Honkai Impact 3rd: The Girl Who Chases the Flame

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P.S. Sue, Aponia is a humanities student, and her course of study was "Detailed Explanation of the History of the University of Metis".

Chapter Eleven Melutina and Melutina

When Professor Melutina awoke from her sleep, a familiar yet unfamiliar face came into view.

"Aa ...

She instantly shrank to the other side of the bed, hugging the blanket tightly.

"A...a monster!!!"

It's scary enough for a face to appear in the middle of the night, but the expression on this face is even scarier.

"Impossible...impossible...I thought it was definitely a padding...this doesn't make biological sense...no...I'm going to kill you...I can't let you see tomorrow's sun..."

While muttering to herself, Melutina pulled out the Seven Thunders of Purification from her white coat, pointing the long muzzle at Professor Melutina's throat.

"Could it be..."

Melutina suddenly looked down at her white coat.

"Is that why no one noticed anything amiss?... Big White, were you the one who protected my last shred of dignity?"

"Don't give those sacred white coats such cute names! And, upon closer inspection, why is it my own face?!"

Professor Melutina complained loudly, at least she ruled out the possibility of a ghost, after all...

A ghost wouldn't call its white coat "Big White."

"Gun! Put the gun down! Who are you? Are you that guy?! The debt collector from when I borrowed money from loan sharks?! I clearly filled out Himiko's ID! How did you know it was me who borrowed it?!"

"You've done something so despicable?!"

"I'll return it tomorrow, so hurry up and leave!"

"That was also excessive, but you committed another unforgivable crime!"

Melutina moved the gun forward a little.

"Wait, wait, wait! Has my research project's fraudulent accounting been exposed too?!"

Professor Melutina raised her hands high and strained her head back as much as she could.

"You've done that kind of thing before..."

"Hey, isn't that right?"

"Your bust size is enough to determine your death."

"Hey?! No, wait! Wait! It's such a shame to be killed for this!"

"What?! Apologize to all the tablets in the world!"

"I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry! Please put the gun down before you talk!"

……

"Me from another world...?"

Professor Melutina handed the cat food from the safe to the chubby cat next to her, who skillfully opened it and began to eat.

"How big is yours...?"

"D...no, no, no, only C, no, no, B, it's B! You have to believe me!"

Professor Melutina saw the hand holding the black gun on the table opposite her, trembled slightly, picked up the house cat that was eating, and placed it timidly on the gun.

"……What are you doing?"

Melutina looked down at the cat on the Seven Thunders of Purification.

"I mean……"

Professor Melutina chuckled awkwardly.

"Let's calm down."

"Meow……"

The house cat, which had only eaten half of its meal, meowed again, its chubby body swaying slightly.

"...Never mind. More importantly, why are you sleeping at home? You have an exam to proctor this afternoon, right?"

Melutina crossed her arms over her chest.

"Huh? Not tomorrow... wait?! This date!"

Professor Melutina suddenly stood up.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no! I'm definitely going to get yelled at by Dean Klein now!"

"Klein...Dean?"

Melutina subconsciously imagined it for a moment, then coughed twice.

"It's nothing, I went to help out this afternoon and finished grading the papers. Compared to that, don't you doubt what I'm saying?"

"That's fine, that's fine."

Professor Melutina breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down.

"Well... after all, you look exactly like me. Although I have an older brother, I don't have any sisters."

"Your brother..."

Melutina hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped herself.

"My brother was hit by a truck while saving a little girl with blue hair... It happened three years ago."

Professor Melutina scratched her head.

"Ah, don't comfort me. It's been so long, I've already moved on."

"Don't worry about it, my brother is dead too."

Melutina nodded.

"Ah... I always thought my brother was pretty unlucky, but I didn't expect it to be like this in other worlds too... Is he some kind of lemon-headed character from a fungus novel?"

Professor Melutina made a comment, but her expression was clearly not so relaxed, so it seems that she was not really indifferent.

"...Let's not talk about that now. Do you know Wilville?"

"Melutina asked."

"Huh? The one from the Mechanical Engineering department? Hmm... I always feel like that kid lacks motivation, though he's not stupid."

Professor Melutina pondered.

"Isn't that how that child is in your world?"

"Vilvie from my world is my senior. She has achieved results in many fields that are beyond the reach of ordinary people and is known as a genius."

Melutina said,

"If I want to leave this world, I must find a node. In the previous world, Velvet was that node, but in this world, she is different from the one I knew. So..."

"Traveling to a parallel world... It's completely unimaginable with our current level of scientific research. Your world is more advanced than ours."

"...Yes, but the price will be heavy. I hope you will not follow our path. It is also for this reason that I cannot impart knowledge to you, because that might bring disaster."

"Well, there's nothing I can do about it. Anyway, you think that Vilvie is the key to your getting out of here, right? Hmm..."

Professor Melutina thought for a moment.

Did she fail her class this time?

"Incredibly, she's exactly 59..."

Melutina picked up the plate and said indifferently.

"...Don't you... um, want to fish it out?"

Professor Melutina's lips twitched, and she made a gesture.

"For the students' own good, we can't spoil them."

Melutina said matter-of-factly.

"..."

Professor Melutina silently scrolled through the students' grades on her phone.

"...What about Alicia, who clearly received several extra points?"