novelraw Chapter 148: Breaking the Deadlock (3-in-1)
Chapter 148: Breaking the Deadlock (3-in-1)
"I know where the magic is."
"Where?"
Prince Lausanne and the others looked at Fisher simultaneously. They saw him reach out and point at the ground, saying,
"The New Party people absolutely checked this building thoroughly from top to bottom, over and over again. But they missed one place, and that is the water supply pipeline beneath the ground. Those pipes are several meters underground, and magic instruments cannot detect them."
"Wait, are you saying the pipes? Impossible. I've seen the Nari water supply pipe samples displayed in the Nari Municipal Administration Bureau. Those pipes are extremely narrow. Not even bugs can get in. Using them to engrave an ultra-ring magic is fundamentally impossible. Ultra-ring magic is different from other magics; it has a minimum engraving area requirement, let alone Space magic which has the most violent Resonance Degree. A pipe of a few centimeters is fundamentally impossible!"
Hearing this, Roger shook his head and looked at Fisher. Seeing Fisher shake his head and just about to explain, Chancellor Kaine beside them sighed and said,
"No... Fisher is right. This is possible. Saint-Nazareth University has a water supply pipeline independently invested in and constructed by the Pioneering Company. Not only is it the most perfect in all of Nari, but it also has a clear distinguishing feature compared to the city's pipes. It is a full circle larger than the city pipes..."
"Oh? What? We have separate drainage pipes? Fisher came even later than me, how did he know?"
"I heard the school director introduce it previously."
Roger looked at Fisher rather surprisingly, adopting a look of extreme admiration.In reality, Fisher had just been thinking about where the Pink Pavilion would most likely engrave the magic. Above ground was absolutely impossible. Not only would it be very easy to discover, but there also wasn't enough time to engrave it.
Then if it was underground, it was most likely in the pipelines. As for why Fisher knew that Saint-Nazareth University's pipes were different from those in other parts of Nari, it was because the last time he came to the Gothrin Festival with Elizabeth and Renee, the school director beside them was introducing the unique features of Saint-Nazareth University to the parents. Among those features, it was mentioned that the underground pipelines of the university were independently built.
The true evidence that made Fisher suspect they entered through the water supply pipes was that he suddenly remembered when he was in the rental house, Ms. Martha once said that the water supply pipe outside the block was broken, and his rental house even had its water cut off for a day because of this incident.
The thing that set up the magic had very likely entered the underground of Saint-Nazareth University from Saint-Nazareth's water supply system. But because the water pipes under Saint-Nazareth were too thin, they ended up being broken by that thing.
The overall line of thought was as above, but this was only a guess. Fisher still wasn't certain.
"My heavens, I was just saying that Her Highness Elizabeth asking you to attend the Gothrin Festival previously was a correct decision. Otherwise, you absolutely wouldn't have thought of this point."
Roger evidently agreed with Fisher's guess, because from top to bottom, this building really seemed to only have the underground left un-surveyed. He attributed the credit for Fisher thinking of this point to himself, as it was he who had ordered Fisher to stay behind on Elizabeth's command back then.
Though Roger didn't know that Fisher staying behind had caused Renee and Elizabeth to have a huge battle.
After Prince Lausanne heard this, he stomped his foot on the solid ground, frowning as he said,
"But the problem is, the water supply pipes you all described are several meters away from the surface. How are we going to pierce through the ground? There are no tools here. Chiseling it open with daggers isn't very realistic either."
He glanced at the daggers in Karolina's hands beside him, then glanced at her fair fingers. Behind them, Jasmine raised her head. She seemed to have a way to break open the ground, but it would require her to revert back into her Whale-person form. If there was truly no other way...
Fisher subtly shook his head at her without changing his expression. Afterwards, he raised the walking stick in his hand and said,
"I have a better method. My walking stick has a high-ring Gravity Magic engraved on it. But I need everyone to go to the first-floor perimeter outside the room. Space displacement has occurred here, but the water pipes should still be beneath the first-floor flooring. This is also to avoid accidental injuries..."
But just as Fisher finished saying this sentence, roars transmitted from outside once again. It was those Human-Insects that were all too familiar to everyone present. Just as Fisher and Lausanne had guessed previously, those monsters couldn't be killed off. They would quickly Resurrect somewhere!
"Wh-What?! Go outside! No, no, no, we can't go outside. I don't want to be eaten by those things!"
Upon hearing that they had to go outside, the youngsters and quite a few scholars in the back refused to do it. Just defending here was enough to get them killed; wouldn't going out be even more disastrous?
Fisher didn't answer. He looked at the monsters in the corridor outside that had started swarming in from the windows. The muscles on those Human-Insects were already as robust as iron blocks. Their entirety looked quite a bit larger than when they were first seen. Quite a few magics were engraved on their bodies, drawing closer to this side just like dangerous suicide-bomber infantrymen...
Looking back at his own side—a few old men, physically weak male students, plus cowardly youngsters...
Fisher felt that it would be a downright miracle if they could actually hold the line.
Therefore, he had no choice but to take off his coat and hand it to Jasmine. Stretching his body a bit, he carried his walking stick, ready to head out.
"Then I will go alone. I will do my utmost to destroy the pipelines below, if the magic is indeed there."
"I'll go with you... if the magic is indeed there, those Human-Insects will probably all head towards you. You alone won't be able to hold out..."
The one who spoke was Lausanne. He smiled faintly and stood beside Fisher. Turning his head to look at Karolina behind him, he said,
"The people here will rely on you to protect them... This way, you can also be a little safer."
"...Alright."
Caro rubbed the clothes he had draped over her body. Although there was no specific expression, Fisher behind them threw a glance at Prince Lausanne, and then looked at Caro. It seemed a kind of indescribable and inexplicable relationship was flowing between them. Though very inconspicuous, Fisher still noticed it.
But Caro—no, it should be said that this Karolina fellow was an Artificial Witch from the Witch Research Society!
Fisher looked at Prince Lausanne with a somewhat abstract expression. His deafening words from their first meeting were still echoing by Fisher's ears. He still remembered this guy saying,
"First of all, I am not a homosexual!"
However, based on Karolina's current state...
It probably shouldn't count, right?
Fortunately, his own orientation was very normal. Just as Ms. Martha had said, the weirder something was, the more young people liked it. But he himself was not in this category right now.
After making the arrangements, Fisher turned his head to look at Jasmine, who was like a small animal, signaling to her with his eyes to make her own decisions if encountering danger. After receiving her affirmative nod, Fisher and Prince Lausanne walked to the front of the room.
Right as they were about to walk out, Prince Lausanne suddenly turned his head to look at Karolina in the room. He was seen smiling at her, then saying,
"I completely forgot to introduce myself. My name is Lausanne."
"..."
Although Caro didn't reply to him, he walked to Fisher's side rather happily. Meeting Fisher's line of sight, he smiled and said,
"Just as I said previously, I will pursue a lady I like when I meet one. I find that lady to be very much to my taste... both strong and beautiful, quite different from other ladies..."
"No... that..."
"I know, she might just be an attendant, or she might be a special agent from a Nari espionage agency, but... who cares? I've said before, as long as she is a gentle lady, plus me liking her, that fulfills all the conditions."
Lausanne patted Fisher's shoulder, putting on a look of encouraging Fisher,
"I know, conversely, falling in love with a prince might be very stressful. I believe you have a deep understanding of this, because Princess Elizabeth loves you very much. But I will try to be as gentle as possible. You know, I don't put on any airs."
"..."
No, I'm not talking about that.
Fisher was already utterly speechless. Afraid that telling some cruel truth would lower his subsequent combat ability, Fisher planned to hold off on telling him the matter regarding Karolina for now. It was best to let Karolina say this matter herself. Regardless, it had nothing to do with him.
He now wanted to hurry out. This fellow Lausanne, with his exceptionally weird tastes, was truly difficult to converse with. Right now, he somewhat wanted to research the Royal Family of the sea.
Unlike that little brat Reinar, Jasmine should know many things regarding the underwater Demi-Human settlements.
The two's trains of thoughts were vasty different. It could only be said they were six of one and half a dozen of the other. But the monsters outside had already begun breaking down the door to enter.
Because some people hadn't left the room, Fisher had no choice but to drag the magic's release site a bit further away from here, so as to avoid the magic accidentally injuring them at that time.
What he was going to use was the high-ring Gravity Magic [Gravity Sky Ring].
This magic could sweep away all the stone blocks on the ground. If things went smoothly, it could also directly destroy the pipelines below. This way, they wouldn't need to search section by section for where that magic was hidden.
"They're coming!"
Fisher and Prince Lausanne ran in front. The densely packed monsters behind really did mostly head towards the two of them. It was just a pity that they couldn't judge the exact specific location of that magic through their behaviors.
Prince Lausanne's [Lion's Fist] gauntlet swung extremely quickly. Fisher looked down towards the front. He saw that the giant banquet hall originally on the first floor had somehow been restructured right beside the fourth floor. This way, those pipelines should be visible below the first floor.
The spatial rules here were very strange. Even if the first floor flew up to the sky, the area below it would still be the contents beneath the ground surface. Visual spatial connections were incorrect; they were fundamentally still connected together.
The banquet hall was pitch black. The Human-Insects behind pursued extremely closely. Fisher violently threw the walking stick in his hand out. Tracing this, the familiar [Gravity Sky Ring] finally lit up passing a radiant sheen. Synchronizing with the walking stick sinking entirely into the ground, in the very next moment, Fisher, Lausanne, together spanning the countless monsters completely tracing their rear completely simultaneously flew operating cleanly reversed looping soaring airborne. The ground directly beneath cracked completely open, flying cleanly reversed precisely exactly mirroring single pieces spanning a puzzle cleanly breaking array.
"Puchi!"
From those puzzle-like fragmented crevices, drops of water streams sluggishly surged outward. The shattered rubble entirely strictly functionally tracing the flooring flew charting increasingly violently charting faster speeds. Fisher grabbed Lausanne's hand entirely locking his geometric trace. Functioning practically perfectly exactly executing mid-air tracing scaling stepping entirely traversing the infinite ascending stone blocks, he violently leaped entirely functionally completely fundamentally strictly perfectly accurately purely accurately exactly seamlessly charting downwards.
"Do you see the pipelines below?"
Prince Lausanne yelled loudly. Looking exactly tracing navigating exactly his field measuring line of sight, exactly that specific walking stick exactly exclusively strictly structurally continuously precisely strictly lit projecting [Illumination] magic.
Following the fall of the walking stick, Fisher saw a pipeline as thick as a plate hidden beneath the ground. A small section of the pipe had tilted up a little bit due to the Gravity Magic, and a stream of clear water sprayed out from inside. It was precisely in that tilted crevice that Fisher sharp-eyedly caught a glimpse of the complex Magic Crests densely distributed on the inner side of the pipeline.
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It really is here!
Fisher's guess was on the mark. Just as he was preparing to jump down, he saw a folded, slender arm suddenly extend out from within that pipeline. That arm had no skin, only muscles. Exactly like a stick insect extending its arm out, this extension impressively reached several meters long.
It was hard to believe how that thing managed to shrink inside this small pipeline. Furthermore, it was still filled with water. Although it wasn't drinking water, did that mean the water Saint-Nazareth University had been using all this time was this guy's bathwater?
That thing was exactly like cotton stuffed inside a straw, transporting its body outwards section by section. By the time it fully emerged, its body size was already three or four meters tall. But at the same time, its body was extremely skinny. It looked exactly like an upgraded version of a [Human-Insect].
"What... kind of monster is that?"
The monster that resembled a stick insect was seen to have its four limbs pieced together. In the middle, a single tiny eye looked straight up at Fisher. The Magic Circuit flickering in that eye was deep purple, proving that the eye had once belonged to a Witch. But it wasn't Caro's, otherwise Caro would have definitely sensed something from this fellow.
This was an Artificial Witch independent of the Witch Research Society!
"Is that an Artificial Witch from the Witch Research Society?"
No, that thing merely added that Witch's eye in order to acquire engraveable magic and magic power similar to an Artificial Witch. Its fundamental nature still hadn't changed; it was a biological weapon similar to a [Human-Insect].
That was an [Artificial Artificial Witch].
"Heehee..."
That monster stretched its torso and pressed the water pipe beneath it back. At first glance, it was clearly to protect this cage's Space magic. Unsure of where its vocal organs came from, its opening words at this current moment were unexpectedly as crisp as a little girl's.
But that appearance was truly far too disgusting; it almost made Lausanne throw up from looking at it.
Behind them, countless monsters climbed along the flying stone blocks toward Lausanne and Fisher, about to catch up to them very soon. Fisher made a prompt decision, turning his head toward Lausanne and said,
"You go deal with the ones behind. I will go destroy the pipelines."
"Alright, be careful!"
Prince Lausanne and Fisher had extreme tacit understanding. One immediately turned his head, while the other looked at the monster below. That monster was seen crying out identically to a little girl. Spreading its dual hands violently open, the connecting joints of its limbs immediately initiated insanely spewing out a bizarre green liquid.
That liquid carried a violently fetid stench. After Fisher twisted his body to dodge, it comprehensively engulfed the flying stones behind him, consuming them entirely.
Does it have corroding abilities?
From the Fluid Sword in Fisher's right hand, a flowing sword blade violently shot out, fiercely cleaving toward that guy's body. That blade edge was extremely sharp, spinning to sever that monster's arm. Yet after that arm was severed, it lowered its head, picked up the hand, and pieced it back together again.
The speed of that piecing together surpassed Fisher's imagination. Exactly like building blocks, it could be pieced together at will and disassembled at will. It was truly very outrageous.
The most crucial point was, this thing was actually still alive?
Should one thank the miracle of life, or should one say that this thing was truly too outrageous?
Fisher twisted his body and landed on the ground. Using the Fluid Sword, he hooked that walking stick back. Walking stick in the left hand, Fluid Sword in the right hand; Fisher had recently been training exactly this combat method.
Mainly because this Fluid Sword was truly somewhat too useful. Even the [Weaver] he loved using the most before, he now disliked using, adopting a look of loving the new and loathing the old. But thinking about it carefully, not using magical items was a waste. If utilized effectively in combat, it counted as an existence that added beauty to beauty.
It was just that this required time to get used to. Ordinarily, there were no opportunities, but right now was just perfect.
"It hurts..."
"Wu..."
Faint groaning sounds continuously rang out from different parts of that monster. Hearing this, Fisher blanked out for a moment, unclear if this was a method the monster used to awaken people's inner compassion or something else. But Fisher wasn't ambiguous in his actions in the slightest, his frantically swinging Fluid Sword transforming into a fierce offensive assaulting it.
Seeing its moves were ineffective, that monster yelled loudly out of shame and anger. As the wounds on its body grew more numerous, it was on the verge of being completely killed.
But in the next second, from the corner of Fisher's eye, a worm the size of a palm swam out from some unknown place. The worm's swimming speed was very fast, abruptly drilling into the body of the monster before Fisher's eyes.
"Chirp!"
Subsequently, as if wound up, the monster suddenly froze. After its building-block-like parts trembled for a moment, that single eye looked sharply at Fisher. Only this time, its gaze was no longer vacant, but rather very calm.
Fisher's actions were interrupted by this sudden unforeseen event. He abruptly stopped, similarly looking at that fellow with a monster's body.
It gently reached out its hand. Following its command, the monsters within the room transformed into a tide that pounced Prince Lausanne outside the banquet hall. The main doors resoundingly slammed shut tightly, ultimately leaving only Fisher and that standing monster still inside the room.
It only wanted to see me?
Fisher didn't attack again, because the monster before him right now gave him the feeling that it was no longer a monster devoid of wisdom. Ever since that small worm drilled into it, this guy's behavior was very much like a...
Human!
"Ah, finally... peace and quiet."
That monster spoke using the little girl's voice line. Just like a diver who had just surfaced from drowning in the sea, it greedily breathed the air, allowing Fisher to clearly hear its contrived breathing sounds.
"...What exactly are you?"
"Me?" Hearing this, the monster looked at Fisher with its single eye. It raised its limb and, with a smile toward Fisher, said,
"I am a human... I actually thought you people wouldn't discover where the engraved magic was until you died. Sure enough, a team still needs a smart person like you to get things done, otherwise most people would just fly around blindly like headless flies and ultimately die in a filthy restroom."
"The Pink Pavilion's plan did not succeed, and you can't stop me from destroying that crest either."
Fisher held up the Fluid Sword in his hand. The physical quality of the monster before him couldn't stop Fisher at all, so he preferred to believe that this mastermind possessing the body right now had something to say to him.
"Stop you? Why would I stop you? I'm just a nobody working for someone else. Whether the matters here succeed or fail has nothing to do with me... Besides, how do you know the goal hasn't been achieved?"
The monster before him tacitly acknowledged that the Pink Pavilion was behind this matter, but its tone was somewhat bizarre, and towards the end, it even directly changed into banter.
Fisher's brows twitched slightly. Could it be that Prince Lausanne didn't hold on and died?
But the sounds of his fighting were still outside. Did the others die? But Caro and Jasmine were there...
Then what was their goal, and had it already been achieved?
"Hehe, you're a smart person. Let's hope you can get the answer a bit earlier... Forget it, forget it, I can't stay here for too long. If someone hadn't ordered me to, I wouldn't have even come. Now that I see you are still intact, I am relieved."
That is to say, the reason this guy entered the magic was just to confirm whether he was still alive?
What kind of logic was this?
"Heehee, as long as you're alive, as long as you're alive. Life is extremely precious, save your useful body to welcome future life challenges... After I leave, this Witch body will die very quickly. I'll destroy the magic circle in passing."
It extended that slender limb and pinched the pipeline below. Although it had no expression, Fisher could hear that the last sentence was full of smiles. It said:
"Watch your head."
Head?
Fisher frowned, watching helplessly as it violently smashed the crest-covered pipeline flat. Following its actions, the entire space seemed to have received a shock. That high-ring magic shattered in response. In an instant, the surrounding space twisted as if being folded. Behind Fisher, countless gravity-filled vortexes pulled his body, making him fly backward.
Those Human-Insects struggled and disappeared on the spot. Evidently, the magic circle that continuously Resurrected them had also completely disappeared.
He gritted his teeth and bitterly held on. The world constructed by the magic resoundingly shattered. Outside that magic world, it was as if there was a brilliant world full of stars. A long galaxy composed of countless stars slanted down from the vast sky.
But those stars seemed to be... alive?
Where exactly was the outside of this magic?
Even with Fisher's soul strength that far exceeded an ordinary human's, it was difficult for him to observe the outside space for a single second. Presumably, the others couldn't even see clearly at all. In the next instant, he violently broke away from this space and flew in another direction.
Only that prior to leaving this space, he abstractly heard a faint and distant sound of bewilderment.
"Hm?"
It was indiscernible whether the voice was male or female, and it might not even be a voice at all, perhaps just an inquiry belonging to a consciousness.
Breaking away from that bizarre space just now, Fisher spun continuously in the void, just like being in a wooden tub in a laundry room. His consciousness was also made extremely groggy by that spinning. But in the next second, he fell somewhere as if making a landing. He wasn't the only one who landed; another soft body fell together with him all at once.
"Wu~"
Fisher clutched his head but didn't move. He sluggishly sized up his surroundings, only to find himself squeezed with someone in an extremely cramped place.
This smell... is an storage cabinet for cleaning tools, right?
But besides the smell of tools, there was also a touch of fresh fragrance like aquatic flowers.
He opened his eyes with difficulty. Just as he raised his head, he found his lips gently pressed against another similarly soft pair of lips, because it was truly far too crowded in here.
Although this sudden kiss was fleeting, it made the person who was kissed suddenly reel backward as if electrocuted, her head violently bumping against the cabinet wall behind her.
"Wu~"
Another cute cry. Sweet breathing was within arm's reach due to the extremely close distance between them.
As luck would have it, in order to observe the surrounding environment, Fisher suddenly squeezed the walking stick in his hand. As the light lit up, he saw Jasmine, a hair's breadth away from his lips. Her face was thoroughly red, covering her small mouth, not daring to look at Fisher.
"Jasmine?"
He faintly felt that something on his body was slightly trembling. Looking down, it turned out their current position was even more awkward. Jasmine was sitting straight up on Fisher, her legs separated from his waist. Because the space was truly too small, their current distance was extremely close, almost zero.
What was trembling were her thighs. It was unknown whether it was caused by fear, nervousness, or bashfulness.
"P-Professor Fisher..."
"Sorry."
Realizing what he had accidentally done to Jasmine, even Fisher felt somewhat embarrassed. He hastily pushed open the cabinet doors beside them. The countless brooms blocking the door outside fell to the ground in succession, emitting crisp sounds.
It turned out they were in the utility room inside the Meeting Building. They had already returned to the real world.
Fisher hurried out from the burning hot cabinet, and Jasmine was also supported out of the cabinet by him. As soon as the two came out, they hastily separated. Jasmine pinched her skirt with a bullied look. Even her pupils were trembling slightly.
"Bang!"
Just as Fisher wanted to open his mouth to say something, a cabinet beside them also suddenly opened, revealing Karolina covering her mouth and struggling to crawl out. A very embarrassed Lausanne crawled out behind her, looking at Fisher in surprise.
"Such a coincidence... Seems we successfully escaped from that magic."
"It is quite a coincidence."
Wait a minute, you don't suppose the plots in our two cabinets were exactly the same, right?
Looking at Karolina, who covered her mouth and walked away without a word, and the cute small animal Jasmine behind him, Fisher suddenly lost the strength to complain.
"Bang!"
"Hey, what a coincidence!"
Exactly at this moment, another cabinet opened. That Schwari scholar Crow drilled out from inside, along with the Sheepman he raised, who was also blushing and covering her mouth as she crawled out of the cabinet...
"..."
The atmosphere in the room turned quiet, even awkwardly solidifying into substance, making it hard for people to breathe.
Three cabinets, identical plots, one more outrageous than the last...
Now it was Prince Lausanne and Fisher's turn to fall silent together. Lausanne coughed with his face covered in black lines, following Caro out of the room.
"I'll go find the others, and notify the Nari official fellows in passing..."
That Schwari scholar also embarrassedly took the Sheepman out. For a time, only Fisher and Jasmine were left in the entire room again.
Looking back, she lowered her head with a blushing face, not saying a word. Fisher had no choice but to speak first,
"Shall we go too?"
"...Mm."
She spoke softly. She suddenly reached out to hold Fisher's sleeve, but he had already walked out a few steps, so she grasped empty air, and consciously pulled her hand back.
"What's wrong?"
When Fisher looked bewilderedly at Jasmine who stayed rooted to the spot, she pursed her lips and panickingly shook her head, saying,
"N-Nothing!"
In the corridor, those disheveled Schwari scholars and their family members wore long faces. Looking at the bright sunlight outside the windows from within the corridor, they almost burst into tears.
When the corridor lights turned on, one scholar ran to the window in disbelief and shattered the window with a punch. Only when he saw the normal campus outside and not some terrifying shadowy black hole did he kneel on the ground like he'd broken down, shouting loudly:
"We're finally back! We're finally back! Boohoo... Damned Nali Persons..."
"Boom!"
In another room, Father Dirk, with his butt on fire, crashed the door open and rushed out covering his butt. The silver mirror emerging from the Space magic was clearly counted as being blindly moved, triggering another magic that set the nearest priest on fire.
He was seen rolling crazily on the ground while agonizingly shouting:
"You beast! I unilaterally declare that you are no longer our Church's holy artifact! Oh, my butt!"
Fisher took these sights into his eyes and roughly counted. Not a single person among the conference attendees was missing, and not a single one had died.
He successfully rescued them from the death trap...
But the problem was, why did the monster that the mastermind possessed at the end say that their goal might have already been achieved?
Could it be that they had another goal for this attack that he wasn't clear about?
Below, the notified New Party officials panickingly dashed toward this building. Evidently, they were frightened by Prince Lausanne, who was covered in injuries. Despite all their calculations, they still didn't expect such a disaster to occur...
This incident would probably make the New Party people look bad. The midterm elections were approaching right now. Although Fisher guessed the New Party would still win, it would definitely add many unnecessary troubles...
Fisher frowned and looked toward the shattered window. Outside, a halo of bright noon sunlight was revealed. Facing such brightness, Fisher felt somewhat unaccustomed. After all, they had just stayed in the darkness for at least five or six hours, plus experienced several rounds of non-stop battles. As soon as he looked at the sunlight, Fisher felt extremely sore all over...
It was a bit more exhausting than Eliog's combat training, but still acceptable.
He was somewhat exhausted, but still looked at Jasmine behind him, who for some reason was still trailing his back.
She was seen looking at him, hesitating to speak, her face slightly red and aggrieved, but continuously following him...
Did the matter just now hurt her?
Although it was an unintentional act on his part, the incident happened after all. No matter what, he bore responsibility.
Fisher decided to postpone the matter of researching her, and bring it up again after she had calmed down for a bit.
Let's let her calm down for a day or two.