Su Yu's gaze lingered on Kiana for a moment, and his brows furrowed slightly.
A realistic problem floated to the surface of his mind—this fellow was still an undocumented person with absolutely no ID.
In this era of big data, although the police rarely conducted random identity checks on the streets and Kiana's behavior was no different from an ordinary person's, blending into the crowd without standing out, there was no immediate risk for the time being.
As long as she didn't take high-speed trains or wander around banks without a mask, things would remain peaceful.
But their goal was 'to become famous'.
That goal was practically writing the four words 'Come and catch me' right on their foreheads.
Once Honkai Impact 3rd exploded in popularity, and she stood under the spotlight as the prototype model, those pervasive gazes and microscope-level deep digs would inevitably follow.
At that point, the phrase 'no such person found' would not just be an awkward social excuse.
It would be a ticking time bomb strapped to both of them.
He couldn't exactly expect to explain to the police officer that she was a 'paper waifu who transmigrated from the 2D world,' could he?
The only thing waiting for them in the next second would either be a detention center, that legendary mysterious department specializing in aliens, or a direct trip to a psychiatric hospital to enjoy electroshock therapy.
Su Yu shook his head, throwing these hair-pulling hypotheses out of his mind.
Current anxiety wouldn't solve future problems.
His gaze fell back onto the System panel floating in mid-air.
Since the System had issued such a Main Mission to 'push her to the world,' following the tropes of standard games or web novels, the item to resolve these future worries was likely hidden within the mission chain's rewards.
However, sitting around and waiting solely on this thing wasn't what he wanted either; he would consult some people he knew later to see what could be done.
When the cart reaches the mountain, there will be a road; when the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally straighten. And if there is no road? Don't forget, sitting in front of him was a Valkyrie who could literally split mountains.
But right now, rather than going bald from worrying about troubles that hadn't happened yet, it was better to keep his feet on the ground and take the first step.
"Alright." Su Yu pulled over his chair and sat down, opening the document editor. His fingers hovered over the keyboard as his gaze steadied. "Let's begin."
Sunlight slanted in through the window, casting a patch of warm yellow light on the floor.
Chongchong had long since commandeered this feng shui treasure land, lying belly-up and snoring like a smug tractor.
Su Yu looked at the blank document before him. "I want to start with the lighter parts."
Kiana sat on a small stool, her hands placed dutifully on her knees and her back straight as a ramrod, looking for all the world like an elementary school student waiting for the teacher to ask a question.
"Lighter parts?"
"Mn." Su Yu nodded. "For example... things before the outbreak of The Third Eruption. Senba Academy, daily life, days without monsters and escape."
Kiana's eyes moved slightly.
Those were the few fragments of her life that could be called ordinary.
"What do you want to know?"
Su Yu thought for a moment.
"Just chat casually."
"Like what happened on your first day of school? Was the cafeteria food terrible? Any memorable bad luck? Or... a fateful, interesting encounter?"
Kiana froze, obviously not expecting Su Yu's 'material gathering' to be this kind of casual chitchat mode.
"...I have to tell you about such trivial matters? The more details the better?"
"Details determine success or failure," Su Yu spouted nonsense with a straight face. "Players just love seeing these kinds of details full of life; it's called immersion. Just treat it like you're telling me a bedtime story. Say whatever comes to mind."
Kiana fell silent.
She turned her head, her gaze drifting past the window to the sky that was still azure in this world.
That blue overlapped with the sky of Nagazora on that day.
"That was... a day with very good weather."
Her voice grew softer.
"Nagazora, a metropolis with a population of millions."
"I found clues about my dad... about Siegfried there."
Su Yu's fingers began to dance across the keyboard.
"To pursue those clues, I mixed into Senba Academy." When Kiana said that name, she paused. "Originally, I wanted to investigate abnormal data."
"Infiltrated?" Su Yu raised an eyebrow. "Not a normal enrollment?"
"...Consider me a transfer student, I guess."
Kiana's eyes darted around, vaguely glossing over certain details that might involve illegal trespassing.
"Anyway, I just got in. It was an all-girls school, very big, with three teaching buildings and an indoor gymnasium."
"Oh right, the garden was very beautiful. There was a white gazebo surrounded by cherry blossom trees."
As Su Yu typed, a typical Japanese campus GALGAME background image automatically generated in his mind—falling cherry blossoms, the school building under the setting sun, and that first encounter with its own soft-light filter.
"What about the first day of school then?" he pressed. "There must have been some big event, right?"
Two patches of blush inexplicably floated up on Kiana's cheeks, and her gaze began to wander.
"...I was late."
"Late?"
"Mn." Her voice became a bit awkward, like a child caught making a mistake. "I was too excited checking clues the night before and didn't sleep well. I woke up late in the morning, couldn't find my school uniform tie... and in the end, I could only rush out the door biting a slice of toast."
"Pfft."
Su Yu's finger froze on the Enter key, and he couldn't hold back a laugh. "Biting a slice of bread? That script is too cliché. Miss Kiana, may I ask which 90s shoujo manga you are the transmigrated heroine from?"
Kiana glared at him and waved her fist in embarrassment and anger. "Are you listening or not!"
"Listening, listening, please continue." Su Yu raised his hands in surrender, but the smile on his lips couldn't be suppressed.
"When I ran to the school gate, it was already closed." Kiana's tone softened, carrying a warmth of nostalgia. "I thought at the time, since my skills were pretty good anyway, I'd just climb over the wall. So I found a section of low wall and prepared to flip over."
"And then?"
"Then..."
Kiana's voice paused.
"The moment I flipped onto the top of the wall and straddled it, I saw someone."
Su Yu stopped typing. The only sound left in the room was the faint hum of the air conditioner.
"It was a girl."
Kiana's gaze became somewhat distant.
"She was sitting right in that garden gazebo, holding a book in her hands. Sunlight spilled onto her through the gaps in the cherry blossom trees, and when the wind blew, petals drifted around her... The whole person looked like she was glowing."
The hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth turned gentle.
"Purple long hair, and her face was especially pretty. She wore her uniform neatly, and her sitting posture was so upright it was like someone had measured it with a ruler."
"Raiden Mei?" Su Yu asked the obvious, his fingers typing the name into the document.
Kiana nodded. "That was the first time I saw her."
Her voice held a bitter smile.
"At the time, I was straddling the wall, still clenching half a slice of bread in my mouth. My hair was probably messy as a chicken coop, and my collar was crooked. She heard the noise and looked up. That look in her eyes..."
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