The setting sun cast dappled shadows through the sparse leaves.
The floor of the school corridor was still damp from being cleaned, and the air was filled with the fresh scent of earth and grass.
In the distance, cherry blossom trees stood quietly, their petals occasionally caught by a gentle breeze, spinning softly as if telling a silent story.
Students gathered in twos and threes, talking in low voices, their laughter echoing clearly in the post-school leisure.
Chiaki did not join them.
Instead, after buying a thick stack of A4 paper, he returned home and began to stare at it blankly.
To be honest, he couldn’t remember the plots of games like Honkai Impact 3rd, FGO, or Arknights very clearly anymore.
He remembered a fair bit of FGO because the game still existed in this second life, but the story had only just been updated to the defeat of Goetia.
There was still a long way to go before the Lostbelts, and who knew how many years it would be until they reached the “Fairy Round Table Domain.”
As for Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai: Star Rail, and Arknights, his memory of their plots had long since faded.
He could only recall bits and pieces in occasional flashes of inspiration.
He wasn’t some kind of genius who could graduate from university and still remember every paragraph on every page of his high school history textbook, acing the entrance exams for the University of Tokyo after only three months of review.
He was a very ordinary person, lacking their extraordinary talents.
All he had was persistence and effort.
“Izanagi!”
Chiaki raised his hand, summoning a blue Tarot card and crushing it.
Izanagi materialized behind him, gripped a sketch pen, pressed its tip to the paper, and began to brandish it like a blade.
Its movements possessed a kingly aura, as if the pen were the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and it was the righteous Guan Yu, facing an army of a million without fear, determined to slash through the enemy forces formed by these blank white sheets!
Izanagi’s hands moved with increasing speed, its fingertips tracing agile arcs in the air.
The stack of A4 paper danced under its touch like dry leaves caught in the wind.
The sheets spun and leaped through the air with a rustling sound, and Chiaki’s eyes gradually brightened, as if he were piecing together the fragmented, hazy memories through the flying papers.
The plot of Honkai Impact 3rd that he knew was slowly being reconstructed.
An hour passed without him noticing.
As the story of “Final Lesson” came to a close, Chiaki slowly shut his eyes, and all the color drained from his body.
He had burned out, turned to pure white ash.
—o—
[The Steel Warden]: Kiana, this is my last Hamon!
Take it!
[The Steel Warden] sent an exclusive Red Packet.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: What’s this?
[The Steel Warden]: It’s a superpower manga.
With it, you can defeat any Herrscher on Earth.
That’s a bit of an exaggeration, isn’t it?
Kiana thought, gulping as she looked at the stack of “manga,” which was as thick as a dictionary.
She picked up a few pages and began to look through them.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Whoa, it’s a manga about my world!
Chiaki, didn’t you say you didn’t have it anymore?
[The Steel Warden]: I drew it bit by bit from memory.
Take good care of it.
If you lose it, there won’t be a second copy.
Drawing this was a bit too mentally draining.
I need to rest for a while.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: For real?!
You drew all of this by hand?
The level of detail is insane!
I love you!
Kiana looked excitedly at the pile of unbound original drafts, wondering what to do with them.
It was unrealistic to take them to a publisher to get them bound, and if this information got out, it could cause a huge commotion.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles] has uploaded a group file.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Whoa!
Just as I thought!
If I upload it to the group and then download it, I can flip through it like an e-book!
[Yearning to be a Magical Girl]: Eh?
Why did you upload it?
Isn’t this about the future of your world, Kiana?
If you upload it, doesn’t that mean everyone can see it?!
[Customer Service Sakiko]: I suggest you retract it.
It might contain private information about you, Kiana.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: It’s fine, it’s fine!
If we all read it together, you guys might even notice things I missed.
[Underworld’s Rokurokubi]: Can I read it?
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Go right ahead!
But if a manga about your worlds comes out in the future, you better let me read it.
[Underworld’s Rokurokubi]: It’s a deal.
Seele was very curious to see why there was also a Cocolia in Kiana’s world.
Her intuition told her it wasn’t a simple coincidence of names.
—o—
Several hours later, a cry of anguish appeared in the chat group.
[Underworld’s Rokurokubi]: HIMEKO!!!
[Talulah]: HIMEKO!!!
[Child of Prophecy]: HIMEKO!!!
[Yearning to be a Magical Girl]: HIMEKO!!!
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: GWAAAH!
HIMEKO!
Major Himeko, don’t die!
[The Steel Warden]: Calm down.
What happened?
Did Himeko already die fighting the Herrscher of Thunder?
Chiaki’s expression was more serious than ever.
While I was taking a nap, Nagazora City already blew up, the Herrscher of Thunder was born, the Hyperion was shot down, and Himeko died before she could even achieve her mission?
Why didn’t anyone tell me?
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: No, Himeko died fighting the Herrscher of the Void to save me!
sobs I haven’t even become a Schicksal Valkyrie yet, how could you die, Major Himeko!
[Child of Prophecy]: It’s so moving…
So this is “Final Lesson”?
[The Steel Warden]: ….
[Customer Service Sakiko]: Allow me to say something that might spoil the mood, but in reality, Miss Himeko hasn’t even met Kiana yet.
In other words, she’s not dead.
Is it really okay for you all to be mourning her like this?
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Oh, she’s not dead?
Okay, we’re good then.
Himeko wasn’t dead.
What a joyous occasion.
From the outbreak of the Third Honkai Eruption in Nagazora City, to enrolling in St.
Freya High School, through the Chi You Arc, the Yae Village Arc, Wendy’s death, and all the way to Kiana being betrayed by Fu Hua and taken back to Schicksal HQ to awaken as the Herrscher of the Void, the plot Chiaki had provided was incredibly detailed.
He had included everything, relevant or not.
Kiana breathed a sigh of relief.
With all this knowledge, plus the help of her chat group friends, she was confident she could stop Cocolia, defeat the Herrscher of the Void, beat up Otto, and save everyone!
There was just one problem: her interest was now completely hooked.
If I don’t get to see the rest of the Honkai Impact 3rd story, I’m going to die!
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Chiaki!
Chiaki!
What comes next?!
[The Steel Warden]: I haven’t drawn it.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: I’m desperate!
Can’t you update faster?!
I need to see the next part today!
[Underworld’s Rokurokubi]: I’m desperate too!
I want to read it!
[Child of Prophecy]: Me three!
I’m desperate!
[The Steel Warden]: I can’t.
I have school.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: If you can’t, then you can get f*cked!
[Customer Service Sakiko]: Ahem, Kiana, please be civil.
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: Children, that wasn’t me just now.
That was the Herrscher of the Void.
I have a split personality.
Damn it, why is the Herrscher of the Void so evil?!
[The Steel Warden]: ….
No surprise from the lewd degenerate who can casually talk about drinking “Mei’s juice” and eating “Mei-flavored noodles.”
[I Want to Eat Mei-Flavored Noodles]: By the way, is anyone willing to come to Nagazora City and lend me a hand?
To take down Cocolia and save Mei?
Realizing she couldn’t resolve this crisis with her own power alone, she decisively chose to ask for help.
As if in response to her plea, a sound chimed from the chat group.
Ding—!
[World Quest: Save Nagazora City]
[Quest Description: Nagazora City, a city plagued by disaster.
It seems that no matter the timeline, it cannot escape its fate of destruction.
But how can those who resist fate and yearn for change so easily accept this predetermined destiny?]
[Quest Reward: 1000 Points.]
[Participant Limit: 8; Time Limit: 72 hours.]
[Quest Buff: All participants temporarily gain Honkai Energy Resistance.]
😭😭😭 HIMEKOOOO