped them, and she was supposedly much more special in Elysia’s eyes than them!

"I still don’t know what to do with her, but I want her to be strong enough to survive. She was my cousin in my past life. You probably already guessed it, Erina. I used to live on Earth." Elysia rested her cheek onto her hand, staring out the window with a distant, nostalgic gaze.

The first time she came to Tokyo was about business matters that supported her to the peak of her career. That was her when she was still Ali, but the situation was different now. The world had changed a lot in the last five years, and Tokyo was no exception.

Erina covered her mouth in surprise. She once guessed it in the past because of Elysia’s excessive attention to the Avery Family. She just wasn’t too sure of the truth.

However, Elysia personally added her to Elysium, Elysia’s family. Therefore, she was far above the so-called chosen heroes. She was already included in Elysia’s core circle as a part of the family!

Regardless, she once again felt guilty for feeling envy and jealousy. If it came to Elysia, her mood and emotions were often turbulent and unstable. She had to control herself more carefully.

If Linda was Elysia’s cousin in the past life, then she had to take care of her ’cousin-in-law’ as well.