Awakening! / Half a Second of Happiness!

Honkai Impact Author: King of Moe

St. Freya.

Why did the immortal have morning sickness?

Why did the Queen become a mother?

Why had the Academy Head still not paid the wages?

Why had the bishop's hat gained another feature?

Why did Einstein and Tesla debut as idols?

Welcome to this episode of Approaching Honkai: The Janitor's Road of No Return.

Awakening!

"Everyone, the Honkai Beast descending this time has never been recorded in our files. It has far surpassed the Judgment-class, so we have classified it as a Planet-class Honkai Beast and named it Deity. It possesses the ability to destroy the entire planet and is currently preparing to make landfall in the Western Pacific. At the same time, the United Human Government has dispatched all eighteen S-rank Valkyries equipped with God-Slaying Armor. This will be a battle that decides humanity's survival..."

Inside the room, a young man and a young woman were having dinner while the news on television repeatedly broadcast the report, along with live footage of the Planet-class Honkai Beast...

"Hey, are you really not nervous at all?" Seeing how relaxed he looked, the girl could not help worrying.

"Heh, how could I not be?"

In response to her concern, the young man appeared immensely confident. He smiled and said, "It is only a Honkai Beast. I can kill Judgment-class Honkai Beasts, and I can kill a Planet-class one too!"

Still, he was not entirely certain. This was an unprecedented Planet-class Honkai Beast, with energy levels nearly a hundred times greater than a Judgment-class Honkai Beast. Even S-rank Valkyries with God-Slaying Armor could only kill ordinary Judgment-class Honkai Beasts. Against a Planet-class Honkai Beast, even if every S-rank Valkyrie joined forces, it would not be easy...

"Sigh, I want to take part in a battle like this too..." The girl seemed somewhat resentful.

"Alright, alright, Kuroki, stop complaining. Once the doctor makes God-Slaying Armor capable of enduring your power, you can become a real Valkyrie too. But until then, study hard. When I come back, I'll teach you how to fight myself!"

Ling Feng could only comfort the girl before him, though he felt some regret as well. If she could participate in the battle, their odds of victory would increase by at least half. But her energy was simply too strong while her body was too weak. Letting her fight would practically be suicide!

Besides, no one had yet managed to create armor capable of withstanding her energy!

"Hmph, then it's settled. Once you return, you have to teach me how to fight!"

Kuroki's eyes shone brightly. She clearly longed to become a Valkyrie!

"Mm, it's a promise!"

Ling Feng smiled faintly.

That night, the subjugation campaign failed. Every S-rank Valkyrie who took part was wiped out. The Planet-class Honkai Beast, Deity, made landfall in Shenzhou, and one month later, human civilization was destroyed...

"Hey, you're awake? Can you hear me?"

"He should be awake, but his consciousness doesn't seem to have fully recovered yet!"

"I'm saying, if his consciousness hasn't fully recovered, then don't wake him up! Do you really not know how dangerous he is?"

When Ling Feng opened his eyes, he saw three women surrounding him: a white-haired little girl, a pink-haired young woman, and a red-haired auntie...

But he did not recognize any of them. Where was this place?

"Hey, hey, hey, do you speak Mandarin? Are-you-ok?"

The white-haired little girl waved a hand in front of Ling Feng's eyes, seemingly trying to communicate with him!

"Uh..."

Ling Feng felt a little headache coming on, but thankfully, he had woken up. He had thought he was done for, yet now he was lying here safely. He must have been saved!

Rubbing his head, Ling Feng sorted through his memories. He felt like he could not remember many things, but none of that mattered. Right now, he only cared about one thing. "What happened to Deity? Was it destroyed?"

"Deity?"

The white-haired girl looked blankly at the auntie, the auntie looked curiously at the pink-haired girl, and the pink-haired girl looked at Ling Feng in confusion. "Hey, what is this Deity you're talking about? Is it a person?"

"Deity is..."

Ling Feng was just about to explain what Deity was when... huh? Right, what was Deity again? Why... could he not remember? Come to think of it, why had he wanted to destroy Deity?

"Ah, urgh..."

Ling Feng suddenly felt a splitting headache, as if countless things were missing from his mind...

"Hey, are you okay?"

The white-haired girl immediately supported Ling Feng and looked at the pink-haired girl. "Tesla, hurry up and do something! Don't let this guy go berserk!"

Tesla remained very calm. "It's fine, Academy Head. His brain was probably damaged, so he's only having a headache. Besides, Himeko brought him back from an ancient ruin. Who knows why he was inside that completely sealed ruin in the first place!"

"Stop talking about that. Calm him down first..."

Himeko also seemed worried, though she was not worried about Ling Feng himself. She was worried that he would end up like he had in the ruins!

Fortunately, Ling Feng calmed down shortly afterward. The headache had only lasted a moment. As long as he did not think about Deity, it would not hurt, so Ling Feng decisively stopped thinking about it...

Seeing that Ling Feng had finally settled down, Theresa quietly asked, "Um, my name is Theresa. I'm the Academy Head of St. Freya Academy. What is your name?"

"Ling Feng!"

Ling Feng still remembered his own name and identity. Smiling, he said, "One of the Federation's strongest S-rank Valkyries, and one of the Valkyries equipped with God-Slaying Armor!"

"An S-rank Valkyrie? So it really was true?"

The three women seemed surprised, though not overly so, because Himeko had already said that Ling Feng might be an S-rank Valkyrie...

Yesterday, an underground ruin had been discovered in the Western Pacific. Himeko led a team inside for a simple exploration, only to be besieged by numerous powerful Honkai Beasts. Himeko and the others were then driven into a hollow, where they were shocked to discover a person. He had been sealed within a blue crystal, and blue crystals covered the entire area!

Then, during the battle with the Honkai Beasts, the crystal sealing Ling Feng had shattered. Ling Feng woke up and directly released an incomparably powerful energy wave, instantly reducing every Honkai Beast to ashes. Ling Feng then fell unconscious again, so Himeko brought him aboard the Hyperion and sent him to St. Freya Academy...

That was roughly what had happened. Judging by the power Ling Feng had displayed before, calling him an S-rank Valkyrie would not be an exaggeration!

"But... what organization is the Federation? I don't remember Schicksal having one. Are you from Anti-Entropy?"

Although Theresa believed Ling Feng was an S-rank Valkyrie, she was concerned about his identity. She did not know of any Federation, and Ling Feng's name was not among Schicksal's three S-rank Valkyries. So where exactly was he an S-rank Valkyrie from?

"The Federation is the Federation, the Human Federation. As for this Schicksal and Anti-Entropy you mentioned, I've never heard of them. Are they terrorist organizations that appeared recently?"

Ling Feng was also curious. As a human, how could someone not know the Federation existed? For all these years, humanity had relied entirely on Valkyries trained by the Federation to fight Honkai Beasts. It would not be an exaggeration to call it an organization that protected the world!

Himeko: "?"

Tesla: "??"

Theresa: "???"

I have been sealed inside a blue crystal. I now need 648 to help break the seal. I don't know anything about Honkai Impact 3, nor do I know about the upcoming, incredibly gorgeous "Starry Rail Hymn" skin. I only want to break the seal and save the world!

This Is Half a Second of Beauty!

After Theresa, Tesla, and Himeko had exchanged all sorts of information with Ling Feng, repeatedly verified everything, and even taken him out of the laboratory for a walk around the academy, the four of them finally confirmed one thing...

Ling Feng had traveled through time...

More precisely, he had not traveled to another world. He was still on Earth, but he had arrived in a brand-new era—an era without the Federation, where Valkyries were controlled by Schicksal and Anti-Entropy!

When Ling Feng learned that he had been sealed inside a crystal within a ruin nobody had ever entered before, he was even more dumbfounded. Inside a crystal in a ruin? No way. Could he really have been sealed for so many years that, when he came out, the world had become completely different?

Neither Tesla nor Himeko could provide an exact answer, but based on Tesla's examination of the minerals in the ruins and the decay of the blue crystals, she believed the ruins had a history of at least fifty thousand years...

In other words, Ling Feng had most likely been sealed in that crystal fifty thousand years ago...

Considering that Ling Feng had only just awakened, Theresa did not ask too many questions. Instead, she arranged a place for him to stay and sent him food, saying that any questions could wait until tomorrow and that he should rest well today...

"No way, was he really someone from fifty thousand years ago?"

"Although it sounds absurd, according to Colonel Himeko, he really might be from fifty thousand years ago!"

"Fifty thousand years ago... that would trace back to the Previous civilization, wouldn't it..."

That evening, Theresa, Tesla, and Himeko sat together and discussed the matter...

"Whether he is from the Previous civilization or not, what matters is that he possesses power comparable to an S-rank Valkyrie—and he's male!"

Tesla gestured as she spoke. "Whether we consider his strength, his research value, or the knowledge in his head, we should take the initiative to befriend him. Even if we don't, we absolutely cannot make an enemy of him. Our academy has no true S-rank female Valkyries. If he goes berserk, the academy will be in great danger!"

"Still, judging from his personality and behavior, he should be relatively easy to get along with. Let's find him tomorrow and have a proper talk!"

Theresa also agreed with Tesla. Ling Feng was definitely worth getting to know...

After dinner, Ling Feng, who was currently staying in the room Theresa had temporarily arranged for him, was still rather confused...

How should he put it? He had been doing perfectly fine, so how had he ended up fifty thousand years in the future? More importantly, could he still have a chance to return? Waiting online, urgent...

And Deity...

Ugh... his head hurt. Better not think about it...

"Go out for a walk?"

Looking at the sky, which had completely darkened, along with the stars filling the heavens and the golden full moon, Ling Feng felt that going out for a stroll would not be bad...

Besides, although that loli Academy Head had dragged him around the academy once today, he had not learned much. Since he had time now, he might as well go out and take a look!

Wearing the St. Freya Academy male uniform Theresa had sent him, Ling Feng left his residence and headed outside, wondering whether there would be many people around the academy at this hour!

"Hmph, hmph... Mei definitely took a bath after today's intense training,"

On the rooftop of a student dormitory, a white-haired girl with twin tails seemed to be plotting something. Dressed in black nightwear and wearing a black mask, she quietly climbed from the roof to the edge of the wall. Then, hanging from a rope, she carefully lowered herself until she finally reached a second-floor window...

Ling Feng happened to be passing by and happened to see it. Yes, it was just that coincidental?

"A thief?"

Ling Feng immediately became cautious. Although the thief had nothing to do with him, as an outstanding Valkyrie developed to perfection in morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, he could never turn a blind eye to such a thing!

Ling Feng quickly approached the student dormitory, then leaped up and grabbed the rope tied by the white-haired girl. Smiling, he said, "Hey, if you're going to steal something, isn't this a little early? At least wait until the owner falls asleep before coming!"

"Huh? You... who are you?"

The white-haired girl instantly became flustered. Ling Feng had made quite a bit of noise just now, and he might have already alerted Mei...

"Kiana?"

At that moment, Mei's voice came from inside the window. "Kiana, don't tell me that's you outside again?"

"Crap..."

The white-haired girl immediately panicked and prepared to run away...

But Ling Feng would not let her off so easily. A thief should be brought to justice, so he reached out to grab the white-haired girl!

"Stop bothering me..."

The white-haired girl hurriedly dodged, but there was too little room to move here. There was nowhere for her to escape...

"Get lost!"

In the end, the white-haired girl kicked directly at Ling Feng. Ling Feng calmly raised a hand to block it, but his body suddenly became slightly sluggish for an instant, and then...

"Crash, urgh..."

Accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, Ling Feng was kicked straight through the window by the white-haired girl...

"This is bad..."

The white-haired girl instantly realized something was terribly wrong. At this time, Mei seemed to be taking a bath, and just now she had...

This was bad, this was bad. Run! She had to create an alibi...

With a whoosh, the white-haired girl returned to the roof, packed up her tools of the trade at flying speed, and promptly disappeared...

As for the room, white steam filled the air. Under the light, Ling Feng could clearly see the black-haired girl before him. Following the usual sequence of events, this might have been a romantic encounter, but...

If he had appeared inside a bathtub while the girl before him was bathing, it probably would not be very romantic...

"Whoosh..."

Mei quickly wrapped herself in a bath towel, then threw a punch at Ling Feng...

"Hey, wait..."

Ling Feng hurriedly dodged...