"This was actually the Honkai world..."
After shaking off the man who wanted to be her simp, Himeko continued down the street, recalling the information she had obtained through his phone and their conversation.
This world was actually the Honkai world!
No wonder the Honkai energy readings in this world were so high. This was the birthplace of Honkai!
And the current time was actually... the year 2000, right at the start of the twenty-first century.
However, technology in the Honkai world's twenty-first century was far more advanced than that of the real world. After all, it had inherited the legacy of the Previous Era. Even though much had been lost, it had still accelerated technological progress.
Interestingly, a major incident had occurred in the Far Eastern Land not long ago. A strange infectious disease had suddenly broken out, and many people had been infected and quarantined. Yet... practically no one survived. In the end, almost all of them died.
"The year 2000, a strange infectious disease in the Far Eastern Land?"
Himeko stopped at an intersection, suddenly thinking of something.
"At this point in time... wasn't Himeko just starting middle school? And this illness... wasn't it... Honkai?" Himeko suddenly recalled that in 2000, she had been around fifteen years old and attending middle school.
And Himeko's mother had unfortunately been infected and quarantined during those two years. Because it had not been some strange infectious disease at all, but simply Honkai infection, there was no way she could have been saved. In the end... Himeko's mother died.
"I have to save her!"
Now that she was Himeko, that counted as her mother too.
But... Himeko suddenly realized that she did not even know where Himeko's family lived. She only knew it was somewhere in the Far Eastern Land. Besides...