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Chapter 149 - Expose Myself First! - 149

Of course.

Jyahnar was the hot topic, the center of attention cause after what felt like an eternity of waiting…

She had finally appeared!

Online.

Seven out of ten spots on the trending charts were about Jyahnar. The remaining two or three were either about Kiana's whereabouts or Elysia's situation.

This love triangle was a certified battlefield of romance!

Everyone was enjoying the drama, munching on their metaphorical popcorn with glee.

Just like today.

Seriously!

[Miss Kiana, your new wifey has arrived!]

[Miss Kiana! The wife Honkai sent you is here, come and claim her!]

These two trending topics felt like they were shouting directly across the internet.

As if they were afraid Kiana might miss them.

They were instantly boosted to the very top.

In minutes, comment threads piled up by the tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands. In the blink of an eye, it was millions, even tens of millions.

The whole world was building this skyscraper of comments together! How could you not be awed?

"Hmm…" Kiana held her phone, falling silent under Elysia's teasing gaze. She must have looked just like that meme—the old man on the subway squinting at his phone.

Well, what could she even say?

"Happy?" Elysia hummed, a playful lilt in her voice.

"Your dearly beloved little stingray wife is finally here. How does it feel?" She deliberately put on a show of being jealous.

Kiana was pretty much used to this by now.

But if she had to be honest… Happy? Of course she was happy!

How could she not be?!

She really liked Jyahnar.

Besides, wasn't she mostly following the script of the Kiana from Honkai Impact 2nd?

When you thought about it that way, wouldn't it feel kinda wrong if she didn't have a Jyahnar of her very own?

Though, in reality…

While Kiana had gone to great lengths back then to anchor the certainty of Jyahnar appearing on her side, and even spent a massive amount of emotional energy, investing heavily to ensure Jyahnar's arrival would be faster, smoother, and feel more natural…

It seemed now… the effect might have been a bit too good?

The distance from the far-off Alpha Centauri system to our solar system was at least several light-years.

In other words, traveling at standard light speed, it should have taken at least four or five years.

But Miss Jyahnar was having none of that.

She was like someone racing home for the holidays, seeing Earth as her ultimate destination, heading straight for Kiana without a hint of hesitation.

Several years?

Not a chance!

Space agencies around the world made their predictions and unanimously reached a conclusion!

At most a month, at minimum a little over a week.

She would reach the Earth-Moon system.

That was a speed you hardly dared to imagine.

But Jyahnar did it.

And merely achieving that seemed to act as a deterrent to the entire planet.

That colossal size, that terrifying speed…

It really made you afraid to harbor even a sliver of hostile intent.

Some of those in power were probably already scheming about how to make Jyahnar happy, how to… keep her calm.

As long as she was satisfied, things should be fine, right?

However!

On the other hand, figuring out what would satisfy her… judging from the personality sketch of the future Jyahnar when she appeared as a guest on the Sky Screen videos…seemed pretty straightforward.

Just tie up Miss Kiana, put a bow on her, stuff her in a gift box, and hand her over.

That would make Jyahnar the happiest!

What's that?

The other future wives of Miss Kiana might be unhappy?

So what?

People are bullies at heart. They fear the strong and pick on the weak.

Compared to Elysia, or some of the other girls who currently seemed relatively ordinary, Miss Jyahnar was clearly the more terrifying presence!

If she failed to hit the brakes properly, the whole Earth would be in deep trouble.

FTL travel speed, a volume comparable to an entire planet…

A collision like that…and the Earth would be grinning in the grave.

What would even be left?

The more everyone learned from the celestial projections about how wonderful and happy the future could be, the less they wanted to die.

Since they didn't want to die, their survival instincts were cranked to the max.

So, acting a little sycophantic… was that really a problem?

Besides, weren't they already acting pretty sycophantic anyway?

It was nothing new!

But let's be honest.

Jyahnar was the Herrscher of Finality's companion Honkai Beast.

She might be stronger than the Herrscher of Finality, but not by much; they were likely on the same level.

However, she was probably a total love-struck fool.

As long as you deployed the ultimate Jyahnar-specific weapon, Miss Kiana, she'd become docile, completely harmless.

Honestly, that made her pretty easy to handle, didn't it?

Yet, with Jyahnar showing up and raising the bar once again, the Herrscher of Finality's power, prestige, status, and position kept getting elevated further.

So much so that even if every nation, every organization, held a unanimous vote at the United Nations for Kiana to handle the 'Jyahnar situation,' they still didn't dare openly tell Kiana that their initial idea was essentially a marriage alliance.

Instead, they used public opinion, trending topics, news, interviews—every channel, overt and covert—to tell Kiana: 'Your pet is out! Go tame her!'

The nuance in meaning there was, indeed, slightly different.

Right?

If it was a marriage alliance, that meant handing Kiana over to Jyahnar.

Kiana would lose face!

But if it was about going out to tame a new companion, then Kiana would definitely be much more enthusiastic, right?

The young lady's mindset was actually quite easy to understand.

Then again, it wasn't so much that she was easy to read, but that she and the others simply couldn't be bothered to hide things. The entire world, willing or not, revolved around them anyway.

If they were only slightly stronger than you but received vastly better treatment, you'd probably be jealous.

But if they were elevated to another dimension, like gods walking among men, would you feel envy? Jealousy?

Wasn't it just… natural?

Perhaps, deep down, everyone had already accepted it from the very beginning. They'd gotten used to it…

And then, it just didn't matter anymore.

"Tell them I'll go receive her when Jyahnar's almost here. They don't need to worry."

Kiana, and the other girls, were all well aware of the little schemes brewing in the minds of those in various nations and organizations.

Schemes like these…

She didn't really mind them.

In fact, these kinds of antics were a constant in daily life.

So, she tended to turn a blind eye, occasionally knocking them down a peg, but that was about it.

Still, talk was one thing.

There were indeed still a few days left before Jyahnar's arrival.

There was no need for Kiana to get overly tense.

She possessed unparalleled power, guaranteeing her freedom to do as she pleased. Plus, as a long-lived species, time was practically like toilet paper to her.

That sense of easygoing relaxation remained unchanged.

Scrolling through her phone today, she didn't feel like going out.

It was raining.

Even though Kiana could use her power to stop the rain over the city, she couldn't be bothered. There was no real need to do it anyway.

A perfect day to stay home.

Heavenly.

Isn't that just great?

Right then.

"Kiana, when your adorable child-bride fiancée arrives… don't forget to get me some of her tissue samples, blood, or whatever else you can…"

Mobius had only gotten back at six in the morning last night.

Now, she was just waking up.

Seeing Kiana and the others discussing Jyahnar, she chimed in, as if to make sure her request wasn't forgotten.

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