Firefly, I want to be a Sanyo Hermit

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"Huh? Auntie, have you been coming home so early recently?" When I arrived at Xilin's house, I walked in and saw Kiana, who should not have gotten off work yet, had already come home.

"Yes." Kiana nodded slightly. "The technicians of Anti-Entropy have fully understood the information of the three departments I have, and have joined the project team."

"If there is no emergency, then it has nothing to do with me for the time being."

I originally thought that after the Anti-Entropy technicians joined, Kiana's own workload would also increase.

But perhaps because the technical staff of Anti-Entropy had never fought such a fierce battle and were unable to adapt for a while, Kiana's workload was actually greatly reduced.

The technical staff of Anti-Entropy are mainly in the field of mechanical engineering, but there are also many talents in biology... However, Anti-Entropy has always been based on humanity, so human experiments are very rare.

After arriving at Saint Freya, the White Zetsu for experimentation is provided without limit...

Oh, by the way, the so-called "White Zetsu" are actually the experimental subjects created by Kiana, who have standard and healthy bodies but no souls.

Unless a special 'White Zetsu' is needed, Kiana can easily create a lot of them.

Because the general "White Zetsu" only requires Kiana to copy and paste, but the "White Zetsu" with special requirements requires Kiana to make precise parameter adjustments.

"Strange... I always feel like something is not right..." Looking at Kiana, Raiden Mei pinched her chin and thought for a long time.

"What's wrong with Mei?" Kiana asked when she noticed that Mei Raiden's expression was not right.

"Strange... Why did Senior Sirin lie on Sister Kiana's lap today?" Raiden Mei finally found something wrong...

Usually it's Kiana who lies on Sirin's legs, why are the roles reversed today?

"Ah this..."

C.120 Xilin also wants to become stronger

"Strange... Why did Senior Sirin lie on Sister Kiana's lap today?"

"Ah this..." I looked at the person lying on my legs and found that there was still no movement, although he looked like he was asleep.

But when Raiden Mei pointed out something was wrong, Sirin's body, who was lying on her legs, suddenly stiffened.

In other words, she was actually pretending to be asleep...but it's okay this way.

"It was Xilin who said she wanted to try it." Kiana threw the blame to Xilin without hesitation.

'...' Xilin, who had her eyes closed, heard this, and her small hand, which was hidden by her body, quietly fell under Kiana's thigh and pinched it lightly.

'! 'Kiana, who was suddenly pinched by Xilin, also trembled a little, but there was no expression on her face.

Humph! This is the margin for adults!

Although Kiana does want to change, it is easy to get stuck in wearing a mask for a long time, so now Kiana is still wearing a "personality mask" called "maturity".

"These are all trivial matters. What do you want to talk to us about?" Kiana, whose leg was pinched by Xilin, quietly put her hand on Xilin's ear and secretly pinched Xilin's earlobe with her little finger.

“Oh, actually it’s like this…” Qibao explained the purpose of their visit. Actually, they just wanted to borrow [Eternal Tribulation: Infinite Corridor] to test how much they have grown in these days.

Although Qi Bao is not a battle maniac or a martial arts fanatic, she can feel her strength improving and wants to know how much she has grown.

The fighting power of the others is not quite comparable to hers, and perhaps the closest one is Raiden Mei.

However, Qibao may not know that Raiden Mei is actually much stronger than her.

Raiden Mei has completely mastered the power and swordsmanship from [Shigen Mei]. Compared to [Shigen Mei], all she lacks is the gifts from those heroes.

Qibao's biggest trump card at the moment is actually the [Holy Sword: Yulandel]. If both sides use their full strength, Qibao is no match for Raiden Mei.

However, Mei Raiden's current training is to precisely control her own power, so when fighting with Qibao, maintaining a power output equal to that of Qibao can also greatly improve Mei Raiden's training efficiency.

"Is that so?" Kiana nodded slightly, raised her hand and snapped her fingers at the two of them.

The purple-red cube instantly enveloped both of them.

Without any resistance, Qibao and Raiden Mei were wrapped in the cube, and the space around them changed drastically in an instant.

The familiar [Naraka·Infinite Corridor·Arena Mode] was constructed.

"Get up." After sending Qibao and Raiden Mei into the arena, Kiana raised a sly smile and whispered in Xilin's ear.

"!" The slightly moist and hot breath followed the earlobe and almost hit Xilin's brain.

Xilin, who had never experienced anything like this, tensed up completely, but after a moment her tense body went limp.

"Ki!a!na!" Xilin propped herself up on the sofa and glared at Kiana.

"It was you who did it first, wasn't it?" Kiana raised her eyebrows.

Wasn't it because Xilin had just secretly pinched her leg that she wanted to retaliate against Xilin like this?

"Huh!" Xilin snorted. "These are obviously the things you do all the time."

"How could that be?" Kiana's eyes widened. "I was just touching you, how could I pinch you?"

As she spoke, Kiana raised her head slightly and pointed to the place where Xilin had just pinched.

But what Kiana said was true. With Xilin's temper, if she pinched Xilin, Xilin would ignore her for three days.

"?" Xilin took a look and saw a purple-red mark. "Are you kidding? The force just now would not break even a glass, right?"

Although it sounds like Xilin's finger force just now was very strong and it would definitely be painful for ordinary people.

But for a Herrscher with thick skin and flesh like Kiana, the force just now was no different from an ordinary person being hit by a mosquito.

"Oh! I understand!" Xilin showed a look of understanding. "When you created the [Infinite Corridor], you also used the [Power of Death] to create this bruise, right!?"

Kiana, this bastard, actually relied on the Honkai energy when releasing [Eternal Tribulation: Infinite Corridor] to cover up the Honkai energy of [Power of Death], and then deceived her!

"Ah? Exposed!" Kiana shouted guiltily.

But in fact, as long as Xilin is not an idiot, she can figure out where the bruises on Kiana's legs came from.

"You..." Xilin looked at Kiana speechlessly. [However, the system's analysis seems to be correct.]

[Accept, as long as the host can acknowledge the practicality of the system.]

Although it's not obvious, Xilin can indeed feel that Kiana seems to have changed a little recently. She is closer to her and sometimes shows some intimacy...

All in all, it's not like he was hiding from me like he did a while ago, nor is there an obvious gap between us like he did a while ago.

Perhaps just as the system said, the system's favorability is not generated out of thin air. The favorability generated in that way is just the result of using spiritual power to interfere with Kiana's thinking.

[Cocoon of the End] can't do this because Ellie won't allow it. Among the mechanisms that Ellie modified for [Cocoon of the End], one of them is that it doesn't allow mental interference...

However, [Cocoon of the End] cannot interfere with the mind, but Prometheus 17, who has temporarily become the [Will of Honkai] and can be called the [Agent of Cocoon of the End] to a certain extent, can interfere with the mind.

The reason is simple. Prometheus 17's mental interference can be resisted, as long as one has strong willpower, he can be immune.

Excluding the possibility of mental interference, the favorability set by the system is actually the result of analyzing a large amount of data.

Just like a happy person and a sad person, their physical and mental states are completely different.

Most people can also clearly or vaguely feel the happiness or unhappiness of others, and [Cocoon of the End] collects such information and ultimately displays it in the form of 'emotional value'.

The same is true for favorability.

"But why don't you just display Kiana's data like in the game? For example, her favorability?" Xilin asked in confusion.

[Answer: Displaying data will cause the host to have unnecessary emotions, just like playing a game to increase favorability. It may cause [Herrscher of the Fire and Fire·Kiana] to feel unhappy, so please respect her.]

[Oh... OK, I understand...] Xilin didn't expect the system to answer like this. Instead, she felt like she was being taught a lesson.

But if you think about it carefully, if you really show your affection, then at certain "boundaries", you will definitely feel anxious...

Just like when she sees her character stuck at level 79 while playing a game, she would get so annoyed that she would exchange the card drawing materials for stamina to gain experience points. It is easy for her to make 'irrational' decisions.

Maybe just like what the system said, if she had this kind of emotion towards Kiana, it might not be a good feeling for Kiana.

"What's wrong, Xilinlin?" Kiana raised her eyebrows and asked when she noticed that Xilin was looking at her strangely.

"No, nothing." Xilin shook her head. "I was just wondering, when will you be able to complete those tasks of [The Way of Others]?"

"Ah this..."

That was no longer a mission, but a debt repayment! It was all the tofu she had taken from Xilin over the past decade!

Now I have to return it...

"Xilinlin, do you want to go and see the fight between Qibao and Mei?" Kiana decided to change the subject and quickly brought the topic to Raiden Mei and Qibao.

Continuing with the topic of Xilin's [her way of being]...she was somewhat 'guilty'.

"Okay." Except for matters of the heart, Xilin actually doesn't like to make things difficult for Kiana.

Seeing that Kiana changed the subject, Xilin simply went along with her.

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"Bang, bang, bang, bang..."

Lightning and star flames flew everywhere.

Wearing golden star armor, holding the illusory [Star-Cutting Sword - Libra] in his hand.

Qibao seems to have named himself after the constellations, and he has created different weapons for himself.

For example, [Gemini] is a dual gun, [Orion] is a sniper rifle, and [Sagittarius] is a lance.

Among them, [Libra] is the greatsword form.

However, although the appearance of the weapon has changed, it is essentially just a weapon condensed from Qibao's own strength, so it has no weight at all for Qibao. Even a two-handed sword can be wielded easily, and he can even perform continuous swings without inertia.

Therefore, in the eyes of Sirin and Kiana, the scene was that Mei Raiden holding a katana and Qibao holding a two-handed greatsword were slashing at each other at high speed.

If this was a performance in some animation, the comment section below would probably be filled with comments like 'this is not how you use a broadsword', right?

"Mei is letting the game go." After watching a few rounds, Kiana whispered to Sirin.

"Huh? Is that so?" Hearing Kiana's words, Xilin raised her eyebrows in surprise. She couldn't see at all how Mei Raiden was letting her win.

"The strength that Mei can exert now far exceeds that of Qibao, but Mei is deliberately controlling her own strength." Kiana is very familiar with Mei's current situation as a lightning bomb.

Since she came into this world, her ever-expanding power has made Kiana miserable.

What used to be just a cluster of flames was now as powerful as a hand cannon attack from [Heavenly Fire Judgment].

In other words, the flame that she once used as a lighter can now easily burn a [Temple Level] to death.

With such a huge difference, if Kiana wants to use her power normally, she must suppress her output to a great extent.

Therefore, Kiana could see Raiden Mei's condition at a glance... However, Raiden Mei's power was definitely far inferior to Kiana's, so the difficulty of controlling her was not particularly high... At least not in Kiana's opinion.

"So that's how it is." After listening to Kiana's explanation, Silin said that she understood. "I didn't expect Mei to be so strong?"

When they first met, Mei Raiden was still a little Karami that he could easily suppress, but how long has it been? In less than a year, Mei Raiden already has the power to defeat him... This is under the premise that he was strengthened by Ellie.

If I were in my previous form as the Herrscher of the Sky, I would have been no match for Mei Raiden long ago, right?

"This is what happens when a shooter meets a swordsman." Seeing Sirin's weird expression, Kiana knew what Sirin was thinking and complained out loud.

It’s true that Sirin can teleport, but the speed that Raiden Mei can burst out instantly can even surpass Sirin’s teleportation.

In other words, if the space is not big enough, then every time Xilin teleports to the location, Raiden Mei will arrive first.

Therefore, it can be said that Sirin is at an absolute disadvantage when facing Raiden Mei.

However, the only Herrscher who possesses such explosive speed is the Herrscher of Thunder.

"Emm... or Kiana... can you teach me hand-to-hand combat?" Even Xilin would feel a little unwilling when being surpassed so easily by her junior.

"Oh? Do you want to practice?" Kiana asked in surprise.

In fact, it is a very simple thing for Xilin to practice hand-to-hand combat. After all, Xilin possesses mental power equivalent to the [Taixu Realm].

In other words, with Xilin's own mental power and Honkai energy, she can activate Xilin's own [Taixu Sword God].

To be precise, "Taixu Sword Qi" is divided into three parts, namely "moves", "mental power" and "Honkai Energy".

[Heart Essence] is actually used to cultivate Honkai energy, just like the mental method of practicing Qi in novels...and the Herrscher is born with the highest level of [Sword Heart], so Xilin does not need to cultivate [Taixu Heart Essence] at all.

But the difference is that when practicing "Sword Heart Technique", it will not only temper the "sword heart", but also temper the spirit.

The former allows the practitioner to have a body that can wield Honkai energy, while the latter allows the practitioner to have a spirit that can wield Honkai energy.

When both are achieved perfection, the practice of [Taixu Sword Heart] is completed.

[Form Essence], this is the sword move of the 'Taixu Sword School', there are four lines, namely guard, transform, start and open, totaling 21 moves, covering all martial arts.