Jiang Chou transmigrates into Honkai: Star Rail and opens a little restaurant in Exalting Sanctum. He plans to live quietly as an ordinary man who keeps a close eye on his expenses.
That is, until one late night, the world is instantly replaced, and “IF-line contamination” forcibly overwrites reality.
Amid the ruins of the Luofu, where the Stellaron has erupted in full, Huohuo, the “Flame Hunter,” holds a dark red demonic sword and devours a Heliobus alive.
In this perilous wasteland, where gods wage war and Emanators roam everywhere, Jiang Chou has no world-defying System panel or godlike power capable of destroying the heavens and earth.
As a small-time shopkeeper, all he can do is grip the rag in his hand and invoke an absolute contract called [Equivalent Exchange], carving out a way to survive from a hopeless situation.
“I’ll trade the pain of a shattered left arm for ten minutes of silence from your demonic sword. Now put it down and listen to me.”
After Jiang Chou puts an end to the contamination, covered in wounds, and forces an IF line fated for destruction back on track, he returns to the main universe, only to discover that things have gotten out of hand.
All the bonds and memories forged across life and death in the IF line have merged into the minds of their counterparts in the main universe!
So when Huohuo, the timid trainee judge who often cries in fright, comes back to the restaurant for noodles, a hint of unmistakable, unhealthy possessiveness now lurks in her eyes as she looks at him.
And as the contamination alarm sounds again, the figures trapped in hopeless situations across different IF lines are all waiting for their own “Equivalent Exchange”...
Jiang Chou looks around at the “acquaintances” whose eyes are growing increasingly unsettling and sighs helplessly:
“I really am just a restaurant owner!”
It feels like an AI text, which catches the eye. But that's it
Awesome!!!!
Very nice, just a bit long. If you look at it yourself, it's quite ok.
An exchange of equal value is nothing, why not call it an exchange?