Collapse City: Starting by Making an Anime Version of Honkai

"Very good, Salome, the second movie will be released on Christmas."

Yaqing sat in his office. Shigure Kira leaned on the guest sofa, eating cookies and drinking milk, looking even more relaxed than him, the chairman. He said speechlessly, "Kira, why are you so free?"

Shigure Kira took a sip of milk to wash down the cookies and said, "I'm not responsible for an entire department like them. I just need to finish my own work. I heard you went back to headquarters?"

"Yeah, I went back to witness a ridiculous farce." Yaqing opened the documents that had been delivered in the past few days.

"Did you see Director Cecilia?" Shigure Kira suddenly became interested, looking at Yaqing with shining eyes.

"No, my sister is still traveling in Shenzhou. I only called Ziegfried back," Yaqing said without looking up.

"Ah..." Shigure Kira slumped on the sofa, but then seemed to remember something and suddenly became excited again, "Shenzhou isn't far away, Yaqing, I want to ask for leave!"

"Huh?" Yaqing looked at her strangely.

"Have you thought about what you're saying?" Yaqing said with a forced smile, "You haven't even been employed for a week and you're already thinking about asking for leave. What will the people below think? Stay put. I'll give you leave after the second movie is released."

"Ugh..."

Meanwhile, in the Golden Courtyard, Mobius woke up leisurely. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a huge evil and found herself lying on Elysia's lap, which made her widen her beautiful eyes.

Elysia lowered her head and could barely see half of Mobius's pretty face through the cleavage.

"Dr. Mobius, you're finally awake. Did you sleep comfortably on the fairy's lap pillow?" Elysia said playfully.

Mobius didn't reply, but struggled to sit up. She was stunned when she noticed the blanket draped over her body.

"This wasn't put on you by the fairy, oh~" Elysia rubbed her numb thighs and blinked.

"Ugh..." Mobius still didn't reply.

Chapter 65: The Video Where the Dream Begins

Since the release of Collapse: Second Collapse, two months had passed, and the heat had not subsided. Whether online or offline, it was still a topic of conversation.

And today, Destiny's Far East branch entertainment company suddenly released a promotional video for the second movie, completely detonating the internet.

["This camera work is amazing!"]

["You have to say that Welt understands men. This modeling really knows how to jiggle!"]

["Does the plot go directly to after the end of the Third Collapse? I remember the last movie was only about the Second Collapse? Can someone tell me if I missed a movie?"]

["Familiar pigtails, isn't this Cecilia's daughter, Kiana?"]

The newly released trailer had already exceeded one million views and was still rising at an extremely fast rate.

In a certain chuunibyou Queen's livestream, the originally tepid livestream suddenly exploded in popularity due to the release of the first movie.

Sirin was originally preparing to stream a horror game as usual today, but suddenly a flood of people poured into the stream, all talking about the latest promotional trailer video. Driven by curiosity, Sirin paused the game.

The video began to play, and Sirin picked up a bag of potato chips.

"Aiya, don't ask me, I really don't have any news. I don't know the development of the plot later, crunch crunch, I don't even know who the protagonist of the next movie is." Sirin ate her favorite potato chips.

[The video starts with pitch black, only the logos of Destiny Branch Entertainment and Anti-Entropy Entertainment. Himeko's voice and Patrick's pinched voice suddenly sound, starting a dialogue.

"Helios, this is Hyperion, report mission status."

"Reporting, Major, optical target not visible, mission risk raised to A-level, request confirmation."

Relatively fast-paced background music starts.

A line of white text begins to appear on the black screen: 2 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 26 seconds since the Third Collapse.

"Continue the mission."

"Yes, Major! Close the hatch safety protection, manually open the hatch." As the woman's voice falls, the sound of the mechanically textured hatch opening also rings out, "Helios has entered a constant speed cruise orbit."

New white text appears on the black screen: PM17:13, 34 kilometers southeast of Canghai City.

"Airtight cabin decompression complete, hydraulic pressure normal, observation confirmed, waiting for the Valkyrie to board."

The black screen slowly lights up, revealing a shapely butt wrapped in a tight-fitting combat suit. She slowly walks towards the opened hatch. Outside the hatch is a starry night sky. As she gradually walks out, the audience recognizes those pigtails blown by the strong wind.

"Valkyrie boarding preparation, 10, 9..."

The camera zooms in on a flawless, beautiful profile. Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, she manually turns off the Bluetooth communication. Blue, technologically advanced goggles appear. Then, she leaps down from the floating ship near space.

The girl is still falling.

The screen suddenly cuts, and even the background music stops.

When the screen lights up again, the background music also becomes passionate. It is a beautiful scene. The sunset and clouds echo each other, and the light of dusk cannot hide the dazzling meteor-like figure.

Through the clouds, you can see the huge floating battleship below.

The camera zooms in again, showing the girl's firm expression, and red dots flashing non-stop on the blue goggles.

The screen ends here. In the darkness, a light flashes, and under the golden lightning effects, the title of the movie appears at the right time, Collapse I: Ballad of the Wind Colors.

The screen turns.

Four characters in silver mechanical font suddenly appear on the screen.

Collapse Returns.

Below, there is a line of large characters: Script unwritten, actors unavailable, funds scarce, all of the above is promotional fraud!]

"Hey, isn't this going a bit too far?!" Shigure Kira's voice echoed at the end of the video.

"Just kidding." This was Yaqing's voice.

The promotional video ended there.]

Sirin was dumbfounded, her little mouth slightly agape.

["Queen, why are you spacing out?!"]

["Am I lagging?"]

["Queen!!!"]

Sirin didn't say a word, her face sullen as she closed the camera and microphone.

Looking at the pitch-black livestream screen, the viewers in the chatroom simultaneously spammed: ???

Sirin suddenly jumped onto the bed, hugging the blanket with both hands, her legs tightly clamping a plushie, letting out a piercing shriek.

"That stinky old uncle is so unfair! Aaaaaah! Why?!"

Sirin couldn't believe that her idiot second older sister would actually be the protagonist of the movie, while she was a villain, and a tragic one at that, which made her extremely dissatisfied!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

Sirin grabbed the phone from the bedside table, preparing to call Yaqing.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently busy..."

Sirin wished she could smash the phone in her hand, but she couldn't bring herself to, so she could only let out a loser-like wail.

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Meanwhile, far away in the Golden Courtyard of the Far East, Yaqing was on a call with Kiana.

"So, my dear little Kiana, what do you think of the promotional video that's entirely about you?" Yaqing tilted his head, holding the phone between his ear and shoulder, and evenly spread the jam he had just taken from the refrigerator onto the bread.

"Hurry up and say thank you to your uncle."

Kiana, on the other side, was very satisfied with the promotional video, even watching it several times, but after hearing Yaqing's playful tone, she immediately pretended to be indifferent and said, "It's alright, it doesn't even capture one ten-thousandth of my beauty. Also, you stinky uncle, why is the model so revealing!"

Yaqing laughed, "Revealing? It's not even half as revealing as Mei's Valkyrie armor."

"What?!" Kiana exclaimed, "I don't agree, Mei is mine alone, and only I can see her like that."

"Kiana, what are you shouting about again?" A hungover Himeko, with a head of messy red hair, looked sleepily at Kiana.

"I..."

Just as Kiana was about to speak, she saw that the call had been disconnected on the phone screen.

"Aaaaaah!!!" Kiana stomped her foot.

In the Golden Courtyard, Yaqing could already imagine the scene of Sirin and Kiana both breaking down, and couldn't help but laugh, enjoying the sweetness of the blueberry jam, feeling that his mood for the day had become pleasant.

"That expression of yours, who are you planning to make fun of again?" Mobius ate the bread smeared with blueberry jam, looking at Yaqing with disdain.

"Cough cough, Senior, you know me, I don't like making fun of people, I'm not interested in fun." Yaqing said extremely seriously.

"Heh."

Chapter 66: Premiere Opening

On Christmas Day, it was also the premiere of Collapse I: Ballad of the Wind Colors. Because he had promised Elysia, Yaqing had to take her to attend the premiere, even if he was unwilling.

In a certain dressing room, Elysia put on a pink gown and sat there, Eden slightly bent over, smiling as she applied makeup for her. It is worth noting that Eden was also wearing a noble black dress.

"Eden, my dear Eden, for today's premiere, I'm your date~?"

"Yes." Eden responded with a smile.

Eden certainly knew Yaqing's thoughts, using her status as a world-class singer to promote the new movie, but she didn't hate this feeling. If Yaqing really said it, she would feel uncomfortable instead.

Like this, in the end, both sides knew it in their hearts, but they tacitly agreed.

In another dressing room, Mobius put on a light green long dress, her green hair was styled up, and she wore a golden earring on her left ear, she would walk the red carpet together as Yaqing's date.

"How troublesome." Mobius uncomfortably shook the earring on her left ear.

"Senior, if it's really uncomfortable, you don't have to wear it." Yaqing wore a high-end suit, standing in front of a full-length mirror, tying his tie.

Mobius frowned.

Yaqing, who had finished tidying up, looked at the snake who was so bored that she had started playing with her own hair, and said helplessly, "Senior, don't curl it with your fingers, it's troublesome to style it up."

Mobius put down her hand.

Mobius's bare face was very beautiful, with fair skin, but because of long-term staying up late to do experiments, her eye bags and dark circles were a bit serious. Yaqing sighed and pulled Mobius over.

Mobius was dumbfounded and was subconsciously pressed onto the chair by Yaqing.

"What are you doing?"

"Don't talk."

Yaqing picked up the high-end cosmetics on the makeup table, skillfully opened the eye cream, pinched a bit, and gently smeared it under Mobius's eyes, the cold feeling made Mobius close her eyes.

"When did you learn how to do makeup?" Mobius's tone was a bit inexplicably jealous.

"I learned it in the Golden Courtyard." Yaqing subconsciously gave the most common and simplest answer, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he realized his mistake.

"Hmm?" Mobius's beautiful eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Eden taught me," Yaqing said without a hint of panic, applying foundation to Mobius's pretty face as he spoke.

Mobius remained skeptical, her face full of disbelief, but she couldn't question him with the makeup being applied.

"Done."

In just ten minutes, Yaqing put down the cosmetics. Mobius opened her eyes, looked at herself in the mirror, and her small mouth slightly gaped. With the help of the makeup, the small wrinkles from staying up late were concealed, and her rosy cheeks were like apples, making one want to take a bite.

"You..."

As the premiere ceremony began, Yaqing booked an entire screening room, giving many tickets to everyone in the Golden Courtyard and Theresa. Yaqing and Mobius sat towards the back, as neither of them liked crowds.

"Brother Yaqing."

Hearing someone suddenly call his name, Yaqing looked towards the voice. Two little ones followed behind Aponia, and the pink-haired girl ran up to Yaqing.