"..." Li Xuan silently scanned the room he was in. It was a room constructed entirely of a dark, unknown metal, sealed like a black box...
The iron door, constructed of iron bars, resembled a cage for wild beasts, making Li Xuan feel inexplicably uncomfortable...
'Could this room be for imprisoning monsters?...' Li Xuan strained to lift his head and saw the faint blue electric light flashing on the door, confirming his thoughts.
Just as he thought... Li Xuan was currently receiving top-priority treatment. He had a whole cell to himself, one of the few on the 'Hyperion' used to detain small Honkai Beasts.
The imitation Soul Steel metal, infused with high-concentration obsidian crystals, would surely make any Honkai Beast trying to destroy the room collapse weakly after a single impact, as if its body had been drained... And the tens of millions of volts of electricity on the door would definitely give a Honkai Beast a hard time...
After all, for a 'man' who was a suspected human capable of surviving in a Honkai 3A-level zone like Nagazora City, Schicksal had to be cautious. To anesthetize Li Xuan, Schicksal had used an extremely rare anesthetic that could instantly knock out even a Honkai Beast. As for Li Xuan's body, which was more than twice as weak as a massive Honkai Beast's, it was easily taken down...
As for retrieving Li Xuan, it required fully armed Valkyries to carry him back... Regarding Li Xuan's strange, old-fashioned attire, Schicksal had tried to remove it, but a dozen delicate Valkyries were defeated by a single piece of clothing... they were completely helpless...
The clothes were like they had grown onto Li Xuan's body and couldn't be pulled off... The dozen Valkyries, who hadn't had much contact with men, all blushed... half from shyness and half from overexertion... However, Li Xuan should be grateful for the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb's' bond to him, otherwise, he would have woken up to a pleasant surprise of feeling a bit chilly all over... especially the lower half.
Furthermore, the red, strange mark on the back of Li Xuan's exposed right hand, which could prove he was a 'Chosen One' (Stigmata wielder), was actually overlooked by everyone who was busy rescuing Principal Theresa... The reason was actually very simple... First, Natural Stigmata in the world are so rare that most people don't recognize or identify them... Second, and most importantly, in all the knowledge about Stigmata that people had learned, the famous Stigmata in history were all located on the back... but Li Xuan's was on the back of his right hand.
Thus, with the intention of first controlling him, and without receiving any orders from the anxiously waiting Major Himeko, who was awaiting Principal Theresa's examination results, everyone just locked the unconscious Li Xuan in a room for Honkai Beasts and thoughtfully gave him a bed.
Of course, Li Xuan was unaware of all this...
"I wonder if I can snap these ropes?" Li Xuan, with a somewhat naive thought, tried to see if he could use his own monstrous strength to break the strange ropes binding his hands and feet...
"..." But to no avail...
"...Ugh, forget it..." Li Xuan, having failed in his attempt, sighed and said to himself, "I'll just use my Stigmata's power..." Although sheer strength couldn't destroy the ropes, the 'Vermilion Bird Flame' produced by the Fire power of his 'Four Symbols' Stigmata could definitely burn through anything... provided you have enough Honkai energy for it to burn.
"Pfft~" A small flame emerged from Li Xuan's right finger. The crimson, peculiar flame instantly illuminated the entire room as if it were brightly lit.
At the same time, footsteps could be heard from outside the door...
"..." Li Xuan helplessly cut off the Honkai energy supply to the flame in his hand, extinguishing it. He quickly closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and started to feign sleep.
"Click, clack, click, clack..." Li Xuan heard a sound like high heels on the floor.
"Click!~" Then came the sound of the iron door of the room being opened. He could feel someone slowly approaching him.
"Oh my, still unconscious?" Li Xuan, with his eyes closed, heard a somewhat charming and sexy voice. "What a cute little boy~" A hand with calluses on the palm gently stroked his cheek.
"!!" Sweat started to form on Li Xuan's forehead... Fortunately, the hand on his face was quickly withdrawn, and then... a pair of slightly rough hands were suddenly placed on his chest, groping around... 'What's going on?!...' Li Xuan started to panic.
"I didn't expect... a boy who looks so thin would have such a sturdy body~" The woman in the darkness said with a laugh, her warm breath tickling him. Her hands slowly started to move from Li Xuan's chest downwards.
"Hehe~" The other person let out a somewhat creepy perverted laugh, her hands getting closer and closer to Li Xuan's vital area...
"..." 'I can't take it anymore!' Li Xuan felt that if he didn't stop this pervert who was touching his body, his chastity would probably be in jeopardy. How could that be?! He was a man of principles...
With thoughts of love and justice, Li Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, his golden pupils shining brightly in the darkness... The Honkai energy in his body instantly circulated, and the Fire Feather Sigil of the 'Four Symbols' Stigmata on the back of his hand emitted a faint red light in the darkness.
"Pfft!~" A ping-pong ball-sized flame rose from Li Xuan's hand. The fleeting flame instantly melted the strange ropes binding his hands.
"Pervert!" Li Xuan didn't even look and directly clenched his fist and punched the pervert beside him. Unfortunately... the moment he threw the punch, he felt his 'handle' being groped by the other party...
"Bang!" Li Xuan's punch, which he had controlled to only a few hundred kilograms, was firmly caught and blocked by the other party's hand.
"Yo yo~ You're quite strong..." the mature woman, whose face was obscured by the darkness, said teasingly.
"....." Li Xuan was somewhat shocked that the other party's strength could, with their mortal body, block a casual blow from him... With his 'Knight Never Dies by Bare Hands' emblem, he had always been proud of his ability to go head-to-head with Honkai Beasts.
"Gasp~" A hurried gasp suddenly came from the doorway... Li Xuan turned his head to look at the bright doorway. A loli in a black and white nun's habit was leaning against the doorframe, panting heavily.
"Phew~" Theresa looked up at the tense atmosphere in the room, sighed helplessly, and frowned at the woman standing in the darkness in front of Li Xuan. "Alright... Himeko, stop bullying Li Xuan-kun."
"Sorry, Li Xuan-kun... I'm late." Theresa, standing by the door, stood up straight and, without realizing it, smiled at the bewildered Li Xuan.
(End of this chapter)