128 An unexpected event
Kouro raised his head, he saw Sirin covering her eyes with her hands, though there was a small gap in her hands.
Ji Xuanyuan was seen closing her eyes although her face was slightly flushed.
Dark Ji Xuanyuan looked at Kouro's lil bro intently, before whistling, "That's... Pretty big..."
Kouro pretended not to hear her praise and turned his head to look at Fu Hua.
Fu Hua who felt his gaze then cleared her throat, she was seen turning her head to the side to avoid Kouro's gaze with a slight blush.
Kouro stared at the sky with a blank expression and letting his ass reflect the sunlight.
He was currently wondering why his clothes were always destroyed when fighting strong enemies?
Did Kouro have exhibitionism tendencies?
Of course not.
He had been in a similar situation before, but that time he was alone and had spare clothes.
But now...
He didn't have a change of clothes and was even now being stared at by girls.
Even so, his expression looks so calm, but don't think that just because his expression looks calm, his heart is also calm.
Kouro is currently feeling very embarrassed and even really wants to jump off the building.
But thinking later there was a news report on TV 'Viral! A handsome man completely naked jumps off a building...'
Kouro ended up not doing it.
Fortunately due to [Master's] acting skills, Kouro was able to maintain his calm expression.
He currently inwardly vowed, if he didn't want weapons of destruction or overwhelming strength, he only wanted clothes that wouldn't be easily destroyed.
After all, it would be a shame if his clothes were always destroyed when fighting against strong enemies.
And also most of the enemies he would fight later would be girls, if he fought them with his current appearance... Girls might become unfocused as their eyes would spontaneously stare at something that 'stood out' from him.
Well... Maybe winning that way, wasn't bad either...
No! Wake up Kouro! This way of winning is misleading!
Kouro slapped both cheeks so hard that they turned red.
He was almost turn down to the path of misleaded.
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On the other hand.
[He's completely unpredictable! To think that he can outsmart a Herrscher... What a great plan! I will definitely remember this plan]
Hearing Otto's praise.
Ashborn's eyebrows twitched a few times.
'He didn't outsmart her... It's just his clothes... Ah never mind. '
But come to think of it, this method isn't bad either, as long as you have a heart of steel and more importantly 'good looking', this method is guaranteed to work.
Thinking this he then looked at Kouro whose ass was reflecting the sunlight making Ashborn narrow his eyes.
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Kouro felt so uncomfortable with the gazes of all of them that he had no other choice but to raise his head and look at Sirin with a pitiable expression.
"That... Miss... Can you create a pair of clothes for me? I'm feeling a little cold here... "
Sirin was still covering her eyes with her hands, even though a white T-shirt with long black pants was created out of thin air and floated towards Kouro.
Kouro caught the clothes and quickly put them on, after which he then let out a sigh of relief, "Clothes are indeed an irreplaceable advancement for mankind... "
Right after he said this, his eyes suddenly lit up as if he found a good idea.
He then looked at Sirin with a serious expression before asking, "Miss, Do you... Do you hate humans?"
At this time because of Kouro's unexpected intervention, Sirin did not immediately attack them.
Sirin raised her eyebrows, she felt strange about Kouro's question.
"Isn't it obvious. I really hate humans! And I will definitely eliminate them all!"
"Do you also hate what humans have created?" Kouro asked again.
"Of course!" Sirin answered quickly.
"Then take off that thing you're wearing!"
"Huh?" Sirin blinked in confusion.
Kouro pointed at hks clothes with his thumb and said seriously, "Clothes are technology created by humans, since you hate them, then take off what you're wearing, since it's a human creation! "
"You!" Sirin with a dumbfounded expression pointed at Kouro with trembling hands, her face looking flushed either from embarrassment or anger.
It seemed Sirin had misunderstood Kouro's intentions.
Kouro was actually planning to tell Sirin that humans don't always create bad things.
He wanted to use the clothes he was wearing as an example, but it didn't seem to work... It might even make Sirin hate humans even more.
Well... It's not strange when thinking about Kouro's previous actions.
Fu Hua, Ji Xuanyuan and her twin looked at Kouro with speechless expressions.
It seemed like they also misunderstood Kouro's true intentions.
Sirin's body visibly trembled, her head bowed and the wings on her back began to shine brightly, she raised her head and shouted, "Die! You perverted bastard!"
Sirin's wings emitted thousands of lasers that automatically locked onto Kouro.
The light from the thousands of lasers was like fireworks in the night sky.
[Lighwing unleashed]
*ZING! ZING! ZING!
Seeing the thousands of lasers aimed at him, Kouro turned his Xuanyuan sword into a giant shield to deflect while avoiding some of the lasers that were zigzagging around him.
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Seeing the devastating battle, Otto couldn't help but ask.
["Aren't you going to help them, Ashborn?"]
"Nah, they can do it. "
Ashborn replied casually but confidently.
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The building Kouro was standing on was also destroyed, so he quickly jumped towards Fu Hua.
Kouro ran letting Sirin focus on attacking him and when he crossed paths with Fu Hua, se whispered something in her ear.
Only for a moment Fu Hua's expression change from surprised to serious, she then jumped backwards away from Kouro.
Sirin did not pay much attention to Fu Hua, as long as the feathers created by her did not hit her.
Kouro then turned the Xuanyuan sword into a grappling hook, as he jumped before firing it towards the other building.
He was seen swinging in the air while dodging Sirin's attacks like spiderman except his movement speed was slower.
He continued to do so until when he swung centrifugally towards the back of a tall building.
"Die! You damn monkey!"
*BOOM!
Sirin's attack shattered the building to pieces.
Just as the building was about to collapse completely there were suddenly 6 Kouro swinging at each other.
They moved in a circle around Sirin.
Sirin's eyes went back and forth looking at each of them.
She didn't realize a feather was slowly drifting towards her head and right when it hit Sirin's body.
"Wha?!"
She suddenly stopped moving for a moment.
But for Kouro, that moment was enough.
The movements of the six Kouro looked the same and coordinated with each other, they turned the grappling hooks in their hands into chains before throwing them at Sirin's body and binding her.
Right after that, they all immediately activated the lightning element to immobilize Sirin.
*BRZZT! *
"Kyaa!"
Sirin fell to the ground with her body still reminded of the chains.
Fu Hua jumped off the building and approached her with feathers emerging from thin air and quickly gathering around her.
Seeing these feathers, Sirin sat still with a wary expression even if her body was bound with chains, wait, it was more like Kiana's body was bound with chains.
Fu Hua was seen touching Sirin's forehead for a few seconds before retreating.
After that, Sirin widened her eyes as she felt her connection with the Gem of Serenity being severed!
Wait! After she felt it more carefully, her connection with the gem was not severed but deactivated.
Seeing Sirin just sitting there, Kouro then jumped down letting the other five Kouro clones disappear.
He stared at his status screen as he walked over to Sirin.
[HP: 17,432/24,600]
[SP: 2,220/6,976]
[Fatigue: 53]
Closing his status interface, he then looked at Sirin who was sitting on her knees looking at him with eyes filled with hatred.
Kouro did not care about Sirin's gaze, he approached her and lowered his body to her level before giving her a long look.
"... "
Sirin felt uncomfortable with Kouro's gaze, if it weren't for her power currently being deactivated, she would have shot a laser at his face.
Kouro who stared at Sirin for a long time finally opened his mouth, "Sirin, why do you hate humans?"
Fu Hua spontaneously turned to look at Kouro with a surprised expression, it was because she had never told the person controlling Kiana's body.
Thinking of Kouro's calm expression when he saw Sirin, did that mean he had known her from the beginning?
Sirin looked at Kouro with a 'why are you asking something so obvious' expression.
Even a Valkyrie trainee knows that the reason Herrscher hates humans and wants to eliminate them is because Herrscher is a 'Honkai'.
But even so, Kouro still looked at Sirin seriously and wanted to hear her answer.
Kouro and Sirin stared intensely at each other before Sirin relented and sighed, "Don't you know the answer to your own question?"
"Even so, I still want to hear it from you. " Kouro remained adamant with his question.
Sirin looked down for a moment before looking at Kouro with a hateful expression.
"I hate humans because.... " she seemed to furrow her brow as if trying hard to remember something.
"...Why do I hate humans?"
The feeling of hating humans had been in her heart ever since she woke up in this body.
But... She did not know the reason why she had this feeling.
Realizing this, a feeling of emptiness suddenly filled her heart and then like being splashed with cold water, her heart was instantly filled with the most basic emotion 'fear'.
A deep-rooted feeling of fear that went far beyond her hatred of humans.
This feeling of fear that suddenly appeared without her knowing made hrt even more afraid, as every creature fears the unknown.
The Gem of Serenity embedded in her battlesuit suddenly glowed unsteadily, the air around her body became extremely heavy.
Sirin suddenly cried out with her body covered in purple crack-patterned lines.
"KYAA!"
"What happened? " Fu Hua looked at Sirin warily.
Seeing Sirin like that, Kouro wordlessly grasped the gem.
And right after he grasped the gem, time seemed to have stopped, inside Kouro's body it seemed like something else that had been sleeping started to wake up.
*BOOM!
Fu Hua and the unconscious Kiana were blown away by the impact of the energy explosion.
[A Harmful substance has been detected]
[Skill 'Unknown' has activated}
[Buff: Cure Poison's effect is healing you]
Notification after notification from the system appeared in front of his eyes, but he had no time to look at it, as he felt an excruciating pain from his heart, Kouro gritted his teeth, his body had been filled with purple lines.
"Kouro!" Fu Hua stood up and looked at him with worry.
"Hurry up. Bring. Kiana. Go. From. here!" Kouro said with his hand still clutching the Gem of Serenity.
Fu Hua quickly picked up the unconscious Kiana and retreated a few meters, she looked at Kouro with a worried expression.
"Hurry up and leave! While I still have consciousness!"
Fu Hua gritted her teeth and walked away.
Ashborn who saw all this from afar did not do anything, he just stared silently and calmly, although there was Honkai's energy neutralizing serum in his hand.
Kouro did not realize that purple lines were currently gathering towards his chest.
Looking from the inside, a small purplish-black dot was glowing from his heart and it was slowly growing.
"HAA!"
Kouro's eyes had completely turned a jewel-like purple, a thick black mist enveloped his body.
Kouro felt that his soul was being torn apart, he also felt that something else was awakening from within his body.
It seemed like Cocolia had managed to summon something, but it definitely wasn't the Herrscher of Death.
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Elsewhere, about thousands of meters from Kouro.
There was a girl who was fighting against the mecha titans.
The girl looked heroic with a spear, she had light blue eyes and long blonde hair, she was wearing a silver battlesuit armor with streaks of dark blue, a dark blue skirt, black knee high socks.
The girl was Durandal, a Schicksal rank-S Valkyrie commanded by Otto.
Not far from her was also a girl wearing a silver battlesuit with blue patterns.
She wielded a white-colored scythe with the blade emitting a cold aura.
The girl exuded an aura of modesty and elegance, she also had pink eyes with short gray-brown hair.
Under her feet were several titan mechas that had been cut in half.
Durandal then approached her and smiled, "Good job, Rita. "
Rita only smiled politely in response to her praise.
But their calm expressions suddenly changed and stared at the direction Kouro was in.
"What the hell with that nonsensical energy?"
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On the other hand.
"Overseer Otto! A high concentration of energy beyond the second Herrscher has appeared!" Amber said in a worried tone.
[9450 HW]
[17430 HW]
[35042 HW]
[83428 HW]
It was the first time for Amber to see something or someone that had a level of Honkai energy concentration higher than the second Herrscher.
But what was more important was that the energy concentration level kept increasing even almost reaching the same point as the second Herrscher in her prime.
Hearing Amber's words, Otto's expression became serious, he stared at the communication screen that showed Kouro holding the gem of Serenity.
Thinking of something, he widened his eyes slightly as if to confirm something.
"I see.... So this is what you're aiming for Ashborn. "
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The black mist surrounding Kouro slowly turned into a dark shadow that enveloped his entire body.
Kouro felt his consciousness fading, he couldn't even focus himself to see the system interface.
His body as if it had experienced a tipping point suddenly emitted a purple-black colored light that soared into the sky.
*ZING! *
The light was as striking as a lighthouse, making even Fu Hua who was running away stop and stare at the light.
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In an orphanage, Aponia who was playing with some children suddenly raised her head and stared at the light.
"He's... came back. "
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All over the world.
Passers-by suddenly stopped and raised their heads to stare at the light.
Inside the Kouro house, Mei who was currently cooking for lunch suddenly stopped and raised her head.
Ayame, Bronya, Theresa, Himeko, Kallen, were also the same, they raised their heads looking up at the sky.
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Sakura and Higokumaru who were currently standing in front of the food stall suddenly raised their heads.
Higokumaru stared at the light with an expression of disbelief, "No way... He's really back. "
In an unknown place, Mobius raised her head and looked at the light with a happy expression.
"I can feel it! He's back! He's really back!"
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On the other hand, in a deserted bar, Shadow could be seen talking to a girl, alone.
The girl had pink eyes with white-gray hair and was wearing a black hooded robe with a tight black bodysuit that revealed her figure.
They suddenly stopped and raised their heads, moreover Shadow, he was seen putting his hand on his chest, he felt his heart beating rapidly.
"What with this feeling... "
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In an apartment, on the balcony, there was a pink-haired girl sitting in a wheelchair with a blank expression.
But there was something strange about her appearance, the girl had fox-like ears that were bowed withered.
Even on closer inspection the girl had also lost her right hand.
The girl's eyes seemed to move slightly when she saw the light, even her fox ears stood tall.
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A little girl accompanied by a tall man in a large white room was painting something.
The girl suddenly stopped and turned her head somewhere as if seeing the light as well.
The girl's unfinished painting turned out to be Kouro painted in three parts.
The tall man also raised his head.
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On the other side, in a place that was not connected to reality.
There was a white-haired man with blue eyes, he was seen standing with his back to a 'tree', it was something that looked like a tree other than the color fading like a hologram.
The man was currently standing still and closed his eyes as if asleep.
As if sensing something he suddenly opened his eyes and stared in a certain direction as if he could see the light.
The man then muttered, "Is that you?"
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Elsewhere, in a room full of plants.
There was a man with long gray-white hair sitting on the only tree growing in the room with his eyes closed before suddenly opening his eyes.
His eyes were fuchsia-colored, the man also raised his head and gazed in a certain direction before muttering, " What a dedicated man. "
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Kouro felt his consciousness had reached its limit.
Just when he was about to lose consciousness, he found himself standing in a white room.
Kouro who was full of cold sweat and blinked his eyes, he no longer felt the pain from his soul as if it had never happened.
He let out a sigh of relief before his heart raced.
Kouro felt such an excruciating shortness of breath that he collapsed.
He subconsciously raised his head and looked forward.
He saw a white humanoid creature with a body that resembled him.
It was currently sitting on a throne and staring at him.
Kouro's pupils shrank as small as needles, he knew this creature in front of him very well.
The being that spread Honkai energy.
The being who created an infinite number of worlds.
The being that created Honkai to attack human civilization.
And that being was...
'Will of Honkai'
