Bai Yu looked at Su Keke, who had turned around and was waiting expectantly for a compliment.
At that moment, Su Keke’s appearance sent waves of shock through her heart.
To the players of *Star Song*, the name Su Keke was very familiar.
As one of the romanceable heroines in the original work, she was someone who truly possessed strength, beauty, and a compelling plotline compared to the other heroines.
While the main storyline of *Star Song* was quite terrible and usually just made people see red, the individual character routes were decent.
Among them, Su Keke’s route was the most brilliant.
Furthermore, in terms of the CGs for her personal route, Su Keke’s were the absolute best as far as Bai Yu was concerned.
*Ahem…*
All right, the most important question now was, why was Su Keke here?
This was the Old Urban District of Red Maple City.
This remote area was already close to the Slums of the Lower District, and the Supernatural Bureau usually didn’t bother with this place.
Why would a young lady like her come to such a remote area?
According to the timeline of the original work, Su Keke should currently be in Eden—the city in the clouds that symbolized the pinnacle of human technology.
So why would Su Keke, who was supposed to be in Eden, suddenly appear in this remote place 1,000 miles away?
Additionally, Bai Yu now understood why she hadn’t recognized Su Keke immediately.
After all, the Su Keke in the original work was a through-and-through Ice Queen.
She wore a cold expression all day long, radiating an aura that warned people not to approach.
Yet the person standing before her was just a goofball.
Even if someone else were in Bai Yu’s position, they would probably just assume they had the wrong person.
It wasn’t like she could have misremembered Su Keke’s character design.
Even though she was a Cloud Player, she still knew a fair bit about the heroines; it was impossible to mistake her.
In her memory, Su Keke was an icy young lady, not some bright and cheerful goofball.
‘Hmm… If I had to say why there’s a discrepancy, maybe it’s the Butterfly Effect caused by my transmigration?’
Her transmigration, combined with the fact that she had picked up Loweia, had influenced the direction of the original plot.
Perhaps it had also affected the entire world.
This change meant that the bits of the story she knew from being a Cloud Player would also fluctuate.
The development of subsequent events might completely deviate from her knowledge.
Bai Yu’s heart sank.
No wonder she had awakened a Precognition ability.
Since the future development of the plot had likely changed, the information she knew from the game might no longer be useful.
Therefore, the appearance of Precognition compensated for this, giving her a chance to glimpse the general direction of the altered story.
*Hiss…*
‘Does this mean I actually came out ahead?’
After all, she was originally just a Cloud Player.
She only knew the general story and some outcomes, but she was entirely ignorant of the details within events or their causes and processes.
Now that the plot had changed, making her general knowledge useless, she had been given the ability to predict future developments in exchange.
If she could truly see the future, she might be able to seek luck, avoid calamity, and seize the initiative.
The only problem was that her Esper Ability level was a bit too low.
She didn’t expect to awaken an S-rank ability, but as a Transmigrator’s perk, she should have at least received an A-rank.
Only at A-rank did Precognition-type abilities begin to function stably.
But she had to go and awaken a C-rank ability. At this level, was a Precognition ability even useful?
Bai Yu was almost laughing from anger.
‘If you didn’t want to give me one, you could have just not given me one at all.’
As for Su Keke’s presence here, Bai Yu couldn’t say for sure if it was a good or bad thing.
The upside was that she had met Su Keke early.
Perhaps she could get in touch with the original heroines ahead of time.
Even if her plan to deceive Loweia failed, she would still have a chance to cling to the Protagonist Party.
The downside was that Su Keke’s appearance meant that the timeline, the general plot, and even the personalities of the heroines might undergo unpredictable changes.
This completely nullified the advantage of knowing parts of the story after her transmigration.
Before her ability evolved, she couldn’t predict the future.
She could only proceed cautiously, one step at a time.
“Hehe, well? What do you think?”
While Bai Yu was brainstorming, Su Keke, who hadn’t received her praise, spoke up and interrupted her thoughts.
The blonde girl stood with her hands on her hips, puffing out her still-developing chest.
She looked at Bai Yu with pride, her emerald-green eyes sparkling with expectation.
“You weren’t scared, were you? Wasn’t that move I just did super cool? Wasn’t it amazing?”
Seeing her “begging for praise” expression, the corner of Bai Yu’s mouth twitched slightly.
The difference from the image in her memory was simply too large.
However, Bai Yu quickly adjusted her expression and put on a grateful look.
“It’s lucky you were here to help. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to handle so many Shadow Lurkers on my own. Thank you so much. You’re more amazing than all the other Espers I’ve seen combined.”
“Hmph~ Of course!”
Su Keke was clearly very pleased by Bai Yu’s praise.
Grinning, she stepped forward and patted Bai Yu on the shoulder.
“But I saw everything just now. Brave girl, despite having no Esper Ability, you dared to fight an Abnormal Entity and even managed to defeat it. That’s quite commendable.”
“Um… actually, I do have an Esper Ability,” Bai Yu explained softly.
“It’s just not very suitable for combat.”
“Eh?”
Hearing this, a flash of surprise crossed Su Keke’s eyes.
“So another Esper was sent here after all? I thought I was the only one who accepted the commission. Stranger girl, which branch were you sent from?”
“Um, my name is Bai Yu.”
“Alright, Miss Bai Yu. My name is Su Keke. I’m here on a commission to investigate this area. Are you the same?”
‘A commission?’
‘What commission?’
Events happening here shouldn’t have been enough to alert Eden.
At the very least, local Espers from Red Maple City would have been prioritized to handle it.
It wasn’t as if there were no high-level Espers locally.
To deal with some low-level Abnormal Entities, there wasn’t even a need to dispatch high-ranking ones.
Could it be that, aside from the two low-level Abnormal Entities Bai Yu had discovered last night, a high-level one had actually sneaked in?
But even if it were a high-level Abnormal Entity, it shouldn’t be enough to alarm Eden.
There were high-level Espers in Red Maple City; it could just be left to them.
Bai Yu couldn’t understand what kind of high-level Abnormal Entity could have appeared to alarm Eden and cause them to send someone over such a long distance.
*Hiss…* Loweia’s figure suddenly flashed through Bai Yu’s mind.
‘Could it be… that they discovered the fact that the Pale Witch is still alive, so they specially sent someone to deal with her?’
‘Damn it…’