I'll Come Back

This city, destroyed beneath nuclear bombs, was already utterly unrecognizable.

Kevin wanted to sit beneath the cherry blossom tree his teammate had spoken of, but there was no way to tell where the square had been or where the skyscrapers once stood.

"You two?" Kevin turned and saw the pair following him. "Why aren't you going to the shelter?"

Flame-Moth's base had been thrown into chaos by the Erosion Herrscher, but during the final stages of the battle, they learned that humanity's last three cities had been targeted by nuclear strikes. They had still dispatched a group of people to the locations of those three cities to rescue survivors.

The city had been destroyed, but it was impossible that everyone had died in the attack. As long as there were survivors, Flame-Moth would come to rescue them.

"You came down from a spaceship. You must be some incredible big shot, right?" Han Jiang asked Kevin.

Kevin shook his head. "I'm not some big shot. If you came looking for me to handle something, I'm sorry to disappoint you."

Han Jiang shook his head. "We don't want you to do anything for us. We just want to ask... how is our world doing?"

"How is the world doing..." Kevin repeated Han Jiang's words.

Many years had passed since the First Honkai.

From nations across the world resisting the Honkai on their own, to Mei establishing Flame-Moth after the Third Honkai...

Twelve Herrschers had appeared, and twelve Herrschers had been slain.

According to Mei's observations of the fluctuations in Imaginary Space, the descent of the so-called "Final Herrscher" was drawing ever closer.

"It'll be fine." Kevin took a breath and said to Han Jiang, "It'll be fine."

"We'll all continue living on this planet. We'll just move from the surface to underground