"Haha, you're really funny." Seele paused for a moment, then laughed and patted Ryn's shoulder, walking past him.
As she passed by Ryn, she whispered, "I'm sorry, for making you recall bad memories..."
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Ryn was completely baffled. What bad memories could there be? But then he remembered that the Seele from his world had also undergone experiments and become a quantum superposition state. Ryn suddenly understood that this Seele had also undergone that experiment...
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that's how you got your powers." Penglaiji Ryn also sympathetically patted Ryn's shoulder, walked past him, and then sighed helplessly, leaving Ryn with a lonely back that conveyed sympathy and pity, yet helplessness.
"You get back here, what are you sighing for!" Ryn grabbed Penglaiji Ryn and pinched her small face, pulling her back.
"What's wrong, can't I? Isn't being experimented on a very painful thing?"
Penglaiji Ryn blinked, looking at Ryn with confusion.
"Forget it, it's nothing." Ryn also blinked, gave Penglaiji Ryn's face a couple of pinches, then let her go and walked straight to catch up with Seele.
Penglaiji Ryn scratched her head in confusion. She had lost her memories, but she vaguely remembered that being experimented on seemed to be an extremely painful thing...
But seeing that Ryn didn't look sad or upset at all, did she get it wrong?
"Strange... why would I think that being experimented on is very painful..." Penglaiji Ryn suddenly became confused, then clutched her head in pain.
In a place where she couldn't see her surroundings clearly, a faceless woman with long white hair was intermittently saying, "St. Freya High School... underground... corpse... implanted with Herrscher cells... Valkyrie surgery... burning life..."
And in front of the white-haired woman... was herself...? And beside her was another person... who was it?
Penglaiji Ryn clutched her throbbing head and groaned in pain. She desperately searched her memories, trying to find out who the woman beside her was, but she found nothing...
The indescribable pain triggered Penglaiji Ryn's body's self-protection mechanism, causing her to faint.
"What did you do?" "I don't know!"
Seele and Ryn stared at each other, wide-eyed, gathered around Penglaiji Ryn. They were walking ahead when they suddenly heard Penglaiji Ryn's cry of pain, and when they turned around, she had already fainted.
"It might have been triggered by the keyword 'experimented on'...' Ryn picked up Penglaiji Ryn and tried to heal her with the power of creation.
But it was directly nullified...?!
Ryn suddenly felt something and reached out to touch Seele as well. As expected, the power of creation passed right through Seele...
"Oh my... I think I've discovered something incredible..."
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Under Seele's guidance, Ryn, the unconscious Penglaiji Ryn, and the others soon returned to the train.
After clearing out the Honkai creatures near the train and restarting it, they passed through numerous tunnels and one checkpoint after another.
The group arrived at an island... under which was a dilapidated underground station...
Well, it's the apocalypse, it's normal for things to be a bit broken.
Ryn took a deep breath and accepted this reality. After all, he had slept on the streets with Kiana before, so having a bed to sleep in now was already pretty good.
"Let me reintroduce myself. My name is Seele Vollerei, and we are the human anti-Honkai resistance—Fire Moth."
Then, under Seele's guidance, Ryn and the awakened Penglaiji Ryn went to meet the leader of Fire Moth—Bronya Zaychik.
"Big Sis~ I'm back!" Seele happily flew into the arms of Bronya, who had come to welcome them.
"Welcome home, Seele. Are you hurt?" Bronya looked at Seele with doting eyes, then inspected her up and down to see if she was injured.
"Big Sis, you worry too much. How could I get hurt on a mission like this~" Seele bounced and spun around, proving that she was completely unharmed.
After confirming that Seele was not injured, Bronya's expression became impassive as she said, "No, I meant, are the family members we were escorting injured?"
"Hmph..." Seele puffed up her cheeks angrily and handed Bronya the forms that Ryn and Penglaiji Ryn had filled out on the way. "They're not hurt, they're pretty strong too. Really, Big Sis is always bullying me! Here, this is their information."
"Mm, you've worked hard, Seele." Bronya praised Seele with a smile. Seele immediately stopped being angry and happily hugged Bronya again.
Ryn and Penglaiji Ryn's expressions were grim.
Ryn was a bit dazed right now. The people from the two worlds were quite different... Bronya's legs weren't broken, her twin-drill pigtails had become a single ponytail, and she wasn't a little girl anymore. And what was with this dignified leader persona...
Hmm... Also, it's normal for Seele and Bronya to have a good relationship. It's also normal for girls to be close... but why does Seele have the expression of a pervert!
Coming to an unknown world and meeting two similar people should have been double the happiness, but why... has it turned out like this?
Penglaiji Ryn, on the other hand, was very worried. The information she had filled out was completely blank. Aside from her name, she couldn't fill out anything. And what was even more strange was that the Homu robot guide couldn't find anything related to her in this world either...
Penglaiji Ryn glanced worriedly at Ryn beside her. He was just like her, with nothing about him in this world. But Ryn didn't seem to care at all, not worried in the slightest.
Sigh, I wonder if my past self was as cheerful and loved to laugh as he is?
Bronya gently nudged Seele, signaling her to explain why both of their forms were almost completely blank.
"Ahem... well... it seems that these two have suffered memory trauma, so they don't remember anything." Seele shrugged helplessly. They said they didn't know, so she couldn't exactly interrogate them.
Then, like a crazed fan, a Bronya fangirl, Seele began to introduce Bronya to Ryn and Penglaiji Ryn, praising her from every conceivable angle...
Bronya reached out and pinched Seele's little mouth, stopping the string of embarrassing introductions coming from her. Then she smiled at Ryn and Penglaiji Ryn and said:
"Just call me Bronya. I'm not a leader, I'm just someone who wants to live, like everyone else."
Seele broke free from Bronya's hand that was pinching her mouth and said with a flushed face, "Big Sis is so humble~ But I love this side of Big Sis too!"
Bronya pressed her hand against Seele's approaching face and gave Ryn and the other an embarrassed look.
"Please excuse us. Seele and I are not related by blood, but she is my most important younger sister. However, sometimes she can be really troublesome..."
"What? Am I?! When...?"
"Right now."
"Ugh."
"What an enviable pair of sisters with such different personalities," Penglaiji Ryn couldn't help but remark.
Hearing Penglaiji Ryn's voice, Ryn reached out and put his arm around her.
"What's there to be envious of? Aren't we also siblings with such different personalities and a good relationship?"
"It's true that you're too optimistic, while I..."
"No, it's just that the current you is too lost."