Where Was the Promised Third Honkai?!!

She looked at the little skirt in Fu Li's hand. "Then what is this?"

"A D-rank item, a piece of spatial equipment with storage capabilities."

Fu Li gave a rough introduction to the Fourth-Dimensional Skirt's effects. For example, once a beautiful girl (restricted) put it on, the space beneath the skirt would become a spherical extra-dimensional storage space with a radius of three meters, along with that hazy art that looked visible but was actually invisible.

"No need to worry about flashing anyone? Great!" Kiana's little face lit up. She eagerly took the skirt and held it up against herself, then turned a disgusted expression toward him. "Using a word like art to describe a girl's skirt? You're as creepy as ever!"

"What do you call this? Look! What do you call this? Throwing away the donkey after grinding the grain! Heartless and ungrateful! Xiang Yu inviting Liu Bang!" Fu Li wasn't going to indulge her anymore. "And this thing is only lent to you temporarily. You have to return it once we're done."

"Don't put it so harshly, classmate A Li~ Look, I've already worn this skirt. It won't be of any use if you take it back. Why not be kind and just give it to me?"

"Who says it won't be useful? As a hall-of-fame pervert personally certified by Miss Kiana herself, isn't collecting a beautiful girl's worn skirt perfectly normal?"

"Brother, don't be like this." Kiana tried to stop him insincerely.

"Little sister, you mustn't." Fu Li replied tearfully.

A moment later, both of them dry-heaved in disgust.

"I Call This Efficient"

On a quiet mountain-ring road late at night, the two people stared at each other beneath the streetlights after finishing their mutual retching.

"Hey, turn around first~"

The white-haired girl held the skirt in her hand with a bashful expression.

"Fine."

Fu Li didn't waste words. He turned around and headed toward the flickering vending machine by the roadside.

Kiana sighed faintly in relief.

She sat on the freezing curb in the early spring night. Just as she was about to take off her tattered thigh-high stockings, she saw him hurry back.

"Y-You! What are you doing?!"

"Got any coins in your pocket?"

"Please, do I look like I have any?" Kiana slipped her hand into her pocket, and her fair little hand passed straight through it. "And why not use paper money? This young lady wants MAX Coffee!"

Fu Li was expressionless. "It already swallowed one Yukichi Fukuzawa of mine."

"Then use Tokiwadai's secret 45-Degree Repair Method to make it spit it back out!" Kiana turned and kicked out her leg, stylishly teaching him the move. "Go on, go on! I still need to change skirts later, and no peeking!"

"People shouldn't be too confident in themselves."

"Bleh bleh bleh, mind your own business!"

Sticking out her little tongue at the boy's retreating back, Kiana continued her grand endeavor of changing clothes.

After taking off her stockings, she was just about to change out of her shorts when she saw Fu Li rush back again.

"Y-You you you you you!"

The girl was genuinely red-faced this time, not only from embarrassment but from anger.

"Someone's nearby!"

Fu Li's tone was extremely serious. Kiana raised her brows, and despite what her mouth said, she obediently put her stockings back on before following his gaze into the night sky.

The stars shone brilliantly, while the moon hung bright amid sparse stars.

There was a red dot. A drone.

"Should we shoot it down?"

The girl rose and came to Fu Li's side, leaning close to whisper into his ear.

"Your gun's gone. What are you going to shoot it down with?"

"Oh, right! Then use that energy flying sword—"

"Shadow Blade."

"Then use Shadow Blade to shoot it down?"

"It's not impossible. The problem is, I don't know how much its owner has already filmed."

The two of them had indeed relocated after the battle, but they were only seven or eight kilometers from the previous battlefield.

If the drone's owner had recorded footage of the earlier battle, who knew what kind of trouble it would cause.

"So that's what you're worried about."

Kiana understood.

"Judging by Miss Kiana's tone, you seem to have a way to solve this thorny problem?"

"Hehe, call me Great Sage Kiana!"

"Great Sage, save me!"

"With ears this soft, you'll definitely be henpecked in the future!"

Kiana took out the pendant beneath her collar and confidently handed it over.

"This is?"

Fu Li reached out to take it. It still carried the girl's warmth and faint fragrance.

"A Curio: Photography Death!"

The white-haired girl looked utterly pleased with herself.

Curios were mysterious objects that housed powers from the Honkai side.

Unlike items that followed certain physical laws, Curios had effects that were always wild and unpredictable.

Simply put, items made sense. Curios didn't.

As for how they were formed, first, thank nature for being marvelous.

Second, don't ask. If you do, the answer is that Honkai could do anything.

Fu Li was intrigued. "So what does this Photography Death do?"

"Once this thing is activated, as long as someone secretly tries to film during a battle, both sides of the fight will be compelled to beat up that third party!"

Kiana tilted her head, deciding that a demonstration would be easier.

She folded the Fourth-Dimensional Skirt and tucked it into the intact pocket of her top. After activating Photography Death, she lightly tapped Fu Li with the bat. Then Fu Li watched helplessly as the Galaxy Bat abandoned him, its primary target, and purposefully dragged Kiana off in another direction.

"Keep up!"

Kiana called out over her shoulder, quickening her pace along with the bat's pull.

"Got it."

Fu Li followed with Void Step, leaving behind an Azure Lotus that vanished in an instant.

The drone's owner remained completely unaware, controlling the drone as it continuously tracked these two Honkai superhumans.

Until the two barged into an abandoned building, and until a beautiful blonde girl with golden eyes entered the drone's camera view.

The drone's owner blinked, feeling that the girl looked a little familiar.

Then the moonlight before her was blocked by two figures, one tall and one not exactly short. The beautiful girl looking at them suddenly understood.

—Oh! That's me!

Bang!

Fu Li withdrew his fist, wrapped his other arm around the girl's waist, and slowly laid her flat on the ground.

The move was called the Avada Kedavra Fist, a technique from a world bubble of martial wizardry with an especially savage art style. It was the signature fist technique of the powerful dark wizard Buddha Demon Emperor.

This fist technique had tremendous potential, but Fu Li wasn't strong enough to unleash its complete form yet. All he could achieve was a numbing effect—physical numbing.

The effect was outstanding. The young girl didn't even have time to react before rolling her eyes back and passing out.

Kiana, who had entered with him, skillfully began rummaging through the girl's backpack.

After shaking it hard three times, she dumped out a diary.

"No way! What normal person keeps a diary?"

Kiana Cat was utterly stunned, but Fu Li immediately snatched the notebook away.

"Don't read someone else's diary."

He said it very seriously, then took a twenty-centimeter-long silver metal rod from his clothes. It had all sorts of protrusions on it and an atrocious design.

Name: Memory Eraser
Level: D
Classification: Item

Effect: Its official name is the Neuroticizer, designed specifically for human memory cells.

It is a silvery-white metal rod. On one side are three dials and a small screen, which can be used to set the amount of memory to erase by year, week, hour, and minute.

After the settings are complete, the mechanism extending from the tip will flash white, erasing the corresponding span of memories from anyone nearby who looks directly at the white light.

After the erasure, there will be a period of mental blankness. During that time, new memories can be implanted through conversation to replace the original memories, or simple questions can be asked.

This item can only affect humans or lifeforms with memory cells similar to those of humans. It becomes completely ineffective if the target has an energy circulation within their body.

Note: Don't get led astray! Physical amnesia doesn't count as amnesia!

Fu Li briefly explained the Memory Eraser's function to Kiana. The girl's gaze immediately turned feral. "You're even worse than reading a diary! So you told me not to read it because you thought it would waste time?"

"I call this efficient."

Fu Li calmly bent down, pried open the blonde girl's eyelids, and pressed the Memory Eraser's switch with his other hand.

A flash of white light passed, and the girl soon "woke up."

The girl stood upright before Fu Li with great respect. The only difference from before was that her eyes had lost their light.

"Name?"

"Susanna."

"Identity?"

"Schicksal Valkyrie trainee."

"Purpose for coming to the Far East?"

"To visit the Far East branch and decide whether to enroll at St. Freya Academy."

"Then why are you here?"

"My family's jewelry business is saturated, so we're preparing to enter the international construction industry. Yae Village has an excellent location, so I came here to inspect it along the way."

"In the middle of the night?"

"I came in the afternoon, but I forgot to ask the taxi driver to wait. By the time I remembered, it was already dark, and I got stranded here."

"Pfft, hahahahaha! What kind of unlucky airhead is that?"

Kiana, crouching nearby, couldn't hold it in.

Fu Li shot her a sideways glance. "Go change your clothes!"

"No way!" Kiana declared righteously. "What if you do something to Susanna while this young lady isn't here? I need to keep an eye on you!"

Susanna had an excellent figure: a slender waist, long legs, curves in all the right places. Most importantly, she was beautiful, and now she stood there with vacant eyes, ready to be manipulated. A normal man would have a hard time keeping himself under control.

"Praise of High Morality"

Susanna had an excellent figure: a slender waist, long legs, curves in all the right places. Most importantly, she was beautiful and young, and now she stood there with vacant eyes, ready to be manipulated. A normal man would have a hard time keeping himself under control.

That was what Kiana thought. So she crossed her legs, propped up her chin, and sat nearby, ready to catch him cheating at any moment.

"Fine, fine. Whatever you say."

Fu Li couldn't be bothered with her. I managed to hold back even when facing you yourself in the previous cycle. What does a mere Susanna count for?