This Is Her World

"Because she kissed herself."

In an instant, the ice in Yan Luo's eyes froze even deeper.

"Incredible."

Yan Luo glared at Lin, who swaggered into the school gate showing her teacher's certificate. She had started a conversation with Kevin earlier, but the topic had been Lin.

"What is he thinking? He treats other people's homes like his own and comes and goes as he pleases, and he sexually harasses female students. Is he going to lick my feet next?"

Kevin, sporting dark circles under his eyes from staying up all night playing games, ate breakfast and casually waved his hand. "But if he really had those kinds of thoughts, shouldn't he have done it last night?"

Yan Luo thought about it for a moment, and it seemed... that was indeed the case.

"Also, Lin, ever since Teacher Yan Luo came, you've become more talkative and expressive, which I think is great."

Kevin's unintentional remark made Yan Luo tremble, and a cloud of doubt filled her beautiful eyes.

Was she like this before?

Why does she always feel such a disconnect between herself in the past few days since Lin came here and the self she remembers from before?

Even if what happened last night had occurred, she wouldn't have reacted this strongly normally; she doesn't care about such things at all.

"It must be his fault," Yan Luo said with certainty, his dislike for Lin intensifying. "He's the most annoying person I've ever met."

"Really? I think you like him quite a bit."

"... Are you as blind as him?"

"Look at you, all you talk about now is him." Kevin finished his breakfast in one go, pouring all the milk into his mouth. "You stare at him during class, you stare at him after class. When he's around, your eyes never leave him. When he's not around, you find someone to talk to about him. Even with Mei, I don't do this."

Yan Luo was very annoyed; she was extremely annoyed by the impact Kevin's words that morning had on her.

She was surprised to find that Kevin was telling the truth. Now she couldn't stop thinking about Lin, and the perverted things that man did left a deep impression on her that surpassed all the memories of the first half of her life combined. It had completely affected her life.

Moreover, she didn't know where her special feelings for Lin came from.

On one hand, she felt she should distance herself from him, but on the other hand, a strange feeling kept her paying attention to Lin.

It was as if two opposing ideas were fighting in her head, and she didn't know which one was better.

Today, Lin taught another class. His class was about social practice and morality. Yan Luo thought that if someone like him was allowed to teach, then the students of this era were truly hopeless.

But everyone except her liked the new teacher.

There are two reasons.

After Lin entered the room just in time with his textbook, he didn't immediately open the book to start class. Instead, he slowly put down his things, unscrewed his thermos, made a cup of tea by the water dispenser, and then leisurely walked to the podium, moved a chair over, and sat down.

Then, he announced that he would study on his own.

In school, if a teacher was very savvy and frequently gave students self-study sessions, he would probably be very popular.

On the other hand...

"He's so handsome..."

"He looks way more handsome than those celebrities..."

"And he's very easygoing, and I heard he's a PhD..."

Some gossip reached Yan Luo's ears. She glanced expressionlessly at Lin, who was reading a novel, and then at the chattering classmates around her.

Even reading a light novel earns her praise for her extensive knowledge. She's curious to know what kind of knowledge she's referring to. Is it true that good-looking people can do whatever they want?

"Smack."

Suddenly, Lin closed the novel in his hand.

Everyone fell silent instantly; the whispers disappeared from their ears.

Things have finally calmed down.

However, Lin did not intend to enforce discipline. Instead, he got up and walked outside. After reaching the door, he seemed to remember something and said to his classmates, "I'm going to the restroom. Class President, please keep an eye on the discipline."

Lin arrived at the rooftop. He wasn't sure if he had seen things correctly. Standing here, he could see most of Changkong City in one panoramic view. And it was through this vast view that he saw something that had disappeared long ago.

A towering clock tower, barely visible in the distance, stands amidst the city.

"..."

Lin observed it carefully and found that this clock tower was different from the ones he had seen before. It clearly had an illusory feel to it, as if it had no physical form.

It appears for a while, then disappears for a while.

Why?

Why has it suddenly reappeared now? Although it doesn't seem stable, why now?

Meanwhile, Yan Luo in the classroom felt her pent-up anger intensify, and as her emotions rose, something seemed to appear in her mind as well...

Chapter Seventy-Six: This is Her World

Yan Luo has never drowned; swimming is one of her many skills, but she rarely goes swimming.

But now, as she looked up at the flickering lights overhead, the warnings of suffocation emanating from her body, and the cacophony of colorful voices around her, death seeped into her body bit by bit.

This might be what it feels like to drown...

It is said that when a person is close to death, they will see things that they could not see before.

Many points of light flashed before her eyes, emitting indistinct sounds, as if howling or calling out, and many things that did not belong to her were stuffed into her brain.

The world is about to explode.

Her body was about to fall apart.

Everything—

Die die die die die die die die.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!"

It's not pain.

A sensation far more intense than pain surged through her body, threatening to take everything away from her.

"Continue injecting, 200cc confirmed..."

"No! CM-000's consciousness can't take it anymore!"

"We haven't reached the critical point yet!"

"If this continues, it will only create new Herrscher!"

"We cannot stop! Stopping the surgery will halt CM-000's vital signs!"

"But we cannot create a new Herrscher of Reason!"

What are they discussing?

Are you going to give up on me...?

At this moment, Yan Luo thought of many things, and many images burst forth from the cracks in her aching brain.

From a cold, indifferent machine to now, she has gained much, but also lost many people.

More than once, she wanted to trade her life for something, but each time... someone else would come to save her.

Now, her life is no longer just her own; she carries the past of those people on her shoulders. She must live on, or she will tarnish the meaning of their lives.

I can't die... at least not here...

"Aaaaaaah!"

To everyone's astonishment, the blood-soaked humanoid figure on the operating table let out a howl that sounded like a synthesized voice. Its once dazzling black hair lost its color in the blink of an eye, and when its tightly closed eyes opened, it was as if colorful paints had been poured in, and its pupils were filled with a gradient of rainbow colors.

At that moment, one of the researchers suddenly pulled out a pistol hidden under his white coat, pointed it at the others in front of him, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The researcher's pupils turned an unusual deep blue.

"Bang!"

The once bustling headquarters of the Firemoth, filled with laughter and joy, has come to an end today.

At the same time, "humans" with a small portion of the Herrscher abilities appeared around the world, totaling one thousand people.

Born from a project called "Abaddon Yama Demon," the new Herrscher of Reason, a hybrid of the old serpent who tempted humanity to eat the forbidden fruit and the great red dragon, the incarnation of Satan, leads this group of Herrscher in a cleansing of the world.

That is, the Tenth Honkai War.

Six months after this Honkai, the human population had dwindled to only tens of millions.

"Get out of here..."

Yan Luo lay on the desk, burying her head in her arms. If someone looked down at her eyes, they would find that her dark pupils had turned into rainbow colors that emitted a faint glow.

She covered her head, gasping for breath, with two people fighting in her mind, desperately trying to drive each other away.

She didn't know what was happening; suddenly, a consciousness that wasn't hers wanted to take over her body.

This feeling was familiar, as if she had experienced it somewhere before.

As the light in her eyes reached its brightest point, like two beacons, she gritted her teeth and growled:

"Get out of here—"

Suddenly, the burden in her mind vanished. She slammed her head on the desk, her breathing quickened, and she was drenched in sweat.

She's already lost once; there's absolutely no way she'd lose a second time.

Yan Luo, who was panting heavily, suddenly froze.

What does it mean to lose once...?

Under Lin Yaran's astonished gaze, the clock tower, which had been appearing and disappearing intermittently, suddenly solidified into a physical form, followed by a dazzling light appearing in front of the enormous clock.

An ominous premonition welled up in Lin's heart. He shielded his eyes from the blinding light with one hand, trying his best to adapt to the light that seemed to burn everything in the world. He vaguely saw a human figure in the depths of the light.

"People?"

After the light completely dissipated, he slowly opened his eyes and saw a figure suspended in the sunlight, like a god descending to earth.

What a familiar face and a head of flawless, silvery-white hair.

She was completely naked, her body only wrapped in bandages, and her pale face looked like that of a patient who had just recovered from a serious illness.

Danger!

The moment Lin saw her, the instinctive tremor from his soul that he felt when he first met Yan Luo surged back into his heart.

The moment his alarm went off, the person floating in the air opened his eyes without warning.

A pair of rainbow eyes, stealing the brilliance of the sun, were firmly fixed on Lin.

Lin turned and ran without thinking.

It can fly, has eyes that are different from ordinary people, dresses strangely, and makes him feel a sense of danger...

All of these factors combined only led him to think of one thing.

The Herrscher.

Why did Yan Luo suddenly regain his Herrscher abilities? And then attack him?

Lin leaped over the barbed wire fence and plummeted towards the teaching building below. Meanwhile, two cannons appeared behind the "Yan Luo" in the sky. Without any command, the black muzzles lit up with a destructive light and fired half a second later, instantly reaching Lin's front!

His pupils contracted, not because of the attack, but because the two beams of light actually passed directly through the teaching building and the people inside. They were pierced by the high-temperature beams but felt nothing!

This attack is specifically targeted at him!

Lin reached out and grabbed one of the windowsills, tensing his muscles to stop himself, and then used the momentum to throw himself out.

The beams of light anticipated his descent and therefore did not hit him, nor did they leave any mark on the ground after striking it.

At that moment, Lin saw Yan Luo in the classroom from mid-air; she was reading a book as if nothing was wrong.

That Herrscher... isn't Yan Luo?