"Uh, why are you crying? It's not like I did anything that remarkable."
Bai Ge scratched his head helplessly. He hadn't expected Mei's state of mind at this point to be so fragile. No wonder the Herrscher of Thunder in the story called her a "crybaby."
The current Raiden Mei was not yet the Herrscher of Thunder who would endure countless hardships and trials in the future. Right now, she was merely a pitiful girl suffering from campus bullying.
"All right, all right. Making a girl cry wasn't what I wanted to do."
"Okay, thank you. But my actions dirtied your clothes. Let me make it up to you."
"One correction: you didn't dirty them. Those bad guys did. As for compensation, there's no need... uh, cough, cough. But since you insist, I'll take this."
Just as Bai Ge was about to refuse, he spotted something in Mei's hand. After hesitating for half a second, he decisively chose this cooking lady's lunchbox.
"Perfect, I haven't had lunch yet~"
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"Burp! Not bad. As expected of the Herrscher of the Void's lunchbox—so good!"
After happily finishing Mei's lunch, Bai Ge rubbed his stomach with a pleased expression.
This trip through time had already been worth it. He had actually gotten to taste the homemade lunch of the "Herrscher of the Void," something only the main cast of St. Freya got to enjoy.
He was already wondering if there was some way to turn this girl into his long-term meal ticket. Bai Ge could cook too, but he was still far inferior to Mei.
As long as you have that intention, Host, this system believes it would be very easy. In fact, after that heroic rescue just now, Raiden Mei's favorability toward you has already skyrocketed.
"Eh? That easily?"
Obviously. This system did not expect you to be such an experienced expert at picking up girls. You acted when it was time to act, without the slightest hesitation.
"Experienced my ass. I've never dated in either of my lives combined. Are you mocking me, System?"
...Uh, fine. This system thought your heroic rescue had been carefully considered. I did not expect you to have given it no thought at all. Host, your personality is even more "impulsive" than expected.
Bai Ge rolled his eyes at the system's evaluation.
Still, he had some self-awareness. He knew he was not a rational person and was easily swayed by his emotions.
Otherwise, he would not have turned back after already avoiding that car accident because of a little girl and a grieving mother, throwing himself forward to push that little girl away.
Bai Ge had never regretted it. After all, just as good people were rewarded, he had turned disaster into fortune and crossed over into this world.
"All right, what's the point of talking about this now? After school this afternoon, I'll go explore the city. Changkong City, with all its disasters, won't be around for much longer."
Bai Ge patted his butt and stood up. Since his school uniform had gotten dirty, he went to get a new set, then borrowed the swimming club's shower room for a bath.
However, until school ended that afternoon—
He faintly sensed someone's gaze.
Raiden Mei's gaze.
"Uh... she can't be falling for me that easily, right? If we're talking about the most eager girls in Honkai Impact, hasn't it always been the Saniyat family of the mother-in-law?"
At this rate, he might max out Mei's favorability before Kiana even appeared.
Could it be that, by then... Fan Shi would be overjoyed? Bai Ge was clearly a Pure Love God of War, okay?
After school.
Bai Ge did not linger and immediately left Senba Academy. He first went to the home the system had arranged for his identity—a small villa in downtown Changkong City.
"Although my system didn't give me any cheats, it did give me a house and a car... damn, it still feels so low-tier! Other systems let their hosts become gods right from the start. Why do I have to work hard? I really don't want to work hard~"
After all, the Third Honkai was just around the corner. Once Mei became the Herrscher of Thunder and the Great Honkai broke out, Bai Ge could not help wondering whether this house would still survive.
Bai Ge: "Why is the villa flying?"
When the Herrscher of Thunder's Magnetic Storm descended, would his little villa remain intact? Bai Ge had no desire to become like some Island Exploding Raven, pacing around, rolling on the ground, weeping bitterly, and then declaring that no matter the cost, humanity would ultimately defeat the Honkai.
So even if it was only for the sake of his little villa, Bai Ge swore that he would stop the Third Honkai!
After taking enough money from home, Bai Ge went out shopping. Fortunately, the system had made him the identity of a rich man, sparing him quite a bit of trouble.
After all, when Bai Ge crossed over, aside from the clothes on his back, all he had was a phone and a red Chairman Mao bill.
The phone could not connect to the internet, even with mobile data turned on, and that red Chairman Mao bill was completely unusable as well.
Bai Ge had already turned it into a lucky charm, treating it as a keepsake from another world.
...Several hours later...
"Ah~ The technology in the Honkai world is much better than Blue Star's. I accidentally splurged on so much stuff."
Although Otto had deliberately suppressed civilian technology to prevent civilization from developing too far, the technology of the Current Civilization was still more advanced than Bai Ge's original world.
Bai Ge bought a phone, a laptop, and a pair of over-ear headphones. The first was for daily use, the second was for gaming, and the last was purely out of interest.
Although the phone from his original world was basically useless now, he could still think of a way to extract the data from its storage card. It was not because he had any study materials he could not bear to part with, but because Bai Ge had accumulated and downloaded tens of thousands of songs before crossing over.
His four great hobbies in life were eating, sleeping, gaming, and listening to music. Bai Ge especially loved music.
In his own words, he was extremely picky about sound. He liked both classical and pop music, and had more or less taught himself to play most instruments. If he were sent to the Previous Civilization now—
Bai Ge was confident he could compete with Eden... before getting utterly crushed!
Still, he had not spent all that time wandering around without doing anything useful. At this moment, for example, he was holding binoculars and hiding inside an abandoned building, observing ME Corp from afar.
"Tsk, it really has been taken over by Cocolia's people. There are quite a few good things in there. Hm, I hope they haven't been moved yet."
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Although Mei believed her father, Raiden Ryoma, had definitely been framed, unfortunately, her father really had embezzled 3.4 billion dollars.
His purpose was to research weapons capable of stopping and saving Mei when she became a Herrscher in the future.
The most famous one in the game was the katana said to be capable of freezing Herrschers, Plasma Shadow Show.
Bai Ge did not believe that at all.
Herrschers were not that cheap. It was not as if every Herrscher was the Herrscher of Wind, who could be knocked unconscious by three Titans. It would be strange if that thing actually worked.
"Honestly, that was a painfully stupid move. Father-in-law, if you hadn't embezzled the money, Cocolia wouldn't have caught you by the handle and sent you to prison. Mei wouldn't have ended up in her current situation either. Instead, you greatly sped up her progress toward becoming the Herrscher of Thunder."
And those weapons were useless in the end anyway. They never even appeared throughout the entire plot... 3.4 billion dollars, wasted just like that. What a spendthrift!
"And that Cocolia is such a bitch. She can't do anything right, but she's number one at infighting. The moves of this god of civil war are enough to send anyone's blood pressure through the roof."
Thinking of all the trouble Cocolia caused early on, Bai Ge crushed one corner of the binoculars in his hand and viciously added another entry to the little notebook in his heart.
If he got the chance someday, he would definitely pin that vixen to the ground and beat the hell out of her! He would let her know that being pretty did not mean she could be forgiven for everything she did!
The X-10 project, the Honkai eruption in Changkong City, the copy of Walter Joyce, the abuse of Wendy, the Herrscher of Wind—even Kevin's release could be loosely counted as her doing.
Her ability to stir up trouble was practically comparable to Otto's, yet she was an entire solar system worse than Otto at actually getting things done.
Green Otto, the overseer, deserved to die too, but at least he knew his limits. This Cocolia Danzo had no idea of her own limits at all—a bronze player who thought she was a king.
Bai Ge considered himself a very civilized person. Even when he cursed, he usually did not use particularly filthy language. But even if Cocolia went next door to Star Rail, she would still be a menace.
That's right. To prevent that woman from causing more trouble, this system recommends that you lock her in a little dark room after capturing her and train her day and night as a hot weapon.
"Ew, ew, ew~ Are you a system or porn software? Besides, I can't beat that vixen right now. There'll be plenty of chances later. The urgent matter is figuring out how to get into ME Corp and grab some equipment."
Raiden Ryoma's weapons research involved more than just Plasma Shadow Show. Otherwise, Bai Ge had every reason to believe that most of those 3.4 billion dollars had been pocketed.
After coming up with more than ten possible plans—
Bai Ge decided to go home, wash up, and sleep.
Right now, he was merely an ordinary person. Infiltrating the ME Corp branch that Cocolia had taken over could wait until Kiana showed up.
The best thing he could do now was protect Raiden Mei from campus bullying.
Becoming a Herrscher required more than absorbing a vast amount of Honkai Energy. The host also needed to possess an immense amount of negative emotion.
Whether in the Previous Civilization or the Current Civilization, most Herrschers appeared because they had been treated horribly as humans—used as human test subjects, bullied at school, ostracized and hated by those around them, and so on.
Well, except for the Pink Fairy Lady. Elysia was perfect!
Bai Ge could not help but wonder.
"If none of those terrible things happened, if humanity could treat its own kind well, if everyone lived in harmony and helped one another, would Herrschers never be born?"
Host, it isn't even dark yet. Why are you already dreaming?
"Get lost."
Of course, it was only a thought.
Bai Ge believed that beauty existed in this world, but he was not naïve enough to believe in it to that extent.
After all, if he thought about the comment sections from his previous life, he could find a Herrscher of the Thousand every few days. They could not be killed off. There were simply too many of them.
The next day, at Senba Academy.
"Hi, good morning, Raiden."
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