A cat girl sneaked behind a white-haired woman and she patiently drew out her chakram.
"EAT THIS, Final Herrscher.", from afar, a woman dressed in brown attire with a top hat stood next to her gatling and shouted in vigor. The gatling continuously spewed the bullets aiming at the Herrscher.
The Herrscher clicked her teeth in annoyance and she deployed an invisible shield to deflect the gatling bullets.
"GO, KID.", a man shouted.
From two sides, a beast in purple color and a white-haired man in a mask attacked the Herrscher of the End with their claws and fists.
But their attacks were deflected by two sides of a polearm was just appeared in the Herrscher's hands.
"Good coordination. But it isn't enough, Kosma, Kalpas.", Herrscher of the End said coldly before she swung her weapon. Two attackers were blew away before they landed on the ground of the moon again.
Another white-haired man stood up and faced the Final Herrscher. On his hand, a red flaming sword was burning and he dragged it through the moon surface. His eyes looked at his sole opponent in determination.
"How many comrades have you killed with that sword of yours, Kevin? No wonder Elysia was so dissapointed in you.", the white haired Herrscher smirked sinisterly.
The strongest warrior of humanity gritted his teeth at the mention of his old comrade.
In Tragedy of Binding, a lot of MANTISes were dead under the might of his power. Kalpas was almost buried alive under hundred meters layer of ice if Kevin didn't find him and digged him up.
That was a rare event Ellie was angry, very angry.
"Stay focus, Kevin. Mei is charging Moonlight Throne now.", Hua warned and stood next to him.
"I will beat you up and avenge our fallen comrades.", Kevin swung his sword then pointed at the Herrscher of the End. Just in a second, he sprinted at his opponent.
Both Pardofelis and Hua also followed suit. Hua summoned various Water's Edge blades and shot them at the Herrscher. On her hand, a copper-colored sword was manifested then she used it to attack.
Pardofelis sneaked behind and tried to stab the Herrscher by her chakram.
Eden summoned her lyre and music notes were flying straight to the Herrscher from her lyre.
Might of An-Utu was burning violently and Kevin raised his sword high to deliver a slash.
"Too slow.", the Herrscher muttered. She then slammed her polearm to the ground.
A moonquake shook up the whole moon created a force pushed back every attacks and every attackers.
She picked up her polearm again then jumped at the weakest warrior.
"PARDO.", Eden shouted in horror and dropped her knees to the ground. Every remaining Flamechasers were also widen their eyes and petrified in shock.
Pardofelis had been thrusted and stabbed by Herrscher of the End's weapon. The cat girl's eyes were still widen in empty and horror. She opened and twiched her mouth but no sound came out.
"You shouldn't come here, pussy cat.", the Herrscher sighed and pulled out her polearm from Pardofelis' stomach. The cat girl's stomach was slowly healed by the Herrscher's authority while she was pulling out her polearm. After that, the white haired Herrscher waved her hand and threw the cat girl's body back to her comrades by an invisible force.
Pardofelis' eyes were still wide opened and her body was still intact. But her breathing and heartbeat was non-existent.
Eden used her two fingers closing the Pardofelis' eyes to let her rest in peace. The singer's tears were falling nonstop to the hard and cold ground of the moon.
"Two down, six left.", Herrscher of the End pointed her polearm at the remaining Flamechasers menacingly. Her pair of gold eyes were shining brightly lighting the whole space around her.
...
I abruptedly opened my eyes wide and woke up. My sweat dropped profusedly on my forehead.
Ok, what was that dream?
Why did I dream about Final Herrscher slaughtered the Flamechasers on the moon?
Also the battle was so brutal and my heart was aching to see Pardofelis was killed like that. I loved that thief cat. She was so cute and funny, or cunny.
Yes, cunny.
"Are you ok?", a voice called me out in worry.
Next to me was a pink haired plushie nine-tailed fox in miko dress looked at me in concern. She sat on the bedside table while playing games on my smartphone with her tiny hands.
"What time is it ?", I questioned and groggily rubbed my eyes.
"Just in time for breakfast. Don't forget deep-fried tofu for me.", Rin replied and continued playing games.
What was the deal between nine-tailed fox and deep-fried tofu in Japanese culture? I couldn't understand.
"Why do you love deep fried tofu so much anyway?", I asked curiously.
"Duh. Because it is crispy on the outside and soft plus tender on the inside. Everyone loves that.", Rin rolled her eyes at me as if it was the most natural thing.
"I can even bring you a better dish than deep-fried tofu if you love dishes like that.", I chuckled.
"Really?", her eyes were shone excitedly.
"Have you ever heard of dimsum?", I opened the curtain and pointed at a vendor on the other side of the road.
"You just don't want to buy me deep-fried tofu because the tofu vendor is further away. But I will give it a try. Also don't forget douhua for my dessert.", Rin/Higokumaru huffed and turned her head away while crossing her tiny arms.
"You are such a glutton Herrscher.", I chuckled and patted the mini fox girl's head.
A pink-haired woman with a pair of fox ears abruptly opened her eyes and woke up.
She found herself lying on an extremely comfy bed. Maybe she had never lied on a comfortable bed like this ever before.
"Lord Otto, Yae Sakura has woken up.", a voice called out from behind her made her turning back immidiately.
"Kal...Kallen.", the fox girl stuttered in shock after realizing who was sitting on the chair behind her. There was no doubt it was the woman Sakura had longed to meet for a long time.
She could never forget the beautiful face and the long white hair of that strange foreign woman laying unconsciously near the river.
"I'm sorry. I'm not Kallen Kaslana even though I have her appearance.", the white haired woman stood up and bowed elegantly.
Just by that sentence, Yae Sakura's hope was crushed and despair quickly flooded her mind.
"You can call me Amber. My lord is on his way and he want to have a conversation with you. The world is much different in the last 500 years by the way.", Amber added.
"So you are her descendant, I suppose.", Sakura sighed and gazed at the black box on the table at the corner of the room.
So she had been sealed and confined in that box for 500 years.
But she felt like every events had happened was only yesterday. Then she woke up from the box after a long slumber.
The creaking sound of door opening cut the fox girl's line of thought.
Sakura gazed at the door and she saw a tall man had his long blonde hair tied up in ponytail was walking toward her.
Amber quickly prepared another chair and put it next to Sakura's bed. The blonde haired man then sat down on that chair.
"Leave us.", Otto ordered. The white haired assistant bowed then headed to the door. Before Amber got out of the room, she took out a yellow visor and wore it.
"Hello, Yae Sakura.", the Overseer of Schicksal gave a friendly smile to the fox girl.
But the fox girl eyed back the man cautiously.
"Sake, wine?", Otto lifted two bottles were prepared on the table.
"What is wine?", Sakura questioned curiously. She knew about sake but wine? No.
"It's a liquor drink from the West, a sake equivalent.", Otto opened the wine bottle and poured it on two glass, "Why don't you try it?", the Overseer gave the glass to Sakura.
The fox girl eyed the dark liquor curiously and took a sniff. The aroma of the drink invaded her nostrils.
"So this is what Kallen drank in her hometown.", Sakura muttered. She never drank a liquor of this high quality ever before.
"Ah yes, Kallen Kaslana.", Otto sighed at the mention of her name.
"You know her?", asked Sakura hopefully.
"Yes, we were old friends.", replied the blonde haired man sadly, "Let raise the glasses for her memory."
Both Sakura and Otto raised their glasses and drank up the wine.
Sakura notice this liquor was much lighter than sake. It also had unique aroma from some kind of fruits which she couldn't interpret.
"Now is time for business.", Otto said, "My name is Otto Apocalypse.", Otto introduced himself.
Just after his introduction, the fox girl's eyes were opened wide in surprise.
"My name is Yae Sakura but I believe you have known that already. Kallen used to talk quite a lot about you.", Sakura eyed the Overseer cautiously, "She said you used to be a great boy with beautiful dream and ambition. But the world had tainted you.", the fox girl continued.
"The world had tainted both of us.", Otto said solemnly, "She hold onto her ideal too tight and the world decided to go against her. And I had been succumb into darkness and obsession in the name for a better world.", he added and poured both the glasses full of wine again.
"Is that really 500 years has passed ? How can you still young and alive anyway ?", questioned the pink haired woman curiously.
"I am a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will.", the blonde haired man chuckled, "I won't allow myself to die until my target is reached."
"Then what is your target?", asked Sakura.
"Tell me, Yae Sakura.", Otto began while shaking his wine glass, "If I told you I have ways to bring Kallen and even your sister Yae Rin back, would you work with me?"
"You want to bring back the dead? Absurb!", Yae Sakura snorted at the man's statement.
"I understand your doubt.", Otto slowly nodded, "Allow me to enlighten you. You will understand my claims are not just empty promises. If you want, I will show you the true nature of our world.", the Overseer said seriously and he summoned a golden cube in his hand.
The old Yuuki Kazuto hadn't gone to school for 1 year because of brain dead. My recovery was considered a miracle, not only I woke up from death but also I recovered from Honkai Radiation.
My new parents didn't give up on me even though I was considered dead. The old Kazuto would never wake up if I didn't replace him. Still, they didn't lose hope and still wanted to wait for at least 1 more year before deciding to withdraw my life support.
You really nailed it, Elysia. I couldn't ask for better parents.
Also it felt quite strange to come back to high school even though I had graduated it. I always wondered how would my college life would be like in my old life if I hadn't diagonised with leukemia.
Sighed, I guessed I shouldn't dwell too much into the past.
My new parents were magnificent, but I missed my old family.
I hoped you guys could move on from my passing.
"Are you ok?", a feminine voice called out to me in worry while I was still deep in thought.
Wait, I had came to the school, the Senba Highschool itself.
I then gazed to the source of the voice and opened my eyes wide in surprise.
"I'm...ok.", I stuttered. The girl just called out to me had dark purple hair and a pair of indigo eyes. She wore a yellow bow hairpin with white polka dots on top of her head alongside Senba Highschool's uniform.
"Ok...you have lost yourself for 5 minutes so I think I should check you up.", the future Herrscher of Thunder said in relief then came back with her friends.
Yeah, 'friends'.
I chuckled as I recalled their potential fates in the next 6 months. Those so-called friends would abandon her immediately just right after Raiden Ryoma was arrested. Some of them even bullied her nastily.
You were so lucky to have Kiana never gave up on you, Mei.
Well, this school along with this city would be doom in 6 months after all. For the script I supposed.
"He is so damm lucky. I want the Queen cares to me like that to."
"Who the fuck he is? He dares talking to our Queen."
"He seems to be a newbie. Let's teach him a lesson sometimes."
I could hear your murmurs you know. If you guys wanted to bad-mouth me, at least please don't let me hear them.
Raiden Mei was just a human, not a divine being. Or at least not a divine being...for now.
Most of you would abandon her immediately after her father was fallen.
The students in the same age as me had graduated beforehand. I would be in the same grades with the students I considered as kouhai prior to Yuuki Kazuto's incident.
Well, welcome to hell called highschool. Again.
I couldn't help it but why did I feel someone was watching me?
I didn't mind or care if it was just only normal students. But somehow I felt there was a predator lurking in the dark then waited to strike at its prey.
...which was me.
"So there you are.", a brown-haired woman with magenta eyes mused and sipped her tea. On the other side of the road, the heiress of ME Corp was talking with a black-haired boy.
After their brief exchange, the boy suddenly casted his eyes around him as if he was alarmed by something.
When he casted his eyes on her, the woman had turned her back while fixing her hair. She pretended to make up as the woman eyed him through the reflection on her mini makeup mirror.
It seemed he didn't notice her.
Letting out a sigh, the boy then walked into the school.
"Another cup of tea please.", the woman called out a waitress and gave her empty tea cup to clean up.
While waiting for her second cup of tea, she opened her phone and made a call.
I wonder... how could you recover from both Honkai Radiation and brain dead, Yuuki Kazuto? , the women mused.
"Amber, tell Lord Otto I have found a suspicious target."
Author's here:
I am very thankful for you guys' support. I don't ever think so many of you would love my fic this much. It is just some ideas stuck in my head and I let it out through this fic.
But it also puts a bit pressure on me when I know so many of you are waiting for new chapters my fic. I know I cannot sastify you guys all but I will try my best to write the fic perfectly.
I just have finish chapter 31-EX and Dr Mei's booba is perfect xD. No wonder KeBin simps so hard on her.
My fic storyline is still wholesome and positive so far. But as a Honkai fanfic writer, I must live up to the Mihoyo Honkai writer's level of 'wholesome and positive' xD .