It was a pitch-black sea tide.
Seeing that things were going south, Hoshino quickly withdrew her move. The surging waves rushed forward with tremendous force. In the Honkai Impact 3rd setting, the Mariana Trench connected to the Quantum Sea, like a wound in the world, and Hler's Serenity had been discovered there.
Fortunately, having learned from past mistakes, Hoshino had remained on edge and never dared let her guard down. She instantly pulled back the attack she had unleashed.
"Phew—"
That was close. Way too close.
"But thinking about it carefully, that move didn't seem to create any waves. Could it have been a mental attack?"
Hoshino muttered to herself, unable to make sense of it.
But she truly had sensed the Deep's call. That call had no sound, yet it was like the heaviest nightmare, suffocating her. The sea carried a dark, oppressive presence. Hoshino truly did not want anything to do with that sort of thing, so she hurriedly put Hler's Serenity away.
"Come to think of it, Nearl has gone back to Kazimierz too..."
With Operator Nearl gone, the position of Rhodes Island's ambassador to Lungmen had naturally been left vacant. Who would be coming this time?
Whoever it was, Hoshino hoped they would be cute.
After hitting a wall while practicing with her weapon, Hoshino could only return to the shrine and continue loafing around. She had talked herself up so much that she could only slack off while racking her brains over what knowledge related to blade counters she should teach Ch'en.
This was a mess of her own making.
The Lungmen Guard Department was noisy enough to shake the heavens, and the topic gradually veered toward everyone's mahjong skills. Seeing that they were about to delay work again, Ch'en hurriedly slipped away, leaving Swire