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After the stigmata absorbed a massive amount of Honkai Energy, Gu Yu suddenly felt an intense corrosive sensation from the swollen, aching back of his hand.

"Ah, just as I thought."

Even though the back of Gu Yu's hand was still covered by armor, he knew that his arm had probably already been contaminated by the Herrscher Toxin.

In the Honkai Impact 3rd manga series, when Yuno, this Pseudo Herrscher, faced Theresa, an S-rank Valkyrie, she had once filled their battlefield with Herrscher Toxin.

And judging from Yuno's performance just now, she apparently had not yet attained that level of power.

Before the Herrscher Toxin could fully corrode his body, Gu Yu swiftly pulled out a card.

[FormRideBeastDolphiMantle]

After draping himself in the gilded armor, Gu Yu did not dare delay for even a moment. He immediately poured a huge amount of mana into the purple Wizard Ring in his hand, [Dolphi].

Kamen Rider Beast was a Kamen Rider who fought using ancient magic.

And in the Dolphin Mantle form Gu Yu was currently using, Beast wielded healing magic.

Driven by the healing magic, the Herrscher Toxin Gu Yu had absorbed into his body through passively absorbing Honkai Energy was purged in one go.

"Phew... At least nothing went wrong."

However, after healing the Herrscher Toxin in his body, Gu Yu turned his gaze toward Yuno, who was still convulsing on the ground, and sighed softly.

After Gu Yu had punched her out of the sky and into the ground, Yuno's final survival instinct had driven her to concentrate all her Honkai Energy on defending her face.

For that reason, even after taking a finishing move directly to the face, she still had a faint breath left and had not died outright.

Perhaps because she had been corroded by Honkai Energy for less than a day, after Gu Yu drained the Honkai Energy from her body, she actually reverted into a barely breathing young girl.

"Ah, this is so damn troublesome."

After irritably scratching the back of his head, Gu Yu hesitated for a second...

"Forget it. Whatever."

"I can't just watch someone die right in front of me. We'll deal with any problems later."

Looking at the girl on the verge of death, Gu Yu irritably stirred the mana flowing through his body and once again infused it into the Dolphin Wizard Ring.

Then, after aiming the Dolphin Wizard Ring at Yuno's body, he covered the girl with a healing magic circle.

Once Gu Yu completed that sequence, Bronya controlled Project Bunny and slowly descended from the sky with Kiana and Raiden Mei.

She looked at Gu Yu and Yuno, silently floated over to Gu Yu's side, and asked coldly.

"Aren't we killing her? That woman seemed to be trying to take our lives just now."

"If perverted big brother doesn't want to do it himself, Bronya doesn't mind taking care of it."

When she saw that Gu Yu did not respond, Bronya took it as silent consent and slowly floated forward.

"Forget it."

But in the very next second, Gu Yu stretched out his right hand and stopped Bronya from moving ahead.

"If I really wanted to kill her, why would I have saved her? Kid, don't be so bloodthirsty. Not every problem can be solved through killing."

"Tch. A violence freak like you actually has the nerve to say that."

After glancing at Gu Yu's mask, Bronya spoke in an icy voice.

"Although Bronya has forgotten the past, Bronya knows that perverted big brother won't gain anything from doing this."

"On the contrary, if this girl wakes up and intends to continue opposing perverted big brother, perverted big brother may end up facing an even more troublesome problem."

"Even in that case, does perverted big brother still intend to spare her?"

"Of course. Because she isn't a mad beast corrupted by Honkai Energy right now. She's human."

At the thought of the culprit behind this Honkai outbreak, Gu Yu clenched his fists.

"If she loses her Herrscher identity, then she is merely another victim harmed by Honkai Energy."

"As long as she doesn't cause trouble, she has the right to keep living as a human."

"Even if you think I'm a bleeding heart, or even a complete idiot, I won't let a life I can save vanish before my eyes."

After the card automatically ejected from the driver and his transformation was released, Gu Yu looked at the more pronounced stigmata on his hand and sighed softly.

"This world is already terrible enough. At least within the limits of what I can do, let's make it a little better."

"Alright, enough philosophy."

Looking at Yuno, who had begun to tremble faintly on the ground, Gu Yu turned his gaze toward Project Bunny.

"Get to work."

After Gu Yu gave it a casual glance, Project Bunny swiftly floated to his side, grabbed the half-conscious Yuno, and placed her on itself.

"Project Bunny, you..."

Seeing her partner being so obedient before Gu Yu, a dark line suddenly crossed Bronya's forehead.

If this were not such an inappropriate setting, she really wanted to ask who Project Bunny actually listened to.

But for now, forget it.

It had to be said that even though Bronya had lost her memories, the intuition forged through her training as an assassin had not been forgotten by her body.

Since a while ago, Bronya had noticed something.

There seemed to have been no Honkai Beasts around them for quite some time.

At first, Bronya thought Gu Yu's green armored clone had slaughtered a large number of Honkai Beasts and temporarily cleared the area.

But now, even the distant Honkai Beasts were clearly floating toward other places.

It was not strange for a group of Honkai Beasts to fail to notice them, but for all the Honkai Beasts to consciously or unconsciously drift away and not dare approach this area was a little off.

"Strange... For some reason, I have a really uncomfortable feeling."

Even though it was morning and the sun still hung in the sky, Kiana suddenly shivered and wrapped her arms around herself.

"Mei, do you feel like it's getting a little cold?"

"No. But I do feel as though something is approaching."

"...Sigh."

After letting out a deep sigh, Gu Yu looked at a figure walking toward them from not far away.

"Why is another enemy coming over?"

"Can't I rest for a bit? Even 007 isn't this harsh."

The issue was actually very simple. He had spent a long time thinking about whether to save Yuno.

From a structural standpoint, Yuno was a character who died in the original work and was not even given a surname, so even if she were saved, she probably would not have much of a role in the future.

From a plot standpoint, this character stabbed Theresa twice, so probably not many people liked her.

From this book's perspective, this character had just tried to kill the protagonist's group, so she was bound to be unpopular as well.

But after thinking about it for so long...

Forget it. Poisonous or not, he would save her anyway.

Unlike in the original work, this Yuno had been corroded by Honkai Energy for less than a day. In my eyes, she was a character who could still be kept alive.

It would have been easy to have the protagonist kill her with one punch, but that just felt...

Forget it. There was no need.

Hopefully this would not poison readers into dropping the story.

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