Honkai Impact: The Dream Keeper

"I never thought I'd be back to being all alone like before. Hmph, even so, I'm still... Kamen Rider Takumi." Takumi, dressed in Kabuto, looked at the Hyperion floating in front of him and said in a deep voice.

"Tch, this is really annoying! Hmm? I hear fighting sounds?" Long Qiao slowly walked towards the source of the fighting sounds and hid in the shadows to watch.

"That's right! Cocolia even has a mecha unit?! Wait a minute, if that beast pins the things Cocolia and Otto did on me, then the matter of the Gem of Desire can't also be attributed to me, right?" Long Qiao's eyes twitched as he spoke.

Long Qiao secretly approached the coral reefs closest to the group and began spying.

“Cocolia, quickly hand over the Gem of Desire that Long Qiao gave you. We need to move it to a safer place. I don’t think Long Qiao expected you to betray him,” Einstein said.

"Damn it...it really turned out to be my doing!" Long Qiao thought to himself.

Before the conversation had even ended, Long Qiao quietly lay among the coral reefs, eavesdropping. Every now and then, Long Qiao would mentally complain, "Damn it, all ten sentences are about what I did. If I find that beast, he'll be in big trouble."

Just as Cocolia finished speaking and left, several Zerg appeared—

"Damn it... Why did the Worms come at this time? Kamen Rider Gold!" Qingmo cursed angrily before transforming into Kamen Rider Gold and fighting the Worms.

"Hey~ Old Mo turned into a golden bucket? How ugly! Well, I'll help you out a little, clock up!" Long Qiao complained for a moment, then pressed the button next to his waist and entered the clock-up phase.

Long Qiao pulled out his kunai sword and sliced ​​all the alien insects in the time field like watermelons. He asked, "What's green when you cut it open?" The answer was, "The alien insects!"

"Clock Over!"

As a burst of flame erupted, all the alien insects died instantly before they could molt. The Kabuto standing in front of everyone slowly turned around, glanced at them, and then suddenly disappeared, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion. If there hadn't been a surge of flames around, one would probably have thought it was an illusion as well.

"Damn it, he ran way too fast!" Qingmo said angrily.

“Long Qiao…why did you do those things…” Bronya muttered.

Meanwhile, Long Qiao, who had already escaped, encountered a strange thing, an ugly creature without facial features.

"What are you?" Long Qiao asked.

"Hmph... Long Qiao... Do you like the gift I gave you?" the creature, whose appearance was hard to describe, mocked.

“A gift?...You mean...they became like this because of you?!” Long Qiao said through gritted teeth, her hands clenching into fists.

"What... exactly are you?" Long Qiao asked.

“Me? My name is Combs. According to your terms, I am an outsider, but I am a subordinate of Darkness.” Combs laughed loudly.

"I don't care what you are, just die!" After transforming into Faiz, Long Qiao pulled out the Faiz blade and attacked first.

But in just a moment, Coombs' figure vanished, and then Long Qiao felt a metallic taste in her throat and flew backward.

"Pfft...cough cough...What is this thing? It's so fast! Tch!" Long Qiao said painfully, supporting herself on the floor with one hand.

"Hahahaha, Long Qiao, you have no chance of winning against me!"

"Hoo... We don't know who will win until the very last moment, let's go again!" Long Qiao transformed into the Great Armored General once more, blocking and guarding against his opponent.

"That speed just now was probably comparable to Faiz's acceleration. Let's try it out first."

Long Qiao conjured a banana-shaped spear in her left hand and fired it at Coombs. Just as the spear was about to hit Coombs, Coombs suddenly disappeared. Long Qiao tensed up all her muscles to prevent Coombs from launching another sneak attack.

"Disappeared again?! Wait, Lu Ziyang once told me when we were watching TV that if an enemy has the ability to disappear, you can use the flow of the wind to determine it, or you can judge the direction based on the enemy's habits. Based on the attack on my throat just now, Kums usually attacks from my right hand... So..."

After exhaling, Long Qiao raised the Fire Rope Greatsword in her right hand. With a bang, the attack from Coombs was blocked by Long Qiao, but she was also knocked back by the huge force and slid dozens of meters away.

"Wow, that's incredibly strong! It almost shattered my hand!"

"Not bad, Long Qiao. You actually managed to guess my attack direction. You deserve my praise," Coombs complimented.

"Hmph, well, thank you very much..." Long Qiao said sarcastically.

The two then fought fiercely, their weapons clashing and creating a spectacular display of fire and light before they jumped away again.

"As expected of the strongest person in the modern world, if you were any stronger, I wouldn't be able to beat you," Combs said, clapping his hands.

"Hehe..." Long Qiao spun the greatsword around once and then assumed the starting stance again.

"Long Qiao...you don't think this is all I'm capable of, do you?"

"What!?"

With a hissing sound, Long Qiao slowly lowered her head. She saw that a hand had suddenly pierced her abdomen, causing blood to flow freely. Long Qiao slowly turned her head to look behind her and saw a figure that looked exactly like Kums behind her. Its right hand was still stuck in Long Qiao's abdomen. With a sudden yank, a large amount of blood burst out of Long Qiao's abdomen and flowed onto the ground.

"It can create clones?! I didn't even sense it?! I'm doomed! I'm not giving up!"

After retracting his clone, Coombs arrived in front of Ryuki, who was lying on the ground severely injured and had already deactivated his transformation. Coombs grabbed Ryuki's head and was about to finish him off when several cannonballs came whistling through the air and hit Coombs, sending him flying. Ryuki was also thrown back by the shockwave of the sudden attack. Ryuki forced his eyes open and saw that what came into view was actually the Mobile Pegasus!

"I'm so glad you haven't forgotten me, Motorized Pegasus. Whew...Whew, setting you to prioritize protecting Ryuu Takumi was the right thing to do."

Long Qiao used her last bit of strength to transform her right hand into the shape of an Orphnoch and forcefully opened a crack in the void.

"Motorized Pegasus, take me into the spacetime rift." After saying that, Long Qiao collapsed onto the Motorized Pegasus and fainted.

Meanwhile, the mechanical Pegasus immediately burrowed into the spacetime rift, which then closed. When Coombs finally got up from the ground, the mechanical Pegasus and Long Qiao were nowhere to be seen, leaving him furious.

Inside the time tunnel, the mechanical Pegasus pulled out a healing potion and injected it into Long Qiao's body. With the help of the Orphino factor and the potion, Long Qiao's injuries slowly healed. After slowly opening her eyes, Long Qiao lay on the mechanical Pegasus, which dutifully carried her to the end of the time tunnel—