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Picking Up Kiana: From a Falling Star Over the Sky

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After being smashed clean off the road by a cement truck, Su Yu reincarnates—system included—into the peaceful day-to-day life of the Golden Courtyard. He plans to grind the Abyss again in this new world… only to discover a fatal problem: without a bound Valkyrie, the system won’t even activate. With no way to play the power game, he shelves that ambition. But with a head full of Earth pop culture, Su Yu decides to start fresh the easy way—by becoming a spectacular “creative copier,” rewriting classic works and stirring up a roaring cultural storm. His happy new life has barely begun when, on a rain-washed evening, he meets Kiana—a girl who has somehow crossed over from the early Arc City era. That familiar ahoge droops. Her eyes are dull, like ashes after a fire burns out. “Is this… Arc City? I want to go back.” “You probably can’t.” “Why not?” “Because this place is very far from Arc City.” “How far?” “At least fifty thousand years.”
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