Amamiya Rinon

Amamiya Rinon was a very special girl. This wasn't her own realization, but rather something her mother had told her.

According to her mother, she had found Rinon in a graveyard while traveling in Hua Xia.

On that day, thunder roared, and three thousand strands of primordial purple energy descended from the heavens, while myriad divine beasts and phantoms celebrated her birth.

When her mother found her, she was floating in the endless void, enveloped in countless rays of chaotic light. Myriad laws were suppressed beneath her, and she even possessed the accompanying divine artifact, the Taixu Divine Sword, which had the power to obliterate even the Great Dao.

Her mother immediately recognized Amamiya Rinon as the destined master of Schicksal, possessing a supreme holy body, destined to one day reign above the Nine Heavens as a supreme Great Emperor who could stand alone for eternity.

Thus, she brought Rinon home and cared for her meticulously, laying the supreme foundation for the future ruler of this world.

And Amamiya Rinon had always strived for this, hoping to one day achieve the Great Emperor's fruit of enlightenment... Yeah, right!

Even Amamiya Rinon, who had a touch of chuunibyou, wouldn't believe such nonsense. That was clearly a plot from a third-rate fantasy novel from Divine Land!

Ahem, let me reintroduce her properly. Her name is Amamiya Rinon, and she's a beautiful girl with a Gothic Lolita style.

Everything mentioned above was just her mother talking nonsense.

She, Amamiya Rinon, was just an ordinary, beautiful middle school student!

If there was anything special about her, it was her mother, who had a habit of talking big.

Her mother was a super cute beautiful girl!

How cute, you ask?

So cute that even her own daughter felt a little smitten.

She had lustrous, silver hair that reached her waist, tied with a large pink ribbon. She often wore a red kimono and carried a paper umbrella, looking like a young lady straight out of a classical novel from Waguo.

As for Rinon, she had black hair that reached her waist, a petite figure, and a tear mole on her face. She looked nothing like her mother; they were completely different in style.

Coupled with the fact that she had never met her father, she naturally wondered – was she really that woman's biological daughter?

And then she received the answer above.

She naturally didn't believe it, but she was mostly convinced that she wasn't that woman's biological daughter.

However, whether she was biological or not didn't really matter to her. She didn't place much importance on blood relations.

Anyway, apart from her tendency to talk big and her general state of being a couch potato who relied on Rinon for care, she had no complaints about her mother.

Mhm, really (forcing a smile).

Watching anime and playing games together with her mother were the happiest times of her life.

However, this daily routine only lasted until middle school.

The day before school started, her mother, wearing the same kimono she'd worn for who knows how many years, carrying her paper umbrella and a small backpack, found her.

"My dear, the moment I saw you, I knew you were a born protagonist."

"You're about to start middle school, and according to light novel tropes, the plot usually kicks off around these years."

"Based on the fundamental rules of light novels, the most common trope for a protagonist's rise to power is the sacrifice of their parents."

"For the sake of my own life, your mom needs to lay low for a while. So, my dear, you're all grown up now, you'll have to take care of yourself from now on!"

And with that, she disappeared for over two years. Apart from the monthly living expenses, Amamiya Rinon never heard from her mother again.

Although her only family had left her, Amamiya Rinon, who had been independent since she was young, wasn't too devastated.

She still received money every month, and life went on.

However, her mother's departure made her realize a very serious problem: she had no friends!

That's right, the beautiful girl named Amamiya Rinon was actually quite a loner.

To Amamiya Rinon, her mother wasn't just her elder; she was also her best friend.

Unfortunately, her mother had run off to save her own life (Seriously, who would believe such a ridiculous reason?!), leaving Rinon all alone.

Thus, the lonely Amamiya Rinon wanted to find a friend who could understand her.

As for her choice of friend, it would definitely be a cute girl like herself. After all, her mother had told her that men were all lecherous beings who only cared about her body.

However, for Amamiya Rinon, who was used to solitude and had a slight case of social anxiety, making friends was quite difficult.

Not to mention she was a shut-in otaku.

The island nation she lived in, while the birthplace of otaku culture, also had the most severe discrimination against otaku. They even called male and female otaku "potential criminals."

As a "potential criminal," Amamiya Rinon naturally didn't get along with those normies.

Amamiya Rinon thought she would live her life as a lonely, chuunibyou otaku until she met a purple-haired older sister at the arcade she frequented.

She thought that older sister was a friend sent by heaven, until a certain glaring white-haired person appeared.

Her older sister... was gone!

Although the glaring white-haired person gave off a strange sense of familiarity, her heart was shattered, her mind went blank, and she eventually left in a rather disheveled state.

However, while she was arranging her figures, she ran into that older sister and that white-haired bastard again.

And then...

Amamiya Rinon, who had just eaten a mouthful of dog food, felt like her life was too hard.

However, Amamiya Rinon's disaster had only just begun.

About half a month after the incident at the arcade, one day while she was out buying snacks, she actually saw zombies! (The prelude to the Honkai!)

That's right!

Zombies!

The kind from Resident Evil!

Zombies that would infect you with just one bite!

Amamiya Rinon was so terrified at the time that she ran to the police station with her snack bag to report it.

As it turned out, not only did those two big-breasted police officers not believe her, they even laughed at her!

She couldn't stand being treated like that, so she fled home with her snack bag.

Then, less than an hour later, the Honkai descended!

Amamiya Rinon naturally didn't know what the Honkai was; she just thought it was a Resident Evil outbreak.

However, she could vaguely sense that what caused this "Resident Evil" wasn't some virus, but a strange energy filling the air.

Amamiya Rinon herself was protected by a peculiar wavelength emanating from the so-called "Companion Divine Artifact," saving her life.

So, could it be that she, Amamiya Rinon, was truly the protagonist?

This thought didn't last even a day before Amamiya Rinon was brutally taught a lesson by cruel reality.

Just as she thought she would either escape Changkong City by hiding and running, or end up buried here, two monsters fighting fiercely in Changkong City changed her worldview.