The Vixen's Gambit: Tonight We Hunt

What the heck is going on? Did I somehow transmigrate into some kind of doomsday movie?

In the pitch-black alley, the white-haired teenager was running for his life, not daring to stop even looking as pathetic as he did.

For good reason, too. Anyone normal would react the same way when they saw a monster as tall as a three-story building charging right at them.

Kevin really didn't understand how things had turned out like this. Just a few days ago, he had arrived in Nagazora City to transfer to Chiba Academy. Today, he just wanted to walk around the city and soak in the atmosphere of the place where he'd be spending the next three years.

But somehow, he got lost in this deserted old district, and then, as night fell, he ran into this giant monster that he had no idea what it was.

Why did the world suddenly become like this?!

"Oh my, oh my, looks like the future war god hasn't grown up yet~"

On a tall building not far away, Lee watched Kevin being chased by the Honkai Beast with amusement, not in a hurry to intervene at all. "If I'd known he was still this timid, maybe buying a Chariot-class model would have been enough, saved me a lot of money."

That's right, this whole scene was meticulously orchestrated by Lee.

Even Honkai has to follow some basic rules. Honkai Beasts aren't Herrschers, they can't just pop out of nowhere. This was just a model Lee bought from the shop.

Although its appearance and aura were just like a real Temple-class Honkai Beast, this thing's combat power was at most on par with a tank. It could smash things and demolish buildings, sure, but in a real fight, Ato could probably take it apart.

After all, it only cost 100,000 energy points, you can't expect it to be that strong... Anyway, it just needed to look scary enough. If she used a real Temple-class Honkai Beast, what if people got hurt?

So, the moment this thing appeared, Lee controlled it to charge out, just to avoid being seen through by the others in her squad.

And the purpose of all this…

As everyone knows, the Kaslanas are all pure love fanatics. If you can't be the first person in their eyes, then you basically have no chance for life. And Kevin, as the ancestor, was a man who took this to the extreme.

Unfortunately, Lee wasn't purple-haired with long, straight black hair, so she didn't have the Kaslana family's weakness for that type. Therefore, to leave a deep enough impression on Kevin and try to make him fall in love at first sight, Lee decided to use some 'technical means.'

If just relying on looks wasn't enough, then she'd just have to manually create the atmosphere.

Don't blame me for being underhanded, Kevin...

Also, this 100,000 energy point initial investment was unprecedentedly expensive. I'll definitely milk you dry in the future to earn the energy back, I swear!

"Dead end?!"

Kevin frantically rushed into a narrow alley, thinking the monster wouldn't be able to get in because of its size. He didn't expect that the monster would just smash through the walls on both sides and keep up with him. In the end, Kevin himself was cornered at the end of the alley.

What should he do now? Was he really going to die here...?

Watching the monster approach step by step, Kevin's legs trembled. He finally gritted his teeth and picked up a discarded steel bar from the side, clenching it in his hand.

If he had to die, he at least couldn't die so pathetically!

It really wasn't Kevin's fault for being too pessimistic. If the thing in front of him was only two or three meters tall, he might have grabbed a bat and gone to fight it – but this thing was three or four stories high, it didn't look like something a human could handle, right?!

Looking at death approaching, a sense of sadness flashed through Kevin's heart. He never thought he'd die young just like this, without even having a girlfriend before he died...

Sigh, if only he could have a manga protagonist moment right now, if only someone could save him from this desperate situation.

But no miracle appeared, only the monster raising its spear and charging towards him—

Suddenly, Kevin saw a light fall from the sky.

That silver-white figure was like moonlight spilling down, flashing across Kevin's vision, and then—

BOOM!!!

An explosive shockwave erupted in front of Kevin, the huge impact and billowing smoke making him subconsciously take a few steps back, then he tripped over something and fell to the ground.

Soon, the summer night breeze brought coolness and scattered the dust around, revealing the scene to Kevin's eyes.

On the ruins, the girl was stepping on the monster that had been so invincible just moments ago. Her white hair shone with a gentle light in the moonlight. She turned her head, smiled, and spoke to him.

"Are you hurt?"

So beautiful.

Fallen on the ground, Kevin looked up at the figure above him, and those words floated into his mind.

…

"Kevin… Kevin? Kevin!!"

"…Ah, are you calling me?"

Looking at his best friend, who seemed dazed and just waking up from a dream, Su sighed helplessly. "Are you okay? Why are you always spacing out?"

Su was originally very happy that his old childhood friend had transferred to Chiba Academy. A few days ago, when Kevin first moved to Nagazora City, they even went out to play for a whole day together.

At that time, Kevin seemed very much looking forward to transferring to Chiba Academy.

Based on Su's understanding of his friend, Kevin would soon be welcomed after transferring, and then he would actively participate in various clubs, like the basketball team or something, eventually becoming a school celebrity... maybe similar to Senior Lee now?

But Kevin probably didn't have the charm to attract the same-sex attention, after all, many of those who followed Senior Lee every day were girls.

But reality seemed to be somewhat different from Su's imagination. Kevin had been acting like he'd lost his soul all day. Besides giving a brief self-introduction when he first entered the class, he had been spacing out, not knowing what he was thinking about.

"Kevin, did something happen??" Su asked with concern. "The news said there was a gang shootout in the suburbs last night, you didn't run into it, did you?"

"Gang…?"

Kevin mentally compared the gangsters with guns to the monster he saw yesterday, and then silently came to a conclusion: "Gangs, don't seem that dangerous."

"?" A big question mark appeared above Su's head. "Are you really okay?"

"I'm okay, I'm okay…"

Kevin sighed. He didn't know how to tell Su about yesterday's experience. After all, who would believe that there were such terrifying monsters in the world? It wasn't a movie.

And that person had specifically told him not to spread it around…

"Su, do you believe in love at first sight?" Kevin asked subconsciously, but didn't expect to get an affirmative answer from his friend.

After all, Su had always been a rational person, it was impossible for him to believe in such unfounded things.

"Yeah, I totally believe it."

"Right, I knew i—huh?"