Mei's Vulnerability

"..."

After hearing Kiana's words, Mei, whose expression had just softened under Dong Moxuan's comforting, instantly turned grim. Dong Moxuan could even see a faint killing intent in her eyes.

"Holy crap, Paramecium, what are you suddenly saying! Do you have a death wish?"

Seeing Mei's change, Dong Moxuan quickly covered the mouth of the suicidal White-haired Ball, his expression a mix of desperation and tears.

Did he have an easy time comforting Mei just now?

And now this White-haired Ball, for some unknown reason, insisted on courting disaster!

How was he supposed to handle this?

After all, he was just a weak, pitiful, and helpless death warrior!

This was too much for him!

"Mmph..."

Feeling Dong Moxuan's action, Kiana immediately began to struggle.

She forcefully threw off the hand covering her mouth and glared with slight annoyance.

"Hey, Fengxuan, do you really have to be such a coward?"

She looked at Mei, her tone dismissive.

"Don't worry, this young lady is very capable."

"Don't be scared, I'll protect you!"

Dong Moxuan: "..."

I'm not worried about my own safety!

I'm worried that you, you loose-lipped White-haired Ball, will get electrocuted to death by Mei!

Please, stop courting disaster!

Of course, Kiana was unaware of Dong Moxuan's inner turmoil. After speaking to him, she focused all her attention on Mei in front of her.

"I don't mean any harm, but it seems you don't want to talk things out, Pikachu."

Kiana drew her twin pistols and sneered.

"However, that's fine too."

"You'll talk to me peacefully... after I've defeated you!"

Before her words even fell, Kiana struck first, firing two shots at Mei.

"..."

After hearing Kiana's words, Mei, whose expression had just softened under Dong Moxuan's comforting, instantly turned grim. Dong Moxuan could even see a faint killing intent in her eyes.

"Holy crap, Paramecium, what are you suddenly saying! Do you have a death wish?"

Seeing Mei's change, Dong Moxuan quickly covered the mouth of the suicidal White-haired Ball, his expression a mix of desperation and tears.

Did he have an easy time comforting Mei just now?

And now this White-haired Ball, for some unknown reason, insisted on courting disaster!

How was he supposed to handle this?

After all, he was just a weak, pitiful, and helpless death warrior!

This was too much for him!

"Mmph..."

Feeling Dong Moxuan's action, Kiana immediately began to struggle.

She forcefully threw off the hand covering her mouth and glared with slight annoyance.

"Hey, Fengxuan, do you really have to be such a coward?"

She looked at Mei, her tone dismissive.

"Don't worry, this young lady is very capable."

"Don't be scared, I'll protect you!"

Dong Moxuan: "..."

I'm not worried about my own safety!

I'm worried that you, you loose-lipped White-haired Ball, will get electrocuted to death by Mei!

Please, stop courting disaster!

Of course, Kiana was unaware of Dong Moxuan's inner turmoil. After speaking to him, she focused all her attention on Mei in front of her.

"I don't mean any harm, but it seems you don't want to talk things out, Pikachu."

Kiana drew her twin pistols and sneered.

"However, that's fine too."

"You'll speak to me calmly... after I've beaten you!"

Before her words even fell, Kiana struck first, firing two shots directly at Mei.

While she didn't believe she would lose, Kiana didn't underestimate Mei in the slightest.

However, before Kiana's bullets could even get close to Mei, they were pulverized by the lightning crackling around her.

Seeing this, Kiana's eyes narrowed, and her movements became more cautious.

Kiana's marksmanship was incredibly precise, and her physical combat skills were exceptionally sharp.

But Kiana's greatest strength was her complete integration of gunplay and physical combat, forming an immensely powerful yet exceptionally beautiful gun dance.

It was with this skill that Kiana could easily defeat Honkai Beasts.

However, the pillars of lightning encircling Mei rendered Kiana's physical combat useless.

She could only perform her gun dance while firing bullets as a probe, which made Dong Moxuan incredibly awkward to watch.

Kiana, do you want to dance too?

Mei seemed to be getting annoyed by Kiana's actions. Finding an opening, she directly whipped Kiana to the ground with a lightning whip.

Yeah, Kiana went in, Kiana had a huge advantage, Kiana couldn't get up, it was pretty much that sequence.

"Heh..."

Walking forward, Mei looked down at the white-haired ball lying beneath her and coldly uttered four words.

"All flash!"

Kiana "..."

Upon hearing Mei's words, Kiana's face showed anger.

However, due to the electric shock that left her body numb and unable to move, all she could do was glare "fiercely" at Mei.

Seeing this, a cold smile appeared on Mei's face.

It's her. It's this woman who bewitched Jun Xuan.

As long as I kill her, Jun Xuan will return to my side.

As long as I kill her, Jun Xuan will belong only to me!

To Mei at this moment, Dong Moxuan was her only spiritual pillar, the obsession that kept her from being consumed by the Honkai.

Therefore, anything that threatened her relationship with Dong Moxuan would be met with the girl's unyielding killing intent.

Kill this guy!

Mei thought to herself, her palm beginning to shine with a blinding lightning glow. In the next second, the protagonist of the Honkai series was about to meet her doom...

"Stop!"

Dong Moxuan directly grabbed Mei's wrist.

"Kiana was wrong just now, I apologize on her behalf!"

"Porn轩, who asked you to..."

"Shut up!"

Dong Moxuan's sudden sternness made Kiana's heart tremble, and she instinctively closed her mouth.

"Look, Mei, Kiana was indeed wrong. But you don't have to take her life, do you? Give me some face, this time..."

Dong Moxuan couldn't finish his sentence because the purple-haired girl before him was now teary-eyed.

"Jun Xuan..."

Mei's voice was slightly choked.

"Are you going to abandon me too?"

Dong Moxuan "..."

"How did you come to that conclusion?"

"Then why are you protecting her?"

"She's my friend!"

"And me?"

"...Mei, you're my family!"

Dong Moxuan's tone was serious, but Mei didn't show any sign of being moved. Instead, she wore a mocking expression.

"So, between family and friends, you chose friends and abandoned me?"

"I didn't abandon you, I just..."

"Don't say any more!"

Mei directly interrupted Dong Moxuan.

"Ever since just now, you've been making excuses for this girl!"

"You're afraid of me, afraid I'll hurt her..."

"Ever since just now, all you've been thinking about is her, and not... me!"

"You... you've never cared about me at all!"

Mei's words were choked with sobs. It wasn't just Dong Moxuan, but even Kiana, whom she had almost killed moments ago, felt a pang of sympathy.

Although, in the narrative of the Honkai, Mei was the eldest sister of the Three Great Families, taking on the role of the matriarch and looking after the two troublesome children, Kiana and Bronya.

However, that maturity was merely an outward appearance.

If one were to be truly honest, she was the most sensitive and fragile among the Three Great Families.

And Dong Moxuan's unintentional actions just now, even if there were reasons behind them, were indeed excessive.

For Mei, who was being eroded by the Honkai, Dong Moxuan was her last remaining mental pillar, the light that allowed her to maintain her sense of self.

Yet, at this very moment when she needed Dong Moxuan the most, he had shifted his entire focus to another woman, even standing against her for that woman's sake. How could this not break Mei's heart?

She was even feeling a sense of despair now, and the last sliver of light in her heart began to flicker precariously.

"Dong Moxuan!"

This was the first time Mei had called Dong Moxuan's name in such a cold tone.

"You and them, and Dad, you're no different!"

"In the end, am I still alone?"

"No one... cares about me..."

"It's all... fake..."

"None of this... has any meaning..."