Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"You asked a question, and then you went off to daydream on your own—don't you show me, Lord Jiuxiao, the slightest bit of respect?!"

The pain from her own ear brought Miss End back to her senses for a moment.

You rubbed me against the concrete like that, but it didn't really show me much respect...

"Excuse me, please continue."

Despite her inner grumbling, the Herrscher ultimately chose to apologize, acknowledging that she, Houraiji Kusho, was indeed stronger at the moment.

The Herrscher, expressionless and devoid of any emotion, continued to stare at the Herrscher before her, awaiting her explanation.

"Ahem, I won't say anything since you're daydreaming—a relationship that goes beyond friendship generally refers to taking a step further than what was originally a normal friendship."

"It goes beyond ordinary language communication and interaction in daily life, and becomes more intimate—it transforms into a multi-faceted exchange involving body language, words, and emotions!"

"It's an exploration of the truths of the world, the birth of life, and the cycle of the universe—! Do you understand?"

Jiuxiao said that my explanation was not just nonsense. This world truth—the pursuit of world truth—isn't Miss Snow the embodiment of world truth?

With the universe in its cycle, am I, this eschatological incarnation hovering at the end of time, not qualified to speak?

As for the birth of life...

[That's an option—but we already have Ningdi, so it doesn't matter.]

—Miss Jiuxiao of Penglai Temple.

........

"So... in human terms, a relationship that goes beyond friendship means sleeping together?"

Self-taught... oh no, Miss End glanced at a children's book that had fallen to the side and luckily escaped two major battles...

I don't know who landed here, but they just happened to be right next to the Herrscher.

— How to Develop a Wonderful Relationship Beyond Friendship with Your Beautiful Female Colleague

The author's signature features a very cute chibi-style pink-haired character...

"Children shouldn't watch this kind of inappropriate content..."

Before Miss End could even turn a few pages, the black mist, under the control of the heavens, began to corrode the book, except for the cardboard cover with the cute pink figure drawn on it, which escaped a section...

The Herrscher of the End, whose attention had been fixed on the book, keenly noticed that the cute little figure's expression had somehow turned into a mournful face...

This chibi-style character... looks kind of familiar—

Putting aside the question of who the author of this book was for the time being, the white-haired Herrscher frowned in dissatisfaction and refuted Jiuxiao's words.

“I am not a child. According to the calendar of this world, I am at least fifty thousand years old.”

Then it was ruthlessly rejected by Jiuxiao—

"Really? Tell me about your experiences over the past 50,000 years..."

Before the Herrscher of the End could reply, Houraiji Kusho continued speaking on her own—

"Sleep, get woken up, have a fit of morning grumpiness and go to work to destroy the world, go back to sleep—all you do is go to work and sleep."

"You are quite old, and you have no other advantages besides being old—I, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao, would like to call you the Herrscher of the End, the strongest giant baby in Honkai."

"Strongest"—it truly deserves to be called the strongest.

"Giant baby," he really is a giant baby, utterly lacking in common sense—

"...So, what does 'single dog' mean?"

After a moment of silence, the Herrscher of the End, who had acquired some rather strange nicknames, returned to the origin of the question.

"It's a sarcastic remark implying that you have no friends, specifically referring to friends with whom you have a relationship that goes beyond ordinary friendship."

"So why are you asking this? Quickly tell me your purpose and who ordered you to come down here!"

"...The guy hiding in your shadow called me a single dog, with no purpose... He got hung up on by my master and kicked into this world."

Having received the answer, the Herrscher of the End nodded in satisfaction and began to explain her origins—

"...No, I have a purpose."

After thinking it over, Miss End changed her mind again—

"What is the purpose?"

Penglai Temple Nine Heavens looked at the Herrscher in front of him with some confusion.

“You called me a single dog—I want to get rid of that label. As a colleague and a mocker, I feel obligated to help me, at least give me some useful advice.”

"????"

"Your Lord Jiuxiao doesn't run a matchmaking agency here!"

"But you mocked me—"

The single-minded Herrscher of the End seems to have already accepted this principle...

"What does your seeking help from Apocalypse have to do with my efforts to save the world—"

Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens began mentally cursing a certain foul-mouthed fellow, while the latter chose to remain silent, daring not to utter a single word, lest he be dragged out and forced into prostitution...

"But you are the same person—"

The Herrscher of the End, determined to refuse to leave, has made up her mind—

[I'll go find that person later and register under her name—then I can compete against this colleague.]

"Hey! You over there, your wife's been gone for 50,000 years! Want a new wife?!"

Desperate, Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens seized upon a man and began to verbally abuse him.

"Anyway, you've known each other for a long time, and you've even done some heartfelt things together. You just rekindled your friendship. They say you can't be friends without a fight..."

Kevin, busy fighting Qianjie, condensed all his words into this one sentence and sent it back to Penglai Temple's Nine Heavens—

You get up here—"

Chapter 348 Your Wendy—

Having failed to shift the blame, Houraiji Kyuujou, looking at the imposing white-haired Herrscher before him, his rapidly working brain hatched a plan...

"Alright, alright... Looking for a partner, is that it? Playing matchmaker, is that it? — You, Lord Jiuxiao, do know a thing or two!"

"First of all, we have to be a good match, right? You are the ultimate Herrscher, so the other party must at least be a Herrscher, or at least a Herrscher-level one."

"Otherwise, let's set aside all those old clichés like the theory of lifespan—with your enemies possibly filling the entire Void Tree, what if one of them comes looking for revenge..."

"If a fight breaks out, I'll probably get caught in the aftershocks of your attack and die on the spot, don't you think—"

Miss End pondered for a moment, then nodded.

"Then you have to be faithful to your partner—you can't be a womanizer. Otherwise, with your status and position, it's not right to have someone cuckolded. Just think about it, it's definitely not right."

With an earnest and earnest air, Jiu Xiao deceived the Herrscher of the End in front of him, leaving the latter stunned, as if she had fallen into Jiu Xiao's trap.

"Then we also have to exclude those who have already officially established a relationship and made it a fait accompli—"

“You just saw Kevin, he’s a lonely old man who lost his wife early in life, and he doesn’t like you. He just wants to fight—directly pass.”

"Although she's very strong, domestic violence and stuff... you know what I mean!"

Miss End, who was completely trapped, nodded as if she understood but not quite.

"So, the title of strongest human is no longer within our reach. Let's look at some other candidates—"

"And from now on, we are all Herrschers—first and foremost, the Herrscher of Reason of this era..."

"A very good man, responsible, idealistic, and ambitious, but unfortunately, both Walter Joyce and Walter Young are already in relationships, so it's unlikely he'll be able to get involved with someone else."

"Well......"

The Herrscher finally let out a belated "hmm" of dissatisfaction—

"Next, let's talk about the two Herrschers who are playing hide-and-seek in this city. They are also like-minded, and even Herrschers in one body."

"They've already been chosen by Airy, so it's obvious they don't have much of a chance. They're passing on too, no objections, right?"

Jiuxiao glanced at the Herrscher of the End, who simply continued nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, making the unscrupulous purple-haired man feel that he could still fool her.

"Then there's the Herrscher of Wind, Wendy... dating her or something—my suggestion is to just watch some adult films instead. You can't touch her anyway, and I have no idea where she's laughing like an idiot right now."

"The Herrscher of Wind... she is indeed a very strange person—well, she is currently flying near the Earth's surface."

Having heard Jiuxiao's words, Miss End closed her eyes and quickly sensed a free-spirited individual through a special connection between Herrschers.

【What are you doing....?】

Through this strange connection between the Herrschers, the Herrscher of the End expressed her confusion to Miss Wendy, who was shouting "Wuhu, take off!" high in the sky.

[Whoa—who's talking in my head?! Come out and get your beating!]

Startled, Wendy stopped drifting in her near-Earth orbit, looking around curiously at who would suddenly call her from this godforsaken place...

【Me...? I am the Herrscher of the End... Herrschers can communicate with each other, didn't you know?】

In a pure white space of consciousness, Miss End looked at her theoretical junior in confusion... while the latter seemed to have discovered a new toy and was flying around noisily in this white space.

"Your aura is very special... Herrscher of the Wind—your name is Wendy, right?"

The End carefully examined the Herrscher with the peculiar dark green hair before her, seemingly sensing something different about her...

"That's right, I'm Wendy—thank you for telling me about such a fun place, you're Wendy's friend now!!"

The cheerful Janna uttered some cheerful words, waved at the End of the World, and turned back to continue messing around in this novel place—

"Huh? What's this?! Um, Miss End, right?! Do you know what this is?!"

Wendy held two strange, illusory crystals in her hands, one black and the other ice-blue, and asked Miss End a question...

"...Those are the subconscious beacons of the Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Earth, the coordinates that led them here."

Miss End examined the two translucent crystals that Wendy had held up to her face, nodded after confirming something, and gave her answer.

"Then, can I use this to talk to them from a distance of tens of thousands of miles, just like you, End?"

Seemingly having thought of something fun, Wendy turned to the Herrscher of the End, who looked almost exactly like Kiana, for help.

"Theoretically... is it possible?"