This was hard to handle. Although he had killed the hand Cocolia had extended, part of his own strength had also been exposed to Cocolia's eyes.
Plans could never keep up with changes. Actually, from the very beginning when Kiana appeared beside him, Shun had already mentally prepared himself. If he kept Kiana by his side, it would definitely run completely counter to his original plan.
But there was nothing he could do about it. As a Captain, how could he bear to let Kiana continue wandering? That was obvious.
Since he had encountered Kiana, he couldn't possibly remain indifferent. So he took Kiana with him, let her come into contact with Raiden Mei, and made the two of them friends.
Then, because of Kiana, he was also forced to come into contact with Raiden Mei. In the end, he had unsurprisingly become a thorn in Cocolia's side.
So at first Cocolia had wanted Bronya to eliminate him. Bronya had been playing tai chi for half a month, but Cocolia couldn't wait any longer and sent Welt No. 1…
No… what about her Titan troops? Only then did Shun remember that Cocolia's Titan troops hadn't appeared at all. That meant—
"Kiana!" Shun realized something was wrong. Cocolia definitely knew Kiana's identity. She didn't dare kill Kiana, so she had sent controlled Titan troops to capture her.
But in Cocolia's eyes, Shun was insignificant, so she had directly ordered Welt No. 1 to kill him and conveniently capture Raiden Mei as well…
Or perhaps it was to capture Raiden Mei and kill him along the way. Shun didn't dare walk slowly anymore and directly rushed back into the Raiden family dojo.
"Mei, come with me!" Shun's sudden intrusion startled Raiden Mei, who was about to change clothes.
"What's wrong, Teacher Shun?" Mei was still holding a real blade in her hand. She had probably gotten used to it from playing Sekiro.
"No time to explain. Kiana is in danger, and I can't leave you here either." Shun grabbed Raiden Mei's wrist, and in an instant… teleported back to the house where he had set coordinates.
Sure enough, the entire building had already been turned into ruins. This was the house Shun had only bought a few months ago.
The moment he stepped into the devastated ruins filled with broken walls and rubble, Shun's gaze was drawn to several massive and imposing Titan mechs. These steel behemoths stood there, emitting a chilling aura. However, Shun showed no fear at all. His figure flashed like a ghost as he rapidly closed in on one of the Titan mechs. Immediately after, his elbow struck out like lightning, precisely hitting a critical spot on the mech. A sound of twisting metal rang out, and that Titan mech instantly lost all mobility.
Shun's movements were smooth and continuous. In the blink of an eye, several more Titan mechs fell under his fierce elbow strikes. At that moment, his gaze pierced through the obstacles and finally spotted Kiana, who was surrounded by more than a dozen Titan mechs. She stood alone, not retreating in the slightest. The metal baseball bat in her hand gleamed with cold light as she fought against the massive Titans.
Looking at the many tears already in Kiana's pajamas, Shun guessed that Kiana had originally been about to go to sleep and had rushed into battle, which was why she hadn't even brought her handgun.
The commotion caused by Shun's arrival naturally attracted the attention of everyone else on the battlefield.
"Shun, why did you come back? And you even brought Mei with you! You two run away!" Kiana still thought Shun was an ordinary man with no strength to truss a chicken.
Shun hadn't been seen by Kiana when he elbowed several Titans to death earlier, so in her eyes, Shun had come back to deliver himself as a sacrifice.
"Kiana, get down!" Shun pressed Mei's body down to his waist level, then swung a spatial slash around them.
The moment Kiana heard Shun's words, she didn't even think. Her body instinctively reacted and completely followed Shun's instruction.
In an instant, heavy metallic crashing sounds rang out continuously from all directions, rising and falling without end. The cause of this scene was the more than thirty Titan mechs that Cocolia had previously dispatched. In the blink of an eye, they had all turned into bubbles! These once indestructible and fearsome war machines now shattered like fragile glass, disintegrating and scattering across the ground as piles of useless scrap metal.
This time, Cocolia would probably have to spit out all the assets she had embezzled from Raiden Ryoma over the past few months.
"Wait, Shun, you can do this too?" Kiana got up and came to Shun's side.
"You didn't think I was an ordinary person all this time, did you?" Shun hugged Kiana and gave her a hand chop as a reward.
"After all, your strength isn't that great either…" Kiana rubbed the spot that hurt and said.
"Isn't that obvious? Who compares strength with you Kaslanas?" Even if it was arm-wrestling with the current Fu Hua, Shun would probably win, but Kaslanas… forget it. Who arm-wrestles with humanoid Emperor-level Honkai beasts?
"Mei, why did you come too? It's very dangerous here." Kiana turned her head and asked Raiden Mei.
Raiden Mei silently sighed for her not-so-bright friend and said, "Kiana, guess whether it would be more dangerous if I stayed behind alone."
Although Raiden Mei's swordsmanship had skyrocketed and her combat power was incomparable to before, she currently couldn't use Honkai energy. In a direct fight, she still couldn't beat a stats monster like Kiana.
"Oh…" Kiana scratched her head. She felt like these two were hiding something from her, but she couldn't say what it was.
"Teacher Shun, what should we do next? Do you want me to become a Herrscher right now?" Since Cocolia had already made her move, they naturally couldn't just sit and wait for death. Should they hand the initiative to Cocolia, or should they detonate first?
"Tsk, the plan got disrupted. That woman really is impatient…"
"What are you two talking about? What Herrscher…" Kiana felt like she was being kept in the dark. Whether it was meeting Shun or meeting Mei, she was clearly the one who had come first.
Clearly two happy things were intertwined, yet Kiana felt so uncomfortable inside. An unnamed anger wrapped around her.
Shun turned his head and saw that the little bit of dinner he had eaten hadn't been scared out. "Kiana, calm down!" It wasn't for any other reason it was because… damn it, golden light was leaking from Kiana's eyes!
No… Kiana hadn't absorbed excess Honkai energy, right…? Why were her eyes glowing gold? Sirin, please don't come out at this time!
Shun hurriedly used Fenghuang Down to send the Sword Heart Incantation into Kiana's mind to calm her down. They couldn't afford any mishaps right now.
Dealing with two Herrschers at the same time, and one of them being the Herrscher of the Void who could counter his Cosmic Juggernaut how was he supposed to fight?
"Shun, what happened to me?" It seemed the Sword Heart Incantation had worked. The Kiana who had been wrapped in unnamed anger and possessiveness suddenly became clear-headed again.
"It's nothing. Kiana, remember never to get ang—" Before Shun could finish speaking,
Nine inverse-flying purple meteors streaked across the night sky of Nagazora City, blooming into deadly fireworks in the darkness.
The Third Eruption had begun.
"GG!"