Who Am I? (Continued)

Elsewhere.

After seeing the trailing dark clouds disperse, Mei and Kiana both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mei, did... did you see that?!"

Kiana's eyes lit up. At that moment, the scorched wreckage constantly falling from the sky illuminated her face as the girl eagerly explained, "Assistant Teacher did that! It had to be Assistant Teacher! I knew it, Assistant Teacher would never just stand by and do nothing!"

Seeing Kiana so excited, Mei picked up on something. "Assistant Teacher... Assistant Teacher Ren did this?"

"Yes, it definitely couldn't be anyone else—it was him! Listen, Mei! Back in the waters near Singapore, Assistant Teacher did the same thing. I remember he seemed to have snatched Smelly Dad's weapon, then unleashed several Heavenly Fire Unsheathings in a row. The ocean currents got messed up, and it even stirred up a hurricane!"

Kiana gestured animatedly, her eyes gleaming.

But Mei's attention was not on her best friend.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the purple-haired girl nearby and froze slightly. "Who are you?"

At that moment, Sirin was looking toward the horizon with lingering fear. "Thank goodness... nothing went wrong. Thank goodness this world's civilization has powerful people capable of resisting Honkai Beasts..."

She had thought she was about to cause a terrible disaster. With so many Honkai Beasts drawn here, it would have taken only minutes for those vicious creatures to slaughter every human in this area.

Fortunately, the worst-case scenario had not happened.

"Mei, what are you looking at?" Kiana turned her gaze over with some dissatisfaction. "Listen to me, Assistant Teacher really was—"

Kiana had only gotten halfway through her sentence when she saw Sirin clearly and suddenly went blank.

Looking at the delicate little girl, at her flowing, silky purple hair, Kiana was suddenly struck