Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Hey! It's the apocalypse, why are there still people who look down on others because they can't hold their liquor?!" Penglai Temple Jiuxiao shouted angrily at Jiuxiao, her face flushed.

Jiu Xiao turned his head away and silently drank his wine, pretending that he hadn't said anything.

"Hahaha... You two have such a good relationship..." Himeko was somewhat touched by the bickering between Jiuxiao and the other, and couldn't help but think of Theresa... She wondered how she was doing, whether she had died at the hands of the Honkai creatures.

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In a cellar, Theresa, who was drinking heavily from a barrel of liquor, suddenly sneezed.

"Strange... Is someone missing me?"

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"I heard that your memories have been lost for some reason?" Himeko asked softly.

"Um…"

Jiu Xiao and the other person nodded.

The memories of Kyusou of Penglai Temple were taken by the goddess Na, while her own memories were somewhat blurred due to the passage of time...

Himeko: "Sigh... I'm so envious!"

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens: "Hmm? Why? Losing your memory is actually very painful..."

Jiuxiao: "Yes... that feeling of all the beauty that once existed turning into a fragmented, blurry dream... that feeling is terrible."

"Because... if all the memories in my mind are cleared, then everything will return to its original state, right?"

No more strong and reliable comrades will become deserters... no more innocent and lovely students will become world-destroying butchers... and there will be no more bastards who trusted you, only to have you send them to their deaths...

Himeko chugs down another bottle, then listlessly tosses the empty bottle off the deck, where it lands on the head of some lucky Honkai creature...

The Honkai creature A roared and began chasing the Hyperion like a madman.

"Hmph... Me! I used to be just like you, thinking that as long as I became a Valkyrie, I could become a hero and change this hopeless world... As long as I resolved the Honkai, I could live like everyone else..."

To meet the man you love… to have a pure, romantic, and passionate love affair… to wear a white wedding dress and walk into a dream church with him… to have several children together, to form a happy family, and then to spend a peaceful life with them… just like a dream…

Looking back now... everything ended the moment I became a Valkyrie..."

Himeko opened another bottle of beer, gulped it down, and then threw the bottle off the deck.

As luck would have it, it landed on the head of that Honkai creature A again... Honkai creature A, with its head full of glass shards, its green eyes turned crimson, roared and accelerated toward the Hyperion.

"Sorry, it's probably not very interesting for an old lady like me to tell this kind of story... But it doesn't matter now."

Himeko smiled as she looked at Kyushou and Hōraiji Kyushou, who were sharing a cloak. They looked just like an old married couple. Sometimes, seeing others do what you can't do yourself is a kind of happiness.

"Hōraiji Kyuūshō, do you remember the first time we met? Bronya asked you to join the Gray Moth unit, but I refused. Do you know why?"

Is it because I'm a complete newbie?

"No... the first time I saw you, I was thinking... why do you have an expression that's different from everyone else's..."

Always looking straight ahead with integrity, full of curiosity about everything, and fearless of getting hurt, I keep moving forward.

I wanted you to stay that way... but now your expression has become just like everyone else's, struggling to breathe under pressure, giving up on moving forward because of death and pain.

But perhaps this is the expression the world should have... The more you struggle, the less hope you see; only in the illusion of self-numbing can you make yourself strong... You sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire called fear.

"If anyone shows weakness, everyone's spirits will crumble, so someone has to pretend to be strong..."

Himeko raised her wine bottle and clinked glasses with Jiuxiao.

“Herrscher…” Himeko looked at Jiuxiao and chuckled softly.

"Um...that's me. I'm sorry for deceiving you..."

"No need to apologize... Actually, Bronya and I have known for a long time that you are a Herrscher, only Seele and the others have believed your so-called modification surgery..."

"Ah...is it that obvious?" Jiuxiao scratched his head awkwardly. "But then again...flying without the aid of external objects is one of the characteristics of a Herrscher. The team members could guess it, so you, as the captain, shouldn't be unaware..."

"Back then... if I had waited just a little longer, and trusted you and Bronya, would things have turned out differently...?"

"...Sorry, I don't know..."

Chapter 293 Kukulkan

姬子

(Adding the picture I forgot to post in the previous chapter)

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After several rounds of drinks, Penglai Temple's Jiuxiao, unable to hold his liquor, drank two bottles of wine and gradually fell asleep leaning against the deck.

"Shh-"

Jiuxiao gestured for Jizi to keep her voice down, then gently picked up Penglaiji Jiuxiao and prepared to take her back to her room to rest. It was very windy and cold on the deck, and she would definitely catch a cold if she slept there.

The empty wine bottles were scattered on the ground, and Jiu Xiao kicked them all off the deck.

The Honkai creature A, resembling a Tyrannosaurus Rex covered in mechanical armor, was already tired and didn't want to continue chasing the Hyperion.

As a result, the bottles that Jiuxiao kicked away seemed to be locked on, smashing one after another onto its head.

Honkai creature A was completely stunned; it had never suffered such an injustice in its entire life.

"Roar--"

Honkai creature A spread its legs and plunged them deep into the ground, raising its proud head and letting out a kingly roar towards the sky.

The little dinosaur on the left is Kukulkan's cousin.

Then its body began to swell, becoming several hundred meters in size, and its body was covered with crystalline grayish-white armor-like scales.

These tiny hands began to grow larger and wider, transforming into sharp claws like wings.

The legs of the lower body degenerated and disappeared, and the tail became longer and thicker.

Its upper body is that of a dragon and its lower body is that of a snake; its overall appearance is just like the legendary "Feathered Serpent God"...

Similarly, its evolved name is the same as that of the feathered serpent god, "Kukulkan".

The most embarrassing boss ever; I couldn't even find a full-body image of it, I could only get screenshots from other people's videos.

Kukulkan roared, flapping its wings, rising higher and higher, then hovering in the sky. It then plummeted towards the Hyperion, the steel behemoth in the darkness, and crashed into it at high speed.

boom--

The heat from the sky interrupted its dive and knocked it away.

Jiu Xiao initially thought he was just drunk, but then he saw the legendary Feathered Serpent God…

If it weren't for Kukulkan's roar and the hurricane it unleashed, Jiuxiao would have almost ignored it...

Alcohol is harmful!

Himeko pinched herself, using the pain to bring herself back to her senses.

"Is that the new dragon-like species that was in the thunderstorm cloud before? Is Raiden Mei nearby?"

"I don't know, go wake up the others..."

Before he could finish speaking, Jiu Xiao saw a laser cannon several meters wide shooting towards him.

He quickly threw Penglai Temple Nine Heavens to Himeko, and Nine Heavens immediately stood behind the train, using a black hole to devour the laser.

boom--

As the black hole was retracted from the sky, Kukulkan, drawn by the gravitational field created by the black hole, and accelerating with its flight, crashed head-on into the Hyperion...

Because of the destruction of the Firemoths and the heavy casualties, Bronya was squatting alone in a corner of the warehouse, blaming herself and crying.

With a bang, a huge dragon head smashed through the Hyperion's armor and landed next to Bronya.

Bronya was so startled by Kukulkan that her tears of sorrow vanished instantly.

"Reload bunny!"

The tattered Heavy Bunny appeared behind Bronya. At Bronya's command, Heavy Bunny punched Kukulkan on the head. Kukulkan, feeling the sting, pulled his head off the Hyperion.

The already exhausted Heavy Bunny suffered even more damage after delivering this punch, with its right arm completely shattered and detached.

Bronya patted the Heavy Bunny, then put it away, picked up the gun she had thrown far away, and rushed out along the path Kukulkan had smashed.

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Kukulkan, its head sticking out, tilted its head in confusion. It didn't know why its flight had suddenly accelerated, nor did it know what had hit it on the head.

But it knew one thing: it had to roar.

A ball of light appeared in its mouth, and countless amounts of Honkai energy converged into it.

"Roar--"

The laser cannon fired again from its mouth at the Hyperion.

Then there is no more.

With a black hole in his left hand and a giant sword star in his right, Jiu Xiao walked towards it step by step through the air.

The moment Kukulkan saw the sky clearly, it realized that it seemed to have inadvertently provoked something terrible.