Honkai, I'll Transform and Punch You

Honkai, I'll Transform and Punch You Author: Bai Hui Ziyu

Synopsis:

Bai Chen had still been joking around with his best friends on the road when, in the next instant, he lost consciousness.

"Did I just die? How did I die?! This is way too strange!"

While Bai Chen was still baffled by his sudden death, he discovered that he seemed to have arrived in a ruined city. This was...

"Kiana! You caused trouble again!"

"It wasn't me, Mei! I wasn't even in the dorm yesterday!"

"Captain Qin, someone reported that Klee's explosions damaged some crops yesterday afternoon."

"But Klee spent the entire day in solitary confinement yesterday?"

"This morning, I think I saw two Lady Dragons treating injured civilians."

"Did Lady Dragon learn the Clone Technique just to treat the wounded faster?"

This Was Actually Honkai

"I've saved up enough pulls for two major updates, plus copies for constellations. Next update, I'm going to max out Raiden Shogun." Bai Chen looked at the official announcement on his phone and calculated inwardly. "What about you, Luo Hui?"

Luo Hui froze for a moment before replying, "I'll wait for the next Pyro claymore character. My lineup needs changing."

"Tch, you meta slave." Bai Chen looked down on him.

"Bastard, you're being controlled by Second Brother and you're proud of it?" Luo Hui returned the international gesture of friendship.

Bai Chen had just been about to fire back. How could pulling for his wife count as being controlled by Second Brother? Longing for beautiful girls was only human nature. Before he could speak, however, an intense flash of light filled his vision. Then his entire body went numb, and he lost consciousness.

He did not know how much time had passed. Maybe only thirty seconds, maybe thirty years. In his muddled consciousness, Bai Chen vaguely heard someone speaking.

"Sorry... I dragged you into this..."

"Only now have I been able to... revive you..."

"Take... this with you... I hope that in the future... you can help me, help everyone..."

Though Bai Chen could not hear the person clearly, he could feel the guilt in that voice.

At first, Bai Chen had not reacted, but as his consciousness gradually cleared, he began to sense that something was wrong. Revive me? I died?! I just suddenly died? Flesh and blood really were fragile.

As his awareness returned, Bai Chen regained control of his body and his perception of the outside world. Opening his eyes, he found himself standing in a city. Though he had come from darkness into a brightly lit place, the sunlight did not irritate his eyes at all.

"Transmigration? Rebirth? This kind of thing happened to me?" Bai Chen looked at the unfamiliar scenery around him and spoke uncertainly. Then he anxiously stomped his foot on the spot. "What about my family? If I transmigrated, wouldn't my sister be the only one left to take care of our parents?!"

As Bai Chen panicked and did not know what to do, he suddenly spotted a huge screen hanging from a distant building.

March 2014...

Bai Chen did not finish reading it. His heart suddenly tightened. Although this was a city, there was not a single person in sight. Coupled with the familiar date displayed above and the unreadable writing, the ominous feeling in his heart grew stronger.

After calming himself down, Bai Chen felt that staying in place would not solve anything. He began carefully feeling his way along the walls and exploring the surrounding area.

To avoid running into anything unpleasant, Bai Chen specifically found what looked like a clothing store and slipped inside, intending to take some mirrors to check around corners for danger.

Sure enough, after entering the clothing store, he found that the interior was already in complete disarray, as though a fierce battle had taken place. Fortunately, Bai Chen did not see any obvious danger. Even the items inside the mirrors had been shattered and scattered across the floor, so he did not need to risk breaking any himself.

Bai Chen crouched down, intending to pick up a mirror and leave, but then froze in place. There was a child in the mirror! Startled, Bai Chen swiftly snatched the mirror from the floor and held it before his face. There really was a child in it—but it was also really him! Fourteen years old!

After the brief shock, Bai Chen almost laughed in exasperation. It made sense. Since this world was now in 2014, he had probably returned to what he looked like in 2014.

Upon closer inspection, he found that he seemed to be a little different. His originally brown eyes had become a gradient that shifted from purple to pink. Other than that, there was no difference.

Bai Chen gripped the mirror and prepared to leave. This was not the world he had imagined, and with this atmosphere, something terrible had definitely happened. It would be best to find a vehicle and leave. As for going home, he needed to survive first.

Things did not go as he wished. The moment Bai Chen stepped out of the shop, he felt a distinct tremor, accompanied by the deafening sound of collapsing buildings.

He did not even glance in the direction the sound came from. Bai Chen instinctively fled in the opposite direction. To hell with watching the excitement! Last time, the people who stayed behind to watch had all been pierced through by vines and turned into fertilizer for Pava fruits!

He cherished his life and would not go take a look. Besides, having returned to his fourteen-year-old body, his two legs ran incredibly fast. If he still had an adult's body, he would not have been able to run so easily.

Although Bai Chen had started running first, it did not take long before he realized that whatever was behind him was about to catch up, because he could hear voices from behind.

"Move aside! Don't block this lady's path!" a delicate shout came from behind him.

That familiar voice—Sun Shangxiang, no, Talia, no, Hu Tao, no—Kiana!

"Idiot Kiana, according to the data, there is a ninety percent chance that the unit ahead is a normal male. If Kiana fires, there is an eighty percent chance that she will be convicted of intentional homicide." A calm voice came from the same direction, successfully preventing a tragedy.

Bai Chen, who was running for his life, broke out in cold sweat. What was going on? Did I just blink at the gates of Hell?

Before Bai Chen could react, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya rushed past him. Without wasting words, Kiana grabbed Bai Chen, tucked him under her arm, and continued running. Bai Chen, exhausted like a dog, finally got a chance to rest. At the same time, he had the chance to see what had caused the commotion behind them.

It was a monster covered in white and purple, its shell textured like an insect's carapace.

He had played the game plenty of times, but this was his first time seeing one in reality. Still... wasn't its size far too different from the game?! That was right. The monster before him was a Temple-class Honkai Beast, an enemy from the game Honkai Impact 3rd that Bai Chen had played in his previous life.

But in the game, they were at most three or four meters tall. This one was over twenty meters?! Was it a special individual produced by the Honkai eruption just now?

"Little brother, are you a resident around here? Do you know anywhere nearby where we can shake off that thing behind us?" Mei asked Bai Chen while clearing out the zombies drawn by the noise.

"I-I don't know either. I only got here not long ago myself." Bai Chen gave a casual answer. He could not exactly tell her that he had transmigrated from somewhere else, could he?

At that moment, Bai Chen suddenly noticed a purple glow around Kiana's body. Yet the others seemed not to notice it at all.

Transformation

"That ball of light... I feel strangely drawn to it."

Still tucked under Kiana's arm, Bai Chen made a grabbing motion toward the ball of light. To his surprise, it surged directly into his body.

"Hmm?"

Kiana felt Bai Chen suddenly tense up as though he had been frightened, and her expression darkened slightly. After all, she had almost accidentally killed him just now.

But Bai Chen's experience was completely different. He only felt a force suddenly enter his body, as though some kind of ability had awakened. Could he transform into Kiana now? It was like suddenly remembering something he had once forgotten. Bai Chen knew how to use this power.

As Kiana and the others fled, they had to continuously clear away the zombies and Honkai Beasts attracted to them. Even though Mei and Bronya did their best to deal with them, their pace was gradually slowed.

"Damn it, can you guys stop blocking the way?!"

Kiana protected Bai Chen while raising her guns and blowing the head off a zombie that lunged at them.

"Ha!"

Mei used the katana in her hand to deflect a zombie's attack. Then, when its guard opened, she stepped forward and slashed several times. Her blade flashed like an afterimage as she cut down the zombie.

The sound of artillery fire was equally incessant nearby. Bronya directed the robot known as Heavy Tank Rabbit 19c to bombard the monsters approaching from afar.

The zombies and small Honkai Beasts gradually surrounded them. At this rate, the monster behind them would catch up in less than two minutes. By then, it would not be something a few people who had never even received formal Valkyrie training could easily handle.

"Why? In the original plot, shouldn't Kiana and the others have gotten through this safely?"

Bai Chen nervously watched the monsters continuously appear around them. Then he noticed that Kiana and the others were intentionally or unintentionally protecting him.

In the original story, they would not have needed to protect an ordinary civilian around fourteen years old. It looked like he was holding them back.

Watching the characters he had loved since middle school struggle to fend off attacks in order to protect him, Bai Chen could not help feeling miserable.

Surrounded by monsters, Kiana and the others were forced to stop. Rather than keep fleeing and waste their stamina, they might as well make a desperate stand.

"Damn it! Don't think just because this lady let you off for a moment that you can push your luck, you oversized brute!"

Kiana put Bai Chen down behind her and rapidly fired several shots at the Temple-class Honkai Beast. Yet the bullets only threw off sparks against its body, not even leaving a scratch.

Damn it, these pistols are way too useless! They're not even as good as my fists!

After mentally complaining about the guns in her hands, Kiana took the initiative and charged toward the Temple-class Honkai Beast with her guns, intending to see whether this Temple-class Honkai Beast was really as strong as it looked.

Seeing that one of the insects it had been hunting was charging at it, the Temple-class Honkai Beast did not hesitate to thrust its enormous knight's lance toward Kiana.

With a thunderous crash as though the earth itself had collapsed, the Temple-class Honkai Beast successfully... missed.

Kiana dodged before the attack landed, then immediately mocked it. "What's wrong, big guy? Do you only have one eye, so you can't aim properly?"

Naturally, the Temple-class Honkai Beast could not understand Kiana's taunt. It only knew to eliminate the creature before it according to instinct. Just as it prepared to follow up with another thrust, it staggered. Its lance had embedded itself in the ground and was stuck fast for the moment.

As the Temple-class Honkai Beast prepared to pull out its lance in one burst, several shells suddenly exploded against its face, successfully interrupting its movement.

Bronya hugged the HOMU doll in her arms and extended one hand toward the Temple-class Honkai Beast as though aiming. Heavy Tank Rabbit 19c behind her took the same aiming stance, with wisps of heat rising from the enormous cannon in its hands. Clearly, it had fired those shells.

"Bronya will not let Kiana steal all the glory."

Bronya fired several more shells at the Temple-class Honkai Beast.

Mei knew that she could not participate in that battle for the time being, so she did not rush forward with Kiana immediately. Instead, she remained at the rear, protecting Bai Chen, who was about four years younger than her, while dealing with the surrounding fodder.

When the Temple-class Honkai Beast saw that it could not strike Kiana immediately, it turned and slammed its shield into the surrounding buildings with all its strength. The sturdy buildings instantly shattered like foam boards, breaking into countless pieces.

Driven by the Temple-class Honkai Beast's immense strength, the massive chunks of buildings shot toward Kiana like shotgun pellets.

Bronya noticed that something was wrong and narrowed her eyes. She immediately controlled Heavy Tank Rabbit to fire shells and intercept some of the fragments, but that was only a small portion of them.

Kiana stared tensely at the incoming debris and did everything she could to evade the large chunks rushing toward her, but she still could not avoid being struck by smaller fragments.

"Urgh!"

After being hit by the smaller debris, Kiana's movements involuntarily slowed. It was only because of the Kaslana family's constitution. If Bai Chen had been hit, he might have simply dropped dead on the spot.

Bai Chen watched the three of them fight with all their might, his heart full of conflict. Should he use the power he had just obtained?

Setting aside whether using this power would cause irreparable consequences, he was even more afraid that Otto and people from World Serpent would notice him afterward.

Bai Chen knew he had never been particularly clever. If they targeted him, they would probably scheme away even his underwear.

At that moment, the Temple-class Honkai Beast seemed to catch Kiana slowing down. The purple patterns all over its body flared brightly, and it instantly pulled its lance from the ground before thrusting it toward Kiana.

If it hit Kiana, it would definitely cause irreversible consequences.

"Kiana!"

Unable to reach her in time, Mei stared in horror toward Kiana, showing faint signs of losing control. Even Bronya's artillery could not be used temporarily due to overheating. Kiana was clearly trapped in a fatal situation.

Enough with this nonsense.

Bai Chen's purple-to-pink eyes lit up with a brilliant glow. It had nothing to do with who they were, nor did he care about the outcome. If he had the ability to do something and still stood by with folded arms, he would definitely regret it afterward.

It was not out of any sense of justice. He simply did not want to regret it.

Rider Drive: Absolute Spacetime Fracture

The Cheat Activated!

In an instant, every monster present was sliced apart as if by invisible wind blades. Even the previously invincible Temple-class Honkai Beast was cut in half down the middle.

Then came a sound like shattering glass, immediately followed by a mechanical voice.

Rider Loadout: Quenched Knight

Coming back to her senses, Mei stared at the scene in disbelief. What had just happened? It was as though someone had stopped time. In a single instant, the situation around them had undergone a complete reversal.

"What happened?"

Mei turned toward Bronya, only to find that even Bronya, who was always unflappable, was staring blankly in one direction.

Mei followed Bronya's gaze. After seeing the sight before her, she covered her mouth in shock. Even the katana in her hand fell to the ground with a clear clang.

"Two... Kianas?"

Before Mei stood two Kianas. One was Kiana in the form of a white knight, carrying the Kiana they knew in a princess carry.

The white knight Kiana looked as though she had been through many things. She gave off an air of reliability, yet it made Mei's heart ache for some reason.

Her sleek white armor and cloak that burned like living flame displayed the power of the Valkyrie before them, who looked exactly like Kiana.

"!?"

Somewhere unknown to Bai Chen, a shadowy figure looked at Bai Chen's calm smile and seemed to see a beloved person in it. The excitement and shock in his heart were impossible to suppress.

"Cecilia... no, Kiana, are you alive?"

That shadowy figure was Kiana's father, Sigfried Kaslana. If not for the caution and restraint expected of a warrior, he might have rushed out to get answers.

Nothing that happened during the Third Honkai Eruption was surprising. What if this was a Herrscher with copying or disguise abilities?

Bai Chen slowly set down the unconscious Kiana. He was deeply alarmed by the power he now possessed. With this power, let alone dealing with those Honkai Beasts, destroying the entire city would be effortless.