I Opened a Restaurant in Honkai

"Not even going to try?"

The unnamed Mr. Zhao Bai walked forward slowly, elegantly drawing his scythe. Crescent-like silver light danced graceful steps as the blade lightly scraped against the floor, producing a faint cutting sound across the wooden boards.

"Come here."

Zhao Bai swung the scythe one-handed from left to right, tracing a massive semicircle three meters across. Crescent blade-light scattered like mercury before gradually fading, complementing the lonely moonlight overhead. This was a hunt born on a whim.

The Shadow of the Sun Eater lunged at him without regard for its life. Zhao Bai raised his scythe to meet it, but the scene before him suddenly blurred.

In an instant, the world shifted.

A blinding light shone into his face, leaving him disoriented. Before Zhao Bai was not that figure that devoured light, but the orphanage's massive iron gate. The wind battered the gate, making it clang violently. Everything was decrepit and desolate.

"Einstein, technical support!"

"Ahem."

Although Anti-Entropy's technology lagged behind, their researchers were extremely reliable—far better than Theresa.

"You experienced a minor spacetime rewind and returned to the initial starting point. Clearly, your method of rescuing Seele was flawed. Helping Seele escape the orphanage does not require a sharp killing blade, but a heart-pounding stealth operation."

"Stealth?" Zhao Bai nodded. "It is indeed a little annoying, but there is no denying that Stigmata Space is filled with all kinds of strange rules and restrictions. As long as someone is inside it, they cannot resist them. Even I am no exception."

He began searching for that dog hole again.

Einstein stopped him and told Zhao Bai to look up at the sky and wait quietly.

"What for?"

"The reason it is called the Shadow of the Sun Eater is that wherever it appears, it is always