[Um... I'm coming in, okay?]
[The time has come, demon—face justice's judgment!]
[Die, hotel demon!]
[Ah! Aaaah!! A ghost! There's a ghost!]
[You won! The demon of the Goethe Hotel has been driven out, and this land has been purified!]
Item obtained: Praise of High Morality.
Item description: In this vibrant, all-encompassing universe, it is nothing unusual for morality to take physical form and give you a thumbs-up. What matters is that you have earned its praise!
The barrage was thoroughly amused by this absurdly ridiculous nonsense.
"Hahaha, what the hell is this? I'm dying!"
"This is way too shameless, hahaha!"
"Is the writing team's mental state really okay?!"
"It's hard to imagine what the writers went through to come up with such an unhinged plot!"
"Not bad, not bad. Their imagination is on par with mine!"
"Locker, you smell so good!"
"Waiter: Aminos!"
"I came out of the closet, and I feel great!"
"This game really has a lot of tricks! Did someone from Elation sneak onto the development team?"
"I can't take it anymore. The moment I saw Praise of High Morality, I completely lost it!"
"Merit +1."
March 7th on the train also found Star's shameless antics a little hard to handle. She looked at Star, who had come to her room to watch the livestream with her, and said,
"Star, did you really do something like that in a hotel room in Belobog? That's so embarrassingly edgy! You even scared the poor hotel staff!"
"Huh? Wasn't that the hotel demon?"
Once the story reached the point where they chose to go to bed, the screen went dark. Then, a voice suddenly appeared.
Stellar Core Voice: [Cocolia... Cocolia...]
Young Cocolia: [You... who are you? No—what are you?]
Stellar Core Voice: [We are allies...]
Young Cocolia: [What... do you want?]
Stellar Core Voice: [Rebuild... this dying world...]
"So it's the Stellar Core Voice, and it's talking to young Cocolia. It looks like Cocolia was bewitched by the Stellaron a long time ago!"
Based on the story so far, Lao Mu reached that conclusion. The plot then moved to early the next morning.
A group of Silvermane Guards arrived at the hotel entrance, and they clearly did not come in peace. After discussing it, the group decided to make contact first.
"Looks like that flag is about to come true. I think they're here to arrest us!"
[I am Bronya Rand, acting commander of the Silvermane Guard. In the name of the exalted Amber Lord, by order of Supreme Guardian Cocolia Rand, I have come to apprehend infiltrators plotting to incite rebellion.]
[Abandon this futile resistance and come with me.]
"If we don't run now, when will we?!"
The three in the story immediately drew their weapons and broke through the encirclement, heading toward the area sealed off due to the Fragmentum outbreak.
Watching the direction in which the three fled, Bronya decided to pursue them and bring them to justice.
After being chased for some time, the three were cornered at the mouth of an alley and began fighting Bronya.
March 7th: [This girl... is a little too strong. Hey, Dan Heng, hurry up and use that hidden power of yours!]
Dan Heng: [...You go first.]
"Oh? Looks like Dan Heng has some kind of hidden special form!"
"And judging by what Dan Heng said, could March 7th have some hidden moves too?"
"Hmph, arrogance requires capital, and my two companions just happen to have it!"
"Backup hidden energy, activate!"
"BYD's about to self-destruct, isn't it?!"
Just as the situation became tense, Sampo's voice suddenly rang out from the side.
Sampo: [Uh, I didn't mean to ruin the tense atmosphere here~]
Several specially made smoke bombs were thrown out, instantly throwing the scene into chaos.
[I just wanted to say that Sampo never lets friends who've helped us take a loss. See? Sampo keeps his word.]
Seele PV Released, Limited Character!
The story continued with Sampo arriving just in time to save them. He brought the main group into the Lower City, and also brought Bronya down there along the way.
When Star woke up, the first thing she saw was Doctor Natasha.
"Damn... those are huge! And she's wearing black stockings!"
As Lao Mu watched Natasha in the story, the grin on his face was as hard to suppress as an AK's recoil!
She was clearly wearing the most clothes, yet she had the most captivating charm. As expected of a healer!
Don't get the wrong idea. You could tell at a glance that Natasha was a doctor, and doctors were healers. Perfectly reasonable, right?
The barrage was also filled with eyes that had discovered beauty.
"My god, this is way too good!"
"Himeko, I'm not coming home tonight!"
"These are... giant black peaches!"
"This reminds me of being wrapped in my mother's swaddling clothes! It awakened my deep-rooted longing for maternal love in my DNA!"
"I declare Natasha to be the strongest healer in Honkai: Star Rail!"
"So disgusting!"
"Such a beautiful character is only a four-star, and she's even given away for free!"
After learning about the situation from Natasha, Star headed outside to look for March 7th and Dan Heng.
Soon afterward, she ran into March 7th, who was playing with Hook.
Hook was also a four-star Fire Destruction character in the Character Banner. Her tiny, adorable appearance drew plenty of attention as well.
"Little Hook is so cute!"
"Mommy kiss kiss!"
"Wrong! You should call me Pitch-Black Hook the Great!"
After finishing a game of hide-and-seek with Hook, Hook led the two to the Fight Club to find Dan Heng. He seemed to be extremely popular there, known as the Cold-faced Little Azure Dragon.
The three reunited there, then spotted Sampo again and hurried after him.
Sampo: [Uh... hey! So it's you guys. I was wondering why a few people were following behind me. I thought I'd run into some highway robbers, so I couldn't help walking faster and faster... If I'd known it was you, I would've welcomed you with open arms.]
The three did not believe Sampo's explanation. After some discussion, Sampo prepared to take them to the leader of Underworld Fire to ask about the Stellaron's whereabouts.
On the way, they unexpectedly encountered Bronya surrounded by Wanderers. She had also been brought to the Lower City by Sampo. After talking it over, they decided to save her.
The story entered a cutscene.
[You're pretty arrogant. Then don't blame me for being rude!]
Seeing the Silvermane Guard uniform on the other side, the Wanderer immediately raised his gun and fired!
At that moment, the bullet was only a short distance from Bronya's body. It was about to hit her the very next instant!
Just then, several incredibly sharp beams of light flashed past. They were as fast as lightning, too quick for the eye to follow!
Wherever those beams passed, even the air itself seemed to be torn apart, let alone ordinary bullets!
Before that terrifying force, the bullets shattered one after another, turning into countless tiny particles that dispersed in the air!
Immediately afterward, an impossibly dense mass of deep-purple quantum energy swept in like a violent whirlwind, rapidly gathering above them into a massive purple sphere of light. A deep-purple figure descended from the sky!
[You dare make a move on our turf. Want to trade a few more blows?]
Seele stood in front of Bronya with her scythe in hand. Her heroic figure and unbelievably cool entrance drew cries of surprise from the audience!
"Damn, that's so cool?!"
"What an awesome entrance!"
"This is a hero saving a beauty! I love it!"
"Who is that? She doesn't seem to be in the Character Banner, but she looks strong!"
"I know, I know! I think she appeared for one second in the PV!"
"She looks like a Main DPS character. Could she be the first Limited Character?"
"Ahhh, hurry up! When is her Character Banner coming out?!"
With such a gorgeous entrance, she clearly could not be an ordinary NPC. Combined with the footage that had appeared in the Space Comedy PV, Lao Mu concluded that she had to be an upcoming Limited Character!
Compared to the livestream viewers' shock and curiosity over the new character, Pela, who was in charge of observing, wore a subtle smile.
"Ah~ So this is how you two first met. The stranded Silvermane Guard young lady from the Upper District was saved by the Underworld Fire boss lady from the Lower City. Just from this opening alone, I can already think of dozens of positions for you two later on!"
Seele, standing beside her, had a serious expression. Since she was also curious about what this game was like, she had come along with Pela to take a look.
At that moment, Seele's mind was entirely occupied with wondering how the game had recorded all of this. She completely failed to notice Pela's unusually excited state beside her.
Outside the game, Lin Guang was watching at home during his vacation. He glanced at the time.
"It's almost ten. We can release the PV first, then update another wave of banners and events at ten."
Seele Character PV—A Night of No Incidents released!
Immediately, every player following the official updates noticed the PV!
"Holy crap! The official account released a PV, brothers! Watch the PV first!"
Lao Mu also switched to the Character PV immediately and skillfully turned off the barrage to keep it from getting too crowded!
At the same time, the viewer count surged wildly. Ten thousand... fifty thousand... two hundred thousand... until it reached eight hundred thousand! The number was still climbing nonstop!
Workers in related industries also began noticing this game project that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Its popularity on the second day after launch looked even more explosive than on the first!
In the PV, Seele stood atop a building in the Lower City, scanning the ground below and ready at any time to strike at criminals.
Not far beneath her, several Wanderers were chasing a girl.
"Here we go again..."
Her figure flashed across several rooftops as Seele approached her target like a ghost.
"You dare cause trouble on Underworld Fire's turf? You've got some nerve!"
As Seele swung the scythe in her hand, the scene transitioned smoothly from 3D into Live2D animation!
The camera turned, revealing that the Wanderers had already fallen. But then a large wave of Fragmentum Monsters arrived one after another!
Seele transformed into a Quantum Phantom and vanished from the enemies' sight before launching a surprise attack!
"When dealing with people who don't follow the rules, the blade is the only hard rule!"
Her scythe danced and her phantom shifted. After easily dealing with the monsters, an elite Guardian's Shadow appeared before Seele and prepared to attack her, only for its assault to suddenly be interrupted by another strike!
"I never said I needed your help."
Bronya slowly appeared behind Seele, then turned around and said,
"But you looked rather busy."
"Let's make this quick!"
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