Honkai: Strijder
Chapter 441: Sigurd — Irritable
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The explosive shocks came one after another. Senti's arms trembled as she struggled to hold the two shields steady under the relentless force. She could feel the immense pressure pressing down on her.
Yet as she was sent flying around by the blasts, the corners of her mouth curled upward.
"Yes, yes, yes! That's more like it, Kiana! This is what a real fight looks like! You're up in the sky, huh? I'll go up there and tear those wings off myself!"
The chain explosions blasted Senti toward a mountain wall that had already been sliced apart. Through the gap between the two shields, she quickly assessed the terrain. Seizing the moment, she slammed one of the shields fiercely against the cliff.
Half the mountain shattered and collapsed with a thunderous crash. Using that rebound force, Senti crazily drove her energy forward, forcing her way through the explosions coming from every direction and shooting straight into the sky like a rocket.
"Kiana!!!"
Like a bolt of black lightning, Senti laughed wildly as she rushed beneath Kiana, her fist already about to strike.
Kiana, however, crossed her arms and lifted the corner of her lips in a smile.
In the next second, countless golden ripples spread across the sky above, and lances of subspace rained down like a curtain of spears.
Whoosh!
The spear pierced through Senti—but shattered only an afterimage.
"Huh? Where are you?"
Kiana's relaxed smile vanished. She looked around carefully, then turned behind her.
There she saw a gigantic Senti, like a hundred-meter-tall titan, blocking out the sun. A massive fist descended toward her as if the sky itself were collapsing.
"Kiii—aaa—naa~~"
The giant Senti grinned fiercely, her slowed, thunderous voice echoing like a rumble.
Kiana absentmindedly dug at her ear, then glanced at the incoming punch. She raised one palm forward, while her two eyes shone with different lights—one gold, one red.
"Another illusion? No… for the Herrscher of Sentience, the boundary between illusion and reality probably doesn't even exist, does it?"
Kiana's lips curved upward.
The subspace lances reshaped themselves into shields, forming twelve layered arc-shaped barriers in front of her.
Boom!!!
Just as Kiana expected, the colossal fist—like the wrath of a god—shattered the shields one after another and continued straight toward her body.
At the same time, Kiana drew her right palm back beside her waist, taking a stance to strike. Brilliant golden flames ignited around her hand.
"Hoo—"
Kiana exhaled a breath laced with sparks and smiled slightly at the approaching fist.
"Flame Demon: Heaven-Splitting!"
A perfectly mastered Six Fists stance, carrying the explosive might of the Herrscher of Flames, enhanced with a trace of Blade Eminence's consciousness power—this strike truly seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth.
BOOM!!!
The collision tore open a massive spatial black hole in the sky. Beneath it, the countless layered mountains below were flattened entirely by the shock.
Before the black hole, Kiana still held her striking pose.
At that moment, Senti suddenly appeared beside her, a black greatsword slashing down from above.
"Your hand is really beautiful—and that attack was beautiful too! So how about letting me keep that hand for you? Hahaha!"
"That won't do. Sigurd would definitely get angry!"
Facing the sudden attack, Kiana smiled calmly. The golden eye flickered.
In the next instant, Senti's sword cut through empty air. The sword aura shot into the ground, carving a long, narrow canyon.
Meanwhile, Kiana appeared behind Senti, her palm aimed at the back of Senti's head. A small golden flame flickered in her hand as she grinned mischievously.
"Fly, Senti!"
Boom!!!
A beam of crimson fire shot across the sky, landing far away and blasting up huge amounts of molten rock, even creating a wave of magma.
"Huh? Still not the real body?"
Kiana's smile froze. At the moment Senti was swallowed by the flames, she had transformed into countless black feathers drifting through the air.
"The Herrscher of Void / Herrscher of Sentience… why is her power so troublesome!?" ×2
Kiana and Senti shouted the same complaint simultaneously.
The black feathers floating around Kiana pulsed with strange, restless energy—then suddenly detonated.
Bang!!!
After the black explosion faded, the only thing left in the sky was the slowly recovering spatial black hole from their earlier clash. Neither of the fighters could be seen.
At the same time, far away on a vast desert plain, Kiana stepped out from a ripple of golden light. Her white boots touched the ground, melting the sand beneath them as she rubbed her forehead in frustration.
Across from her, amid drifting black feathers, Senti reappeared, squatting atop a massive greatsword. She swung a meteor hammer casually while flashing an innocent, cheerful smile.
"Hahaha! Kiana, that was really fun today. Have you rested enough? Let's hurry and continue!"
"I'm not really tired. After all, I'm using two Herrscher cores, so I've got plenty of energy. But Fu Hua-sensei's body is already monstrous to begin with, so I imagine your energy is just as abundant, right?"
"Ha! Of course! In this world there's a truth as natural as the sun in the sky, and that is—Immortal Red Kite is forever the GOAT!"
"Makes sense! Come on then. Even though a mage build is the proper way for a Herrscher to fight, since it's you, let's have some fun with close combat instead!"
Kiana boldly invited the half-body of the founder of Shenzhou martial arts—the god of martial arts—to engage in close combat.
Then Senti swung her meteor hammer and smashed it forward.
"Come on! Fight me, Kiana!"
"Alright, Senti!!"
Kiana knocked the meteor hammer aside with her forehead and rushed forward with her fists raised.
At the same moment, Senti kicked the greatsword at her feet forward. With a quick step she caught up to the flying blade, grabbed the hilt, and thrust it straight toward Kiana's face.
And it was at that exact moment that Sigurd appeared between the two of them, his face dark.
BOOM!!!
Kiana's punch, blazing with roaring flames, struck Sigurd on the shoulder. Senti's greatsword stabbed with full force into Sigurd's waist.
Sigurd did not move an inch. Meanwhile, cracks appeared in Kiana's white arm-guard, and the tip of Senti's greatsword shattered.
"… " ×3
In the silence that followed, Sigurd looked up at the black hole in the sky and the land below—now turned from towering mountains into a desert. Thinking about the possibility that Kiana might even be pregnant, his face darkened even further.
A heavy pressure settled over the sweating Kiana and Senti.
The next second, Senti put away all her weapons, clasped her hands behind her head, and casually drew circles on the ground with one foot, looking completely uninvolved. Kiana also quickly withdrew her punch. Her white Herrscher dress-armor faded away, replaced by her cute white shirt and little red skirt.
Both of them looked around innocently and, almost at the same time, began whistling.
"Whew~ whew~ whew~~" ×2
"Hm?"
Sigurd narrowed his eyes.
Kiana might not actually be pregnant. Even if she were, Senti didn't know about it. The two of them were just happily sparring in the training ground. Not only did they avoid causing damage outside, but it was also good training to improve their abilities, something worthy of praise…
Sigurd tried to justify things for them in his mind. Then he grabbed Senti's head with his bare hand.
Senti: "Gah!?!"
BOOM!!!
A tremendous force slammed Senti's head straight into the ground. Her legs shot up into the air and twitched weakly.
Crack!
At the same time, the entire subspace training ground emitted a strange mechanical collapse sound. The desert landscape vanished, and the three of them returned to the training field's initial state—a wide, bright white room.
"Phew…"
Sigurd let out a long breath, released Senti's head, and slowly straightened up.
Did they think that just because their reason was justified Sigurd wouldn't make a move? What a joke. Since when did I, the great emperor, need to be reasonable? Just thinking about the possibility that Kiana might be pregnant while watching her fight so fiercely with Senti was enough to drive Sigurd's sanity to the brink. Since he was already this irritated, of course he needed to vent it, otherwise it wouldn't be good for his mental health.
Sigurd cast a sideways glance at the Senti lying on the ground like a corpse, then shifted his gaze toward Kiana, who was pressed against the wall and trying to quietly sneak out the door.
"Hic!"
Kiana trembled in fear and let out an involuntary squeak.
Then Sigurd's hand slowly reached toward her…
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