Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 39 Preparing to Depart

"Kyū-kun, would you like to join a club? Sure, sure!"

Pine Sparrow approved the application for Qiong without hesitation.

"You've made the right choice by joining our divination club! From simple fortune telling and feng shui to exorcising evil spirits and impurities, Teacher Songque will teach you everything you need to know!"

Song Que was extremely enthusiastic, but wasn't she a little too enthusiastic? It was as if she was afraid he'd change his mind. And I've never heard of a fortune-telling club being so short-staffed it was about to disband.

Qiong was somewhat puzzled, and this puzzlement led to a vague unease in her heart.

There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

"Considering you've only just arrived, I'm going to give you some extra help with your studies."

Song Que opened the drawer and mysteriously took out a worn-out book.

"This is our master's secret manual, containing all sorts of amazing divination methods! As long as you study diligently, Master Songque guarantees you'll become a diviner!!"

No, no, no, I just came in to have some fun, I don't really want to be a charlatan...

Qiong took the book, looked at the cover, and saw that there was no name or publisher. The author's name was Song Que? She opened it and found that the text and pictures inside were very blurry and difficult to recognize.

"How do you read this kind of book...? What is this picture?"

Ten signs of misfortune?

"Oops, I took the wrong one!"

The panicked sparrow snatched the book from Qiong's hands and hugged it to its chest.

"Sorry, Qiong, I picked up the wrong one. This is a novel I wrote before. This 'Songque' is my pen name."

"So, the teacher is also a novelist?"

Suddenly, the sparrow shook its head like a rattle drum.

"Of course not, it's just a girl's fantasy of herself when she was young. She imagined a world shrouded in darkness, waiting for a few destined people to save it, and the girl named Song Que was the protagonist of the story. A very cliché story, isn't it?"

Looking at the awkwardly laughing Song Que, Qiong felt increasingly uneasy.

Song Que's behavior was a bit too... deliberate. Would she be so reckless as to accidentally pick up a divination book instead of a novel she wrote years ago? Even if she picked up the wrong one, she could have just exchanged it for another. Why did she have to explain so much afterward?

However, since Song Que was willing to talk about it, he had no reason not to ask.

"Teacher, could you lend me this book to look at?"

"That won't do, that's our dark history. Besides, how good can a story written by a little girl who's still in school be? But I can tell you: the core setting of our story is the Shadow Disaster, something like the Collapse. And then the Seven Arts..."

dong dong dong.

The office door opened, and Song Que, who had just been completely unconcerned about whether Qiong wanted to listen to her endless chatter, immediately shut up.

The person who came in was Walter.

"Ms. Maria, I heard that Qiong is with you?"

Qiong waved to Lao Yang.

"Come to my place once you've finished dealing with this matter; I have something to discuss with you."

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"Master, I feel like we didn't manage to make things clear with that kid."

"That's not important, Pine Sparrow. Your teacher and you have waited for so long, a little more time won't make a difference."

"Is this your reason for not being in a hurry, Master? We're fine with the rest of us, including Sister Deng and Little Sera, but if we keep waiting, I feel like some of us might not be able to wait any longer..."

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With Walter's interruption, Pine Sparrow stopped telling her story. Sora had achieved her goal of joining the fortune-telling club, so there was naturally no reason for her to stay any longer.

Which student would go to the office for no reason? That's a place you should avoid if you can avoid it.

But now, he has to run from one office to another...

"I'm sorry, Qiong. Actually, I didn't want to involve you. This should be a private matter for Earthlings."

No matter how you look at it, Qiong's place of origin is not Earth. She will either settle in the Star Core Hunter - Star Dome Train, or directly fill the Black Tower Space Station.

However, after looking around, Walter realized that as the leader of the unbreakable alliance Anti-Entropy, the only people he could command after Ryoma went to jail were the older sisters who had taken him under their wing back then, and for various reasons, only two of those older sisters remained.

Then, while keeping their own research in mind, these two were asked by themselves to relocate as many people as possible, centered around Chiba Academy, after detecting fluctuations in Honkai energy.

Frankly, this was a thankless, difficult, and resource-intensive task, and only two PhDs would trust him unconditionally, making it impossible to rely on anyone else. Then those two were rendered immobile.

In other words, the dignified leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance now has no one under his command...

"It's alright, Uncle Yang. On the road to opening up new paths, we'll definitely be saving lives along the way. And rescuing a beautiful girl is my duty!"

Seeing Qiong's positive attitude, Walter felt a little uneasy. The pioneering journey was indeed an adventure, but it was the work of nameless travelers who sought no reward. Now, he was using the pioneers to deal with matters that were closely related to his own interests...

Let's come back and try to make it up to them...

"Your baseball bat has been returned. It's quite a coincidence that the location this time is Changkong City, where you were discovered. The Raiden Mei I mentioned is this girl."

An older man pulled a stack of photos of a beautiful girl named Raiden Mei from his pocket. If someone didn't know him well, who knows if they would think that Old Yang was a stalker with a taste for this kind of thing.

However, Qiong certainly wouldn't think that way. Old Yang is very devoted and even has a tendency to be henpecked. Even though they're not married yet, Qiong believes that if Uncle Yang dared to flirt with girls, Tesla would really come crashing down in a Titan and beat him up.

"Raiden Mei, you attend Chiba Academy, the school Kiana attended before. We have a holiday the day after tomorrow, and I'll try to get Himeko to let you stay with me for a few days, Kiana..."

Welt has always had a bit of a headache about this. Kiana is Theresa's top priority for protection, but she is also indispensable for repairing the timeline.

"Here's what I'll do: I'll send her a round-trip ticket to Changkong City for a trip, and then I'll figure out a way to get you together with her."

Seeing the eager-to-try Sora, Welt couldn't help but feel a little worried, as Sora had already explained to him that her power had weakened.

This is understandable, since the interstellar barrier (Honkai energy tidal zone) surrounding the solar system effectively separates the Milky Way and the solar system into two worlds. The incarnations of those concepts outside cannot even look at this isolated island in the universe. Therefore, the three planets of Earth, Mars, and Venus have each developed similar but different civilizations... cough cough, I digress.

In short, since there is no destiny on Earth, one cannot draw power from destiny. Relying on low-quality Honkai energy, Qiong's combat power is naturally reduced, which makes Lao Yang slightly worried about his safety.

"Don't charge in headfirst. If you encounter danger, you can hide behind Kiana."

Anyway, historically, Kiana is the winner, and Welt believes that this kind of unreasonable protagonist halo will work again.