Firefly, I want to be a Sanyo Hermit

"Perhaps, this is what Sister Kiana wishes for..." Raiden Mei doesn't actually know Kiana very well.

For Mei Raiden, Kiana is an omnipotent sister who has helped her a lot. But when Mei Raiden is asked to describe what kind of person Kiana is, she can't say.

In Mei Raiden's eyes, Kiana always has a filter through her, as if she thought her father was omnipotent when she was a child.

Although as she grew up and got to know Kiana better, this filter had shattered a little, but only a little.

Kiana is still an omnipotent being.

Kiana's existence at the beginning was too illusory, giving Mei Raiden a feeling that she didn't exist in the world...

And now, her 'connection' with this world is gradually becoming clearer.

"If Kiana-sister's wish is really to save the world, then what is my wish..." From childhood to adulthood, as a lady from a wealthy family, Mei Raiden has always desired very few things.

Perhaps "living well" can be regarded as a lifelong pursuit for ordinary people... Just as Raiden Mei once heard...

Life is nothing but money, girls and face.

All of these have been possessed by Mei Raiden since she was born. As the eldest daughter of ME, as long as there are no outrageous accidents, she will have enough money and face... As for the girls...

It's not that she is Mei and Pu Xin of Raiden, but she has lived for more than ten years and has seen many beautiful sisters, but there are not many who can be compared with her.

Therefore, Mei Raiden really has nothing that can be called "pursuing".

And the kendo that she had practiced for more than ten years was "shattered" after she became a Herrscher... Raiden Mei didn't quite understand why her kendo attainments had improved by leaps and bounds after she became a Herrscher.

But there is no doubt that...even if she does not use any power of the Herrscher, even if she suppresses her physical fitness to the same as when she was an ordinary high school student, her current swordsmanship attainments are far from what she was then.

In the final analysis... everything happened too easily, so easily that Raiden Mei felt confused.

"Sirin-senpai said that I borrowed a wish from Kiana-sister..." Raiden Mei's eyes were filled with confusion. "What should I do..."

"What are you daydreaming about, Mei?" After an unknown amount of time, Kiana, who had already returned home, patted the shoulder of Mei Raiden, who was in a daze.

"Sister Kiana?" Raiden Mei came back to her senses as if waking up from a dream and looked at Kiana.

"What's wrong?" Kiana asked with her eyes wide open and her head tilted.

"No...actually it's like this..." Mei Raiden originally wanted to say 'No, it's nothing', but she changed her mind...it would actually be a better choice to tell Kiana about her own affairs first.

At first Kiana thought it was a trivial matter, but after listening to Raiden Mei's opening, she realized that the matter was not trivial, so she also sat down quietly and listened to Raiden Mei's troubles.

Not long after, Mei Raiden told Kiana about her troubles and some of the things that Sirin had said to her.

"Oh, I see." Kiana nodded in understanding. "Actually, I think what Xilin said makes sense. You don't need to worry about those things at all."

"You just need to do what you want to do, I'll take care of everything."

Kiana said, patting her chest.

"I will always keep an eye on you. If one day you really go astray, I will definitely pull you back."

"Sister Kiana..." Looking at Kiana, Mei Raiden lowered her eyes and nodded. "But I don't want to go astray... So tell me, what is Sister Kiana's wish."

Although Sirin said that Kiana's wish is to save the world, Raiden Mei wants to hear Kiana's more specific wish...or how she is going to fulfill her wish.

"My wish." Kiana nodded slightly. "Okay, then I'll tell you..."

"My wish is to make this ugly world a better place. Everything I do is for this goal."

"I am a Herrscher. I have enough power to change everything, so I want to change the world into what I want it to be."

When she said this, Kiyana inadvertently clenched her fists.

This was her teacher's last blessing to her.

"Sister Kiana..." Although she didn't know why, looking at Kiana like this, Mei Raiden felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart. 'What on earth did Sister Kiana go through...'

Everything about Kiana is a mystery. Even in some records of Destiny, Kiana is a Herrscher who suddenly appeared and quelled the [Second Sequence Great Collapse] with absolute strength.

Although Mei Raiden has never witnessed what the [Second Sequence Great Collapse] is like, even if she were to experience the [Third Sequence Great Collapse] that she caused, she would know...

If Kiana and Sirin had not intervened at that time, even though she had not yet fully become a Herrscher, her battle with Yulandel would have caused extensive damage to Changkong City.

The protagonist of the [Second Great Collapse] at that time was Sirin... If it weren't for Sister Kiana, the result would be really unimaginable.

"Is that how it is?" Raiden Mei nodded seriously. "To make the world a better place, is this what Kiana-sister wants?"

"I don't really understand it myself." Kiana shook her head and said, "But... it should be, at least I hope so."

She wanted to eliminate the collapse and prevent humanity from being shrouded in the shadow of collapse again. She wanted to dispel the dark cloud that had dominated the Earth's civilization for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years, and even the entire solar system for billions of years.

Kiana doesn't know whether the "Artificial End" plan in the "Original World" can be completed, but she hopes to do it herself, and she must do it...

Not only to find the way 'back', but also for everyone in this world.

It doesn't matter if she is from another world...

She knows she can't save everyone, so she won't take everything on herself, but she wants to save 'more' people, so she will make her own efforts.

"I understand." Raiden Mei nodded to Kiana.

An ambition like this is actually difficult to fully describe in words, but Raiden Mei understood what Kiana meant.

"Since Sister Kiana's wish is like this, then let me lend a helping hand to Sister Kiana." Raiden Mei said to Kiana, extending her hand. "Sister Kiana, are you willing to 'lend' me your wish?"

It is undeniable that she saw Kiana's wish and tried to depict the world that Kiana wanted...

'A little better', yes, just a little is enough.

So Mei Raiden can see the world that Kiana wants. It is not an unattainable wish, but a wish that is always changing.

"Mei..." Kiana didn't expect Mei Raiden to say that. She looked at her for a long time in silence.

"What's wrong Kiana?"

"?" Kiana glanced sideways at Raiden Mei, and at this moment, she seemed to see another figure through Raiden Mei.

A figure that was once 'separated' from me, but never parted ways.

Compared to 'her', the girl in front of him looked a little immature.

But the will she exuded at this moment was so firm, so... indestructible.

Different... She is different from 'her'.

She was the one who stood beside me, the one who moved forward with me, stepped into the end of the world with me, and faced the [End] with me.

And this girl is not inferior to her in any way...

"I see..." Kiana held Raiden Mei's hand. "Mei isn't a child anymore."

Kiana said with a chuckle.

Yes... When I went to the battlefield with her, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl. At the age of sixteen, she and I rushed out of the purgatory called Changkong City, went to St. Freya Academy together, and became Valkyries.

"Since Mei said so, we must be prepared."

"Yeah." Raiden Mei nodded. "If I'm not prepared, I won't extend my hand like this."

"Hehe." Kiana squeezed Raiden Mei's palm with a little force. "You've really grown up. You're different from 'her'... but you're still both Raiden Mei."

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"This is..." The pure white space seemed to have no boundaries, at least Raiden Mei couldn't see it. "Is this a dream?"

After becoming the Herrscher, Mei Raiden never had a dream again.

Sleeping is no longer necessary for her, so if she wants to sleep, she will enter a deep sleep.

So dreams no longer exist... Of course, the Herrscher has not lost the ability to dream, but he just doesn't dream in most cases.

"You're here?" At this moment, Raiden Mei suddenly heard a voice.

The voice is familiar yet somewhat strange.

When humans hear their own voices, they actually sound different from what others hear.

Because of the different conduction media, humans are affected by bone conduction when they hear their own voices.

So, this voice is familiar yet strange...it is my own voice.

"Who?" Mei Raiden looked in the direction where the voice came from. It was a pure white door.

And that voice came from behind the door.

"I think you have already guessed it." The other party said. "Stepping in here means that you are ready."

"come on."

"..." Raiden Mei didn't quite understand, but she thought of what Kiana said to her before she became a Herrscher. 'Honkai, or something else... Is it bewitching?'

Although she thought so in her heart, Mei Raiden felt that the other party was not trying to seduce her...

"Never mind, let's go first." Raiden Mei has never been a reckless person...but she is sure that she does not have the ability to leave here.

If that's the case, then we can only let it go...

Of course, there is another option, which is to sit here and wait until the real time comes to morning, until Sister Kiana finds that she has not gotten up yet and comes to check on her.

However, she is not someone who will sit and wait for death. If it is really a collapse... then she also wants to see the other party's methods.

As for the consequences, it doesn’t matter!

Didn't sister Kiana say that you should just do what you want to do?

Almost at the moment when Mei Raiden made the decision, she didn't even move a step, but her figure had already arrived in front of the huge white gate.

"You are so impatient." Raiden Mei said loudly. "In that case, let me see your true face, and don't use those inferior methods."

"Okay, I promise that what you see is my true face." After hearing what Mei Raiden said, the other party seemed to chuckle and then seriously agreed to Mei Raiden's request.

"Then..." Raiden Mei stretched out her hand and opened the pure white door. "I'm coming."

Behind the pure white gate is a dreamy and boundless sea of ​​stars.

"...Hey, come out!" Looking at the dreamy sea of ​​stars, Raiden Mei was silent for a long while before shouting loudly.

In an instant, the sea of ​​stars was collapsing... No, everything around it began to converge.

Everything started to go back in time, a fiery meteorite streaked across the sky, and the disaster was broadcast on the huge screen in the tall building.

"What..." Mei Raiden looked around in confusion, and in an instant her sight was fixed on a figure not far away.

The woman was holding a young child... Raiden Mei was very familiar with both her and the child's faces.

"That's me and my mother?" Raiden Mei was stunned for a moment, then looked at the huge screen.

The screen showed terrible disasters caused by meteorite impacts around the world, with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of casualties...

"Is this... the [Second Sequence Great Collapse]?" Although Mei Raiden had never seen this scene, she knew the time.

If the time is correct, then this is the moment when the [Second Sequence Collapse] occurs.

Time begins to flow...

My mother was lying on the hospital bed because of a serious illness. I, as a little kid, was lying beside the bed, hoping that she would get better.

Mei Raiden watched all this in silence.

C.45 Another world?

Everything about a person passed by Raiden Mei's eyes like a movie, and she watched everything that happened with indifference.

Some of them were familiar to her, while others were unfamiliar to her.

The mother lying on the hospital bed did not wait for sister Kiana, and eventually she died of illness.

In this experience, Sister Kiana seemed not to exist.

Mei Raiden has realized a lot of things, but she can't be sure yet, so she can only continue watching.

The girl gradually grew up, and the familiar face was almost the same as she is now.

The cold Gaoling flower, the proud Queen of Thunder...but these are just illusions that will be shattered in an instant.

Everything changed overnight when my father was arrested on suspicion of financial fraud.