Nagazora City. Raiden Mei's residence.
Outside Raiden Mei's home, Kiana, who had rung the doorbell several times and waited for a long time, ultimately did not see Raiden Mei return.
Looking at the malfunctioning phone in her hand, Kiana's heart was now filled with unease.
As Raiden Mei's good friend, Kiana was well aware that Mei was being ostracized by others because her father had gone to prison.
And precisely because Mei had no friends other than her, she rarely did the things that typical Far East high school girls would do.
Neither her social circle nor the funds she had on hand supported excessive spending on entertainment.
As for staying out all night...
Kiana felt that Mei herself was not the type to do such a thing.
Her father being in prison didn't mean the upbringing she received would change.
As a quiet young lady, how could she possibly not be home so late?
Combined with the events Kiana had encountered today, she felt a growing sense of foreboding.
Feeling like someone was following her wasn't too bad; in the end, she proved that her deadbeat dad wasn't there, but rather her caring senior who was trying to drag her back to school.
But the things that happened afterward were not right.
On the street, Kiana saw a blonde woman she had never seen before and was instantly captivated by her.
But when she chased after her, she found that the other person was faster than her, easily leaving her behind.
After the fruitless chase, Kiana, who had originally planned to contact Raiden Mei, discovered that her phone suddenly had problems.
At first, the network was just intermittent, but soon, she couldn't even make a phone call.
When she went to a phone store, hoping to have a clerk look at her phone's problem, she found that everyone's phone was having issues.
Kiana was not an ordinary girl who knew nothing.
When she was young, she had hunted Honkai Beasts with her father, Siegfried, in the snowfields.
Knowing about the "Honkai" phenomenon, she looked at the abnormality-filled Nagazora City and knew that something was very wrong here.
"Mmm, Dad said that before he defected from Schicksal, he learned from the database that before a super-large-scale Honkai Eruption, there would be some abnormal phenomena in the place where it was about to break out."
"That means...!"
Kiana, who had been about to go back, suddenly felt that the situation was very wrong.
Although she skipped school, slept in class, and didn't even fully learn her family's Gun Kata... Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey, no, those are all things this young lady already knows, there's no need to waste time on them, it's definitely not because this young lady is lazy!
No matter what, I am a warrior of the Kaslana family.
And protecting those afflicted by the Honkai has always been the mission of our Kaslana family.
Now that a large-scale Honkai Eruption is about to happen, if the people of this city don't know about it, won't they all die here?
Thinking carefully, what can this young lady do right now—oh, right.
After leaving Mei's apartment, Kiana subconsciously took out her phone.
Then, just as she remembered her phone wasn't working before, she suddenly discovered—the signal was back?!
Although the signal on her phone hadn't returned to 4G, being able to communicate was better than it being just a gaming device for playing small games.
Looking at the phone in her hand, Kiana immediately called Raiden Mei.
The result...
[The number you have dialed is switched off, please try again later.]
"Mei... sigh, this young lady forgot, she hasn't even come home, it's not surprising her phone is out of battery."
After hanging up, Kiana immediately dialed a second phone number.
In the past, she had interacted with Leo Ash, the exchange student, and they had exchanged phone numbers.
Speaking of which, today was a bit strange too. If he wanted to find me, couldn't he have just called?
Senior Leo Ash also seems off today...
[The number you have dialed is switched off, please try again later.]
"Eh????"
Listening to the prompt from her phone, Kiana hung up in frustration.
"How is Senior's phone also off!"
"Argh! This is infuriating—don't you two disappear on me at a time like this."
"And you disappeared together—they couldn't be sneaking out to have fun behind my back, could they?"
Muttering angry words she didn't believe herself, Kiana helplessly opened her web browser and logged into the local forum.
Kiana's original idea was to contact Leo and Raiden Mei first, to get them to find a way to leave Nagazora City, this place where a Honkai Eruption might occur, as soon as possible.
But now, with both of them unreachable, Kiana could only resort to other measures first.
With the rise of 4G networks and the rapid iteration of mobile phones, more and more people would come to the local forum to hang out when they had nothing better to do.
Kiana's idea now was simple: she wanted to use the power of the internet to let others know that something was about to happen in Nagazora City.
But...
The post was sent.
After a minute, Kiana's post, 'Nagazora City is in danger, a Honkai Eruption is coming, everyone run,' had not a single reply.
Three minutes passed, and a few people replied.
But Kiana was no fool; she could tell at a glance that these people didn't believe her at all.
They just thought she was trolling and went along with her words.
Five minutes passed, and looking at the replies on the forum, Kiana felt her blood pressure rising.
[Another urban legend series? What's this about Honkai, Honkai Zombies... Is this time's urban legend zombie-related?]
[This is a normal forum, would all you supernatural and sci-fi enthusiasts please find another place to troll.]
[Everyone comes here to exchange local information. You people coming here every other day to post this kind of stuff only clutters up the board.]
Then, in the sixth minute, looking at the message on her phone screen, [This post has been deleted by an administrator. You have been muted for 7 days], Kiana's blood pressure completely exploded.
"These! Stupid! Idiots!"
The super-strong pretty girl, barely resisting the urge to crush her phone, endured the anger in her heart and put her phone away.
Although she cursed them, Kiana didn't blame these ordinary people.
After all, for ordinary people who didn't know about the Honkai, this reaction was quite normal.
But—what about those who did know about the Honkai's existence?
Didn't that stinking old dad say that although Schicksal has bad people in charge, there are also many good people?
Even this young lady has noticed that there's a problem with Nagazora City, so those people from Schicksal...
—What the hell are they doing right now!
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