Honkai's Thousand Laws, Kidnapping Kiana at the Start

Honkai's Thousand Laws, Kiana Kidnapped at the Start

Author: Almost Broken

Synopsis: Cursed by the world's malice, Su Jue finally decided to go rogue, only to be targeted by Honkai and chosen as the first host for the Herrscher of a Thousand.

The thought of sharing his brain with 999 rabble and facing a future where Flamescion blows him up filled Su Jue with despair. He fled overnight, dragging the Theater of Domination with him.

Fortunately, he found a loophole in Honkai's will and seized the opportunity to transform into the Herrscher of Domination, stealing the hive consciousness. Not only did he gain exclusive control of the Authority of Domination, but he could also control 999 puppets.

Faced with such an opportunity, Su Jue decided to become a villain and bring the entire world into his Theater of Domination.

But as he toyed with the world, plunging it into eternal darkness, a girl whose flame was about to extinguish reached out to him, handing him the last spark of light.

Su Jue: Do you think I'll go soft? Impossible.

Kiana: Sleep early, we have to fight Finality tomorrow.

Su Jue: I am rational, I am a Herrscher, I will absolutely not be swayed by emotions.

Kiana: Right, right, yes, yes, but can you stop stealing my blanket?

Su Jue: ...

Something must have gone wrong somewhere.

(Single female lead: Kiana)

Extra The World After the Herrscher of a Thousand, Part 1

The biting cold wind swept across the gray sky, bringing snowflakes from afar. Two unfamiliar snowflakes collided in this late gust of wind and snow, embracing each other and landing on the tip of the boy's nose.

"Winter has come without me realizing it."

A faint sigh lingered around the snow-covered buildings, carried away by the cold wind. Su Jue walked on the bluestone pavement, reaching out to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky.

Under the blanket of snow, the world seemed to don a thick layer of goose down, peacefully awaiting the arrival of spring.

Hurried office workers crunched on the snow, their footsteps echoing.

Young couples, hand in hand, walked past Su Jue, laughing.

Children, having just started their winter break, gathered in twos and threes, building a round snowman on the snow-covered lawn.

"Just a little more, and we'll finish the super, super cute Kiana-chan!" the children said excitedly, diligently piling snow onto the snowman.

Su Jue stopped and looked closely at the crude snowman, smiling as he said, "If Kiana knew she was so fat in the children's eyes, she'd probably be depressed for a long time."

Seeing his snowman being criticized, the little boy's face turned red, and he shouted in protest, "You, you're talking nonsense, our snowman isn't fat at all."

Unfortunately, his words were unconvincing. The snowman, which should normally be composed of three parts—head, body, and base—was currently just a large snowball stuck in the snow. Twigs found from somewhere were haphazardly stuck onto the snow sphere. If they hadn't said anything, even Sherlock Holmes wouldn't have found any trace related to Kiana.

Noticing Su Jue's amused expression, the little boy blushed. Even he couldn't stand looking at it anymore. Fortunately, his companion stepped forward and shouted at Su Jue, "Kiana-chan is the hero who saved the world, you don't understand her at all. Even if our snowman isn't pretty, she's still the cutest in the world."

"Exactly! How dare you say Kiana is fat, he must be a big bad guy like the Herrscher of a Thousand!"

Seeing himself being collectively boycotted by the children, Su Jue didn't mind. Instead, he said with interest, "How about I help you build one?"

"Hmph, go ahead and build one. Even if you're a little older than us, you can't possibly build a better one!"

"You never know."

A few minutes later, a couple happened to pass by. The man was talking to his girlfriend when he turned his head to look at the lawn. A girl of exquisite perfection immediately caught his eye.

What a beautiful girl. The man's eyes lit up, feeling as if he had been blessed by the goddess of luck today to witness such a beautiful sight.

After staring for a full half-minute, he remembered his girlfriend was still beside him and prepared to apologize. But when he turned around, he found his girlfriend looking at the scene with even greater astonishment.

"What an amazing statue."

"Statue?" The man was confused. When he looked at the girl again, he realized that she had been carved out of snow.

At this point, he could no longer suppress his shock. If the snowman wasn't entirely white, its delicate expression and flowing hair would have made it almost indistinguishable from a real person.

The shocked couple exchanged glances and, without a word, took out their phones to take pictures and post them on their social media, spreading this peculiar sight.

Within minutes, similar scenes kept happening. Almost everyone who passed by couldn't help but stop and admire the exquisite work.

"It's Kiana, is this a miracle from a magical girl?"

"It must have been built by some fanatical fan. To achieve such fine detail, they must have imagined Kiana's appearance day and night."

More and more people gathered, completely blocking the pedestrian walkway.

Su Jue adjusted his scarf and quietly disappeared into the crowd.

As the Herrscher of a Thousand, building a snowman was no big deal. It was just a bit embarrassing to show off in front of children.

"Official confirmation: The Herrscher of a Thousand has been successfully defeated, and social order is being restored."

The news broadcast echoed from the large screen on the street. Su Jue looked up at the news program playing on the screen.

"Herrscher of a Thousand..."

As the Honkai event with the widest impact, the social unrest caused by the Herrscher of a Thousand once plunged the entire world into a crisis of trust, with everyone fearing disaster striking them.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Kiana stepped forward, exhausting all her strength to eliminate the enemy and save the world from the brink of collapse.

Especially for the residents of Sky City, if outsiders asked, they could often chat for hours. Even children of a few years old, when talking about the magical girl defeating the big bad Herrscher of a Thousand, could excitedly pull out their cherished comic books to show off.

Even though they didn't even know what a Herrscher was.

A full week had passed since the Herrscher of a Thousand incident. Both Schicksal and Anti-Entropy were recuperating after this catastrophe. No one dared to be certain whether humanity would still have hope of defeating Honkai if the next Herrscher to descend was as troublesome as this one.

As the instigator of the event, Su Jue was unaware of humanity's fear of him. He had merely constructed a play called "A Thousand" for that girl.

Using the world as a stage, he bid her a final farewell.

As for everyone else, they were merely dispensable audience members to him.

"Speaking of which, have I said 'final farewell' before?"

Su Jue suddenly fell silent.

Recalling everything he had experienced, Su Jue felt like an old general on stage, riddled with flags. Every time he resolved to sever ties with the past, he would inevitably break his promises due to various circumstances.

"Regardless, I am the Herrscher of a Thousand. The stage of a Thousand has concluded, and my story naturally ends here. You'll have to walk the path ahead yourself, Kiana."

He walked along the road, silently transforming into a snowflake, drifting with the winter wind towards the distant sky.

Neither the passersby walking beside him, nor the vending robot that had just greeted him, noticed that a living person had disappeared right before their eyes.

The development of the hive mind had reached nearly 80%. As long as Su Jue willed it, anything could become a carrier for his consciousness.

The snowflake that Su Jue had become swirled in the sky and coincidentally landed on a windowsill.

The glass window was not completely closed, and snowflakes occasionally fell from the window into the room. Inside, a white-haired girl was curled up quietly on the sofa.

High-level hunters often appear in the form of their prey.

It was dusk, and coupled with the snowy weather, the light in the room was dim.

The air conditioning in the room was not running, and gusts of cold wind entered through the unsecured window, making the entire house feel exceptionally bleak.

"In such cold weather, sleeping without closing the window is really worrying." Su Jue had only intended to take one last look before returning to the Theater of Domination, but now it was truly making his blood pressure spike.

After some thought, he still drifted into the room through the window, transformed back into his human form, and casually closed the window. Kiana seemed to be fast asleep, completely unaware of Su Jue's appearance.

He secretly glanced at the girl on the sofa and sighed, "She's a world-saving hero, yet she's sleeping on the sofa like a child. Himeko, I sent her back to take care of people, but I don't know where she's gone now."

Muttering to himself, Su Jue finally realized that these matters no longer concerned him. She and he were just strangers.

He fell silent, and the room became quiet, with only the girl's faint breathing echoing.

"Let it be. I should leave." He sighed, preparing to transform back into a snowflake and drift away. Before leaving, he subconsciously looked at the girl on the sofa.

Kiana was still restless in her sleep. The blanket covering her had slipped to the floor due to her tossing and turning. She was wearing only a thin pajama set, which looked far from comfortable.

Cough, cough. Accompanied by faint coughs, Kiana's curled-up body unconsciously tightened, but even so, she did not wake up.

Seeing her like this, Su Jue frowned. It was impossible to sleep this soundly even for a nap.

He walked to the side of the sofa and only then noticed that Kiana's brows were tightly furrowed, her face unnaturally flushed, and her body trembled uncontrollably, occasionally coughing a couple of times.

"This idiot, she must have caught a cold from not closing the window." Su Jue rubbed his forehead, feeling helpless. He placed his hand on the girl's forehead and found her temperature was indeed a bit high. He then squeezed Kiana's hand, which felt ice-cold.

He picked up the blanket from the floor and covered the girl. Su Jue searched for the air conditioner remote in the room, but pressing it several times yielded no response.

The air conditioner was broken?

No wonder she wasn't even turning it on; it was broken?

Feeling helpless, he could only return to Kiana's side, rubbing his palms and mobilizing the Honkai energy within his body to raise his own temperature.

He held Kiana's hand in his, using the warmth of his palm to help alleviate her coldness, just as she had done for him in Changkong City.

Her body temperature was too low. If he heated her directly with Honkai energy, she might get even sicker.

He quietly squatted beside the girl, watching her breathing finally stabilize, and a smile appeared on his face.

Because they were so close, Su Jue's head was only a few inches away from Kiana's face. In the overly quiet environment, he suddenly realized that he had never observed her appearance so intently before.

The girl's eyelashes were delicate, trembling slightly with her breathing. Her nose, like fine jade, unconsciously wrinkled from the cold. Her full, plump lips, which still glowed faintly in the dim light, parted slightly as she exhaled small breaths.

Gazing at the girl's exquisite and flawless face, Su Jue had to admit that his heart was beating a little faster.

The only thing that displeased him was the tear stains at the corner of her eyes.

She seemed to have been crying.

He was displeased. What kind of bastard dared to make the Queen of the Void feel wronged? This was the savior he had personally nurtured; no one could make her sad.

It must have been Murata Himeko's irresponsibility. Was this how she completed the task he had finally assigned her?

Feeling resentful in his heart, he suddenly came to his senses. The bastard who made the girl cry was most likely himself.

Was he that bad?

The guilt that suddenly arose made Su Jue feel self-reproachful, but he still shook his head and cast these thoughts aside. He had no retreat. As things stood, his departure was the best choice for everyone.

The two of them stayed together in this peculiar way.

In the spacious room, silence reigned.

Warmed by Su Jue's embrace, the girl's hands and feet were no longer so cold. Looking at the light outside the window, it seemed a full hour had passed.

Since Kiana's condition had improved, Su Jue saw no reason to stay any longer. He stood up, rubbing his slightly numb legs and feet, preparing to let go of the hand he held with the girl.

However, when he tried to pull his hand away, he suddenly found he couldn't.

?

He tried again, and not only did he fail, but his hand was gripped even tighter.

"Is she restless in her sleep?" Su Jue wondered, confused. Kiana hadn't woken up and was likely grabbing onto the nearest thing out of instinct.

But this also meant she could wake up at any moment, and he couldn't linger here.

Mobilizing the Honkai energy within him, Su Jue prepared to forcibly break free. But as soon as he activated his energy, it was as if it were absorbed, vanishing without a trace.

Before he could understand what was happening, a powerful force suddenly pulled him down. Caught off guard, Su Jue crashed to the ground.

Just as he tried to get up, his hand was forcefully pressed against the floor above his head.

"Wait." Su Jue had never experienced anything like this before. His eyes widened as he met a pair of blue eyes that glowed with a soft luminescence.

"You lied to me again," Kiana's voice trembled with barely suppressed anger. Her gaze locked onto Su Jue, as if trying to see right through him. "Didn't you die? Why did you come back!"

"Do you know how long I cried? Do you know how much I suffered? You bastard."

She spoke with fury, her voice filled with countless grievances. Her entire body pressed down on Su Jue, as if afraid he would escape again.

"No..."

"I don't want to hear your explanations. You're trying to sneak away again, aren't you? I won't let you go." Her cheeks, already flushed from her cold, deepened in color, whether from anger or some other emotion, it was hard to tell.