Over the course of three years of wandering, almost everyone she met became someone she would never encounter again after seeing them only a few times.
Throughout that long journey, she had been like a rootless duckweed, drifting wherever the currents of Honkai incidents carried her, with no clear destination.
But today, she had met someone for the second time and gained her first old friend on this journey.
"Sorry, Kiana. I should have replied to you long ago, but... something happened along the way."
Looking at the white-haired girl's radiant smile, Shi Hen lowered his head and spoke in a voice filled with apology.
In truth, Kiana had arrived in Shenzhou a month ago and emailed Shi Hen on the very first day she set foot in this land.
But... at that time, the youth had still been immersed in memories of Elysia.
And the Elysian Realm was practically cut off from the outside world, with no network signal connecting it to the outside.
Elysia had led him astray!
Looking at the seven emails in his inbox, one sent every day for a week, Shi Hen could feel the girl's cautious yet irrepressible joy even through the screen.
But a full week of unanswered messages had ultimately exhausted all of the girl's patience and enthusiasm. The inbox returned to its long silence, much like her gradually cooling heart.
Thus, after attending the World Serpent executives' meeting and arranging everything related to the organization, Shi Hen responded to Kiana's call with an apparently hurried attitude.
After all, he was going to become the world's final boss. Surely he had at least this much patience.
Though his identity in meeting Kiana had begun as an accident, it could become the best entry point for another of his plans. Naturally, Shi Hen