Rabbits! Dragons! A Temporary Pairing! (Part 2)

Well, it's easy to feel a little disoriented when your usual weapon is suddenly replaced with something else. Luming and Kane experienced this firsthand.

Full Bottle's power increases with battle, and after following Kane for so long, Dragon Fullbottle's power is far greater than when she first used it, to the point that Chain Full Bottle can barely control it, and the transformation quickly shows signs of instability.

Meanwhile, on Kane's side—

"Still as powerful as before!!!" Jelly Dragon caught the fist that Hazard Rabbit Tank was throwing, and pressed down on the lever-shaped activation device. Gel gathered on the fist, and the rotation of the waist moved the whole body, changing the stance accordingly—

Extreme Inch Power - Thunderclap!

PS: Luming taught me step by step (in a physical sense).

Hazard Rabbit Tank also unleashed its ultimate skill at the same time. The two fists, which were filled with enormous energy, collided together, creating a strong shockwave that blew Luming, who was trying to come up and provide support, to the edge of the platform.

Both were thrown back by the recoil, each taking several steps back, and for a moment they were evenly matched.

The innocent girl, caught in the crossfire, dejectedly reverted to her transformation amidst the electric shock effect. Damn, this bottle of energy is too strong, I can't handle it, and... I'm not in a good state right now either.

She rolled up her sleeve, revealing a section of her jade-like arm. Purple erosion lines gradually spread. Seeing this, Luming sighed. Although the method of forcibly stimulating the Honkai Energy in her body to restore its activity with a full bottle of energy was feasible, it was not very friendly to her body. She wondered how Kane was feeling now.

Bang!

Hazard Rabbit Tank punched Jelly Dragon in the face. The crisp sound of the impact was painful, but he seemed not to feel it. He quickly grabbed the fist and moved it away from his face. Before the dragon could chase after him, Kane swiftly punched its belt, causing electricity to surge and affecting the stability of its armor.

Hazard Rabbit Tank, transformed from a robot, did not let himself be slaughtered. When Kane attacked it, he also threw a punch at the same time. Kane narrowly avoided the vital point, but he was still hit.

The two knights separated again and immediately engaged in battle. The machine-controlled combat was relentless, and Kane was giving it his all. His partner was right behind him. If I were to embarrass myself here, I might as well launch a super powerful attack!

There's one more thing: this Dragon Gel has a time limit for transformation, so it'll be bad if we don't end the battle quickly!

Jackal, who was watching the live stream, had mixed feelings. Hadn't he injected them with Honkai Energy Deactivator? The effects of the drug shouldn't have worn off yet, so why was he being injected so aggressively? Had he miscalculated the dosage?

"Kane, use this!" Seeing that the battle was still evenly matched, Luming seized the opportunity and threw the Whale Fullbottle at Kane. Kane took the attack head-on and actively created distance. He took the full bottle, replaced it with the Grip Driver, and the whale-head-shaped weapon formed on his right fist.

"Hey, where did this Full Bottle come from?!" Jackal was watching the live stream, was so angry that he almost smashed his keyboard. Raven, who was eating sunflower seeds next to him, thought for a second and said, "Oh, it's probably a Full Bottle that she has never used in the battle against us, but there shouldn't be many, otherwise she wouldn't have chosen to use the most difficult Dragon Lock Form to transform."

Kane's inner chuunibyou spirit, which had already practiced his combo moves in his mind, burned fiercely. He raised his right arm and roared, "Power of Poseidon!"

The unidentified liquid around him quickly turned into a water sphere and gathered above his head. As he swung his fist down heavily, the water sphere transformed into a whale shape and rushed towards the Hazard Rabbit Tank. The opponent activated its ultimate move to withstand the attack, but as soon as it came into contact with the Water Whale, its armor began to corrode and it eventually disappeared into the whale, leaving only a belt that fell off.

PS: The full bottle and the driver are made of materials with high strength and resistance in all aspects.

The Water Whale, with undiminished momentum, swallowed up the Hazard Rabbit Tank and finally returned to the waterways surrounding the platform. On the platform, Kane, who had deactivated his transformation, turned around and looked at Luming in a daze. "Damn, is this Full Bottle really that powerful?"

Luming shook her head blankly as well. No, it must be because those liquids are highly corrosive. By the way, what material is this platform made of? Water Whale swam across it and was completely unharmed.

A crack automatically appeared where the belt had fallen, recovering the Danger Trigger and the two Rabbit Tank Bottles loaded on it.

The girl, belatedly realizing what was happening, angrily stepped forward and smacked the boy on the head. "Idiot! Why didn't you pick up that driver right away? I wanted to take that enhancement device back for Little Te to study!"

Damn it... this is my Danger Trigger!!!

"This isn't my fault, Luming! That Dog-headed Strategist acted too quickly. Who knew those liquids were corrosive!" Kane, now a punching bag, felt wronged, but the other party was only a little angry and was just playing around.

"Phew, never mind, it's good that you're alright." Luming rolled her eyes at him. "There was such a big blob on your head just now. If you suddenly felt like swimming like a fish in water, I would have to build you a cenotaph."

"Ahem!" Kane coughed awkwardly a few times, realizing he had almost gotten himself killed. Damn, there's not a single good World Serpent; one must be careful in everything.

"By the way, Luming, what do we do next?" Kane looked at the only passage leading to the exit and realized that it had been damaged in the battle just now, making the atmosphere even more awkward.

"Hey, why are you stealing my belt?"

"I'll transform and jump out with you! Don't be grumpy, Luming. Don't you have a lot of Build Driver? Mine were taken. Can I borrow one?"

Luming tapped his head, pulled a washboard from under her skirt, and threw it high into the air. A dense barrage of gunfire instantly shattered the washboard that Kane had been kneeling on for months, leaving not a trace.

"If you use your brain more often, wouldn't that Dog-headed Strategist set a trap in a place like this?"

"Ah... Luming is so thoughtful."

The Jackal, watching the live stream, looked proud. "Hmph, as expected of my strongest experimental subject, so powerful in both strength and intelligence."

The Raven eating popcorn next to him looked at him with disdain. "Bullshit! It was clearly the weapon system you set up when you kept those snakes here to prevent them from escaping. You forgot to remove it when you modified it later."

Luming hesitated for a moment, then muttered to herself, "As expected, there's a difference between imagination and reality. Even with a plan in place, there are bound to be some errors during execution..."

Seemingly having made up her mind, she looked at Kane, who was calculating the distance, and said, "Close your eyes until I tell you to open them."

"?"

"Hurry up!"

The other party obediently complied. Luming surveyed her surroundings, glared at the hidden camera, then activated her Transformation Bracelet, quietly chanting the transformation incantation. A holy white light enveloped everything—

(°ー°)

After transforming, the Magical Girl Lady raised her wrist, intending to fly away, but found that she was not floating in the air as usual. Her bare feet touched the cold floor, and she then realized that the gemstone ornaments on her body, which should have been shining, were all dull and lifeless, with only the energy timer on her chest flashing red.

Xiaoyue, looking distressed, emerged from the bracelet. "My lord, your magic comes from the connection of the Schicksal Headquarters. The signal here is too weak."

Luming: "..."

My Magical Girl is so cheap!

"I remember the armor itself has energy reserves, right?" Luming squinted her eyes and pinched Xiao Yue's little face as she asked.

"That's right. When no signal is detected, the system will automatically use all remaining energy to maintain the Force Field, prioritizing your safety." Xiaoyue explained, bringing up the system settings interface. "Also, only His Lord Bishop has the authority to modify the system settings for Magical Girl Luming."

After thinking for a while, she finally decided to compromise and let Kane take her away, providing them with protection with Force Field. When she turned around, Kane, who had his eyes covered with a strip of cloth, was squatting on the ground drawing circles out of boredom.

"... Forget about me looking like this later, okay?"

"Um, um..."

"Shut up, or I'll kill you."

(Please use your imagination to fill in the scene and dialogue here.)

Good heavens! I actually flirted with my partner last time. It's really good that Luming didn't beat him to death!

—Lucky has a very good temper, as long as you don't provoke him—

In the pitch-black corridor, Kane, transformed into Dragon Lock Rider, cautiously moved forward slowly to avoid triggering any traps. The Magical Girl Lady on his back yawned boredly. This mode's Force Field prevented him from flying on his own, and she didn't want to run around barefoot, so Kane had to make do with carrying her... By the way, is this a reward?

Ugh, the dragon eye on the left side of the Dragon Lock Build is so sharp, I'll just lean on the right shoulder instead.

"You don't need to walk slower than a tortoise, there are no traps here." After scanning the area with her Honkai Vision and finding nothing amiss, Luming tapped his helmet, offering a friendly reminder.

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a gust of wind beside her ear, and the Dragon Knight, who had taken off, galloped wildly until he could no longer stop and crashed into a fork in the road.

The Magical Girl Lady jumped back and landed gracefully. Kane, pretending nothing had happened, pulled himself out and looked at the two forks in the road ahead. "Luming, which way do we go?"

"It's about the same on either side." After a simple reply, Luming tossed a coin. "Hmm, left!"

"Why?"

"Men on the left and women on the right!"

"Shouldn't we go to the right?"

Ignoring her partner's questions, the girl climbed onto his back again, urging him to move forward while whispering in his ear, "Keep an eye out for any storage rooms or anything like that when we leave. We might find something unexpected~"

The dark corridor gradually brightened, and more doors appeared on both sides. Kane smashed each one he saw, and if there was nothing good, he would move on to the next one.

"Hmm!"

Various bizarre limbs were soaking in jars, a disgusting sight that almost made Kane vomit. He quickly left, but the girl on his back remained calm, unfazed by the sight.

A wide variety of low-level weapons were carelessly piled up in the corner like trash. Adhering to the principle of not taking a single needle or thread from the World Serpent, Luming waved her hand and put them all into her pocket. She would take them back to check them out, and if there were no problems, it would be nice to give them to the newbies at the St. Freya Academy.

Next, next!

Corpse

Bizarre specimens combining multiple biological characteristics

Kane was curious and wanted to take a look at a certain experimental report that recorded the entire process, but Luming took it and put it into her Fourth-Dimensional Pocket. "You can look at it, but looking at it now might have a mental impact on you. Let's wait until we leave alive."

There was basically nothing noteworthy, except for some cheap instruments, weapons, and strange specimens; there was nothing of real value, until...

Click!

The door in front of them did not open as easily as expected. The two looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes. This time, there might be something good!

Bang!

As the old saying goes, "One force can overcome all methods," and this is true. Even the hardest door can be opened under strong force. The two rushed in and their eyes fell on the transparent container in the center of the room that was emitting a faint light.

A basketball-sized, pure white egg floated quietly in the solution; there was nothing else noteworthy in the room.

Luming's face showed a rare look of surprise, not because she saw anything terrifying with her Honkai Vision, but because she couldn't see any energy fluctuations in the egg with Honkai Vision. This was strange; anything alive, even an egg, should have some kind of energy fluctuation, right? Was it cooked?

Kane didn't care about anything else. He punched the container from the bottom and broke it open. After all the solution had flowed out, he reached his hand through the hole and took out the basketball-sized egg. "Luming, how about we take this egg back and boil it?"

The girl, who was about to praise him for becoming smarter, almost choked. She sighed helplessly and said in a coaxing tone, "Okay, okay, if we don't find any problems when we get back, I'll cook it for you."

"Oh yeah!"

An egg that failed to hatch for 50,000 years due to special circumstances. "..."

Disrespectful to Flame-Chasers!

—The dividing line of the journey—

They walked for a long time until their stomachs started growling, and then they saw the exit. But when Kane rushed to the exit, he found that it was the same platform as before.

"Damn it! Are we going in circles?!"

"No, although they look very similar, there are still some subtle differences, so they shouldn't be the same one."

Luming calmly analyzed the situation, while Kane was getting impatient. "At this rate, when are we going to get out? Hey, Jackal, come out here! If you've got the guts, let's have a fair fight!"

"Calm down." Luming handed him a sandwich and looked up at the huge glass dome above her head. "Now the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light. There was definitely more than one Black Knight before. They might be mass-produced. Don't let your words lead to a gang fight."

"Uh..." Kane choked a little after deactivating his transformation and replenishing his energy. The girl kindly handed him a glass of water. "Don't worry, I promise you'll be able to go home for dinner in a little while, probably."

"What do you mean by 'approximately'!" Kane looked at her resentfully, his peripheral vision catching a faint red light flickering at a certain frequency through the black veil covering the girl's chest.

Just as they were about to ask, the ground beneath their feet suddenly trembled violently, and a Giant Snake with bluish-purple scales and a huge body burst out from the water surrounding the platform, opening its blood-red maw to bite the two of them.

Note: The size is such that Ultraman would have to be sent to fight it.

"Mobius, Mobius, snake!!!" Kane was almost scared out of his wits. The Jackal had sent this guy to defeat him and lock him in a cage before, and now it was back again!

Terrified and completely disoriented, Kane grabbed his partner and rushed down the corridor at an unprecedented speed, which Luming estimated was comparable to his transformed speed.

"Why are you running?! As a warrior of Kaslana, you must fight bravely. Can't you win?"

"That's not the problem, Luming, I'm afraid of snakes!"

"What's there to be afraid of about snakes?!"

"I'm just scared! That monstrous creature is a snake, fine, but it just so happens to be the cobra that I'm most afraid of!"

Kane was almost in tears. Luming, whom he was carrying in a princess carry as they ran, was twitching uncontrollably. "You couldn't beat the Jackal back then because of this, were you? I'm ashamed for you..."

Just as Kane and his partner were fleeing for their lives, the space above them was torn open by a tremendous force, and a thick snake tail swept past them almost touching their bodies. Kane immediately turned the lever to transform, "That scared the hell out of me!"

Realizing she couldn't get Kane to bravely face the Giant Snake immediately, Luming had no choice but to change her strategy and focus her attention elsewhere. Suddenly, she noticed that there were many black figures standing in front of them.

When the girl saw what they looked like, she couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.

Their uniform, jet-black exteriors were the only difference in their compound eyes, which differed in color and shape, and Luming was all too familiar with their appearance.

"I was right, mass-produced Danger Trigger..."