"So, you're saying you want to invite me on a trip to another world, Ah Li?"
In a dormitory at St. Freya Academy, a girl with beautiful, white, shoulder-length hair was sprawled on the sofa. Like a cat that had just woken up, she lazily lifted her head to question a certain someone.
"Mhm."
The young man began to speak; just last night he had called out the system, found two bugs on the spot, and received two apologies with compensation for his trouble.
"Because of the pact, I'll be going with the Kaslana family ancestor, Kevin, and his best bud, Su, to revive the Honkai civilization in another world."
Just yesterday, Kevin had contacted him to arrange a meeting on Raven Island in the coming days to discuss the specific details of the new Ark Project and Fire-Moth Project.
When the time comes, all the top-tier characters of the Honkai world would be there.
There was Kevin, a man who could split the earth in two on a whim; if he were an event boss, he'd be so powerful he'd make players curse the game devs and their entire families.
There was Su, who, with the help of "Doctor Otto" in the Previous Era, became a super-soldier and took down the Herrscher of Sentience.
And then there was Black Tiger Ah Fu, who had been out of contact for some time. While her strength on the surface wasn't overwhelming, once she went dark, she could beat the Dull Goose into a pulp and humble the Herrscher of Thunder.
You could say that, aside from the Forerunner who was lost somewhere in outer space, basically all the ancestor-level figures from the Previous Era would be gathered.
All that was left was for him, the executor of the Ark Project, to arrive.
As a master of slacking off, Li Zihan was happy to fulfill his promise, but he had no intention of dedicating his entire being to rebuilding civilization.
Therefore, he chose to bring some girls with him to another world.
Originally, he had planned to ask Seele and Mei.
But—
Seele, seemingly feeling quite guilty towards Miss Mei, refused the moment she heard she might be going with her. Instead, she went to visit Cocolia in prison.
As for Mei, thanks to Ling's idiotic stunt, she was practically driven mad by secondhand embarrassment. She was now actively avoiding him; Li Zihan had turned the entire St. Freya Academy upside down and still couldn't find her.
And so, he had to switch targets.
He chose to invite Ana and Sirin.
"Spit it out, you bastard Ah Li. Besides me, who else did you ask?"
Miss Sirin, who knew a certain bastard's habits all too well, climbed up from the sofa and shot her lover a sidelong glance, her smile not reaching her eyes.
Her character design is collapsing more and more seriously.
Li Zihan looked at the white-haired dango who, with barely a moment's thought, had guessed he had invited more than just her. He felt a strange sense of melancholy.
What happened to the Paramecium with an overdue IQ bill?
What happened to the girl whose intelligence was supposed to plummet off a cliff as long as there were enough trustworthy people around?
Why is she so sharp in front of me?
"It's Ana. The Herrscher of Ice, Ana Schariac."
Not planning to deceive Miss Paramecium on this matter, the young man sighed and gave the other girl's name.
"A distant relative of Kiana Schariac, which also makes her a distant blood relative of yours."
Speaking of which, is this what you call family resemblance?
Sirin and Ana look unusually similar.
The young man, who was quite close to both Sirin and Ana, looked at the girl on the sofa and then recalled the features of the girl he had dated earlier, a thought crossing his mind.
Even though their eye and hair colors were different, any outsider could easily tell that the two girls were related by blood.
Aside from the real Kiana and Cecilia, the resemblance between Ana and Sirin was probably the highest in the world.
"A blood relative from my younger sister's mother's side?"
The girl, whose relationship with the real Kiana was complicated to the extreme, used the term "younger sister" to refer to Kiana with considerable awkwardness.
The genes of her current body were an adjustment of her own previous genes and those of the real Kiana...
And as luck would have it, in her past life, she and Kiana already had a familial connection; she was Kiana's nominal older sister.
Kiana was both Sirin's younger sister and her older sister, as well as her mother or father, genetically speaking.
To say their relationship was a tangled mess would be an understatement.
Just imagine the scene when Sirin and Kiana finally meet.
"Are you my younger sister?"
"I'm your mom."
...
The scene would be too beautiful, simply unimaginable.
"Mhm. She looks a lot like you. She's a very soft, and adorably goofy, kid."
Feeling that the situation would get hilariously absurd when Kiana and Sirin met, the young man answered her previous question.
"Adorably goofy kid."
Upon hearing these words, Miss Sirin's eyes gradually grew dangerous.
Although that bastard Li Zihan was into every type, among all the attributes a girl could have, his favorability towards soft girls was definitely the highest.
Letting this guy get together with an adorably goofy soft girl…
"Out with it. How long has it been since you tricked her into bed?"
Rather explicit words came from the girl's mouth as she questioned the man whose true fetish was actually soft girls.
Without much hesitation, Miss Sirin hopped off the sofa, walked over to a certain someone's side, and gave him a sinister smile.
"A little over half a month."
The young man, who had hit a home run with Ana not long after meeting her, hadn't even finished his sentence before his eye started twitching.
The reason was simple: the expressionless girl had stepped on his foot with her house slipper.
And Miss Sirin's strength...
Was on the same level as an Emperor-class Honkai Beast.
"Ah Li, you really are a scumbag."
Even though she had long known her lover was a playboy, Miss Sirin had not expected him to have corrupted another girl before he had even gotten with her. She added another fraction of strength to her foot.
The young man, whose foot was being crushed, looked at the clearly jealous girl with a somewhat helpless smile.
"I just want to make everyone happy."
The boy, who was simply horny, righteously used the famous line of a certain "childhood-stage back-view man" in his youth.
"Tsk—"
"If you can't control your lower body, just say so."
The girl's gaze toward him grew even more contemptuous.
Having had the truth laid bare, the boy's eyes drifted away.
"In the future... can you restrain yourself a little?"
Although she had already accepted his desire to build a harem, the girl, who still felt a pang of jealousy upon learning about the other girls, looked at the boy with his averted gaze and sighed.
"If you can drain me dry, then I'll naturally restrain myself."
The young man, whose kidneys had always been in excellent condition, pondered for a moment before speaking with utter seriousness.
And then—
The full strength of an Emperor-class Honkai Beast stomped viciously on the young man's foot.
The girl's flustered and enraged voice rang out in its wake.
"Ah Li, you really are a pervert!"