Lady Luck Is Smiling

"If she got serious, did you really think you'd have a chance to escape?"

Kiana had long grown used to the other party's tricks and countered:

"So what? Are you going to beg me to borrow your power again?"

After her usual couple of tsundere remarks, Sirin began drawing upon the Honkai Energy she had painstakingly gathered over this period, opening up access for Kiana to absorb as much as she pleased.

"Seeing that you have some self-awareness, and since I'm in a pretty good mood today, I'll reluctantly lend it to you."

"Rejoice! This is the power of a god! Don't tell me you can't even withstand one ten-thousandth of it!"

Yet inwardly, she sneered. Pitiful ignorant fool, cling to your last lifeline and use my power to your heart's content! Sooner or later, your body will be mine!

"Looks like today's my lucky day, but—"

Kiana smiled indifferently and continued:

"I refuse!"

"What I, Kiana, love most is saying 'NO' to people who are full of themselves!"

The Goddess of Luck Smiles

"What? You actually dared—"

Sirin, who had thought her plan had succeeded and was wearing a smug, knowing smile, gradually lost that smile when she heard Kiana's refusal. If circumstances allowed, she would have jumped out right then and strangled Kiana for daring to toy with her.

"You're mocking me like this?!"

A few seconds later, Sirin regained her composure and said coldly:

"Then cling to your useless pride and struggle. Drown in cruel reality!"

"Very soon, you'll understand just how weak you are—"

After saying that, Sirin fell silent and lay dormant, waiting for the right moment to emerge and taunt or tempt Kiana.

"You're so annoying..."

After muttering that, Kiana ran toward the darkness and continued her great escape.

Meanwhile

Having received Kiana's warning message, Mo Yi was doing his best to calm down and think of a solution.

Among the Character Cards he possessed, there were quite a few characters with ultra-long-range mobility and support capabilities.

Shen, the Eye of Twilight's secret technique—Mercy of the Soul. While granting protective power to an ally, it could also instantly bring him to their side.

Bard, the Wandering Caretaker's Magical Journey, which created a spacetime passage directly connecting two locations.

Pantheon, the Unyielding Spear's ultimate technique—Grand Starfall. He leaped into the sky with all his might, then transformed into a meteor and delivered a shield strike from the heavens against distant enemies.

And Card Master - Twisted Fate's ultimate—Destiny. Through divination, he could peer into fate, gain vision of an enemy, and then use Spatial Shift to teleport near them.

There were also some hero characters Mo Yi had yet to conquer, such as the Eternal Nightmare, who teleported after turning off the lights at night, and Galio, the Colossus of Justice, whose role was like Pantheon's—striking enemies from the sky.

It was just that using these abilities in reality differed greatly from how they worked in the game.

In the game, Pantheon could leap across the entire map. In reality, that was obviously impossible. Besides, by the time he jumped and landed, it would already be too late. And his meteor strike was clearly a powerful area-of-effect attack. If he used that move to save Kiana, the likelier outcome was that he would blow her to death the moment he landed.

More importantly, reality was not a game. There was no such thing as allied vision. They did not even know where Kiana was right now, so how could he teleport to her?

Pantheon, Shen, and Bard all faced this same problem.

Thinking of this, Mo Yi felt a little regretful. He had originally planned to use Runes when he had time to make Kiana a small accessory with the effect of a Scout Ward, so he could always know where she was at critical moments. If she encountered any danger, he would know immediately.

As for peeping on her or anything, Mo Yi definitely had no such thoughts. Besides, normal people took accessories off when bathing, so there was no theoretical basis for voyeurism anyway.

But this "when he had time" had never come, and now that he needed it, he still had not found the time.

The most painful thing was loving too late. Some feelings could not wait for a certain day.

If his procrastination had not acted up, if he had done it immediately when he first thought of it, he would not be this frantic now.

So the only power Mo Yi could borrow now was his—Card Master - Twisted Fate, the legendary man who controlled fate.

After conquering him, Mo Yi had barely used Card Master's power. First, his abilities were not suited to one-on-one combat; they were more appropriate for playing a functional role in team battles.

Second, the power he represented was fate. As the saying went, space was king, time was supreme, and fate stood above all. It was one of the most common supreme laws in all kinds of works. Space and time powers were troublesome, but they could still be understood and countered. Fate, however, was something incomprehensible. You did not even know whether fate truly existed, or whether the enemy had made a move—and then, while charging forward, you might step on a banana peel, fall over, and get stabbed to death by your own weapon.

The stronger the ability, the greater the cost required to activate it. Thus, when Mo Yi used Card Master, his energy was consumed far faster than with simple, brutal Character Cards like Fiora, the Grand Duelist. Yet its combat effectiveness was not obvious. After all, no matter how great or expensive a sports car was, without fuel, it was no more useful than an electric bike.

This was especially true of his ultimate. Although it could accomplish the things it did in the game, its actual effect matched the name Destiny—it was truly an ability that could alter fate. Mo Yi had once tried using it to permanently raise his luck. After slightly prying at his personal fate for less than half a second, his body was immediately drained dry, and he collapsed onto the ground.

Of course, there had still been an effect. That day, Mo Yi went out to buy groceries, intending to make a lavish meal to replenish his nutrition, and actually found money several times along the way.

This was luck Mo Yi had earned through his own labor. Picking it up and stuffing it into his pocket was perfectly justified.

It was just that the money he found was not enough to cover the cost of that lavish meal.

After that, Mo Yi never considered using Destiny to defy fate and turn his bad luck around again. Well, he would have to wait until he became much stronger and his total magical power increased before trying to smuggle himself into Europe.

"What I need next is—"

Having decided which ability to use, Mo Yi quickly walked to Kiana's room next door and took out the spare key, preparing to open her door.

Then he awkwardly discovered that she had not locked it. Why had he just gone looking for a spare key?

"Kiana is really outrageous. How can she leave the house without locking her door?"

"Luckily, your roommate is someone as upright as me, Mo Yi. Otherwise, you'd definitely have to buy new clothes every week."

Although Card Master's ultimate, Destiny, could theoretically search for anything existing in the river of fate, tracking Kiana using only her name would require so much magical power that even draining Mo Yi into a human husk would not be enough.

So he needed an object related to Kiana. Through the connection between them, he could quickly locate her.

After pushing open the door, Mo Yi looked around Kiana's room, searching for the most suitable medium.

The pillow and quilt Kiana had slept on? Her suitcase? Or... Soon, Mo Yi spotted a pile of clothes. He walked over, picked one up, and sniffed it. It still carried Kiana's scent. Perhaps because she did physical labor, the smell of sweat was rather strong.

Sure enough, the idea that girls' sweat always smelled sweet was complete nonsense!

Clothes she had worn without washing... Mm, this seemed like the most suitable medium.