Chapter 94: The Great Archbishop with Piled-up Sins, right on the spot... starts being a gentle healer!?
「 Dan Heng sent a message to Stelle and March 7th as soon as he arrived at the Star-Raft Sea, but both messages failed to send.
"Can't send it? Network restricted, but some functions are normal?"
He frowned slightly, feeling that someone had already started to act against the Xianzhou. But since he couldn't contact them now, Dan Heng had no choice but to search alone.
He walked a little deeper into the Star-Raft Sea and saw a man and a woman surrounded by numerous Mara-struck monsters in the distance.
The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with two brown pigtails, very delicate and cute. She confidently looked back at the blond man, her face full of pride,
"Stay right where you are."
"Leave the urgent task of saving people to the professionals—"
The blond man had a handsome face, was dressed in a white suit, and a huge, ornate coffin stood beside him. 」
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〜Honkai: Impact 3rd World〜
"...Lord, OVERSEER!"
Li Sushang covered her mouth in shock, looking at the two people appearing on the light screen in disbelief.
Although she had prepared herself to see her own counterpart after seeing the counterparts of Bronya and Seele, when this scene actually appeared, the imagined surprise did not materialize; instead, a long-lasting bitterness welled up in her heart.
At this moment, it was just like that moment.
When she was fifteen, she was testing her sword in the desert, and he saved her three times. Looking at the blond man in the light screen, Li Sushang suddenly became dazed, and it seemed as if something warm rose from the bottom of her heart in her memory, overflowing.
That night, the fifteen-year-old girl asked Otto under the moon if he was the one who had helped her.
Later, on the way to Free Will Gate, the girl and Otto sat together in a carriage, the wheels rattling. The carriage moved slowly, and she slept on his lap, gazing at the setting sun.
Everything in her memory seemed to slow down... the carriage wheels became four corners in her sight, everything felt like sitting in the carriage watching the sun slowly set... the sun setting, the year ending.
Suddenly, she felt joy in her heart... that joy seemed to have returned from the desert over five hundred years ago, carrying the delight of reuniting with an old friend.
"Sushang, Sushang..."
A familiar girlish voice suddenly came from beside her ear, pulling Li Sushang out of her memories. She rubbed her forehead, then finally focused and saw Durandal in front of her.
"What's wrong?"
The girl asked with concern.
"N-nothing... just remembered some things from a few hundred years ago."
Li Sushang lowered her eyes slightly and gently shook her head.
Only when Durandal's gaze left her did she finally look up again, at the girl in the sky who was exactly like her fifteen-year-old self.
Innocent, lively, and delicately cute.
"...This time, will his gaze fall on me?"
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「 Dan Heng saw the battle that the two in front of him were about to face, and immediately rushed up to fight alongside the girl.
Facing the constantly resurrecting Mara-struck, Sushang and Dan Heng both inevitably suffered some injuries. But the next second, Luocha took out a rapier and tapped it on the ground, and immediately, an endless stream of Abundance vitality emerged from the ground, radiating outwards with him as the center.
"Th-this is..."
Sushang looked at her constantly healing wounds in disbelief.
Luocha held an exquisitely crafted crucifix in his hand and elegantly walked to their side,
"You two fought to save me; how can I, Luocha, stand by idly?" 」
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〜Demon Slayer World〜
"WAAAH! That person is... SO INCREDIBLY HANDSOME!!"
Mitsuri Kanroji burst out, her cheeks flushing pink as she clutched her uniform sleeves.
"That golden hair of his… it reminds me of those Western gentlemen Kanae and I would sometimes see walking through Kyoto, years ago."
Shinobu Kocho tilted her head slightly, a soft, almost nostalgic smile gracing her lips.
It's just that their looks were completely heaven and earth apart.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? Have you forgotten the Master's instructions?"
Seeing the Love Hashira's flushed cheeks, the Wind Hashira Sanemi Shinazugawa tapped his scabbard with slight dissatisfaction, and the crisp sound finally brought the two ladies' attention back.
Recalling the Master's instructions, the Love Hashira's face immediately showed a hint of embarrassment.
The Master had returned earlier to rest due to his health, and before leaving, he had instructed them to carefully observe and learn the sword techniques of the Xianzhou people. But when this Luocha appeared... she was instantly attracted by his face, causing her to completely ignore the sword techniques Sushang was using...
"This guy looks like a woman, with such long hair... he has no masculine spirit at all, what's there to look at?"
Shinazugawa crossed his arms, a hint of resistance in his gaze towards Luoch.
"—Shinazugawa."
The slightly muffled voice of the Stone Hashira sounded behind him.
"This Mr. Luocha's specialty isn't in his sword techniques; the special thing... should be that strange healing ability, right?"
The Stone Hashira reminded him,
"Also, haven't you noticed? His sword..."
"It's not Nichirin blades like the ones we used... It's more like a Western sword?"
Shinobu Kocho suddenly interjected,
"Western sword art is very different from ours. The blade is slender and particularly effective for thrusting... but I know very little about the specific techniques."
Obanai Iguro, the Serpent Hashira, narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Oh? Then it seems we'll have to pay special attention to this Mr. Luocha's sword techniques."
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「 With the healer's support, Sushang and Dan Heng fought without hesitation, unleashing their powerful moves freely. Before long, they had completely wiped out the group of Mara-struck.
"Are you two alright?"
Sushang wiped the sweat from her forehead and turned to ask.
Dan Heng and Luocha exchanged glances, both shaking their heads.
"That's good. I'm Sushang, a Cloud Knight, just transferred here from the 『Yaoqing』Xianzhou!" Sushang breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Luocha with a hint of anger.
"I told you that swords have no eyes. What if you get hurt?"
"If I didn't act, you would have been hurt." Luocha's voice was not only gentle, but his face also showed a hint of concern. 」
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〜Honkai: Impact 3rd World〜
"..."
Watching the man in the light screen say such words, Welt's features almost twisted together.
He had thought that Otto had a counterpart.
He had also imagined that his counterpart would have a vastly different personality from his original self, but this...
When Luocha, with a face 100% similar to the notoriously evil Archbishop, said, "If I didn't act, you would have been hurt," Welt felt something shatter inside him with a "snap."
IS THIS REASONABLE?!
...COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE!!
This Luocha definitely has some conspiracy! Absolutely! Although it hasn't been revealed yet, he definitely has something planned; otherwise, the coffin he carries... simply cannot be explained!
All in all, he absolutely does not believe that Otto's counterpart in another world would be so simple.
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