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[HSRGSS] Chapter 52: Meeting in Reality
🕑 Added 2025-07-22 00:21:43 +0000 UTCJarilo-VI, Belobog, Underworld, Goethe Grand Hotel.
"Well, I still remember all the coordinates, so I can just rely on Absolute Hit to take care of some diplomacy later."
Inside his room, Lucian muttered thoughtfully while stroking his chin.
Lucian didn't spend his years in the script doing nothing.
He checked the star map every day and memorized the coordinates of many different factions in the world of Honkai Star Rail.
Even though it was just a script, those coordinates were all real and existed, like Herta Space Station, Interastral Peace Corporation, Penacony, Jarilo-VI, and so on.
Lucian had memorized the coordinates for all these fixed locations on the star map, so he could go there anytime.
As for the Xianzhou Alliance, since all the Xianzhou flagships traveled around the galaxy and had no fixed position, Lucian would only know where they were once he connected to the Interastral Peace Network.
"Star map means the interastral map, and it's also the real-time signal source for the Interastral Peace Network. I have to go to the IPC and grab one."
As long as he had a star map, Jarilo-VI could connect to the IPC's Interastral Peace Network and communicate with other civilizations.
No sooner said than done.
Lucian prepared to change his appearance, then head to the IPC's headquarters for a robbery.
Pay for it?
Not a chance.
Knowing that the IPC would send someone to Jarilo-VI to collect the debt later only made Lucian even more eager to get a freebie from them.
DING!
As Lucian was pondering the location of the IPC's headquarters, his communicator suddenly rang.
He quickly answered and found that it was Cocolia calling.
[Lord Lucian, we took a guest who said she's here for you. Her name is Feixiao.]
"Feixiao?"
Lucian froze for a second.
'How long has it even been? Why is she showing up already?'
'Oh, right...'
He suddenly remembered something.
'She used Absolute Hit, huh...'
Lucian remembered he had not retrieved Absolute Hit yet, so it was still being borrowed by Feixiao.
Feixiao must have used Absolute Hit to launch her ship over here—arriving at Jarilo-VI in no time, still sitting inside the ship, completely intact.
However, this also proved Lucian's theory: everything that happened in the script—all his followers remembered.
Lucian didn’t know about Tribios and Mortis's situation, but the fact that Feixiao had suddenly come here indicated she remembered everything that happened in the script.
In other words, that mother and daughter pair should remember as well.
Lucian couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
In the next moment, Lucian retrieved the ability he had lent to Feixiao, then left a quick word with Bronya and Seele before rushing out of the Underworld. Now that Bronya and Seele had already gotten along, he could rest easy about Bronya's safety in the Underworld.
Lucian instantly returned to the Qlipoth Fort and saw a white-haired, fox-eared woman in the reception hall, with Cocolia keeping her company.
"Lord Lucian, that's her."
Cocolia immediately stood to greet Lucian the moment she saw him enter.
Feixiao also turned to the door at the same time, spotting a very handsome man—it was the familiar face from her second memory.
"Lucian..." Feixiao murmured softly.
"Yeah, it's me..." Lucian responded with a smile. "You still remember, huh..."
Just like that, the two stared at each other, but the scene Lucian had imagined—where Feixiao would rush over to hug him—never happened.
Instead, Feixiao just stood there, staring straight at him in silence.
"...It wasn't a dream, after all."
A while later, Feixiao finally spoke, though his expression was complicated.
"I really did live a second life, didn't I?"
"You could say that..." Lucian nodded, his expression calm, but his eyes full of emotion. "I can't really explain or say for sure what that phenomenon was, but I swear on everything—I meant every feeling I had for you, and everything I did in that life was real. Even if I'm an Emanator of Abundance, and you're the Merlin's Claw, none of that could change what I felt for you."
Meanwhile, Cocolia, who listened silently from the side, was completely baffled.
'What? What are they talking about? Second life? Merlin's Claw?'
Regardless of her confusion, as Cocolia looked at Lucian and Feixiao, she realized they basically seemed no different from old lovers having a reunion.
A touch of sadness flashed in Cocolia's eyes.
'I wasn't his first...'
As this thought flashed through her mind, Cocolia quietly left the room, giving the two some time together.
At the same time, Cocolia worried whether Bronya could ever catch Lucian's eye.
Just look at that fox woman—she had a body that seemed built to seduce men.
Bronya didn't seem to stand a chance.
Back with Lucian and Feixiao, his gaze as he spoke to her was sincere and deep—just as gentle as he had been in her second memory.
Feixiao started to feel strange as some instinctive desire suddenly welled up inside her.
Hug him...
Hug him...
Her body was telling her what it wanted, but Feixiao forced down the urge and asked Lucian instead.
"What about my mas—Yueyu... is she... dead?"
Upon hearing this question, Lucian sighed softly before answering.
"Yes, she was dead, just like in history. But I brought her back to life, so she should be alive now. As long as she remembers the coordinates here, she'll come find me."
Feixiao remained silent for a while before asking again.
"Tell me... what exactly did you do?"
"Like I said, I can't say for sure..." Lucian shook his head. "Honestly, it's hard to explain—no, maybe it can't be explained at all. What I can say for sure is—none of this will do you any harm. Your master returned to your side, your hatred was finally released, your Moon Rage is cured, and you even got me."
"Heh, you're so full of yourself." Feixiao couldn't help but chuckle. "But you're not wrong, so I won't ask anymore."
It was all about the outcome, not the motive.
Besides, the facts were right here, so there was no point in digging further.
In the first place, if Lucian had wanted to hurt her, he wouldn't have gone through all that trouble. He could've just thrown a few dozen planets with his broken ability and called it done.
At this point, Feixiao had almost completely figured things out, so she decided to fully embrace her second memory, her second life, and leave her originally tragic fate in the past.
"What about Koolur... Neergul and Koolur's foxians?"
Feixiao asked again with a somewhat uneasy expression.
Lucian fell silent, unsure how to answer her question.
He couldn't help it, since he himself wasn't sure if Koolur would still be the same as in the script.
He remembered that the System had said the script would only partially affect reality, so it probably wouldn't be able to influence Koolur completely, right?
Lucian sighed softly, reached his hand toward Feixiao, and spoke up.
"Let's go see for ourselves."
Feixiao gazed at Lucian's hand for a moment before she stepped forward and took it.
Soon, Lucian and Feixiao teleported to her spaceship with Absolute Hit.
Once inside, Lucian used Absolute Hit again, this time teleporting them to another star system, where they landed at Koolur's outdoor hangar.
Lucian had used Absolute Hit to travel countless times by now, to the point where he could do it as casually as breathing. Of course, all of this still required either knowing the coordinates or having a clear line of sight.
Together, they looked out at the familiar planet.
"Koolur... It's still here... Everything is just as beautiful as before..."
Upon seeing the familiar place and the many people around, Feixiao was completely at ease.
Koolur's existence once again proved the reality of her second memory.
Now, Feixiao couldn't doubt it anymore, so her last bit of hesitation was completely gone.
"Thank you... Thank you for saving me from such a tragic life... Thank you..."
Feixiao suddenly hugged Lucian tightly, thanking him again and again.
At this moment, she was not just the Merlin's Claw, but also the little girl Lucian had saved, as well as his lover.
In fact, even Lucian hadn't expected Koolur to appear whole and unchanged.
He had to admit, the System was really something.
However, with Feixiao pressed against his chest, her big and soft breasts made Lucian recall their intimate moments together.
"Control yourself, I'm trying to thank you here."
Feeling a hard bulge pressing against her lower belly, Feixiao felt a bit uncomfortable and whispered with a reddened face.
'Easy for you to say.'
Lucian, feeling helpless, complained inwardly.
'Any normal young and straight man like me has no way to control their little bro when the one they love is doing this to them, right?'
Given the situation, Lucian was in no shape to see anyone, so Feixiao had no choice but to quickly lean over and kiss him before kneeling in front of his crotch to calm his so-called 'little bro.'
Thanks to her second memory, Feixiao was already used to this.
Several minutes later, after calming Lucian's 'little bro' down, the two of them left the spaceship and walked around Koolur.
As they walked, they found that nothing had changed at all—the inhabitants here were living their normal lives just as they remembered.
When they saw Lucian, they greeted him respectfully as 'Savior.'
When they saw Feixiao, they called her 'White Fox King.'
Lucian realized that their memories matched up exactly with the day he left the script.
As for the first, true memory in reality, it seemed everyone just thought of it as a nightmare and did not think much about it. Since they were alive, it was obvious which memory they defined as real and which was fake.
Unfortunately, the Yaoqing no longer recognized Koolur's foxians, so they had to start diplomacy all over again.
Before long, Lucian and Feixiao met the Black Fox King Neergul, took care of some matters, and then went their separate ways.
Feixiao needed to return to the Yaoqing to do some mining on Sakin Chadu, as well as work on plans for cooperation between the Yaoqing, Koolur, and Jarilo-VI.
"If you see Yueyu, be sure to let me know. I might need to borrow your ability again. I'm off."
With that, Feixiao gave Lucian a goodbye kiss on the lips, then flew away on her ship.
Lucian, on the other hand, got himself a spaceship on Koolur and set his destination for Pier Point, which was none other than the headquarters of the IPC.
Of course, Lucian also didn't forget to change his appearance, ready for a heist.
