"I'm fine, thank you, Hero-sama." Shun found it a little strange. She was clearly crying, yet he saw a smile on her face.
Was she laughing? Even after encountering something like that… This plot development felt somewhat familiar to Shun.
Asakura Miyuki stood up and finally saw Shun's full appearance. She realized he was the person she had accidentally bumped into on the street earlier.
"So it's you…" A ripple stirred in Asakura Miyuki's originally dead-silent heart. How nice it would have been… if the first time she was bullied, she had met you.
Would everything have been different then? Asakura Miyuki smiled bitterly in her heart, then bowed respectfully to Shun.
"Hero-sama, this humble one is named Asakura Miyuki. I thank you here for saving my life."
"Uhh, you don't have to call me by that embarrassing name 'Hero-sama.' My name is Shun. Just call me Shun."
"Shun… That's a really nice name. 'The beginning of the leaf.' But why is the season when I meet Hero-sama the season of 'the end of the leaves'?"
At that moment, an autumn breeze blew by, and some withered leaves fell, covering the bloodstains left at the scene.
"Nice? Maybe. This name has quite a beautiful meaning in Japanese language." Shun scratched his head, feeling a little awkward.
"By the way, where is your home? After something like this happened, you definitely can't go to school. Hurry home. If they have any accomplices, tell me. Anyway, scum like them have no meaning living in this world."
Asakura Miyuki shook her head. "There are no other accomplices. As for going home… I don't want to trouble others. This humble one will take her leave here."
Asakura Miyuki left as if fleeing, as though Shun were some terrifying flood or beast, leaving Shun somewhat confused.
Tsk I got disliked? Shun stood in place, accompanied only by a few corpses.
Sure enough, the "hero saves the beauty and she offers herself in return" stuff in novels is all fake. But that's fine too. Less trouble is better. She still has an Ana. If this girl really stuck to him, he wouldn't even know what excuse to use to refuse.
As for these corpses, Shun glanced down at them… Sigh, he would have to trouble his godson Gray Serpent again. To be honest, always bothering him made Shun feel a little ashamed.
Although Gray Serpent always acted like "it is my honor to be Young Master Shun's dog," Shun still felt bad troubling him every time.
As for storing them in Cosmic Juggernaut, Shun had never considered it. Think about what kind of corpses he had stored in there before?
Those were heroes, martyrs. These scum… If Shun didn't lack means to destroy corpses and erase traces, he would have ground their bones to dust and scattered them!
Shun found a wall, wiped the disgusting red-and-white liquid off his right hand, then dialed Gray Serpent's number.
Ten minutes later… several figures in hazmat suits arrived in the small alley.
"Swish…" In the spacious open kitchen, Shun washed his hands while thinking about something.
Come to think of it, this was his first time killing someone. He didn't feel any discomfort at all. Was he a natural-born killer?
Kiana probably wouldn't come back for lunch today. In that case, he would just make something simple.
Because of the Asakura Miyuki interlude in between, Shun hadn't even had time to buy the groceries and restock the fridge he had planned to get.
Raising a Kaslana really required quite a lot of effort.
However… Asakura Miyuki this name sounds so familiar? Shun had a bad premonition. In this world, names that felt familiar to him were never simple.
But as far as he remembered, none of the many main story chapters in Honkai Impact 3rd had ever mentioned this name. Moreover, among the people of Nagazora City, Raven's nest had never mentioned her name either… Could it be from somewhere else?
Like comics or visual novels? First, rule out visual novels. Neither Anti-Entropy nor the Shenzhou Sword Record could have mixed her in. So, comics?
The Escape from Nagazora arc didn't have her either. There was a pseudo-Herrscher who used plants, but the names Sato and Asakura were quite different.
Wait, he remembered now. Her name had indeed appeared in a short comic, and the name of that comic was Three Years of Cherry Blossoms.
To be honest, that comic wasn't even in the Honkai Impact 3rd comic section. It was a very early short comic from when Honkai Impact 2 and Honkai Impact 3 hadn't yet been separated.
The dividing line between Honkai Impact 2 and 3 was after Nagazora City. That meant this comic created during the Honkai Impact 2 period could also reflect the Nagazora City of the Honkai Impact 3 period…
However, in that comic, Asakura Miyuki's ending was…
"Tsk." Shun couldn't help clicking his tongue. He remembered the famous saying of the Thousand Herrscher again "This world has never been beautiful."
In that case, he would go see her tomorrow… and send her off for the last time.
Even though he was extremely unwilling, he still dialed Gray Serpent's number. "Hey, Gray Serpent, trouble you to help me investigate someone."
At six o'clock in the afternoon, since it was already close to winter, the sky had turned dark.
"Bam!" A loud sound of the door being pushed open rang out. "Haha, Shun, this young lady is back! Hurry up and cook for me."
From the sound of it, it was obviously the idiot Kiana who had returned. Really, after just one day she was already acting so casually. Shun felt he had zero landlord dignity left.
"Wait a bit. I don't feel like moving right now." Shun half-lay on the sofa watching a silly variety show from Japan.
Kiana didn't get angry at Shun's reply. She was quite resistant to hunger anyway. Kiana took off her white over-the-knee socks and casually tossed them aside, then jumped onto the other side of the sofa.
She slightly lifted her jade-like feet, which looked crystal clear and as white as mutton-fat jade under the light, and gave a gentle kick. The target was the pillow Shun was tightly holding at his side. With this movement, the thigh wrapped in her short skirt was fully revealed.
The snow-white skin glowed with an alluring luster under the light, as if it could reflect light. The just-right plumpness of her thigh added a touch of sexiness and temptation, drawing a supremely graceful curve in the air.
"Stop messing around." Shun was unconcerned or rather, he had no worldly desires toward Kiana. He tossed a square pillow at Kiana.
"Why did you come back so late? I remember Senba Academy lets out after three, right?"
Kiana caught the pillow Shun threw and hugged it to her chest, explaining, "School ended quite early, but the upperclassmen all wanted me to join their clubs, so visiting the clubs took a long time."
"You're really popular." That made sense. In an environment like Japan, Kiana's identity as a transferred Nordic young lady who was beautiful and excelled in sports placed her at the very top of the pyramid in an all-girls school. It was normal for her to be popular.
"Hmph, of course. Who do you think this young lady is?" Kiana patted her chest proudly.
"This young lady is Kiana Kaslana!"