Behind-the-scenes video of the beginning of Honkai.

(Note: You've probably all guessed who it is by now; this character makes their entrance in this way throughout the book.)

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Far East, St. Freya Academy.

The world's cutest Theresa climbed off her desk and wiped the saliva off her face from the comic book.

While slacking off, I suddenly fell asleep and dreamed that I went to a magical place with Himeko and the others. I watched a video there, where I met my niece Kiana and discovered that my grandfather Otto had joined an alien organization.

"This must be a dream. How could I possibly have such a ridiculous dream?" After saying that, Theresa prepared to go back to sleep.

"Theresa, I've come to see you..."

Himeko opened the headmaster's door and found Theresa preparing to take another nap.

"Teresa, didn't you say you wanted me to come out of that space to discuss something with you? Why are you asleep?!"

That very day, the Valkyries of St. Freya Academy heard the roar from the headmaster's office, along with their beloved headmaster's pleas for mercy—a sound that would break anyone's heart and bring tears to their eyes.

The other side is the classroom and office.

Walter Young, the leader of the anti-entropy movement, is communicating with Einstein and Tesla via his private communications.

“Have those people in the video been found?” Walter Young asked.

“We haven’t found some yet. Iselin Leviathan has joined Anti-Entropy, but now that crazy woman Cocolia is also trying to take her away. We’re working hard,” Einstein said calmly. “Meanwhile, Houraiji Kyushou and Rowling are at Chiba School in Changkong City, in Raiden Ryoma’s daughter Raiden Mei’s class. Should we start making a move?”

Walter Yang thought for a moment and then gave up, saying, "Cocolia in Changkong City has ousted our Ryoma from power and seems to be up to something, deploying a lot of people. Let's hold back for now, get Iselin first. Otto in Changkong City should have noticed this too, so let them fight like dogs for now!"

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Meanwhile, in a laboratory somewhere in the Oceania branch of Destiny, a green-haired girl is sitting in a wheelchair.

She is the 'strongest Herrscher' who will later be called the shame of Herrschers by netizens, but she is not yet one.

After undergoing numerous experiments, the genius A-rank Valkyrie, who was originally the fourth candidate for S-rank Valkyrie, was transformed into a vessel for the Gem, becoming a paralyzed person with both legs. Here, she suffered endless scorn from the researchers, and the darkness in her heart continued to deepen as she was unable to move.

But just then, a long-haired woman with orange hair wearing a lab coat walked in!

"Who are you? I haven't seen you among the previous researchers before?" Wendy asked in confusion. Although she didn't know why she felt a certain liking for this woman at their first meeting, as a former A-rank Valkyrie, she still had some sense of vigilance.

"Hello Wendy, I'm the new lead researcher for you. My name is Totori. Nice to meet you!"

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Meanwhile, in a corner of Mei's house in Changkong City, Bronya was talking to Cocolia on the phone.

“Bronya, your mission to activate the third Herrscher—the Herrscher of Thunder—will be postponed for now. In addition to observing the Herrscher's physical body, your task is to monitor Houraiji Jiuxiao and Rowling and send them back. I'm going back to Anti-Entropy first. This time, I'm going to bring that scientist named Iselin Leviathan to our side. With her help, we'll have a better chance of rescuing Seele. Do you understand?”

Cocolia gave the order, and Bronya replied expressionlessly, "Okay, Mom, I heard you."

After watching that video and learning that she was good friends with Raiden Mei and Kiana in the parallel world, plus the time she spent together in the space, it was already difficult for her to take action against the two of them. Fortunately, this period of time was just for surveillance, so she could buy as much time as possible.

"Then I guess I'll need to find a place to stay first!"

Bronya pondered after severing her connection with Cocolia.

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As a new day begins, the first rays of dawn appear, all things revive, and everything unfolds like a painting.

Rowling slowly opened her sleepy eyes and looked at the bustling city and bright lights outside.

"It seems that even if you become the mastermind behind the scenes, you still can't escape the fate of going to school."

Yesterday, Rowling spent the whole day arranging the plan. After all, there are quite a few smart people in the Honkai world. Even with the system's help, she still had to think carefully before trying to deceive them all. To this end, she even exchanged some brain-enhancing drugs with the system. But for this, she only managed to create an outline. She'll add more details as more people appear. That's all for now.

By the way, she's quite wealthy now, owning a game company called miHoYo, which she manages through her clone.

Meanwhile, at the Thousand Feather Academy, Rowling arrived at her seat.

But then a gentle breeze brushed past my ears, and the scent of lavender wafted over me.

Rowling immediately recognized the person as Raiden Mei, who sat in the row in front of her. Today, she had tied her hair into a high ponytail with a purple polka-dot bow and was wearing her usual black and white cherry blossom school uniform.

"Mei, you were looking for me?"

Although she knew that Mei's visit must be related to the movie theater she had set up, Rowling still had to pretend she didn't know. In order to improve her acting skills, she even changed to the skills of an acting master.

Chapter Thirty-Five: The Arrival of Jiuxiao at Penglai Temple

"Lorraine, do you know someone named Houraiji Kushou?" Mei asked Larraine. As her good friend who had stayed with her since her father's accident, Larraine was someone she cherished.

Yesterday's experience was a complete shock to Mei's worldview. The sudden appearance of the movie theater, the parallel world of herself and Kiana, and the discovery of the murderer who put her father in prison—she was determined to prove her father's innocence.

What she needs to do now is to gather strength, and the friends from St. Freya Academy are good. She knows the others, but she doesn't know Houraiji Kushou, who has mysterious power in his body. That's why Mei asked that question.

"Mei, you asked me about other girls' names so early in the morning? Mei, have you betrayed me? Are you thinking about other girls?" Luo Lin pretended to be about to cry, as if her wife was about to run off with someone else, looking very sad. Of course, she was just joking.

It has to be said that this acting master is really useful. She can cry whenever she wants now, and she can already say that she deserves the title of "drama queen".

"No, Rowling, let me explain!" Mei had no idea that Rowling was playing a trick on her. She thought she had really made Rowling cry, and she couldn't help but feel a little touched. Was she still very important to Rowling?

Mei then began to explain her experience from the previous day to Rowling, and introduced Kiana to Rowling, saying she would introduce her to Kiana later.

"I understand, I really envy you guys being able to go to that place! As for Penglai Temple and Jiuxiao, I don't know them!" Luo Lin shook her head, pretending to be very envious. After all, she couldn't very well tell Mei that she was the one who set up that place. The biggest taboo for the mastermind is letting others know that she is the mastermind.

Their conversation ended quickly because class started.

Teacher Shiki walked in and announced to everyone, "This is our new transfer student, Houraiji Kyushou. However, his personality is a little...unique. Let's give him a round of applause!"

"Who?"

The moment she heard the name, Raiden Mei turned her gaze toward the podium.

A girl with long, wine-red hair walked in, stood on the podium, and began her unique self-introduction.

"Hello everyone, I am Jiuxiao from Penglai Temple! My profession is, of course, the savior. Welcome to join me in saving the world!"

"Wow! A chuunibyou! Look, our new classmate is a chuunibyou! How unique!" The students below started to discuss among themselves. After all, it was the first time they had seen a new student speak in such a chuunibyou way.

"It really is that Jiuxiao!" Seeing the Jiuxiao Raiden Mei of Penglai Temple on the stage, she could confirm that this was Jiuxiao from their world. He had the same personality as the Jiuxiao in the video in the viewing space. They were both chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

However, at this moment, Raiden Mei was surprised to find that Jiuxiao was looking at her and smiling. Moreover, she felt that Jiuxiao was looking at her with the kind of look that one would see a kindred spirit. She must be seeing things wrong, after all, she had long since passed the age of being a chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

After that, under the teacher's orders, Penglai Temple Jiuxiao sat in the second-to-last row by the window. The original student was transferring schools for some reason, so the seat became available for Jiuxiao.

"Hello, Mei-senpai~" After class, Jiuxiao greeted Mei very politely, seemingly not caring at all that Mei was the one who was ostracized in the class.

"Could we possibly know each other?" Mei wondered. After all, she knew Hōraiji Kūshō through the viewing space, so how did Kūshō know her?

"No, no, no! Of course I know Mei-senpai! In the future I see, Mei-senpai is a savior just like me. We're kindred spirits!"

"You can see the future?" Mei was surprised to discover that Jiu Xiao had this ability, which wasn't shown in the video.

"Of course, I am the savior, the chosen one of God. It is merely a matter of seeing the future!" Jiuxiao discovered that Mei actually believed his words. She was exaggerating as much as she could, almost to the point of claiming that she was omniscient and omnipotent.

What surprised Rowling the most was that Mei actually believed it. This was mainly because Mei knew from the video that Jiuxiao had powerful strength within him, and Jiuxiao knew that she didn't have complete information about him, which led Mei to believe Jiuxiao's boast.

As the one who summoned Jiuxiao using a character card, Rowling naturally knew Jiuxiao's abilities. At present, Jiuxiao can be said to only have the power of a B-rank Valkyrie. As for the Apocalypse on her body, she doesn't have it at all, since it's too expensive.

It's fair to say that, in terms of gameplay, Jiuxiao is currently a blank slate.

However, one advantage of character cards is that they can be improved through learning and training, although it's not as fast as using the system to upgrade them.

As for how Jiuxiao met Mei, that was of course told by Rowling, but no one expected that Jiuxiao could actually fool Mei.

Meanwhile, it is said that Rowling secretly recorded the video on her phone of Mei being fooled by Jiuxiao's chuunibyou speech. This is Mei's embarrassing history. She was actually fooled by chuunibyou. If Mei finds out later, she will probably want to crawl into a hole and hide.

"Hmph~ I know about the future destiny. Mei-senpai will be in love with that girl named Kiana... or become friends!" Lord Nine Heavens was originally going to say they were in love, but after seeing Rowling's eyes, he changed it to friends. After all, the Savior of Nine Heavens is now Rowling's employee, so he should give his boss some face.

However, he still looked quite handsome when he put on an act, and he actually managed to fool Mei-senpai. Of course, this was just Jiuxiao's own thought.

"You're right about that. Kiana and I are indeed good friends." After passing through the movie theater, Mei's relationship with Kiana also progressed from friends to good friends.

As for Kiana, she's a year younger than Mei and Rowling, and she's currently sleeping in class. If Mei doesn't tempt her with food, she'll probably sleep until noon.

"Luo Lin, Jiu Xiao, this is my good friend Kiana!" At noon, Mei pulled Luo Lin to Kiana's classroom and called Kiana out to meet on the rooftop, while Jiu Xiao followed.

It has to be said that Jiuxiao is very approachable. Although Mei knew that Jiuxiao was a future partner, she quickly became good friends with him after Jiuxiao's persistent pursuit.

This infuriated Rowling. After all, she was just as beautiful as Kiana and Mei. Logically speaking, she was a black-haired, red-eyed beauty who would make a good first impression. Why was it so difficult for her?

Back then, she went to great lengths to become friends with Mei, who was still a cold and aloof young lady. No matter who it was, Kiana, Bronya, or even the Houraiji Kusho she summoned, they all quickly became friends with Mei.

Is this the difference between the main characters and the outsiders? When will we outsiders be able to stand up for ourselves?

Chapter 36 Asakura Miyuki

"So you're the good friend Luo Lin that Mei was talking about."

Kiana looked at Rowling with shining eyes. After all, beautiful women have a positive effect on the Kaslana family. She even leaned in to smell Rowling's body fragrance, which scared Rowling so much that she hid behind Mei.

"Mei, is Kiana that thirsty?" Although Rowling knew that Kiana was not immune to beautiful women, she did not expect Kiana to be so eager. But at least there was someone who knew her stuff.

After all, she felt that being a beautiful woman didn't give her any advantage in the Honkai world. No girl had ever confessed to her since she was a child, which made her wonder if she was ugly. But seeing Kiana's appearance, she finally realized that wasn't the case.

"Kiana! Be polite! Don't treat others like that, or I'll never cook for you again!"

Mei was also a little angry, after all, Kiana's behavior in front of Rowling might cause Rowling to misunderstand her.

"No! Mei, I can't live without your food! I was wrong!" Kiana panicked when she heard that Mei wasn't going to cook for her. Ever since she started eating Mei's food, she never wanted to eat the awful stuff she used to eat. No food was going to kill her!

Seeing this, Rowling finally understood what was meant by the saying online: "When the Herrscher of Food gets angry, all the other Herrschers starve to death."

Afterwards, Rowling accepted Kiana's apology. After all, aside from the fact that she liked Kiana herself, Kiana hadn't done anything wrong; she just felt that Kiana was a bit perverted.

During this time, Kiana also got to know Jiuxiao. Kiana had a very high initial impression of Jiuxiao. After seeing Jiuxiao comfort her in the video, Kiana really hoped to meet Jiuxiao in real life, and now they have finally met.

Jiuxiao also started acting out his chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) regarding Kiana, saying that Kiana is also the savior of destiny, that he was guided by the gods to find her, and that he hoped Kiana would join the savior team.

Kiana refused, because although she had feelings for Jiuxiao, she also knew from the video that Jiuxiao was a person with severe chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), and she didn't want to become a chuunibyou herself.

Jiuxiao expressed her disappointment, saying that she was not suffering from chuunibyou (middle school syndrome), and that this was proof of her savior status and a statement of salvation.

"Finally, school's over. But speaking of which, why do I, the mastermind behind everything, still have to go to school?" Rowling was confused as she walked home. After all, she already had a system, so why did she still need to go to school?

After thinking for a moment, Rowling sighed helplessly, "Forget it, forget it, I'll just consider it keeping my wife company. After all, my current identity is that of an ordinary student, and later I'll be an ordinary scientist. I'll just stay in the background!"

However, just as she was passing through a small alley, a scream interrupted her thoughts.

"Let me go! Help!"

"Even if you scream your lungs out, no one will come to save you!"