This Chat Group's Vibe is a Bit Off

Being the only ordinary person somehow made him feel oddly out of place.

Steel Prison Big: Calm down. I'm an ordinary human too.

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: I don't think someone who survived a plane crash from several thousand meters in the air can call himself an ordinary human.

I saw through you at a glance—you're not human!

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Qianyi, Qianyi, can I ask you for a favor?

Steel Prison Big: What is it?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Since you know the plot of my world, could you take some time to write down what you know and send it to me?

Steel Prison Big: There's too much information about your world. Do you know how much time and effort that would take?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Onegai, this is the request of a lifetime! I'll do anything!!

Children, I Have a Split Personality

The setting sun filtered through sparse leaves, scattering mottled patches of light and shadow. The school corridor floor still retained the dampness from cleaning, while the air carried the fresh scent of earth mixed with grass. In the distance, the cherry blossom trees stood quietly, their petals occasionally swept down by the breeze, spinning gently as though telling silent stories.

Students gathered in twos and threes, chatting quietly, their laughter especially clear in the leisure after school.

Qianyi did not join them. After buying a thick stack of A4 paper, he returned home and began staring blankly at it.

To be honest, he no longer remembered the plots of games like "Honkai Impact 3rd," "FGO," and "Arknights" very clearly.

He still remembered quite a bit of "FGO," because that game still existed in this life's world. Its story had only just updated to the defeat of Gae Bulg, and there was still some time before the Lostbelts. As for Agartha, that Lostbelt, who knew how many years it would take.

As for "Honkai Impact 3rd," "Honkai: Star Rail," "Arknights," and the like, he had long since forgotten most of their stories. Only now and then would a sudden flash of inspiration help him recall a little.

He was not the kind of genius who could still clearly remember every page and paragraph of his high school history textbooks after graduating university, then get into the University of Tokyo in just three months.

He was an ordinary, unremarkable person. He did not possess their powerful talents.

All he had was persistence and hard work.

"Izanagi!"

Qianyi raised his hand and summoned a blue Tarot card. He crushed it, and Izanagi appeared behind him. It seized a sketch pen and pressed its tip to the paper, beginning to unleash strokes like blades. Its movements carried the bearing of a king, as though that pen were the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and it were Second Master Guan himself—loyal to the core, fearless before an army of a million enemies, intent on cutting down every last foe formed from those sheets of pristine white paper!

Izanagi's hands moved faster and faster, its fingertips tracing agile paths through the air. The piled A4 sheets swirled in its dance like dead leaves caught in the wind, spinning and leaping through the air with rustling sounds. Qianyi's eyes gradually brightened as though he were piecing together those vague fragments of memory through the dancing pages.

The story of "Honkai Impact 3rd" that he knew gradually took shape as well.

Before he knew it, an hour had passed. As the story of "The Last Lesson" came to an end, Qianyi slowly closed his eyes, all color draining from his body.

He had burned out, reduced to pale gray ash.

Steel Prison Big: Kiana, these are my final ripples. Take them.

Steel Prison Big sent an exclusive red packet.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: What is this?

Steel Prison Big: These are Superpower Comics. With them, you'll be able to defeat every Earth Herrscher.

That exaggerated?

Kiana looked at the stack of comics piled as high as a dictionary, swallowed, and picked up a few pages to start reading.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Whoa, they're actually comics from my world! Qianyi, didn't you say there weren't any before?

Steel Prison Big: I drew them bit by bit based on my memories. Keep them safe. If you lose them, there won't be a second copy. Drawing these takes too much out of me, so I'm going to rest for a while.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Seriously?! You drew all of these by hand? The quality is incredible! I love you to death!

Kiana stared excitedly at the pile of unbound original manuscripts before her, considering how to deal with them.

Taking them to a publishing house to have them bound was definitely unrealistic. Besides, if these things got out, they might cause a commotion. Then, an idea suddenly struck her.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles uploaded a group file.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Whoa! Just as I thought—after uploading it to the group and downloading it again, I can actually flip through it like an e-book!

Aspiring Magical Girl: Huh? Why did you upload it? Isn't this about the future development of Kiana's world? If you upload it, won't everyone be able to see it?!

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: I suggest recalling it. There might be things in there concerning your privacy, Kiana.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: It's fine, it's fine. If everyone reads it together, maybe you'll spot things I missed.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: Can I read it?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Go ahead. But when comics from your worlds come out in the future, you can't refuse to let me read them.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: You got it.

Seele really wanted to see why there was also a Cocolia on Kiana's side. Her intuition told her that it was probably not just a case of sharing the same name.

???

Several hours later, a cry of grief appeared in the chat group.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: Himeko——!!!

Talulah: Himeko——!!!

Child of Prophecy: Himeko——!!!

Aspiring Magical Girl: Hime—ko!!!

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Gah! Hime—ko! Big Sis Himeko, don't die!

Steel Prison Big: Calm down. What happened? Did Himeko already die fighting the Herrscher of Thunder?

Qianyi's expression was more serious than ever before.

He had only gone to sleep, and Changkong City had already exploded, the Herrscher of Thunder had been born, the Hyperion had been shot down, and Himeko had died before she could even succeed?

Why had no one told him?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: No, Himeko died fighting the Second Herrscher to save me, sob sob... I haven't even become a Heavenly Mandate Valkyrie yet. How could you die, Big Sis Himeko?!

Child of Prophecy: So touching. Is this The Last Lesson?

Steel Prison Big: ...

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: Allow me to say something rather tactless: Miss Himeko hasn't even met Kiana in reality yet. In other words, she isn't dead. Is it really appropriate for you all to be mourning her like this?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Oh, she's not dead? Then it's fine.

Himeko wasn't dead. What a joyous occasion.

From the Third Honkai Outbreak in Changkong City, to entering St. Freya Academy, then the Chi You arc, the Yae Village arc, Wendy's death, and all the way to Kiana being betrayed by Fu Hua, taken back to Heavenly Mandate headquarters, and awakening as the Second Herrscher, the plot Qianyi had provided was incredibly detailed. Relevant or irrelevant, he had laid it all out. Kiana let out a sigh of relief. With knowledge of so much of the plot, along with the help of her fellow Dimensional Meetup Group members, she believed she could definitely stop Cocolia, defeat the Herrscher of the Void, punch Otto into the sky, and save everything!

But now that her interest had been piqued, she was going to die without the rest of the Honkai Impact 3rd story!

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Qianyi, Qianyi, what about the rest?

Steel Prison Big: Didn't draw it.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Hurry, hurry, hurry! Can't you update faster? I want to see what happens next today!

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: Hurry, hurry, hurry! I want to see it too.

Child of Prophecy: Hurry, hurry, hurry! Me too.

Steel Prison Big: Can't. I have school.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Then fuck off!

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: Ahem, Kiana, please watch your language.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Children, that wasn't me just now. It was the Herrscher of the Void talking. I have split personalities. Fuck, why is the Herrscher of the Void so awful?!

Steel Prison Big: ...

Just as expected of that pervert who could casually say things like, "I want to drink Little Mei's juice," and "I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles."

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Oh, right. Would anyone be willing to come to Changkong City and lend me a hand? Help me take down Cocolia and save Mei?

Knowing she couldn't resolve this crisis through her own strength alone, she decisively chose to ask for help.

As though responding to her plea, the chat group chimed in at just the right moment.

Ding—!

World Mission: Save Changkong City

Mission Description: Changkong City, a city plagued by disaster. No matter which worldline it is in, it seems unable to escape its fate of destruction. But how could those who defy fate and yearn for change possibly accept that predestined fate so easily?

Mission Reward: 1,000 points.

Maximum Participants: 8; Time Limit: 72 hours.

Mission BUFF: All participants temporarily gain Honkai Energy Resistance.

I Have a Plan

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: It's actually a World Mission.

Child of Prophecy: What is a World Mission? This is my first time seeing one.

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: Simply put, the chat group's missions currently fall into three categories. One is daily missions, which only require simple tasks like finding cats and dogs or doing a hundred push-ups. The second is high-difficulty missions, which require dealing with troublesome enemies. The third is World Missions—missions that can affect a world's future direction. One wrong move could even lead to that world's destruction. And judging by the description, it seems that better completion ratings may bring greater rewards or unlock hidden missions.

Talulah: One thousand points... that's so many.

Within the chat group, points served as the general equivalent currency, and their purchasing power was quite high. One point could buy around ten jin of high-quality rice in the chat group, ten points could buy an Originium Inhibitor with excellent effects, and one hundred and sixty points could be used to try one's luck in the prize pool.

One thousand points were already enough to exchange for a hundred Originium Inhibitors or ten thousand jin of rice.

Completing daily check-ins and daily missions every single day only gave one point.

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: The mission has a participant limit of eight, while our group only has six people total. We can all join.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: Is the chat group's disaster relief food finally arriving?! How difficult is this mission?

Talulah: From what I saw in the comic, the enemies are Cocolia, the Titan army, and the Herrscher of Thunder. Cocolia herself isn't much of a fighter, so taking her down together shouldn't be difficult. But the Titan army and the Herrscher of Thunder may be rather troublesome. Still, it seems we can bypass them.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Mm, according to Qianyi, as long as we call my sister Durandal over, she can solve it easily.

Child of Prophecy: But Miss Mei could turn into a Herrscher at any moment, and Kiana's sister is Heavenly Mandate's strongest Valkyrie, right? How are we supposed to contact her? Kiana, do you have her contact information?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: I don't have anything like that. I only just found out I even have a sister.

Steel Prison Big: Simple. Just send a report to Heavenly Mandate.

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Qianyi, do you have a way to contact Heavenly Mandate?

Steel Prison Big: ...

Maple Sugar Commander: Um, wasn't that something from your world, Kiana? Why do you look like you know absolutely nothing?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Huh? So it was my world?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: Sorry, maybe Qianyi was just too reliable and knew everything, so I subconsciously gave up thinking.

Kiana Kaslana.

MiHoYo's classic leading lady, someone whose body moved before her brain did. Her trait was that of a husky.

Why a husky? Because when a husky encountered a harsh winter, the water in its brain immediately froze into ice, allowing its intelligence to seize the high ground and making it incredibly reliable and cool. But when it encountered a warm, comfortable environment, the water in its brain drowned its intelligence, and it ultimately became a dumb husky that could only tear up the house. Kiana was precisely such a creature.

When she left her father and wandered alone, with no one to rely on, Kiana displayed an extremely strong ability to fend for herself. But once she discovered that the people around her were more reliable than she was and could be depended on, she rapidly degenerated, ultimately becoming a paramecium whose intelligence was on the level of a single-celled organism.

Now, she was completely useless!

Steel Prison Big: Being able to reasonably heed others' opinions is a virtue. I have no way to contact Heavenly Mandate, but I think Anti-Entropy, as Heavenly Mandate's opponent, definitely would. And if Anti-Entropy has one, then Bronya definitely does.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: But how do we get Bronya to help? Heavenly Mandate is her enemy. Why would she betray Cocolia and defect to the enemy?

Steel Prison Big: Seduction.

Talulah: ?

Customer Service Xiangzi is at your service: ?

I want to eat Mei-flavored instant noodles: ?

Steel Prison Big: Calm down. We have General Seele. As long as we send Seele out, Bronya will surely lose her mind, be unable to walk on the spot, and surrender politely.

Lower District Flying Head Barbarian: Why don't you go seduce her?

Steel Prison Big: Because the only one she loves is Seele. So for Changkong City's safety, Seele, use seduction on Bronya.

Seele: ...