"Why?" Siegfried asked with sudden disappointment. "Don't you trust me?"
"Of course not." Li Pu said with a smile. "I trust your strength."
"But I feel like I'd have to deal with Honkai Beasts while also watching out for you."
"I'd die of exhaustion."
Absolute distrust! Even though Siegfried looked like she wasn't clinging to him on the surface right now, Li Pu believed this fellow definitely hadn't given up so easily.
"I'm going to go find Mei," Li Pu said. "You hurry up and change your outfit."
"Go to class!"
At the mention of class, Siegfried's face instantly darkened. Taking classes and all that...
She really didn't want to go.
Yet go she must.
Siegfried went off to change her clothes, and Li Pu ran off to find Mei.
Since she couldn't cancel her equipment state for the time being, Li Pu couldn't try equipping the newly drawn character MEI either. However, Li Pu planned to do a little homework first.
MEI wouldn't look so much like Mei for no reason.
She definitely had some kind of inextricably linked relationship with Mei.
If she went to chat with Mei, maybe Mei could give her some useful intelligence.
If not, finding Bronya would do.
Right now, though, she felt that going to find Bronya was completely useless, so finding Mei was a bit more useful.
"MEI?" Hearing what Li Pu said, Mei tilted her head and thought for a moment before saying, "I don't know her. I've never heard that name."
"May I ask if this person is very important to Li... Auntie?"
"Auntie..." Li Pu felt she truly couldn't complain about that.
"Yes." Li Pu didn't want to dwell on the form of address either; auntie it was. Being called auntie by Mei made her feel instantly more than a generation older.
"This person is indeed rather important to me."
"That's why I want to understand her."
"Do you need me to help you find this person?" Mei asked. "Maybe we could use the Raiden family's connections to help you find her."
"Did she owe you money?"
"Owe money..." Li Pu was even more speechless. She really didn't know why Mei's train of thought had suddenly made such a leap.
"Why would you think of that?"
"Intuition," Mei said. "I feel like it should be anyway."
Anyway, Mei always felt that if Li Pu suddenly focused on this person and came to ask her about it, there had to be some entanglement. After thinking about it for a long time, Mei felt that entanglement might be economic interests.
"Not at all." Li Pu shook her head and said, "No money owed, and if you want to find her..."
"I estimate you probably won't find anyone alive."
Li Pu didn't know who this MEI was, but based on the currently drawn characters, nine times out of ten this MEI was also someone who had already kicked the bucket. Therefore, the possibility of not finding anyone alive was extremely high.
"Someone from the past?" Mei thought for a moment and said, "I see..."
"Then that might be very troublesome."
"Indeed." Li Pu agreed strongly.
Should she try looking for Otto? That fellow ought to know something, right? But if she looked for Otto, goodness knows whether this guy would use the matter to dig a pit for her.
"Is there anything else you need my help with?" Mei saw Li Pu's thoughtful expression.
"No ~ nothing much." Li Pu shook her head and said, "Over on my side..."
"Do you want to run a dungeon?"
"Dungeon?" Mei asked, puzzled. "What is that?"
"What I mean is," Li Pu thought for a moment and said, "what I mean is I want to find a team to help me delve deep into a mystic realm. I need three weapons from that mystic realm."
"The Sword in the Stone, the Lady of the Lake Sword, and Avalon."
Although it was a spur-of-the-moment idea, wouldn't it be perfect to suddenly have Mei, Kiana, and Bronya go together?
These three seemed to be the main trio of Honkai Impact 3rd.
Standard protagonist destiny.
No matter how dangerous, they would turn danger into safety, right? Teaming up with these three, could she possibly worry about not getting them?
"Auntie really knows how to joke," Mei said with a smile. "Those things are only items from myths and legends; how could they exist? Besides, Avalon."
"This is the legendary 'Utopia Isolated from the World'. Legend has it that this thing entered the elves' homeland together with the Lady of the Lake Sword."
"How could such things from myth and legend exist?"
"Huhu ~" Li Pu smiled mysteriously and said, "Is that so? Honkai was once considered a rumor, you know."
"Don't easily negate myths."
"Things in myths."
"Not necessarily non-existent!"
Chapter 73: An Airdropped Kid
Setting off to search for those legendary weapons was not quickly put on the agenda.
Running a dungeon after all wasn't playing a game; there was no cheat code, no automatic exit from the dungeon upon disconnection, and certainly no running back to your corpse or spending crystals to revive upon death.
Dead meant dead!
Right now, there really weren't many squads St. Freya could dispatch, and neither Otto nor Theresa would turn this matter into a one-shot deal.
From now on, they would reorganize and prepare for battle, train Valkyries, hoard supply crates, hoard weapons, hoard crystals... scratch that last one.
In short, there was still a long time from preparation starting now until actually going to run this dungeon.
It wasn't to the extent that Li Pu could just think of finding a few people and go dungeon crawling.
As for today.
"I heard someone is coming again."
In the cafeteria, Kiana stirred the ice cubes in her small cup of iced super strawberry tea with a spoon and said, "What kind of person is coming this time?"
"No matter who it is, we must maintain unity," Fu Hua said while sipping green tea. "And Kiana, at least half of your homework yesterday was wrong."
"Oh? Well, that's not bad then," Mei suddenly said happily. "At least half of it was correct this time."
"The other half hasn't been graded by Teacher Himeko." Fu Hua took another sip of tea and said, "Only half has been graded so far."
"Kiana is a big dummy," Bronya said in a low voice. "Mei-jiejie, Bronya wants to eat a strawberry sundae too."
Just as that voice fell, everyone fixed their gaze on the person sharing their table. It was clearly Li Pu, who was strictly following the philosophy of "as long as I'm not spending my own money," eating with open abandon.
The dining table, nearly three meters in length, had two and a half meters of its surface completely covered with various glass cups.
These glass cups originally held sundaes, ice cream, fruit bowls, shaved ice, and so on, and so forth.
The Bed King state seemed to inherently possess a King's Stomach buff.
Anyway, Otto had said to eat with open abandon, so how could she not eat with open abandon?
Li Pu knew very well that the snacks at St. Freya Academy were super good! To give a slightly vivid example—the definition of Tokiwadai's food in a certain scientific railgun was that an ordinary student meal outside could be sold at a high price.
St. Freya Academy was the same.
It wasn't that you couldn't eat these snacks outside; you could, but the price would be very high!
Extremely high.
"Is this Ganesha reincarnated?" Bronya said softly. "This must be Ganesha reincarnated, right?"
"You're not allowed to say that!" Kiana slammed the table and said, "You shorty! You are not allowed to say that about this young lady's..."
"In short, you're not allowed to say that!"
She had to hold it in now, hold it in—this was the play-hard-to-get tactic Daddy talked about! Mother must be playing the play-hard-to-get trick too!
Mhm.
"Bronya is not a shorty," Bronya said. "Bronya wants to eat a strawberry sundae too."
"Bronya saw it; all the strawberry sundaes were eaten by her."
"Let's talk about official business." Fu Hua changed the subject.
Although this person named Li Pu... who could also be called Artoria or Cecilia, currently held the official job of a cleaner, judging by the current situation, she was also a teaching assistant here and likewise one of the top Valkyries.
So never mind her appetite issue.
Cecilia... she wasn't this big of an eater before, Fu Hua glanced at Li Pu again.
"I heard it's a guy," Fu Hua said. "He's a cadet from the Bincheng Naval Vessel Academy, and I heard he's about to graduate and get assigned here to intern with us."
"Captain?"
Li Pu instantly perked up her ears and said, "An airdropped captain?"
That's not right. Shouldn't a captain be a wise, aerial-splitting cleaner? Li Pu thought to herself. So shouldn't this position be mine?
I can split the air! I'm the know-it-all! I'm the cleaner right now!
Shouldn't it be me?
Although she had never said it and never asked, ever since she took up the job of a cleaner and confirmed that this academy indeed trained Valkyries, she had basically defaulted to taking the position of captain.
What was the deal with this sudden airdrop of a captain?
"Dalian Naval Academy, I know that place," Li Pu said. "I even went to hang out over there before."
"Dalian?" Fu Hua asked doubtfully.
"Oh, Bincheng Naval Vessel Academy," Li Pu said. "An old childhood friend of mine used to study over there."
Li Pu suddenly remembered that even for the same city, the names had some differences.
"That's a place that trains the navy," Li Pu asked. "Why dispatch him here? To be a captain?"
"There are no ships here for him."
"There just aren't any for now," Fu Hua pushed her glasses up and said. "There will be in the future. As for a captain... a newcomer like this isn't qualified enough."
"A naval cadet like that would probably struggle even as the captain of a destroyer or a frigate."
"So what is he here for?" Kiana said. "This young lady won't have a guy like that bossing me around."
"To be precise, he is here to command," Fu Hua said. "His major seems to be navigation technology, and that major includes naval vessel command."
"We aren't a warship," Kiana said. "Sending someone who studies warship command over—what do they think we are?"
"Ship Girls?" Bronya chimed in. "That seems very popular lately. Bronya is not a Ship Girl."
"We don't need a captain to command combat."
"Isn't Teacher Himeko supposed to command combat?" Mei asked. "Or Siegfried? I think Cecilia is fine too. At least they are genuine Valkyries."
"Besides, Siegfried and Teacher Himeko reportedly both have rich combat experience."
"Suddenly airdropping an outsider to take command."
"Isn't this a bit of a child's game?"
"It's alright," Fu Hua said, as if she had experienced this problem long ago. "At least they didn't dispatch someone from the Air Force to you. In the past, to vie for command authority, the Army even got involved."
"Though they withdrew later, we'll still encounter people from the Army in the future."
"The Air Force too; currently, the main warship command belongs to the Navy."
"However, there are Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel on board the ships."
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