At the same moment, Xiyue glanced at the notification on her second phone, and the classic streamer opener from her past life floated back to mind.
She smiled at the camera and spoke.
“Hey everyone—I’m Yuexi, a streamer with two and a half years of practice.”
“Welcome, all three of you, to my stream.”
After the greeting, she caught the comment that had just come in.
A smile pulled at the corner of her mouth.
She remembered Elysia’s voice and face well—so rather than answering directly, she turned the question back.
“This beautiful, graceful, enchanting young lady—who could she be?”
She let the memory drift through her as she spoke.
She’d had her doubts about Elysia, at first.
In anime, pink-haired girls carried a certain reputation—those sweet-looking faces often hid something darker beneath, all charm on the surface and scheming underneath.
And in other works, pink as a color almost always signaled the hidden blade.
And then, over the course of a year’s worth of story, Elysia showed the world exactly what pink meant.
Pink has always belonged to a girl’s softest romance.
“As if meeting for the first time; as if the heart never changed.”
With genuine feeling, she recited:
“She—”
“—is the most beautiful gift God ever gave to humanity!”
“—a flower blooming flawless and eternal!”
“—the most genuine Ego—the truest self!”
…
Previous Era — Fire MOTH Headquarters, During the Fifth Honkai Eruption
In a room saturated with pink, a pink-haired girl sat at her vanity table, absently combing her hair.
Her thoughts, however, were already somewhere else—caught on the stream that had just appeared in her mind.
It had surfaced while she was brushing.
A System notification, unexpected.
〖System〗 Welcome to Yuexi’s stream.
Elysia had assumed at first that Mobius was behind it—she’d been just about to investigate what the good doctor was plotting this time—but then she saw the Everlasting Flames PV, and the unfamiliar images and that girl’s resolute voice pulled her completely under.
And then she found her own face in the video.
She sifted through every memory she had.
She had never been to that place.
She didn’t recognize the girl she appeared to be speaking with.
How is this possible?
Quick as she was, Elysia saw at once that this wasn’t Mobius’s doing.
She’d been on the verge of asking directly—why am I in this footage?—but the System cut her off before the words could form.
〖System〗 Viewers must not reveal their identities to the host.
Something slid into place, and she understood.
With a glint of amusement in her eyes, she sent her reply.
When Xiyue’s answer came, Elysia paused mid-stroke.
The brush stilled.
Then the corner of her mouth curved, and she smiled that devastating, sweet smile.
Miss Pink Elf♪: Shy~ [Minion emoji]
Miss Pink Elf♪: Wow—is this beautiful girl really that wonderful?
Xiyue read the comment and felt her smile return.
This viewer was already completely captivated—but then, nobody could resist Elysia’s charm.
Once the Elysian Realm content came around in the stream, this person was going to be a devoted fan for life.
“She really is,” Xiyue said.
“As for why—you’ll find out once I clear the Elysian Realm on stream.”
She wasn’t entirely sure how to structure a proper broadcast yet.
But drawing a viewer’s curiosity?
That part she knew—as an intern teacher, it came with the territory.
Elysia heard this and let her pink eyes drift half-closed.
“Elysian Realm?” she murmured softly.
Xiyue noted Miss Pink Elf♪ hadn’t replied and felt a small flicker of disappointment—though she reminded herself quickly that every new streamer started with empty rooms.
Bots and silence were the standard.
Her composure settled back into place.
〖Emotional response from Miss Pink Elf♪: +60 Crystals〗
The notification appeared, and the familiar spark of motivation kindled immediately.
She tapped the screen again, and the iconic loading sequence played—the whole world fading to black before a countdown text appeared on-screen.
‘Third Honkai Eruption: 2 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, 26 seconds ago.’
Then a commanding voice cut through the silence:
“Kiana, this is Hyperion.
Report mission status.”
“Reporting to Major Himeko—blizzard conditions; target not visible on detection scans.
Threat level escalating to A-rank.
Requesting confirmation to proceed.”
“Mission continues!”
“Understood, Major Himeko!
Disabling hull safety protocols, opening hatch manually.
Hyperion currently at designated orbit.
All systems nominal, hydraulics nominal.”
“Observation Squad confirms ready.
Awaiting Valkyrie landing.”
The scene shifted.
A Valkyrie in white armor stepped toward the open hatch, her back radiating red light, twin tails streaming behind her in the hurricane-force wind.
Her face was delicate and precise—blue eyes calm as still water—as she walked steadily toward the edge.
“Valkyrie, prepare to land.”
“Ten… nine… …one.”
The silver-haired girl lunged forward and dropped from the Hyperion, cutting clean through the atmosphere.
Her small silhouette merged with the vast white clouds and the blinding brilliance of the sun, heroic music swelling around her.
Then she reappeared, plunging toward a colossal warship below, eyes set, ready for the brutal battle that awaited her.
And then, blazing across the entire screen in three massive characters:
Honkai Impact 3rd
Xiyue watched this CG—genuinely moved, the same way she’d been moved the very first time—and remembered that this sequence had pulled her into the game in the first place, the beginning of her fall into miHoYo’s trap.
Wants to Buy an Island: This is a game?
The comment snapped her back.
She’d completely forgotten to introduce it.
What a failure of a host.
She recovered quickly.
“Yes!
This is a game called Honkai Impact 3rd—and it’s the game I’ll be streaming from here on out.
It’s an action-RPG.”
Wants to Buy an Island: Action-RPG?
“Right.
The setting’s a bit complex, but simply put: at some point in the future, a mysterious catastrophe called Honkai has begun to erode the world.
People infected by Honkai transform into something like zombies—and alongside them come Honkai Beasts and Herrschers—catastrophic threats to everything that remains of civilization.”
“The only ones capable of fighting back are girls who naturally carry Honkai antibodies—the resistance to Honkai infection that most people simply don’t have.
They form the Valkyrie forces, donning cold armor and taking up heavy weapons to battle the Honkai—fighting for every beautiful thing left in this world.”
“We, the players, command these Valkyries.
I’ll expand on the details once I start streaming the main story.
And the Valkyrie on-screen right now is Kiana Kaslana—also known as Paramecium—and she’s the protagonist of this game.”
By the time she finished, Xiyue noticed the game had bypassed the tutorial entirely.
Kiana in her White Comet suit was already standing at the center of the screen, eyes wide and blinking.
Every feature was unlocked.
The System had also sent a welcome gift of 2,800 Crystals.
Then the notification arrived:
〖Viewer shock value: Miss Pink Elf♪, No Exams Thanks, Wants to Buy an Island +280〗
Xiyue smiled.
Just as expected.
All of that shock converts straight to Crystals—and nothing pulls people into a game like a good PV.
No Exams Thanks: This silver-haired girl is SO COOL!
She gets this powerful in the future?!
Why am I even studying for exams anymore—forget it!!!
No Exams Thanks: But why call her Paramecium?
That’s such an awful nickname!
(furious)