Yu Luo raised the revolver in his hand and fired another rapid volley. The magic bullets pierced the Zombie Girl's head without obstruction. Kiana, behind him, wielded a USP. Although it lacked the power of Yu Luo's revolver, it was enough to easily deal with any stray Zombie Girls flanking them.
In the rear, Mei Raiden, relying on her outstanding Hokushin Itto-ryu swordsmanship, firmly guarded their backs. Her sword strikes were clean and decisive, never faltering. Every flash of her blade inevitably sent a Zombie Girl to the ground.
Yu Luo cleared the path, Kiana dealt with any stragglers, and Mei Raiden protected their rear. The three of them advanced step by step towards the security gate, appearing perilous but actually as steady as can be. If the dense horde of Zombie Girls were a tide, then Yu Luo and the other two were a rock, upon which the tide could only break into scattered spray, unable to affect them in the slightest.
Finally, under Yu Luo's powerful firepower and forceful charge, the three managed to break out of the waiting hall and onto the platform. "Roar!" Despite countless comrades falling at their feet, the Zombie Girls relentlessly charged the security gate, staring at the three standing outside.
"Hey, stop chasing, I don't have any Vitamin C!" Yu Luo, having broken free from the encirclement, breathed a sigh of relief and deactivated his transformation, which had about 70% of its energy remaining. He then joked with the Zombie Girls.
"Let's go, do you want to go back and get cozy with them?" Kiana said irritably, looking at Yu Luo, who was still in the mood to joke.
"No, no, too many of them. My nutrition can't keep up."
"Pervert!" Kiana stomped hard on Yu Luo's foot, flicked her silver twin-tails, and hopped off the platform, walking along the tracks.
Mei Raiden's face flushed slightly. "Teacher Yu Luo, please don't say such things to girls in the future. It's very rude," she said to Yu Luo with a hint of reproach, before also hopping off the platform and following Kiana.
Yu Luo shrugged helplessly and asked the System in his mind, "Tell me, what's wrong with a man being a pervert?"
"There's nothing wrong with a man being a pervert," the System agreed enthusiastically. "But being a pervert in front of girls is sexual harassment. It's a miracle they didn't beat you to death."
The smile on Yu Luo's face froze. He let out a dismissive "Tch" and ran towards Kiana and Mei Raiden's retreating figures.
After walking along the light rail tracks for several hours, under the scorching sun, Yu Luo felt his stomach growl and his legs weaken. He finally spoke up, "Let's rest and eat something. I'm so hungry."
Kiana, walking ahead, also stopped. She touched her flat stomach and nodded in agreement. "Okay, let's rest and eat something before we continue." Kiana pointed to a derailed abandoned train car ahead. "Let's rest there."
The three climbed into the abandoned car. Yu Luo immediately collapsed onto a seat, looking completely drained, his entire demeanor turning ashen. He didn't even have the strength to speak.
"I made some onigiri this morning. Everyone, try them!" Mei Raiden produced a cloth bundle from somewhere and opened it to reveal four plump, exquisite onigiri. The red pickled plums dotted on top further whetted the appetite.
Yu Luo's near-death appearance vanished the moment the onigiri appeared. Like a rabbit, before Kiana could react, he grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth.
Kiana's eyes immediately turned red. She grabbed Yu Luo's other hand and protested, "Stinking teacher, those are Mei's for me! Why are you snatching so many!"
"Mmph mmph mmph... (Got proof?)" Yu Luo's mouth was full of rice, making his words unintelligible. Kiana couldn't understand him and was still trying to snatch the other onigiri from his hand.
"Awooo!" Yu Luo took a bite out of both onigiri. Kiana immediately gave up the struggle and pounced into Mei Raiden's ample embrace, whining, "Mei, he's being so mean!"
"Alright, alright, there are two left. We'll each have one," Mei Raiden said, like a doting mother, stroking Kiana's long silver hair and comforting her. Yu Luo stared blankly, and the onigiri in his hand suddenly lost its appeal.
Kiana, her head buried in Mei Raiden's chest, secretly glanced at Yu Luo and stuck out her tongue at him. Then, with a triumphant look, she enjoyed Mei's comfort.
Yu Luo realized he had been tricked by the white-haired idiot. Her goal wasn't the onigiri in his hand at all, but to get close to Mei Raiden. Understanding this, Yu Luo could only dejectedly swallow an onigiri in one gulp, chewing while glaring at Kiana with deep resentment.
It took a full ten minutes before Kiana finally got off Mei Raiden. She nibbled on the onigiri Mei had made, occasionally sporting a lecherous grin. Mei Raiden ate elegantly, a visual feast just to watch.
Yu Luo leaned against the train car window, looking down at the entire cityscape of Changkong City. A seemingly prosperous metropolis, who would have thought it was already a dead city?
"Drip... drip..."
Yu Luo seemed to faintly hear a strange sound and asked Kiana and Mei Raiden, "Did you guys hear anything?"
"No," Mei Raiden shook her head. Kiana replied impatiently, "The Honkai girls can't get here. Besides us three, there's no one else. Did you hear it wrong?"
"Maybe." Hearing both of them say that, perhaps the sound was just his imagination.
"Drip... drip..." The exact same sound echoed again, and this time it was very close. Even Kiana and Mei Raiden heard it. The three exchanged solemn glances, took out their weapons, and stepped out of the car to investigate.
"Drip... drip..." A body as tall as a building, deep blue paint, metallic limbs filled with mechanical beauty. What appeared before the three was a robot that seemed impossible to exist with current technology.
"What is that? A Gundam?!" Yu Luo exclaimed. His height was less than half of this giant robot. Mei Raiden's gaze fixed on the chest of the deep blue robot, where a strange inscription and a horizontal 'S' icon were printed.
"Titan." Mei Raiden suddenly uttered a phrase Yu Luo and Kiana didn't understand. "Titan, is that the model of this robot?"
"Mei, what's wrong?" Kiana noticed Mei Raiden's abnormality immediately. Mei Raiden pointed to the horizontal 'S' icon and said strangely, "This icon is exactly the same as the one in the lab my father built at the academy."
"ME Corp? That's beyond the scope of a civilian company!" Kiana exclaimed in surprise.
Mei Raiden shook her head. "I don't know. I haven't seen my father in a long time and don't know what he's doing."
The deep blue robot, named Titan, suddenly revealed an electronic eye, seemingly scanning the three of them. Then, the area around its head turned red, and it sprinted towards them. Its fist, the size of a small car, smashed down directly at the spot where the three were standing.
"Boom!" Dust and smoke billowed. The three scattered, dodging Titan's punch. However, the abandoned train car behind them was not so lucky, being directly deformed by the blow.
"Hey, Teacher, it's your turn to perform, ace!" Kiana compared the size of her dual pistols to Titan and gave up the idea of fighting, turning her gaze to Yu Luo.
"I know, I know!" Yu Luo stepped forward, standing in front of the two girls. No matter how skilled they were, their weapons were designed for fighting humans. For a steel monster like this, perhaps only he could attempt to dismantle it.
"Hugging beauties while dismantling Gundams with bare hands is the romance of a man!" Yu Luo raised his right hand, a bronze Heroic Spirit card held between his fingers. At the same time, he held a bronze Noble Phantasm Card between the fingers of his left hand.
"Henshin!" Accompanied by a fleeting silver light, Yu Luo's appearance had changed. Blue single-tails, a pale purple kimono, a face as calm as still water, and holding a katana as long as a person, its blade like condensed autumn water.
Yu Luo also equipped a [Struggle] card that he had lent to Kiana yesterday. After a friendly ten-pull last night, this low-star Noble Phantasm was fully broken, providing him with a small attack power bonus.
"Come, let me dismantle you!" In response to Yu Luo's words, Titan's hands lit up with rocket launcher barrels.
"Boom!"
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