Kiana had a very strange dream, one that made her scalp tingle a bit.
First, she dreamt of herself in valkyrie armor, choking Raiden Mei. Just as she was about to deliver the killing blow, Inaba Tsukiyo suddenly appeared and knocked her to the ground with a combination punch.
Then, the ground suddenly cracked open, and tentacles emerged from the 裂縫, binding her hands and feet like a Magical Girl.
Just as she thought she was done for, a giant yellow Haxxor Bunny and a red Haxxor Bunny appeared.
After a great battle, the Haxxor Bunny ultimately defeated the tentacles. However, just as she thought she could breathe a sigh of relief, someone behind her suddenly kicked her into the 裂縫.
Kiana, unable to believe someone would do such a thing, used her last ounce of strength to turn around and saw Bronya standing where she had been.
Raiden Mei stood to Bronya's left, and Inaba Tsukiyo to her right. Bronya linked arms with them, and on her back was a cute girl she had never seen before.
Like a winner in life, Bronya merely glanced at Kiana falling down, then left with the others, including the Haxxor Bunny that had just appeared.
Kiana, of course, couldn't accept this. She wanted to go back and give Bronya a good beating, but she quickly fell to the ground.
As she got up from the ground, preparing to return to the top, a girl with golden twin tails appeared before her.
The girl shook a lantern glowing with blue flames, and ferocious-looking monsters appeared from all directions, surrounding Kiana.
The dream ended the moment these monsters lunged at her, and Kiana's memory stopped at the moment she picked up the gem of serenity.
Kiana sat up, a bit of a headache. She rubbed her head, feeling a bit of a headache.
No matter how much she tried to recall, Kiana couldn't remember what happened afterward, whether the Honkai had been stopped or anything else; it was all forgotten.
"Are you awake, Classmate Kiana? The mission is complete. You've worked hard."
Fu Hua, who had changed her clothes, noticed Kiana was up. She raised her eyes and said.
"Class Monitor? Where am I? What's going on now?"
"Nothing much. According to Classmate Inaba, you lost consciousness due to a strong Honkai Energy impact, and Classmate Inaba brought you out."
Of course, this was just Inaba Tsukiyo's account. Although Fu Hua, while evading police pursuit and running to the Russian intelligence network planted by Schicksal, encountered Siegfried, who was wanted by Schicksal.
Siegfried told Fu Hua that he had met Inaba Tsukiyo and handed her the box that could suppress the gem, and that she had gone to stop the Honkai outbreak.
However... before Fu Hua could get there, the room where the gem was stored had already been destroyed, and Inaba Tsukiyo and Kiana had long since disappeared.
They had... they had come to Russia together, but she had done all the work the entire time. Kiana was there to use public funds for food and drink, Inaba Tsukiyo was there to shop, and only at the very end did she contribute by recovering the gem.
Of course, a little hard work didn't matter. As a Divine Maiden of Shenzhou, she had done all sorts of things while working for Schicksal.
What pained Fu Hua the most was that the remaining funds had disappeared due to last night's events.
She couldn't possibly ask Schicksal to get the lost funds back, after all, the mission was already completed.
So... she was heartbroken!!!
Schicksal was very generous with mission funds. Every time Fu Hua went on a mission, there would be a lot, a lot of funds. If there were any remaining funds, they could be returned to Schicksal.
Initially, when Fu Hua did missions for Schicksal, she would always return the remaining funds.
But at some point, during some mission, Fu Hua changed. She no longer returned the remaining funds, always claiming that no funds were left.
Actually, Otto was well aware of why Fu Hua never returned the funds. One of the reasons was that Fu Hua used them for gacha games to make herself stronger.
Of course, this referred to in-game characters. To save the funds from each mission, Fu Hua always completed her missions diligently.
So, Fu Hua always followed a fixed pattern for every mission.
Accept mission — complete mission — submit mission — keep funds — gacha — ten-pull — fail — bankrupt — accept mission — complete... This infinite loop. Although Fu Hua's wallet would be bulging after each mission, this phenomenon would disappear within a few days.
Fu Hua had truly done a lot on the path to becoming stronger. By Fu Hua's A-Rank Valkyrie standards, even simple missions had tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands in funds, but each time ended in spectacular failure.
Most importantly, every time a gacha failed, Fu Hua's years of cultivation to achieve inner peace would be shattered. Each time, she would smash her phone and computer, which was another expense.
(Rewind to a past scene)
"Bishop, Fu Hua has submitted her mission report, but the funds for this mission haven't been submitted either."
"Oh? Is that so? Hehe~ I know what she's thinking, but it's fine. This is also one of our methods to keep her in Schicksal. After all, Anti-Entropy doesn't have that much money for her to spend. By the way, how are the annual profits of that game company we secretly acquired? Have we given any special treatment to my dear ally?"
"Well, due to the increased penetration rate of smartphones this year, more and more people are playing games, and many of them are spending money. The game's revenue is almost a tenth of Schicksal's total income. Also, every time there's an event, we specifically find people on Fu Hua's server to show off what they've pulled from the event, to stimulate Fu Hua to spend."
"What about the drop rate? Although I don't know why her luck is so bad, as long as she has money, she should eventually get what she wants, right?"
"Please rest assured, the drop rate for Fu Hua is limited. Instead of letting Fu Hua enjoy normal gacha like other players, specific rules are used. Bishop, please see."
If Fu Hua doesn't spend money on new items, she won't get them. Even if she does, they won't be available to her until a certain threshold is met, after which the drop rate will slowly increase by 0.01%.
After pulling, the drop rate drops back to 0.01%, so every time Fu Hua wants to pull something she desires, she either misses or gets something else she doesn't want.
"...Isn't that too much? Won't she realize someone is deliberately messing with her?"
"Please rest assured, Bishop. Even if Fu Hua is very mature, the game company's planners have hundreds of ways to make Miss Fu Hua hand over her money. This money will eventually return to Schicksal's pockets, and then, when Miss Fu Hua undertakes another mission, it will return to her pocket as funds, and this process will continue indefinitely."
"Is that so? Even I find it terrifying. I only intended to keep her in Schicksal through another method, but I didn't expect it to bring new income to Schicksal. It's an unexpected move."
Perhaps it was because of Otto's innate use of the [Golden Rule] that even as he continuously developed something called [Kallen Fantasy], the finances never showed a deficit.
Returning to Fu Hua's perspective, completely unaware that she had been manipulated by Otto, Fu Hua was about to pull out her phone to use her remaining gacha currency to comfort herself, only to find that her phone was nowhere to be found.
This was a special Schicksal-made 40KG phone, a unique product that could fully exercise both body and mind. Where could it have gone?
Fu Hua anxiously searched for her phone on the plane, but then she suddenly heard a very familiar sound—the sound of gacha.
Feeling a sense of unease, Fu Hua followed the sound to Classmate Inaba's location. Inaba Tsukiyo wasn't sitting with them but on another chair.
Upon arriving, Fu Hua saw Inaba Tsukiyo holding that familiar red phone. She didn't even need to look to know it was the phone she had been searching for.
"Classmate Inaba, what's going on? Why is my phone in your hand?"
"Oh, it's the class monitor. Actually, when I was coming over just now, I accidentally kicked something. When I picked it up, I realized it was a phone. I didn't expect it to be yours, Class Monitor."
When Inaba Tsukiyo returned to her seat just now, she accidentally kicked something. When she picked it up, she realized it was a phone.
She was about to ask whose phone it was, but the screen suddenly turned on, and a familiar sound came from the phone.
Opening her eyes slightly, Inaba Tsukiyo found that the phone screen was on the gacha page. It was a rare, limited-time banner.
Having not touched such mobile games for a long time, Inaba Tsukiyo couldn't resist the temptation and reached out to press the "Single Pull" option, and then Fu Hua came over.
"Is that so? Maybe I accidentally dropped it."
Fu Hua didn't suspect anything. Inaba Tsukiyo couldn't see (before), so even if she had the phone, she couldn't see any important things inside.
She probably pulled the gacha by accident.
Fu Hua didn't pay too much attention to it. In the past, to get what she wanted, she had already spent an unknown amount of money. Every time, she would end up like the black and white characters in JOJO, burnt out and collapsed on the side.
Fu Hua took the phone from Inaba Tsukiyo's hand. Just as she was about to put it back in her pocket, she suddenly noticed golden electricity appearing on the silver card on the phone screen.
"This... this is... a golden glow? No way, could it be that just one pull is enough to get it?"
A five-star card. Fu Hua had originally planned to gamble all the remaining funds from this mission on this banner to get the five-star card.
With the funds gone this time, Fu Hua could only wait for the next rerun.
But... but Inaba Tsukiyo actually got it in one pull?
No... not necessarily. What if it's just a golden glow? Even if the card turns golden, it might still be a four-star card in the end. She shouldn't get happy so quickly.
Fu Hua stared intently at the phone screen. Even when dealing with Walter, Fu Hua had never been this serious.
Finally, the result greatly exceeded Fu Hua's expectations: it wasn't a four-star, nor the imagined rise and fall, but a genuine five-star card!
Seeing this, Fu Hua immediately hugged Inaba Tsukiyo, completely unlike her usual calm self, making Kiana even wonder if it was really Fu Hua.
Inaba Tsukiyo, being hugged, felt the softness against her cheek and thought with some surprise.
'I didn't expect the class monitor to have some assets.'
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