A violent golden phantom directly repelled all the Zombies surrounding them.
Prioritizing not hurting Leo, Kiana forcibly broke free from the cloth bindings.
Holding the comatose Leo in her arms, her expression fluctuated uncertainly.
Those two tiny Honkai fragments couldn't provide her with much energy; thus, she couldn't even heal the wound on Leo's chest, merely stopping the bleeding at most.
Thus, she turned her head like a wounded little beast, glaring at the Zombies who caused all this.
After placing Leo in the corner, she transformed into a golden flash and charged to kill the remaining Zombies.
Admittedly, even compared to the Zombies she knew, these Zombies were ridiculously strong.
But she was also a battle-hardened existence. Even if the Honkai energy in her body could only be described as negligible, with her careful calculations and fury, she still swiftly disposed of all the ordinary Zombies, leaving only the Guard Zombie and Claw Zombie that gave Leo such a headache.
However—
"You... you're back?"
Leo, waking from his weakness, had undoubtedly fallen into his final moments, but perhaps due to terminal lucidity, he could clearly see the results of Kiana's battle in the distance.
That Lord Guard Zombie, which was once his nightmare, was now forcibly beaten into the ceiling by an unreasonable, terrifying brute force, currently slowly turning into flying ash from the bottom up.
And that petite Claw Zombie was nowhere to be seen. One could only infer from the large hole in the corridor wall that Kiana had kicked her out of the School building.
But since such a large hole appeared, she probably couldn't survive.
In short, it was all over!
However, Kiana's current condition wasn't good either. Several bloody holes were left on her right shoulder, obviously caused by the Claw Zombie's claws.
And on her back, a deep gash was also cut by the Guard Zombie's scythe, though it wasn't fatal.
There was no helping it. In order to end the battle as soon as possible and take Leo away from here, she could only trade injury for injury.
Only when she looked at Leo, whose breath was like a gossamer thread, did she collapse onto the ground.
She understood that Leo was beyond saving.
"Nn..."
Emitting a stifled sound, she looked at Leo with a face full of sorrow.
Admittedly, because she had painfully lost her first kiss in front of Raiden Mei, her opinion of Leo was exceptionally poor.
But the battle just now had completely changed her view of the man before her.
Precisely because of this, she didn't want to watch Leo die just like this.
But... I can't do anything!
"Don't be sad, this isn't a big deal."
Under terminal lucidity, Leo spoke quite fluently instead.
"Then, then... what counts as a big deal?"
Tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of Kiana's eyes; she had never thought she would shed tears like this for a member of the opposite sex she had just met.
"Of course, you crying is the big deal."
Forcing out his last strength, Leo reached out, wanting to wipe Kiana's tears.
However, he had arrived at his final moments after all; the hand only reached halfway before it dropped uncontrollably.
Except—
"You idiot!"
Seeing Leo still wanting to comfort her at this stage, although Kiana scolded Leo verbally, she hugged him tight.
Of course, she didn't have any strange thoughts. It was just that she saw Leo shivering uncontrollably, and knowing that people who lost too much blood would feel cold, she wanted to use her body temperature to warm him one last time.
And this was the final hospice care she could give Leo.
"I already said... Cough, cough cough!"
Leo, who was preparing to explain something, couldn't help but cough, spitting a mouthful of fresh blood onto Kiana's long snow-white hair, dyeing it his color.
"Just stop talking!"
Wanting to hug Leo tightly but afraid of touching his wounds, Kiana could only hold him carefully, like holding fragile porcelain, and said with a sorrowful expression: "I will end this place and avenge you!"
After speaking, raging flames of revenge ignited in her beautiful blue eyes!
"..."
Looking silently at Kiana, Leo understood he had no room to explain now.
To be honest, at first he did harbor a little thought of teasing Kiana, but later seeing Kiana moved with real emotion, he really wanted to explain clearly.
Unfortunately, this body of his no longer supported him explaining.
Now, he could only pray that when Kiana saw him again later, she wouldn't be too... excited?
This thought flashed through his mind for the last time, and his consciousness sank completely into boundless darkness.
However, very quickly, his consciousness surfaced again, and then his whole person appeared at the Teleport Anchor.
At this moment, in his line of sight, Kiana was hugging a ball of air, waving and hugging forward chaotically... surely not?
Involuntarily, he felt heaviness.
And before he could approach, he vaguely heard Kiana talking to herself—
"Damn it!"
"Why didn't even the body remain?"
"Clearly if I could meet Seele, maybe I could borrow her power to resurrect him... Why is this?"
While speaking, Kiana clenched her fist fiercely and smashed it against the ground.
Only this time, she didn't show any amazing strength anymore; after all, in the previous battle, she had completely exhausted the Honkai energy in her body.
Even the wounds on her body were still bleeding at this moment.
It could be said that if she had even a trace of Honkai energy left, she would have done her utmost to save Leo.
Unfortunately... there was none!
Watching Leo turn into particles of light before her, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife, but she was helpless.
In a trance, she recalled that fiery red figure.
Once again, she lost an important person!
"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!"
Cursing Leo in a low voice, her shoulders trembling, she said: "Give me the Honkai fragments earlier, sooner!"
"Why did you do this only at the very end?"
"Clearly, clearly if you gave them to me earlier, things wouldn't have become like this... Idiot!"
But to be fair, she really wrongly blamed Leo here.
After all, Leo wasn't sure if these Honkai fragments would be useful, so naturally, he could only save them for the final gamble.
Moreover, he still had one resurrection chance, so in his view, he still had a margin for error.
Conversely, if Kiana ate the Honkai fragments and had some bad reaction, then he would truly be in a dilemma, adding frost to snow.
Therefore, if he didn't feel he was dying, he really wouldn't have wanted to gamble on this possibility.
Fortunately, his gamble succeeded.
But unfortunately... isn't it a bit rude if I don't die now?
Glancing at the large hole punched out by Kiana, he swallowed subconsciously.
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