Who is MEI?

"Oh..." Siegfried immediately felt his heart accelerate, and this feeling of heartache was truly too despairing.

"Speaking of which," Artoria suddenly asked, "Siegfried, do you know someone named MEI?"

"Huh? Who are you talking about?" Siegfried asked in return.

"No... it's nothing." Artoria shook her head.

She had drawn a new character.

A character completely unfamiliar to him.

This really was super tricky!

Chapter 71 Who on Earth is This Person

Who is MEI?

This was a problem for Li Pu, a very obvious and serious problem.

Judging from the character art, she looked like Mei. Besides MEI herself, there was also a blue character silhouette behind the character art.

The standard traits of this blue character silhouette were flat chest and drill-like drills.

Bronya... Li Pu could recognize who this character silhouette was at a glance. This was simply too obvious. Especially the drills; it was impossible not to recognize them.

Bronya plus Mei equals MEI?

I always feel something is wrong. Li Pu still couldn't figure it out.

Who on earth is this MEI?

This was completely in Li Pu's blind spot of knowledge. He couldn't be said to know nothing about Honkai and the Honkai worldview. As a former captain, he still knew quite a bit.

But knowing quite a bit didn't mean knowing everything. He wasn't a veteran player, a closed-beta player, or a hardcore player.

He belonged to the casual, screen-licking player base.

And he mainly focused on licking the screen.

Feeling embarrassed would only happen if ghosts were real! He was clearly drooling over her body, why on earth did he have to put on the act of I'm just here to play the game, all you women get away?!

It wouldn't have mattered if he hadn't time-traveled; he could have just spent every day licking the screen in different poses.

Yet once he traveled through, his meager Honkai Impact 3rd knowledge was severely insufficient.

At least one thing can be confirmed, Li Pu thought to himself after pondering: This MEI must have a connection with Bronya and Mei.

However, what can this character do? Looking at the art, she's wearing a white lab coat and glasses.

The Bronya behind her also has a strong sci-fi feel.

Could she be a programmer?

This joke isn't funny!

Carrying a whole bunch of unanswerable questions, he ended the day's journey. Fortunately, a certain person—yes, Siegfried—didn't stubbornly insist on following her back to where she lived.

Unfortunately.

"Hiss~~~~" Li Pu dragged her chest and said, "Why can't I change back again?"

King Arthur's weren't big, but she could still drag them.

This wasn't the crux of the issue.

The crux was that after sleeping for a night, she still hadn't changed back. This wasn't the forced equipment time after being discovered, where you couldn't change back because you wanted to. So wanting to unequip was still possible.

But the system also said that since it wasn't the equipment method of the generic Transformation Dance, unequipping was also a troublesome matter.

"Really troublesome..." Li Pu put her hand down.

"If I'm still the Bed King..."

"Won't I have to eat three packs of noodles for breakfast today?!"

Having experienced yesterday's feast—where Siegfried ate to the point of utter despair and even had the thought of going to become a rabbit—Li Pu finally developed a very intuitive and clear understanding of this King's Stomach.

This wasn't just normally big; it was exceptionally big.

So, three packs of instant noodles?

"Ce... Artoria?"

Early in the morning, Siegfried found Artoria sitting on the steps of the teaching building stairwell with tears in her eyes.

This girl looked completely like someone who had suffered a profound blow; what on earth had happened?

"You... what's wrong with you?" Siegfried suddenly felt as though his wallet had a crisis, stirring eagerly as if it wanted to fly right out of his pocket.

Siegfried wanted to turn around and run, but he held back. As a real man, as Cecilia's husband.

Well, Cecilia's husband...

Cecilia is the reincarnation of King Arthur, and Cecilia is my wife, so King Arthur is also my wife, right? Siegfried felt as though he understood it all in an instant.

No wonder he had been so impulsive yesterday, rushing to pay the bill and putting down that Huben.

Ah, so that was it.

Then as Cecilia's husband, the reincarnation of King Arthur, and King Arthur's husband, how could he back down?

"Th... that... Siegfried..."

With a crying face, despair mixed with hope, and entreaty mixed with a request, Li Pu said, "Can... can you treat me to lunch?"

Eating three packs of noodles and all that...

Now as King Arthur, she had already eaten all the instant noodles she had saved up!

Who gave Artoria this persona?!

"Cough, cough, cough..." Siegfried immediately coughed. Without a single trace of hesitation, he said, "Cecili... Artoria, let's go find Otto."

"As for this meal problem, I think Otto will definitely help you solve it."

"Maybe he'll even open up a special fund for you exclusively."

"Oh?" Li Pu instantly perked up and asked, "Why?"

"Because he needs Valkyries," Siegfried said seriously. "Schicksal needs Valkyries, and this world needs heroes. Although it looks peaceful right now."

"But this world needs more heroes."

"There's also another issue," Siegfried said. "Didn't you want to ask about the true Sword of Victory and Oath?"

"Let's go together. Otto might resolve it for you all at once."

Could Otto solve problems?

Otto might be able to, but Otto wouldn't resolve this problem for you out of the goodness of his heart.

"As for the meal issue," Otto didn't take the matter seriously at all as he said, "This doesn't even count as a problem. How could a massive Schicksal not afford to feed a single Valkyrie?"

"Not to mention just one Artoria, we could easily afford ten or eight."

As soon as he finished speaking, Otto casually pulled out a document, scribbled something with a sweeping stroke of his large brush, signed his name, stamped it with his seal, and handed it to Rita beside him, saying, "It's fine even if her appetite is a bit bigger; the special fund will keep her well-fed."

"Rita, go to the finance department and make the arrangements."

This was a minor matter, and Otto arranged it in mere minutes.

But the other matter.

"The Sword of Victory and Oath," Otto took a sip of the coffee Rita had brewed by hand and said, "King Arthur once had two personal swords: one was the Sword in the Stone, and the other was the Lady of the Lake Sword. The Sword of Victory and Oath is the Lady of the Lake Sword."

"Moreover, matched with the Sword of Victory and Oath is the scabbard, Avalon."

"These things do truly exist."

"You want to take back the two personal swords and the scabbard," Otto said calmly, "which can be said to be only natural."

"But the question is, do you have the strength to do it?"

"Are you worried I won't be able to lift them?" Li Pu felt a weight lift from her heart. It seemed this Otto probably knew she was a fake. In that case, it was completely normal for Otto to worry she wouldn't be able to lift them.

It seemed her previous worries about not being able to lift them and it being hard to explain to Siegfried and Otto were completely redundant.

"That's not it," Otto put down his coffee cup and said, "Personally, I feel you are completely capable of lifting the Lady of the Lake Sword and the Sword in the Stone, and you can get Avalon just as well."

"What I'm worried about is that you won't be able to get them."

"If you truly want to go get them, I won't stop you."

"But what you will have to face is..."

"A real Honkai Beast!"

Chapter 72 You Want to Run a Dungeon

The Lady of the Lake Sword, the Sword in the Stone, and Avalon all existed in reality.

But if you wanted to get them.

Or stand before these legendary weapons and want to touch these items, it wasn't that simple. To describe it in some simple terms, it was running a dungeon.

Naturally, since it was running a dungeon, the opponents you faced would be different.

A real Honkai Beast!

These were not those simulated Honkai Beasts from simulation battles; the Honkai Beasts in the dungeon would genuinely kill Valkyries. There was no pause button, nor were there reinforcement forces.

Once you entered the dungeon, it was impossible to come out unless you fought your way all the way through.

On this point, Anti-Entropy had quite a lot of say.

They had dispatched tens of thousands of mechs into the dungeon, also wanting to obtain legendary weapons like the Lady of the Lake Sword, the Sword in the Stone, and Avalon.

Yet all the dispatched mechs vanished without a trace, sinking like stones in the ocean.

So as for this matter of running a dungeon.

The difficulty truly was immense!

It belonged to high input, high risk, and of course, high reward. Being able to bring back three legendary divine weapons in a single trip—that reward was definitely enough for a capitalist to sell the rope to hang himself.

It's just that the input is still a bit high.

Li Pu agreed on the spot, but didn't directly say she was choosing people to go do the work.

She hadn't thought it through yet about actually running a dungeon; when all was said and done, she was still too weak. She had to at least get one character to reach the S-rank or above, right?

Before that.

"I still have to make a fake one." Li Pu nodded and said, "Well, being all show and no substance is fine too."

Anyway, it was just temporarily acting as a Cosprop, so fake was fake.

At least this time the meal problem was resolved.

In Artoria's state, she was still exceptionally big on eating. If Otto couldn't solve her meal problem, she could already apply for bankruptcy.

Now she could; at least Otto had solved a very pressing problem for her.

That was still pretty good.

"I thought you would go immediately," Siegfried said with his hands shoved into his pockets, "and plan to set off to search for those weapons."

"Set off immediately?" Li Pu shouldered her mop and said, "Who do you think I'm taking with me? This is a real battlefield. People die there. I won't go without complete preparation."

"I'm going to get weapons."

"Not to throw my life away."

"You can look for me," Siegfried raised both arms, flexing his muscles to display his strength as he said, "I'm more than happy to accompany you."

"You?" Li Pu glanced at Siegfried and said, "No... I refuse!"

Siegfried was indeed strong enough.

Yet Li Pu always felt that if she took this guy along, she would definitely be in even greater danger.