Chapter 5: Kiana’s Resolution!

After resolving the Honkai beast tide, Van brought Kiana back into the cockpit of the aircraft and gave her a simple treatment.

"Among the misfortune, there is fortune. Fortunately, the wound is not deep, otherwise, classmate Kiana, our operation this time would have had to be announced as ending early."

Van's words made Kiana feel a little embarrassed. Because even before the operation, Van had reminded her to determine the tactics well before action, to plan carefully.

However, the "single-mindedness of the grasshopper" made her ignore Van's advice, which led to the current situation.

But even so, Van not only didn't show any dissatisfaction towards her, but instead patiently helped her bandage her wound.

Not exaggerating to say, in Kiana's view, Van, in a certain sense, cared about her more than her often-missing stinky old dad.

If not for Van having clearly stated before that his feelings towards her were only those between friends, Kiana would have thought Van liked her.

Thinking of this, Kiana's face turned slightly red, and she said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, just now I…"

Before Kiana could finish, the communication equipment in the aircraft suddenly rang.

"Van, what's the current situation, have you met up with Kiana?"

"Reporting, Major Himeko, I've already reunited with classmate Kiana, we are now preparing to fly toward the Moonlight Throne."

"Received. Then proceed according to the original plan, prepare for boarding!"

After hanging up the communicator, Van, who was piloting the aircraft, turned his head, looked toward Kiana beside him, and asked, "Classmate Kiana, just now, what were you going to say?"

Hearing this, Kiana shook her head, "It's nothing. I just... just thinking about soon meeting Mei, I'm just too happy!"

We can only say, the grasshopper really is the grasshopper. After the keyword was triggered, the whole person started to become full of orange (implying romantic/cheesy mood).

After a period of flight, Van and Kiana safely landed on the deck of the giant battleship named "Moonlight Throne."

Kiana immediately contacted Himeko, who was the commander of this operation, and reported the situation.

"Himeko, Van and I are already on the deck, everything went smoothly!"

"How many times do I have to correct you, not 'Himeko,' it's 'Major Himeko'..."

As if realizing that it wasn't only Kiana on the other side of the communicator, Himeko who was about to flare up suddenly changed her tone.

"Now I issue the latest order. There are about 30 minutes until this battleship crashes. We must obtain the control device of this battleship, we must not let it destroy Canghai City!"

Kiana & Van, "Understood!"

"Right, your teammates have also already arrived at their designated positions. Later they should make contact with you..."

"Mei! You're talking about Mei, right? We'll meet Mei soon, right?"

As if sensing the orange scent coming from the other side of the communicator, Himeko let out a helpless sigh.

"Kiana, calm down. We're still in a mission. Don't have your head full of just 'Mei,' 'Mei.'

According to information from other teams, they just found several Emperor-class Honkai Beasts near the battleship. This situation is very unusual, you two need to be careful."

"Hehe, Himeko, don't look down on me~" Kiana said proudly, "I... Van and I just now successfully defeated a Honkai Emperor together~"

Seemingly surprised by the fact that Kiana defeated a Honkai Emperor, Himeko on the other side of the communicator couldn't speak for a moment.

Then, reacting again, she turned to ask Van, "Van, just now you..."

"Major Himeko, thanks to classmate Kiana, we were able to successfully complete the subjugation of the Honkai Emperor."

Kiana really couldn't have imagined that Van would give most of the credit for subjugating the Honkai Emperor to her.

After all, besides the opening kick Neko Charm, the rest of the time she was basically watching from the outside.

And Van's action of giving credit to Kiana naturally won the favor of many netizens in the real world, most of them female.

"Van, you... ah..." Before Himeko could finish, another voice came through the communicator.

"Kiana, this is Mei. I've safely arrived at the target area."

"Mei!" As soon as she heard Mei's voice, Kiana immediately jumped up, "Great! I'm heading to you now!"

The girl's enthusiasm made Mei on the other side of the communicator somewhat at a loss.

"Ah? Wait, Kiana, we should follow the battle plan…"

"Aiya! We're best partners, if we act together, won't it... won't it be 'half the effort, double the results'!"

Hearing Kiana's bug-words from the communicator, Mei helplessly said, "You meant 'half the effort, double the results,' right?"

"Aiya~ whatever the phrase is! Didn't the battle plan also say 'adapt flexibly according to the situation!' Mei, just wait for me, okay!"

After saying that, Kiana didn't even look back and dashed toward the location Mei had reported, leaving Himeko's helpless shout echoing in the air.

"That girl Kiana!" At this point, Himeko could only give up, turned and said to Van, "Then the other side will be up to you, Van."

Van nodded at the words, "Major Himeko, no need to say that, this is my duty."

"Van, there's no one else here. Actually, you can call me Himeko like before. Calling me Major sounds too distant."

Himeko's slightly hesitant words came from the communicator, "And during the Shenzhou mission, if it weren't for you, I might have already..."

"Himeko, we're comrades who've been through life and death. No need to be so polite with me." Van said with a smile, "Besides, it was you who stressed to Kiana and the others that 'titles must be used during missions,' wasn't it?"

"You guy, everything is good, why do you just have to have such a mouth!"

Being teased, Himeko's face turned slightly red, and in frustration, she cut off the communication.

However, after hanging up the communication, the red-faced Himeko's expression slowly became complicated, "Just comrades, huh…"

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[Real World]

[So after watching half the day, Van is the protagonist? Otherwise how to explain that every character appearing now has unclear relationships with him?]

[I'm done! Van's screen time is too much. Thought it was watching cute girls bonding, didn't expect it to evolve into a harem? Dropping it, dropping it!]

[Did the one upstairs even watch the video seriously? Is it that just one male character appears among a group of girls, and it must be a harem? Besides, Van already said his feelings toward Kiana and Himeko are friendship, right?]

[Exactly, even if, let's say, they do end up together, so what? Talented guy and beautiful girl, a perfect match, is it your turn, you bunch of monsters and ghosts, to object?]

[From my many years of experience in the battlefield of drama, characters like Van who are more than friends but not yet lovers usually don't have a good ending. Maybe the writer will kill him off to make the protagonist grow.]

[Nooo! I finally found my fated husband-wife man, don't write him to death!]

[You brat.JPG, that's your man-wife? Clearly my man-wife!!!]

While the netizens were quarreling, the video screen suddenly shifted to Kiana's side.

Kiana, dual pistols in hand, was both dealing with the Deadwalkers pouncing toward her and sprinting toward Mei's side without pause, shouting,

"Ahhh! I can't endure even one more minute! It's already been 2 hours 27 minutes and 38 seconds since I last saw Mei! Annoying Deadwalkers and Honkai beasts, don't block me from seeing Mei!!!"

Kiana's nonsense words instantly changed the tone of the netizens' argument.

[Kiana is too funny! Even her longing is precise to the second.]

[Kiana x Mei ship is thriving! Everyone buy in at a high price!]

[That's why, orange scent is the most wonderful smell in the world!]

We can only say, Kiana truly lives up to her name. With every move and gesture, she unconsciously influences everyone.

Even the Kiana watching the video couldn't help but feel stirred inside, "Wow! The me in the video is too cool... Okay! I've decided, I'll make my future longing for Mei precise to the second too!"

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