In Izumo, Making Honkai Great Again

"I hope it's as good as you say."

"If you don't like that style, I'll take you to other worlds until you're satisfied!"

"Is your hometown among them?"

"...No. It's a place I can never return to."

Sirin: "..."

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Chapter 68: She can, but I can't, is that it?

Never return.

No matter the reason, it must be a wound that cannot be touched deep within their hearts.

"...Sorry."

Sirin didn't dare to look at Kiana's face for any signs of sadness. She lowered her head and glanced at her phone.

A new message had arrived a minute ago.

"Didn't you want to know the cause of the car accident before?"

As she saw the text, Sirin's eyes lit up. The message couldn't have come at a better time.

She could change the subject now!

"There's news already?"

"Of course."

Sirin read the message carefully, speaking as she read: "It's just as I thought. That guy is rich in Shanhai City, and his character... he has quite a few enemies."

Sirin frowned, clicked her tongue, and flipped her phone face down on the table, looking utterly unlucky.

"It's a hundred percent revenge killing."

"So sure?"

"After reading it, I wanted to kill him myself."

Sirin said terrifying words with an annoyed expression: "This beast actually dared to lay his hands on underage orphans. He deserves to die a hundred times over."

Many victims were insulted by him, but due to their good standing, he managed to suppress much of the public outcry with his influence.

However, influence only works on those who follow the rules. If he doesn't follow the rules, don't blame others for not following them either.

Sirin didn't want to get involved in such dark matters. Maintaining a good mindset helps prevent corruption.

"Children?"

Kiana's expression changed. She could barely eat. She hadn't expected to encounter something like this while out for a meal.

"Yes, the message said he targeted children at an orphanage three days ago and sent people to cut off their funding."

"...Damn it!"

Kiana angrily slammed the table. If that bastard hadn't already died, she would have wanted to pull out her gun and feed him a few bullets.

It was good that he died!

Any curiosity she had before was now replaced by the satisfaction of seeing a villain punished.

"You're right."

Sirin picked up her phone again, typing and sending a string of text messages. Since they had encountered this situation, she couldn't just leave it be.

Especially since the victims included orphans without parents. If Sirin hadn't been detected for compatibility with the Imperial Blades, she would have been sent to a similar place to grow up.

Evil cannot be eradicated from the world, but she could eliminate the evil in front of her, and she had the ability to do so.

She lost her appetite for food.

"Why don't we go to the orphanage?"

This matter had nothing to do with them; they were just bystanders who were almost caught in the crossfire. But knowing about it made them feel very uncomfortable, and they felt a strong urge to do something.

"It's too late."

By the time they got there, it would be past ten o'clock. The orphanage would be closed, and there would be no point in them going.

"Then tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? We have to see the Whale Monster first. If the Whale Monster is still at the bottom of the sea, we'll have to use torpedoes to provoke it and make it surface."

"Then the day after tomorrow!"

Kiana said, "Let's take care of the Whale Monster first. After that, we can stay in Shanhai City for a few more days, how about it?"

"I don't have any objections."

Sirin said, "My only mission recently is to slay the Whale Monster. Other things are not my responsibility. Once this is over, I'm taking a vacation."

Can you really take a vacation?

Kiana's heart was filled with doubt, but knowing Sirin's personality regarding work and vacations, she said nothing and sped up her eating, planning to go back as soon as she finished.

Dealing with such a frustrating car accident, and then having this kind of thing brought up, she lost all interest in continuing her shopping trip.

Sirin was probably feeling the same way.

The two of them hastily ended their outing, grabbed a quick bite somewhere along the way, and then took a different route back to the hotel to rest.

Lying alone on the hotel bed, Kiana tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. It took a long while before she finally drifted off.

Early the next morning.

She was woken up by a phone call.

Still groggy, Kiana buried her head in the covers, but the persistent ringing of the phone wouldn't stop.

Annoyed to the point of having to open her eyes, Kiana felt that she didn't absolutely need her phone.

She rolled over, tumbling to the edge of the bed, and found the phone that had been ringing for a while.

The caller ID displayed.

--Sirin.

"Hello?"

"Come downstairs to eat. After we're done, we're going out to sea. Raiden Mei is waiting for us on the boat."

"Huh? Mei's waiting for us? Wait for me, I'll be right down!"

The thought of lingering in bed vanished. Kiana scrambled up, got ready as quickly as possible, and then hurried to the dining floor.

She saw Sirin and Yae Sakura at the entrance.

"Why the rush? Going out to sea so early in the morning?"

Kiana, having washed up and come downstairs, was now completely awake.

It was only seven in the morning.

"Isn't it better to avoid any further complications?"

Sirin handed Kiana the packed food, saying, "Take this to eat on the way. We'll head to the boat first."

"Okay."

It was just a few steps down to the beach, and the boat was docked nearby. It would take them to the sea area where the Whale Monster was located.

"Didn't sleep well last night?"

As they walked, Yae Sakura noticed Kiana's lack of energy and asked with concern.

"I got into a car accident late last night. How should I put it, it was the first time I'd seen something like that happen up close."

There was the car accident, the anger towards the person who died, and other things. Anyway, her mind was a mess when she went to sleep yesterday.

With so much on her mind, the quality of her sleep naturally couldn't be good.

"You ran into a car accident when you went out yesterday?"

Yae Sakura seemed a little surprised. Seeing that they were almost there, she added, "If you're willing, you can talk to me about your troubles anytime when you have time later."

"Okay, we'll go together then."

The group boarded the boat together. After finding seats, the small boat quickly set sail towards the target sea area.

"Mei, you didn't sleep all night, did you?"

Kiana sat down next to Mei, whom she hadn't seen all night.

"I rested."

Mei shook her head, but then stared at Kiana for a moment and said, "But you don't look like you rested well."

Before Kiana could speak, Sirin couldn't help but lean in close to Kiana. After staring at her for a while, she was still full of doubt, "How can you tell she didn't rest well?"

"You're going to stick to me."

Sirin's face suddenly came close, startling Kiana. She could only lean back as much as possible, but the backrest behind her left her nowhere to retreat.

"What's wrong with sticking to you? Aren't we friends?"

Hearing Kiana say that, Sirin immediately became unhappy. "Raiden Mei can stick to you, but I can't, right?"

Mei never stuck to me!

Besides, is that the same thing?

Kiana awkwardly shifted her gaze, watching the waves churned up by the speeding boat on the sea, and suddenly asked, "Will this small boat really not capsize when we fight?"

"The speedboat is just a tool to get us there. Our destination isn't this speedboat."

Yae Sakura explained.

"Miss Sirin, please return to your seat. It's windy."

The smile on Mei's face faded slightly.

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Chapter 69: Ghost Ship.

As someone who could only be appeased by gentle strokes, Sirin naturally wouldn't go along with Mei's wishes upon hearing that.

She simply sat down right next to Kiana, pressing herself close, and cupped Kiana's face with her hands. "You're too pathetic, you know? It was just a car accident, and you can't even sleep because of it?"

She ignored Raiden Mei's words, treating them as if they were blown by the wind.

No, she completely disregarded Raiden Mei.

She was unhappy about it too. Just because Raiden Mei knew Kiana before her, did that make Kiana hers?

If she wasn't allowed to touch, she'd touch even more deliberately.

Not only would she touch, she'd pinch too!

"What are you doing?"

Kiana wanted to get Sirin's hands off her face quickly. This Sirin was more forward than she was.

She hadn't even dared to do that to others herself.

Yet Sirin had gotten there first.

"Stop messing around, Sirin."

Seeing that Raiden Mei's smile had completely vanished, replaced by a tight-lipped, displeased look at Sirin, Yae Sakura pulled Sirin back to the rear seat.

With the Whale Monster's subjugation imminent, now was not the time to stir up trouble and create conflict.

Pulled back, Sirin shot Yae Sakura a displeased glance but didn't say anything further, knowing it wasn't the right time to keep arguing.

The most important thing right now was the Whale Monster.

But she had just been too annoyed to let it go.

Seeing this, Mei suppressed her inner displeasure and reached out to gently stroke Kiana's soft, tender cheek. "Does it hurt?"