Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Hmph, I am the rightful queen." Kiana looked at Jiuxiao's face, where there were chocolate lipstick marks left from the chocolate she had eaten, and nodded in satisfaction.

"See you tonight." Kiana, carrying a large box of chocolates, also left Jiuxiao's room.

Huihuo and Jiuxiao were left staring at each other.

Jiuxiao looked at the hesitant Huihuo with anticipation. "Would you like to try one too?"

"Dream on."

Hui Huo instinctively refused, then her face turned red, and she hurriedly waved her little hands.

"That's not what I meant! I just... I just... um..."

Jiuxiao leaned down and kissed the arrogant girl, silencing her lips that couldn't utter a word.

A moment later, Jiuxiao looked tenderly at Steam Princess Huihuo.

"do you mean this?"

"Um...I...I'll go first..."

Hui Huo's ears turned bright red. He stumbled out of the room in a daze, then bumped straight into the wall in the corridor.

"Huihuo, are you alright?!"

"No, no, it's nothing..." Hui Huo covered his face and hurriedly fled the scene, bumping into things.

Kiana and Mei, who were waiting outside for Huihuo to come out, watched his clumsy behavior with amusement.

Mei covered her mouth and chuckled, then pointed at Kaga, who was leaning against the wall, her legs weak and unable to walk, and said to Kiana.

"Kiana, look at this guy. He talks a lot of nonsense all day, but he falls down as soon as he gets a touch in actual combat."

"Hahaha—" Kiana burst into laughter, laughing until her stomach hurt. "Let me think, who was that who stood on a chair earlier, shouting domineeringly, 'Watch me pin Jiuxiao against the wall with one hand, kissing him until he can't breathe!' Oh, it's our incompetent and playful Wuse Huihuo!"

"Shut up! This was an accident!" Huihu shouted angrily, but his voice quickly softened. "Come help me up... My legs feel weak just thinking about what happened..."

"Hahaha..." Mei and Kiana laughed as they set up Kagai-no-Tama and dragged her towards the school building.

Kallen and Yae Sakura waved goodbye downstairs, while Kiana, Mei, and Kaguya played and laughed.

Kallen glanced enviously at Jiuxiao's room upstairs, then turned around and met Yae Sakura's slightly angry gaze.

"Hahaha... Sakura, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Kallen gave an awkward, cold laugh. She was sure that Yae Sakura had seen her envious look just now.

"What, is it just me? Is Kallen getting tired of me? I knew it... I'm just an old woman, how can I compare to those delicate young girls!" Yae Sakura said to Kallen with resentment and sarcasm.

Kallen held Yae Sakura's hands, gazing at her tenderly.

"How could that be! Sakura, my heart will always belong to you! My love for you is as clear as day!"

"But even if you are like this, Karen, aren't you envious of Jiuxiao for having three beautiful wives? Karen, there's no need to lie to me... If you really want other women, I can also compromise myself and grant your wish."

"Really? There are some really pretty girls at the academy, I've been drooling over them for ages." Kallen rubbed her hands together, eager to try. Since Yae Sakura had said so, she wouldn't pretend to be a gentleman anymore.

"Wait, Sakura, why are you drawing your sword? Let me explain, I was just joking, just joking!"

Go to hell and explain yourself!

Chapter 223 Pure Trash Cortana

Armed Dolls are autonomous anti-Honkai weapons designed by Dr. Einstein from the previous civilization.

Although the entire Mu continent was destroyed due to the attack of the Ninth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Geo, and all the armed dolls were thrown into the Quantum Sea by Dr. Einstein through the Quantum Sea portal, the manufacturing technology of the armed dolls was still preserved.

Otto ordered Jiuxiao to destroy the powered doll Kevin, but Durandal felt it would be a waste to destroy it directly and that it could be kept and restarted to serve as a training subject for the Valkyries.

"Durandal, not everyone is as strong as you..."

"Yes... let such a dangerous thing remain dormant..."

Finally, under strong condemnation from Rita and Otto, Durandal reluctantly handed over the armed puppet Kevin to Jiuxiao.

However, since it's something from a previous civilization, it should naturally be shown to the people of that civilization. Jiu Xiao, accompanied by the armed puppet Kevin, came to find Fu Hua.

"How's Fu Hua doing? Any leads?"

"No, I don't know much about scientific research. You should ask Dr. Iserlyn to take a look."

Fu Hua shrugged, indicating that she was powerless to help. After all, if she could really handle the armed puppets, the Book of Azure Profound wouldn't have remained dormant.

"Well, that's okay."

Jiu Xiao turned to leave, carrying the armed doll Kevin, but turned back halfway.

"If the armed puppet is forcibly broken, will it self-destruct?"

"will not."

"Oh... if we just dismantle it, will it explode?"

"will not."

"Oh."

Since it won't explode, Jiuxiao won't leave either.

Jiu Xiao placed the armed doll Kevin in Fu Hua's living room, then took out Cortana's terminal and placed it on the armed doll Kevin.

"Here are your upgrade materials."

"I really thank you for remembering me." Cortana gave Jiuxiao the middle finger, then merged with the armed puppet Kevin.

Three seconds later, Jiu Xiao suddenly felt his body being hollowed out, and a large amount of Honkai energy within him was transmitted to Cortana through the link with her.

But the Honkai energy was quickly replenished from the link with the Imaginary Tree, and then Cortana absorbed it all.

Fu Hua looked at Jiu Xiao, who was sometimes extremely weak and sometimes full of energy, and couldn't help but speak up.

"If you're sick, why don't you go see a doctor?"

"It's nothing... I just sometimes feel like my body has been hollowed out."

"?"

With Cortana's shout of "Done!", the armed doll Kevin began to melt, turning into a pool of liquid metal, and then remelted back into a Cortana doll.

Fu Hua sighed, silently grieving for the disappearance of Kevin the Imp for three seconds. Then, she and Jiu Xiao looked at the newborn Cortana.

Cortana clenched her fist, assessing her strength. It was roughly 101% of her original armed doll strength, or about 1.01% of Kevin's.

Although he's said to possess only one percent of Kevin's strength, Kevin could kill ten thousand armed puppets with a single Heavenly Flame. Strength isn't something that can be expressed solely by numerical values.

"I never thought I'd have a day when I could turn the tables! Aida and Ai-chan, get ready to face my rule again! Ahahaha!!" Cortana put her hands on her hips and laughed wildly.

"What about computing power? How much has it improved?" Jiuxiao interrupted Cortana's smugness and asked her the most crucial question.

"Uh..." Cortana immediately deflated, poking at herself with her finger, and awkwardly said to Jiuxiao:

"How much computing power can an armed doll's body increase... It's not like it's a high-performance computer cluster... Besides, I'm not a computing power-type AI, I'm just a key..."

"Don't bring up anything else."

"If I really have to say... that's about it..." Cortana raised her right hand, her thumb and forefinger touching, with only a tiny gap between them.

"???" Jiuxiao was completely bewildered, his head almost touching the ground. "This powerful armed puppet, after you fused with it, your computing power barely increased?"

"You said yourself that you can fight, right...? What does computing power have to do with that...? Besides, I can fight pretty well right now!"

Cortana raised her hand, and the Skyfire Greatsword—the Annihilation Form—that the Armed Doll had originally copied appeared in her hand.

"With a casual swing of my sword, I can burn the house beneath my feet and the surrounding hundreds of meters to ashes!"

"And the consumption?"

“Um… the energy is linked to you… so the energy consumption of this sword strike… heh heh.” Cortana stuck out her tongue and gave Jiuxiao a look that let him figure it out himself.

Because Cortana doesn't have the ability to automatically contain Honkai energy, she draws even the energy she needs to maintain her daily power consumption from Jiuxiao, just like Judah.

To give an example, with the same energy consumption, Cortana can destroy an island with one sword strike, while Nine Heavens can sink ten islands with a single slap...

"You piece of trash, spit out the armed doll! I might as well give it to Dr. Iselin to dismantle!" Jiuxiao grabbed Cortana by the neck and shook her violently.

"I can't help it! This thing isn't Soul Steel. If you could give me a room full of Soul Steel, my computing power would immediately surpass Aida's!"

"Get lost! I have so much Soul Steel, I could make so many more Divine Keys! I'll let you waste it!"

"Let's rob Otto's. He has a bunch of Soul Steel bodies. Although each Soul Steel body doesn't contain a lot of Soul Steel, if we rob a lot, we can definitely make enough!"

"then you go."

Jiuxiao gave Cortana a look that said she was an idiot, and Cortana scratched her head awkwardly.

If Cortana manages to storm Schicksal headquarters, it's uncertain whether she can steal Otto's Soulsteel, but she might be able to scrape off some of it from Durandal's Black Abyss White Flower.

While Cortana and Jiuxiao were staring at each other, Fu Hua interrupted them and asked Cortana, "Cortana, if it's just for maintaining daily needs, wouldn't it consume a lot of energy?"

"Yes, the consumption of combat is high, but the consumption of daily normal operation is almost negligible."

Fu Hua hesitated for a moment, then looked at Cortana and Jiu Xiao with a determined gaze.

"Then... Cortana, could you help me change the energy supply of an armed doll to Honkai energy and then link it to my body?"

"Um... I'll have to try it first..."