Su Yu let his gaze rest on Kiana for a moment, then frowned.
A very real problem surfaced in his mind—
This girl was still an undocumented nobody. No ID, no records. A "black household."
In an era of big data, police rarely stopped random pedestrians to check identification, and Kiana behaved normally enough that she didn't stick out in a crowd. For now, there wasn't much risk.
As long as she didn't take high-speed rail, or wander into a bank wearing a mask, they could usually get by.
But their goal was to become famous.
Those four characters might as well be written across their foreheads: PLEASE COME ARREST ME.
Once Honkai 3rd truly blew up, and she—its real-life prototype—stood under the spotlight, the eyes of the world would follow. The kind that got into every crack. The kind that dug with microscope-level intensity.
And when that happened, "no such person found" wouldn't just be an awkward social phrase.
It would be a ticking bomb strapped to both of them.
They couldn't exactly expect to tell a police officer, "She's my 2D wife who crossed over from anime."
At best they'd be taken to detention. At worst… some "mysterious department" that studied aliens. Or straight to a psych ward for electroshock therapy.
Su Yu shook his head and forced those hair-loss-inducing scenarios out of his mind.
Worrying now wouldn't solve tomorrow's problems.
His eyes returned to the system panel hovering in midair.
If the system had issued a main quest that literally required "pushing her into the world," then by the usual game/novel logic, the solution to the "future worries" problem was probably hidden somewhere in the quest chain rewards.
Still, he didn't like the idea of sitting around and trusting the system entirely. Later, he'd ask around among people he knew.
When the cart reaches the mountain, there'll be a road. When the boat reaches the bridge, it'll go straight. And if there's no road—
He glanced at the girl sitting in front of him.
Don't forget: she was a Valkyrie who could split mountains.
But right now, instead of going bald over trouble that hadn't happened yet, they should take the first step properly.
"Alright." Su Yu pulled over his chair, opened a document editor, and hovered his fingers above the keyboard. His gaze sharpened. "Then let's begin."
Sunlight slanted in through the window, laying down a warm yellow patch on the floor.
Chongchong had long since claimed that patch like it was prime real estate—belly-up, purring like a smug tractor.
Su Yu stared at the blank document. "I want to start with the easier parts."
Kiana sat on a small stool with her hands properly on her knees, back straight—like an elementary student waiting to be called on.
"The easier parts?"
"Yeah." Su Yu nodded. "Like… before the Third Honkai eruption. Chiba Academy. Daily life. Days without monsters and running for your life."
Kiana's eyes shifted slightly.
Those were some of the few fragments of her life that could be called normal.
"What do you want to know?" she asked.
Su Yu thought for a second.
"Just talk casually."
"Like what happened on your first day. Was the cafeteria food any good? Any unlucky incidents you still remember? Or… a fateful, interesting encounter?"
Kiana froze, clearly not expecting his "source material gathering" to sound like small talk.
"…You even want this kind of trivial stuff? The more detail, the better?"
"Details make or break things." Su Yu lied with a straight face. "Players love everyday details. That's immersion. Treat it like you're telling me a bedtime story—whatever comes to mind."
Kiana fell silent.
She turned her head, gaze passing through the window toward the sky—still blue in this world.
That blue overlapped with the sky above Nagazora City, on that day.
"It was… a day with really good weather," she said softly.
"Nagazora City. A metropolis with a million people."
"I found traces of my dad there… traces of Siegfried."
Su Yu's fingers began to dance across the keyboard.
"To follow the lead, I slipped into Chiba Academy." When she said the name, her voice steadied. "I originally wanted to investigate abnormal data."
"Slipped in?" Su Yu raised a brow. "Not enrolled normally?"
"…Kind of a transfer student." Kiana's eyes drifted away, glossing over certain details that probably involved illegal access.
"Anyway, I got in. It was an all-girls school. Really big—three classroom buildings, and even the gym was indoors."
"Oh, and the garden was pretty. There was a white gazebo, surrounded by cherry trees."
Su Yu typed as his mind automatically generated the most stereotypical Japanese campus dating-sim backdrop—falling sakura petals, school buildings in sunset glow, and a first encounter with a built-in soft-focus filter.
"What about the first day?" he pressed. "Something big had to happen."
A strange blush rose on Kiana's cheeks, and her gaze started drifting again.
"…I was late."
"Late?"
"Yeah." Her voice got awkward, like a kid caught red-handed. "The night before, I was chasing leads and got too excited. Didn't sleep well. Overslept in the morning, couldn't find my uniform tie… so in the end I ran out the door with a piece of toast in my mouth."
"Pfft."
Su Yu's fingers froze above Enter. He couldn't help it—he laughed out loud. "Toast in your mouth? That is so classic. Miss Kiana, may I ask which 90s shōjo manga you traveled here from?"
Kiana glared at him and flailed a fist, mortified. "Are you listening or not?!"
"I'm listening, I'm listening—please continue." Su Yu raised both hands in surrender, but the grin wouldn't leave his face.
"When I got to the school gate, it was already closed." Her tone softened, warmed by nostalgia. "I thought, well, my athleticism isn't bad. I can just climb over."
"So I found a short section of wall and started climbing."
"And then?" Su Yu asked.
"And then…"
Kiana paused.
"I had just gotten onto the wall—straddling the top—when I saw someone."
Su Yu stopped typing. The room held only the quiet hum of the air conditioner.
"It was a girl."
Kiana's eyes went distant.
"She was sitting in that gazebo in the garden, holding a book. Sunlight filtered through the cherry blossoms onto her, and when the wind blew, petals drifted around her… She looked like she was glowing."
The faint smile at the corner of her mouth turned gentle.
"Long purple hair. Really pretty. Her uniform was perfectly neat, and her posture was so proper it felt like someone measured it with a ruler."
"Raiden Mei?" Su Yu asked, pretending not to know, as he typed the name into the document.
Kiana nodded. "That was the first time I ever saw her."
Her voice carried a bitter little smile.
"I was sitting on top of the wall, still biting half a piece of toast. My hair was probably a bird's nest, my collar crooked. She heard the noise and looked up—that look…"
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