Honkai Double Traverse, Taking Xilian to Honkai Impact 3rd

Silver hair styled into a Roman-tail twin-drill, a peculiar hairstyle that could be described as a twin-turbocharger.

Skin as fair as the Siberian snowfields.

Unversed in the ways of the world, never seeing the sun.

Her face was as exquisite as a doll meticulously crafted by an artisan, yet just as cold as an object; her expression defied any normal description, evoking only the image of glaciers in the far north that had remained frozen for a thousand years.

Her attire was not the chariot that symbolized a knight.

She wore a dark brown, slim-fit formal suit with a yellow bowtie. Beneath shorts of the same color were advanced exoskeleton anti-gravity suspension devices.

--Bronya.

If it really was her, why? Why had she lost?

"Why continue to suppress, why continue to endure, Subject code: [Raiden Mei]."

A voice colder than any indifference.

--Reached her ears.

Raiden Mei swung her blade with near-desperate intensity.

Facing the lightning with an enemy who was impossible to fight yet could easily crush her.

She couldn't win.

She couldn't keep up with the speed of a pure machine.

Even if she wielded thunder, it did not mean her speed had reached that of lightning; compared to the technology of the previous civilization and the anti-gravity exoskeleton, such speed was simply not enough.

She swung her blade. It was dodged once again. The cold expression on the girl before her seemed to be mocking her.

She swung again, unleashing a strike that covered all space in a reverse-kesagiri slash.

--Still meaningless.

Endlessly repeating futile efforts.

It was she, instead.

"Bang--"

A projectile was fired from the wide cannon barrel, its instantaneous muzzle velocity several times the speed of sound, tearing through multiple sound barriers. Raiden Mei swung her blade to intercept.

Not being fast enough didn't mean she couldn't perceive it.

She didn't need to be faster than the shell, she only needed to be faster than the machine to catch the wind-up before the launch--

"Clang--!"

The blade and the shell collided, sparks flying. Raiden Mei gripped the hilt so tightly that faint blue veins rose on the back of her hands.

--She could block it.

"Bang."

The moment Raiden Mei held this thought, the girl before her drew a handgun.

She could react, but she had no strength left to parry.

Her right foot immediately stepped to the left to dodge, but the result was--a streak of blood slashed through the air; the moment she realized it, the bullet had already left the chamber.

The pain followed.

There was no time to care about such things anymore.

The electromagnetic field surrounding her sealed off the most common electromagnetic weapons, but it could only dissipate a portion of physical projectiles; even if the remaining damage wasn't enough to deal a fatal blow, it was still...

"Swish--!"

A flash of silver appeared in her line of sight almost simultaneously.

With one foot half-stepping in the air, she couldn't perform consecutive dodges. Raiden Mei could only raise her right elbow high, deflecting the attack with her elbow and the magnetic field the moment the lance arrived.

The sharp tip of the lance first touched the seemingly normal air around her, then countless electric arcs manifested out of thin air, coiling around the lance before her fair elbow slammed into it--

"Rip."

Bright red blood flowed from her torn sleeve, sliding down her fair skin before dripping onto the ground.

"Drip, drip."

The battle against the enemy was too wretched; if this continued, she would definitely be exhausted and die.

Raiden Mei made this judgment with sorrow.

She could not tolerate this.

It was as if a certain part of her heart was screaming.

--The power of the Stigmata surged forth, and along with it, an unknown, incredibly violent and frantic power emerged.

As long as she accepted it, as long as she allowed it, everything flowing from the Black Grail would be enough to easily erase the enemy before her.

But she knew the name of this power, the same power possessed by the protagonists of countless shonen manga and novels.

--Berserk.

Such a thing must absolutely not happen!

Raiden Mei's hands, gripping the hilt of her blade, were swollen and aching, blood seeping from her fingertips, yet she endured it all the same.

"Why do you still suppress it? Why do you still endure, Subject: [Raiden Mei]?"

The girl before her spoke coldly, her puppet-like face devoid of any expression.

"A person like you, who doesn't even have feelings, how could you possibly understand!"

Raiden Mei swung her blade again in a fit of rage, twisting her waist and wrists as she transitioned from a vertical strike to a fierce horizontal slash.

The sudden change in technique turned it into a brutal horizontal cut.

In a normal duel, this strike would have been fatal to the enemy.

However, the girl before her was by no means a normal enemy. The moment she judged there was no room to dodge in the conventional way, her Anti-Gravity Device activated at full power. The bolt of lightning barely grazed the soles of her feet, leaving only a faint scent of scorched earth as it missed once again.

Following closely behind, a giant mecha raised its long spear high, descending from the sky in a fierce assault.

"--Raiden Mei!"

A familiar voice echoed in her ears once more.

Even though it was becoming difficult to distinguish sounds clearly, she instinctively realized it was Jiang Cheng's voice.

"Release more of your power! I'm not in much trouble; I can hold on for at least a while longer. If you die, it's all over—prioritize your own safety!"

"Such a thing..."

Raiden Mei gritted her teeth, planting her feet firmly on the ground as she swung her blade along the edge of the spear tip.

"--is even more impossible!"

"...Jiang Cheng?"

Bronya turned her head, her silver-white eyes fixed on Jiang Cheng, who was struggling to prop himself up in the corner.

"--Don't even dream of it!"

The long blade, wreathed in lightning, suddenly snapped the spear. The subsequent attacks became increasingly wild, and any useless techniques were all but discarded in this moment.

Raiden Mei bit her silver teeth, pressing the attack relentlessly.

The continuous flashes of her blade carved out an absolute vacuum within this two-meter radius.

--Still useless.

However, this was enough to force Bronya to shift her attention, focusing her gaze back on her primary target.

Threat Level: Weak.

Judgment: Irrelevant.

But... having been injured to such an extent, why continue to endure?

PS:

<Comprehensive Anime: I Am the Darkness of the Toyokawa Family>

[Comprehensive Anime + Wooden Cabinet + Magic Tailoring][Male Protagonist Harem]

"Congratulations, Brother, you can finally **!"

"Ah!? Me?"

Mr. Chuhiko had an accident on a rainy night, was hit by a Maybach, and reincarnated. Upon his return, Mr. Chuhiko decided to show his true capabilities!

Until he was kidnapped by the Yakuza and sold to film underground movies...

"I understand now! Human beings have limits! I must transcend humanity!"

From that point on, the world underwent a great change.

Sakiko Toyokawa: "My youth! It was spent together with Chuhiko!"

Hatsune Misumi: "Brother, all that happened in the past..."

Sadaharu Toyokawa: "What a pair of star-crossed lovers... Wait!?"

Yuki Tsukishiro: "Chuhiko! People eventually go to heaven! I have now reached the pinnacle of perfection!!! Hahaha... What do you mean the Witch Madoka is awakening... It doesn't matter, a mere witch... What do you mean life is fifty years, like a dream and an illusion..."

[This book is also known as: Why Hatsune Chuhiko Hides His History of Selling Hooks]

22. Grey Snake: I Want Xilian (Revised)

In the combat command room, surrounded by layers of tight security and as impenetrable as an iron barrel.

"Grey Snake, what are you trying to do?" Cocolia looked down at the humanoid projection appearing before her.

"Xilian, the woman named Xilian."

Wearing a cloak and a mask, the humanoid projection—dressed like a standard arch-villain or a mastermind behind the scenes—spoke.

Grey Snake nodded, cold and calm.

"The Serpent will not interfere with how you handle the Third Herrscher Subject, but Xilian—she must be handed over to the Serpent."

"Oh? Is she your illegitimate daughter?"

Cocolia's peripheral vision flickered toward the screens ahead.

On the left side of the partitioned display, the pink-haired girl was just recovering from the shock, looking around in confusion—

Xilian.

Aili.

After failing to locate her target for a few seconds, she reached out her small hands toward the empty air, muttering sentences that made no sense.

Then, in a completely incomprehensible display that seemed like magic, she summoned crystals of the Glazed Realm out of thin air.

"----!"

The red light beneath Grey Snake's mask flickered violently.

Even a complete layman could see that this was a sign of intense emotional upheaval.

Several seconds passed without it settling down; Cocolia had never seen it display such a state. No matter what plans she presented, or what magnificent technology and structures she showcased, it had always responded with nothing but calm.

Just as she thought it would not answer, Grey Snake turned its head.

"She may simply be a necessity of this era, but the mistakes of the past must never be repeated."

Cocolia knit her brows, looking down from her position of superiority.

"And if I refuse?"