It was dated three months ago, before the Fourth Honkai War had happened.
I must have misheard.
Lin had never mentioned this. She had definitely just drunk a little too much today and misheard, or perhaps that had not been Lin at all. She had simply seen wrong.
Something had to be wrong.
She opened the file envelope, her fingers gripping the few thin sheets of paper inside, yet she could not bring herself to take them out.
Thinking about it carefully, had that voice really sounded that much like Lin's?
She kept deceiving herself. Even though she only needed to take out the documents and look at them once to know whether they were real, she continued deceiving herself.
Lin had already endured so much pain. This world could not possibly be that cruel, could it?
This world surely rewarded good people, didn't it?!
No!
No!
No!
Don't take anyone else away from me!
With a hard tug, she pulled the documents from the envelope. Her sea-blue eyes stared fixedly at every word before finding the Honkai Energy assessment section.
What did it say...?
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Heh..."
"Hehehehe..." She chuckled softly, the corners of her mouth stretching to an exaggerated degree, as though a gash had been cut across her face.
All gentleness faded from those once-pure sea-blue eyes.
"Hehehehehehe..."
She laughed for no apparent reason.
It was the same smile she wore when she slaughtered Honkai Beasts and zombies on the battlefield, hacking them apart like she was venting until they became unrecognizable piles of flesh.
Black "impurities" gradually surfaced in her clear eyes, staining them murky.
Lin spotted the girl standing before his room from far away.
When she saw Lin return, the girl gave him a gentle smile. "Team Member Lin, where did you