Kiana's Cooking

After cursing the person who gave him the box, he then took a deep breath trying to calm down.

'Why a core fragment of the Herrscher of the End is here?' Kouro's mind was filled with questions.

He was completely shocked, his sense of shock was akin to seeing the sun rise from the west.

But even so, Kouro stared at the box without an expression of greed.

After all even though he had the ability [Unknown], Kouro was still self-aware, the gem of Serenity alone had made him unconscious for 2 months, let alone with the fragment of the Herrscher of the End.

So other than being used as an accessory, or kept in inventory, Kouro didn't know what else to do with the gem shards.

If the scientists found out what Kouro was thinking, they would surely beat him to death.

After all, even if it was just a fragment of Herrscher's core, no matter what, Herrscher is Herrscher, especially since the core came from Herrscher of the End, which was said to be the last and most powerful Herrscher.

So the value of that core must be infinite for scientists and researchers.

...

Herrscher of the End.

In the original plot, this Herrscher has successfully destroyed the earth in the Previous era, she is the strongest and cruelest Herrscher ever.

Kevin, who was declared the strongest MANTIS with other MANTIS, was powerless against her.

But... If the core is here... It means that Herrscher of the End has been defeated, but by whom?

Was it the senior who defeated her? Maybe... Considering that the senior is probably from PE.

But if it's really like that, then Kouro really didn't expect that his senior was so strong, it's also possible that his senior has something called a golden finger just like him who has a system.

But if that's the case, shouldn't the earth be free of Honkai? But why is Honkai still here?

Thinking about this, he then remembered the Will of Honkai.

'Don't tell me....'

Kouro quickly shook his head and dispelled the absurd guess in his mind. There was no way a transmigrator would do that... maybe.

He put this thought in the back of his head, and then tried to remember all the things he had experienced up to this point that were roughly the same as the plot in the game.

It was as if there was a hand behind the scenes controlling all the events in the world.

And there is only one organization that Kouro thinks can do this, World Serpent.

But from what he remembered, World Serpent's goal was to defeat the Herrscher of the End and now that the Herrscher had been defeated, what was their real goal now?

Kouro massaged his temples and sighed, he felt complicated as question after question popped up in his mind, but he still remembered the important question, 'Who the one who gave this box to Fu Hua?'

From what Fu Hua said, the person who gave this box was a very important person to him.

But why would that person give this important thing to him?

From what he remembered, none of the people who were very important to him had the authority or power to possess the core of the Herrscher of the End.

Of course, except for Kiana and Mei who were Herrscher from the beginning, but it's also unlikely that they would carry another Herrscher core.

The person who gave this box also seemed to know that he could absorb Herrscher's power...

No, there might be another possibility!

'Kouro you must remember not to always jump to conclusions!'

Although he thought so, he felt that the first possibility was more likely...

Kouro could only sigh and then try to think positively.

Well... At least the situation wasn't that bad, at least he finally knew that the Herrscher of the End had been defeated.

'For now there's no need to think about all this. I'm still too weak...'

After taking a breath for the umpteenth time, he then opened the box again.

Inside the box, he saw a dark yellow fist-sized gem fragment, before the system introduced the object in front of his eyes.

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[Core fragment of Herrscher of the End]

[Rarity: ???]

[Type: Item]

???

[Collect the remaining fragments of the Herrscher core to find out its true function]

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"Fragments? Does that mean there are other fragments scattered out there?"

Didn't the person who gave him this, want him to search for the remaining core fragments?

He stared at the core fragment silently before gulping down his saliva, with a deep breath, Kouro finally slowly tried to touch the core.

With an intense backsound and his heart racing even his face was currently covered in cold sweat, he finally touched the gem.

"... "

"Pheww! Nothing happened. " Kouro finally let out a sigh of relief, he thought the [Unknown] ability would automatically activate, but luckily it didn't.

Kouro picked up the core and stared at it intently, if not for the system's hints, he would have thought this was an ordinary gem shard.

But just as he was about to put the core back, it suddenly glowed in his hand.

Kouro's hands immediately shook with shock mixed with fear, fortunately the core only glowed for a moment before it dimmed and returned to normal.

He quickly put the core into a box and immediately put it into inventory before wiping the sweat off his forehead with a sigh of relief.

"What the hell was that... " Kouro didn't feel anything strange from inside his body, the core was purely just glowing brightly.

*DING! *

Suddenly a quest appeared on his system interface.

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[Hidden Quest]: Collect core fragments of Herrscher of the End

[Fragments collected: 1/4]

Quest gift: ???

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Kouro blinked a few times, he even rubbed his eyes, after seeing that the quest indeed told him to collect the remaining core fragments, he quickly complained, "Fu*k! System do you want to create the apocalypse!"

He knew that Herrscher was semi-immortal, their souls could not be destroyed because their souls were the core itself, even if their containers were destroyed, they still had a high probability of reviving.

So collecting the remaining core fragments was tantamount to trying to resurrect them.

Did system really want him to resurrect the Herrscher of the End?

Or... The system wanted him to absorb the power of that Herrscher core?

Kouro felt he was probably just overthinking it, after all how could the being who gave him the system be interested in the Herrscher core... Maybe.

"Well... No matter what, let's exercise first. "

As someone who just woke up from a coma after months, exercise was indeed a good thing to do.

In a few days, after Kouro woke up, he would be seen jogging around the hospital every day, even the nurses taking care of him gossiped about his exercising frequently.

...

In the hospital corridor, two young nurses were seen gossiping.

"Hey... Do you know the patient in room number 13?", one nurse asked her friend.

"You mean that patient? That handsome, athletic guy?" her friend replied with a flushed face as if remembering something.

"Eh? I knew he was handsome but how did you know he was athletic? Is it because you saw him exercise a lot?"

The nurse's friend didn't answer, she just showed a photo from her cell phone.

The nurse stared at the photo without blinking and didn't realize that her nose was bleeding.

"Yaa-chi, are you okay?" her friend asked worriedly seeing her nosebleed.

"Huh? I'm fine" The nurse touched her nosebleed nose, she then looked at her friend with an excited expression.

"By the way can you send me that photo?"

Seeing the nurse excited her friend could only smile helplessly, "Of course... But Yaa-chi, let's take care of that nosebleed of yours. "

The photo the nurse was looking at was of Kouro doing push-ups half-naked and sweaty in his room.

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A few days later, after the doctor had checked his health and declared his healthy, Kouro was finally able to go to his home.

Coming out of the hospital, he looked back at the nurse who was waving her hand enthusiastically towards him.

"Weird... Why does a medical checkup require taking off your clothes... Well whatever."

While still in the hospital, apart from exercising to fulfill the [Daily Quest], Kouro also experimented with his new powers, such as the Ability [Bloodlust] that he had just acquired.

This ability allows him to chosen target to become 'fear' and reduce 20% of all their stats.

He experimented with a nurse who happened to be the nurse he had pranked in the past.

(A/N: chapter 116)

So when he activated the ability on her, he saw the nurse suddenly collapse in the middle of the hallway with her mouth foaming.

After seeing that, Kouro never used this ability again, at least he wouldn't use that ability on ordinary people.

Furthermore, he then experimented with the ability he got from the Gem of Serenity, this ability can be applied widely, ranging from defensive, offensive, and even support such as healing.

Previously he experimented with creating a pen out of thin air using that ability and he could actually do it.

But the SP cost was really very wasteful, creating a pen alone required 100 SP.

But even so this ability is already very powerful, with this ability it means that he can produce something that comes from the blueprint of the system without the need for tools.

Then the destructive ability, [Vapor of Serenity] need not be commented on anymore, this ability can accelerate cell aging and even destroy cells on an atomic scale.

But even so that ability was very rarely used by him, the reason was simple, wasteful.

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Inside Kouro's house.

Kouro who was sitting on the dining table chair was staring at something in front of him with a stiff expression.

"What... is this... "

On the plate, something pitch black in color with an ominous aura.

Kiana who was wearing an apron beside him said embarrassedly.

"Hehehe~... Kouro I tried cooking to celebrate your recovery, although it's my first time to cook, I hope you can try it."

Kouro would rather fight a Herrscher than eat something like this.

He then turned his head stiffly to stare at Ayame, Bronya, Mei, and Himeko, who were currently looking at him with pity, except for Kallen who looked faint on the sofa.

Kouro did not know why Kallen who was a robot could faint and he did not want to know either.

Sensing Kouro's gaze, Ayame was seen making gestures towards him, she pointed at a plate, opened her mouth as if to eat it, then choked her neck as if to die.

Kouro's eyebrows twitched at this, if not for Ayame being far away from him, he would have forced her to eat this.

"Do you... Don't want to eat it Kouro?" Kiana said with a sad expression.

Seeing Kiana put on a sad expression, an inner monologue appeared in his mind, 'Kouroo! How dare you make Kiana sad! You were only told to eat. Just eat! Why won't you do it? '

'But...'

'There is no but! You're facing the Will of Honkai, how dare you afraid eat something like this?'

Kouro seemed to close his eyes before opening them again, his eyes shining brightly, he then looked at the dish who Kiana had made with a determined expression.

He then took a spoonful and quickly ate it.

"... " Kouro's movements seemed to stop.

"...What do you think, Kouro?" Kiana asked nervously.

"DELICIOUS!" Kouro immediately picked up the plate and devoured it quickly.

"EH?" Ayame, Mei, Himeko, Bronya, looked at Kouro with amazed expressions.

A moment later, he put the empty plate onto the table and gave Kiana a thumbs up.

"Your cooking is good, Kiana. "

[A Harmful substance has been detected]

[Skill 'Unknown' has activated}

[Buff: Cure Poison's effect is healing you]

'Thank you, system... Thank you. "