Collapse: Lady Herrscher is a bit too lazy

Bang!

"Xina, are you okay?"

Kicking the door open, the first thing Jizi did after entering the room was to check if Xina was injured. Then, she immediately got up and checked the room.

No blood, no bullet holes, no signs of fighting...

Until she confirmed that Xina was the only one in the room just now, Jizi breathed a sigh of relief and secretly thanked in her heart: It was a close call, fortunately that bastard was not here, otherwise her precious student might be so angry that she would do something!

After sorting out her emotions a little, Xina threw herself into Jizi's arms and burst into tears: "Teacher Jizi, that bastard is gone, I didn't find him, wuwuwu~"

"Okay, okay, the teacher knows everything, don't cry, don't cry..."

Feeling her chest wet with tears, Jizi hugged Xina distressedly, like a kind mother comforting her young child, comforting her softly while using her hand to smooth down Xina's back.

After a long while, Hina, who felt that she had almost cried, raised her head, got up from Jizi's arms pitifully, and sat aside obediently.

"..." Jizi didn't say anything, but instinctively raised her hand and touched the top on her body that seemed to be soaked in water, thinking: Oh my goodness, she can cry so much, this girl... is made of water?

"Teacher Jizi, I'm sorry, I made you run so far to find me in the middle of the night..." Hina clenched her fists, tightly grasped the corner of her clothes, and said a little embarrassedly.

But Jizi couldn't help but frowned when she heard this. She said, "What kind of nonsense are you talking about! Can't it be that your teacher and I just happened to meet you when we went out for supper at night?"

"Ah?" Xina was slightly startled, staring at Jizi with her big golden eyes, but she didn't expect Jizi to lift her up with one hand: "Let's go, have supper with the teacher!"

Hearing this, Xina, who was thinking about how to delay Jizi so that she wouldn't go back so early to confront Xilin, was delighted. She nodded very obediently and walked out of the room with Jizi.

Before leaving, Jizi didn't forget to take Xina to the monitoring room, intending to adjust the monitoring to see where Stryker, the bastard, had gone.

But... when they entered the monitoring room one after another, they saw only the security guard who was knocked unconscious and the monitoring hard disk that was physically deleted.

"Humph, although your father is not a thing, he is quite cunning!" Jizi complained with a cold face after trying to recover the monitoring data to no avail.

"Ah... yes...", Xi·MieBA·Na's mouth twitched slightly, and she immediately echoed Jizi's words: "Really a piece of shit!"

Just like that, Jizi, who was worried, pulled the dazed Hina out of the monitoring room and went to the hotel restaurant.

...

"Hello, please bring me two menus!" Jizi found an empty seat and sat down, and ordered skillfully.

After ordering what she wanted to eat, Jizi looked up at Hina, who was holding the menu opposite and said nothing, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart: What a good child, but met that kind of bastard father, I don't know how long it will take for her to come out of the shadow.

It's a pity... In Jizi's eyes, EMO Hina, who seemed to be in a trough, was just a deliberately disguised appearance of Hina.

Now she has switched perspectives and is carefully observing the progress of Xilin's work.

Through the reconnaissance-type Honkai beast, Hina saw a shocking scene.

In the picture, Kiana, with dull eyes and seemingly in some kind of hallucination, is standing alone in the huge underground space under the central church and talking to herself.

Words such as [Ich·liebe·dich], [Second Herrscher], [Lady Cecilia], and [Tower of Babylon] appear most frequently.

Tower of Babylon? Second Herrscher? Cecilia?

Is Xilin making Kiana dream back to the second collapse?

What is she trying to do?

Hina doesn't understand, but Hina knows how to listen.

She let the scout-type Honkai beast continue to crawl forward a little, intending to listen to more words from Kiana's mouth to see if she can get some more meaningful information from it.

As time passed, the words that came out of Kiana's mouth became more and more strange.

Until the end, Hina, who felt that she didn't understand at all, gave up the on-the-spot analysis and asked Honkaimon to sort out the words that Kiana said, intending to analyze them slowly when she had time later.

Her thoughts changed, and Hina looked up and saw that Jizi had handed the ordered menu to the waiter.

Jizi looked at her student's slightly melancholy and hesitant face, and subconsciously thought that this was caused by the heavy blow that life brought to her student.

She grinned and said,She used her tenderness to warm the painful heart of her student who had suffered a tragic change: "Xina, I know you may not be in the mood to eat, but your body is your own, and you can't affect your body for some people. The teacher just ordered a few signature dishes of this hotel for you. Do you think it's okay?"

"Ah... Of course, it's really... Thank you for your trouble." Xina embarrassedly brushed the broken hair on her forehead behind her ears with her hands and nodded shyly.

While waiting for the food, the teacher and student, who were usually talkative but not good at chatting in this situation, sat stiffly in their seats and looked at each other awkwardly. No one took the initiative to break the somewhat awkward atmosphere between the two.

It was not until the waiter served the food that the two breathed a sigh of relief and began to chat with each other over the food on the table.

This meal took Xina a long time, so long that most of the people at the surrounding tables had already paid and left.

Perhaps a large part of the reason was that she wanted to delay time here to assist Xilin in completing her plan.

But... part of it was because she enjoyed this rare warmth.

Teacher Jizi, you are such a gentle person, but... when that time comes, how should I face you!

Suddenly, Hina, who had made up her mind, stopped chewing, and then put down the cutlery in her hand and walked in front of Jizi under Jizi's puzzled eyes.

"Hina... you..."

Without waiting for Jizi to finish her words, Hina gently took off the amethyst earrings hanging from her ears, which were made from the remaining parts of the amethyst bracelet that was destroyed by Watt in Singapore.

"Listen to me, Teacher Jizi..." Hina bent down and hung it very gently on Jizi's ear hole, and her expression became a little serious:

"My mother once told me that amethyst will bring good luck to a person. In my heart, you are a very good teacher and a very good person, so I decided to let this good luck accompany you. Believe me, it will definitely help you at the most critical moment."