Dream

After glaring at each other for more than ten seconds, Bronya was the first to close the door.

"Let's not talk about that gentleman over there for now. You two young ladies look very tired."

"As repayment for saving Bronya, Bronya will guard the door for you. Please get some proper rest."

After hearing the girl's icy words, the dissatisfaction on Kiana's face finally eased somewhat.

"Phew, isn't this little girl actually pretty sensible?"

Then she nudged Raiden Mei with her elbow and whispered to her.

"Mei, let's go inside and rest for a while."

"Elder Brother Gu, you too. You didn't sleep before, and you didn't rest properly while you were unconscious. Take this time to get some proper sleep."

"You two go inside and rest."

After saying that, Gu Yu ignored the puzzled look on Kiana's face, walked over to the sofa, and closed his eyes.

"I'll just rest here for a bit. You two should sleep for a few hours."

"Once you've recovered your strength and energy, we'll prepare to break out. If we keep dragging this out, who knows what kind of mess Changkong City will turn into."

Hearing Gu Yu's words, Raiden Mei and Kiana silently nodded, then immediately lay down on the bed and began their long-overdue rest.

Neither the energetic Kiana nor the ever-polite Raiden Mei noticed.

They had already begun treating Gu Yu's words as orders that had to be followed.

"Phew..."

Listening to the sound of the two falling asleep, Gu Yu slowly let out a breath.

After a busy day, Gu Yu's physical strength had not yet reached its limit.

But a person's endurance in battle did not depend solely on physical stamina. Mental energy mattered as well.

Gu Yu felt that he had no issues physically, but after three battles, he felt like his mental energy was starting to give out.

Yet he absolutely could not rest now.

In the game's story of Honkai Impact 3rd, Bronya, who had spent two years with Raiden Mei, Kiana, and the others, ultimately chose to betray her mother and burn the Bio-chip in her brain to resist her mother's orders.

But Gu Yu knew very clearly that the girl at the door had not formed a bond with the two girls in the room strong enough for her to betray Cocolia.

Had Bronya really lost her memory?

Gu Yu did not know, but he had to prepare for the worst.

If all three of them rested now, it would not be difficult for the physically powerful Bronya to silently take Raiden Mei away.

Gu Yu did not want a moment of carelessness on his part to cause irreversible consequences.

In the dim space, Raiden Mei slowly opened her eyes.

Within the space, she seemed to see her father, Raiden Ryoma, anxiously saying something to several people in white lab coats.

Then, Raiden Mei saw her younger self from several years ago being implanted with something.

The scene shifted, and Raiden Mei saw herself floating in midair above the rooftop.

Before her, Gu Yu, the boy she had only just met, was fighting her to the death.

"Is that... me?"

Looking at the girl floating above the rooftop with such cold eyes, Raiden Mei could not believe that she herself could wear such a terrifying expression.

And what frightened Raiden Mei even more was...

—She had happened to lost all memory of the period from meeting Gu Yu to falling from the air.

"Wait, judging from what they said then, I... wanted to kill Gu Yu?"

"And Gu Yu was not surprised in the slightest. Also, he didn't call me 'Raiden,' but 'Herrscher'..."

The thought that she had wanted to take someone's life threw Raiden Mei's mind into complete chaos.

Combined with how the boy had protected her and Kiana all the way, Raiden Mei suddenly felt that she had truly wronged him.

Filled with deep guilt, Raiden Mei wandered endlessly through her nightmare.

At the same time

Kiana Kaslana knew that she had no memories from before she was nine years old. Since the time she could remember, her dad, Siegfried Kaslana, had always treated her strangely.

Although Siegfried's face had later shown a smile again, Kiana knew that her lousy old dad was definitely hiding a great many worries in his heart.

Kiana might usually be carefree, but that did not mean she had no brains at all.

She knew very well that her dad's previous attitude was definitely connected to the memories she had lost.

It was just that Siegfried had already been missing for two years.

No matter how many questions Kiana had, she could not exactly run up to Siegfried, grab him by the collar, and demand answers.

During her time in Changkong City, Kiana had met a close friend named Raiden Mei.

And today, after the Third Honkai Outbreak erupted, she had met another friend while fleeing with her best friend...

—Well, at least Kiana thought that any boy who cared so much for the great Miss Kiana Kaslana definitely counted as her friend.

This friend never said much, but he had always looked after the two of them in all sorts of little ways.

It had to be said that, in the two years since her lousy old dad Siegfried disappeared, this was the first time Kiana had been cared for like this by a man.

This feeling was actually pretty nice.

However, after falling asleep, Kiana felt as though she had arrived in some strange space.

In that space, she saw a young little girl grumbling with an unhappy expression.

She had clearly never met the girl before, yet the moment she saw the girl's golden eyes, Kiana froze.

Strange, why did those eyes feel so incredibly familiar...

And... so incredibly frightening???

"Tch, you little brat are really lucky."

When the girl saw Kiana, she clicked her tongue in displeasure.

"I spent years storing up Honkai Energy with the core, and that brat sucked it all away."

"You should be grateful for that, then keep barely clinging to life for a few more years!"

Kiana could not understand what the girl meant at all.

But when the girl spoke, Kiana felt an emotion from the depths of her soul that filled her with intense disgust.

Kiana Kaslana was afraid of the golden-eyed girl before her.

"Why are you staring at me like that?"

Seeing the fear in Kiana's eyes, the girl drifted lightly over to her, then actually lifted Kiana's chin with her right hand like some frivolous man.

"I'm your true companion."

"One day, you'll become one with me, little~ cutie~."

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