I Will Always Main Mei

After eating their fill and resting up, it was already two in the afternoon. Kiana checked her twin pistols and the remaining bullets. Full of energy, she declared, "Preparation complete, ready to depart anytime!"

Yu Luo also took a good look at the effects of the many low-star Mystic Codes he had drawn. Although most of the effects were very minor, even a mosquito's leg is still meat. In the current situation, any extra bit of strength was welcome.

"Let's go!"

Following Yu Luo's words, the two walked out of the teaching building side-by-side. Kiana held two USPs in her hands, warily scanning their surroundings. Yu Luo's weapon had been upgraded; he had abandoned his divine artifact brick and replaced it with a table leg he'd dismantled from a desk. Yes, it was made of steel.

Even though Sasaki Kojiro's combat experience had completely vanished after his transformation state ended, he had still managed to retain a small portion during the brief battle. As long as his stamina didn't fail him, he could handle a few Zombie Girls.

"Get lost!" Kiana kicked a Penguin Girl away, then fired two shots with a dong dong sound. The Penguin Girl immediately collapsed. She then flipped over to dodge a rocket fired by an Archer Girl. Yu Luo had already stealthily crept up behind the Archer Girl. He raised the steel table leg in his hand and brought it down with force.

Duang! A clean, muffled thud. The Archer Girl promptly fell to the ground. The two quickly continued to run forward. "Teacher, can I ask you a question?" Kiana couldn't suppress her curiosity as she ran and asked Yu Luo.

"Hmm? What question?" Yu Luo responded while controlling his breathing.

"Were you some kind of wandering thief before? You're way too skilled at hitting people from behind."

"..." Yu Luo fell into an eerie silence, attempting to change the subject: "The dormitory building is almost here."

As expected of Kiana, whom Yu Luo called "White-Haired Idiot," she was easily distracted by Yu Luo and looked towards the dormitory building standing by the roadside ahead.

Crashes! The dormitory building's window suddenly shattered, and a Zombie Girl in armor jumped out, crashing onto the road and kicking up a cloud of dust. The situation in the center of the dust was completely obscured.

"Careful!" Yu Luo suddenly pushed Kiana away, raising the steel table leg above his head. A fierce wind swept past Kiana's ear. Yu Luo felt an unstoppable force transmitted through his hands, making it impossible to stand. His right leg heavily knelt on the ground.

Kiana then saw the Zombie Girl who had jumped down standing in front of Yu Luo. The table leg in Yu Luo's hand had been bent into a U-shape. The opened steel sword had cut the table leg in half, narrowly missing his head.

"Move aside!" Kiana shouted. Yu Luo quickly let go of the table leg, rolled on the ground, and moved away from the peculiar Kendo Girl. Enduring the pain in his right leg, he ran towards Kiana.

Bang bang! Seeing that Yu Luo had moved away from that spot, Kiana raised her USP and fired two shots at the peculiar Kendo Girl. However, she only heard ding ding sounds accompanied by sparks as the bullets were heavily repelled by the armor on the Kendo Girl's body.

"You students can bring regulated knives and bulletproof armor to school?!" Yu Luo was dumbfounded. Kiana rolled her eyes at Yu Luo and explained, "She's not an ordinary student. She should be the General of the Kendo Club, Berserker General Hoshina."

"That strong?! A mini-boss?" Yu Luo asked in amazement.

"No, an elite monster."

While the two were chatting, Berserker General Hoshina stomped her foot, and her figure suddenly appeared in front of Yu Luo and Kiana. Kiana's pupils dilated as she stared intently at Hoshina's figure.

"So fast!"

The two immediately retreated, dodging a strike. Looking at Berserker General Hoshina's armor, which even bullets couldn't penetrate, and the dark greatsword in her hand, Yu Luo asked an age-old question:

"What do we do?"

Facing such a difficult problem, Kiana rolled her eyes at Yu Luo and answered the profound question with a single word: "Run!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Kiana bolted. Her two white twin tails swayed behind her head. It was only then that Yu Luo realized he had asked a foolish question. If he didn't use a Heroic Spirit Card, the best course of action would naturally be to flee.

"Wait for me!" Yu Luo summoned all his speed and followed behind Kiana. He, who was usually physically weak, seemed to have gained the speed of Bolt, running beyond human limits.

"I suspect you, my teacher, were faking falls before!" Kiana, seeing Yu Luo keeping up with her speed, couldn't help but doubt his previous stumble and fall while fleeing.

"Don't you know that every Mikasa is like the universe when they're running away?!" Yu Luo wailed, spouting nonsense.

"So, Teacher, don't say things I don't understand!"

"Awoo!" Berserker General Hoshina also howled from behind as if joining the fun, pursuing the two.

"Pathetic ants!" a condescending voice with a queenly aura echoed from above. "How painful it must be to struggle to survive. Let me send you on your way!"

"Who?!" Yu Luo looked up, and his eyes met a delicate beautiful girl with exquisite purple hair that reached her waist. She wore a purple dress and had a pair of purple, crystal-like wings on her back. Her blood-red eyes were filled with contempt for ants.

Yu Luo felt his heart tighten and said to the system in his mind, "I think I might be in love, what should I do?"

"It's fine, you'll get over it in three months," the system casually replied, as if it were none of its business. "After all, you otaku change wives every season."

Kiana seemed to recognize the girl before her and asked uncertainly, "Are you... Senior Mei?"

"Oh? You actually recognize me?" the girl said arrogantly. "Then let me give you a quick end, so you don't have to struggle in this disappointing world."

"Extremely close to the Source of Honkai, survival rate decreased, survival rate, 0.0000001%!" Kiana's phone suddenly chimed. The numbers displayed on the screen were shocking. At this moment, how could Yu Luo not understand that this mysterious girl who had suddenly appeared was the source of the Honkai phenomenon that had turned everyone into zombies?

"The final boss?!" Yu Luo licked his lips, nervously looking at the mysterious girl named Mei standing on the roof of the dormitory building. "What bad luck, to encounter the mastermind BOSS in such a starting village!"

The Heroic Spirit Card of the Great Hero Arash was unconsciously held between Yu Luo's fingers. The suffocating pressure emanating from Mei made Yu Luo feel that with his current bond with the Heroic Spirit Cards, he wouldn't be able to unleash the power to defeat her. The only one with a sliver of a chance was the miraculous Great Hero Arash.

"Die! (No!)" Following Mei's voice, the sky, which had been bright and sunny, suddenly turned dark. Heavy thunderclouds pressed down on the sky above this area. Brilliant lightning flickered erratically within the black thunderclouds, making everyone's hair stand on end. The Berserker General Hoshina, who had been chasing the two, could only tremble under this oppressive aura, not daring to move.

But why was there such deep despair and sadness in this voice? Yu Luo keenly sensed the hidden sorrow beneath Mei's mad words and couldn't help but feel confused as he looked at Mei flying in the sky.

"Don't let the Honkai corrupt your mind, Senior Mei!" Kiana shouted towards Mei in the sky. Mei impatiently waved her hand downwards, and instantly, streaks of white electricity rained down continuously. The ground where the lightning pillars struck was scorched black.

"Whoa, Divine Sword Art of Thunder!" Even in this situation, Yu Luo couldn't suppress his urge to complain. He thought about it and decided to put away Arash's card and switch to Sasaki Kojiro's card.

"Henshin (Transform)!" Yu Luo held the card between his fingers, pointed at the sky, and made a forceful gesture towards his chest. Instantly, a shining silver light enveloped Yu Luo.

As the silver light dissipated, Yu Luo had a blue ponytail, wore a light purple kimono, and held a katana in his hand. His entire aura had changed.

"Interesting ants!" Mei manipulated the lightning pillars, striking them one after another at the transformed Yu Luo. However, Sasaki Kojiro's Agility was rated A+, and with a light step, he moved like a drifting feather. He lightly stepped, turned, spun, floated forward, retreated, all as if dancing through the lightning pillars, narrowly missing them each time.

Not only that, but Yu Luo even grabbed Kiana's shoulder and brought her through the rain of lightning, completely unharmed.

"Damn it! (Stop!)" Mei said impatiently, and then more lightning pillars were struck towards the slippery Yu Luo. As the lightning pillars fell, the dark thunderclouds in the sky visibly thinned.

However, Yu Luo was not at ease. To calmly dodge the lightning pillars, Yu Luo had been constantly activating Translucence B+ to maintain the state of [Serene as Water]. His energy, which was already at only 40%, was rapidly depleting.

The situation had become a choice: either Yu Luo's energy would run out first, ending his transformation, and his other Heroic Spirit Card, Billy the Kid, whose abilities were completely unsuitable for dodging, would force him to use Great Hero Arash's card for a desperate fight; or the thunderclouds would disappear first, and Yu Luo and Kiana could live a little longer.

Kiana could only watch Mei in the sky silently, not daring to disturb Yu Luo.