Thanks for the invitation! I am in Honkai, still connected

Chapter 409 69 - All Men Must Die, Some Scumbags Need a Little Help

The gift is for Fu Hua!!As if struck by a bolt from the blue, Durandal froze, looking for all the world like a dull goose.

"Is that so hard to understand?" Li Zihan scratched the back of his head, speaking casually.

Of course, it's hard to understand!!

The last time she saw Fu Hua, she remembered the Immortal looking at Li Zihan with an expression that said, "I'm just humoring a child." How on earth did they suddenly jump to the level of marriage?!

Where is King Crimson?!

Hurry up and drag him out to be shot!!

Looking at the person who had so naturally stated that he was already married to Fu Hua, Miss Dull Goose began to doubt her own life for the first time ever.

"Chaldeas is an organization that guides history. Is it really so strange that I used it to travel fifty thousand years into the past and marry Fu Hua?" the young man said with a shrug, seemingly noticing Miss Dull Goose's abnormal state.

"Director, if I recall correctly, Chaldeas's Rayshift requires the ability to observe the corresponding era," Miss Dull Goose, who had spent a long time at Chaldeas, retorted swiftly, her mind racing as she pointed out the flaw in his statement. "But the furthest we can reasonably observe is five thousand years ago. It's fundamentally impossible to Rayshift to the Previous Era."

Huh?

The Dull Goose is this sharp?

The young man, whose impression of Durandal had always been that of a ditz, was momentarily stunned. He then smiled and revealed his utterly ridiculous method.

"But my Authority as a Herrscher is Time. Chaldeas's Rayshift just helps me save some energy. Afterward, I used my Herrscher Authority to leap across the river of time."

Using a Herrscher Authority to jump from five thousand years ago to fifty thousand years ago?!

Miss Dull Goose and Miss Raven beside her were both dumbfounded.

That was too damn ridiculous.

Hey, hey, hey, that's fifty thousand years into the past!

The energy consumption for that would be something no single Herrscher could possibly withstand!

You could even say that combining the Honkai energy of all the Herrschers at Chaldeas and all of Schicksal's Honkai reactors wouldn't be enough!

"Captain… did you burn up an entire planet?"

Feeling that his explanation was far too absurd, Dull Goose hesitated, wanting to speak but holding back, before finally squeezing out the question.

"Not to that extent."

Li Zihan shook his head at her remark.

His own energy as a Herrscher was indeed insufficient.

But there was no rule stating that Herrscher Authorities had to be powered by Honkai energy.

And here, one had to mention Goetia.

As the First Beast, that fellow had planted the seeds for the Incineration of the Human Order three thousand years ago. After the Grand Bomber, Leff, confirmed that "humanity is worthless," he burned human history and obtained enough mana to travel back to the very birth of the Earth.

And then his Temple of Time blew up.

Just like a certain villa on an island, or the Jade Chamber.

Before he could find a new host, he was ambushed by Ling, who was hidden inside Solomon's tenth ring.

And then there was no "and then."

All the energy he had gained from incinerating human history—energy that, according to the lore, could turn the Earth to glass with a single shot—was packed up and taken away by Li Zihan.

Your Noble Phantasm will forge my future (DIO face).

Clearly, using the mana of the First Beast to take a stroll fifty thousand years into the past was not a difficult task.

"But speaking of which, why are you so surprised to hear this?" the young man asked, looking at the bewildered Miss Dull Goose as if he'd discovered something interesting.

"As a scumbag who doesn't do multiple-choice questions, is it strange for me to decide to marry many girls?"

As expected, words that left one speechless came from the young man's mouth.

How could she not be surprised?

Standing to the side, Miss Raven glanced at the man with beautiful golden eyes, then back at the well-developed version of Eriri beside her, complaining internally.

This was like a competition where a certain golden-haired loser dog was still struggling to even qualify for the race, only to be told before she even entered the arena that "the finals are already over."

She felt an inexplicable sense of exhaustion.

Miss Raven, who had just found a new job with Miss Dull Goose and hadn't even had a chance to start, clutched her chest, feeling a little stuffy.

So, Durandal's only premise for establishing a relationship with the Director was that he had to be a "massive playboy"?

How truly pathetic.

Then, her face fell.

If Miss Dull Goose failed in her romantic pursuit, she wouldn't get the wingman funds and would have to go back to working at Chaldea.

She, who would be back to eating dirt, was even more pathetic.

So, whether or not she got paid depended entirely on whether this guy was the legendary super stud?

Miss Raven turned her head and looked at the person holding a small bag, a polite, faint smile on his face.

Bro, get excited!

Can't you damn well see Durandal is racing ahead on the path of giving herself away for free?!

All you have to do is show a little interest, and you can have her!!

Go for it already!!

Miss Raven, who wished she could possess the Director and KO Miss Dull Goose with a string of sweet nothings, roared internally.

"By the way, Fu Hua borrowed the kitchen of a nearby Chinese restaurant and is cooking some dishes. Would you two like to join?"

The young man, a perfectly polite smile on his face, seemed to recall something and extended an invitation to the two "shopping" girls.

"Fu Hua's cooking is amazing."

Hey, hey, hey, what's with this tone, like he's showing off how virtuous his wife is?!

The words, so proper they were abnormal, reached Raven's ears, and her expression instantly darkened.

But before it could stay dark for long, her face turned to one of horror.

She felt a killing intent.

Like a rusty machine, Miss Raven stiffly turned her head toward Durandal.

The golden-haired knight's face was devoid of expression, but on her slender forearm, a faint mark had appeared.

Miss Raven, who knew a great deal about the Previous Era from her long service to the World Serpent, felt her expression twist in horror.

That was the mark of the Divine Key—Black Abyss White Flower.

The appearance of such a mark meant that Durandal was drawing power from her weapon and entering a combat state.

In one of the animated shorts, Durandal had used the power of her Divine Key to fight evenly with the bare-handed Sovereign of the World Serpent.

Clearly, the current Durandal had entered combat mode.

Feeling the increasingly terrifying aura, goosebumps rose on Miss Raven's skin.

Durandal…

…looked like she was about to snap.

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