I'm going to kill everyone who calls me Hill.

Rodin quickly recounted the process.

"that's it?"

"That's all!! The simpler the method, the safer it is!"

Rodin reported loudly like a high school student undergoing military training.

"Very good, very energetic!"

Xier nodded with satisfaction, then she drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, threw down a few bills and walked out of the gate of hell.

"Huh... this little ancestor is finally gone..."

Rodin couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he watched Xier walk away.

"Rodan, why do you feel like you two have known each other for a long time?"

Enzo asked the question in his mind. It was obvious that Xier should have never met Rodin.

"How can I put it? The one I saw was her, but it wasn't her..."

Rodin touched his bald head and said.

"baffling……"

Enzo lowered his head and took a sip of wine and muttered.

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"is that so……"

Seele walked while holding the Left Eye of Darkness that she found in the basement.

"So this is the real Left Eye of Darkness..."

No wonder Seele was able to pull Bayonetta out so easily, it turned out that Bayonetta was wearing a fake Dark Left Eye, but it was powered by the real one.

As she spoke, Xier walked through a portal and returned to the Witch's Tears.

"Are you done asking?"

Bayonetta was currently sitting at the bar, waiting for Seele's return.

"Ah."

"Do you know what you want to know?"

"Um"

Xier answered intermittently. Although she knew the truth, this truth was particularly heavy.

Hei Xi did not directly travel through time and space to return to her side. She lived in that era for a full five hundred years...

After helping Bayonetta escape, she stayed by Bayonetta's side until the incident on Moon Shadow Island, when she reached a deal with Rodin and made a fake Dark Left Eye and handed it to Bayonetta.

"You know about her, right?"

Seele looked at Bayonetta who was looking at her with a worried look. The latter took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I know, but I just found out. After I sent Theresa back to her time, a lot of memories suddenly appeared in my mind. Those were the things that I experienced at that time..."

“Is that so… So that’s how it is…”

Seele finally understood why the short-haired Bayonetta said she was Bayonetta instead of Cereza. The displacement of time and space made Bayonetta get Cereza's memory, but Bayonetta's memory always existed in her mind.

This also explains why the short-haired Bayonetta would pull me back to her era and give me the Dark Left Eye after solving the problem.

"Then... here you go."

Seele stretched out her hand and handed the real Dark Left Eye to Bayonetta.

The latter took the gem and looked at her with a worried look and asked, "Are you okay..."

"It's okay..." Xier took a deep breath and said, "I didn't expect that all of this was planned by me..."

"Looks like you don't need me to comfort you?"

Bayonetta sighed slightly and said, "I still want to hug you tightly...ah!"

While Bayonetta was speaking, Seele suddenly hugged her, causing Bayonetta to exclaim a little.

After being surprised, Bayonetta looked at Seele in her arms, put one hand on her head and stroked her hair.

"Thank you for your company for so long. It is because of your company that I am full of determination."

"Um……"

Seele closed her eyes and buried herself in Bayonetta's arms, not speaking for a long time.

"Thanks……"

Xier suddenly said softly.

"Ok?"

Because Seele's voice was too soft, Bayonetta didn't hear it clearly.

"nothing……"

Xier raised her head, straightened her body, looked at Bayonetta and said, "Continue to open the store!"

Chapter 1: Familiar but not completely familiar

Xier left after all.

Bayonetta and Seele both knew that Seele couldn't stay with Bayonetta forever. And after living a dull life for half a year, Seele left.

And Xier also came to the new world.

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"here it is?"

Xi'er shook her head, trying to relieve the dizziness caused by the journey. When her vision finally cleared, she found a huge black shadow rushing towards her.

"what?"

Xier quickly dodged the shadow that pounced on her. But when Xier looked closely at the true face of the shadow, she was stunned for a moment.

The thing was pale white all over, and could barely be seen as a bear, but there was pink energy flowing through its body.

"Why does this thing feel so familiar..."

Xier thought carefully, she always felt that she had seen this thing somewhere...

"Hey! Are you okay over there?"

Just as Xier was thinking, a voice came from not far away, and then two figures landed in front of Xier after a few somersaults.

"Girl, are you okay?"

One of the men in cloth asked.

"I... ahem... I'm fine..."

Xier answered subconsciously, but just as she opened her mouth, she found that the person was speaking Shenzhou dialect, so Xier quickly changed the language.

"That's good. The two of us encountered a monster coming out of the mountain. We wanted to exorcise it, but we didn't expect there were people around. I'm really sorry."

The man apologized with a smile and nudged the person next to him with his elbow.

"Feel sorry."

The other man, who looked quite indifferent, slowly made a fist salute to express his apology after being reminded by his companion.

"it's okay no problem……"

Xier waved her hands quickly. She had appeared suddenly, so it was normal that the two of them didn't notice her. However... a monster?

Xier turned her head and looked at the dead 'bear' beside her. This thing looked like a Honkai beast...

"By the way, why are you here alone, young lady? People like me have to be careful of monsters and beasts when we are in the wild, why are you traveling alone?"

The man asked in a familiar manner, not paying any attention to his companion's helpless expression.

"Me? I'm just out for a stroll, and I can protect myself."

Xi'er replied with a smile again.

If all monsters were of this level, let alone just one, even if there were a hundred times more, they would not be enough for Xier to kill alone. Her expert at mowing down monsters in the abyss was no exaggeration.

"But the girl doesn't look like she practices martial arts, which is really strange... Hey, hey, hey, don't pull me!"

The man seemed to want to continue asking questions, but before he could finish his words, he was pulled away by the indifferent man who was accompanying him.

"Idiot! Stop embarrassing yourself. We have to report back to the sect."

"Girl! I am Li Qingyun from Taixuan Sect. See you again if we are lucky enough!"

The man who was taken away seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just gave his name and walked away.

"Haha, what an interesting person."

Xier chuckled a few times. It was the first time she met someone so familiar.

"From the way that man was dressed and the way he spoke Shenzhou dialect, could this be Shenzhou?"

Xier analyzed where she was from the clothes, appearance and behavior of the two people just now.

"Then there's the Honkai Beast..."

Xier looked at the dead Honkai beast again. The originally ferocious Honkai beast had now shriveled up, like a deflated doll, with only a skin left.

This scene is different from what Seele has seen. In Seele's era, although the Honkai beasts were transformed from animals, their bodies were filled with Honkai energy, and no matter what species they came from, they would eventually have a unified image.

For example, all tank-class Honkai beasts look the same, and only new branches will be generated with different Honkai energy. In simple terms, the models are the same, but the special effects are different.

But the Honkai beast that Xier saw now was different. It was more like a demon beast and had the characteristics of an original creature.

“Isn’t this my time…?”

There was a hint of disappointment in Xier's eyes. She thought this was the world she was familiar with, but it turned out to be a similar yet different place.

"It looks like this is the ancient Shenzhou, but I don't know what era it is in."

Xi'er doesn't know much about Shenzhou. Most of her knowledge comes from the Honkai Impact 3rd game she played before (In the third volume, re: Creator, Xi'er played Honkai Impact 3rd, and the main storyline was set to just reach the Millennium Feather.)

After all, she stayed in an orphanage when she was a child and had no chance to go out.

Xier's only impression of Shenzhou is Fu Hua. After all, it took her a long time to draw Yun Mo Danxin when they were playing.

“Is this the Shenzhou I imagined?”

Xier looked at the tall trees around her and couldn't help but think that she had only seen Shenzhou in the game, and as for what the real Shenzhou looked like, she didn't know.

"Let's find a place to rest first..."

Xier said to herself. After the Jubilee incident, Hei Xi and Bai Xi both woke up and quarreled in Xier's mind every day, which made Xier develop the habit of talking to herself again.

But now, perhaps because they were regrouping their strength, the two fell into a deep sleep again, but the good news is that after a period of hibernation, Xier can talk to them again. Unlike the previous journey, Xier is finally not alone this time.

But although she was looking for a place, Xier didn't know where to go. She was in a deep mountain forest, surrounded by dense and extremely tall trees, and she couldn't tell the directions at all.

"Got it! Let's find a high place."

Xier looked up, pushed off the ground with her feet and jumped onto a big tree. With the help of the thick branches, Xier climbed to the top of the tree again.

"Wow! It's so big..."

Standing on the top of the tree, Xier looked around. The endless sea of ​​trees swayed slowly in the wind, and the leaves rubbed against each other, making a rustling sound, which was refreshing.

Xier quietly watched the beautiful scene for a while, and then reluctantly jumped down the tree. She found that there was a small city not far away, so it seemed that she could settle there first.

"Hum hum……"

Xier skipped and jumped towards the city.

However, Xier, who was walking, did not notice that a black shadow suddenly appeared behind her. When the black shadow saw Xier was about to move, he suddenly grinned evilly, then turned into a black gas and entered Xier's body, but Xier did not notice it at all.

Chapter 2 The Ruler of Knowledge

Yancheng got its name because every spring and autumn, there are flocks of geese flying in the sky. On the other hand, although Yancheng is small, it is a transportation hub with constant traffic and a prosperous economy.

And what Xier saw before was this small town.

"finally reached……"