[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: Team list set? Who's going?
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: Of course everyone is going!
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: This is our first offline meetup! I wanna see what that "Fireproof King" who keeps yelling about burning himself looks like!
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: That is a name the chat bestowed upon me. Even now, I don't really know how to use this thing.
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: smile.jpg flowers.jpg prosperity.jpg
The Fireproof King spammed a string of stickers.
Bai Qian turned his head and glanced out the porthole. The massive shadow already covered half his view—one of the Doomsday Beast's wings. In the distance, the Astral Express's trail was drawing closer.
The station's side should be handled by the Express crew. Besides, during the group raid, time in their original worlds would freeze. He could deal with everything here after they came back.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: @AAA Customer Service Saki, you going too?
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: That place isn't a joke. As far as I know, you're a normal high school girl, right? No Stand, no magecraft, no weird Originium arts.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: The reward's tempting, sure—but the mess in Nagazora City is probably tougher than your boss who only knows how to dock your pay.
The reply popped up fast—almost instant.
[AAA Customer Service Saki]: I'm going.
[AAA Customer Service Saki]: I have to go.
[AAA Customer Service Saki]: 1400 points.
Then another message.
[AAA Customer Service Saki]: This is the turning point of my life!
[AAA Customer Service Saki]: As long as I have this amount… as long as I have these points, I can…
The rest turned into ellipses.
But Bai Qian could already picture it:
A blue-haired girl in a cheap uniform staring at her phone, fingers whitening from the grip—seeing not Nagazora City, but the glitter of a future where she could finally dig diamonds out of manuscripts.
Person. Manuscript. Diamonds.jpg
Bai Qian didn't argue further. He just sent an OK hand sign.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: I'm signing up too.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: 1400 points—if Pointy-Hat Lady is willing, I can trade her for many things.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: Normally we can buy what we need from other members, but that costs points too. This might be a rare chance.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: Alina's been worrying about winter rations for the children.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: If risking my life alone can buy everyone in Reunion one full winter of food, it's a good deal.
[Dragon Sis Is Dragon]: And I want to see how other worlds fight disasters beyond this frozen wasteland.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: @Legendary, Fireproof King
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: You?
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: I want to go.
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: I want to see what lies beyond the Lands Between.
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: Here there is only fog, ruins, and endless struggle. The beauty of the past is gone… but life always finds a way.
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: Miss Kiana's talk of "campus springtime," and Miss Saki's bustling city—
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: even in disaster, I wish to witness such living scenes with my own eyes.
[Legendary, Fireproof King]: Please allow me to accompany you.
[Rin Tohsaka]: If everyone's this enthusiastic, then I suppose I have no choice but to join.
[Rin Tohsaka]: Don't misunderstand—I'm mainly observing another world's magical system.
[Rin Tohsaka]: And with the Holy Grail War approaching… my gem stockpile is, er—slightly insufficient.
[Rin Tohsaka]: 1400 points should buy a lot of high-quality rubies.
[Rin Tohsaka]: But let's be clear: I'm not babysitting. If a fight breaks out, Saki, hide behind me.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: Then it's settled. See you in Nagazora City.
List confirmed.
All villains—no, wait. Everyone's in.
Even Saki, the most "ordinary" one, had her fighting spirit ignited by the sheer gravitational pull of money.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: I'll arrive later. Probably last.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: I'm handling some trivial errands for you—your high school enrollment is done.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: Full tuition waiver. I never thought I'd do work on the level of 1+1.
Bai Qian raised an eyebrow.
He'd said they should "handle each other's affairs," but he hadn't expected much. Honestly, if Herta didn't cause chaos, that alone would've been a blessing.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: What high school?
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: One I picked at random. Shuwa High in Shimokitazawa.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: A café got a new hire named Gotou Hitori. Not sure if she's someone you know. I asked a few questions and just enrolled you in her school. Same class, too. One of them. You'll be there when you show up.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: …
So this was what "genius-level execution" looked like.
Gotou Hitori.
In Bai Qian's mind, a pink-haired girl in a tracksuit surfaced—shut in a closet, strumming a guitar.
Wait. Was his world some kind of all-in-one anime mashup?
Don't tell him Toyokawa Saki lived around the corner too—and if he turned left he'd see "Customer Service Saki" glaring at him in person.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: I don't have any friends there.
[Heart Thief Crew Boss]: And I know Gotou Hitori. She doesn't know me.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: Oh.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: Then I misunderstood.
[Pointy-Hat Lady]: Consider it partial repayment of your favor. Not that I'm paying it all back—my life isn't cheap enough for that.
Shuwa High. Bocchi.
That "great genius" really knew how to add spice to someone's life.
Bai Qian checked that his S.E.E.S. Evoker was still in place. Then another huge system prompt popped up in the chat.
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei has initiated: Nagazora City · Third Honkai Mission Teleport]
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: Um… this is how the function works, right?
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: Pull people, select… whatever, I'll just pull everyone in!
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: Huh? Why can I only pick one?
[Want Some Campus Springtime With Mei]: Then I'll pull Boss first! Boss definitely knows how to operate it!
Bai Qian's eyelid twitched.
He didn't even get to type wait before a flood of light swallowed him whole.
When the light faded, Bai Qian opened his eyes and surveyed his surroundings.
A quintessential high school girl's bedroom.
Manga piled in the corner. A uniform jacket half-draped over a chair, one sleeve dangling to the floor.
Right in front of him, a low table had been cleared. On it sat a pyramid of potato chip bags—and a neatly arranged ring of red soda cans.
And kneeling on the carpet behind those "offerings"…
was Kiana Kaslana.
Hands pressed together, eyes shut tight, lips moving at high speed as she mumbled nonstop. Her two white braids traced tiny circles in the air with every motion.
Bai Qian: ...
Are you seriously summoning me like a god right now?
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