Five minutes later.
“No.”
Xia Ling sat on the rooftop of a high-rise building.
Deep in thought.
[Hmm?]
[What’s wrong?]
“My brain.”
Xia Ling stared blankly ahead.
“I think I forgot something important.”
“I have no idea where I’m going.”
[?]
[HOST, YOU WERE WALKING SO CONFIDENTLY!]
[I THOUGHT YOU HAD A PLAN!]
“Having a plan and knowing the road aren’t mutually inclusive…”
Xia Ling replied weakly.
“So.”
“Please, System…”
[Yes, yes.]
[Honestly, what would you do without me?]
A System screen automatically appeared.
This time it was not the normal menu.
Instead, a detailed map of Nagazora City gradually unfolded.
[One moment, Host.]
[I’ll also mark locations with concentrated Honkai energy and high-energy entities.]
Several red indicators appeared across the map.
“What’s that enormous marker?”
“It looks like the Honkai concentration there is several times higher than anywhere else.”
[Let me check…]
[That should be Chiba Academy.]
[There are three high-energy entities nearby as well.]
“Oh!”
“The pseudo-Herrscher Yuna!”
Xia Ling immediately understood.
“I remember Yae Sakura should also be somewhere nearby.”
[Correct.]
[The remaining marked locations are simply stronger Honkai Beasts. Host can avoid them by following the map.]
“Speaking of which…”
Xia Ling rubbed her smooth chin.
“I just realized something.”
“What month is it?”
[July.]
“?”
“JULY?!”
Xia Ling’s pupils shook.
[Yes.]
[However, the Honkai concentration around Chiba Academy has not decreased.]
[Yuna’s life signature also appears to remain active.]
[The manga storyline probably hasn’t progressed past that section yet.]
“Then I need to get there immediately.”
Xia Ling stood.
“I need to determine where the plot currently is before deciding which story to use when convincing Theresa.”
…
Girl Traveling at High Speed…
…
“Crap.”
“System.”
Xia Ling hid outside Chiba Academy, expression grave.
“I think I’m late.”
Inside the academy—
Vines and toxic mist had already consumed everything.
Xia Ling did not dare approach too closely.
Instead, using the System’s detection, she moved across tall buildings along the academy perimeter.
With a monocular she had found on the way, she observed the interior. This chapter is updated first at novelping.com.
Caterpillar.jpg
“There are obvious traces of combat inside.”
“So Theresa has already attacked once?”
[The strongest proof is probably that thing.]
[Oath of Judah.]
“Yeah.”
“I see it too.”
Xia Ling adjusted the monocular with one hand.
“Oath of Judah is still standing in the athletic field.”
“That means Theresa should currently be with Yae Sakura.”
“According to the manga, Theresa failed her first solo attempt against Yuna and abandoned Judah on the field.”
“The poisoned Theresa was rescued by Yae Sakura.”
“Yae Sakura then transformed herself into a Stigma to detoxify Theresa.”
“Afterward Theresa returned for a second attack against Yuna…”
“And got rolled again.”
“Then Yae Sakura directly possessed Theresa for a pilot-switch and finished Yuna herself.”
[Where does Host intend to enter the storyline?]
[Should we locate Theresa now?]
[Yae Sakura is a pseudo-Herrscher, so her Honkai signature is extremely strong. I can find them easily.]
“No.”
“I can’t contribute anything to this section.”
“Finding Theresa now accomplishes nothing.”
“It may even make Yae Sakura suspicious.”
“If I had enough System Originium Ingots, I could try using Cipher Plate effects like Recitation or Confession to save Theresa and preserve Yae Sakura.”
“Unfortunately…”
“I don’t.”
[Then Host intends to…?]
“I have some ideas.”
“But I’ll need your cooperation.”
Xia Ling studied the layout of Chiba Academy.
[Don’t worry.]
[This System will cooperate with Host to the best of my ability.]
“In the manga storyline, Theresa’s second confrontation with Yuna occurs at a fixed location.”
“Right beside Oath of Judah.”
“That won’t change regardless of timeline deviations.”
“Theresa has to retrieve her weapon first.”
“So tonight…”
“I’m going to play the role of an otherworldly traveler.”
[Otherworldly traveler?]
“Exactly.”
“There are too many old foxes in Honkai.”
“I don’t believe an ordinary person like me can reliably lie to them.”
“So my plan has always been simple.”
“Tell the truth.”
“Just not all of it.”
“I’ll tell Theresa I’m a transmigrator who came from another world.”
“That statement is completely true.”
“In this world, even Otto can’t find any household-registration record for me.”
“Theresa is Otto’s granddaughter.”
“There’s no possibility she knows nothing about the Sea of Quanta.”
“She’ll automatically assume I came from a bubble universe.”
“Not some fanfiction-style transmigrator.”
“The same excuse should even work on Welt.”
“Anti-Entropy has researched the Sea of Quanta enough that they might notice inconsistencies.”
“But even then, they’ll probably assume I’m concealing certain information.”
“They still won’t jump to ‘I came from another fictional reality.'”
“Tonight, I’ll use Acceleration to rush to Oath of Judah before Yuna notices me.”
“System.”
“You need to pull me into System Space immediately.”
[I understand.]
[Host is going for ‘a Xia-girl falls from the heavens.’]
“Exactly.”
“Tomorrow, once Theresa and Yuna begin fighting, I’ll emerge directly from System Space.”
“After some appropriate hesitation, I’ll choose Theresa’s side.”
“The risk is low.”
“Theresa is the main fighter.”
“If she somehow loses, Yae Sakura is still there.”
“I can neutralize Yuna’s poison using Honkai materialization.”
“Yuna is only a recently awakened pseudo-Herrscher.”
“Her control over her abilities is extremely crude.”
“The poison is fundamentally created through Honkai energy.”
“In canon, the moment she faced Yae Sakura—someone with superior Honkai control—her poison basically stopped mattering.”
“So isolating it is actually simple.”
“I just create a materialized Honkai shield.”
“It doesn’t even need to withstand physical attacks.”
“It merely needs to isolate external Honkai energy.”
[That would definitely earn some initial goodwill.]
[But what happens afterward?]
[How will Host explain the ability to cross bubble universes?]
“No problem.”
“I never intended to hide your existence.”
Xia Ling smiled wickedly.
“System.”
“Don’t you look remarkably similar to a composite Divine Key?”
[…?]
“Once I enter St. Freya and gain enough development time, my strength will grow rapidly.”
“At that point, hiding you becomes impossible anyway.”
“I can’t exactly tell everybody I’m simply a natural genius like Durandal.”
“So…”
“I’m selling you.”
“From this moment onward, you are the ultimate support-type Divine Key created by my civilization.”
[Huh?!]
[I’ve been demoted that easily?!]
“As for what my original world looked like…”
Xia Ling spread her hands.
“Does Sami look post-apocalyptic?”
“Yes.”
“Do the Seaborn look post-apocalyptic?”
“Also yes.”
“I don’t even need to explain much.”
“I just need them to understand that my original world was miserable enough.”
“And my familiarity with Theresa and the others?”
“Easy.”
“I knew your counterparts.”
“If they ask further…”
“Their counterparts are dead.”
[…I see.]
[Substitute-meal literature.]
“Hehe.”
“I didn’t spend the past month doing nothing but training.”
“I’ve been thinking through future arrangements too.”
“So now…”
“All we need to do is wait until night.”
“Then we raid Chiba Academy’s athletic field.”
“With the speed I measured in training, Yuna has absolutely no chance of reacting.”
“Wrapped in armor, holding our tongues—”
“We raid the camp as though no enemy exists!”
[You’re doing historical-war memes now too?!]
HonkaiStarRail Gacha Character,I’m Here to Break the Players’ Hearts [ 118 Chapter ]
I’m in Honkai, but Integrated Strategies Has Begun [ Ss3 111 Chapter ]