Chapter 14: I Am Kiana Kaslana
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Elysia: “I found Kiana!”
When Jiang Qiao woke up from his sleep, he saw Elysia’s message in the chat group.
“That fast?”
“Let me guess, it wouldn’t happen to be that you caught Kiana in the act of heroic rescue, would it?”
Resting against the soft pillow, Jiang Qiao drowsily raised his slender jade hand and yawned, combining this with what had happened before, he casually speculated.
Elysia: “Guh! You guessed it right, how annoying, I wanted to keep it a mystery!”
Elysia: “It really was a heroic rescue~ Mei was attacked by Honkai Beasts, fortunately Kiana appeared in time, otherwise the situation would have been dangerous!”
You could tell the girl was quite shaken by this incident.
Jiang Qiao, lying sideways on the bed with his fist propping up his cheek, looked at Elysia’s group messages and found it somewhat amusing.
“Even if Kiana hadn’t appeared, Raiden Mei wouldn’t have been in any real trouble.”
Elysia: “Eh? Really?”
The Elysia on the other end was obviously quite confused by this statement.
However, Jiang Qiao was quite certain about this.
“Do you think Cocolia would just let Raiden Mei, who is the core of the plan, die at the hands of mere Honkai Beasts?”
Of course not.
In reality, Bronya had been monitoring Raiden Mei from the shadows all along, and she also had the responsibility to prevent any accidents from happening to Raiden Mei.
“If Kiana hadn’t appeared, then the one who would have shown up before Raiden Mei would probably have been Bronya.”
Jiang Qiao recalled the manga about the Third Eruption that he had once read. Although many of the settings in it were quite confusing and inconsistent, there was no doubt that Bronya cared greatly about Raiden Mei’s safety.
Even in the most dangerous rooftop jumping scene with Raiden Mei, he suspected that even if Kiana hadn’t saved her, that cooking girl would still have been caught and rescued by Bronya with her Project Bunny.
Elysia: “Emmm, but anyway the result was still good, we found Kiana.”
Elysia: “Kiana is really such a cute girl!”
Seeing this message, Jiang Qiao suddenly felt playful and asked back:
“Cuter than Raiden Mei?”
Elysia: “You can’t say such mischievous things~ Mei and Kiana are equally cute of course!”
“That’s indeed something you would say. If a man said that, he’d definitely be called a scummy player.”
Elysia: “Hmm~ This is a beautiful girl’s privilege~”
“Well said, I suggest you go say that to Raiden Mei and Kiana right now.”
If Elysia used her own body to say such things to those two, she’d definitely be struck by divine punishment.
Jiang Qiao thought so.
Elysia: “How mean! But I didn’t expect to encounter such great danger before even confronting the mastermind plotting behind Nagazora City. This really isn’t an easy task.”
Sakura Kyoko: “Seriously, the chat group has almost become you two’s couple channel. Every time I open it, there’s 99+ messages. If you’re bored, I suggest eating some sour plums!”
Yunyun: “Co…couple channel!?”
Hu Tao: “Would you like a couple’s package? Our Wangsheng Funeral Parlor is having a promotion, half price!”
Elysia: “We don’t need that sort of thing at all!”
Through casual chatting during her free time, she had already understood what Hu Tao’s situation was all about.
Needless to say, she respectfully declined.
Although she was interested in Hall Master Hu, who Jiang Qiao described as a little beauty, a one-stop service really didn’t suit a beautiful girl in the prime of her youth.
“Your side is still relatively good. I’m probably about to go to the battlefield soon. What a headache.”
Jiang Qiao didn’t mind the silly group members’ teasing. After all, he quite liked Elysia, didn’t he?
Besides, he had already changed bodies, so wasn’t this following the script of his name?
Rather than complaining, he was more expressing his own troubles.
Hu Tao: “Hmm? Are you going to war?”
Hall Master Hu seemed to have caught some key words.
Ahem, don’t misunderstand, she just felt that since there was going to be a war, complete preparations should be made.
Of course, Hu Tao herself was quite opposed to war, since war was always closely related to death.
Elysia: “Is the Second Eruption about to break out?”
Seeing Jiang Qiao’s group message, Elysia’s expression became somewhat grave.
In fact, before she had switched bodies, there had been some rumors circulating within Fire Moth about a Honkai eruption coming soon. Elysia had naturally just been living her own life while preparing for this possible battle.
She hadn’t expected such a change to occur.
Now sensing the atmosphere of war, Elysia couldn’t help but worry about Jiang Qiao’s side.
If they went to the battlefield, the Previous Era might be even more dangerous than her side.
“Probably. Yesterday I met Mobius, and she warned me to train well and prepare. I guess the Fire Moth higher-ups have probably already received news and started making preparations.”
“Just looking at her expression, I could tell something big was definitely going to happen.”
Elysia: “Dr. Mobius…”
Although she wasn’t sure how Jiang Qiao had come to know her, if he said so, then the outcome was probably pretty close to certain.
Elysia, who was biting her lip in worry, caught the attention of Mei beside her, who asked with some concern:
“Jiang Qiao, is something wrong?”
“Ah, I’m fine.”
Elysia, snapping back to attention, shook her head and looked toward Kiana who was sitting on the other side of the dining table.
They had already returned to the Raiden Residence.
Speaking of which, it was a bit embarrassing, but they had originally wanted to have a meal outside while talking, since it was already noon. Unfortunately, Elysia was a penniless person, and Mei’s life was quite tight because her family assets had been frozen, making dining out rather extravagant.
No matter how thick-skinned they were, they couldn’t possibly let Kiana pay — actually, Kiana couldn’t afford it either.
After being squeezed dry, she hadn’t even received today’s wages yet, and dinner wasn’t even settled.
Various reasons led to Elysia and the others having to bring Kiana back home.
At the dining table, she had also told Kiana about her purpose and the disaster that might befall Nagazora City, hoping she could join their team to save the city together.
Elysia had given Kiana some time to think it over, and now it was time to ask for her answer:
“Kiana, have you decided?”
“This kind of question doesn’t even need thinking about!”
Although Honkai eruption was a disaster that Kiana had only heard about from her stinky old man, and she knew that trying to stop such a disaster would be a matter of life and death, as long as there was a chance to save this city, no matter how difficult or dangerous it was, Kiana’s answer could only be one.
“I am Kiana Kaslana!”