Chapter 82 - The Pufferfish Herrscher, Enters the Stage
Looking across the Honkai series, purple was undoubtedly a rare color.
Excluding a certain savior miss, in this world, there was only one named purple-haired character.
Sirin, the Pufferfish Herrscher.
It seems Sirin's situation is very special.
The youth, who had always been holding the Gem of Conquest, looked at his shadow, thinking.
It seemed that even without direct contact, that Pufferfish Herrscher had been attracted by the Gem of Conquest and had begun to awaken.
If one wanted to suppress Sirin, the Herrscher personality corresponding to Kiana, there were actually many methods.
After all, a Herrscher personality awakening early was usually due to the Core of the Herrscher of the Void being stimulated by Honkai energy, or Kiana herself experiencing psychological problems.
Considering Miss Kiana's current mental state was very good, then the only element that could cause Sirin's will to become active at this time was the stimulation from a Honkai source.
Waking up too early.
Li Zihan thought.
In the plot of Honkai Impact 3rd, Miss Pufferfish, although appearing to be an out-and-out Honkai-side Herrscher, irreconcilable with humanity.
However, these all had reasons.
Her situation was actually very close to Lu Mingfei from Dragon Raja.
Born into a single-parent family, her biological mother died of illness early on, making her an orphan. Without parents, she was out of place with everything around her.
She was a lonely child, with pitifully few people around her; every one of them was extremely precious to her.
However, unlike Lu Mingfei, who still had a few people around him who cared, everything of Sirin's was destroyed.
She had never felt much warmth since childhood. Friendships were formed with other test subjects in the research lab, and she only felt the warmth of motherly love after Cecilia appeared.
And then—
The friends she made died one after another in human experiments, and Cecilia, who gave her motherly love, was pulverized by the Honkai Fission Bomb deployed by Otto.
The so-called tragedy is to destroy beautiful things for people to see.
And the cruelest side of the world was displayed vividly before Sirin.
Encountering this situation, even a cowardly mutt would turn into a god of vengeance.
Her declaration of war on humanity was, in the final analysis, an act of revenge.
The influence the God of Honkai had on her merely expanded her hatred for Schicksal to all of humanity.
However, solving Sirin's problem was actually a very simple matter.
Ultimately, her anger was simply because her loved ones lost their lives due to Schicksal's actions.
Anger originating from tragedy will eventually dissipate before comedy.
And time travel was enough to reverse all tragedies.
However, this person was a bit too active.
Logically speaking, she should still be in Kiana's body now, unable to interfere with external things.
Li Zihan frowned.
He hadn't had time to return to the Moon World to obtain powers that could directly interfere with time, such as Rayshifting, the Second Magic, the Incineration of Human Order, or the Fifth Magic.
Without time travel, he also couldn't retrieve the souls of those who had passed away, make them appear before Sirin, and change her allegiance.
Better to bluff my way through it for now.
He felt that next, he absolutely had to ask Otto for some Saint's Blood to suppress the Herrscher personality Sirin.
"If I remember correctly, the purple-haired girl in your dream is actually another long-lost sister of yours."
Li Zihan looked at the side profile of the girl beside him, spouting nonsense very seriously.
No matter what, he first needed to fabricate an identity for the Herrscher personality, Sirin.
He had already pinned the title of playboy on Siegfried; if he could have one illegitimate daughter, it wouldn't be strange for a second one to suddenly appear.
Anyway, Siegfried would be the one with the headache; it had f*ck all to do with him.
"Being able to dream of her proves that there is an extremely deep sisterly bond between you, right?"
"Is that so?"
Kiana's tone changed slightly, and the light in her eyes also subtly shifted.
"That sister of yours, I also have some understanding of her. She's a girl with a slightly irritable temper, but her personality is quite good."
The youth, vaguely realizing something, half-closed his eyes, and the red light seeping from the slits of his eyes became even more vivid.
The Imaginary Constant was changing.
The space around him was sealed. Now, he had even lost the ability to take out armaments from the "spatial pouch" in his shadow.
This was not something Kiana could do.
"Sisters? That 'me' indulging in false beauty hardly counts as a sister."
After the youth's eyes turned red, the eyes of the girl standing beside him shimmered with a divine gold.
Her figure was slight, yet she stood as firm as a mountain, and a volcano on the verge of eruption at that. Merely standing there gave people a sense of impending disaster, making them shudder.
She looked at the youth beside her, a slightly playful smile appearing on her face.
She sensed it; her other half was in the shadow beneath that guy's feet.
Encountering this kind of thing as soon as I took over the body is quite pleasant.
Sirin, who had successfully used Kiana's cover to easily seal Li Zihan's weapon storage space, smiled.
She stretched out her hand, and a purplish-black crystal floated out from the shadow beneath Li Zihan's feet, then teleported and appeared in her palm.
At the same time, handfuls of gems that would make poor young mistresses and Mudad goddesses drool, and precious materials that only existed in the Spirit Tomb Albion, all flew out.
Inside, one could even see large quantities of precious materials such as Dragon's Reverse Scales, Manticore Stingers, Demon Hearts, Magician's Ashes, and even Hydra Larvae.
And those materials were mostly things that ordinary magi would never touch in their entire lives, materials that would make them ecstatic if they managed to get even one, treating it as a family heirloom.
Li Zihan, who possessed magecraft with knowledge of the Second Magic and had Beowulf's protection, which was close to a dragon type, explored areas of the Spirit Tomb that were mostly unexplored. Thus, each harvest was terrifyingly large.
He was actually a super treasure chest monster. If any magus beat him up and looted him, their wealth would surpass that of many first-rate families.
Even Sirin was stunned when she saw those things float out. She truly didn't know the value of those items, but the gems were simply too dazzling.
And for girls, sparkling gems were clearly very attractive.
Big trouble.
However, these things only distracted her for a moment.
Because she smelled the scent of Judah.
"Human, don't even think about using that broken cross."
Sirin, who had once seen Li Zihan put the Oath of Judah into his body, had a playful expression.
She had been tricked by Theresa the Silly before and was almost first-encounter killed.
As for that tachi, which also seemed to be a Divine Key, she didn't pay much attention to it.
In the Second Honkai War, she had seen a full six Divine Keys, and only Judah and the Might of An-Utu had truly harmed her.
A sword made from the power of a Herrscher that could only bully scrap metal made by humans, wanting to deal with her, was simply a joke.
"Before you make a move, killing you isn't difficult."
No, even if I die, I can entrust my soul to other things, then find a way to create a puppet, survive, and then go back and find someone to custom-make high-grade puppets.
You, an occultism-illiterate, fundamentally can't kill me completely.
Listening to Sirin's words, Li Zihan thought.
However, even so, he still gripped the tachi at his waist, his expression becoming wary.
He rather cherished this body of his. If he asked Aozaki Touko to make a puppet, who knew what kind of thing she would create.
However, this incident of being cornered by Sirin served as a wake-up call for him.
The plans these past few days had been too smooth, making him a bit too complacent recently.
He had actually only been wary of Otto, Kevin, and Welt, and ended up forgetting about this relatively underwhelming Sirin.
However, this wasn't without reason.
After all, he could contact Otto tomorrow. If they reached an agreement, he could ask for Durandal the Silly Goose as a bodyguard. If they couldn't agree, he could erode Otto's spare bodies and form a Green Hat Squad.
No need to mention the Silly Goose's strength; her talent was even higher than Kevin 'Aotian's. If Kevin hadn't had too many 'post-launch patches,' she would probably be the world's number one combat power.
Otto had clearly stated during the Second Honkai War that he was adjusting a body that surpassed the Herrscher of Reason.
Moreover, this Herrscher of Reason referred to Joyce, with whom he had a tumultuous love-hate relationship, not Yang. Now, after more than ten years of adjustments, its strength would only be higher.
Whether it was Durandal the Silly Goose or Otto's spare bodies, beating a Void Pufferfish would be like beating a grandson.
But as it turned out, he was cornered today.
I need to be more careful in the future.
Li Zihan said to himself.
This time he encountered an occultism-illiterate, so he could guarantee his safe retreat. Next time might not be the same.
However, even knowing he could retreat safely, Li Zihan acted extremely humble, bowing to the Pufferfish Queen.
"Then, Your Majesty the Queen, if you are willing to spare me, do you have any instructions?"
"I believe there must be a profound meaning behind Your Majesty being willing to lower your noble stance and talk to me."
Sirin was someone with little patience and extreme hatred for humans. For her not to fight him on the spot, there was definitely something wrong.
Inside Kiana's body, the Herrscher of the Void, who had seen this playboy confess to her other self, smiled, clearly very satisfied with Li Zihan's attitude.
This is how a servant should act.
She was Kiana's other side; she knew everything Kiana had experienced. Therefore, she also knew that this guy before her possessed excellent abilities in many aspects.
And many of those abilities were precisely what she needed.
Not to mention anything else, just intelligence alone was very important.
If she had known the abilities of Judah and the Might of An-Utu back then, how could she have been beaten so badly.
Moreover, this guy was very familiar with the upper echelons of those secret organizations. If she used his intelligence to find those people and kill them, then human society would fall into great chaos, right?
"Since you previously confessed to the other 'me,' saying you would always stand by 'my' side, I think it's reasonable for you to fight for me, right?"
The Herrscher, clearly having her own plans, chuckled lightly, her smile cold.
"Hand over the Oath of Judah, and then become my servant."