To create Honkai Impact 3rd in a world where Kallen exists.

"But that would only make the other party more worried."

Bronya continued speaking.

"I, I understand."

"Bronya suspects you know something."

"I understand... bell peppers are sweet?" Kiana tentatively offered a result, carefully observing Mei's expression.

"Kiana~" Mei's face darkened, and she looked at Kiana with hostility. She understood what this meant.

"I also learned not to lie to Mei. Mei cares about me a lot, and I can't hide anything from Mei. Mei is the best to me!"

Kiana spoke quickly, clearly her mind was racing, and she had even learned to use the tactic of first downplaying and then elevating the argument.

"hehe--"

Mei couldn't help but chuckle, ruffling Kiana's hair. "You're not allowed to do things like that again."

"Yes, Mei is so nice." Kiana secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although she didn't know why she was being harshly criticized even though she was the one who intended to take the blame, it also indirectly proved that the other party really cared about her more than anyone else.

Bronya watched this scene and had to admit, she hadn't expected Kiana to possess such wisdom.

Sure enough, even a paramecium has something she can learn from, and she wholeheartedly agrees with this.

In the Golden Courtyard,

Silence, still silence.

"Sigh, I never expected that understanding such details could be so hurtful!" Alicia and Mebius also stopped their farce.

Or perhaps the daytime farce was put on hold and moved to the evening.

"Speaking of which... are you still having lunch?" After a moment of silence, Velvi asked a strange question.

"Huh? Why aren't we eating? It's not like we can't enjoy delicious food. Wow, Velvet, you're not implying that Kiana has no sense of taste, are you? You're so mean."

Alicia said coquettishly that she and her friends had been living a good life here, and she enjoyed this life with 13 people, with her best friends by her side.

Aside from being affected by a certain game.

"You may have forgotten, so let me remind you, when Baiwei mentioned it to you, she should have said that she was planning to make a dish for promotional purposes in the animation."

Vilvi coughed and said softly.

She didn't really care, but seeing Alicia's pale face, she felt uneasy. She was afraid that Alicia might recall the game while eating and start crying—making it seem like there was something wrong with Baiwei's cooking.

"...You mean?"

"It's bell pepper curry! Just like you saw it. Sigh, who would have thought they'd even copy the dishes taught at the Valkyrie's Table?"

Wilvi spread her hands, looking helpless.

She enjoyed creating surprises, but in this kind of surprise, she felt inexplicably outmatched by Luo Mo, since she wasn't the one who brought the surprise to others. Come to think of it... his foreshadowing was quite deep, Wilvi thought, stroking her chin.

"Huh?" Alicia frowned, thinking that seeing the funny comments in the live chat was already fun enough.

But I never expected this to happen to me; this is really bad.

Anyway, she felt she couldn't eat these past few days. After all, Yingjie ate to enjoy life, not to experience pain.

"Can I not eat?" Alicia asked eagerly, trying to escape.

"No, you can't waste food. That's bad behavior for kids."

Aponia murmured from the side, "They never wasted a single grain of food back in the orphanage, and they can't do that now either. I need to keep an eye on them."

"Ahem—I made a bit too much, let's all eat together... Maybe we can have another meal tonight."

Unable to withstand Alicia's gaze, Velvi told her the 'good news'.

"What? We're having dinner again tonight?" A shocked voice rang out.

It is said that this is a rare sight in the St. Freya Academy cafeteria where a window is not selling anything, which the cafeteria staff find unbelievable.

Even when a young girl comes to eat, and we excitedly fill her plate to the brim, she still cries while eating.

She even thought she had made something really bad, but even if it was terrible, it shouldn't have made her cry.

"Immortal, this thing should taste better than the Spring Immortal, right? Why don't you give it a try?"

Looking at the few remaining dishes in the cafeteria and the overflowing window, Cang Xuanzhi said with a mischievous grin, "Hmm, bring one back for Li Xue too."

Fu Hua looked helplessly at the sweet pepper curry; she was a woman who had seen it all.

But she was a little reluctant to experience it again right after the grief...

Thinking back to the only jar of pickled wild vegetables left in the dormitory, which had been preserved for who knows how many years, that was so unhealthy. Li Xue, who had just recovered from a serious illness, couldn't eat that.

So he could only nod and say, "Alright."

As for the food at miHoYo, opinions will vary.

Luo Mo naturally wouldn't let go of this good opportunity to earn emotional points. Sadness makes it easier to earn emotional points, so he naturally seized this opportunity. Besides, if employees don't work hard, how can the boss get crystals?

So...in order not to leave any room for error, he had already removed all the company's snacks, ostensibly to replace them with better ones.

Today, the only meal at the company was bell pepper curry.

Luo Mo thought that this would save the employees some money on eye drops; their eyes must be very tired after working in front of the computer for so long.

Therefore, I am still very righteous!

"Boss, you'd better be careful..."

Su Luo hesitated, then looked at the ungrateful Luo Mo before her and said, "Honestly, it's not uncommon for the boss to be murdered again at any time."

She wasn't surprised at all.

"It's okay, Su Luo. Here are two boxes of instant noodles. We can work overtime here secretly and skip the cafeteria at noon."

Luo Mo nodded and smiled.

"As expected of you, boss, you are indeed farsighted." Su Luo quickly gave a thumbs up.

She has always been good at changing her stance, which is something that people in the workplace need to understand.

In no time, countless people were "sweet" by the sweet pepper curry.

This actually caused a decrease in the price of bell peppers, although it's unclear whether it was truly due to the game's influence—that's another story.

The players unanimously agreed.

[This must have been done by miHoYo!! Damn it, screenwriter, you're going to die!]

[Damn it, why is Bell Pepper crying? You all lied to me, didn't you? Why are you crying like you're cutting onions?]

My mom asked me why I was crying while eating, and I said it was too sweet, so sweet it warmed my heart... She smiled and said she didn't expect me to like it so much on my first try, and that she'd make it again tonight...

It's worth mentioning that later today, Kiana went to the cafeteria even later, so... she truly experienced the taste of bell pepper curry.

"...It's not sweet at all."

Kiana put down the bell pepper with her chopsticks, sighed, and looked helplessly out the window.

"My heart is filled with bitterness and astringency, without Mei to make it... Forget it, Mei shouldn't make this dish."

Interlude Collapse: What exactly is it? (Free)

"What exactly is collapse?"

A familiar voice rang out; it was highly recognizable and hated by all the players.

He is the true culprit behind almost all evil in the game, and also the object of reliance for all the Valkyries in Destiny.

[As the name suggests, Honkai is Honkai, what else could it be? Sirin? (Angry)]

[I am the embodiment of decay (My voice and appearance remain.jpg)]

Honkai is an unpredictable natural disaster, manifesting as the appearance of Herrschers and Honkai Beasts...

[So... Herrschers are enemies, right?] (Looking at the Herrscher of the Void and Herrscher of Reason in the Valkyrie section, he nodded solemnly, "That's right!")

Ignoring the players' complaints, the video continued at its own unhurried pace.

This wise man, who stands at the pinnacle of human intelligence, seems to want to reveal some secrets.

But what follows is a narration, provoking Otto's thoughts.

For a long time, Otto continued to search for the answer to this question.

He devoted five centuries to this work, consulted documents spanning two eras, and his understanding of the Honkai is unparalleled among the seven billion life forms on Earth.

He learned more and more.

He knows less and less.

Ultimately, Otto discovered that he knew absolutely nothing about Honkai.

Where does k come from, and where is k going?

Why was k born? Why did k end? Why did k continue? Why did k stagnate? Why did k erupt? Why did k fall silent?

Is the pool a personified entity, or some kind of timeless rule?

Questions, questions... questions are like surging tides, engulfing Otto, sweeping him away, and pushing him into the darkest, most terrifying abyss—the abyss called "the unknown."

He wanted to move forward, but he didn't know where the road led. He wanted to set off, but he didn't know where the destination was.

He explored, he questioned, he failed, he was bewildered.

He was troubled, he experimented, he was in pain, he was anxious.

Five hundred years have passed, and the hypotheses he proposed are countless, while the conjectures he denied are immeasurable.

...

"What are you talking about?" Alicia asked.

“Reasoning and thinking,” Möbius replied, his snake-like eyes narrowing as he intently studied the game's subtitles.

Experiments are never smooth sailing; this is something every normal scientist encounters, and no one is an exception, unless they are not qualified scientists to begin with.

But...Möbius, looking at the people inside who had been experimenting for 500 years, was still lost in deep thought.