In the early morning, the sky at St. Freya High School was still a bit hazy white. Perhaps because the morning sun had not yet risen, a cool breeze blew through the somewhat desolate paths, occasionally rolling up a few withered leaves that had fallen yesterday and that the students on duty today had not yet had time to sweep up...
At this moment... in the infirmary of St. Freya High School, a white-haired girl lay quietly on a snow-white bed with her eyes closed, breathing softly as if in a deep sleep.
A black-haired girl seemed to be resting her head on her arms, leaning over the snow-white bed and dozing off, lightly asleep...
"...Sigh~" Li Xuan sighed softly. He was carrying a nutritious breakfast that his maid, Liv, had woken up early to make. He reached out and gently pushed open the door of the infirmary and walked in.
Ever since he and Kiana were trapped in the high-concentration Honkai energy storage room in the basement yesterday, Kiana, who should have been completely unaffected due to her family's bloodline giving her the strongest immunity to Honkai energy, surprisingly fell into a coma...
Fortunately, he was there to carry Kiana out with great difficulty, and he had the culprit of this incident, the 'Raccoon Girl', seal the tunnel they had drilled into the room to prevent the Honkai energy from leaking out and causing more trouble...
Then... the matter of Kiana's coma was naturally discovered by Mei, who had finished making dinner and was looking for Kiana... Li Xuan had no choice but to temporarily lie and say that Kiana had accidentally fallen and hit her head....
Surprisingly... Mei and the others actually believed it!... After all, with someone like Kiana, it was indeed possible for her to fall into a coma from being too jumpy...
Li Xuan gently placed the insulated container he was holding on the bedside table. Perhaps it was because of the muffled sound made when the container touched the table... Raiden Mei, who was originally dozing off by the bed, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her black eyes.
"Ah, it's Li Xuan-kun..." Mei, still with a trace of fatigue in her eyes, gently rubbed her eyes with her fair hand, then smoothed her long black hair and said gently with a hint of apology.
"I'm sorry to have you go out of your way to prepare breakfast for me."
"Not at all, I'm also responsible for Kiana ending up like this..." Li Xuan managed a smile and said. If he had stopped Kiana from digging a tunnel to sneak into the room from the beginning, none of this would have happened... and he had also inexplicably hidden the real truth, which made Li Xuan feel somewhat guilty...
"Then Mei... this morning's classes..." Li Xuan thought for a moment and said. Today wasn't the weekend yet, so there were still classes...
"Please ask for a leave of absence for me, Li Xuan~" Mei put her hands together and said seriously. She couldn't leave Kiana unattended... She had been here since last night. After all, Kiana had fallen and hit her head, so she didn't know what would happen when she woke up.
"...I understand." Li Xuan sighed softly. He could tell just from the gentle way Mei looked at Kiana how much the foolish white-haired furball named 'Kiana' meant to Mei...
"Then I'll be going... Good luck, Mei." Li Xuan started walking towards the door. There wasn't much time left before the morning class started. If he continued to dawdle, he would be late.
"Take care, classmate Li Xuan..." Mei held Kiana's somewhat cold hand, turned her head to look at Li Xuan, smiled gently, and said softly.
"Mm." Li Xuan gently closed the door to the room and quickly walked out of the infirmary. As soon as he stepped out the door, a gust of cold morning wind blew past, making him instinctively tighten the winter school uniform he was wearing...
"Isn't Kiana a descendant of the Kaslana family?..." Li Xuan looked up at the sky, which was already beginning to show the fish-belly white of dawn, and muttered, "As a member of the Kaslana family, which is completely immune to Honkai energy corrosion... how could she suddenly fall into a coma in that high-concentration Honkai energy environment?..."
A member of the Kaslana family falling into a coma in a high-concentration Honkai energy environment is as unscientific as a fish in the sea drowning in seawater. Could it be that Kiana had some kind of illness that flared up at that time?
"..." Li Xuan's footsteps suddenly paused. He suddenly thought of Kiana's eye, which seemed to flash with a golden light at that moment... 'Golden eyes... was it my illusion?' he thought with some uncertainty. Whenever he thought of those eyes, he always felt a chill in his heart, feeling as if he were afraid of that gaze, even daring not to breathe. This somewhat absurd feeling lingered in his mind.
"Forget it... I'll just ask Kiana when she wakes up." Li Xuan shook his head. How could he possibly figure this out... He could just ask her directly later, no need to overthink it.
"Sigh!~ What a eventful time." Li Xuan sighed. He just wanted to live a peaceful life... why did so many troublesome things come knocking on his door?
"Huh? What's that?..." Li Xuan, who had just complained and was about to go back to the dorm for breakfast, suddenly saw a strange black cloud appear in the originally clear sky.
That's strange, there were no dark clouds or anything like that when he came over. What's going on? Is the weather at St. Freya High School always this fickle?
"Beep beep beep!~" Before he could react to what was happening... the small speakers installed on the streetlights on both sides of the road suddenly let out a piercing alarm...
"This is?!..." Li Xuan's eyes widened as he looked in the direction behind him and subconsciously shouted, "A Honkai energy reaction?!" As his voice fell, a massive wave of Honkai energy suddenly appeared from that direction.
"BOOM!!" The dark cloud floating in the sky seemed to respond to the Honkai energy reaction. A bolt of azure lightning, carrying endless electrical sparks, struck down from the cloud, as if the god of thunder had swung his hammer of divine punishment.
The lightning shattered everything it touched. Even the tall buildings couldn't withstand the god-like power of nature under the thunder and shattered with a roar. Along with the thunder... an ancient, long-lost, yet unusually powerful aura gradually emanated from the ruins.
"I'm finally back again," a pair of leather boots stepped onto the ruins, which had been turned into rubble covered in charred black stone from the lightning strike, as a girl said with a sigh. "Endless darkness is really not a place for people to stay."
Her figure, standing on the ruins, was like a god descending upon the world....
(End of this chapter)