On the other side.
It's obviously unrealistic to smash a Chariot-Class Honkai Beast that's half the height of a building with a baseball bat, so Kevin plans to lure it to the foot of a dilapidated building and use the collapse of the building to kill the Honkai Beast.
But before he could begin his plan, a beam of light struck the Honkai Beast, instantly destroying it.
Kevin looked behind him, and a Firemoth warrior walked towards him, then raised his mask: "Long time no see, Kevin."
Kevin paused for a moment, then smiled slightly and nodded: "Long time no see, Lumine."
The faint crackle of Honkai particles in the air made every breath feel heavier than usual. Even standing still, Kevin could feel the pressure pressing against his skin, like static clinging to exposed nerves. The fact that Lumine was moving as casually as ever only reinforced how abnormal his tolerance truly was.
As Lumine tossed the equipment he had brought to Kevin, he opened a private communication channel.
"I've already found Kevin. Hm… let's regroup at Shesa's place next."
The channel closed cleanly. No wasted words. That was Lumine—direct, efficient, and already calculating the next move while everyone else was still orienting themselves.
As Kevin secured the gear, adjusting the unfamiliar weight against his shoulders, he asked, "Elysia?"
Lumine nodded. "Mm."
Kevin wasn't surprised. Since everyone had been reborn—and since Lumine, who shouldn't have been here at all, had appeared again—the only reasonable explanation was Elysia's involvement. Time loops, resets, rewritten causality… none of it mattered anymore. The result stood right in front of him.
"That gun is…"
"A prototype weapon designed by Vil-V, powered by Honkai energy. One-of-a-kind. It suits my current situation pretty well."
Lumine fired again mid-sentence, the recoil minimal, the shot clean. Another Honkai Beast collapsed before it could even let out a cry.
Vil-V…
Kevin crushed a lunging Honkai Beast with a precise strike, his mind briefly drifting. If Vil-V truly returned with all eight personalities intact, then Fire Moth's internal balance would become far more unstable than before.
"What's your relationship with Elysia now?" Kevin asked suddenly as they moved forward, boots crunching over shattered asphalt and crystallized debris.
Lumine stumbled half a step, then shot Kevin a strange look.
"Why are you, with those thick eyebrows and big eyes, suddenly interested in this kind of thing?"
Despite the situation, the corner of Kevin's mouth twitched.
"Well…" Lumine continued, tone leveling out, "we're back to how things were at the beginning. We talked it through. The misunderstandings are gone. No need to stay awkward forever."
Kevin thought it over while dispatching another approaching Beast.
"Returning to the earliest relationship… does that mean you've started pursuing Elysia again?"
Then, without looking at him, he added,
"What about Iliya?"
Lumine's eye twitched.
"What do you mean, 'what about her'? Elysia and I are teammates in the same unit now. As for anything else… I'm not dealing with that right now."
Kevin didn't push further.
Even though Elysia had already begun taking action, his judgment remained unchanged. Iliya was still the better match.
In his previous life, when Lumine created Team Seraph, even though it was an elite combat team compared to his own, no one could match him or Kalpas in combat ability.
However, their cooperation and coordination were strong, especially Lumine and Iliya. Their teamwork was so good that they didn't even need to exchange glances to know what the other needed or wanted to do. Commands were unnecessary. Signals were redundant. Their movements filled each other's blind spots perfectly.
He himself, Kevin, had witnessed the two of them fight.
That was the first time he had been defeated by those two working together.
Elysia... her fighting style wasn't a good match for Lumine.
No matter how much the world reset, his mindset wouldn't change.
"By the way," Lumine said, scanning the detector again, "Kosmo came too. He left Dystopia in the safe zone and followed us in. When I passed her earlier, she was throwing a tantrum."
""That was his own choice," Kevin replied expressionlessly. "Besides, you're not much older than Dystopia yourself, are you?"
Kevin glanced at him, "You're about my age, and you still call her a 'little girl', no if you think about it, you're even younger than me, right? that means your age and Dystopia's really not that different?
"Since we've all been reborn, looking at her really does feel like looking at a little girl," Lumine chuckled.
As they spoke, the two arrived at the edge of the central area of the Honkai outbreak.
"With this level of Honkai energy concentration, there shouldn't be any survivors,"
Lumine glanced at the detector in his hand. "We're actually the first ones to arrive."
The Fire Moth's strategy for dealing with this Honkai was to surround it from the outside, gradually advance to the central area, and wait for the Honkai energy concentration to decrease as the Herrscher and her companion Honkai Beast were fully born before launching a final attack. Charging in too early meant suicide for ordinary soldiers.
After all, the Honkai energy generated when a Herrscher is first born is beyond the capacity of ordinary people to withstand.
According to his estimates, at this moment, only three people qualified.
Himself.
Kevin.
Elysia.
"Lumine!" Elysia's voice came from behind. Lumine turned around and saw Elysia waving at him as she walked over with Dystopia.
Lumine frowned and stepped forward, saying, "Elysia, how could you bring someone with no combat experience here?"
"It was Miss Dystopia who asked for it hehe. You know, I always find it hard to refuse the requests of cute girls." Elysia shrugged, looking somewhat playful and adorable.
Lumine sighed helplessly. He knew that Elysia wasn't that kind of person, and she wouldn't have agreed to let Dystopia join the battle if she really wasn't suitable.
There was only one downside to her doing this... if she let civilians join the battle,
Still…
Letting civilians into a combat zone meant paperwork. Endless paperwork.
She would have to write at least ten thousand words of self-criticism.
…Oh, i also let Kevin fight, Kevin still counted as civilian right now.
Lumine exhaled slowly.
He, himself needed to compose ten thousand words of self-criticism
Well—whatever.
Paperwork had never killed anyone. Honkai Beasts, Herrschers, collapsing cities—those were real threats. Compared to that, a report was just another chore. If surviving this chaos meant burying himself under documents later, so be it. At least this time, many people can stay alive.
Well let's drag in some people to help .
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