As she listened to Kiana's story, the originally excited look in Mei's eyes gradually faded.
The Raiden lady, who had also experienced bullying, glanced in the direction of Fuli outside the door and asked softly, "And then?"
"Then? Those punks who lost face planned to make trouble for Ah-Li, so I took care of them all in one fell swoop. As for the girl named Asakura Miyuki, she seemed to show good talent during her psychotherapy and has now joined the St. Freya Valkyrie Academy in the Far East."
Kiana said with a smile, "Clean and tidy."
"That's wonderful." Mei also unconsciously revealed a smile. "Does Fuli know about this?"
"He doesn't." Kiana shook her head. "That idiot only provided all the punches except for the after-sales service in this incident. The psychotherapy was funded by her wealthy family, and the retaliation from the punks was handled by this Miss. To the end, this guy didn't even know why the girl was dragged into the alley."
Heroes saving beauties is just like that. Fuli only needed to rush in and save the person; Kiana and the others had to consider much more.
Mei said seriously, "But it's precisely because of him that everything subsequent happened."
Kiana stuck out her little tongue. "So even if he pesters me so much, I can't bring myself to hate him."
She unzipped her jacket and took off her clothes.
"The Tyrant sheds his armor."
A voice came from outside the door.
(Note: "The Tyrant sheds his armor" (Ba Wang Xie Jia) is a famous Pipa tune about Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu. It can also be interpreted literally/cheekily as "The Tyrant takes off his armor/clothes.")
Kiana froze, looked down at her own clean body.
Her fair and pretty face instantly turned red hot. "Smelly Ah-Li, who are you calling a Tyrant!!!" (Implying she is flat/manly, just being teased)
"Pfft Hahahaha!!!"
Mei clutched her stomach and collapsed on the bed, laughing until tears came out.
"Damn it! Bastard!"
Kiana threw her shoe angrily. She had had enough of this cringe man who thought about teasing her all the time!
Divorce right now!
Meanwhile, in the corridor outside Room 201, Fuli leaned against the door, holding the sheathed Mikazuki.
Ignoring Kiana's roar from inside the room, he turned his head sideways, pressing his face against the cold sword guard.
The old door couldn't block Fuli's hearing; he heard everything inside clearly.
He looked slightly dazed. The countless dead ends blocking his way after stepping into the Honkai side had long made him forget such trivial matters he had done many times before, and also made him forget that his original self was actually such a person.
Then how exactly did he become what he is now?
The subtle influence of the general environment?
The mighty power of time?
Or recognizing the so-called reality?
None of them.
"I did try hard to practice the Kaslana spirit you spoke of, and tried to become a so-called knight, but that was all because of the promise I made with you when we were young."
He whispered to himself, "Since even you have forgotten, then naturally there is no need for me to abide by it anymore."
Looking up at the brilliant midday sky for a long time, Fuli yawned boredly.
"Speaking of which, they are so slow."
...
While the invincible three-person squad was laughing and cursing, inside a multi-story underground building somewhere outside Chiba Academy.
If someone walked in here, the first thing they would see was the three-dimensional light screen projected holographically in mid-air.
On the light screen were real-time dynamic images of Chiba Academy and its surroundings. Under numerous orderly arranged simple icons, everything from the vein direction of the corridors inside the stairs to what every class and every person was doing was visible at a glance.
At this moment, the crimson alarm functions continuously popping up under the holographic projection and the endless shrill ringing tones were all indicating that the situation of the monitored target "Raiden Mei" was by no means optimistic.
That's right, she left the monitoring range.
At this point, she had already finished changing clothes with Kiana and was ready to have a big meal before leaving Nagazora City.
Is it urgent?
Honestly, not really.
Raiden Mei was just a C-rank strength user. Even with Kiana, it was only a matter of sending a few more Titans to deal with.
Laughable, learn about the Valkyrie fragment creator (Titan mech).
But this was definitely not a question of urgency, but a question of existence.
What is Anti-Entropy? It is the world hegemon that dominates the vast land of the Americas and has contended with Schicksal for half a century!
Raiden Mei was an important target they were secretly monitoring, yet she was actually abducted by a guy who popped out of nowhere?
Facing this Colonel Gaddafi-like behavior of daring to stroke a tiger's whiskers, it absolutely could not be tolerated. A heavy punch must be dealt!
Hmm, theoretically, that is indeed the case.
The reason for saying "theoretically" is that so far, empty, clean—similar words could be used to describe the situation in the room.
That's right, as the monitoring department for the most important rough stone in Cocolia's 'great' plan, there wasn't even a single person left to watch the door in the monitoring room.
Is this reasonable? (Is this in the river?)
This is reasonable. (This is hidden in the river.)
(Pun: "He li" means reasonable, sounds like "River/In the river".)
"Gwah! This old man has reached enlightenment!"
Because those researchers who should have been doing this had already thrown themselves into a greater cause.
Previously, the moment a certain Fuli, who didn't wish to reveal his name, stepped into Chiba Academy, the effective range of Grand Time-Robbing Gift encompassed the surroundings.
An indescribable clarity attacked the brains of all researchers inside the underground building.
Like Qiuxiang mixing into a group of ugly women, or a plate of perfect Chopped Pepper Fish Head mixing into a table of Stargazey Pie.
Under the blessing of the power of civilization development, the difficult problems that had originally imprisoned everyone for many years and puzzled them suddenly became clear, and the originally stagnant research was suddenly filled with whimsical inspiration.
Monitor Raiden Mei? Cocolia's orders?
F*ck that!
"Everyone! For the well-being of all mankind, this old man will take the lead in charging!!!"
The person in charge of the research team, an old man nearing seventy, raised his arms high, his face ferocious.
"Oh oh oh oh oh!!!"
Even in the Anti-Entropy "Innovation" faction known for radicalism, there were many opponents to Cocolia's plan this time.
First, using shady means to get rid of Raiden Ryoma, who was also an Enforcer, and then using millions of people in the entire Nagazora City for a super-large experiment.
Of course, they definitely wouldn't say this to the outside world.
The matter of the Third Eruption involved too large a scope. Currently, only the Enforcer class of Anti-Entropy and Cocolia's absolute confidants were qualified to know.
Even facing these subordinates, the reason Cocolia gave was only human experimentation within a certain range.
But even so, the Innovations still felt she was too Innovation.
If it weren't for this woman's status being too high to refuse, eleven out of ten people present wouldn't have come. Even if they came, that negative one person would be slacking off and holding back that golden-furred vixen.
One must know that human experimentation is naturally politically incorrect within Anti-Entropy.
Back then, the Schicksal North American Branch broke away from Schicksal under the name of "Schicksal uses human experiments to persecute Valkyries," established the current Anti-Entropy, and vigorously developed many mechanical technologies marked by Titan mechas.
With thoughts gushing forth under such circumstances, plus veteran experts who had joined the organization for decades taking the lead, the researchers naturally got busy with enthusiasm.
If nothing unexpected happened, with the monitoring personnel doing nothing now, Fuli and the others could theoretically leave Nagazora City quietly.
Unfortunately, a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
Cocolia, who sat on the throne of the leader of the Anti-Entropy Innovation faction, couldn't have failed to arrange backup measures in advance.
The door of the monitoring room opened, and a petite and cute girl 'walked' into the room.
Pure silver-gray short hair like the galaxy was tied into two single Roman curls hanging behind her, the silver brightness inside and outside the hair strands pan-glowing with a gray-gold texture under the dim fluorescence.
On her exquisite pretty face was a color of calm indifference, her petite and delicate body surrounded by a cold aura that kept strangers away.
She arrived expressionlessly beside the instrument, reaching out to eliminate the ear-piercing alarm.
Then she turned on the playback function, taking in everything that happened on the rooftop earlier.
...