"Amnesia?!" Li Xuan said, frowning at the two sisters who had stood up again.
It seemed that something had caused them to lose their minds before, and now they were fine…
"Ah!! Ronin! You're still alive?!" The black-haired girl, who was casually scanning her surroundings, was immediately drawn to the warrior-clad girl standing in the black mist nearby. She shouted excitedly and emotionally.
"Lady Mei… is still alive…" The white-haired girl also spotted the familiar figure, and her eyes couldn't help but become a little moist.
"What is mine... this whole world is mine…" 'Mei', enveloped in black mist, raised her wine-red eyes and spoke hoarsely, her eyes filled with a bestial look.
"Ronin!" The black-haired girl extended her fair arm, wanting to get closer, but was suddenly pulled back by her sister.
"Sister! Don't go! The seal inside Lady Mei is completely broken. She's now completely controlled by Chikage!" the white-haired girl shouted at the black-haired girl who was trying to approach.
"..." The black-haired girl powerlessly lowered her arm and said with hatred, "Even after we used our lives to seal it for hundreds of years, it was still meaningless?!..."
"Master, Master!~" Liv suddenly tugged on Li Xuan's clothes and said, "Liv can feel it…" She pointed her finger at the tomb.
"That tomb is the source of the ancient Honkai energy. The two Honkai energies are now accelerating their fusion. If we don't stop it, it could trigger another Great Honkai."
"This… what should I do?!" Li Xuan thought with some helplessness. This was their tomb, after all. It would be too rude to destroy it directly… And he felt that even if he did destroy the tomb, given the nature of Honkai energy, it probably wouldn't dissipate so easily.
"..." Unsure of what to do, Li Xuan raised the ancestral katana he was holding and subconsciously tapped his forehead with the hilt.
"That sword… isn't that the Ronin's?!" The black-haired girl happened to notice the katana in Li Xuan's hand and covered her small mouth in surprise.
"It seems this is all fated... Please insert your sword into the 'sheath' of this tomb," the white-haired girl said softly, looking at Li Xuan with a hint of lament.
"Master! There's a small hole on the side of this tombstone!" Maid Liv bent down and pointed at a small hole on the tombstone in front of them, as if seeking praise.
"So this is the 'sheath'....." Li Xuan stroked his smooth chin and looked at the small hole before him.
"But… will anything happen if I really stick the sword in there?!" Li Xuan raised his head and asked the white-haired girl.
"..." The white-haired girl fell silent for a moment, then, without answering directly, looked at Li Xuan and the others and said softly, "This is the only way to stop the Honkai…"
"..." Li Xuan was speechless. The way she said that meant something was definitely going to happen…
'Aaaargh!!… Why is it always me who has to stop the Honkai and save the world?!' Li Xuan's mind felt as if it were being trampled by countless white-haired divine beasts… He just wanted to live a decadent life of staying home, playing games, and watching anime, then get a relaxing job after graduating from university and live comfortably….
"..." Everyone silently looked at Li Xuan, waiting for him to make a decision.
"Alright, alright… I'll do it…" Feeling a bit creeped out by everyone staring at him, Li Xuan waved his hand and said.
He raised the Raiden family's ancestral katana, aimed the tip at the small hole on the tombstone, and then forcefully thrust the sword in.
Surprisingly, the stone 'sheath' allowed the long sword to slide in with ease, as if they were made for each other.
"*Click!*" A brilliant light suddenly burst forth from the small hole in the tomb. Even Li Xuan's 'Jao Shingan' couldn't look directly at the light.
"Ugh?! What is this light?!" Li Xuan said in surprised confusion.
The golden light emanating from the tomb instantly engulfed everyone. The warm radiance even dispersed all the surrounding black mist…
When the light slowly faded…. the spot was empty, as if nothing had ever happened. The evening glow gently cast its last rays on this country path in the outskirts of Nagazora City.
...............…
"Beep beep beep!!!" A piercing alarm suddenly rang out on Theresa's desk…
"...Ah!… What happened!?" Theresa, who had been dozing off at her desk, hastily stood up, even forgetting to wipe the drool from the corner of her mouth.
"A Honkai energy reaction suspected to be a Herrscher has erupted in the outskirts of Nagazora City…" A monotonous, synthesized female voice sounded from Theresa's computer.
"What?!… I need to inform Himeko about this!" Theresa was aghast. A Herrscher was not an enemy that the current Murata Himeko could face…
"Honkai energy reaction has disappeared… Nagazora City outskirts are normal…" Just as Theresa was about to contact Himeko with her communicator, the monotonous, synthesized female voice sounded again.
"Huh?!…" Principal Theresa was completely baffled.
(End of Chapter)