In a room inside the building, Evan was helping Raiden Mei and Kiana treat their wounds.
To be honest, Evan didn't think that Raiden Mei, who had lived alone for a long time, or Kiana, who had experience fighting the Honkai, wouldn't know how to treat these relatively minor scratches. Yet neither Mei nor Kiana showed any intention of handling it themselves.
Watching the city they had lived in for a while turn into this apocalyptic scene, feeling exhaustion and sorrow, did they want to seek comfort?
Friendship, family, and even love were indeed the best things to soothe the human heart.
Evan didn't say much and seriously helped the two girls treat their wounds. Although he was injured himself, suffering from internal organ bleeding due to the previous continuous fighting and forced absorption of violent Honkai energy, this kind of internal injury couldn't be treated with simple means. Having roughly understood his own injuries after spitting out blood earlier, Evan didn't plan to waste time on himself.
At this moment, Evan skillfully helped Raiden Mei treat her wounds. Although this level of contact between a man and a woman might cause a girl to be shy, Raiden Mei seemed preoccupied, her mind wandering, so no blush appeared on her face. Evan didn't feel it was a pity, as the current situation was indeed not suitable for romance.
However, when treating Kiana's wounds, this white-haired girl was indeed not the well-behaved type.
"Hiss, it hurts! Why does it hurt more as you treat it? Are you teasing me on purpose?"
Facing Kiana's protest, Evan rolled his eyes.
"I'm disinfecting your wound so it doesn't get inflamed later. I did the same for Mei just now, and she was very strong and didn't make a sound."
"I don't care, you definitely treated us differently! Can't you be gentler to me? I'm a girl too, you know."
At this moment, Kiana seemed a bit spoiled and unreasonable, which made Evan smile.
"Yes, yes, yes, be gentler. Come here, pat pat."
For a moment, Kiana was immersed in Evan's strangely gentle tone and actions. The girl narrowed her eyes comfortably like a small animal, tilting her head to cooperate with Evan's movements. Then she quickly reacted, turning her head away with a flushed face to avoid Evan's playful gaze.
"Hmph, so cheesy."
Evan hadn't expected that the usually carefree Kiana was actually a little tsundere.
Quite cute, actually.
"What should we do next?"
After Evan finished treating their wounds, Raiden Mei asked helplessly from the side.
Kiana also looked at Evan involuntarily.
Given the current situation in Nagazora City, they certainly couldn't stay for long. But how to escape Nagazora City, which direction to flee, and where to go—neither girl knew. They treated Evan as the backbone.
"You just need to rest well now and replenish your consumed stamina. Leave the rest to me. I just checked the bathroom, and luckily, the water hasn't been cut off yet. Take this opportunity to clean up a bit."
Nagazora City had almost completely turned into a dead city. The staff at the water and power plants had definitely evacuated. Even if the relevant machines hadn't malfunctioned yet and the power and water were still running, problems could arise at any time in the future. Naturally, they had to seize the time while there was electricity and water to solve personal hygiene issues.
Girls loved cleanliness. Raiden Mei and Kiana didn't object. In this situation, they certainly weren't in the mood to take a bath, but they still needed to change out of their dust-covered clothes and do some minimum cleaning. Otherwise, smelling the strong scent of dust at night would make it very difficult to fall asleep.
In any case, being able to clean up personal hygiene in the apocalypse was something that could relax one's body and mind a little.
Raiden Mei, who had been preoccupied, temporarily gathered her thoughts and began to chat and laugh with Kiana, helping this impatient girl wash some clothes and wipe off unnoted dirt on her face. But this relaxed atmosphere didn't last long.
BOOM!!!
A deafening noise came from extremely close by. After her brain went blank for a moment due to the exaggerated sound, Raiden Mei turned around and saw the building—the building she was in—being split in half by some terrifying weapon.
This building had more than ten floors and was considered a relatively tall structure in Nagazora City. However, now, outside the building, there appeared a super-giant Honkai Beast, even larger than the building itself. Its size reached dozens of meters, possibly even approaching or exceeding a hundred meters. It held a shield in one hand and a lance in the other.
The weapon that split the building in half like tofu was the unimaginably huge lance in the Honkai Beast's hand. Although a lance should primarily attack by thrusting, it had just slashed down like a sword. The massive size and the terrifying power it carried allowed the lance to demonstrate unimaginable might.
At this moment, at most five or six meters away from Raiden Mei, was an abyss—an abyss forcibly created by the Honkai Beast's lance. Everything that was originally there had disappeared. Steel and concrete had no resistance against that strike. The sturdy building had a V-shaped depression cleaved out of its middle. Through this depression, Raiden Mei could see the sky above, and the super-giant Honkai Beast that was even more conspicuous than the sky.
That place was also the room where everyone had stayed before. Evan was still there.
Raiden Mei's eyes trembled violently. Her mind, which had been shocked blank by the loud noise and the scene before her, was now undergoing drastic changes.
Then—
"Evan!!!"
A girl's wail like a cuckoo weeping blood. And then, a huge bolt of lightning fell from the sky, lighting up the entire night sky and enveloping the super-giant Honkai Beast.
In front of that lightning, at this moment, it seemed that the real apocalypse had descended.
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