The Captain Just Wants to Go Home and Play Games

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

Kiana, long accustomed to the other party's tricks, retorted:

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

Sirin, after her usual bit of tsundere defiance, began to utilize the Honkai Energy she had painstakingly gathered, granting Kiana permission to draw from it freely.

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

"Rejoice, this is the power of a god! Don't you dare fail to withstand even a tenth of it!"

Internally, she sneered: Pitiful ignorant being, grasp this last straw of salvation and use my power to your heart's content! Your body will be mine sooner or later!

"It seems today is my lucky day, but—"

Kiana smiled dismissively and continued:

"I refuse!"

"The thing I, Kiana, love doing most is telling self-important people 'NO'!"

Chapter 31: Lady Luck is Smiling

"What? You dare—"

Sirin, who had been smugly confident in her plan, watched her smile gradually fade upon hearing Kiana's refusal. If the circumstances allowed, she would have jumped out right then and there to strangle Kiana for daring to toy with her.

"You're playing me like this?!"

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

"Then struggle with your useless pride and drown in the cruel reality!"

"Soon, you will understand your own weakness—"

After saying this, Sirin fell silent, waiting for the opportune moment to reappear and mock or tempt Kiana.

"You're so annoying—"

Kiana muttered, then ran towards the darkness, continuing her great escape.

Meanwhile

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

Among the Character Cards he possessed, there were quite a few characters with long-distance movement and support abilities.

Shen, the Eye of Twilight's ultimate ability! Mercy of the Soul—while bestowing protective power upon allies, he can also instantly appear beside them.

Bard, the Wandering Caretaker's Magical Journey, creates a temporal portal that directly connects two locations.

Pantheon, the Unyielding Spear, his ultimate ability—Grand Starfall, leaps to a great height and then transforms into a meteor, striking distant enemies with a downward shield bash.

And Card Master Twisted Fate's ultimate—Destiny, through divination, he peers into destiny to gain vision of enemies, and then uses Spatial Shift to teleport near them.

There were also some hero characters Mo Yi hadn't fully mastered, like Eternal Nightmare, who teleports after turning off the lights, and Galio, the Colossus of Justice, who, like Pantheon, strikes enemies from the sky.

However, applying these abilities in reality was vastly different from their displayed effects in the game.

In the game, Pantheon could leap anywhere on the map. In reality, that was clearly unrealistic, and by the time he landed, it would be far too late. Moreover, the meteor strike was clearly a powerful area-of-effect attack. Using it to save Kiana would more likely result in Kiana being vaporized the moment he landed.

More importantly, reality isn't a game; there's no such thing as allied vision. He didn't even know where Kiana was right now. How could he teleport?

Pantheon, Shen, and Bard all faced this problem.

Thinking of this, Mo Yi felt a pang of regret. He had originally planned to take some time to craft a small accessory for Kiana using runes that would function as a ward, allowing Mo Yi to always know Kiana's location. If she encountered any danger, Mo Yi would know immediately.

As for peeking, Mo Yi certainly had no such intentions. Besides, people normally take off accessories when they shower, so there was no theoretical basis for voyeurism.

But he never found the time to "take some time," and now, when he needed it, he still hadn't made time.

The most painful realization was that love came too late, and some intentions couldn't wait for a specific date.

If procrastination hadn't kicked in, and he had done it the moment he thought of it, he wouldn't be this frantic now.

Therefore, the only borrowed power Mo Yi could currently use was from him—Card Master Twisted Fate, the man who legendarily controlled destiny.

After mastering him, Mo Yi had hardly used Card Master's abilities. Firstly, his abilities weren't suited for solo combat; they were more effective in team fights.

Secondly, the power he represented was destiny. As the saying goes, space is king, time is honored, and destiny is supreme—one of the most common supreme laws in various works. While space and time abilities were troublesome, they could still be understood and countered. But destiny was incomprehensible. You didn't even know if destiny truly existed, or if the enemy had even made a move, and then you might step on a banana peel while charging forward and accidentally stab yourself with your own weapon as you fell.

The more powerful the ability, the greater the consumption required to activate it. Thus, Mo Yi's consumption rate when using Card Master was much faster than for straightforward Character Cards like Fiora, the Grand Duelist. Yet, the practical effect wasn't obvious. After all, no matter how big a sports car is, if it's out of gas, it's no better than an electric scooter.

Especially his ultimate. Although it could replicate what happened in the game, its actual effect was consistent with its name, 'Destiny.' When he tried to truly manipulate destiny, Mo Yi would expend all his energy after prying at his personal destiny for less than half a second, leaving him collapsing on the ground.

Of course, there were effects. One day, Mo Yi went out to buy groceries, planning to cook a rich meal to replenish his nutrients. On the way, he inexplicably found money several times.

This was luck Mo Yi had earned through his own efforts. Picking it up and putting it in his pocket was only natural.

However, the money he found wasn't even enough to pay for that rich meal.

Later, Mo Yi never again considered using 'Destiny' to defy fate and escape his bad luck. Well, he'd have to wait until his strength was high enough and his total Magic Power increased before attempting to "cross over to Europe."

"What's needed next is—"

Having decided on his ability, Mo Yi quickly walked to Kiana's adjacent room, took out a spare key, and prepared to open her door.

Then, to his embarrassment, he discovered that she hadn't locked it. Why had he even bothered looking for a key?

"Kiana is really out of line. How could she leave the door unlocked when she went out?"

"Fortunately, your roommate is an upright person like me, Mo Yi. Otherwise, you'd definitely have to buy new clothes every week."

Although the Card Master's ultimate ability, 'Destiny,' could theoretically find anything that existed on the river of fate, tracking Kiana with just a name would require so much Magic Power that it would likely turn Mo Yi into a dried husk.

Therefore, an object related to Kiana was needed to quickly locate her, using the connection between the two.

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

Her pillow and blanket that Kiana had slept on? Her suitcase? Or... Soon, Mo Yi spotted a pile of clothes. He walked over and picked them up, sniffing. They still had Kiana's scent, and perhaps because she'd been doing physical labor, the smell of sweat was quite strong.

So, girls' sweat is fragrant – what a load of lies!

Unwashed clothes worn on her body. Hmm, it seemed this was the most suitable medium.