usatvline Chapter 1 The Little Gray Hair of Changkong City
Chapter 1 The Little Gray Hair of Changkong City
[Brain Storage] (P.S.: Some readers have expressed concerns that the protagonist in the first volume hasn't fully developed. For details, please refer to the end of chapter 100. You can start reading from chapter 29 of the second volume... although the author doesn't recommend it.)
"Well……"
As if he were having a nightmare, Li Qiong felt dizzy and disoriented. He could hear the noise around him, with men shouting and women crying in his ears. He opened his eyes slowly and with difficulty.
"Uh, unfamiliar sky... oh wait, what's going on?"
Why did I open my eyes to find myself surrounded by a group of strangely dressed people? And how did I end up lying here?
"The guy lying there isn't dead? Hey, if you don't want to get beaten up, get lost and stop getting in my way!"
"Ok?"
Li Qiong, who was still confused about the situation, got up from the ground and quickly realized that something was wrong: in the alley, besides the group of thugs and him, there was also a black-haired JK girl. Could it be that the girl was cornered here by these bastards?
"What happened to my clothes...?"
The black trench coat and the gloves that exposed his fingers—the familiar style and the slight sense of incongruity made him think of a possibility.
"Excuse me, where is this place?"
Seeing Li Qiong swaying as if he was about to fall over at any moment and asking such a nonsensical question, the delinquents thought of one possibility: he was an idiot.
"Big brother, this gray-haired guy is out of his mind. Look at him, he's still not leaving. He probably wants to meddle in other people's business. Why don't we beat him up?"
"Am I... Sora, the gray-haired girl?"
Looking at the purple-haired punk in front of him who made no attempt to hide his identity as a thug, Li Qiong frowned. Although he hadn't figured out the situation yet, if he had transmigrated and become the gray-haired Star Core Essence Galaxy Baseball Man, he shouldn't be afraid of a few thugs—as long as he had a baseball bat.
Just as Li Qiong was searching for a baseball bat, the blond scarred thug who had been persuaded by the purple-haired punk waved his hand.
Is it necessary?
"Just consider it as giving the new guy some practice."
After saying that, at the signal of the blond scarred man, several thugs walked over with menacing expressions.
"Hey, hey, hey, what do you want to do?"
Li Qiong retreated repeatedly. Was he about to be beaten by scum of society before he even understood what was going on? He couldn't help but feel a pang of panic. After all, he wasn't the Galaxy Batman—even if he might end up like that, he wouldn't have a bat!
Where's the bat? Where's the bat? Please, bat, come to the rescue!
As if hearing the cry from the depths of Li Qiong's heart, just as the thugs were about to beat him up, a strange scene appeared: Li Qiong's shadow projected on the alley wall turned into a cloud of "black mist" and floated up, forming the Galaxy Baseball Man's signature weapon before anyone could react.
"Something's not right, guys, this kid's a bit weird!"
"They actually have baseball bats?"
Although he still didn't understand what was going on, Li Qiong felt full of power after getting the weapon. Full of confidence, he decided to launch a counterattack before the other side could react.
"Hey, you bunch of scum, listen up: Get away from that girl!"
"Kid, if you want to be a hero and save the damsel in distress, you should at least see if you have the guts—Ah ...
"Third Brother!!!!"
Unsurprisingly, the thugs scattered like birds after seeing their leader being knocked away by a baseball bat that crackled with lightning. After the thugs ran away, the JK girl came running over with tears in her eyes.
"Thank you, thank you so much for saving me!"
Li Qiong, who had never been thanked by a girl before, felt a little smug, but reason told him to be a gentleman, to be elegant, and not to get carried away! So he just touched his head shyly.
"You're welcome, it's what I should do, hahaha..."
"You can't say that. Without you, I might... Oh, by the way, my name is Asakura Miyuki. Just call me Asakura. And you are?"
"Asakura Miyuki, hello, hello, my name is... wait, your name is Asakura Miyuki?!"
Li Qiongren, who was originally smiling like a flower, suddenly felt a chill all over his body, as if he had been subjected to the Ice Bucket Challenge.
[Calm down, calm down. It's just a coincidence of names. Besides, how could I possibly understand Far Eastern dialects? Maybe I misheard? It can't be that bad...]
"Yes, my name is Asakura Miyuki. Is there a problem?"
"No, of course not. Um, my name is Qiong, and I'm known in the martial arts world as Galaxy Baseball Man!"
Now that I've taken on the form of Sora, from this moment on, I am Sora. Sora later felt that this was a bit too impolite, so she added a sentence.
"Nice to meet you. By the way, Asakura, I have a few questions for you."
There are some things that still need to be understood. Qiong clearly realized that Asakura Miyuki was a good window into things, and if things were as he expected, it would be good to make plans early.
"This is it..."
"Damn it, stay away from that girl!"
Before Qiong could even speak, he saw a white-haired girl with twin tails wearing the same JK uniform as Asakura Miyuki kicking him from the other end of the alley, holding what looked like a pistol. It was immediately obvious that this was Kiana Kaslana from the Honkai Impact 3rd starter trio!
At this moment, Kiana had "just happened" to wander into Changkong City in search of her cheap father, Siegfried Kaslana. In the spirit of Kaslana, she searched for Siegfried while clearing out Honkai along the way. Just now, she suddenly sensed a trace of Honkai energy. While searching for traces of Honkai energy, she beat up a few clueless thugs. Then she saw a girl crying with tears streaming down her face and a man holding a baseball bat. In less than 0.01 seconds, before her brain could react, her body moved.
Let go of that girl and let me have her!
Oh no, I mean, stay away from that girl!
"Holy crap! Let me explain!"
The difference between the gray-haired star core spirit and the super-strong white fur ball was proven. Even though she blocked the flying kick with her baseball bat in a panic, Sora still took several steps back, while Kiana rushed over as if she wanted to fight her hand to hand.
"Wait a minute, there must be some misunderstanding between us!"
"Stop making excuses. I have no misunderstandings about you, you bastard who bullies girls!"
Listen to me!!!
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After the two explained to Kiana, the ashamed white-furred ball of fur was no longer able to stand up straight in front of Sora.
"Yes, I'm sorry. I just got a little anxious when I saw her being bullied by you..."
Staring at Sora's deadpan expression, Kiana assumed Sora wouldn't accept the apology. After all, she was angry to be accused of being the villain after doing a good deed and saving someone. But actually, Sora was speechless at Kiana. What happened to the promise that she'd become a paramecium after meeting the cook? Shouldn't she still be the European heiress who traveled all the way from Siberia to the Far East?
To express her gratitude, Asakura Miyuki then invited Sora and Kiana to her home. Sora promptly replied that she helped others without expecting anything in return, so there was no need for thanks! Just kidding, even if you haven't read the manga, anyone with a little knowledge knows who Asakura Miyuki is. She's a terrifying yandere, a pseudo-Herrscher, infected by Honkai energy! Making contact with someone like that could easily lead to being forced to "split up" the next second; it's better to leave it to Kiana to handle.
"Oh dear, they've invited you to their home, you should at least go once in a while, right?"
After a long while, looking at Asakura Miyuki's grateful gaze (?) and Kiana's untainted eyes, Sora sighed silently. With Kiana around, nothing should happen, right? Besides, she had nowhere else to go, didn't she?
"Miss Asakura, then I shall humbly accept your offer."
"So your name is Asakura. I am Kiana Kaslana! Gray-haired girl, what's your name?"
"Sky".
What's your name?
"Qiong, that's my name."
"Hahaha, Qiong, what a strange name! I still think Gray Fur sounds better! I've decided, from now on I'll call you Little Gray Fur!"
"Why is it Little Gray Fur?"
Watching Sora's helpless complaints and Kiana's lively figure, neither of them noticed the sickly blush on Asakura Miyuki's face. But even if they had noticed, it wouldn't have been that bad, because if you ignored the two purple lights deep in her eyes, she just looked like a typical teenage girl...
"These two are both kind and good people, more worthy of my love than those girls..."
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"Where should we go now...?"
As Qiong walked, he pondered his situation. He decided to first find some information about this world, and then think about how... he could survive.
He must have been so enraged after watching the scene where he defeated Jue that he was suddenly broken down by Prometheus's words, "Welcome to the moon," that he time-traveled.
Obviously, there's no going back, and thinking about it won't help. Let's focus on the present: According to Asakura Miyuki, she and Kiana are students at the local elite school (which seems to be an all-girls school?), Chiba Academy. They seem to be the background characters in that Sinner's Lament, right? It's still noon now. I'll wait until evening at the school gate to wait for the two of them to walk to the Asakura house together.
The reason she went to the school gate to wait for someone was because Sora said she didn't have a cell phone...
So now he could only wander around until school let out in the afternoon. As he walked, he came to a bustling street. Perhaps because it was still school hours, the street was filled with students and merchants trying to make money off them. Qiong awkwardly realized he was hungry and broke. But he could actually understand the Far Eastern dialect—was that a perk of being a transmigrator? (Thanks to Elijah Salas, inventor of the Collapse Iron Link Awakening Beacon and 56th member of the Genius Club)
"I'm so hungry..."
We can't just stay up until evening waiting for the yandere Asakura to treat us to dinner, can we?