Honkai, I'll Transform and Punch You Directly Chapter 46

If I remember correctly, that black mist composed of Collapse energy is a unique power of the Herrscher of Death. It can cause rapid cellular aging, turning anything it touches to ash...

Unfortunately, Lin, just like in the original story, couldn't fuse with it. The power of the Serenity Gem within her body began to backfire.

"My hand! What's happening to my hand!"

Lin, in the midst of excruciating pain, finally reacted. She looked in terror at her arm turning to ash, and with great difficulty, moved towards Dr. Maki.

"Grandpa, it hurts so much! Save me!"

Lin, an A-rank Valkyrie, now cried like a little girl, begging her grandfather to save her.

"Lin!"

Dr. Maki painfully pressed his hand against the isolation glass. Helpless, he could only watch as Lin turned to ash.

"You were too close."

Bai Chen, unnoticed, bypassed the isolation glass and entered the laboratory.

The black mist that everyone else avoided seemed to have no effect on Bai Chen.

It wasn't just the effect of Advanced Collapse Energy Manipulation. Bai Chen, equipped with Seele's Stigmata, was completely unafraid of the black mist.

Bai Chen jumped forward and pressed his palm onto Lin's head, forcing her to kneel on the ground.

"Lin!"

Maki, seeing his granddaughter about to be tortured by this kid before she died, felt the blood vessels in his eyes instantly bulge.

"Hmph!"

Ignoring Maki's glare, Bai Chen continued to act as he pleased, piercing Lin's chest with his hand and extracting the Serenity Gem.

Then, like throwing away trash, he flung the legless Lin aside, causing her to explode into a cloud of ash the moment she hit the ground, completely disappearing from this world.

"Lin!!!"

Maki's bloodshot eyes stared at everything that had happened before him. His heart felt like it was being torn to shreds!

Ignoring the collapsing Dr. Maki, Bai Chen left the laboratory with the Serenity Gem in hand.

The bait is set, waiting for that old codger to take it.

"Wow! That's terrible!"

Pardo, who was lazing around in the lobby of the World Bubble, looked with sympathy at the girl who had suddenly appeared before her.

Such a lovely girl, missing an arm and both legs, even with a hole in her chest, surrounded by ominous black mist that made people afraid to approach. But those mists didn't seem to be hurting the girl anymore?

"? I felt some movement in the World Bubble. Did that guy Bai Chen throw something in here?"

Vill-V came running down the stairs, only to fall silent when she saw the broken girl.

"...It looks like damage caused by the Herrscher of Death?"

Vill-V tore open Lin's clothes, carefully examining the wounds, and said hesitantly after a moment.

Why weren't those residual black mists harming the girl anymore? And it's ridiculous that she's still breathing after so much damage.

Could it be Bai Chen's mysterious power again?

"Could it be that little Bai Chen has found me a free lab rat?"

Mobius also came before Lin, commenting on the shocking injuries with a teasing tone.

"I don't think so?"

Pardo said with some embarrassment.

"If you don't think so, why don't you go get Elysia's spear? Do you want her to die?"

Mobius shot two laser beams from her eyes at Pardo. Since Elysia stopped using that spear, its whereabouts were unknown, and Pardo definitely hid it away somewhere.

"I'm going!"

Pardo felt a shiver down her spine from Mobius's glare, and fled upstairs.

Chapter 79: Healing Lin

"Wow, well done. I knew I didn't ask the wrong person this time. Look, those workers are thanking you for saving them."

Otto followed Bai Chen's footsteps, praising him with his unique, flamboyant language.

The workers were indeed thanking Bai Chen, thanking him for eliminating Lin ahead of time, so they wouldn't be harmed by the overflowing black mist.

Bai Chen glanced at the group with displeasure, ignored them, and continued to walk outside.

"Well, the environment here isn't very good. Hurry up and clean up these ashes. They're a bit of an eyesore."

Otto continued calmly, but Bai Chen stopped in his tracks.

Anger! In an instant, the anger in Bai Chen's heart even resonated with Kallen's anger!

"Bai Chen..."

Kallen's tone, filled with anger, seemed to carry a hint of request.

"No problem."

Bai Chen immediately turned around and walked towards Otto.

"Hmm? My friend, is there something wrong..."

Otto didn't finish speaking when he saw Bai Chen's figure grow taller in a cloud of phantom images, then transform into Kallen, clad in purple attire—the outfit Kallen had personally chosen! Even hand-sewn!

This piece of clothing was very special to Otto; Kallen wore it when they parted ways.

"Slap!"

While Otto was stunned by the familiar figure, that purple palm struck Otto's face!

The force was so great that it drew blood from the corner of Otto's mouth!

A familiar slap, so familiar, too familiar, like he was often slapped like this.

Come to think of it, wasn't he often slapped by Kallen after using her as an experimental subject? Is this a slap that's five hundred years late?

"Sigh..."

After a brief daze, Otto wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and sighed inwardly. It seemed that his important partner, little brother Bai Chen, had a relatively high moral bottom line.

Just as he was about to say something to appease his important partner, he met Kallen's eyes.

In those azure eyes were justice, anger, unwillingness, regret, and even a few tears!

Too familiar, this wasn't Bai Chen.

Otto, who had lived for five hundred years, recognized in a glance that the person who slapped him wasn't Bai Chen!

"Enough! Otto! How have you become so cold-blooded! Back when we were on the battlefield, you taught those children the reason to fight, and now you're treating them as!"

Kallen's accusation instantly pierced Otto's heart. If someone else had questioned him on this matter, Otto would have had dozens of reasons to fool them.

But at this moment, facing Kallen's eyes, he couldn't utter a word.

Otto lowered his brow and fell into silence, and after a long while, he spoke dryly, "Kallen?"

"It's me."

Kallen's chest heaved with anger; a simple slap couldn't eliminate her anger at this moment. If she could, she would definitely rush into the laboratory and destroy that Serenity Gem.

"No, you're not Kallen."

Otto suddenly shook his head, denying the Kallen before him. Although there were many doubts about this Kallen's existence, there was no evidence to prove that she was Kallen.

"But you are the Otto I know."

"..."

Otto fell silent again as he watched tears stream from Kallen's eyes. He really couldn't treat this Kallen with the same perfunctory and flamboyant attitude he would use on outsiders.

Even if she might not be related to the real Kallen.

"I'm sorry."

In the end, Otto actually relented like this, leaving with half of his face swollen.

Actually, Otto's feelings towards the Kallen within Bai Chen were complicated, because she was truly the most likely existence of Kallen's soul fragment in the world, but the lack of any evidence kept Otto in a dilemma.

But one thing he was sure of was that this Kallen definitely had memories, after all, that familiar slap was just too right.

After slapping Otto, Bai Chen looked around to make sure no one was around, then canceled the transformation and returned to the World Bubble.

As soon as he entered the apartment door, he saw a large group of people gathered in a circle, seemingly performing a strange ritual.

"What the hell are you guys doing?!"

Bai Chen was stunned, staring blankly as the Thirteen Flame-Chasers... twelve people formed a circle around the battered Lin, gesticulating wildly. He almost thought they were a cult sacrificing a victim.

"Oh, you're here. We're just ideally discussing how she survived under this kind of injury."

A rare solemn expression appeared on Su's face. The situation of the patient before him made him feel like he had wasted several years of medical study.

"The tissue clearly shows no signs of hemostasis, but the bleeding has stopped. The black mist that originally destroyed all cells is only attached to her surface, without further destruction."

Mobius brandished a fruit knife on the side, seemingly wanting to dissect Lin on the spot to satisfy her curiosity.

"So you're all just watching the show?"

Ignoring the others, Bai Chen looked strangely at Chijie and Griseo. Even you guys came to join the fun?

"Hmph, to prevent certain people from being unmeasured."

As if understanding Bai Chen's gaze, Chijie snorted coldly and said nothing more.

"Actually, we're just worried about this young lady."

Aponia explained.

Originally, they were going to rely on the Black Abyss White Flower to heal the little girl, but Pardo sold it not long ago!

Pardo took the Black Abyss White Flower not long after, anyway, Elysia didn't need it, the world was about to end soon, and there was no need for such space-consuming things, so she sold it at a high price to the headmaster of St. Freya Academy in this world!

Uh... the headmaster of St. Freya Academy in this World Bubble, if he remembered correctly, was Cecilia, right? Reasonable.

Bai Chen scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed. But it didn't matter, he had the ability to save her.

As long as he used the Herrscher of Reason's authority, combined with the Herrscher of Death and Life and Welt Yang Stigmata, he was confident in bringing someone back from the brink of death.

Suddenly, gear-like patterns appeared in Bai Chen's eyes as he used a Herrscher of Reason authority skill card performance. It wasn't exactly the Herrscher of Reason skill card though, but rather the Herrscher of Truth skill card.

But it didn't matter too much, as he wasn't lacking in Herrscher of Truth combat power anyway.

After equipping the Stigmata, Bai Chen instantly felt a surge of pressure, as if the blood in his veins was about to burst out.

No, it was more like there was a leap in understanding at the cellular level.

Chapter 80: Plans

After a long while, Bai Chen placed the fully recovered Lin on the sofa. Aponia, with her quick eyes and hands, promptly covered Lin with a white cloth, concealing the enticing scenery exposed during the treatment.

Bai Chen massaged his sore neck and looked towards the doorway, at the boys who had taken the initiative to leave halfway through his treatment and were now squatting outside.

"All done."

"Huh? So fast?"

Kevin looked up in surprise at the room, discovering that it was indeed finished. He then prepared to return to his room.

Bai Chen frowned the moment he saw Kevin look up because there were several white paper strips stuck to Kevin's face...

"Hiss..."

Bai Chen's expression twisted into a grimace. He thought they had gone out to avoid suspicion, but it turns out they went out to play? Sure enough, everyone in this World Bubble has some kind of problem.

"Hey! Kevin, you're not thinking of running away now, are you!"

Chijie raised the cards in their hand unhappily, lifting their face covered in paper strips.

Because there were so many paper strips, it even blocked their mask!

My god, I don't think I took that long, did I? You managed to get your face covered in such a short time!

"Almost finished."