For Li Xuan, this was supposed to be an ordinary morning, but a sudden earthquake shattered the morning's peace.
"This is...." Li Xuan, holding Yaoye-hime in his arms, hid in the dark corner of an abandoned house, watching in shock as the dense crowd of Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies in the distance surged forward as if on a pilgrimage.
"What's going on?!" Li Xuan turned around and pointed at the Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies on the street, which were coexisting peacefully, and asked with a bewildered expression.
Li Xuan knew that although both Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies were products of the Honkai, they were still two different species. While they wouldn't necessarily attack each other on sight, it was impossible for the atmosphere to be this harmonious!? He had personally seen a Honkai Beast devour a Honkai Zombie alive... It looked like chicken, and was crunchy.
"?" Yae Sakura tilted her head, looking completely clueless. She had no idea what was happening either.
"It seems that direction is the source of the Honkai energy reaction..." The multi-talented Maid Liv once again demonstrated her abilities, pointing in the direction the Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies were heading.
"That direction..." Li Xuan frowned, glanced in the direction Liv was pointing, and rubbed his chin.
"Liv..." he turned and suddenly said to Liv, "Take care of Yaoye-hime for me for a moment..." Li Xuan handed Yaoye-hime in his arms to Liv, whose eyes had started to shine again.
"Yes! I'll bet my life on it... I will definitely take good care of the baby!" Liv said, raising a clenched fist as if she had made a firm resolution.
".Mmm, okay..." Li Xuan didn't notice his maid's words, instead taking a map from the silver ring on his right hand... This was a map Li Xuan had used when he was planning to escape Nagazora City with Kiana and the others, though that plan was genuinely very useful... but it was ruined by...
"..." Li Xuan glanced speechlessly at Yaoye-hime in his maid's arms... the former culprit, now his sister... For some reason, he felt a bit complicated inside.
".From where we are now, if we go forward..." Focusing again, Li Xuan started to pinpoint their current location on the map and then, based on the direction the Honkai Beasts were moving, guessed that the location of the Honkai energy reaction was...
"According to this direction, if we keep going straight..." Li Xuan's long finger followed the pattern on the map and stopped at a certain location.
"This is..." Li Xuan looked at his calculated target with some surprise. "Senba Academy?!"
"Isn't this... the girls' school that Kiana and Mei attend?!" Li Xuan looked in surprise at the clearly marked school on the map. He had heard about Senba Academy from Kiana before... it was a genuine noble girls' school.
According to what Kiana had once explained to him... Honkai energy seems to prefer to reside in the bodies of young girls... so the question arose, a school full of pure and lovely young girls = a school full of powerful Honkai Zombies...
".Gulp." Li Xuan couldn't help but swallow. It seemed that the paradise of beautiful girls had turned into a terrifying, deserted hell.
'Indeed, it's better not to get involved in this mess...' Li Xuan decisively decided not to investigate further. After all, with a huge pile of Honkai Zombies and Honkai Beasts, plus the unknown powerful existence in that girls' school, he would probably lose his life with one misstep!
"Ahem..." Li Xuan raised his right hand, made a fist, and placed it in front of his mouth to cough lightly, attracting the attention of Liv and Yae Sakura. Then he said seriously, ".Everyone, I think we should not...."
"Master!" Before Li Xuan could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Liv, who looked a bit anxious.
".Liv, next time you have a question, please raise your hand, okay?"
"...." (Raises hand)
"Alright... what is it?"
"Master! There's a spaceship!..." Liv pointed at the azure sky, her eyes sparkling as she spoke.
"Oh... a spaceship... wait.... a, a spaceship?!" Li Xuan looked up in astonishment at the previously empty sky. A silver, streamlined spaceship was flying arrogantly towards the center of Nagazora City, in the same direction as the Honkai Beasts and Honkai Zombies.
He had only ever seen that 'Anti-Entropy' organization in this place. If it was Anti-Entropy...
"..." Li Xuan's expression turned grave. He looked at the spaceship with a dark glint in his eyes, then suddenly turned to Yae Sakura and Liv beside him and said, "...We're following them!"
"Why?" Liv tilted her head, looking curious and confused.
"If it's that 'Anti-Entropy' organization..." Li Xuan looked at Liv's puzzled expression and explained, "Because last time, those guys who appeared out of nowhere hurt Sakura and me..."
"So..." Li Xuan's eyes seemed to burn with a fiery rage. He hated those bastards who had hurt Sakura for no reason.
"I'm going to kill them!"
After all, he now possessed the seven-star 'Tyr's Warblade' and 'Ciel's Flash Crystal'... even with assassination, he could take out a few people. And besides... maybe... he could find other information about this world, and even escape this godforsaken place, Nagazora City!
Li Xuan stood up, his gaze sharp as he looked at the spaceship flying in the sky. Because they were hiding in a dark corner, they hadn't been discovered.
(End of Chapter)