Xing: ... The Nerf Came So Suddenly

Within the Stigmata Space—

The spirits behind them sat together in silence, as if by unspoken agreement.

Kallen (personality fragment): "..."

Yae Sakura: "..."

Jilin: "..."

Black Seele, connected by consciousness. "..."

Not long ago, Sachi was offered a huge sum of money by a wealthy woman who would give her a billion dollars just for singing a song. Then, the spirits behind her, who wanted to cause trouble, united and used the power of the four Stigmata on Sachi's body, even borrowing the power of Seele and others, to create Sachi's strongest form to date.

This is what they thought before this form was born.

In the real world, the girl took off her sleeve and stared blankly at the back of her fair hand. Kallen and Yae Sakura's Stigmata had both disappeared.

"... So what's going on?" Yae Sakura asked Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu in a daze, hoping to get an answer.

"Well, maybe, probably, possibly, who knows..." The two sisters guiltily turned their gazes away, not daring to meet her eyes.

"Didn't we agree that it was just to change Little Xing's clothes? Why has it turned out like this?" Jilin didn't know what went wrong.

Kallen (personality fragment) seemed completely unfazed, calmly taking a sip of tea while holding Luna.

The hot-tempered Black Seele was far from calm. She grabbed Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu with her two paws and asked with a grim expression, "Hey, what exactly is going on? If you don't explain yourself clearly, you have no reason to live!"

"Spare me! ×2"

Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu were nearly scared out of their wits by the murderous aura emanating from Black Seele, and quickly voiced their guess. "It should be like this, the powers of the four Stigmata are in conflict with each other, so Xing had been trying to maintain their balance, but it seems that the balance has been broken after Miss Seele joined..."

Upon hearing this, Black Seele frowned. "You mean, this is my fault?" she said, increasing the force of her claws.

"No, no, no, it's all our fault!" Cang Xuan hurriedly explained, "When you were changing Little Xing's form, didn't you all use your strongest abilities?"

The others hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"That's where the problem lies." Cang Xuan sighed and slowly said, "He can still control a single full-power Stigmata, but if it's multiplied by four, he simply can't control that much power right now. I guess it's because each of you wanted your own Stigmata to dominate, so you used all your strength, but that actually harmed him."

"Get to the point!" Black Seele punched her.

"...It hurts! In short, due to the imbalance of Stigmata power, coupled with the conflict between them, the current situation seems to be a case of positives making a negative." Cang Xuan touched the large bump on his head, full of resentment. "The Honkai Energy out of control now. In order to protect himself, his body's instincts have fully unleashed the power of the Herrscher of Binding within the Kallen Stigmata, resulting in Xing being unable to use all of the Stigmata's abilities. Unless a new power intervenes in his body, this situation will continue for a long time."

Everyone's faces turned ashen upon hearing this Yae Sakura pressed down on Cang Xuan's shoulder and asked in a trembling voice, "So that means Sachi has now become an ordinary person?!"

"Ah, no, no, no, the Honkai Energy resistance and everything else are still there, it's just that all the body's stats have temporarily returned to what they were when there were no Stigmata. Uh, according to my analysis, Kallen's God's Blessing Anthem, your Nightshade Heavy Mist, and Hua's Cloud Ink Dan Xin, these advanced transformations should still be usable normally, so there's no need to worry too much..."

P. S.: Don't feel awkward, these are all names that were given to them by chance.

——Shinmon (Love Gate)——

Sitting by the sea, I stared blankly at the waves crashing against the rocks on the shore, my heart filled with fear, unease, and anxiety.

"What's wrong, child?" Miss Ende asked softly as she sat down beside her.

"Could you please leave me alone for a while?" The girl's two fox ears drooped down, looking utterly dejected.

"You seem to be troubled by something. Can you tell me about it? I might be able to help you." Ende didn't leave immediately but continued to try to communicate with her.

"... Go away."

"Ah?"

"I told you to get out of here!" Xing raised his head and roared at her, "Don't you understand? I don't want to see anyone right now!"

"Don't be angry, child. What happened to you?" Ende was not deterred by her bad attitude, but patiently communicated with her.

"I've lost my power, it's that simple!" The girl, her emotions reaching their peak, almost roared out these words before getting up and running away without looking back.

Ende watched her departing figure in silence, only taking out a pair of antique-looking pistols from his bosom and gently stroking them.

"I've experienced that feeling of losing power too..."

On the other side, Xing stopped after running for a while and leaned against the rock wall, panting, "Huff, huff, why, why is this happening?"

Bang!

The girl slammed her fist into the rock wall beside her. The rough surface of the rock cut her fair skin, and she felt pain, but she didn't care because she was already used to pain.

However, seeing the wound bleeding profusely, Yuki was stunned. "Where is my... self-healing ability?"

Her injured right hand hung limply, and the girl collapsed to the ground in a daze. She had already checked and found that Fu Hua and Seele's Stigmata had disappeared. She had truly lost all her power.

In this world, powerlessness is essentially synonymous with the death penalty.

Without power, the Jackal could retaliate against her at any time, and she would become an experimental subject, falling into a hellish state worse than death.

"Sakura, Hiyokomaru, Luna, are you still there? Answer me! Jilin, Cang Xuan, Dan Zhu, come out quickly, don't scare me..." The girl helplessly called out to the spirits who were always there for her, but all she got was silence.

More painful than losing her power was losing Sakura and the others, who were her most precious companions and lovers in this world.

The person who fell into the water grasped at the last straw, but even that last hope was shattered.

In despair, Xing buried her head in her knees and burst into tears.

"Hey, boy, no, girl, why are you crying?" A familiar voice entered her ears. Xing suddenly looked up and saw that the unreliable Senior You Hui looking at her helplessly on the projection screen of the Guidance Module. "Oh dear, why do you lose your mind as soon as your girlfriends are involved? Have you forgotten about your Honkai Vision? Turn it on and see."

"Is the Honkai Vision still there?" Sachi realized something and activated the ability that was as essential to her as opening and closing her eyes.

In the black and white world, particles of various colors gathered around her, forming one familiar figure after another.

"Thank goodness, everyone's still here..." The girl breathed a sigh of relief, a huge weight lifted from her heart.

"They're probably because your Stigmata are temporarily closed and you haven't adapted yet, resulting in an incomplete projection, which is why you can't see them." You Hui tapped his head in annoyance. "Sigh, you're such a worrywart junior. Remember, as long as the Honkai Branch World still exists, they can be resurrected from the world's records even if they're killed. Remember to stay calm in the future, okay? Zi Yang asked me to go practice boxing with him, so I'll hang up now."

Xing Gang waved goodbye, then suddenly realized he hadn't asked her what was going on, why the Stigmata were temporarily shut down. Explain yourself before you leave!

"Hmm, let's see if this still works." Sachi took out a belt from her Fourth-Dimensional Pocket, stuffed it into the Rabbit Tank Double Bottle, and transformed.

A knight in red and blue appeared, accompanied by rousing sound effects. "Hmm, he can still transform, no problem. Hey, why does he seem so much weaker?"

Frustrated, she slapped her forehead. How was she supposed to go back to Kiana and the others now? She had a feeling that Kiana would take her back first, and then Bronya and Wendy would take turns fighting over her...

As it turned out, her guess was accurate.

After learning that Yae Sakura and the others were alright, she returned to her previous state. At least she still had some fighting power, and she would just be more careful in the future.

However, there is still one problem—

Fortunately, looking at the still-bleeding wound, she began to recall the content of the first aid course.

"Damn it! I relied on my ability to regenerate health and heal myself, and didn't listen to anything! Mom, save me!"

The bleeding girl shouted loudly at the sky, and Judah flew off her body. Soon after, he flew back with a bewildered white-haired old woman and a packaged maid.

"So Judah can still be used, huh? Then throw them both into the sea first, and then send me back." Feeling the burning gazes of Theresa and Rita, Xing made the decisive decision to sacrifice her own family for the greater good.

"Hey! I was just kidding!" Seeing that Judah was really taking them flying towards the sea, Xing was so frightened that she quickly called it back.

—Elysia wants to be an idol (Love Gate)—

"Little Xing's power has disappeared? How is that possible?" After returning to the castle, Xing had the waiter give her a simple bandage, and then found a secluded space to explain her current situation to the two of them.

Rita subconsciously touched her lower abdomen, a fleeting smile playing on her lips.

"(It's still there! That's... amazing!)"

Rita could still feel the connection between herself and Sachi. It seemed that the mark of their familiar had not disappeared. Sachi must have realized this, which was why he told her about it.

In her panic, Theresa lifted her daughter's skirt, and of course, she got slapped.

"So what do we do now..." Theresa asked, rubbing the spot where she had been hit, feeling frustrated.

"Go back and have Bronya create a fake identity for me so I can re-enroll in St. Freya. In my current state, no one should believe I'm Xing Kaslana. Although I think Kiana and the others would recognize me immediately. (After all, we've been through thick and thin together.)"

Even in the face of such a difficult situation, he was able to think so calmly. Doesn't that make him worthy of slapping the face of Will of Honkai?

No, because I'm already used to being a girl, so I'm not flustered at all.

I'm just a little afraid that after going back, I'll become the "group's darling" in every sense of the word in the Fire-Chasing Squad.

Well, now she's a true Valkyrie.

Happiness was bubbling over when she suddenly remembered something and quickly grabbed Theresa's hand, asking, "Didn't Miss Ende say she'd give me a billion? She didn't go back on her word, did she?"

At this point, Theresa and Rita suddenly fell silent, and Xing suddenly had a bad feeling.

"So you're here! I've been looking for you for ages." Miss Ende knocked on the door politely and came in after receiving permission.

Ende's gaze fell on Xing, noticing that the other had shaken off her dejected state. She smiled slightly and then said to Xing, "When your mother, Ms. Theresa, and Ms. Rita were fighting in my theater, they accidentally damaged my crystal chandelier worth tens of billions, my antique wood flooring worth billions, and other equally valuable items. How are you going to compensate me now?"

Happiness & Theresa & Rita: "..."

Ende deliberately tossed her beautiful long black hair, teasingly lifting the stunned girl's chin. "What should we do? You seem pretty good to me~"

In a fit of grief and anger, Xing grabbed Theresa by the neck and yelled, "You stupid mother who's ruining your child, you're going to drive me crazy!"

P. S.: Since I can't reach Rita, I can only bully Theresa. Oh right, her current form is still that of a juvenile; she's a little bigger now, similar to Black Seele in the Abyssal Empress armor.

Hmm, it seems that even the Mortal Tribulation Difficult to Cross can be summoned. Let's modify her consciousness and make her forget about this.

Just as Sachi was about to shoot her, the floor suddenly shook violently. Theresa instinctively shielded Sachi behind her. "What's going on? Is it an earthquake?"

Ende's face turned deathly pale, and he muttered to himself, "No, how could this be? It shouldn't be waking up at this time..."

If you look down from directly above the Golden Ocean Park at this moment, you will discover an amazing fact: apart from the small outer island at the beginning, the 11 main islands are gradually rising, as if some huge thing under the sea is slowly lifting them up.

Author's Note—

In the next chapter, Yun Mo will make his appearance!