Chapter 585: Houm Hot Sauce

"Miss Kiana! Here, here, we are here!"

It was the peak meal time, and the cafeteria was filled with all kinds of noises, but even so, the girl's lively call still penetrated everything in an extremely sharp way and floated smoothly to the ears of the girl who had just entered the cafeteria.

Guinevere jumped up from her seat and waved her arms vigorously towards Kiana. Of course, Kiana would not fail to see such a move. She smiled slightly, with both relief and helplessness on her face.

Then, as expected, with Guinevere as the center, silence began to spread, and the entire cafeteria - the entire cafeteria that could accommodate hundreds of people eating at the same time became silent in just ten seconds.

Some people were stunned for a short while, and then they lowered their heads to quickly finish the food, as if they had heard nothing, saw nothing, and just wanted to get away from here quickly.

Of course, more people were breaking bread silently, but their eyes were focused on the white-haired girl.

No one tried to say anything, but both Kiana and Guinevere, who accidentally caused all this, could feel the emotions in those eyes.

There was curiosity, scrutiny, and a little bit of fanaticism. But more of it was vigilance and alienation - this can be seen from the fact that when Kiana walked through the gap between the tables, many people couldn't help but lean back and keep a tiny distance from her.

In fact, this is the result of half a year of mutual adjustment. Guinevere still remembers the first time Kiana appeared in the public cafeteria, which was about a month after she was brought back from Changkong City.

Compared to that time, everyone is much more polite now - that time, someone embarrassed Kiana in public, and finally triggered a war between the [Herrser Fanatics Worship Group] and the [Anti-Sky Herrser Group].

Rice and bread flew in the sky like bullets, and cola and coffee were undoubtedly weapons of mass destruction. That farce was really too much. It is said that each of the hundreds of participants received Dr. Tesla's [Love Education]. Since then, the vocal protests and rejections have disappeared, but the resistance hidden in people's hearts is not so easy to erase.

Guinevere and the others sat in the middle of the cafeteria, and Kiana took a long detour to get to the long table. In order to prevent unnecessary trouble, she deliberately maintained an indifferent expression, which seemed to be exactly the same as her ancestor. However, when she saw the four people sitting in pairs at the long table, especially one of them who was unexpected, her smile finally bloomed inadvertently.

"Squad leader! Why are you here... Is Shenzhou okay?"

Bronya picked up a piece of bread and moved aside to make room for Kiana, but with Kiana's temper, she couldn't help asking before her butt even touched the bench.

Hua, or to call her by her name at this moment, Fu Hua raised her hand, clenched the braid on her cheek, smiled and shook her head:

"It doesn't matter, Shenzhou is the first region to disclose information about Honkai, so it is naturally well prepared. I spent half a year to go through Shenzhou again, and the objections from all over the country have gradually subsided. Now everyone is trying their best to prepare for Honkai, and I don't seem to have any reason to stay in Shenzhou, so I plan to come and see how you are doing."

Hua's hand turned to move the bangs on her forehead. Her words were half true and half false. Shenzhou was indeed the first organization to disclose Honkai information, but it was only twenty hours earlier than the latest Tianming. As for preparations... In fact, the Shenzhou branch of the World Snake should be well prepared. Since it was all planned by Mikael, he had made the corresponding preparations. The biggest help to Shenzhou was naturally the selfishness that could not be told to others.

However, Shenzhou was able to end the turmoil of [Honkai] so quickly before the whole world, and Hua, the [Red Kite Immortal], did contribute greatly. The efforts to protect the land of Shenzhou over the past thousands of years finally paid off in the past six months. The people of Shenzhou, at least the vast majority of them, finally chose to believe in the Red Kite Immortal.

Hua did not say these. The former was because he could not say it, and the latter was because he was unwilling to say it.

"Uh... what about the Herrscher of Knowledge? I still remember that when I left Taixu Mountain, the Herrscher of Knowledge didn't seem to be in a good state..."

"Don't worry, she has experienced a lot of things in the meantime, and her mental state has stabilized. She has only one request, which is that she doesn't want to be trapped in Taixu Mountain, so she... So I asked Xiao Paduo to take her down the mountain to travel - of course, just in case, Ling Shuang has been following them secretly."

It's called secretly, but in fact, it's blatant for the Herrscher of Knowledge. Kiana smiled silently. She felt that the monitor's narration was still concealing something, but now she also understood that everyone has their own secrets, just like she never told anyone that she had reached a certain reconciliation with the Second Herrscher - exchanging the ability to speak freely for teaching how to use power, which should be a signal of reconciliation, right?

Sure enough, when it comes to getting along with people, Kiana feels that there are still many things she doesn't understand.

Compared to her who was a little confused, there was someone who was even more surprised——

"Ah——Senior Fu Hua, didn't you say that you were just a former A-level Valkyrie... Why do I feel that your status in Shenzhou is so high..."

"Hehe!"

Seele, who had not spoken from the beginning to the end, had a flash of red light in her eyes, and then she leaned close to Guinevere's ear and said lightly:

"A-level Valkyrie is just a cover, poor little Serei, the one sitting next to you now is the famous Red Kite Immortal."

"Ahhhh-ah!"

The girl's scream once again made their group, which was not ordinary in any sense, the focus of the entire restaurant.

"Ah... idiot."

Bronya sighed softly and continued to nibble on the bread soaked in milk in her hand.

Fortunately, it was just a small storm, and the strange looks around soon disappeared, leaving only some words that could be captured by everyone even after being concealed:

"You are sick, you can't even let people have breakfast in peace."

"It's like this, Guinevere is not reliable to begin with, and she is even more annoying after mixing with the Herrscher of the Void."

"You should keep your voices down, the future leader is also sitting at that table, right?"

"Who told you that the little guy is the next leader? Did the leader say that? Aines Did Tan and Dr. Tesla talk about it? "

"The power of the First Herrscher has been given to her, what else is there to say? The leader of Anti-Entropy is the First Herrscher, and the First Herrscher is the leader of Anti-Entropy. Hasn't it been like this for decades?"

"You are right, but we have only had two leaders in total."

"Ahem! Stop arguing, let me say one thing - long live Miss Seele!"

"Indeed."

"Zi Ci!"

"That's right..."

"I agree."

Guinevere scratched her head a little embarrassedly, but didn't know what to say at this moment.

Bronya frowned and retracted her gaze from a strange figure not far away. She looked around silently, and after seeing Guinevere's embarrassed face, she sighed again in her heart.

"Guinevere, didn't you say you had prepared something good and would show it to us after Kiana arrived? Now that Kiana is here, don't keep us in suspense."

Bronya swallowed the bread that she chewed repeatedly until it tasted like wax paper, and forced her dead fish eyes to become a little gentler, looking at Guinevere and said.

If you have to say it, it was Bronya who made Guinevere, the idiot, know Kiana, the idiot. Since the battle in the Abyss City ended, this girl who was in a sense reckless has been pestering her. However, according to her, even if Bronya didn't introduce her, she would try her best to find Kiana to ask for an autograph... just like she did to Bronya in the Abyss City.

Although Guinevere is just an ordinary girl in all aspects, and even seems a little inferior in most occasions except for autographs (it is better to say that after understanding what kind of person Guinevere is, Bronya can hardly associate her with the lively girl who asked her for autographs), but making friends never needs to take these into consideration.

After a while, the few people became familiar with each other. Guinevere, who is sometimes more noisy than Kiana, sometimes fills the sense of loss left by Meiyi, so that Kiana, who has become much quieter than before, and the quiet Seele and Bronya, who is not very talkative, will not be in a long-term silence.

"Oh, oh, oh, if Lady Bronya hadn't told me, I would have forgotten!"

Guinevere smiled and clapped her hands.

"Please... why did you learn to address Bronya like those people?"

"Oh! It sounds so good to have an adult after your name!"

Bronya pursed her lips. After Anti-Entropy mixed into a group of faculty members of St. Freya's College, it has become a hodgepodge. Just as someone just said, there is indeed a small group of people who regard her as the successor of the leader after inheriting the power of the Ruler of Reason. The impact of this incident itself is not big, but it is not small, but if even Guinevere, who is beside her, calls her like that, and those members of Anti-Entropy who don't care about it hear it, it will be considered to bring her some bad luck.

"Listen to Bronya, Guinevere, don't call Bronya "adult" in the future."

"Ah...oh..."

Guinevere was rummaging through her schoolbag, and suddenly heard Bronya's serious tone, and she couldn't help but be stunned. Her movements were completely stopped. Without knowing whether Bronya was angry or not, her inferiority complex prevailed. Her voice was as thin as a mosquito, and she only said that simple word:

"I'm sorry..."

But Bronya shook her head very straightforwardly, forced a smile, and said:

"You don't have to tell Bronya this. Bronya just thinks that since we are friends, there is no need to use that kind of unfamiliar honorifics. Just call Bronya by her name. Seele, what do you think?"

"Sister Bronya is right. Kiana, and before... when calling Sister Bronya, they just called her by her name. If Guinevere feels that calling her by her name is a little...uncomfortable, you can call her Sister Bronya like Seele. The suffix [Sister] sounds much closer than [Adult]!"

Without even making eye contact, Seele understood what Sister Bronya meant. But after she finished such a long string of words, Bronya glanced at her inconspicuously. Seele's performance just now was normal, but Bronya was keenly aware of her absent-mindedness. Seele's eyes kept wandering, as if looking for something in the crowd coming and going.

[Did that frivolous guy just now scare Seele? ]

Based on her understanding of Seele, Kiana received negative comments from everyone, and Sister Bronya was also a mixed bag. Only she received unanimous affirmation from everyone. Although it was definitely a good thing, it would also increase Seele's psychological pressure.

"Hey, hey, hey! Guinevere, what are you going to show me! Take it out!"

Kiana stretched her hand in front of Guinevere, bent her middle finger, and tapped it lightly on the aluminum alloy table, deliberately making a dissatisfied tone.

"Ahhh! Sorry, Miss Kiana, this... this is..."

The girl closed her eyes, tightly grasped a glass jar taken out of her bag with both hands, and then slammed it heavily on the table. As if she suddenly remembered the trouble she had caused by attracting attention twice in a row, she explained in a light voice that was completely opposite to this big move:

"This... is nothing... Anyway, it's... Hom hot sauce!"

Guinevere opened her hands in despair, revealing the abstract Hom pattern on the glass jar packaging, and then pushed it directly in front of Bronya.

Kiana: "That... So why wait for me... Is it just for politeness..."

Seele showed an awkward but polite smile, Hua just sipped the hot tea in the thermos from beginning to end, watching the interaction between the girls with interest.

"Oh oh oh!!"

Ignoring Kiana's complaints, Bronya's eyes suddenly became brighter than a cat in the dark.

Although in the eyes of Kiana, Hua, and even Seele, this hot sauce with a Hom pattern on the wrapping paper is no different from ordinary hot sauce, but the value of [peripheral] is never measured by practical calculations, but by "love".

Moreover, Bronya also has something to say:

"This is the limited edition Hom hot sauce produced by the legendary hot sauce brand in Shenzhou and Hom three years ago. Three thousand bottles are sold worldwide, and the price of this bottle in the second-hand market is close to five figures!"

"Uh... that, Bronya, calm down first. You are not the only one who likes Hom, but this is too..."

Kiana's eyes twitched, and she didn't say that sentence after all.

But it doesn't matter, Seele knows what she is going to say, and quickly completes the sentence:

"Sister Bronya, since it was released three years ago... it should be expired now, right?"

"Of course this kind of thing is not for eating."

Bronya said as a matter of course.

"This is a very meaningful collection, and there is one more thing - Hom hot sauce, don't you think this name is a little familiar?"

"That's right! It has the same name as the legendary magical girl, so this Hom hot sauce is apparently a joint name of Hom, but it is actually a joint name of three parties, and it is particularly valuable for collection!"

Guinevere continued the conversation enthusiastically.

The only Shenzhou person present sipped his tea and shook his head slightly, indicating that he did not understand the ideas of young people nowadays.

A certain existence that does not exist in the real number space, is not a young person, and is not a Shenzhou person shook his head disdainfully, but became curious about the taste of the hot sauce itself.

As her opposite, Kiana, who is also a young person and not a Shenzhou person, also said that she did not understand it very well.

And Seele just smiled. Even if she could not fully understand it, she tolerated and supported the love in Sister Bronya's heart.

Then came the popular part of pushing and selling.

The price of this bottle of Hom hot sauce is indeed a bit cheap by the standards of collectibles - just like its existence is to the collectibles themselves. But considering the per capita income of this world and Guinevere's allowance, it is too expensive.

It's just that this long and meaningless shoving is really annoying. Even if this meaningless dispute will end in ten minutes, that is, before the end of the meal time, someone present can no longer stand it.

Seele suddenly stood up, and the bench behind her moved back with the long table that had been welded together since the beginning of production, making a friction sound that was not obvious in the noisy environment.

"Seele?"

Bronya looked up at the girl she was familiar with, and saw that the girl's face was flashing with excitement and suppressed fear at the same time, but in the next moment, all these exposed emotions disappeared, Seele lowered her head, and her eyes met Bronya's.

"Sister Bronya, Seele has something to do and needs to leave for a while. See you in the physical training room!"

Without giving Bronya a chance to answer, Seele directly squeezed into the crowd leaving the cafeteria.

When Bronya was about to give up on the spicy sauce and catch up with Seele, Hua stood up again.

"Seele is never like this normally. Maybe something happened that she cares about. I'll follow her and see."

Hua seemed to be talking to himself, but he was definitely talking to Bronya.

"Huh?"

Bronya hesitated for a moment, and the monitor disappeared into the crowd. Only Guinevere, who was sitting opposite her, spoke out of place:

"Bronya... Sister, just take this bottle of Hom hot sauce!"

Looking at the sincere girl, Bronya pushed the glass bottle back silently.