After buying clothes at the mall, Kiana and Raiden Mei toured the Nagazora City of this era together.
In a sense, they could be considered revisiting an old haunt.
At first, Kiana thought about helping Raiden Mei retrieve more memories, but when she recalled carefully, she realized her own memories were like leaves chewed by ants—full of holes and dilapidated.
She remembered the main axis clearly, but when it came down to details, she couldn't recall them no matter what.
In short, her situation wasn't actually much better than Raiden Mei's.
However, although her memory had issues, her experience in combating the Honkai was not lost.
During the tour of Nagazora City, she discovered many places with traces of Honkai erosion.
Only, unlike the Honkai she encountered in the past, these areas eroded by the Honkai were wrapped in a layer of spatial membrane.
Until the membrane ruptures, they won't affect the Real World.
However—
"That doesn't mean they aren't dangerous."
Afraid Leo and MEI might misjudge, Kiana said with a serious face: "On the contrary, this is equivalent to space for the Honkai to accumulate."
"When the Honkai in these areas truly descends, it will cause devastation to the entire area in an instant."
Simply put, in a normal Honkai outbreak, the density of Honkai rises slowly, belonging to DoT (Damage over Time).
But due to this spatial membrane, the Honkai accumulates constantly like a prize pool, and when it erupts, it can deal tons of damage instantly.
"Understood."
Nodding, Leo asked directly: "So according to your estimate, how much time do we have left?"
"Probably... half a month?"
Revealing a thoughtful look, Kiana judged: "The weakest spatial membrane, I estimate, can only hold out for that long."
"But if there is external intervention, it might erupt even faster."
"Since you said there might be hidden enemies, then we can't be too optimistic."
It can only be said that, being the Kiana who grew to the very end, even if her memories were full of holes, her current performance could still be called reliable.
—What Adversity Kiana? The episode I'm most afraid of!
"Um..."
Looking at Kiana who was mature to the point of being somewhat heartbreaking, Leo rubbed his chin and asked again: "Do you have a way to pierce these spatial membranes?"
"Hm?"
Hearing this, Kiana couldn't help but freeze slightly.
"I was thinking the same thing."
Timely, MEI spoke up: "Today is Friday; tomorrow we can go handle these spatial membranes."
"Of course, provided we can handle them."
"But as long as we can do it, we can buy some more time."
Finished speaking, she looked at Kiana, just like Leo.
"You guys..."
Thoroughly understanding Leo and MEI's thoughts, Kiana hesitated for a moment, but still nodded and said: "Wanting to break this layer of spatial membrane isn't considered difficult, but they have already accumulated to a certain degree. If we really break them, it's very easy to affect the surrounding living creatures."
"On your side, do you have a method to evacuate the residents?"
"That's simple."
The corners of his mouth curling into a confident smile, Leo said: "How can there be no gas leaks in the Far East?"
Although doing so could be considered destroying public property, shouldn't taxpayers' money be used in such places to protect human lives?
—Better than being stolen by tax thieves!
"You... forget it."
Hearing Leo speak so naturally, MEI, who originally wanted to say something, could only give up.
In fact, she originally wanted to say she would use her connections to see if she could organize a regional fire drill.
But thinking carefully, she found that for her to settle this matter was still too troublesome.
Even, she might as well learn Leo's "advanced experience" and directly say radioactive material was detected in a certain area; that would be more reliable.
"In short, let's proceed according to this plan first."
Seeing MEI had no objections either, Leo considered this matter settled.
Next—
"Let's go, let's see how the situation of this junior is?"
Under MEI's inquiry, they obtained the hospitalization information of that second-year female student.
However—
"This relative of yours is really reliable!"
Seeing MEI could even settle this matter, Leo couldn't help but be somewhat surprised.
In fact, his original plan was to disguise as members of the student council and ask the medical staff.
Anyway, they were wearing Chiba Academy clothes, so it wouldn't be a big problem.
By the way, Kiana was also wearing a Chiba Academy uniform now... provided by MEI.
"She is my father's distant cousin and junior sister; they used to work in the same laboratory."
MEI didn't go into more detail, but her slightly subtle expression still allowed Leo to detect something unusual.
"Oh~"
Emitting a meaningful sound, Leo laughed: "That really was hard on you."
In his view, for MEI to go find such a relative to obtain intelligence, it was indeed not easy.
It's just—
"Don't think too much."
Gracefully glaring at Leo sideways, how could MEI not know what Leo was thinking?
"My relationship with her is very good, and I don't care about her... coveting of my dad."
"At least, I am like this now."
"If there's really a problem, it's on my dad's side instead."
If it were her childhood, she would definitely care.
But now she was older, knowing it wasn't easy for her father to be alone.
It's just that when she wanted to help assist, her father ran off instead, busy all day and night not coming home.
So facing such a situation, she could only express she was powerless to help.
"Alright."
Seeing MEI's expression didn't seem fake, Leo nodded and said: "However, for some future intelligence, we'll have to rely on that relative of yours."
Having such an insider in Chiba Academy, it would be much easier for him to inquire about some intelligence later.
"It's not as convenient as you think either."
Shaking her head slightly, MEI spoke frankly: "She actually only entered the board of directors not long ago, so her understanding of Chiba Academy won't be much more than ours. At most, she can retrieve some materials for us that students cannot access."
"That is enough."
Leo was already quite satisfied with this, not to mention—
"And if it involves truly core materials, we can't let her investigate either; that's too dangerous."
To be honest, he wasn't sure if there were enemies in the Real World, but he activated the principle of assumption.
Even if he was battling wits and courage with the air, it was still better than being caught off guard when really encountering an enemy.
"Of course, I still know this kind of thing."
Having said that, MEI still felt Leo's meticulousness and didn't find the other party wordy because of it.
Furthermore, after knowing Leo, she had also introspected, understanding her biggest weakness was shallow social experience.
Therefore, now having Leo check for gaps and fill in omissions for her, in her view, this was quite good.
However... exactly how old is this guy?
Recalling Leo being mature one moment and childish the next, she really couldn't tell.
But what was certain was that while understanding Leo more and more, she also became curious about this guy's past.
[Current Bond: 90%]
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