Honkai Exposure, Iconic Scenes from the Elysian Realm at the Start

Raiden Mei: "I can tell too. Sirin was furious when she learned the truth, but she didn't actually intend to kill Cecilia. Otherwise, neither she nor Siegfried would have escaped."

Kiana: "Then someone must have hidden the truth!"

Damn it, Kiana had always been suspicious. Her mother had died during the Second Honkai Outbreak, but the System's answer was that she had only sustained minor injuries in battle.

So her mother's death wasn't even from fighting a Herrscher!

Kiana: "Damn it, I have to find out the truth and get justice for Mom!"

Himeko Murata: "Mhm, we'll help you too, Kiana."

She had almost managed to redeem the Herrscher with love, yet Cecilia still died in the Second Honkai Outbreak.

Such an ending was clearly hard for everyone to accept.

Eden: "If the Honkai Beast named Benares hadn't died, perhaps the Herrscher could have truly been redeemed."

Pardofelis: "When we were fighting the Honkai back then, we never encountered anything like this. Honkai Beasts and Herrschers betraying... that sounds unbelievable."

Elysia: "To put it simply, you could call it being a traitor?"

Raiden Mei: "..."

Kiana: "..."

What did she mean by traitor?

Her resolve to fight for all that is good in the world... could the Valkyries' business be called being a traitor?

Pardofelis: "Looking at it this way, the Herrscher is actually quite pitiful. No one to dote on her, no one to love her. Cecilia simply captured her heart."

Kiana: "That just proves my Mom's charm was irresistible, even to a Herrscher."

Himeko Murata: "But Kiana, if Sirin truly accepted Cecilia as her mother, and Cecilia truly loved Sirin, doesn't that mean you gained a sister?"

Kiana: "Uh... I guess so."

Pardo suddenly felt as if her candy had been snatched away.

But thinking about Sirin in the video, her longing for family and love was so intense.

She at least had her old man, but Sirin, even after receiving that sliver of precious love, it was just a false illusion.

Since Mother Cecilia recognized her as a daughter, Kiana was happy to accept her as a sister.

Moreover, having a well-behaved and beautiful sister like Sirin seemed pretty good.

Kiana: "Then at worst, I'll just have one more sister. I'm not that petty. We're all Herrschers of the Void, as long as she doesn't stand with the Honkai."

Elysia: "Eh? Really? I was about to say, 'If you don't want this sister, I do,' because she's such a cute girl."

Kiana: "Pink Fairy, stay away from my Sirin!"

Damn it, what was her deal?

She stole her Mei in the Previous Era Elysian Realm, and now she was eyeing Sirin. Was she deliberately trying to make things difficult for Kiana?

[Act III: Akainu, Immortal Crimson Bird.]

[In the scene, Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void, Bishop Otto, Cheng Lixue, and Immortal Crimson Bird stood on a tall building. The atmosphere was so oppressive it felt like it would explode at any second.

"Otto, as planned, let me fight her alone. None of you interfere."

Fu Hua unbuttoned her collar, and her hair color began to change.

It turned into the interwoven red and white colors of Immortal Crimson Bird.

"What? You just beat that useless Agata and you're getting cocky, bug!" Sirin said, sitting opposite Fu Hua.

To her, a mere group of weak humans was nothing; she could take on three of them with ease.

"Bishop, do we really not need to help Master?" Cheng Lixue looked at the distant battlefield, his face filled with worry.

"She's enough on her own."

Otto stood hundreds of meters away, watching with an indifferent, spectator-like attitude.

He had full confidence in Immortal Crimson Bird's strength.

Within Feather's domain, Immortal Crimson Bird could unleash her full power. When that power, lost for five hundred years, returned to her body, she was undoubtedly the strongest in the world.

The strongest Immortal Crimson Bird.]

Kiana: "Class Monitor Fu Hua?"

Elysia: "Hua?!!!"

Kiana and others, along with the Flame-Chasers, expressed their differing opinions on the red and white-haired Immortal Crimson Bird in the scene.

Pardofelis: "Wait, isn't the Fu Hua you're talking about the class monitor in Teacher Himeko's class? What does this have to do with Hua from our Thirteen Flame-Chasers?"

Raiden Mei: "I want to ask you too, who is the Hua you're referring to? Isn't that my class monitor?"

No matter how they looked at it, they felt the Immortal Crimson Bird in the scene should be the person they remembered.

The same face, the same aura, the same flatness.

Chapter Twenty-Six: One-Punch Fu Hua

Bronya: "Excluding the possibility that they're the same person, it means one of us has definitely misidentified them."

Pardofelis: "But what if the Fu Hua you're talking about, Class Monitor Fu Hua, is the same person as Hua we know?"

Bronya: "Impossible. There's a gap of fifty thousand years between them. And our Class Monitor Fu Hua is still a young and beautiful maiden. The timeline simply doesn't match."

Eden: "That makes sense."

No matter how similar they seemed, after some thought, the group reached the same conclusion.

Fu Hua was not Hua!

It was important to remember that the Class Monitor Fu Hua Kiana and the others spoke of was just an ordinary A-rank Valkyrie, nowhere near the level of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers.

Otherwise, how could she still be just an ordinary student at St. Freya Academy?

Himeko Murata: "But it still doesn't add up. The Immortal Crimson Bird in the video participated in the Second Honkai War. At Fu Hua's age, she couldn't have experienced that event."

Raiden Mei: "So, we were wrong?"

Theresa: "Definitely. The Immortal Crimson Bird is a legendary figure from Shenzhou, at least five hundred years old. Plus, she could fight the Herrscher of the Void. She couldn't possibly be Fu Hua."

She, Theresa, the esteemed Director of St. Freya Academy and one of Schicksal's S-rank Valkyries, wasn't even a match for the Herrscher of the Void.

Theresa absolutely refused to admit that Fu Hua was stronger than her.

Pardofelis: "No need to guess. I can guarantee that person is Sister Hua. I won't be wrong. My intuition is never wrong."

Elysia: "At times, Pardo's intuition is incredibly reliable. It seems we've grasped the truth."

Kiana: "I'm curious, what's the level of the Hua you're talking about? Can she really fight the Herrscher of the Void single-handedly like in the video?"

Pardofelis: "Sister Hua ranks twelfth among us, right before me. Of course, she's much stronger than I am. A hundred of me might not even be able to defeat Sister Hua."

Raiden Mei: "But I remember you saying the same thing when we were talking about Mobius."

Pardofelis: "Ah, it's because I'm the weakest among the Flame-Chasers. Nothing I can do about it."

Kiana: "..."

Whether it was a psychological effect or not, the more Pardofelis claimed to be weak, the more suspicious everyone became.

You're acting, aren't you, Pardo?!

Theresa: "So, based on your understanding, how long could the fight between the Immortal Crimson Bird and the Herrscher of the Void last?"

Pardofelis: "I'm not sure. I didn't see the full power of the Herrscher of the Void from your era. But the battle should end quickly."

Pardo looked at the scene on the screen. The Immortal Crimson Bird and the Herrscher of the Void had both entered their combat stances, ready for a storm of attacks at any moment.

[In the video, Sirin unleashed the Authority of the Void, her unique imaginary barrier, and looked down at the Immortal Crimson Bird opposite her.

The next moment, Fu Hua threw a punch.

A mere fist, no matter how strong or fast, Sirin wouldn't have taken it seriously, as human attacks couldn't penetrate the imaginary barrier.

But half a second after the Immortal Crimson Bird's attack landed on the barrier, she knew she was wrong.

Terribly wrong.

It wasn't an ordinary fist, but tens of thousands of wind currents from her fists, striking like a torrential downpour.

"What kind of joke is this?!"

Although these attacks were not painful to the Herrscher's body, she was completely enraged.

"Get lost!!!"

Instinctively, Sirin unleashed the Black Mist of the Herrscher of Death.

The Black Mist could corrode everything around it, but it certainly couldn't touch the flames that the Immortal Crimson Bird had burned for five thousand years.

"Inch-Punch: Heaven Splitter!"

Fu Hua unleashed a punch, hitting Sirin squarely in the abdomen, shattering her prideful defense.

The solid Inch-Punch: Heaven Splitter almost knocked Sirin unconscious, making her kneel on the ground.

The outcome was decided in an instant.]

Kiana: "Holy crap! Is that Class Monitor's Inch-Punch: Heaven Splitter? But is it that powerful? She took down a Herrscher with one punch?"

It was hard to believe.

Kiana had seen Fu Hua practicing Tai Chi in the park, but its power was less than one ten-thousandth of the Immortal Crimson Bird's strike.

Bronya: "Bronya also finds it hard to believe that a Herrscher could be defeated with just a fist."

Elysia: "That's the difference in the user. Hua, as I remember her, wouldn't find it difficult to achieve this level of power."

No matter how powerful a weapon, its effectiveness varies depending on the wielder.

Right, Theresa?

Himeko Murata: "Theresa, you should really look at the Immortal Crimson Bird before you brag next time. That's true peerless power, taking down the Herrscher of the Void with one punch."

Theresa: "I, I, I also played a very important role!"

Putting aside the Director's matters, Raiden Mei: "I'm a bit curious why our Class Monitor would use the Immortal Crimson Bird's Inch-Punch: Heaven Splitter. Do they really have no connection at all?"

Seeing Theresa about to burrow into the ground out of sheer embarrassment, Mei quickly changed the subject while voicing her own confusion.

Bronya: "There must be a connection, but if you're saying the class representative is Immortal Crimson Bird, Bronya doesn't believe it. The power difference is too great."

Theresa: "What's so confusing about it? Immortal Crimson Bird is a legendary figure from Shenzhou, and Fu Hua happens to be from Shenzhou too. Maybe she was lucky and learned a few of Immortal Crimson Bird's ultimate techniques. That's perfectly reasonable, right?"

Himeko Murata: "Analyzing it that way, there's really no fault to be found."

Kiana: "We can only assume that for now. We'll ask the class representative next time we have a chance."

Himeko Murata and Bronya exchanged a look, then tacitly buried their doubts.

If Fu Hua wasn't Immortal Crimson Bird, that would be for the best.

But if she was Immortal Crimson Bird, then Fu Hua's presence at St. Freya Academy must hide some unspeakable secret.

Bronya: "Pardo, can you tell us more about Hua from your Thirteen Flame-Chasers?"

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

Bronya had already begun trying to glean information about Immortal Crimson Bird from Pardo and the others.

Judging by that single punch that instantly killed the Herrscher just now, she wasn't someone they could underestimate.

Pardofelis: "You're talking about Sister Hua? She's incredible! A Mental Fusion Warrior. Although she doesn't talk much usually, she's one of the most active among us when fighting Honkai Beasts."

Theresa: "Wait, you call that a Mental Fusion Warrior?"

If they weren't mistaken, Immortal Crimson Bird had just made the Herrscher of the Void kneel with a single punch, right?

And if they understood correctly, 'mental' usually referred to mages, the fragile type who couldn't fight up close.

Do people from your Previous Era have some kind of misunderstanding about 'mental' types?

Chapter 27: Masked Man, Actor Otto