Honkai Impact: The Fulfiller

Chapter 30 (Old)

Within the empty black void, a throne in the middle of nowhere could be seen.

And within the throne, a stone-like figure could be seen toying with something that looks like a ball in its hand and a Halloween-like mask on the other...

Tossing the ball up and down before it fell splat on the floor...

Ink scattered everywhere and could be seen despite being inside the empty void... follow up as the mask fell onto the pool of ink...

That was no mask... nor ink... It's [̴̢̨̦͍̜͖͗͐͒̅C̷͕̦̤̗͚͒͗̉̅͝e̴͈̤̙̘͐̉̀̐̾l̶̛̫͎̺̙̾̓͐̓͊̿̚i̸̹̪̗̦͕̩̜͋ͅn̷̼͚͈̮͕͑͆́e̶̢̠͇̠͓̳̙̜̔̈́̇̃͂̕͝͝'̵̩͈̭̙͉͔̞̊͜s̸̡͕̹̤̭̘̬̓̈̓̑]̴̡̢̲̗̂͊͋͊

Just when I look away for a moment, the child whom I once locked up in this void decided to meddle with me again...

Shaking their head as they looked down at the lump of trash she had thrown... Before they started smiling...

While it's unfortunate that my own pest had turned against me...

In front of the stone-like statue was a simple chess board. Most of the pieces are either gone from the board or had already been moved, indicating that the game was still ongoing.

However... it created something rather... interesting...

The stone figure moved the White Bishop to capture the hanging Black Knight on the board before continuing to wait for their unknown opponent.

I wonder if all of you have fun watching this world...

And yet somehow... in some way... the black pieces begin to move as the other Black Knight captures the unsuspected White Queen.

Usually, one would've cursed themselves for making such a mistake... However... What was shown on the stone-like face was neither frustration nor irritation...

But rather, the sinister smile still remains on their face.

Because I sure am, dear watchers.

-Ω-

April 21st, 2004.

It's not like Ryoma himself would send out an urgent request very often. The CEO of the ME Corp is not someone who would ask for help unless something terrible happened...

So imagine their surprises when something terrible was involved with kidnapping a certain future heiress of ME Corp...

Of course, everyone would panic if your child suddenly went missing... but getting kidnapped is another story...

We know that she got kidnapped because we caught a bunch of masked people on the CCTV camera near her school, forcefully pushing the heiress inside an unknown van and driving off.

And yet it has been almost... 18 hours by now... No demand yet from them...

However, thanks to the drones that were scattered around the Nagazora, it didn't take long for them to find the hideout of the kidnappers.

A typical, suspicious as hell, abandoned factory in plain sight... What's up with this cliché bullshit place that every bad guy likes to stay in?

And how is it possible that they keep getting away with it?

Now it's their turn to act since they know where the kidnappers are.

A group of 8 people, all armed with guns and knives, formation is that of a well-trained soldier on the field... 3 people with criminal records on them.