Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 21 Arvit is taking a bath

Kiana? What are you doing here?

"Now!"

Kiana's appearance was clearly not in Asakura Miyuki's calculations. Although Sora was also surprised by Kiana's appearance, the problem at hand was obviously more important.

Instead of taking advantage of Asakura Miyuki's distraction to strike the girl's face or body with the bat, Sora chose to strike with the right hand holding the knife. Sora gripped the baseball bat with both hands and struck the spot where Asakura Miyuki was holding the knife.

With a "bang," the knife fell to the ground.

Asakura Miyuki winced in pain, withdrew her right hand, and retreated repeatedly until she was backed against the wall, with nowhere left to go.

"Little Grey, are you alright?!"

At the same time, Kiana rushed into the room.

"I'm fine, but what are you doing here?"

Qiong shook her head, then looked at Kiana with some confusion.

"Is there even a question? Of course they followed us!"

Tracking? With your kind of nighttime stealth tracking skills, not only could Rita not be detected, but even he and Miyuki Asakura could be found?

But thinking about it, it makes sense. On the way, she was preoccupied with contingency plans and conversation lines, and Asakura Miyuki was probably also "excited" to no end. Neither of them paid attention to avoiding being followed, so it was hard to say whether Kiana could be exposed if she hid for a little while.

"Didn't I say that I have extensive experience in stealth? That night was just an accident."

Ah yes, yes, yes, an unexpected surprise.

"Kiana..." Looking at Miyuki Asakura's big, watery eyes, you might think that Sora had bullied her.

"Things aren't what you think!"

"This door isn't soundproof, and you're very loud. I could hear everything from the doorway."

Upon hearing this, her previously bright, watery eyes and pale face disappeared, replaced by a gloomy expression as if someone owed her money.

It's a pity that Chiba Academy doesn't have Sichuan opera face-changing, otherwise Asakura Miyuki would definitely have gotten an excellent grade, right?

"Asakura, let's talk." Sora raised the baseball bat in her hand and pointed it at Asakura Miyuki.

"You, you, you! Why did you reject me! Why!"

Miyuki Asakura, who could maintain her rationality and pretense even with Kiana, instantly turned angry upon hearing Sora speak. This surprised Sora, who was about to negotiate.

We have the upper hand now, but how do we negotiate and resolve the issue?

"Qiong, let me do it. I also have something to ask you."

Kiana's tone suddenly became stiff and cold, even changing "Little Gray Hair" to "Sky," which, combined with the gun in her hand, sent chills down one's spine.

"Miyuki, I've investigated at school. You've confessed to many girls, but without exception, they all disappeared... It's because they didn't accept your confessions, so you killed them all, right? Just like what you're trying to do to Sora today?!"

Asakura Miyuki's face turned manic again.

"I can't hide it anymore, I can't hide it anymore... Why are you doing this to me! Why does everyone reject me! Ha, ha, ha... Kiana, I must correct you, it's not 'kill'."

She could no longer keep up the act; Asakura Miyuki's psychological defenses had been completely breached, and she revealed her true self to the two of them.

"They just received their due punishment for not accepting my love... Are you and Qiong going to reject me too?!"

"Asakura, calm down!"

Qiong wanted to say something to salvage the increasingly erratic Asakura Miyuki, but he didn't really understand the art of language and could only advise her to calm down—although doing so hadn't worked before.

Asakura Miyuki, who was laughing wildly, stared at the two people in front of her. A few seconds later, her eyes turned scarlet. If it wasn't a hallucination, her fingernails seemed to have grown longer. Fearing that the other party would go crazy and hurt people again, Sora decisively kicked the fruit knife away.

Without weapons, it probably won't be a big problem, right? No, in human fights, teeth are weapons; in women's fights, even fingernails might be weapons…

"I won't allow it! I won't allow you to refuse me!"

"Has it been corrupted to this extent by the power of collapse...?"

The two were only a few steps away from Asakura Miyuki, and she could pounce on them anytime she wanted. Therefore, Sora held her stick in both hands, ready to strike Asakura Miyuki if she were to pounce. At the same time, she prepared to call for backup.

"Alvit, Alvit! Kiana, watch out, Asakura Miyuki—wait, no!"

Most of his attention was focused on the girl in front of him, who had already been infected by Honkai energy. He had only intended to remind the white-haired girl, who probably didn't need to be reminded at all, to be careful, but instead he saw her loading a gun. So he quickly used one hand to stop her and placed it on Kiana's pistol.

"Let me go! Miyuki's 'Honkai Disease' is deeply ingrained and incurable! All we can do is free her!"

"I'll say the same thing to you as I did to Asakura: Some things you can't do, because once you do them, there's no going back!"

"Hee hee hee……"

Seeing that the two had briefly relaxed their guard, Asakura Miyuki rushed over.

"Asakura!" Sora swung the baseball bat at Asakura Miyuki with her bare hands.

"Wake up!" With those words, electricity crackled around the bat, and it struck Asakura's well-developed—chest...

After all, there's a thick layer of fat there; it should provide good cushioning, right?

"Why did you reject me..."

Before falling into a coma, Miyuki Asakura still seemed to harbor resentment towards them.

"Alvitt, Alvitt, Master, Big Sister! Where are you?!"

Shouting at the poorly soundproofed door next door, Sora planned to use Asakura Miyuki's unconscious state and Kiana's hesitation about whether to shoot her to relieve her (Sora told herself this was very possible) to bring out Aluvert, the Valkyrie of Destiny, to pin her down. But where was she?

"Qiong, I'm taking a shower! Is something wrong?"

"No, who's going to take a shower this afternoon? There's a matter of life and death here!"

In the crucial moment in the bathroom, Qiong had already imagined how he would "tell on" Rita:

"Young Master Qiong, what's wrong?"

"Kiana and I teamed up to defeat Asakura Miyuki, who was infected by Honkai energy."

"What about Alvitt?"

"Alvit is taking a bath."

Of course, it's just a thought. After all, he's kind of like a cheap mentor to me... right?

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Raven chose to ignore the loud, demolition-like noises coming from the neighboring rooms, along with the girl crying and the man shouting.

Everyone has a penchant for gossip and juicy stories. Perhaps Miss Natasha Ciora, a traveler from Siberia, might be curious, but the mercenary Raven would never pay attention to things that don't concern him during a mission; at times like these, the less trouble, the better.

Besides, curiosity killed the cat.

Having concealed the Seven Thunders of Purification, she now needs to find the room the Valkyrie booked in this hotel. However, for safety's sake, she should avoid the room where people are inexplicably gathered and investigate other places first.