In a dark and narrow space.
Hoshimi Aya clutched her abdomen in pain, her face contorted.
Suddenly, the top of the space opened up, and two heads poked in, looking at the situation inside.
These two people were Ling and Zhe.
"Is this... Hoshimi Aya?!"
"What happened to her?"
"She seems to be in a lot of pain."
Ling looked at Hoshimi Aya inside the trash can with some confusion. Although she looked very pained, there were no obvious injuries visible on her body.
So, injury could be ruled out as the first possibility.
"I have a guess, I wonder if it's right?"
"Do you remember what she said yesterday?"
Zhe asked.
Hearing Zhe's words, Ling immediately thought of something.
"I know!"
"But, Brother, didn't you say yesterday that she was..."
Ling suddenly realized something and immediately changed her wording.
"As someone from the Hoshimi Family, she shouldn't be getting stomach aches from hunger."
"Brother, perhaps she wasn't lying yesterday?"
Ling guessed.
Suddenly, Hoshimi Aya in the trash can jolted awake, and her body's reflex action kicked the trash can, punching a hole through it.
This startled Ling and Zhe greatly, and they immediately backed away.
Hoshimi Aya inside the trash can looked at her intact body and stood up in a daze.
Hoshimi Aya saw a man and a woman not far away, plus three Bangboo, and felt a strange sense of familiarity.
A sharp pain shot through Hoshimi Aya's head again. She hugged her head and crouched down in agony.
At the same time, the scene on the field changed again, with figures moving rapidly.
Hoshimi Aya, clutching her head in pain, didn't notice this scene; the intense pain made it impossible for her to open her eyes.
When the scene stabilized, Hoshimi Aya relaxed.
But her eyes were filled with confusion.
"Who... who am I?!"
Hoshimi Aya looked at herself in confusion.
She didn't understand what was going on.
Every time she felt a sense of familiarity, memories always brought her pain.
Suddenly, Hoshimi Aya was drawn to a giant Nine-Tailed Fox not far away.
It was a Nine-Tailed Fox that appeared to be composed of black flames.
"Only with power can you curb the strong and aid the weak!"
"Only with power can you distinguish good from evil!"
"Hoshimi! Draw your blade!"
"Draw your blade! Prove to me you are worthy of holding this blade!"
"Draw your blade! Slash!"
"Slash through everything!"
The Nine-Tailed Fox suddenly spoke, and at the same time, Hoshimi Aya, for some unknown reason, moved into a drawing motion.
The demon blade had just emerged a tiny bit from its sheath when the scene before Hoshimi Aya shifted again.
Several familiar figures reappeared before Hoshimi Aya.
Anby, Nicole, Billy, and Eous were all standing there, facing her with vigilance.
Suddenly, Hoshimi Aya uncontrollably drew her blade and swung it toward the group.
Seeing this, Hoshimi Aya tried hard to adjust the blade's trajectory, causing the two slashes of light to deviate and only strike the tunnel behind them.
Then, the scene before Hoshimi Aya began to change rapidly again.
In every rapidly changing scene, Hoshimi Aya felt an intense familiarity.
Soon, Hoshimi Aya returned to that quiet lake surface, with the Nine-Tailed Fox quietly lying nearby.
"What's going on?"
"What were those things just now?"
"Those were things I clearly experienced before, why couldn't I remember them just now?!"
Hoshimi Aya slapped her forehead in confusion.
At the same time, she was puzzled by the current situation. She remembered being inside a large glass cylinder, and after the cylinder was filled with green liquid, she passed out.
What was this situation now?
Hoshimi Aya's expression was filled with confusion. Seeing this, Hoshimi Aya walked straight toward the Nine-Tailed Fox not far away, intending to wake it up and ask what the current situation was.
However, Hoshimi Aya had only taken a few steps when the scene before her changed again.
She arrived in a room.
In front of Hoshimi Aya, a young boy appeared, playing Zenless Zone Zero.
"This is... me?!"
"Is this... my home?!"
Hoshimi Aya stared blankly at her surroundings.
Everything here felt incredibly familiar.
But had she forgotten something?
Suddenly, Hoshimi Aya's head began to throb violently again.
Afterward, the scene before Hoshimi Aya began to change again.
She arrived at the place where she crossed over into Zenless Zone Zero.
This time, she appeared in the form of a spirit.
Suddenly, a ball of light appeared not far in front of her.
The ball of light gradually took shape, transforming into a fox-eared girl who slowly landed on the ground, and along with her landing, came a blade.
"This scene..."
"Is this the moment I crossed over into Zenless Zone Zero?"
"But why am I being shown this?"
Hoshimi Aya looked at the scene before her with some doubt, unsure why she was being made to watch this.
She was quite familiar with the method of crossing over; such a method was within her own assumptions.
So, she wasn't very surprised by it.
Suddenly, the fox-eared girl woke up.
"Mmm..."
"Where am I?"
The girl rubbed her eyes, looking groggy.
Suddenly, the girl froze, seemingly discovering something unbelievable.
"Holy crap!!"
The girl sprang up, leaping more than three meters high.
"What is going on?!!"
"How did I turn into a girl?!!"
The girl displayed a look of terror.
At the same time, she reached down to touch her lower body, checking something.
But after confirming, the girl showed a wronged expression, looking as if she was about to cry.
However, Hoshimi Aya was equally shocked.
"What is going on?!"
"Why don't I have this memory?!"
Hoshimi Aya looked at this scene in disbelief.
She could be absolutely certain that the girl before her was herself.
Hoshimi Miyabi's face, the uniform of H.S.O.S 6, and the demon blade kyuubi.
All of this indicated that this was her.
But why did she have no memory of this segment?
And this was clearly completely different from how she remembered waking up!
Meanwhile, the girl, after her sadness, noticed the blade at her feet.
"Huh?!"
"This blade looks so familiar?!"
"It looks like... the demon blade tail-less?!"
The girl picked up the blade lying by her feet and stared at its shape in surprise.
Seeing this, the girl tried to draw the blade out.
After the blade sheath was partially opened, the girl saw her own reflection and her eyes widened again.
"Did I... turn into Hoshimi Miyabi?"
The girl sheathed the blade and touched her own cheek and the pair of fox ears on her head, utterly astonished.
"Then this place is... Zenless Zone Zero?!"
"The Hollow?!"
The girl looked around in disbelief.
But after the shock came a wave of joy.
"That's great."
"I can't believe I actually became Section Chief Miyabi, and I was even given a demon blade."
The girl jumped up and down excitedly, as if she hadn't just been crying over losing her younger brother.
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