[St. Freya Academy, at the school gate.]
Groups of girls gathered here in twos and threes. They, who should be entering the classroom at this time, were now coincidentally standing near the school gate.
They looked at the two girls not far outside the school gate, their eyes full of blooming peach blossoms.
"AWsl! Princess Kiana and Miss Mei are going to school together again!"
"Look look, they're even holding hands! This is too beautiful!"
"Ahhh! I'm willing to trade ten years of my best friend's lifespan to become one of the two of them!"
"Everyone knows, triangles are the most stable shape! So I'm willing to trade twenty years of my best friend's lifespan to join them!!!"
Hearing the surrounding whispers, even Raiden Mei, who had received elite education since childhood, blushed a little.
Due to unknown reasons, the gender ratio of the world had become unbalanced.
This caused most women to lack partners, and they could only turn their eyes toward the same gender beside them.
Fortunately, due to the advancement of technology, the widespread application of base technology allowed human reproduction to continue normally.
But even so, the imbalance in gender ratio still led to a rampant yuri situation.
Therefore, every time Mei saw the ambiguous gazes of the people around her directed at her and Kiana, she always felt a strange awkwardness.
Of course, even so, to her, Kiana was her forever irreplaceable best friend.
Thinking of this, Mei instinctively glanced at the carefree white-haired fluffball beside her and shook her head dotingly.
"Kiana, if we don't hurry up, we'll be late~ If you get scolded by Teacher Himeko, I won't help you."
"Aiya~ Mei~ I just want to spend a little more time with you..."
After speaking, not only did Kiana not speed up, she even got more willful.
Just like that, the two walked into the classroom right at the sound of the bell.
Seeing the history teacher already at his place, Kiana unhappily pouted. "Why is this old man always here so early! I don't even have time to get close to Mei anymore!"
Complaining aside, to avoid the history teacher reporting to the homeroom teacher Himeko, Kiana reluctantly separated from Mei and went to sit by the window in the second-to-last row.
"Ai~ Just thinking that I have to be apart from Mei for about 44 minutes drains all my energy~"
"So, to get through this difficult time faster, I've decided to take a good nap, after all, my stinky old man has always taught me 'early to bed, early to rise, makes a person healthy!'"
(Siegfried: Is that what I meant?!)
However, even though a certain paramecium said so, she still chose to secretly take out her phone before sleeping.
"After all, sleeping as soon as class starts doesn't look good, at least pretend a little..."
So, Kiana propped up the history book on her desk, then hid the phone behind it.
After opening her favorite pink app called "PiliPili" (hereafter referred to as P site), Kiana suddenly noticed the top trending video was no longer the usual [Homu's Adventure], but a video she had never seen before.
And from the time posted, it had only been up for less than three hours.
"Less than three hours and it's already on top? Isn't this just boosted by fake traffic?"
In this commercialized era, as long as you have money, you can get what most people dream of. P site is no exception, after all,
"Uncle me, I love money the most!" Kiana rolled her eyes disdainfully.
She was about to scroll past when she noticed something unbelievable, "What! In such a short time, it already has over 6 million views? And nearly 1 million likes and 600,000 coins?!"
You should know, view counts can indeed be boosted by heavy promotion on the site.
But likes and coin donations, which each user can only do once or twice, can't be faked.
In conclusion, this video titled Honkai 3, is truly terrifying.
Thinking of this, Kiana adjusted to a comfortable position and opened the video. She also greeted the handsome boy sitting behind her, "If the teacher comes down later, remember to kick my chair!"
After getting the boy's assured response, Kiana began watching the video with peace of mind.
"As the dignified young lady of the Kaslana family, I want to see what's so magical about this video!"
Unlike most videos trending online, this one started with a simple paragraph of text.
However, when people read carefully, they found the information was explosively dense.
[Do you have many dissatisfactions with this world?]
[Also, do you think your life shouldn't be like this?]
[But what if I told you, the world you see as filthy and unbearable is a dreamland in others' eyes, would you still think the same?]
[Isn't it possible...]
[...that the world you're living in now was earned by others who gave everything?]
[Humans always repeat the same mistakes.]
[But the world doesn't.]
[So, it's time. Time to reveal the truth buried in the dust of history.]
[This is... the story of a group of people who fought for the beauty of the world...]
As the black screen and text faded, a flood of comments covered the whole screen.
[Congrats on discovering the treasure of the war zone!]
[Strongly recommend everyone to watch till the end. This is already my fourth time!]
[This is not a drill! Repeat! This is not a drill! High energy ahead!!!]
[Am I the only one with this issue? I sent a comment right at the start, but it only showed up after the opening text ended...]
The flood of comments startled Kiana.
Although she belonged to the type that couldn't watch videos without comments, seeing the entire screen full, she couldn't help but sigh,"Even though I was mentally prepared, the number of comments is still way too much!"
To clearly see the video content behind the coments, Kiana adjusted the density and started watching seriously.
[Since the outbreak of the Third Honkai...]
[2 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, and 24 seconds...]
[Reporting to Major!]
[Unknown object detected over Changkong City. Target location: SH0639...]
In reality, when people heard the video mention Changkong City, they subconsciously froze. Because the Changkong City mentioned in the video actually existed.
So the question arises...
If this video was filmed in Changkong City, why didn't the locals leak anything...
Or perhaps, could it really be like the video said at the beginning, that this is a story that once actually happened?
On the other hand, unlike the others with many doubts, our paramecium had no such thoughts.
At this moment, her entire attention was on the video's realistic and gorgeous special effects.
"Wow! These effects are so real, you can't even see any traces of editing. I've got to share this video with Bronya who's out at a competition, and let her see how this video was made..."
However, in the next moment, Kiana's excitement vanished without a trace, replaced by endless confusion and shock.
Because, when the character in the video appeared...
The girl saw, "That person... is me?"
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