In the end, Keo didn't eat a single bite of food, only staring at Yu Ling as she ate. He'd bring the bits of food to his mouth with his fork only to drop them back onto his plate, his mind filled with thoughts of how incredibly beautiful and adorable this innocent elf he kept by his side was. As he gazed at her, his face flushed...

Kaio's pathetic appearance didn't attract much attention. Although he hadn't eaten a single bite, at least he made the feigned eating motions, right? He didn't stand out in the eyes of the crowd.

Just as the banquet was drawing to a close and everyone was wiping their mouths and starting to chat, there was a series of clattering sounds. Almost everyone present had their faces buried in their rice bowls, making a loud, startling noise.

This wouldn't have been a big deal, since everyone was acting on purpose. But the most terrifying thing was that even Bipu, a thief who dealt with all sorts of sleeping pills all year round, stumbled and fell heavily into Yuling's arms... Wait a minute, into Yuling's arms?

"Hey, what's going on?" Kaio casually pulled Bipu out of Yuling's arms and asked with a serious expression, "What happened to them?"

Yu Ling elegantly wiped her already clean mouth: "There's something wrong with the food and wine; they were drugged by a magic potion."

It's understandable that Keo himself didn't eat anything and is fine now, but he glanced at Cecil's team and then at Yu Ling, and was a little confused for a moment.

"Then how come you're all alright?"

The elven prince, favored by nature: "Me? Immune to potions."

Cecil: "We wear a Soul Guardian Necklace blessed by the elves, which allows us to remain conscious at all times."

The dark elf, completely unprotected, had a string of question marks floating above his head: Didn't any of you remind me?

However, looking at his teammate Bip who had already fallen, emmm, it doesn't seem so unacceptable.

Ah Bao had disliked Kaio, who loved to show off, for a long time: "Stop pretending. You're not ordinary either. You were able to detect something was wrong in advance. That steak smelled so good, and you didn't even take a bite. You were wasting it like that. Tsk tsk, what a waste."

"I......."

Keo was about to explain, but Derrick didn't want to listen to pointless bickering. He interrupted, "Alright, let's hurry and move before that guy notices us... Captain, what about the two of them?"

The phrase "the two of them" refers, of course, to Yu Ling and Kai Ao.

Cecil wanted Yuling and the others to stay and take care of Bip and the others, but seeing Yuling's eagerness to come with him, and Bip being roughly thrown to the ground by Kaio... well, it's not worth keeping these two who don't know how to take care of people. They might even expose their 'disappearance'.

"Want to come with us?" Cecil asked.

Yu Ling nodded, then, seeing Kai's impatient expression, she secretly pinched his lower back.

Kao: ......

"Follow."

Cecil called out to the group, "Alright, time waits for no one. Since you all want to come along, then come along. Derrick, take some time to tell them the important points to note. Let's set off now."

The group of seven left Bipu, who had fainted on the ground, behind. If you looked closely, you could see that a section of their place was empty, but the way they had fallen was all crooked and messy, so it wasn't noticeable at first glance.

Afterwards, the people who came to clean up the mess didn't bother to count the number of people. They piled the unconscious group together and threw them one by one into the seemingly ordinary but magical mirror they had found earlier.

Back to Cecil, he was traveling with Yu Ling and his team, and they finally arrived in front of a super luxurious, life-sized mirror that looked completely different from the previous mission objective.

"Go in, everyone. I'll cover you from behind."

Seeing that the captain had simply poked and prodded the mirror and it reflected the image of another world, Derrick stepped out without hesitation, and his figure entered the mirror world.

The others followed one after another, and Yu Ling also pulled Kaio along. When Cecil went in last, he sprinkled something outside. After they all entered the mirror world, the mirror returned to its original state.

The world in the mirror is not actually a false world.

In Derrick's account, this is the place where the spirit of the mirror resides, the dwelling place of a wizard who once possessed the magic of 'time'.

The person who issued the mission, though it was unclear why they had gathered all sorts of people to search for the Mirror Spirit, and it seemed they were going to 'sacrifice' those who had been drugged, happened to possess a secret technique that allowed Cecil to take advantage of the situation and use any mirror containing the power of the Mirror Spirit to open a portal to travel through time and space and arrive in the past.

This is a very dangerous thing. If history is altered too much, it will cause more unacceptable and serious consequences. Cecil came to find some truths buried in the history of time, in order to defeat a great monster that Yu Ling and the others did not know and was in a weakened state in the past.

In short, there's a really awesome and powerful monster that's completely healed from its previous injuries. Cecil can't kill it, but it doesn't play by any rules. It thinks, "I can't beat you now that you're healed? No problem, I can go back to when you were weak and kill you!"

As for Derrick and his group, they weren't there to help, but rather to do something for their past selves. They had various regrets, and Cecil paid a price to allow them to slightly alter some history, which would also affect the future.

For example, this method can be used to recover the voice that a mermaid has lost.

"Hey, you still dare to bring us along for something this important?" Yu Ling asked Cecil, who had already accepted her true identity. "If I mess up this world, you won't be able to go back."

That's what Cecil said.

"What could make the journey more fortunate than bringing along a real Pokémon?"

He said this behind Kaio's back using a secret soul technique similar to telepathy.

Yu Ling's clear and innocent eyes flickered, then she put on a harmless smile again.

I see.

I really shouldn't underestimate the protagonists of these other fairy tales. It seems I was exposed earlier than I expected.

With such an awesome protagonist managing the dark elves, I can finally rest assured.

With the intention of entrusting her eldest son to good care, Yu Ling followed Cecil around, acting as a veritable 'lucky charm'.

He planned to help Cecil find what he needed first, and then give him the dark elf when the time was right. Just then, the other team members went about their own business, and Yu Ling, Kaio, and Cecil arrived together in front of the strangely shaped monster.