After typing a query in the public channel to ask Mabel, Suke learned the situation regarding the so-called "car accident."
It was exactly as he expected: it had indeed occurred in the Star Rail universe, directly opposite the inner room of Mabel's General Store.
According to Mabel, an interstellar train traveling at sub-light speed had crashed into the doorframe floating in the cosmos. An entire carriage had derailed, and the passengers inside were likely in dire straits.
She had absolutely no self-awareness that this broken doorframe was essentially space junk resulting from her own power.
Suke could only say that if the main protagonist group of Star Rail got wiped out in this space car accident, it would be a massive joke. It would probably make Aha, the Aeon of Elation, laugh so hard he wouldn't sleep for three days and three nights.
"Your Holiness, these are the four souls detected by this bus. Tripoka can go and pick up two of them."
Standing before the bus stop, Tripoka pointed to the GPS on the driver's seat and introduced the situation to Suke.
"This is Tripoka's mission. Even if Your Holiness chooses none, I will still randomly select at least one person to bring over before the end of this quarter."
"Because this is the contract Tripoka established with the Purple Star."
Tripoka sat inside the vehicle, not in high spirits, wearing the dead expression of a corporate wage slave. In the past, she worked for the Tower of Thanatos; now, she works for Stardew Valley. It seems this Little Death God has an innate Holy Body of a Corporate Slave.
Doesn't this mean that every quarter, one or two more people will be added to his place? It seems that if any more Special Bus Tickets drop in the future, he can save them instead of using them immediately.
His farmhand slots, fully counted, only numbered seven. The "blue ocean" period of easy recruitment had passed; from now on, he had to be picky!
Thus, Suke leaned forward to look at the navigation device in front of Tripoka. Four avatars were prominently displayed on the screen. Suke actually recognized all four of them.
They were:
Seraph of the End — Krul Tepes.
Lostbelt No. 6: Fairy Round Table Domain — Baobhan Sith (Fairy Knight Tristan).
Unknown if from Honkai Gakuen 2 or Honkai Impact 3rd — Seele Vollerei.
And the Stellaron Spirit from Honkai: Star Rail — Stelle.
Wait?
Suke paused to think for a moment. He had impressions of Krul and Baobhan Sith. The former was written by an author addicted to selling corruption and treating characters inhumanely, resulting in her being tortured by subordinates and then eaten—a horrific death. The latter died just as miserably, perhaps even worse: cut into a human stick, thrown into a sacrificial pit to merge with a god, and dissipating after losing her self and becoming a monster to be defeated.
But leaving aside the Stellaron Spirit, who most likely just died instantly in the car accident, what was going on with Seele?
He had already intervened in the Honkai Gakuen 2 world. According to calculations, less than two months should have passed there. With the contingency plans he left behind, it should be absolutely impossible for the Tri-Stars of the orphanage to be in trouble.
Although he didn't know the status of Honkai Impact 3rd, according to the original plot, Seele should have been safe throughout. If you insist that crashing into the Quantum Sea via the X-10 Experiment counts as death, then Suke has nothing to say.
"Tripoka, does this opportunity need to be used immediately?"
"No. The moment these four souls met their fate and died, their existence and their worlds were frozen together."
"This is a privilege of the Purple Star before the myriad worlds connect to the Land of Return. Tripoka calls it the 'Ticket Check Period'."
"So, Your Holiness can go do your own things first."
"That's good. I'll go check on Boss Mabel first."
Suke relaxed. Since things had come to this, he could only go to Elysia's universe to confirm the situation first. regarding the four people on this list... well, Suke was too lazy to roast why the bus only transported beautiful girls.
Right now, he was only thinking about which two would best fit his needs. Actually, he didn't need to think too hard; Seele Vollerei was a must-pick. He had to determine if she was the Seele Vollerei from Honkai Gakuen 2.
He was most concerned about the safety of Sin and Bronya. After all, he had some karmic ties with those two. If it really was the Seele from Honkai Gakuen 2, it would mean Bronya and Sin had definitely encountered a crisis outside the original plot. Suke would have to use the Iridium Key to travel there and inspect the situation, using Seele as an anchor point.
As for the remaining slot... It was so hard to choose. Assuming the Stellaron Spirit's cause of death had nothing to do with their Stardew Valley.
"You're here~"
"Hurry up and move this door away. Mabel-chan was sleeping soundly just now, and that commotion woke me right up!"
A pair of slender legs in black silk stockings and suspenders were crossed and propped up on the table. Boss Mabel, with the Mystery of the Night Sky looming faintly beneath her Lolita skirt, was munching on Raisins without a care for ladylike elegance.
You are both avatars of Bubbles; why is the gap between you and that silent-type beautiful girl, Tavil, from next door so huge? Is it because she is Bubbles' pure benevolent consciousness?
After appreciating the scenery of the mysterious night sky, Suke walked into the inner room, ready to see what this "car accident" was all about.
Could he say it was exactly as expected? When Suke slid open the door and saw the entire Astral Express crumpled into a Z-shape like a game of Snake, he understood the tragedy of the crash site.
He estimated that if the train weren't the legacy of the Aeon of Trailblaze, capable of withstanding the impact of hitting a rigid body at sub-light speed, it would have already shattered into dust. But even so, seeing the train head deformed entirely, Suke knew the people inside were definitely not feeling good.
Taking out the Shepherd's Crook, Suke casually cast a Magic · [Levitation] on himself and flew toward the crash site.
"Ugh... Sister Himeko, Uncle Yang, are you all okay?"
"How could something like this happen! Ugh... Pom-Pom, what on earth did we hit?"
Before he even flew to the carriage, Suke heard the voice of a young girl from inside—a voice that sounded somewhat intellectually challenged just by listening to it. Although Suke was prepared for a scene of bloody gore, perhaps even needing to use Magic · [Healing] to piece them back together, the reality was obviously much more optimistic than he had anticipated.
"I don't know, pom. The navigation clearly didn't show any large obstacles ahead, pom..."
Through the car window, a cute long-eared rabbit creature, less than half a person's height and wearing a nutcracker-style conductor's hat, appeared in Suke's field of vision. It also looked dizzy, evidently not yet recovered from the violent impact just now.
"Are you okay, Little March?"
"The train's damage status isn't optimistic. We might need to perform maintenance right here."
A tall, red-haired woman, the Navigator, walked over looking slightly disheveled. She frowned, her dress stained with a large patch of coffee-like liquid.
"Attempting to contact the Interastral Peace Corporation's space maintenance team... It seems this will cost a lot of funds..."
"Sigh, truly unlucky. How could we run into something like this?"
"This young lady is definitely going to see clearly what we hit later. If it's space junk randomly discarded by someone else, Sister Himeko, you must sue them into bankruptcy!"
The girl with short pink hair rubbed her neck, which had nearly cramped during the violent collision, and grumbled angrily.
The group, who had tentatively survived the car accident without major issues, also gathered in the main hall to confirm each other's safety.
"Uncle Yang, Sister Himeko, Dan Heng, Pom-Pom, me... right, plus Stelle, six people!"
"Phew, it seems no one is hurt, so I'm relieved... hmm?"
The pink-haired girl counted the number of people present and patted her chest, exhaling a sigh of relief. But a moment later, noticing that Himeko, Welt Yang, and the others were looking guardedly at a certain person among the six of them, she realized something was wrong, as if her reflexes were delayed:
"Hmm? Where's Stelle?"
"Wait, if Stelle isn't here, why are there still six people on the scene?"
"—?! Wait, Mister Farmer, who are you, hey!"
Noticing the strange male who had appeared beside her at some unknown point, the pink-haired girl shuddered. As if startled, she abruptly retreated a step behind Welt Yang and Himeko.
The Astral Express involved in an inexplicable car accident, and a mysterious farmer appearing alongside the crash! No matter how you looked at it, this didn't seem like a normal situation. After all, was it really reasonable for someone looking like a farmer to appear in space?!
If she hadn't observed carefully and found that this farmer was handsome and didn't look like a bad person, March 7th would have already instinctively whipped out her Six-Phased Ice Bow and shot him with an arrow!
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