In a place far away from Nagazora City...
The bright sunlight shone on the tempered glass floor-to-ceiling windows, and the penetrating sunlight reflected on the smooth marble floor...
"..." The principal of St. Freya High School was helplessly looking at a stack of test papers on her desk. It was the biology test paper of her junior niece, Kiana. Kaslana... The paper was filled with bright red crosses, blooming like flowers on the test paper, slightly glaring...
"Zero points..." Principal Theresa's doll-like, exquisitely carved face was filled with a complicated expression.
"Kiana... can you explain this?" Loli-aunt Theresa watched with a 'kind' gaze at Kiana, who was sitting on the sofa in front of her desk and looking around.
"Huh?" Kiana looked at her great-aunt—no, her aunt—in confusion... her eyes filled with innocence.
"Why did you turn in a blank paper?" Theresa asked with a smile, but a vein was popping on her forehead...
"Even if you guessed randomly, you should have gotten at least one true/false or multiple-choice question right."
"About that..." Kiana's expression suddenly turned serious. She sat up straight and said in a very proper tone, "As a member of the Kaslana family..."
"I believe... if I don't know it, I don't know it!"
"One must be honest!" Kiana stood up and said righteously with a serious expression. Her image seemed to grow tall and grand, with a sun-like radiance behind her.
"..." I was speechless... Theresa stared blankly at Kiana's confident reply. Wait...
"Then, Kiana..." Theresa gently picked up the blank test paper with 'Kiana. Kaslana' written crookedly on it and pointed to a question. "Didn't I explain this question to you?"
"Honkai Creature: A normal Honkai Zombie, under high concentration, evolves into? ... You don't remember?"
"Hmm, that one..." Kiana looked at the white test paper, lowered her head, and fell into deep thought...
"zzzZZZ..."
"Don't you fall asleep on me!" Theresa slammed her small hand on the wooden desk and shouted.
"A normal Honkai Zombie evolves into a scythe-wielding Guardian Honkai Zombie!" Principal Theresa said, covering her forehead in exasperation. "Didn't I tell you during your special tutoring session?..."
"Uh... Great-Auntie, no, Auntie..." Kiana scratched her cheek and said embarrassedly, "Didn't I tell you before?... Ever since an accident, I get a headache whenever I see a book... I can never remember anything.."
"..." Theresa looked at Kiana helplessly. A brain injury was indeed difficult to deal with... However, she absolutely couldn't let Kiana keep failing. After all, she had been under a lot of pressure to let Kiana enroll directly into the academy...
"I've decided! Kiana-chan! We're going to have intensive exam training!" Theresa raised her small fist and said passionately.
"Ahhhh!!... No way!" a certain white-haired slacker struggled and said.
"Great... uh, Auntie! I'll lend you the latest issue of the 'Adventures in Homu World' manga, spare me this once!"
"...*Gulp...*" a certain loli-nun couldn't help but quietly swallow a mouthful of saliva.
"N-No!" she then gritted her teeth and firmly refused.
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In the dim alley in front of Li Xuan, pairs of bright red eyes lit up one by one like lanterns. The eerie scene was as terrifying as a supernatural horror movie Li Xuan had seen.
"..." Li Xuan looked gravely at the dense red lights in the shadows, clenched his fists, and tensed his body. "Oh my... here comes trouble again..."
"Roar! Roar! Roar!~" Beast-like roars came from the alley in Li Xuan's line of sight. Along with the roars, dark figures charged out of the dim alley, revealing themselves in the sunlight...
"This is..." Li Xuan finally saw them clearly. It was an entire horde of Honkai Zombies! White hair, red eyes, wielding exceptionally sharp scythes, and there were even a few Honkai Zombies with dark red mist coiling around their bodies.
"..." I should probably make a strategic retreat first... Li Xuan panicked a little upon seeing these Honkai Zombies that could block with weapons. The scythes were too sharp, and there were more than a dozen Honkai Zombies present... After all, this was reality; fighting a group of monsters alone... a single mistake could lead to disaster... and if he got injured, it wouldn't be easy to recover.
Unless there was some kind of area-of-effect weapon...
"Roar!" In the instant Li Xuan was slightly distracted, a white-haired Honkai Zombie charged forward, its scythe viciously chopping towards his front.
"Whoa..." Startled, Li Xuan hurriedly took a few steps back.
"Clang!" With a crisp crash, a scythe shaped like a half-moon was embedded right in front of Li Xuan, its sharp blade less than ten centimeters from his lower body...
"..." Li Xuan couldn't help but gulp. He felt a chill in his lower body, a complete lack of security... That was a close call, he almost lost everything...
"Take this!" Li Xuan quickly recovered his senses and aimed a big kick at the Honkai Zombie that was still bent over, trying to pull its scythe from the concrete. His body, enhanced by Honkai energy, allowed him to send the opponent flying with a single kick.
"Phew~" Li Xuan let out a light breath and pulled out the scythe the Honkai Zombie had left in the ground. 'What material is this weapon made of... to be so sharp...' His former top student spirit suddenly awakened, making Li Xuan look curiously at the Honkai Zombie's scythe in his hand, which was emitting Honkai energy.
Wait... now is not the time to think about this... Li Xuan raised his head and looked around.
"..." The scythe-wielding Honkai Zombies had already surrounded him in layers, trapping him completely in the middle like filling in a dumpling. There was no gap for him to escape...
"Oh my god..." Li Xuan couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle at this scene. Is there a commander in this group of Honkai Zombies... they even know how to surround someone silently... For the first time, Li Xuan began to doubt his original impression that the stiff Honkai Zombies had no intelligence...
"ROAR!!!" Dozens of Honkai Zombies roared in unison, making Li Xuan break out in a cold sweat.
"I have no choice but to go all out..." Li Xuan said with a grave expression. Even when facing Honkai Beasts, it wasn't this dangerous... There was absolutely no room for retreat...
"'Seele's Toy Box'..." Li Xuan casually tossed the Honkai Zombie's scythe into his spatial ring, took out a dark blue box with a clown's face printed on both sides, and said its name aloud.
"'Judah's Oath'!... Unfold!"
"." In a faint white light, the dark blue toy box unbelievably and rapidly transformed into a giant golden cross... "Kacha!~" With the crisp sound of a string, two gun mounts unfolded on both sides of the cross, as if a giant beast was baring its huge fangs...
(End of Chapter)