HHR 16-30 (Patreon)

Chapter 16: Mother, Kindness, Daughter, Filial PietyHyperion Cafe is a cafe that can connect different worlds and even different times—Before the Trailblazers of the Express Crew left the planet, they once said this to her.Unlike adventurers like Welt Yang who have traveled in the universe for a long time and even visited the Sea of Quanta in their original hometown, for Bronya Rand whose civilization has lost the means of interstellar communication and even fallen into a life-and-death situation except for those Trailblazers who came to this planet on their own initiative, this is actually the first time she has met humans from outside of Jarilo VI.Belobog's political system is quite special. There are no other countries on this planet. Therefore, even as the supreme ruler of Belobog, the political education she has received has not taught her how to deal with disputes about territorial sovereignty.Of course, with Bronya's talent, even if she had never received similar education, she could understand how special it was that "an unapproved and unregistered cafe appeared in her sovereign territory."Before she took office as the Supreme Guardian, she was a Silvermane Guard commander who was active on the front line for many years.So, after completing the most important tasks at hand, she came to this cafe as soon as possible, according to the instructions left by the Trailblazers of the Express Crew.To be honest, when she first entered this cafe, she didn't think there was anything special about it.Although she saw a girl who looked like her childhood, at that time, she had not yet formed a basic concept of "another world" and had no idea that "that child was herself in another world."At the beginning, the store manager showed great enthusiasm for her arrival. He personally brewed tea for her. After learning about her purpose, he took the initiative to ask other employees to return to the second floor to avoid suspicion, creating a quiet space where they could talk at ease.Except for the sleeping girl, there were only herself and the store manager in the hall.She originally thought that this trip to the coffee shop would end happily and easily, but she never expected that after the other employees left, the store manager showed his cunning fox tail.His face looked so handsome and gentle, and his age was a little younger than hers... However, communicating with this store manager made Bronya feel tired and anxious for the first time in a long time.She stretched out her hand, but he was unwilling to take it.She wanted to finish the business with him quickly, but he kept asking her to stay here for a while longer, and even brewed a cup of fragrant flower tea.She expressed her gratitude to him from the bottom of her heart, but he looked indifferent, and even said the brutal words, "Believe it or not, I will beat your ass."Impolite, dishonest, unreasonable...If Bronya had been alone and without other Silvermane Guards, she would have been so angry that she would have stuffed something long (referring to the barrel of a gun) into a hole (referring to the nostril) on this guy's body.She kept reminding herself to be generous and to give way to outsiders gracefully, and not to let the name of the Supreme Guardian be disgraced in the eyes of the store manager.But at the same time, Bronya suddenly realized something that made her feel deflated.—According to the Trailblazer of the Express Crew, the flaming sword that solved the Stellaron crisis was given by the store manager of this cafe.And that thing is not a unique item in the hands of the store manager of this cafe....In other words, it is very likely that even if all the military strength of Belobog is exhausted, they probably will not be a match for this cafe.So, naturally—After the Stellaron crisis, Bronya once again encountered this abnormal person who was completely beyond her understanding which made her always tense strings snap.Although the strong will honed on the battlefield finally prevented her from crying directly in front of the store manager, after the string that had always been tense broke, a feeling of fatigue and depression from the heart suddenly occupied Bronya's heart.If her mother, the Supreme Guardian Cocolia, was still there—Pain, powerlessness, plus the fatigue and irritability accumulated in these days, and the sadness of losing her mother, all invaded her brain, causing her eyes to appear "hallucinations" that should only appear when she closed her eyes.But she soon realized that it was not an illusion, and it was not even her mother, but a "Cocolia" who was similar to her mother.Due to her still-lasting admiration for Cocolia, Bronya did not immediately believe the store manager's words when facing this woman who looked like her mother. She took a deep breath and suppressed her personal feelings in her chest, and then she tried her best to endure it."Excuse me, Ms. Cocolia."With a cold tone that perfectly matched the title of "Supreme Guardian" and impeccable manners, she asked the same question she had asked the suspect several times during her tenure as the commander."Pretending to be a law enforcement officer, and intending to force an innocent citizen to commit a crime – are the accusations made by the store manager against you true?"Haha—The young store manager looked away and sneered with a mixture of disdain and sarcasm from the tip of his nose."Does this have anything to do with you?"Cocolia's eyes suddenly turned cold. Although the girl who claimed to be Bronya Rand showed her a kind of high-ranking spirit, as an executor of anti-entropy, she had already faced countless leaders.Compared with those political leaders who still ruled the country, Bronya Rand was still too young."Since you have the same name as my daughter, I'd like to advise you not to meddle in other people's business here." Cocolia said coldly. "Do you know the identity of that girl?""I don't know, it doesn't matter." Bronya looked directly at Cocolia's cold face, her expression firm. "What I want to ask is what you are going to do with that child, Ms. Cocolia.""..."Cocolia's breathing became a little faster. I don't know if it was because the girl who was disobeying her was so similar to Bronya, but her mood unconsciously became a little irritable."What do you know? This is a necessary sacrifice to save the world! As long as she becomes a Herrscher, we can get hope from her to fight against the Honkai! The children in the orphanage can continue to survive in this world!""Tsk..." She gently closed her eyes and whispered, "What am I doing... This woman is not my Bronya..."Click, the sound of the barrel being loaded.Bronya raised her gun to Cocolia."I am Bronya Rand, the Supreme Guardian of Belobog."With unspeakable disappointment and loneliness, Bronya declared—"In the name of the noble Amber Lord, I hereby sentence the evil party!"Chapter 17: Get Out of the Way! The Store Manager is Trying to Show Off!The black-and-white metal barrels reflected sharp light under the lights."Are you serious?"Cocolia stared at the girl with a resolute expression and slightly lonely eyes indifferently, showing no wavering in her hostility toward Bronya."It is our duty as the Supreme Guardian to protect the citizens," Bronya said coldly. "Since this cafe is built on the territory of Belobog, Belobog will protect every resident who enters it."Although the judgment declaration had been made, Cocolia could still feel that the girl in front of her had no intention of killing her.However, her determination was clearly expressed: as long as she attacked the sleeping girl, Bronya would definitely stop her.Since that was the case, there was no point in taking action here, and Cocolia knew this very well. She didn't think she would lose to the girl with the same name and appearance as Bronya, but Cocolia knew that the person who caused this situation was the young, red-haired store manager.Although the store manager had not shown the slightest hostility toward her, as long as the girl was still sitting in the store, the manager would not allow her to take the girl away by force.Compared to Bronya Rand, this young store manager whose background she could not see clearly was the biggest obstacle to taking the Herrscher body.So, Cocolia ignored the gun barrel aimed at her chest, lowered her gaze slightly, and stared at the young store manager with a meaningful look. "It seems unrealistic to take that girl away here.""Don't look at me like that," the store manager said, taking another sip of tea and speaking lightly. "Although I hate you, as the store manager of a coffee shop, I will follow the principle of hospitality. I certainly don't allow you to attack my customers in the store, but what happens outside the store has nothing to do with me.""So, if this Supreme Guardian Bronya attacks me, you'll stop her, right?" Cocolia's mouth curved into a slight smile."Guess?"The answer to her was a meaningful smile."Hmph, what a willful store manager." Cocolia turned around, closed the door with her back to the two people in the cafe, and left without regret. "I hope your store closes soon.""Goodbye, I won't see you off," the store manager said coldly, not even looking at Cocolia's retreating back."Wait!" Bronya, a beat slower, quickly put down the gun in her hand and followed Cocolia's footsteps.But when she opened the door, apart from the bustling Belobog, where else could she see Cocolia's figure?Bronya closed the door in a daze. She recalled Cocolia's indifferent attitude, which ignored her completely. The five fingers gripping the gun's handle trembled slightly.Suddenly, she turned her head and glared at the store manager with uncontrollable anger."Is this what you wanted me to see? No matter which side’s 'mother' is like this..."Hopelessly, look.Bronya who truly couldn’t describe her mother with those words could only glare at the young store manager in fury."You misunderstood me," the young store manager suddenly said, showing a disgusted expression as if he'd eaten something vile. "Believe it or not, if I had known that woman would come to my store, I would have closed the door tightly.""Tsk, it's really unlucky."The blatant disgusted gesture made Bronya speechless for a while.She actually knew what kind of person Cocolia was, and it had nothing to do with the store manager.The reason she was angry was not because of the store manager himself, but because she couldn’t accept the fact that "Cocolia was an irredeemable precious thing, no matter what world it was," so she transferred her anger to the store manager, who ruthlessly exposed this fact before her.To put it bluntly, it was just unreasonable anger."You just return her to her original world like this?" she said in a deep voice after finally suppressing her anger."Didn't I say it? I'm just the manager of a coffee shop. I don't run a police station here, nor do I provide services to save the world," the manager said leisurely."But Cocolia is going to harm that girl!" Bronya pointed at Raiden Mei, who was still sleeping soundly. "You told me about this! Are you going to leave her alone?""Yeah, is there any problem?" the manager glanced at Bronya with a righteous look and asked back with confidence."Tsk..." Bronya clicked her tongue, "If you don't care, then let me take care of it. The believers of the Amber Lord will not allow innocent people to be persecuted before their eyes.""You want to take care of it? How?""Of course, take her back to Belobog," Bronya answered without hesitation."Oh, it sounds great. Do you want me to applaud you?" the store manager said expressionlessly. "Then what? Let her, a human living in another world, struggle with your civilization that survives in the ice and snow?""...""Besides, this girl also has family and acquaintances in her world. Do you want her to abandon all of that?""..." Speechless, Bronya bit her teeth slightly."Girl, you're really too young," the young store manager said in the tone of an experienced person. "You should learn from me. Don't get excited when you see a little thing. As the highest ruler of a city, you'll see many more unfair things in the future.""Give me the simplest example—"The store manager raised his empty palm and clenched it out of thin air.A black-and-gold pistol appeared in his hand without warning."You are now opening the door of this store, and if the Judgment of Shamash in my hand suddenly goes off, you'll see that within a few hundred meters, all ordinary people walking will be burned to ashes by the thousands of degrees of flames.""What—" Bronya's scalp numbed, and she instantly rushed to the door of the cafe, her whole body stiff, not daring to move."And the reason is just because you provoked me," the young store manager showed an evil smile. "The most important thing is that you can't stop me. Your thin body is as fragile as a piece of paper in front of this gun.""Then, now I ask you—""Do you want me to interfere in the affairs of other worlds as I please? Or do you want me to be an honest store manager here and ignore the affairs of other worlds?"The store manager slapped the gun in his hand on the table, a kind smile on his face."Don't doubt it, this is thing undoubtedly intimidating.""..." Bronya clenched her fists, her voice hoarse and stiff, "Just... here, be a store manager honestly...""You don't know me well enough to bet on whether I will cause large-scale harm to your people because of a momentary displeasure. So, compared with the matter of that girl, in your eyes, Belobog's safety is obviously more important." The store manager laughed. "Look, aren't you also an unfair and unjust person? So, the two of us are just the same."Chapter 18: The Supreme Guardian Who "Cannot Reject Kindness"Bronya heard the strong sarcasm in the store manager's words. Her pretty face turned blue and red, and her fingers clenched so tightly that the joints turned white.As a good and lawful child, she obviously could not accept the chaotic remarks of the store manager. However, whether it was in terms of power or reason, Bronya could not retort to this sarcasm that directly struck her wound.She resisted the urge to shove the barrel of the gun into the store manager's nostrils and took a few long, deep breaths as her chest rose and fell rapidly.... In short, calm down first.Although the conversation made her quite unhappy, Bronya knew that losing her composure during negotiations was a mistake.If the store manager's continuous provocation aimed to cloud her mind with anger, then once her thinking was dominated by rage, it meant his goal had been achieved. In principle, when one party achieves its goal, the other party is left at a disadvantage in the negotiation process.No, if there was any disadvantage, it was clear from the beginning that the store manager who has the ability to destroy most of Belobog had already gained the upper hand in this conversation.So, in this case...What should she do to get the best possible result from this conversation?What is the best result?Order the cafe to close immediately? Or beg the other party not to destroy Belobog?Although the climate in the cafe was not hot, the stress of the situation made Bronya's forehead bead with a thin layer of cold sweat, and irregular breaths escaped her pink lips."Sit down."At that moment, the manager's calm voice suddenly rang out. Bronya was momentarily distracted. When she snapped back to her senses, she realized that she had returned to her seat as the manager had instructed."I know what you are worried about."Across the table, the manager raised his eyes to look at Bronya, who was sweating profusely, with a calm, emotionless gaze."Don't worry, I have no interest in your planet, and I have no intention of interfering with your rule of Belobog. I already told you before—I'm just the manager of a cafe, and I have no interest in interfering in other worlds."Bronya swallowed a mouthful of saliva with some difficulty."What do you want? And why did you appear in Belobog?" she asked in a deep voice.The store manager gently shook the teacup in his hand. "I just want a peaceful retirement life."Bronya stared directly into the manager's eyes. "You should know that this is not the answer I want to hear."Her words were firm, her eyes unwavering, but her tone still carried an indescribable sense of powerlessness."..."In fact, the store manager's heart was also quite weary.Although still immature, as a politician who had served as the supreme ruler of a city, and with the negative example of the Stellaron in front of her, Bronya certainly could not believe that this transcendent cafe had appeared in Belobog without a purpose.However, by some stroke of luck, the appearance of this cafe in Belobog was an accident for the store manager, and he was not the kind of politician who liked intrigue. Therefore, there was not a single lie in what he had said from the start."Do you believe me if I say that I came here by accident?"Just to be sure, the store manager asked."...If you want me to believe this, I can choose to believe it." Bronya said with a dejected look.That expression seemed to say, "Do you think I have a choice?"Tsk, trouble.This child seems to be the type who is difficult to change once she has made up her mind.It seems that if he didn't make some substantial demands here, she probably wouldn't sleep well after returning.This won't do."I know, then I'll tell you my purpose."The store manager put his teacup on the table, crossed his fingers, and gently placed his elbow on the table."When you came to this cafe, you should have noticed that, for ordinary people in Belobog, this place doesn't even exist.""...So what? Is there a problem with that?""This is a big problem, my dear Supreme Guardian."The corners of the store manager's mouth turned up slightly."Even if you're a Supreme Guardian, you should know that for a store to operate normally, a source of customers is essential."Having roughly guessed where the store manager was going with this, Bronya wore a slightly gloomy expression. "So?""So, I hope you can help me find out if there are any 'customers' who meet the requirements in Belobog." The store manager smiled.Bronya asked, "...What do you want to do with those customers?""Look at what you're saying. As the manager of a cafe, I just sincerely hope that my store can have more customers." The store manager shook his head and smiled."..."But these words made Bronya fall into a deep silence.No other needs, just hoping for more customers? Before she could think about the meaning of this statement, the store manager's next words interrupted her thoughts."-Of course, if there are too many customers, a small store with few employees like this could easily be overwhelmed.""Well, let's do it."The store manager stretched out his arm in front of Bronya and raised a finger."Every day, you introduce me to a customer from Belobog. Is that okay?""A... customer?" Bronya repeated the store manager's words."Yes, a customer." The store manager retracted his arm. "As long as this store can have a customer from Belobog every day, in exchange, I will not touch a single blade of grass in Belobog.""One person's sacrifice for the safety of the entire city—a very cost-effective deal, don't you think?"The idea of "one person's sacrifice for the safety of the entire city" made Bronya's face darken.Should I take that person as a hostage, or is there something worse in mind?The indescribable humiliation tormented Bronya's heart.But before that—She pursed her lips and asked again with a somewhat dry voice, "If you let a Belobog citizen come to this cafe every day, can you guarantee you won't harm anyone else?""Yes." The manager nodded."Can this person be me?" Bronya looked directly at the manager."Of course. I'm not the kind of person who adds conditions after making an agreement." The manager laughed."Then it's decided." Bronya stood up. "I will patronize your store every day from now on. In return, I expect you to keep your promise."She turned around to leave, but before she could take another step, the manager's voice stopped her."Wait.""What?" Bronya turned around, her pupils full of fatigue and humiliation, "Do you want to back out?""No." The store manager pointed to where she had been standing. "I just want you to drink the tea.""..."Bronya took the teacup from the table without a word, then tilted her head back.Like someone stumbling through the desert who had just found a glass of water, she drank the fragrant tea in several gulps, including the tea leaves."Thank you for the hospitality!"Bang!After slamming the teacup back onto the table in anger, Bronya left without looking back.The store manager shrugged, a helpless, bitter smile on his face.Chapter 19: Me! The Store Manager! Getting Ready to Make Trouble!"It seems that you have made that guy quite unhappy."Almost the next moment after Bronya disappeared at the door of the store, a milky voice rang in his ears out of thin air."Tsk." The store manager Yufan snorted coldly. "If I don't do this to lower her favorability as much as possible, after she leaves, won't Kongming and the others make trouble for me again?"Having appeared next to Yufan at some point, Miss Haxxor burst out laughing. She raised her head and shouted in the direction of the stairs on the second floor: "Did you hear it? Miss Kongming, this guy said this to you."With the sound of footsteps stumbling, the three shop assistants who had returned to the second floor to make room for the store manager and Bronya to communicate went down the stairs one by one."Alas..." Kongming sighed softly, shaking the feather fan in her hand, looking at Yufan with a helpless expression. "You are so old, why are you still upset about this kind of thing?"After a moment of silence, she walked in front of the store manager, and then, with her back to him, gently leaned her body into his arms. "Okay, I know you are also wronged. Come, hug, don't be sad.""I don't feel much sadness or grievance; I just feel a little bit uncomfortable." Yufan gently played with Kongming's silver hair, his expression a little melancholy. "Compared to me, that Supreme Guardian, it must be difficult for her to close her eyes for a long time.""What? Human, are you still thinking about that woman?" Luna crossed her arms, her red eyes shining with charm. "If you are really interested in that woman, why not just leave her here?""Don't talk nonsense." Yufan sneered. "Let alone whether you are willing or not, I can't get over it if I force her to stay in the coffee shop like this."ε=(´ο｀*)))Alas, after easing his mood, he sighed, raised a finger, and rubbed his eyebrows that felt a little stiff."Although the work in a cafe is not very physically demanding, it is more difficult than I thought to coordinate the relationship between different worlds." He said with some tiredness. "Why did I choose to open a shop at that time...""You have to ask the yourself, why you took the initiative to take on the responsibility that should not have been yours."With soft words full of soothing meaning, the white and slender hands replaced Yufan's fingers and gently stroked his forehead.The elegant maid stood in front of him and said in a very gentle tone: "Although we expected that the captain would make the choice, as a price, you who replaced the singularity must borrow the power of this fixed point if you still want to contact the outside world.""It's my own fault for not considering it carefully." Yufan looked around the surrounding scene and sighed faintly. "Who would have thought that after using the power of Hyperion to reconstruct the rules of the Sea of Quanta and the Bubble World, a cafe would appear at the fixed point?""This is probably the embodiment of the beautiful desire deep in your heart, the manager." Rita smiled softly. "Together with everyone, running a cafe that can attract customers from different worlds in a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere... I have to say, it is a very romantic idea.""Romantic... eh, I don't deny this." Yufan shook his head, an expression of extreme stomachache appearing on his face. "But while it's romantic, the troubles have obviously increased a lot.""The matter with the Supreme Guardian is easy to solve. That woman just took up this position with too much responsibility, so she has too much sense of crisis and tends to complicate some simple things. With her intelligence, it probably won't take much time, and this level of misunderstanding should be resolved soon.""The problem is, the package that the bastard Yang threw to me..."Rita gently put her finger on Yufan's lips and said with a smile.  "Using the word 'package' to describe a lady is not what a decent gentleman would do.""Okay, okay... a trouble he threw over.""Haha, human, why does it sound even more excessive?" Luna chuckled, looking very happy for some reason."Anyway, you just need to understand what I mean!" Yufan muttered. "It's because you guys were watching...""We are not petty enough to be jealous of a victim." Kongming raised the feather fan in her hand and gently patted Yufan's head. "Let's not talk about this. How are you going to deal with this girl?""Do you need me to follow her after she wakes up?" Haxxor spoke.The small and flexible cyber girl swung her legs gently and blew a bubble in her mouth. She raised her palm and tapped a few times in the air, and several translucent virtual light screens unfolded in the air."That woman named Cocolia— I heard from you that she is the mother of Bronya in other worlds? Any identity is fine; anyway, she seems to have set up a very strict guard near the 'immovable point' of the world where this little girl is, and it seems that she will not give up until she achieves her goal.""How much combat power do they have?""Thirty-six ordinary soldiers, twenty-four tactical mechas, and several airships suspended in the air— these are roughly the places that can be seen, and there may be more places that cannot be seen."Pop, the bubble in the rabbit's mouth burst. She licked around her lips and rolled the bubble gum stuck near her mouth back into her mouth."Humph, they really set up a trap, but they made such a big fuss just for a little girl. They really don't have the demeanor that a superior should have." Kongming sneered."Well said. If I tell you that if this girl goes crazy, she can easily beat up those so-called guards and tactical mechas in one move, will you feel that they are more useless?" Yufan said expressionlessly."But, human, I don't think you will let this little girl fall into that kind of crazy situation." Luna leaned down, leveled her eyes with Yufan, who was sitting in the seat, and said with a sweet smile, "Just like that time, you stopped me before I made an irreversible mistake.""...You are you, she is her, how can we generalize?" Yufan shook his head helplessly. "But I really don't want this child to be harmed to that extent by that brain-dead woman. My cafe is still connected to Nagazora City after all. What if one day I got careless about a zombie rushing in? Then I will have nightmares in the middle of the night.""So, who among us are you going to let go?" Kongming asked. "In terms of identity, it should be Rita who is most suitable, and in terms of ability, it should be Bronie. Of course, even if we let this guy and I go, it is probably not difficult to solve the problem of this child.""Why did I become this guy when I arrived! Do you want to fight?""No, I will do it myself this time." But at this moment, Yufan suddenly shook his head.The four shop assistants were stunned at the same time."But, store manager, aren't you ready...""I am indeed ready to stop interfering in the affairs of other worlds, so whether it is Cocolia or the soldiers following her, I will not harm their lives."Yufan smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, only a sense of danger.Chapter 20: The Human Brain is a Disk.jpgRaiden Mei opened her eyes and found herself lying on a sofa against the wall, covered with a velvet blanket.She rubbed her sleepy eyes, sat up, and looked around blankly. The sound of stir-frying came from the depths of the kitchen. The hooded girl behind the bar was blowing bubbles while half-lying on the bar, playing a video game on the handheld console.Did I fall asleep accidentally?She pressed her forehead, feeling a restless blood vessel throbbing deep in her brain. She tried to recall the scene before she fell asleep, but her memory seemed to be interrupted at a certain moment, and then there was nothingness, as though she had been anesthetized during surgery.Because she had been kidnapped once as a child, out of instinctive vigilance, Raiden Mei subconsciously touched her body.She didn't feel that her freedom had been restricted, so it didn't seem like she had been kidnapped.All over her body... she didn't seem to feel any discomfort.Except for the wrinkles caused by lying on her side, there were no signs of anyone touching her coat, and her belongings, such as her wallet and mobile phone, were still intact.So, I just fell asleep?Raiden Mei frowned slightly, instinctively feeling that something was wrong, but she shuddered subconsciously.For some reason, she felt that her body instinctively resisted continuing to search her memory for the reason she had suddenly fallen asleep."Are you awake?"At that moment, a young voice roused her still-confused thoughts.Raiden Mei turned her head toward the voice and saw the young store manager in a white suit sitting not far from her. He had crossed his legs and was flipping through a black account book, his calm eyes not looking at her.Although falling asleep without warning in a shop she'd entered for the first time could be considered suspicious, looking at the tension-free and even warm atmosphere of the café, Mei hesitated for a moment before finally asking the question she cared about most: "What happened to me? Why did I suddenly..."The store manager gently closed the account book, turned his head, and looked at Raiden Mei's face.For some reason, his eyes looked a little strange."You want to ask why you lost consciousness?" the store manager asked."..."Raiden Mei nodded silently."Uh, you don’t remember what happened before?""..."Should I remember?Raiden Mei frowned, her eyes showing frank doubt."... Well, let’s put it this way." The store manager considered his words for a while. "Although it’s my fault that you fainted, the fact that you don’t remember that memory has nothing to do with me.""What does that mean?""If I’m not mistaken..." The store manager paused, as if struggling to speak. "The reason why you don’t have the memory before you lost consciousness is probably because, um... because one of your five senses was hit beyond the limit of understanding, so your brain chose to actively delete the memory of that period to protect your body.""One of my five senses was hit beyond the limit of understanding?" Raiden Mei muttered to herself. Perhaps because of the store manager’s hint, she suddenly felt a strange taste in her mouth. Her face turned pale, and she covered her mouth with both hands."If you want something with a stronger taste to cover that feeling, the coffee is ready for you, right in front of you." The store manager smiled and kindly reminded her.Raiden Mei hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, there was a cup of steaming coffee on the table in front of her. With an expression of stomach acid rising, she grabbed the cup like a drowning person clutching a life-saving straw and poured it into her mouth without hesitation.Gulp, gulp.When the coffee was finished, Raiden Mei placed the empty cup back on the table with lingering fear."...So, do you still want to know why you fell asleep?" the store manager asked."No! Thank you!" Raiden Mei immediately replied, cold sweat on her forehead. She didn’t want to recall what had happened at the moment she lost consciousness.After a long while, Raiden Mei stood up, preparing to leave the store immediately."Do you need to stay for dinner? You slept for so long and didn’t have lunch, so you must be very hungry, right?" The store manager said earnestly, as if apologizing for the fact that the dishes in his store had caused her to lose consciousness. "I said earlier today that I can cover all your expenses here, so you don’t need to pay."Who would dare stay in your store to eat after that indescribable food?Raiden Mei’s face darkened.Although her good upbringing prevented her from cursing immediately, and even though she didn’t choose to protect her consumer rights after being cheated by the store, she silently added this café to her blacklist."No, thank you." Raiden Mei said stiffly. She endured the discomfort in her stomach and mouth and walked towards the door without hesitation."Okay, okay, it seems that the dish really left a bad impression on you." The store manager said regretfully. "Since you won’t be using the free bill this time, I’ll save it for next time. When you’re free to come to my store again, I’ll give you a free meal then."Raiden Mei paused as she was opening the door. She turned around and said faintly, "If there’s a chance in the future."I would be a fool to come to this store again!Chapter 21: Noon Has Arrived!Just after walking out of the door of the coffee shop, the cold wind that blew in her face made Raiden Mei shrink her neck unconsciously.She lifted her collar and took out her mobile phone from her skirt pocket to take a look.It was already seven o'clock in the evening. The sun had completely set, and the streetlights illuminated the empty streets. The moon was not visible in the dark sky.Although it was unclear whether it would rain, the heavy dark clouds were slowly pressing down.Raiden Mei looked around and suddenly shuddered.This was the busiest pedestrian street in Nagazora City. Logically, at this time of seven o'clock, she should have been able to see crowds of people.The deserted streets were like a wreck that had sunk to the bottom of the sea. They were full of coldness and dead silence, which made people feel chilly.Raiden Mei slightly turned her eyes to the side. The frosted glass on the outer wall of the cafe reflected the dim light inside the store. Several blurry figures gathered around an equally blurry table, eating dinner in a warm atmosphere. It was almost time for dinner at seven o'clock.When she realized this, her stomach made a grumbling sound."..."Although there was no one around and the door of the cafe behind her had been closed by her, Raiden Mei's face still flushed an unnatural red when her stomach started to rumble.So hungry...She couldn't help but regret it. From breakfast to now, except for a few cups of coffee, she had only eaten—no, she hadn't eaten anything. Seeing the warm appearance of people gathered around a table in this cafe, the dishes on the table must be dinner that normal people could eat.If I had known, I would have accepted the invitation of the store manager and had dinner in their store before leaving....Alas, what am I thinking about?Raiden Mei suddenly felt a little discouraged, and the fear that had just risen in her heart also disappeared a lot.She raised her feet and walked on the empty pedestrian street with a little fatigue.Although it was very strange that there was no one on this street, it was still a modern society after all. The surrounding streetlights were still working normally. If you listened carefully, you could still hear the sound of traffic coming from afar.Moreover, after walking a few steps, Raiden Mei suddenly saw that there were several blockades at the end of the road.…Perhaps during the time when she was asleep, something had happened in this commercial street, which was originally a downtown area, so the government and police of Nagazora City dispersed the people on the street.Raiden Mei thought.And she was ignored by them because she stayed in the cafe for a long time.In this case, she should not stay here any longer and should go home quickly.With this thought, Raiden Mei's steps became a little hurried.Car lights were passing by the blockade at the end of the road, and a guard holding a machine gun stood next to it.It seemed that during the time when she was asleep, something serious had happened here, which forced the police to completely block the area.When the guard's figure gradually became clear in her vision, Raiden Mei raised her hand and spoke——As a kendo master, her fighting instinct made her subconsciously dodge to the side before she spoke.Accompanied by a silenced gunshot, the strong wind at close range brushed past her cheek."Huh?"Before she could understand what was happening, two black shadows jumped down from the high buildings on both sides of her, one on the left and one on the right, with machine guns in their hands spewing fierce flames."What's going on——?"Her feet moved by themselves.After narrowly avoiding the flames spewed by the machine gun, Raiden Mei ran to the street lamp beside her in a slightly embarrassed manner.One side of the road was blocked. According to normal logic, since the other side blocked one side of the road, the other side must be in the same situation.The only target could be the store on the street.As a member of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū, if she had a katana in her hand, she could still have some thoughts of resistance at this critical moment.But facing several soldiers with firearms and being unarmed, no matter how superb her swordsmanship was, the only choice she had was to run away.She raised her arms to protect her face and broke through a glass door with a crisp sound of breaking.If Raiden Mei remembered correctly, behind this glass door should be the largest department store on this commercial street. It was a great help that there was no anti-theft net. Next, she would try to distance herself from the two people behind her who attacked her and then look for anything in this department store that could be used as a weapon——The thinking stopped instantly.The ceiling lights in the department store lit up one by one, followed by a round of applause."For a young lady living in a greenhouse, you did a good job and deserve praise."The person who clapped her hands gave a condescending voice of approval from the bottom of her heart. "It's a pity that you are still too young in judging the situation. You should have given up resistance when they fired the first shot. In this way, you wouldn't have to face the pain and despair that follows.""..." Looking at the guards who surrounded her, Raiden Mei knew that she could no longer resist, so she calmed down. "Who are you? Why do you want to arrest me?""Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. I'm not the kind of boring villain who is naive enough to explain intelligence to outsiders." Cocolia smiled. She raised her hand holding a pistol and said in a confident tone, "I advise you not to hide. This gun is only loaded with tranquilizer bullets. However, if I shoot at a vital point, I can't guarantee that you will survive."She exerted force on her fingertips and pulled the trigger.Click-The gun did not sound. Cocolia's expression froze for a moment.After all, she was a former Russian sergeant. Of course, she would not make the low-level mistake of not having bullets in the magazine, so she immediately realized that her gun had been tampered with."Shoot! Don't aim at the vital points!"Cocolia shouted loudly, and all the guards surrounding Raiden Mei raised their machine guns at the same time and pulled the trigger—Click-click-click-click—Just like before, there was no gunshot, but everyone's machine guns made a click-click sound of metal parts colliding, and for a while, there were exclamations.At the same time, when everyone pulled the trigger, Raiden Mei did not hesitate to pick up a mop left by the cleaner from the wall on one side. There was still some dirty water on the handle wrapped in a strip of cloth.She didn't know what the mop had been used to clean before, and the dirty water even exuded a mysterious smell.She picked up the still-wet mop, and with a cold face, she didn't care about any so-called swordsman's demeanor. She smashed it hard on Cocolia's head without any hesitation.Cocolia's face turned pale at first. After being touched by this thing, she probably couldn't raise her head in front of her subordinates who witnessed everything in her life."Hmph." But she quickly reacted and snorted disdainfully.She was a former Russian sergeant, after all. How could her close combat ability be worse than this little girl—"Go--!"Suddenly, accompanied by a huge force, Cocolia felt that her butt was kicked hard by someone, and her upper body, which lost control, couldn't help but lean towards the stained mop head.The beautiful golden curly hair and the mop head stained with dirty water hugged each other intimately.A blow that was not very harmful but extremely insulting.Chapter 22: Sir, the Times Have ChangedOn one side stood the culprit, with his foot half-raised.On the other side was the kendo girl, wielding a mop.The victim, sandwiched between the two, kept leaning forward, looking as though she was about to fall.The rag strips on the mop head were randomly stuck in mid-air, landing on the face that was both charming and sharp, like that of a soldier.The background was a brightly lit department store surrounded by a circle of stunned anti-entropy guards.The absurd scene, reminiscent of a comedy movie, froze in this moment.The next moment, time resumed its flow.Raiden Mei's swing was without reservation.—Although the weapon she swung was a mop covered in dirty water.However, the strength of every muscle in her body was pushed to the limit. Raiden Mei's unreserved swing, from her waist to the enemy's face, was perfect, whether in terms of posture, the landing point of the weapon, or the timing of the attack.—It’s a pity that the weapon she swung was a mop covered in dirty water.So, when the weapon made contact with the opponent’s face, Cocolia’s head and the mop head, which had briefly hugged each other, bounced off one another under the influence of the reaction force.As we all know, a mop is not a weapon.Although Raiden Mei did not hold back, the mop's shaft was made of soft ash wood, and the rags, soaked in dirty water, provided a buffer. Even if this swing hit Cocolia's panel, it did not cause any substantial damage to her body.But after this swing—one that didn't even cause much pain—Cocolia’s eyes widened, her expression twisted in anger and shame.Because—she felt the sewage slowly dripping down her face.Because—she smelled an indescribable odor.The anger that had almost burned her rationality evaporated instantly.As a "witch" who once roamed Siberia, Cocolia’s fighting instincts were quite sharp.She immediately realized that her chance had come.Despite her superior swordsmanship, Raiden Mei was just a young lady living in a peaceful era after all. Without weapons, she could not pose a threat to the people on her side.The one who could pose a threat to her was the one who shot her in the back and kicked her hard in the ass.So, as long as she could control or knock down the person behind her first, Raiden Mei would still belong to her.The Snowfield Witch was very shrewd. Even after a mild attack, the advantage of the situation was still on her side. She gathered all her strength, pretended to be hit, and turned around, with a cold and fierce smile in her eyes.Then, she froze in front of the black barrel of the gun.It was unclear which person had taken it from her. The young store manager smiled and raised a black machine gun with one hand. His smiling voice sounded like he deserved a beating."Surprise~~ Surprised? Unexpected? Do you think I’m as naive as the girl who hits people with (beep——)? I guessed you would do this!"Originally felt a little grateful to the store manager for coming to help her in this critical moment, Raiden Mei suddenly made an expression as if she had eaten shit-flavored chocolate. She glanced at the mop which was slowly dripping with dirty water, and felt that neither holding it nor throwing it aside was the right thing to do."..." Cocolia narrowed her eyes and suddenly reached out for the gun in the store manager's hand with lightning speed.After all, Cocolia was a person who had been trained in the army.If the store manager were an ordinary person with no combat experience, he would likely be caught off guard and his weapon would be easily taken by the other party.But—Bang!Accompanied by the sound of a gunshot, the burning sensation that brushed across her cheek forced Cocolia to immediately stop reaching for the gun."Don’t touch me, auntie." The young store manager narrowed his eyes, put away his smile, and looked down at her with contempt and disdain. "I’m a family man, please pay attention to your image... puff..."You laughed! You definitely laughed just now!Cocolia's eyes were nearly on fire, and her teeth were gritting."Hey, you’re a famous former soldier from Siberia, why did you come to the Far East to target a harmless student?"The young store manager shook his head in disappointment and spoke casually, as if chatting with a friend he met on the road: "If you stayed in Siberia and were a local snake, no one would dare to provoke you. People who have the ability to cause trouble like you wouldn’t be so idle as to run to that godforsaken place to suffer for themselves.""You, on the contrary, didn’t take good care of your own little piece of land, but you had to travel thousands of miles out of your comfort zone and bring the landlord style you were accustomed to in Siberia to Nagazora City. Haven’t you ever thought that your brain isn’t that useful? Do you trust the intelligence system of Anti-Entropy so much that you’re sure no one will jump out to cause trouble for you?"Cocolia sneered. Although her head was pointed at by a machine gun, she didn’t show much fear. "Knowing that I’m from Anti-Entropy, you’re still so arrogant. It seems the store manager isn’t an ordinary person. Let me guess, were you sent to Nagazora City by Otto?"Before he finished speaking, the young store manager suddenly threw the machine gun in his hand, and the steel gun body hit her face heavily, making Cocolia’s side face turn red.However, this slap from the gun body didn’t cause any real harm to Cocolia, at most it caused some physical pain.Rather than an attack, it seemed more like venting anger."My relationship with Otto is indeed not very bad," the young store manager said faintly, looking at Cocolia, who had turned her face away after being slapped, "If he dies one day, I wouldn’t mind helping him erect a tombstone without words, and by the way, hang a donkey ear hat on the tombstone.""Huh, is that so? Then why do you look like someone has poked you in a sore spot?" Cocolia turned back and said coldly."Don’t get me wrong, I’m just helping others vent their anger." The young store manager smiled, "Since you can use Otto to test my reaction, I can also help that guy’s enemies vent their anger against anyone who mentions his name in front of me—makes sense, right?""It makes sense." Cocolia raised a sneer at the corner of her mouth. "On the other hand, you shouldn’t mind me venting my anger toward that bastard Overseer on you, after all, don’t you claim to have a good relationship with that guy?"Chapter 23: Textbook-like Pretense and Slap in the FaceThe young store manager looked at Cocolia who had suddenly swelled up, and said with some surprise, "Are you tired of living?""You’re the one who’s tired of living!" Cocolia stood up, seemingly unfazed by the machine gun in the store manager's hand. "Do you know what the main combat power of Anti-Entropy is?"Without hesitation, the young store manager pulled the trigger on the machine gun. Amid the dense gunfire, the black barrel flashed with fierce flames, and the bullets in the magazine were emptied in a few seconds.However, no bullet touched Cocolia. Sparks splashed in front of her, and all the bullets were deflected just in front of her, as if an invisible shield was protecting her.At the same time, Raiden Mei suddenly cried out, "Manager! Behind me!"As the light twisted, several mechas that had been deployed appeared inside the department store. They rotated, deformed, and unfolded with the sound of metal clashing and grinding, breaking through the ceiling of the department store. Gravel and soil fell to the ground, and strong airflow spread dust in all directions."The mechas have changed from quantum state to physical form..." The young store manager placed the machine gun with the empty magazine on his shoulder. Turning his head, he said with some surprise, "You’ve already mastered this technology?""How could we capture this girl without some preparation?" Cocolia turned her head and looked at Raiden Mei, who appeared slightly frightened by the imposing presence of the mechas. Cocolia’s inner vanity was greatly satisfied. "This is the latest model of the Titan mecha. Although quantum technology only allows me to carry three for now, as long as I don’t encounter any S-rank monsters, it should be enough to deal with arrogant little brats like you."Raiden Mei's body trembled slightly. Judging by appearance alone, these three towering steel monsters were quite a visual impact. The young store manager standing before her looked almost like a small child in comparison."Wait!" Raiden Mei suddenly shouted, her eyes full of determination and her expression heroic. "Your target is me, right? Then don’t involve any other innocent people!""Innocent? You don’t think this guy is some good Samaritan who came to help you, do you?" Cocolia sneered, as though mocking Raiden Mei’s naivety. "But there’s nothing wrong with your choice. Compared to following this guy back, we’re the better choice for you to oppose Anti-Entropy.""After all, no matter what you say, that guy Raiden Ryoma—your father—is also my colleague." Cocolia said. "For his sake, as long as you follow me obediently, I won’t harm you.""Father?" Raiden Mei’s expression froze when she heard a name that shouldn’t be mentioned here. "Do you know my father?""Not only does she know him, she’s the one who sent your father to prison." The young store manager shrugged. Not looking at either Raiden Mei or Cocolia, he touched his chin and eyed the three imposing mechas."What?!" Raiden Mei’s pupils shrank suddenly. She took a small step back, and the surging anger rose from the depths of her heart.She stared at Cocolia’s profile and ground her teeth. "Is what he said true?""Humph." Cocolia snorted in dissatisfaction. "Anyway, you’ll find out soon enough when you return to the Anti-Entropy base with me. He’s right; your father was indeed imprisoned because of my scheme.""Why?" Raiden Mei’s eyes almost burned with fury. "You claimed to be my father’s colleague. Then why did you harm him?!""It was just a normal factional struggle." Cocolia replied nonchalantly. "You don’t need to worry too much about your father. As one of the executors of the super-governmental organization, he won’t completely lose his freedom after being imprisoned. If I’m not mistaken, your father probably escaped from prison long ago, but he’s been under suspicion and can’t reveal himself to you.""Factional struggle...?" Raiden Mei clenched her right fist tightly. "Just because of that, you sent your colleague, someone else’s father, to prison?""The real world is cruel." Cocolia glanced at Raiden Mei with a cold look. "Just like now, no matter what choice you make in the end, you’ll have to return to Anti-Entropy with me because there’s a huge gap between you and me now, like the difference between heaven and earth.""I don’t mind telling you, even if you eventually come with me obediently, I’ll never let that kid go.""Letting him go back is like telling the Overseer everything that happened here. I can’t let the people of the hostile organization return to their base after witnessing all this."At that moment, a loud clapping noise echoed in their ears."Well said." The young store manager tucked the machine gun under his arm and nodded in agreement. "When there’s an absolute gap in strength, any negotiation or communication becomes unnecessary."With a loud crash that felt like the sky and earth were collapsing, the ground of the entire department store suddenly shook violently. The lights flickered and went out with the sound of electricity, only to flicker back on.Cocolia turned abruptly and stared in shock at the Titan mecha, now reduced to three piles of scrap metal, and at the young store manager, who was brushing dust off his hands."I was thinking about what to do if they were all human, but I didn’t expect you to be so polite and give me a few pieces of lifeless inorganic matter." The store manager laughed. "You’re so polite and have embraced the role of the villain. If I don’t accept your kindness, wouldn’t it seem like I can’t read the atmosphere?""You—" Cocolia’s scalp tingled, and she screamed, "Deploy all the mechas now!"The sound of air tearing filled the room as a huge airflow followed. The ground shook again. The ceiling, already damaged, cracked further, and pieces of bricks and countless shards of gravel rained down."This is textbook villain behavior..." The young store manager sighed in boredom. "Then I’ll give you a textbook response.""Watch this, your grandfather—bah! That one won’t work, let me change it.""Let’s borrow a line from Rita.""Former Hyperion Captain Yufan.""Start cleaning up the battlefield."Chapter 24: Heavy Rain is ComingThe night deepened.The hall of the department store had completely changed.The load-bearing columns and walls Honkaid, and the broken bricks turned into gravel and dispersed in the cold winter wind.The floor of the hall and the street were full of countless metal debris. The half-exposed cables sputtered sparks in the dark night, and the blazing flames swayed and tumbled in the ruins."Hmm...ah..."Under the firelight, the young store manager whose clothes were not messed up at all, stretched comfortably, and his joints and bones made a series of excited clacking sounds.A cheerful voice, accompanied by a touch of steaming fog, rang out from his open mouth: "It's comfortable. I haven't had a good exercise like this for a long time."The flying flames merged into the dark night, and the crackling sound of the flames echoed continuously.Looking at the young store manager standing on the metal wreckage with his limbs and chest stretched out, Cocolia’s face was pale, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat."Who... are you?" she whispered."Hmm?" The store manager tilted his head. "Didn't I already report my position and name? Why, do you need me to say it again?""Then listen carefully."He bowed slightly and closed one eye."Former Captain Hyperion, current manager of Hyperion Cafe, Yufan, greets you, the executor of anti-entropy."Kala——the humble self-introduction made Cocolia bite her teeth hard.At this point, even with Cocolia’s arrogance, she had to admit that the failure of the operation had become a foregone conclusion.However, the process of failure was so unusual that, at the first moment, she felt more doubts than fear and frustration.Hyperion...Hyperion——Is that what it means? Why didn’t I realize it at the beginning?Isn’t this name the ace flagship of the Far East Branch of Schicksal?"Hmph...It seems that this failure is not accidental." Cocolia looked directly at the store manager's face and raised a self-deprecating arc at the corner of her mouth. "Raiden Ryoma was so self-righteous that he thought he had controlled every tree and grass in Nagazora City, but he didn’t expect that there was an S-level fighter of Schicksal secretly active under his nose.""What are you misunderstanding?""Misunderstanding?" Cocolia snorted coldly.Although there were dozens of anti-entropy guards surrounding her, she crossed her arms and released all her strength, posing as if she was ready to let him do whatever he wanted. "Whatever you say, at this point, I don’t expect to escape from your hands. With my flesh alone, I dismantled more than 20 Titan mechas in an instant with movements that I couldn’t even see clearly. Even the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal probably couldn’t do that.""It’s an honor for a small anti-entropy executor like me to force out a trump card that was hidden so deeply under the hands of the Overseer of Schicksal.""I’ve already explained that I’m not Otto’s man..." Yufan sighed. "Forget it, communicating with a self-righteous person like you is really a waste of my time."He jumped off the metal wreckage, put his hands behind his head, closed his eyes, and walked toward Cocolia step by step.Cocolia clenched her right hand and pursed her lips tightly.As she had said before, the confrontation between the store manager and the Titan mecha really ended in an instant.She only saw the store manager’s figure tremble slightly, and then the mechas that were dropped and hadn’t even been released from deployment mode were torn apart in a loud bang.The whole process did not even take more than 0.1 seconds.Facing such a monster-like enemy, even if there was still a heart of resistance, reason could clearly realize that there was no hope of escape at all.But just as Cocolia closed her eyes and waited for the judgment of the young store manager, she felt a slight touch on her shoulder.She opened her eyes tentatively.In her field of vision, there were no other figures except for a piece of ruins. She was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned her head away."You——"——Instantly.The scene in front of her and all the sounds disappeared.Cocolia suddenly covered her ears, and her eyes closed unconsciously for fear of being destroyed.Her whole brain was in a dizzy state, and her hearing was completely paralyzed.Compared with Cocolia, who had already fallen into temporary blindness and deafness, the store manager who had just passed by her seemed much calmer.He raised his head slightly, looked at the strong flash that was slowly floating in the air and was enough to destroy the retina of a normal person with a helpless look, and shook his head with some sighs. "Alas, it turned out to be like this."A sharp arc flashed across the sky covered with dark clouds, and the street scene in the commercial street turned pale in an instant.Followed by a low thunder.In the pale street scene, the young store manager rubbed his eyebrows. "It is because this situation is very troublesome to deal with that I don’t want to be the nanny of those worlds one after another..."At this time, Cocolia’s vision and hearing finally recovered.She slowly opened her eyes. Although there was still some residual glare in her vision, she finally saw the scene in front of her clearly.She looked at the girl floating in the air, and was stunned for a moment, then her mouth curled up."Haha, hahahahaha - God is helping me!"From the despair of being unable to resist, she suddenly saw a glimmer of hope, and laughed ecstatically. "I didn’t expect to awaken to be a Herrscher at this time! Manager! You too -""Shut up, shut up -"Yufan turned his head slightly back, and a cold light flashed in his deep pupils.--This is not a metaphor. At this moment, a pattern as gorgeous as a phoenix feather suddenly appeared in his pupils. The complex glare invaded Cocolia’s brain through vision in less than a millisecond, depriving her of the will in her eyes without any resistance.After using Fenghuang Down to temporarily take away the thoughts of the people who were in the way, Yufan looked around, raised his arm, and snapped his fingers.A crisp snap of fingers resounded in all directions.With this snap of fingers as the dividing point, the anti-entropy guards suddenly dissipated and disappeared at the same time—Cocolia was completely unaware.As early as the beginning, these guards following her were phantoms created by Fenghuang Down out of thin air. Now the phantom disappeared, and in the ruins, apart from Cocolia, only Yufan and the girl floating in the air were left.At the same time, somewhere in Nagazora City, a girl with pigtails who was looking for a place to live suddenly sneezed in the cold wind. She lifted the backpack straps on her shoulders, and her azure blue pupils looked at the cloudy sky with sorrow."Alas, if I don’t find a place to live, I might get caught in the rain."She pursed her lips, a little tired, and a little aggrieved, whispering to herself:"Dad, where are you..."Chapter 25: It's Not Easy to Educate a Naughty Child——It's lunchtime at 11:00 noon in the airspace of Vienna, Austria, eight time zones away from the Far East.In the main room without windows, on the floating island, the virtual Earth, more than one person tall, is suspended in the air. The actual controller of the current world is lazily sitting on a mahogany chair that is out of tune with the house full of sci-fi atmosphere. His green pupils reflect the translucent light curtain that quickly passes in front of him."Boring, really boring." While he quickly and accurately reviewed and decided on the various documents that poured into the room, he sighed weakly, "Is there no news that can make my eyes light up?""Do you want me to notify the financial department to cut the budget for the next Kallen Fantasy?"Suddenly, a calm voice sounded in his ears.The Overseer's hand suddenly froze, and a little helplessness appeared in his eyes. "Uh—Amber, you know, the bright eyes I want to say do not mean black eyes.""I don't understand what the difference is. I just guessed that you may need a certain degree of stimulation based on the Overseer's words.""Okay, okay, I admit that in most cases, news that can make my eyes bright also means that you need to increase the workload of your subordinates." Overseer Otto shrugged. "Is there any news you want to inform me about?""Yes, just now, the observation team detected a very high intensity of Honkai energy fluctuations through the satellite in the Far East, but soon the Honkai energy fluctuations disappeared." Amber said lightly. "According to the satellite images sent back..."“Honkai broke out in Nagazora City?” Otto frowned and asked in surprise. “What’s the situation over there?”“No reports of casualties have been received yet. In addition, judging from the nearby real-time satellite images and the surveillance images in Nagazora City, the Honkai fluctuations have not yet caused any impact on the nearby environment.”“…What’s the status of K423?”“She arrived in Nagazora City at 6 pm local time, and there are no signs of loss of control of her Herrscher Core.”“…”The Honkai fluctuations were detected, but the satellite monitoring did not find the impact of the Honkai on the environment?Moreover, the Honkai fluctuations disappeared for no reason?Is there a malfunction in the Honkai monitor mounted on the satellite, or is it that——Someone did something secretly under his nose?After hesitating for half a second, Otto immediately made a decision."Notify the network security department to check whether the satellite network has been invaded.""In addition, send this information to the Far East Branch immediately, and let Theresa send people to Nagazora City as quickly as possible to check or prevent possible Honkai disasters in the local area."Perfect response measures.But Otto was not satisfied.After Amber left, he cast his sights on the virtual Earth suspended in the air, his eyes fixed on the island country next to Shenzhou.The corner of his mouth slowly raised a trace of joy."Interesting, I hope you can bring me some fun during this boring time."—Nagazora City.The night continues.The girl floating in the air slowly opened her eyes, and her dark pupils were engraved with ring patterns.She lowered her head, glanced at the young store manager in a white formal dress, and then cast her eyes on Cocolia whose eyes were silent with a hint of fierceness in her eyes.She raised her palm, and the twisting lightning gathered in her palm, then turned into an extremely sharp spear, pointing directly at Cocolia's chest."......Alas."However, with a slight sigh, the lightning that intended to take human life was easily shattered by the wrist that was swung out in an instant."You, what do you want to do?" Yufan stood in front of Cocolia and asked in a low voice."Of course I want to kill her." Raiden Mei, who was suspended in the air, narrowed her eyes, and her previously gentle and soothing voice became extremely aggressive. "Since you helped that guy, I wanted to keep your life for a few more seconds, but I didn't expect you to come knocking on my door. Are you tired of living?""So this is what it feels like to watch others pretending to be cool and inflated?"Yu Fan looked at Raiden Mei whose face was full of "I'm the best in the world," and suddenly twitched his mouth. "Well, it does feel speechless to watch, and I will seriously reflect on this."Raiden Mei's eyes flashed with anger, and thick arcs of electricity jumped around her body. The next second, those arcs seemed to have suddenly come to life and swarmed towards Yu Fan.Without resistance or any movement, the huge light and heat swallowed up the young figure without any surprise.However, Raiden Mei's pupils suddenly shrank."I'll let you fight. You should realize that you can't do anything to me." Yufan looked around at the lightning flashing on his skin and said calmly, "I don't want to attack humans. Can you go back by yourself?""Arrogant!"Several thin wings, like sharp points, suddenly lit up behind Raiden Mei. Pure energy bodies quickly condensed in her hands, and finally formed a pure white beam of ultra-high voltage current.She leaned forward, waving the beam as fast and powerful as thunder. The ground was lifted up layer by layer in the strong shockwave, and flying sand and rocks spread in all directions."Go to hell!""You keep saying death and life... That's why I hate to educate you Herrschers."Boom!"What——?"The scene that came into view made Raiden Mei's expression extremely shocked.Yufan raised his right hand, which was empty, and grasped the beam of pure energy without any hindrance. His eyes were filled with helplessness."You know what? If I punch you in the face, even if you are the so-called Herrscher, there is a high probability that your head will be blown away by my fist like tofu."He exerted force on the five fingers that grasped the beam and pulled the unprepared Raiden Mei in front of him."Do you know that for me, it is really difficult to control not to kill you while trying to execute justice on you?"He raised his arm, put his middle finger and thumb together, and pointed them at the center of Raiden Mei's eyebrows."You may fly fifty or sixty meters away, so be patient.""You——" Raiden Mei's scalp numbed instantly.But in the next second, her vision fell into darkness.Chapter 26: Super Cat Kiana, her Shining Debut!Losing consciousness twice in a single day due to factors other than sleep is indeed a novel experience.Of course, for the person involved, Raiden Mei, this novel experience was obviously not a pleasant one.The thunder flashing across the sky did not bring a rainstorm to the city. After the Herrscher of Thunder was forcibly pushed back into the depths of Raiden Mei’s consciousness in an extremely rough manner, the heavy clouds were gradually blown away by the whistling cold wind, and the moon, previously hidden behind the clouds, reappeared.Leaning against the ruins, Raiden Mei slowly opened her eyes.As soon as she regained consciousness, the pain, as though her entire body were falling apart, caused her to scream out—this was a pain the girl, who had never experienced such agony, had never known.There were rock fragments behind and beneath her, and her hair, face, and clothes were covered in dust. The dull pain from her forehead kept reminding her that everything she had seen before had not been a dream.Although she had lost consciousness for a short time, her memory of the time when she became the Herrscher remained intact.At that moment, the moonlight in her eyes was slowly obscured by a shadow from below. Raiden Mei slowly raised her eyes and glanced at the young store manager who had approached her. She then lowered her head again, her movements tired and frustrated."Can you tell me what I am?" she asked in a soft voice.The store manager lowered his gaze, hands in his pockets, and did not immediately answer her question but asked instead, "I want to ask you, what do you think I am in your eyes?"Raiden Mei smiled weakly. "... This doesn’t seem like an answer.""Then how would you like me to respond?" The store manager shrugged. "Should I just tell you that you’re a dangerous monster?""Isn’t that the truth?" Raiden Mei replied softly."Heh, you should also consider other people's feelings." The store manager sneered. "First of all, don’t expect me to think that a bird I could kill in one move is dangerous. Secondly, I just defeated you in one move. If you’re a monster, then am I a monster among monsters?""..."Raiden Mei stopped talking. Listening to the store manager repeatedly emphasize the fact that she had been defeated in one move, she suddenly felt a wave of grievance and frustration in her heart.After all, according to the knowledge she had received through her education, humans in a biological sense certainly couldn't tear apart steel creations like Titan mechas with their flesh and blood.Human bones, mainly composed of calcium carbonate, couldn’t possibly be stronger than high-strength alloys. It was even more impossible for a simple flesh-and-blood body to ignore the high-voltage current that she had just released.So, according to Raiden Mei’s original understanding, this young store manager was undoubtedly a monster."If you dare nod here, I’ll beat you up again, believe it or not?"Suddenly, the store manager narrowed his eyes, interrupting Raiden Mei's thoughts with a threatening tone.Raiden Mei’s breath caught, and she looked up in surprise. "Did I say what was in my heart?"Then she saw the store manager's handsome young face, which was now full of dissatisfaction. "Look in the mirror, everything you want to say is written on your face.""Uh... sorry..." Raiden Mei apologized subconsciously.After apologizing, she lowered her head again.The atmosphere fell silent once more.After an unknown period of time, Raiden Mei heard footsteps, and the shadow that had blocked the moonlight dissipated.The store manager turned around, leaving her behind, and walked towards Cocolia.Raiden Mei listened to the footsteps gradually fade away, and she couldn’t help feeling a little frustrated.Although she was rational and told herself that the young store manager she met by chance had no reason to enlighten her, as a young girl in her prime, she still subconsciously expected to be treated more gentlemanly and gently by him.After all, he was the savior who had saved her life and regained her consciousness. In a fairy tale, he should have the status of a prince charming.Alas... But then again, even if the store manager were a prince charming, she wasn’t the princess sleeping in the fairy tale.If she had to say it, she was at most a femme fatale with a monster living in her heart.Just as Raiden Mei began to laugh at herself, the footsteps came back, from far to near.She was about to raise her head again, but at that moment, several golden chains suddenly wrapped around her body, locking her waist and legs tightly.Then, a force came from the chains, pulling her body into the air like a crab tightly tied by a hemp rope."Hey?" Raiden Mei was stunned for a moment, then immediately struggled. "Wait, manager, what do you want to do?""You still care about this?" The manager showed a surprised expression. "I saw that you looked like you had no desire to live, so I thought you were ready to commit seppuku.""What—seppuku—?""It wouldn’t be bad if you committed seppuku yourself," the manager said faintly. "I’ve wasted so much effort, I have to get some compensation. Since you don’t want to live anymore, it’s not impossible for me to use you while you’re still hot.""Use me!? What does that mean!? And stop talking nonsense! When did I want to commit seppuku?!" The crude words made Raiden Mei blush.Forget it! This manager is definitely not a prince charming, but a devil in human skin!She twisted her body, which was tightly bound by the golden chain, restlessly, and her voice sounded as if she were about to cry. "You...!! Put me down! I can walk by myself!""Don’t you think I’m a monster among monsters?" The store manager paused slightly and snorted. "You think I’m a monster, so wouldn’t it be very inconsiderate of me if I don’t do something only monsters can do?"What kind of perverse logic is this?! I didn’t even say that! Store manager, don’t give up on yourself!Raiden Mei was stunned and struggled even more fiercely. "No (Iyada)! Stop (yamete)! Put me down (hanashite)! Help (tasukete)!!!""Don’t worry, the people around here have long been cleared out by Cocolia. No one will come to save you, even if you scream your throat out!" The store manager laughed strangely, as though he had devoured several soul hall elders.At this moment, a strong sound of air breaking suddenly came from afar, and a huge backpack fell straight toward the store manager like a falling rock.The store manager took a step to the side without changing his expression and hid behind Cocolia, whose eyes were lifeless.With a bang, Cocolia, who was hit by the backpack, fell to the ground in a painful collision."Uh... Oops... I hurt someone by mistake."A slightly stiff and awkward voice came from the end of the road.Raiden Mei and the young store manager turned their heads at the same time and saw a girl with pigtails standing far away outside the blockade as if she had just thrown something."Over there! Stop it!"Upon feeling the gazes of the two, the girl immediately suppressed her embarrassment and showed a righteous expression. She climbed over the blockade and ran toward the store manager with a vigorous posture. Her blue pupils were filled with a sense of justice to punish evil and promote good.Legend has it that cats have three times the hearing of humans. With the girl’s sense of justice, she rushed to the source of the screams in just a few seconds after hearing the cry for help.--Then, let’s review the current scene again.In the deserted street, the weak girl was tightly bound in the air by a golden chain. The hot-blooded boy in formal clothes laughed strangely, and the girl, unable to resist, cried out miserably for help.Well, a very standard crime scene.Chapter 27: The Super Cat Kiana We Had High Hopes for Fell (Sad)!The store manager glanced at the large two braided cat running toward them and asked casually, "Your acquaintance?""No... This is the first time I've seen her..." Raiden Mei answered subconsciously, not expecting anyone would actually hear her cry for help. Then, she immediately showed a somewhat anxious expression. "Wait, now is not the time to talk about this, store manager! Put me down! If this goes on, the child will misunderstand!"Someone had responded immediately after hearing her cry for help. Deep down, Raiden Mei felt a bit moved, but she knew she mustn't let the passionate girl and the store manager truly clash now.Not to mention whether the girl could defeat the store manager, but subconsciously, Raiden Mei still didn't think that the store manager who had come to save her would really do something bad to her."Is there a possibility that the child didn't misunderstand?" the store manager said expressionlessly."...Was that sentence serious?" Raiden Mei felt a chill run down her spine. Her back trembled, and she forced a smile, saying, "Please, don't make such a bad joke at this time. Isn't the store manager a family man? I believe you're definitely not that kind of person, right?""Now you know to please me? What were you doing before, pretending to be desperate?""..."If I don't please you now, my chastity will be in danger, okay?! Do you want me to count on that girl who clearly can't beat you to save me?Also! I'm not pretending! I really didn't want to live just now, okay?!Raiden Mei had a sad face and felt that there were 10 million grass mud horses running around in her heart.In an instant, the figure of the silver-haired girl had approached to about five meters away. She kicked the ground, quickly turning her body with her left leg as the pivot. Then, she raised her slender and white right leg high, sweeping it across the store manager's head."You’re exposed," the store manager whistled, leaning back slightly with the smallest movement, and casually commented as the other's calf brushed his nose. "Purple lily, it's really obvious that you like her. Are you greedy for this guy’s body?""What—?""What—?"Raiden Mei and the silver-haired girl froze simultaneously.Raiden Mei looked terrified, and the silver-haired girl, who had raised her leg high, clearly flashed a moment of unnatural panic."This has nothing to do with you! You pervert who peeked at the girl's panties, go to hell—!"While roaring in anger, the silver-haired girl skillfully launched a second series of kicks. But under the store manager's extremely precise dodges, her left calf still only brushed past the store manager's face.There was no rebuttal; both the store manager and Raiden Mei thought the same."You’re too unreasonable, cursing people as perverts right away," the store manager said with a strange expression. "Besides, since you also covet her body, isn't it a bit too pretentious to put on such a sanctimonious look?""I have a suggestion. Why don’t you challenge me? We’ll fight fairly, and the winner can monopolize this girl. How about it?"With a burst of heavy footsteps, the silver-haired girl stood there panting, hesitating for half a second."Are you serious?"You really want to agree?! Aren’t you here to save me? Give me back my feelings!!!Raiden Mei roared wildly in her heart."Of course I am..." The store manager showed a teasing smile. "It’s fake.""Huh?" The silver-haired girl was stunned for a moment, and then she felt a cold sensation suddenly crawl up her body from her feet.In less than the blink of an eye, the golden chain easily tied up the girl, who had stood there dazed for half a second."You—!" The silver-haired girl’s nose crinkled with anger. "You despicable villain, let me go!!!""It’s only natural for a pervert to use despicable means, isn’t it?" the store manager waved calmly, and the silver-haired girl’s body slowly floated in the air under the chain’s pull. He walked in front of her, touched her chin, and commented with a smile, "Well, although she has a bit of a temper, she looks pretty cute when you get closer.""Although it took some effort, it doesn’t seem to be a big loss to get two cute girls in one night.""Pah!" The store manager turned his head just in time to avoid the spit the girl launched at his face.The silver-haired girl bared her teeth and said, "Let me go if you dare! You’re a grown man—don’t you feel ashamed to do such a despicable thing as a sneak attack?""You don’t know whether I feel ashamed, but I do know there are people who definitely won’t feel ashamed."Suddenly, the store manager tilted his head back without warning.The thin line of fire brushed his forehead from right to left, shooting down the road.A loud bang and sharp flames followed, and the spreading shockwave overturned unmanned buildings."This is—!!" The silver-haired girl recognized the line of fire immediately. She turned her head suddenly and looked toward the source of the fire. "Dad?!""..."In the darkness, the weathered silver-haired man slowly revealed himself, holding the Judgment of Shamash in his only arm."I came to check things out because I sensed some commotion. I didn’t expect to see my daughter being bullied." The man grinned, and his heavy voice sounded a little hoarse.The silver-haired girl’s eyes turned red, and golden light faintly appeared in the depths of her pupils.Chapter 28: Classic ReappearanceThe man glanced at the silver-haired girl's face, and after catching the dim gold in her eyes, his expression darkened.There is no doubt that the one-armed man's name is the famous wanted criminal of Schicksal, Siegfried Kaslana, and the father of the silver-haired girl, Kiana Kaslana, who was captured by the store manager.Siegfried's appearance in Nagazora City was not accidental from the beginning. After all, from a certain perspective, in the absence of the leader, he, the former S-class knight of Schicksal, is the undisputed highest combat power of the anti-entropy conservative faction.After Raiden Ryoma was framed and imprisoned, although the conservatives did not know the specific purpose of Cocolia for the time being, in any case, they could not let Raiden Mei, who had the Conquest Gem implanted in her body, completely break away from the protection of anti-entropy.Siegfried who appeared in Nagazora City was the conservatives' response to Cocolia.Since Siegfried left Kiana, Kiana has been following his trail and looking for him everywhere. It is precisely because of this code of conduct that Siegfried can control Kiana's trajectory to a certain extent.After all, as long as Siegfried takes the initiative to keep a certain distance from Kiana and releases a few trajectories that can be captured by Kiana, she will take the initiative to follow his footsteps and come to the place where he has been.Under Siegfried's deliberate guidance, Kiana followed his traces all the way to Nagazora City, allowing him to secretly protect his daughter while paying attention to Cocolia's every move.As far as the result is concerned, Siegfried had already noticed this street blocked by anti-entropy long before Cocolia sent people to capture Raiden Mei.Although it is unclear why Cocolia left the café in the middle of the street when blocking it, since Cocolia chose to block this area, it means there must be something Cocolia wants in this commercial street.As expected, at seven o'clock in the evening, Siegfried saw Raiden Mei walking out of the coffee shop. He was originally planning to find an opportunity to take the child away without exposing himself, but the troops deployed by Cocolia in this commercial street created a great obstacle to his plan.Just when Siegfried was troubled by this, a boy with red hair suddenly took action.The boy was dressed in a white officer's suit and showed overwhelming physical abilities under Siegfried's eyes. Although unlike Cocolia, who couldn't even see his movements, Siegfried could barely catch the boy's movements with his eyesight. As an excellent warrior who had experienced hundreds of battles, he could quickly judge the opponent's strength.The speed was faster than his own, and the strength... Because the opponent was too weak, he couldn't judge it for the time being.In any case, even if it was evaluated at the lowest level, the strength of the red-haired boy must be above the S-level standard of Schicksal.After coming to this conclusion, Siegfried was actually in a very low mood.The conservative faction of anti-entropy had already shared a considerable amount of personnel intelligence with him, and the target of the boy's attack was the radical faction led by Cocolia.Then, according to the process of elimination, the boy could only be from Schicksal.Schicksal's people took away Raiden Mei – although the strange atmosphere between the two young people made Siegfried feel a little strange at first, in Siegfried's opinion, the boy's words and deeds did not seem like those of a bad person.But, first of all, Siegfried also understood that he had already misjudged someone once, and his judgment was not trustworthy at all.Secondly, even if the boy himself was not a bad person, he could not trust the character of the Overseer of Schicksal.He originally planned to rely on his extraordinary combat experience to find the boy's flaws and launch a sneak attack – but he never thought that during the time when his sight was away from Kiana, Kiana actually touched him by herself.And it took less than ten seconds for the boy to subdue her with conspiracy and trickery.Siegfried would never admit that his daughter would be tempted by such tricks, so he instinctively ignored the specific content of the "conspiracy."But no matter what, after his daughter was kidnapped, Siegfried had no choice but to take action against the red-haired boy.However, after he showed up, another more difficult problem was placed before Siegfried:From the beginning, he would take the initiative to stay away from Kiana because he didn't want to stimulate the hatred of another consciousness in his daughter's body.When he appeared in Kiana's sight, the will full of hatred and malice began to stir restlessly in Kiana's body.This is really a bit... not good.Although there is no wavering on the surface, the invisible anxiety still slowly climbed up Siegfried's heart.The opponent is a warrior who can easily control the Herrscher of Thunder and has definitely surpassed him. Kiana's consciousness began to become unstable because she saw her "enemy."The situation is very desperate.But Siegfried could only face it.He took a deep breath and did not speak to his daughter at first. Instead, he raised the Judgement of Shamash in his hand and pointed the gun hole, which was still emitting a little heat, in the direction of the boy: "My friend, it doesn't seem right to kidnap someone's daughter in front of his father.""You—""Damn dad! How dare you appear in front of me!" Kiana's body struggled violently with unprecedented intensity, and the gold in her eyes became more and more intense. "I have been looking for you for so long! Don't you have anything to say to me?!!""—"Although he was quite anxious in his heart, even a rough man like Siegfried could understand that he must not stimulate his daughter's emotions now. He moved his facial muscles and forced himself to put on an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry, Kiana, I will apologize to you later, but now, can I let Dad rescue you first?""I don't want your help! You lowly ant!!"—Huh?What did I say to my dad just now?Before Kiana could regain her senses, her head turned uncontrollably towards the young store manager."Asshole! Let me go!"The pupils that had completely turned golden released unprecedented murderous intent and anger, and the raging power surged out of the girl's body like a tsunami.The space began to tremble, and deep cracks appeared around Kiana.The power of the space—Having faced the same ability once, Siegfried changed his expression slightly.But contrary to everyone's expectations, the space around Kiana had already formed a violent distortion that was enough to transfer space, yet Kiana herself, who was in that space, was not affected at all."Damn it—Why?!" Kiana's golden eyes flashed with incomprehensible anger, "Why can't I switch to different space!!""..."The store manager glanced at the helpless and furious "Kiana," turned his gaze to the shocked Siegfried, and shrugged: "It's really not easy for you.""What's wrong with her?" Raiden Mei looked at Kiana, whose personality was very different from a few seconds ago, and said with some surprise."What else can it be? It's the same as you just now." The store manager smiled, "How about it, if you look at all this from a third-party perspective, do you feel that it's no big deal?""..." Raiden Mei's eyes suddenly showed a strange look.Indeed, although this silver-haired girl whose pupils inexplicably turned golden was posing fiercely, she looked like she couldn't break free from the chains even if she tried her best to move, and it seems... not that dangerous?It's just like a child throwing a tantrum.Was this also the image of me in the eyes of the store manager just now? Raiden Mei thought to herself."No, no, no, you're just too weird." Siegfried couldn't help but complain, "...Although I felt that your golden chain was familiar, this thing couldn't really be released by the Oath of Judas?""You just found out?""How did you expect me to find out? I didn't see that heavy cross." Siegfried blinked and suddenly caught the blind spot, "Hush, wait, since you have the Oath of Judas...that means you're from Theresa's side? Theresa, that little dwarf, actually lent out the Oath of Judas?""I don't know if I'm Theresa's, and you don't have the final say." The store manager said dimly, "I only know that if you continue to point the Judgment of Shamash at me, there will be another caterpillar tied up by these chains."Siegfried subconsciously wanted to take back Judgement of Shamash, but after hesitating for a moment, he maintained his original posture. "Since you're from Theresa's side, you can leave these two little girls to me.""Okay.""If you're worried, I—"Hmm?Halfway through, Siegfried suddenly widened his eyes:"You... agreed?""? "The boy tilted his head, "Don't you want me to agree?""Ah, of course not..." Siegfried shook his head in a daze and said subconsciously, "I just didn't expect you to agree so easily.""I just accepted the instructions of that bastard Yang to help him take care of Mei who was targeted by Cocolia." The young boy said lightly, "As for your daughter, since you've been secretly ambushing here, you should have seen that she came here on her own.""..." Siegfried didn't say anything because he knew what the boy said was indeed the truth."By the way, before I give her back to you...""?"The boy put his middle finger on his thumb, then slowly moved it to Kiana's forehead."Ah—"This action...Raiden Mei opened her mouth and closed her eyes, unable to bear the sight of this scene.Kiana stared at the store manager angrily, her golden pupils almost emitting fire: "Asshole! What do you want to do to me?! Let me go! Let me go now and I can kill you—"Bang—!!Accompanied by a dull loud noise and a huge shockwave that overturned the ground, Kiana, who was tied up by chains, raised her head, her eyes rolled back, and she lost consciousness, with transparent saliva flowing from the corners of her mouth.Chapter 29: The Disappearing Cafe"Here you go." The young store manager flicked his finger, and Kiana, with her eyes rolled back, was thrown towards Siegfried like a dead fish."Hey!" Siegfried hurriedly caught his precious daughter with one arm. He first checked Kiana's condition, then breathed a sigh of relief and said with a face full of complaints, "You're too rude!"The store manager was too lazy to respond to Siegfried's words but looked towards Raiden Mei. "Can you move?""Huh?" Raiden Mei was stunned at first, hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Um... Wow!"Before she finished pronouncing "Um," the golden chain loosened without warning, and Raiden Mei, caught off guard, fell to the ground with tears in her eyes. "It hurts..."Seeing that the young man really let the two girls go, Siegfried's mind immediately became active again."I say, you little brat, can't you be a little more gentlemanly and gentle with other little girls?" He shook his head with a smile, took back his Heavenly Fire Judgment, and walked to Raiden Mei's side. "Are you okay, little girl from the Raiden family?""Not bad..." Raiden Mei grimaced. She touched her buttocks, which were probably red, and slowly stood up, gasping unconsciously. "Hiss..."Although he felt a little reluctant, Siegfried, who only had one arm, didn't have an extra arm to pull Raiden Mei up after hugging his daughter, so he turned his eyes to the direction of the store manager."Hey, you're a boy after all. Why don't you come and help when you see other girls in such pain?""..."But there was no one in his field of vision.He left?Siegfried was stunned.Really, at least say something first.Then, his brain suddenly felt a dull pain."Hmm..."His vision blurred unnaturally for a moment. He shook his head, and when the pain disappeared, his vision became clear again."Huh..."Why does he feel like he'd forgotten something?Just when he was confused, a bright light suddenly lit up in the dark sky.The huge aerospace battleship stopped in the night, and two figures, one tall and one short, stood on the edge of the wide deck."What happened down there? Why did it become like this?"Hyperion's current captain, Murata Himeko, frowned, her sharp eyes sweeping across the ground illuminated by the searchlight."It looks like a fierce battle."The short nun glanced at the broken metal wreckage. "Those things should be parts of the anti-entropy Titan mecha, but they're destroyed like this.""Wait, Theresa, look there." Himeko suddenly patted Theresa's shoulder."What's wrong?""Look at the direction I'm pointing, over there... are there two little girls lying?"Theresa looked in the direction Himeko pointed and was stunned."Is that child... Kiana?""Your acquaintance?" Himeko asked."...Wait for me here."Without hesitation, after seeing the two girls lying in the ruins, Theresa jumped from the edge of the deck at once, and the distance of dozens of meters passed in a flash.After landing safely in a burst of flying sand and rocks, Theresa took a pair of short steps and ran to the side of the two girls.When she walked up, she found that one of the two girls didn't seem to have lost consciousness.The black-haired girl had a dull expression and seemed to be mumbling something like "Why... disappeared," "I can't... remember," "What happened just now..." Such confusing words. The silver-haired girl's eyes rolled back, her smooth forehead turned red, and her long silver hair scattered irregularly, as if blown by a fierce wind."It's really Kiana!"After seeing the silver-haired girl's face, Theresa exclaimed in a low voice. She first felt the girl's breath, breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly turned her eyes to the other girl with the dull face. "Hey! What happened here just now?"The girl's shoulders shook violently, and her neck turned toward Theresa's face like a rusty doll.Then, after seeing the face that was exactly the same as the few remaining images, the memory that had been gradually fading suddenly surged back from the depths of her mind."You are... the girlfriend of that store manager..." Raiden Mei covered her forehead fiercely. "Name... name... I can't remember."Theresa blinked and uttered a stunned sound. "Huh??""Hyperion... Hyperion...!!! Yes! Hyperion! Hyperion Cafe! The manager of Hyperion Cafe!" Raiden Mei shouted. "You are the girlfriend of that store manager!!"Theresa: "?????????????"Siegfried looked at Theresa from a distance and chuckled."My daughter, I'll leave her to you for the time being, little dwarf.""..."By the way, why do I always feel like I've forgotten something?Well, Siegfried tried to search his memory but didn't find anything missing.He defeated Cocolia's conspiracy and sent Kiana to Theresa... There is no more perfect ending than this. Even if he really forgot something, it shouldn't be very important.Putting aside the doubts in his mind, Siegfried walked alone into the darkness with his back straight, as if some heavy burden had been temporarily lifted.--Hyperion Cafe.Yufan walked into the cafe hall expressionlessly.The hall was silent, and everyone stared at the manager's young face without any emotion.Finally, Kongming broke the silence. "Is it still the same as before?""It's a little more serious than when I was in the Bubble World." Yufan sighed. "When I brought Luna back, the rejection of the Bubble World made me feel uncomfortable, but as long as I could endure the pain, the movement function of my body wouldn't be affected much.""The real world is indeed completely different from the Bubble World in terms of the strength of the rules." He shrugged. "I didn't expect that after interfering to a certain extent, it would actually make my existence and body be directly peeled off."Luna clenched her fist with some worry. "Human, are you okay?""It's okay, it's okay." Yufan scratched his head. "Although the world where the little girl kicked me out, I am the one who reconstructed the rules of the Sea of Quanta after all, and my own size is always there.""Rather, with the temper of the cocoon thing, it didn't destroy me directly but chose to kick me out. That itself is a reflection of its inability to do anything to me.""Thinking about it this way, maybe I should be proud of it?" The young store manager touched his nose, and a strange smile appeared on his face.Chapter 30: Hyperion Cafe in Arc CityCocoon — a destiny-operating device now attached to the real world. Its origin and principles are unclear, and it is even impossible to directly observe it using ordinary five senses from the real world.But that thing undoubtedly exists.This cafe which is located in the Sea of Quanta is the product of Yufan’s reintegration of the universal rules of the Sea of Quanta about half a month ago. He once told Welt Yang that this cafe happened to occupy a “fixed point” that can link different worlds, but what he didn’t mention is that this cafe is actually the fixed point itself.In a sense, the essence of this cafe is similar to the “Cocoon” attached to the intrinsic world. However, unlike the relationship between the "Cocoon" and the intrinsic world, the relationship between this cafe and the Bubble World of the Sea of Quanta is that the latter is attached to the former.All the Bubble Worlds of the Sea of Quanta are directly bound to the fate of the cafe. As long as this cafe still exists, the Bubble Worlds in the Sea of Quanta will not gradually disappear due to the erosion of the sea.This is the great achievement that Yufan accomplished as the captain of Hyperion, and it is also the direct reason for his current retirement.In a sense, he is now the embodiment of the rules of the Sea of Quanta."But on the other hand, because your entire body is covered with the breath of the Sea of Quanta, it is naturally more susceptible to rejection by the rules of the real world," Kongming spoke as she walked in front of Yufan, slightly raising her head, and sighed. "So, I suggested that we help you deal with the little girl's matter. If we are residents who originally lived in the Bubble World, even if we are rejected by the rules, we wouldn’t have our existence erased so roughly.""Now, the girl who just met you should have completely lost her memory of you, right?""It doesn’t matter," Yufan shrugged with a hint of ridicule in his eyes. "Thinking back to when I watched you fall under my nose time and again, only to start a new round of reincarnation and forget everything that happened in the previous one... didn’t you experience something similar?""And it’s not just me. During the time when Luna-chan was in a bad mood, didn’t Himeko also have a similar experience in Canghai City?"Kongming and Luna blushed at the same time."...Slippery tongue," Kongming raised her feather fan and gently tapped Yufan’s chest. She rolled her eyes at Yufan’s teasing expression and muttered in a low voice, "I’m still a little worried about you, but you deliberately bring up our past scars.""I just want to say that, compared to previous experiences, being forgotten by someone I only met for a few hours isn’t so bad. Now, you and I should not be easily hurt by these things." Yufan touched Kongming’s face and spoke softly. "If it’s an important person, you try to restore their memory. But if it’s just a casual acquaintance, this kind of accidental encounter is easy to forget with time.""And in this case, the girl entrusted to me by Old man Yang is obviously the latter.""Under the repulsion of the Cocoon, the singularity of that world should be repaired soon, and it won’t reappear for a long time.""That child probably won’t come to our store again.""Since there’s no chance to meet again, it’s better to just disappear from each other’s lives, right?"Yufan shrugged and put on a relaxed expression. "If you want customers, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. After completing Yang's’s commission, I’ve done my best for the child. As for whether we’ll meet again in the future... Let’s leave that to fate."Kongming stared at Yufan’s face for a long time, and after confirming that the store manager didn’t seem to be troubled by Raiden Mei’s situation, she finally felt at ease."Okay! It’s almost time to close the store.""Anyway, I’ve been tired all day—"Yufan suddenly lowered his head, putting his face under Kongming’s eyes with a teasing look."It shouldn’t be too much to ask our lovely Kongming for a reward?"Kongming’s face turned bright red, her smooth and delicate skin glowing under the light."You... there are other people here! You shameless! Don’t say such strange things suddenly!""For things like this, we should wait until the two of us are alone in a room..."Her wandering gaze suddenly caught sight of several other figures, eager to try.Rita, Bronie, Luna — all stared at the manager’s face, muscles tensed, as if they were preparing to rush over to reward the manager immediately after hearing his rejection."..."An emotion called unhappiness suddenly surged.No, I can’t retreat. We came first! We were the first ones!With a strong sense of crisis, the shy Sage King was determined.Although she was unwilling to admit it, objectively speaking, in terms of the charm of a woman, she could never compare to Rita and Luna.That cheating-like behemoth and the mature, charming face... If she were to compete with them on the front lines, she wouldn’t have a chance at all.So, she must seize every opportunity in front of her and take every advantage she can, by any means.The store manager is Kongming'! She will not give up this reward opportunity!The Sage King grabbed the store manager’s white collar.Instead of aiming for his face, she directed her lips to a slightly larger lip that was slightly off-center.The slightly hard lip curve merged with the petite, soft lip curve."Ah! You cunning woman!" Luna’s eyes widened. "You clearly weren’t allowed to kiss there! You actually—""..."Humph.It’s our freedom to get the reward!Just watch me take this guy’s lips away!Just as Kongming felt a sense of satisfaction—The door of the cafe was suddenly pushed open slowly from the outside with a creaking sound....Bang! Bang! Bang!After several fierce gunshots, the huge blue and white monster fell to the ground."This is the last one..."Kiana put the double guns on her waist, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked slowly out of the dark alley.The corpses of dozens of Honkai beasts were piled up in the alley. After their lives were effectively cut off, their huge bodies quickly began to Honkai and dissipate.The debris floating in the night marked the end of a battle. "Leave here quickly, Kiana."At that moment, a calm voice suddenly sounded in her mind."Don’t let too many people witness your appearance.""Got it, got it."Kiana wiped the dust off her face, looked around, and confirmed that all the surveillance around her had been completely destroyed by her. Then she took off into the air with a light posture, turning and moving between high-rise buildings, away from the battlefield that had already ended.-This is the edge of Arc City. Four months have passed since the Fifth Eruption caused by the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void.In order to escape the continuous flow of Honkai beasts from the void and the Honkai energy infection that came with the beast tide, more and more people have chosen to hide in big cities with better defense measures to seek a moment of respite."Today, we solved three more Honkai incidents. Since we started cleaning up the Honkai beasts around the city, the Honkai energy invading Arc City has not only not decreased but has become more intense..."Under the night, the girl’s whisper was carried away by the wind. "It seems that what the class monitor said is indeed correct. These frequent Honkai incidents are not a sign that "She" has woken up again.""You yourself should be able to perceive the state of your body to a certain extent," the calm voice sounded again from the depths of her consciousness. "After I helped you suppress the Herrscher in your body, at least in the recent period, she hasn’t shown any signs of occupying your body again.""And, if these Honkai incidents were caused by you, then these Honkai beasts that emerged should also appear near you."