Honkai: Fire Moth Herrschers

"Ha!" Michael threw a punch, sending a Chariot-Class Honkai beast flying.

Not satisfied, he pressed forward, wrapping his arms around the beast's thick legs, and like a crazed housewife tilling the soil, he slammed it into the ground with all his might.

"Whoa, whoa! Michael, that's enough! Control your emotions. Today's training is over."

"Hah!" Michael exhaled a long breath. When he opened his eyes again, the smoke, ruins, and Honkai beast corpses scattered across the ground all dissipated with the spreading light screen. But a knot of frustration still remained in his chest, unable to be released.

He rubbed his wrist. With the recent geometric increase in training intensity, he was starting to feel strained relying solely on his physical abilities to fight.

The door to the simulation training room opened, and Ato walked in, shaking his head with a smile. "Sigh, it's true that the new waves of the Yangtze River push the old ones… Michael, you and Ellie have been breaking the record repeatedly, like ten times already!"

As if remembering something, Ato spoke first, "Oh, right! This time, you're not allowed to write 'very simple' in your training feedback reports… You two, can't you at least find someone to ghostwrite them for you!"

"But it was very simple!" Elysia, who had just walked out of another training room, couldn't help but interrupt.

"Please, have mercy on me!" Ato covered his forehead, sighing. "Other people reuse the same report ten times or so, at least the word count is there, so I can help them fudge it… But you two, every time it's just four words, what am I supposed to do… I'm also desperate here!"

"Hehe! Captain Ato, take it easy, take it easy! Look, the higher-ups aren't even bothering to manage us!" Michael said, shamelessly.

It was better not to mention it. As soon as he did, Ato's headache worsened. "You think they're not punishing you? It's because Blanka and I have been patching together two reports for you every time. If you turned in those four words as is, you'd be a regular visitor to the command office!"

"Isn't that great? Actually, Captain Ato, you're secretly happy about it, right?" Elysia clasped her hands in front of her chest, lightly laughing as she exposed Ato's thoughts. "Although it's a bit tiring and tough, you get to work with Blanka, don't you?"

Ato's eyes twitched, and he simply covered his ears and ran away.

"I'm not listening, I'm not listening! I knew I shouldn't have transferred you two over here. You're always exhausting me… I don't know how Himeko was able to educate you!"

Elysia watched Ato's panicked escape, unable to help but giggle like a silver bell.

She then poked Michael with her index finger. "Alright, it's not good to always trouble Captain Ato. So… my report is up to you, Michael~"

"I knew it would be like this…" Michael stretched, yawning. "Speaking of which, Captain Himeko's recuperation time seems to be quite long this time?"

"Oh? Captain Himeko still owes us two tickets to Eden's concert. We have to remind her when she comes back!"

As they spoke, they walked towards the dorms. Ato rushed back again.

"You two, come here quickly!"

Even though he was an uncle nearing thirty, Ato insisted on squeezing out a cute smile, beckoning them with his neck shrunken in a silly way.

"Speaking of which… I finally understand… why Captain Ato hasn't managed to win Blanka over after all these years…" Michael sincerely commented.

"What did you say?" Ato didn't hear his words, and said, "Your Fifth Squad's reinforcements are here!"

"Are the new recruits finally here!"

Elysia had been waiting for new recruits since the end of the Second Honkai. She had been waiting for over three months. Now that she finally heard the news, her eyes lit up, and she naturally grabbed Michael's wrist.

"Let's go!" she cheered.

Michael stumbled, forced to follow Elysia's pace with a wry smile.

…

A slender figure walked out of the darkness, silently looking in the direction the others had left.

Even after their figures had completely disappeared down the corridor of the base, Elysia's heartfelt cheers still seemed to echo in her ears.

…

[007 Poison Cocoon Surveillance Log:

Besides their physical abilities being far beyond ordinary people, no other abnormalities have been found in the two subjects.

During training, the two subjects exhibited brief instances of Honkai energy release. Preliminary deduction suggests that the two subjects should be the same as Himeko, and are speculated to be on the Honkai Energy Warrior Project list submitted by Mobius…]

As she wrote this, 007 Poison Cocoon hesitated. She suddenly realized that she had returned to her dorm. Only then did she belatedly remove the Honkai beast mask, revealing the delicate face beneath.

The heavy optical camouflage cloak was also removed, and smooth pink hair cascaded down her back.

007 Poison Cocoon… Sakura's fingers returned to the keyboard. With crisp taps, she wrote the final paragraph of her log:

[The bond between the two subjects is very deep. If there is a targeted action, it can be used as a…]

After writing this, Sakura sighed, deleted the last sentence she had just typed, and then uploaded the document.

The font in the document was set by someone else and could not be changed. It looked a bit uncomfortable, but Sakura didn't think much of it, simply rubbing her eyes.

She leaned back in her chair, wanting to rest for a while, but her eyelids seemed to grow heavier and heavier. Somehow, she fell asleep.

The instant her eyes closed, the computer suddenly went black. The control panel popped up on its own, and line after line of code was entered, until it inadvertently triggered the Fire Moth's firewall.

"Whoop whoop whoop!"

A piercing alarm sounded, and red lights flashed, enveloping the base in blood.

"What's going on!"

Phamas rushed into the command room, but the staff looked at each other, no one knowing what had happened.

"It's not Honkai?"

Still, no one answered.

"Commander, it seems… the base network has been hacked…"

In the corner, Elvin's voice was barely audible.

Several staff members shrugged and spread their hands. "Commander, although we're reluctant to admit it, the Fire Moth, which prides itself on gathering the world's highest technology, seems to have really been hacked."

"Immediately assess the damage. Elvin, can you trace the location of the attacker?"

"I've already located it!" Elvin suddenly shouted, "The attacker's IP is at the Brindisi City University… Library? Wait… the registered identity is… Dr. Mobius… uh, how come there's also a record of her not returning her books here?"

"What the hell!" Mobius, who had just walked into the command room, was inexplicably blamed.

Although anyone with eyes could see that this was a fake identity created by the attacker to avoid being traced… but whether it was intentional or unintentional, they chose Dr. Mobius…

Realizing this, Elvin simply stopped tracking the attacker and instead began to assess the damage.

"Live dissection research records on Honkai sickness patients…"

"Live dissection research records on the Second Herrscher…"

"Poison Cocoon mission logs? What's Poison Cocoon?"

"What's Poison Cocoon?" Mobius looked at Phamas with a surprised expression.

Phamas, in turn, gazed at the sky at a standard forty-five-degree angle.

"Clack!" Elvin's fingers on the keyboard suddenly stopped. He skillfully spread his hands, slumped dejectedly in his chair, looking just like someone who had been utterly defeated in a video game.

"What's wrong?" Phamas asked, frowning.

But the next moment, the huge screen in the center of the command room suddenly flashed, and a blonde girl wearing an exaggerated top hat appeared on it.

"Hello, hello, is this the Fire Moth?"

The girl on the screen tapped the lens.

"That green-haired auntie, yes you, if you can hear me, say hi to the camera behind you!"

Everyone turned their heads in unison, and saw the round camera shaking up and down, left and right, in a BABA rhythm.

Mobius, with a cold face, picked up a chair nearby and smashed the camera to pieces.

"Ouch!"

The girl clearly didn't expect the old auntie she mentioned to be so violent. She turned her head and tapped on the keyboard a few times, and then another camera in the command room began to twitch in a magical way.

Mobius didn't say a word, simply picking up another chair.

A group of staff members jumped up, desperately holding her back.

"Doctor!"

"Doctor! Calm down, don't take it personally!"

"Doctor! Calm down! Calm down! The money for smashing the camera will be deducted from your research funds!"

Mobius shook off their hands and walked straight out of the command room.

"Oh dear! It seems that old auntie is very sad… Alright, I'll just say it directly, my name is Vill-V. You don't need to waste your time trying to dig up my identity. At least for now, I'm called Vill-V."

"I'm here to do only three things… declare war, declare war, and declare war! That's right! I, Vill-V, representing all the people of the world, declare war on the culprit that spreads the Honkai—the Fire Moth!"