Making Some Big News!

A few kilometers from the TV station building, Kiana stopped the motorcycle and hid it nearby.

To avoid alerting the patrols inside the TV station building, she could only get off early and proceed on foot, reducing the chances of being discovered to the absolute minimum.

Sigh, I'm doing this for everyone's sake.

Sneaking around like this... if anyone else saw me, and I said I was one of the good guys...

Even I wouldn't believe it.

PS: Fourth update.

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Synopsis: "Miss Ritsuka, listen to me. I refused when I came to this world, got a simulator, and was told to save the Lostbelts with love."

"It wasn't because I rejected romance. On the contrary, I think love is truly great—not some vague praise, but something I sincerely marveled at."

"Because of love, light was pierced through, the heavenly wheel was severed by a sword, starships were shot down, the void was cleaved apart, and the shield blocked the Human Order Cannon... Only then could these exaggerated, absurd events—events that could even be called miracles—come to pass."

"Because of love, beasts persecuted, surpassed, and abandoned by humanity kept being born, challenging Pan-Human History."

"And it was precisely because the power of love was so great and so heavy that I refused. After all, my love was not that vast. What I couldn't do, I simply couldn't do."

"If that's the case, then why did you become like this, Mr. Playboy?"

Inside the cage, Chaldea, covered in shackles, looked at Skadi making ice cream for Surtr in the distance, Castor serving tea to Bá Wánxī, Tlaloc sharing dessert with Kukulkan, and Ibuki Douji discussing the tea ceremony with Minamoto no Raikou... Then he blinked innocently.

"Because the simulator never said it had to be my love, Miss Ritsuka."

Chapter 37: Making Some Big News!

After sneaking over to the TV station building, Kiana put on her mask, found an unlatched window on a lower floor, and jumped straight inside.

As for why her jumping ability was so strong...

Don't ask. The Kaslana clan bloodline was just absurdly overpowered.

Before this, Kiana had mentally prepared herself to be discovered and have to run for it.

Before coming here, she had even used the unreliable internet connection to look up the layout of certain parts of the building.

As for why that information was online, all she could say was that part of this floor was open to the public during the day.

Before entering, Kiana had even secretly watched a one-minute video on how to operate the equipment through a search engine.

Everything was ready. All she needed to do next was sneak over to the TV station, get the equipment running, and then...

—I can make some big news!

Kiana knew that as soon as she made that big news happen, it would not take long before someone used some simple, no-frills methods to interrupt her "casting."

The simplest options would be cutting the power or severing the network connection.

But no matter how quickly those people reacted, they could not pin Kiana down the instant she made her move.

As long as she could get the message out, even if just one more person believed her warning, she could save one more life.

With that thought in mind, Kiana stealthily made her way toward the top floor. Just as she was about to begin...

Click.

The pitch-black room was suddenly flooded with light.

"Eh?!"

The light stung Kiana's eyes, and she immediately panicked and prepared to run.

But in the next instant, after seeing the people present clearly, Kiana abruptly stopped.

She had initially thought she had been caught by staff left behind in the building.

But judging from the situation, she felt those people were unlikely to be staff.

Or rather...

—What kind of TV station staff wore bulletproof vests and carried handguns, huh?!

And those guys had their guns aimed at her head!

No matter how she looked at them, they did not seem like good people at all!

"Excuse me, you are Miss Kiana Kaslana, correct?"

The man in the lead kept his handgun aimed at Kiana as he spoke calmly.

"Our Boss has ordered us to invite you back for a chat."

This was bad.

I always knew Schicksal was after me and that stupid old man, but I never expected them to set up an ambush here in advance.

Kiana stared at the cold gun barrels surrounding her...

—But she was not actually all that afraid.

She had dared to go out and fight Honkai Beasts before she was even ten. Compared to Honkai Beasts, humans with handguns posed very little threat to her.

With the Kaslana clan's physique, Kiana was confident that even with so many guns pointed at her, she could find an opening and slip away without a scratch.

But if she ran now, it somehow felt like a loss.

Right. I need to get information out of them. I absolutely need information.

After deliberately showing weakness and raising her hands, Kiana let out a helpless sigh.

"Fine, I'll go with you."

"But since I'm cooperating so nicely, you have to tell me who went to all this trouble just to invite me, right?"

The mercenary leader had not intended to entertain Kiana's request.

Mercenaries were, bluntly speaking, people who licked blood off the blade.

These people risked their lives for money, and people who risked their lives had to be cautious, cautious, and cautious again while carrying out a mission.

To be honest, they did not want any unnecessary complications.

But at that moment, the mercenary leader's communicator rang.

"Since Miss Kiana wishes to know who I am, I suppose showing a little sincerity would not be a bad thing."

"After all, I know very well that as that person's daughter, you were supposed to be a genius girl."

"As a genius girl, you surely never intended to surrender without a fight. If possible, I would naturally prefer for you to sincerely cooperate with my plan and come meet me."

The moment she heard the voice from the communicator, Kiana inwardly cried out in alarm.

How did she know I was planning to run... Oh, right. She's with Schicksal.

The people from Schicksal had worked with that stupid old man and mom, so it was not strange for them to know my background.

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Cocolia, and I am a member of Anti-Entropy."

"As for why I wished to invite you to meet me, the reason is very simple."

"Miss Kiana, I do not want you to be hurt because of your kindness."

"Um..."

Listening to Cocolia's seemingly gentle words, Kiana felt goosebumps about to rise all over her body.

"Who... exactly are you?"

"You don't want me to be hurt... Do I know you?"

This feeling was strange.

Her words were expressing concern for me, that much was true, but my instincts are telling me...

This smell is the smell of lies!

On the other end of the communicator, Cocolia spoke with complete calm.

"Of course you do not know me, but I know your mother... Or rather, I knew Cecilia Sania one-sidedly."

"Fourteen years ago, she saved me when I was nearly attacked by a beast."

"And your father, Siegfried, was in fact close friends with some of the senior members of our organization."

"Whether for your mother's sake or your father's, I do not want you to be harmed."

"Please believe me. I truly sent people to protect you, and I truly harbor no ill intentions toward the daughter of my lifesaver."

Cocolia's words sounded very sincere.

And fourteen years ago was indeed when Kiana's mother, Cecilia, had died in battle.

At the time, Cecilia had saved many people during the Second Honkai Eruption. There was, in fact, nothing wrong with what Cocolia had said.

Yet at this moment, Kiana simply felt that Cocolia had not spoken her true feelings.

She had no proof.

But the Kaslana clan's instincts told her that if she obediently listened to Cocolia now, she would be finished.

"All right, since you said you know that stupid old man, that works out perfectly."

"Cocolia... I'll call you that, then."

"Auntie Cocolia, since Mom Cecilia was your lifesaver, I assume you would not refuse a small request from your lifesaver's daughter at a time like this, right?"

Kiana had taken off her mask for some air as she spoke to Cocolia on the other end of the communicator.

"As Siegfried Kaslana's daughter, I want to contact that stupid old man."

"That request isn't too much, is it?"

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We'll continue tomorrow. I'm going to sleep first.

I saw people in the comments saying that my random changes had made the plot confusing...

All right, then I'll briefly write a little explanation about why I did this.

First, let's talk about why I changed some of the original plot.

Everyone knows that the game's story begins more than two years after the Third Honkai Outbreak, while the only official account of what actually happened during the Third Honkai Outbreak was the early manga arc, Escape from Changkong.

So what roughly happened in Escape from Changkong?

The Trio prepared to flee Changkong City after the Honkai had already erupted. Kiana was badly injured by a Honkai Beast, and when Mei saw her, the Herrscher Persona she had been suppressing awakened.

Meanwhile, the result of a discussion among the higher-ups in the Schicksal council was that the Third Honkai Outbreak required an S-rank Valkyrie to suppress it, while the Far East Branch needed to send Valkyries over first to buy time.

Then Theresa said they should trust Major Himeko and calm down first.

Finally, Himeko and the Hyperion were nearly blown apart by the Herrscher of Thunder, and after Kiana erupted, she tore off the Herrscher of Thunder's wings.

A few days later, Himeko returned to the Far East Branch, Theresa criticized Himeko for acting recklessly, and The Trio enrolled in school.

It looked like a perfectly normal stretch of plot...

—My ass.

I know I'll definitely get criticized for saying miHoYo's story has problems. Some people will surely say that since I make a living off this, criticizing miHoYo means smashing my own rice bowl.

But the story's problems would not disappear just because I chose not to criticize them. They objectively existed.

The early Honkai plot was visibly unreliable and half-hearted, while the newer story was made far more seriously and felt much better. I think anyone who paid attention to the story could feel that, right?

As for the problems with Escape from Changkong, let's analyze them one by one.

According to later settings, Cocolia was one of the instigators behind the Third Honkai Outbreak, so why did she not appear in Escape from Changkong?