[High-Quality Valkyrie located: Kiana Kaslana]
[Core database: loading (1%… 50%… 100%)]
[Please bind the Valkyrie. Together, spread the will of Honkai Impact 3rd and begin your peak life!]
Su Yu slowly turned his head toward the white-haired girl leaning against the wall.
Kiana Kaslana's face looked cold and pale under the dim stairwell light. Rainwater still dripped from the hem of her white jacket, and faint glimmers flickered along the seams of the tight armor beneath.
That wasn't the kind of detail a cosplay outfit could pull off.
It looked like… real Valkyrie armor.
"So you're saying… you can see me?"
Su Yu deliberately slowed his tone, but his mind was racing.
He remembered the confusion from earlier when he'd been scrolling on his phone.
When he searched for "Honkai," all he got were shady little sites—no games, no anime, no official info. In this world, Honkai Impact 3rd didn't exist at all.
And that screen—popping up over and over like a virus—was basically the system equivalent of those seven aunties and eight uncles who corner you during Lunar New Year to pressure you into marriage…
Relentlessly pushing him to interact with the girl in front of him.
So the answer was obvious.
The "Kiana" in front of him wasn't cosplay.
She was the real…
Kiana Kaslana.
And judging by the jacket she wore, this was clearly Kiana from the Arc City period.
The white-haired girl abruptly straightened. Rain slid off her hair and pattered onto the floor.
She reached out, as if she wanted to touch Su Yu—then stopped midair. In her dim eyes, a weak spark of light flickered back to life.
His phone buzzed hard in his pocket, breaking the eerie silence of the stairwell.
The girl's gaze shook violently. Her hand snapped back at once.
It was as if she were enduring some enormous pain—she clenched her pale lips, biting down until they almost went bloodless.
"No… I'm fine. Don't come near me…"
Su Yu noticed a cut along her arm—blood still seeping out.
He was about to speak, but the girl clutched the wound, turned, and ran—vanishing into the wind and rain in seconds.
"Meow~"
A cat's cry sounded from the doorway. Chongchong was rolling over and showing her belly, those heterochromatic eyes round and bright.
That white cat—named Chongchong—had been forcibly "gifted" to him by a friend. They'd claimed they saw her being attacked by a gang of stray cats on the street. Too pitiful, they said.
So they "kidnapped instead of purchased."
Turned out she was an unbelievably good cat.
Just… a little too clingy.
His phone buzzed again, as if urging him along.
Su Yu pulled it out. New messages kept popping up.
[Kevin: "Yu, I already bought the tickets. See you on the 12th?"]
Kevin Kaslana.
To Su Yu—whether in his past life or this one—that name was familiar.
In the game, Kevin was the strongest MANTIS of the Previous Era, the savior branded with "Deliverance"…
But here, he was just a hardworking office drone who'd been complaining a few days ago that overtime was so brutal he barely had time to see Mei.
Su Yu didn't know if it was some kind of "compensation patch" in this life, but ever since he entered Qianyu Academy, he'd ended up becoming close with Kevin and Su—three bros, tight as could be.
Su went off to Mu Continent to study medicine.
Kevin and Su Yu attended St. Freya Comprehensive University together.
After graduation, they stayed in the same city. Kevin clocked in daily at work, while Su Yu became a streamer.
No major traffic—nothing flashy—but enough to live on.
[Su Yu: "OK."]
He replied with a Miss Pink Elf thumbs-up sticker, and he was just starting to imagine how he'd surprise Kevin after not seeing him for a while—
Maybe with a cold joke, like: Why are Shenzhou tablets so mild-tempered? Because they don't have 'fierce' (chest).
…when his eyes drifted to the spot by his door.
The place where the white-haired girl had been standing was soaked through.
She'd clearly been there a long time.
After a brief hesitation, Su Yu typed out a message and hit send.
[Su Yu: If there's a girl outside your door—soaked through, injured, and she looks exactly like your ideal type—what would you do?]
[Kevin: ? What's this supposed to be? You switching careers to write novels?]
[Su Yu: No. I just want your opinion.]
[Kevin: If it were Su, he'd definitely say: "Go get your brain checked. You're probably so desperate to date you've gone nuts." …What's actually going on?]
[Su Yu: Then let me ask another way.]
[Su Yu: If you found a girl outside your door with injuries—maybe she's being hunted—would you help her?]
[Su Yu: 'Hero saves beauty' only happens in novels. As an ordinary person with no special abilities…]
[Su Yu: do you try to play hero and get stabbed to death, two bodies on the ground—]
[Su Yu: or pretend you saw nothing, turn around, and protect your everyday life?]
Excess curiosity only gets cats killed. Rash, impulsive decisions can be the very thing that steals away your "normal" life…
As someone who'd already died once, Su Yu knew exactly how precious life was.
But in his heart, he already had an answer.
[Kevin: ?]
[Kevin: You know my answer.]
Yeah.
Su Yu did know.
Even in a slice-of-life world, the decency and courage branded into the name "Kevin Kaslana" meant there was only one choice he'd ever make.
A person's character is their fate.
That line surfaced in Su Yu's mind.
[Su Yu: Then we're thinking the same thing.]
After sending the message, Su Yu slipped his phone back into his pocket. He grabbed another umbrella from inside, then rubbed Chongchong's head.
"I'll be right back. Stay here and behave."
He shut the door behind him. The chill of rain hit him in the face.
[Please bind the Valkyrie. Together, spread the will of Honkai Impact 3rd and begin your peak life!]
The light-screen still flickered—yet Su Yu chose to close it.
Not because binding would unlock the system.
Not because "reaching the peak of life" was some achievement he needed to chase, now that he'd been given a second chance.
He did it because of instinct.
Because of the line he wouldn't cross.
He couldn't sit still while that girl—like an injured stray cat—ran off into the rain.
Some people would call it meddling.
Others would call it reckless—something that could drag him into danger.
Su Yu didn't care.
Right now, the heart still pounding in his chest—thump, thump—felt like it was reminding him:
This is proof that he was human.
Proof that he was Su Yu.
He took a breath, then charged into the rain in the direction the girl had fled.
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