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Chapter 303 – Best Friends
🕑 Added 2025-09-05 15:39:20 +0000 UTCHow should this be put?
The Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, and the Third Herrscher undoubtedly share a bond—an inseparable connection.
During the Second Eruption, it was Nagami who played the role of the Herrscher of the Void, but the core he used wasn’t the true Core of the Void.
What synchronized and merged with the four Herrscher gems gifted by Miss Honkai… was Sirin’s own Herrscher core.
In other words, the Gem of Conquest—the source of the Third Herrscher’s power was once a fragment of Sirin’s Herrscher core.
Calling her “half of me”… isn’t exactly wrong.
But more accurately? Maybe just a fifth.
“Hmph. I’m warning you, Second Herrscher—Nagami belongs to us! Stay away from him!”
The corners of Herrscher Mei’s lips curved coldly as her violet eyes narrowed into sharp slits.
To avoid frying every appliance nearby, she pulled the raging arcs of lightning tighter, condensing them into the shape of a crackling thunder spear.
“And you, little duck head over there. I’ll let you off this once—for Mei’s sake. But if you dare try this again…”
Her eyes snapped open fully, and her dazzling, otherworldly violet gaze slashed toward Bronya like blades of lightning.
“What nonsense are you spouting! That’s my servant! Do you have a death wish? Don’t think being my ‘half-body’ means I won’t strike you down!”
Sirin’s voice cracked with fury.
Her molten-gold eyes burned like lava, seething with anger.
Behind her, the fabric of the void rippled with disturbance, like waves on still water—any second now, icy spears of subspace could burst forth.
They were all Herrschers here.
Neither Sirin nor Herrscher Mei wasted time calling the other “ants” or such drivel.
The rippling space and the dancing thunder balanced against one another, forming a fragile equilibrium in the dorm’s living room.
Both sides were careful to keep their energy tightly contained.
Normally, Kiana and Mei would’ve stepped in—stopping their Herrscher personas from fighting each other.
But this wasn’t a normal situation.
Forget stopping them—right now, both girls were actively feeding their Herrscher counterparts their own Honkai energy, giving them more control.
‘Fight!’
‘Beat her down for me!’
‘Teach that little thief a good lesson!’
What else were best friends for?
Their thoughts were almost identical: let the Herrscher persona punish the rival in their place.
Then, after the dust settled and the other was beaten half-dead, they’d step in with teary eyes, apologizing sweetly—
“Sorry, Mei/Kiana… I couldn’t control my Herrscher side…”
That way, they’d not only humiliate their rival, but also keep up the appearance of deep, caring friendship.
That is literally what they called a perfect.
Even without Kiana’s cooperation, Sirin wouldn’t have held back.
But seeing her “half-body” siding with her this time… well, perhaps the dumb little tuna did deserve to carry the name Sirin after all.
Her approval ticked up—just a tiny bit.
“Hmph! A mere fragment dares bare her fangs? Clearly I’ve been too merciful. Today, I’ll remind you of the price for defying me!”
Head held high, Sirin looked down on Herrscher Mei with imperial arrogance.
She coldly opened a rift in the imaginary space—its other end linked to the ocean outside the Far East branch.
“But if you admit your mistake, kneel, and submit to me… you may yet keep the power I’ve so graciously allowed you☆~”
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[Kiana]: Okay, the entrance was good, but Sirin… aren’t you getting a little too full of yourself? Nagami did say you always crash hard after puffing yourself up like this…
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Kiana did feel a flicker of worry.
Normally, when Sirin started boasting, Kiana would humor her.
But right now? This was serious. Raising unnecessary flags was just begging for trouble.
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[Sirin]: Shut up! Just watch quietly!
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Her hissed retort snapped like a whip.
Seriously? She had just started to think her other half might be worthy with her, and now the girl was undercutting her grandeur?
“What a joke!”
Herrscher Mei’s lips twisted into a bitter laugh, her violet eyes sparking with lightning.
Arcs danced across her forehead, betraying the storm of fury inside.
“Today, I’ll show you what true divine power looks like!”
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[Mei]: U-uh… other me… don’t you think that line was just a bit too… childish?
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Calling herself a god? That was too much. Mei’s scalp tingled with secondhand embarrassment.
Worse, it dragged up memories she’d buried long ago—her own chuunibyou phase.
Wielding a wooden sword while shouting:
“One strike! Two cuts! Divine Blade of Destiny!” Or standing in a gust of wind with arms raised high: “Storms, bow before me!”
Those moments had been sealed away, erased from her present life. But remembering them now made her want to crawl into the past and strangle her younger self.
And now… her Herrscher persona was making her relive it in real time.
Mei could hardly breathe from the secondhand shame.
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[Mei]: Shut up! Just watch quietly!
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In this, at least, the Herrscher personas shared a certain… unspoken understanding.
Wrapped in white stockings, her slender legs carried her toward the portal.
For the Herrscher of the Void’s challenge, the queen-like Herrscher Mei naturally had no reason to refuse. But before their battle could begin…
Cold, gleaming Void spears and dazzling lances of thunder materialized right in front of Bronya, who had somehow slipped silently to Nagami’s doorway.
The Herrscher of the Void and the Herrscher of Thunder both turned their gazes on her, their eyes sharp and merciless, as though passing judgment.
There would be no fisherman profiting from clashing clams here.
Bronya, the “duck head,” was just as much a threat as the other.
Under the crushing stares of the two Herrschers, Bronya’s face remained blank.
But her petite body began to glow with a soft, pale-blue light.
Countless motes of radiant particles coursed across her form, gradually shaping into the beginnings of her Herrscher armament.
A blue core shone at her chest.
A blue-white skirt like blooming lotus petals fluttered without wind, revealing her slender legs wrapped in white stockings—and that irresistible “absolute territory” at her thighs.
“Bronya will not surrender her partner to you.”
Her tone was flat, emotionless as ever, but the resolve in it was unmistakable.
Knowing full well that Kiana and Mei’s bodies were currently controlled by their Herrscher personalities, Bronya showed not a shred of politeness.
Behind her, a steel beast clad in blue armor shimmered into view.
Two against two—what was there to fear?
“Heh~ to speak so boldly… should I call it courage, or suicide?”
Mockery curled on their lips as Sirin and Herrscher Mei’s expressions grew ever colder.
The portal laced with electromagnetic arcs swallowed the three Herrschers.
In the next instant, they reappeared above the seas near the Far East branch.
To reduce the chance of discovery, Sirin even stacked several long-range teleports.
The calm sea reflected a round, radiant moon and a sky full of stars, shimmering faintly with ghostly light.
The Herrscher of Reason, the Herrscher of the Void, and the Herrscher of Thunder floated in the air, a tense triangle of power.
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【Kiana: Sirin, when you’re fighting Mei and Bronya, at least hold back a little, okay?】
【Mei: Another me, please control your strength too. Try not to truly hurt Kiana or Bronya.】
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Sirin and Herrscher Mei’s lips curved at the same time as they felt their other selves channeling power into them.
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【Sirin & Herrscher Mei: Fine! We’ll grant your wish!】
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The moment the words ended, both vanished from sight.
A massive surge of Honkai energy erupted. Bronya, sensing the shift, disappeared as well.
The very hues of space began to twist, as though the world itself was fading.
Everywhere the eye could reach was bathed in magnificent violet.
The world fell still. Time froze.
It was the second Herrscher’s ability—the very system behind the Valkyrie’s Time Fracture armor came from this move, a simplified imitation of Sirin’s original technique.
At its core, it dampened light particles to seal space-time.
Wind roared in their ears, stretched into strange, distorted sounds.
Dust under the moonlight hung frozen midair.
From the locked void shot countless dark-golden Void spears, their tips gleaming with deathly chill.
“Void Realm—Descend!”
Her graceful figure became living thunder.
The Judgment of Shamash hummed with crackling lightning, summoning bolts that had slumbered in the ionosphere for millennia, ready to unleash the wrath of the storm god the instant her blade left its sheath.
“Lightning step— Draw Blade!”
And then—
“Project Bunny, Ride on!”
Blazing azure trails swirled across the void. Bronya rode a ghostly motorcycle, born of her transformed Project Bunny, her gloved hands firm on the handlebars as she surged skyward.
Floating turrets materialized in waves around her, pouring concentrated Honkai energy into burning blue beams.
The three colossal bursts of Honkai energy collided.
Lightning and thunder merged with spatial rifts, and the metallic roar of clashing constructs reverberated like a storm tearing through the world.
The shockwave howled like a typhoon, devouring the sea beneath.
Now this—this was true best friends forever.
Starting the fight with ultimates— a sign of their “affection.”
Of course, all three did their best to restrain their energy.
It made their attacks more efficient while avoiding tripping St. Freya’s Honkai alarms.
After all, the moms were already asleep—neither Sirin nor Bronya had any intention of waking them.
Their skirts whipped in the storm winds, their long hair streaming like rivers of silk.
Three Herrscher silhouettes clashed violently under the pale moonlight.
