Rules! They're Made to Be Broken!

Lin Nai: Enemies, damn it! Enemies, fight!!

Honkai Beasts could roughly be divided from low to high into Assault-type, Knight-type, Cannon-type, Tank-type, Temple-type, Emperor-type, and Judgment-type.

As well as the Apocalypse-type mentioned in the story, making eight types in total.

Among them, Assault-type, Tank-type, Knight-type, Cannon-type, Temple-type, and Warlord-type were all lower-ranking Honkai Beasts, while Emperor-type, Judgment-type, and Apocalypse-type were higher-ranking Honkai Beasts.

Over the past year of traveling, the ones Lin Nai had seen most often were actually Assault-types and Knight-types.

After all, there hadn't been any major Honkai eruptions.

But none of that mattered.

"As everyone knows, any living creature will feel pain, fear, or reveal an opening when attacked."

"But! Honkai Beasts don't feel any of that!!"

Lin Nai said righteously as he looked at the Honkai Beast corpse in front of him.

He genuinely believed that those things had no sense of pain.

The passing Kiana: ???

Lin Nai was at it again...

"As everyone knows, anyone who kills an opponent will feel lost, softhearted, pity... but Lin Nai doesn't feel any of that!"

Kiana said with both hands on her hips.

To this day, Kiana had never forgotten that night in the mountains.

One moment, Lin Nai had been smiling as he petted a rabbit and said how cute it was.

The next moment, he had pulled out his Disc Blade and killed the rabbit.

Regarding such a situation...

Kiana's response was to add more cumin.

"Kiana, don't talk nonsense. How could I possibly lack compassion?"

Lin Nai rolled his eyes. Be careful, or he would cut her dinner in half tonight!

Kiana: Don't do that!

"Bleh!"

Kiana made a face and stuck out her pink tongue before saying, "You do have some, just not much."

"Tch."

"By the way, we're not sleeping in the car again tonight, are we?"

Since no one had come looking for trouble, Lin Nai couldn't exactly go looking for trouble himself.

As a result, they occasionally spent the night in the car, which definitely wasn't as comfortable as sleeping in a bed.

"Not this time."

Lin Nai pulled a room key card from who knew where. "I really didn't expect that little punk to have such an expensive hotel key card."

Of course, there were exceptions.

Sometimes, when they arrived in a new city, the same old cliché scenario would play out.

Like this time, when a little punk had blocked their path.

He had truly chosen the narrow road.

Standing before him were two people who could wipe out an entire gang by themselves.

So, unsurprisingly...

Lin Nai had hung the man from a streetlamp.

He had been left with nothing but his underwear.

Lin Nai had taken all his belongings.

Kiana was no longer surprised by it. After all, they had been traveling together for nearly a year.

Sometimes, she even helped hang people up.

Thanks to Lin Nai, Kiana had learned quite a few ways to tie people up now—the fancy kind.

"But what hotel is this card for?"

"Doesn't it say on it? Hmm... bathhouse special package?"

"Huh?"

"No, I read it wrong." Lin Nai coughed twice and peeled off the little slip of paper stuck to the card.

"It's called... hmm, Kiana, you read it."

"Huh? Xxxx Royal Grand Hotel. Is that really so hard?"

"Come on, you know I can speak, but I can't read."

Lin Nai spread his hands. After all those years of compulsory education, hadn't he still failed to properly learn English?

Broken English.

And now anyone expected him to learn Russian?

Impossible. He couldn't learn it, absolutely couldn't learn it, not even a little.

His language ability was entirely a skill granted by the system.

But that was language, not writing.

So Lin Nai couldn't read.

Because of that, he was often mocked by the airhead beside him.

So Lin Nai made Kiana say tongue twisters, like "red carp, green carp, and donkey."

Then it became Lin Nai's turn to laugh at Kiana!

"Man, you remembered the bathhouse special package just fine," Kiana muttered.

"..."

Lin Nai coughed awkwardly twice. It was mainly because it was easy to remember.

"Let's go, let's hurry up."

Embarrassed, Lin Nai decisively took the lead and made a quick escape.

Kiana followed with a mischievous grin.

"Hey, hey, Lin Nai! I want braised pork tonight!"

Lin Nai pressed one hand against Kiana's approaching face. "Be more ladylike, will you?"

"And there's no pork, no ingredients. At most, we can have grilled beef tonight, so don't be picky."

"Nooo~ Lin Nai, you definitely have a way, right?"

Kiana said with a grin.

"Do you not care about your figure at all?" Lin Nai said expressionlessly. He felt like her legs had gotten a little meatier.

"Hmph, this young lady won't gain weight!" Kiana clasped both hands behind her head and hummed smugly.

Lin Nai looked Kiana up and down as she began to develop.

It wasn't an illusion. She was obviously a little softer than when he had first met her.

Very fair... no, very supple... no, she was... very long, yeah.

Still, Kiana had grown quite fast.

A year ago, she had still been a little runt.

"So, are you making it or not?"

"No. I don't feel like cooking today."

"We don't have any extra money to eat out," Kiana said, looking at Lin Nai's pocket.

Come to think of it, Lin Nai's pockets clearly weren't very big, but he always seemed able to pull anything out of them.

Once, overcome with curiosity, Kiana had specifically searched them.

But there had been nothing inside.

Yet one minute later, Lin Nai could pull a huge pile of random junk from his pockets.

Kiana's expression at the time had been utterly stunned.

Kiana: (?Д?)?

Lin Nai: System Space, girl.

"I think I heard that this hotel has a buffet dinner when we passed through town."

"You should've said so earlier!"

Kiana's eyes lit up. It looked like today would be another day when she could eat her fill!!

With a buffet, Lin Nai wouldn't have to work so hard.

Though buffets weren't as delicious as Lin Nai's cooking...

There was a lot of it!

Lots of variety, plenty of options, and all you could eat.

She cared about Lin Nai too~

It was just that she completely forgot about that whenever she was eating.

Rules! Were Meant to Be Broken!

After arriving at the hotel.

The first thing Lin Nai needed to do was exchange the room key card for another room—one that wasn't occupied.

As for the key card in his hand, he would leave it at the front desk and wait for its owner to come collect it from the hotel.

Of course.

There was no way he could explain it normally.

Not to mention that even the lobby alone made it clear that the rooms here were absurdly expensive.

At a glance, this clearly wasn't the kind of place some random street punk could afford to stay in.

Especially when that punk had been a robber.

Hmm...

It wasn't impossible that he had been some brain-dead rich kid out looking for thrills.

Standing at the front desk, Lin Nai checked the key card's information and then altered the records.

A hotel employee lay beneath the front desk, with a baseball bat beside him.

After being hit by Lin Nai's physical hypnosis technique, he was now down for the count.

One of his hands stretched forward, as though he were trying to shout something.

Lin Nai had specifically waited until the other staff members were gone before knocking him out with a club.

He had become very practiced at this sort of thing.

"Sorry, sorry. You can't always do what you want in life, so I hope you'll forgive me... Seeing how hard it is for you to work, I'll send you 200 yuan for medical expenses later."

Lin Nai said to the unconscious person on the floor without even turning his head as he tapped away at the computer.

At the same time, he placed the room key card beside the keyboard and booked another room at roughly the same price.

The owner of this hotel should be thanking him.