The Advent of Honkai

Senba Academy, at the school entrance.

Groups of three to five girls were gathered here.

They should have entered their classrooms by this time, but instead, they were all standing near the school entrance.

They looked at the two girls not far outside the school gates, their eyes full of admiration:

"OMG! Princess Kiana and Lady Mei are walking to school together again!"

"Look, look, they're even holding hands! It's so beautiful!"

"Ahhh! I'd trade ten years of my best friend's life to be one of them!"

"As everyone knows, a triangle is the most stable shape! So, I'm willing to trade twenty years of my best friend's life to join them!!!"

"..."

Even though Raiden Mei, who had received an elite education since childhood, heard the gossip around her, she couldn't help but blush a little.

For reasons unknown, the world's gender ratio was imbalanced.

This led most women, lacking partners, to turn their attention to other women.

Fortunately, thanks to advanced technology and the widespread use of gene technology, humanity's normal reproduction had been solved.

However, the phenomenon of same-sex relationships, caused by the gender ratio imbalance, continued to become more prevalent.

Therefore, whenever Mei saw people around her looking at her and Kiana with ambiguous gazes, she always felt a bit uncomfortable.

Of course, even so, for her, Kiana was a good friend she could never lose.

Thinking of this, Mei subconsciously glanced at the carefree white-haired girl beside her and shook her head fondly.

"Kiana, if we don't hurry, we'll be late~ I won't take responsibility if you get scolded by Teacher Himeko."

"Aww! Mei~ I still want to spend a little more time with you..."

After saying that, Kiana not only didn't quicken her pace but became even more unrestrained.

And so, the two of them walked into the classroom right as the bell rang.

Seeing the history teacher already in place, Kiana pouted unhappily.

"Why is that old man always so early! He didn't even give me time to get closer to Mei!"

Complaints aside, to prevent the history teacher from reporting her to the homeroom teacher, Himeko, Kiana reluctantly parted with Mei and walked to the second-to-last row by the window to sit down.

"Sigh~ Just thinking that I'll be separated from Mei for about 44 minutes makes me feel so listless~"

"So, to get through this difficult time faster, I've decided to use this time to get a good sleep. After all, my old man always taught me 'early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy'!"

(Siegfried: Is that what I meant by that!)

However, despite saying that, the certain cockroach still chose to sneak out her phone before sleeping.

"After all, it's not good to just sleep as soon as I enter the classroom. I should at least pretend to pay attention..."

So, Kiana propped up the history book on her desk and hid her phone behind it.

After opening her favorite pink app, "PiliPili" (hereinafter referred to as P-site), Kiana suddenly noticed that the top trending topic had changed from "Homu Adventure" to a video she had never seen before.

And judging by the time, this video was only uploaded less than three hours ago.

"Dominating the charts in less than three hours? This must be fake data, right?"

In this commercialized era, if you have money, you can get almost anything people dream of.

P-site was no exception, after all—

"Uncle, I really, really like money!"

Kiana rolled her eyes dismissively.

She intended to swipe past it, but to her disbelief, she found:

"What! In such a short time, the view count has reached over six million? And there are nearly 1 million likes and 600,000 coin investments?!"

One must know that view counts can indeed grow rapidly through massive website promotion.

But likes and coin investments, functions that each user can only use once or twice, cannot be faked.

In conclusion, this video titled "Honkai Impact 3rd" was truly terrifying!

Thinking of this, Kiana adjusted herself to a comfortable position and opened the video. She also took the opportunity to greet the handsome guy sitting behind her.

"If the teacher comes down later, remember to kick my chair!"

After receiving a positive response from the handsome guy, Kiana confidently began watching the video.

"I, the second young lady of the prestigious Kaslana Family, will see what kind of magic this video holds!"

Unlike other videos popular on the internet, this video began by displaying simple text.

However, when people read it carefully, they found that the text was incredibly information-rich!

[Are you dissatisfied with this world in many ways?]

"And do you feel your life shouldn't be like this?"

"But if I told you that the world you see as filthy is a place many people dream of, would you still think that?"

"Is there a possibility?"

"The world you live in now is something some people fought with everything they had to achieve?"

"Humans always make the same mistakes."

"But the world doesn't."

"So, it's time. It's time to reveal the truth buried in the dust of history."

"This is... the story of a group of people who fought for a better world..."

The black screen and text gradually disappeared, replaced by an overwhelming flood of danmaku that filled the entire screen.

"Congratulations on discovering the treasure of the battle!"

"Highly recommend new players stick with it, this is my fourth rewatch!"

"This is not a drill! Repeat! This is not a drill! High energy ahead!!!"

"I don't know if it's just me, but I posted my danmaku at the very beginning of the video, yet it only appeared after the text at the start of the video finished displaying..."

The barrage of danmaku startled Kiana.

Although Kiana was the type who usually couldn't watch videos if there was too much danmaku.

Seeing the danmaku already covering the entire screen, she couldn't help but exclaim:

"Even though I was mentally prepared, this is just too much danmaku!"

To see the video content behind the danmaku, Kiana adjusted the danmaku density and began to watch seriously.

"Since the third Honkai outbreak..."

"2 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 24 seconds..."

"Report, Major!"

"Unidentified object detected above Canghai City, target location: SH0639..."

In reality, when people saw the video mention Canghai City, they instinctively froze.

This was because Canghai City, mentioned in the video, actually existed.

So, the question arose...

If this video was filmed in Canghai City, why hadn't the residents of Canghai City leaked any information...

Or perhaps...

Could it really be, as the beginning of the video suggested, a story that happened in the past?

Meanwhile, unlike others who were filled with questions, our little bug wasn't so perplexed.

At this moment, her gaze was entirely focused on the realistic and gorgeous special effects in the video.

"Wow! These effects are so realistic, there's not the slightest trace of editing. I have to share this video with Bronya, who's out participating in a competition, so she can see how this was done..."

However, the next moment, Kiana's excitement vanished without a trace, replaced by endless confusion and astonishment.

Because, when new scenes appeared in the video, the girl saw...

"That person... is me?"