Lady Black Tower Sleeps Soundly Again Tonight

Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai: Star Rail, Herta

This is a story about home: finding it, losing it, and finding it again.

A story of endlessly searching, endlessly protecting.

If one day you discovered that someone who didn't belong in your world had suddenly appeared in it, what would you do?

Raiden Qiong's answer was:

Get some sleep first. Deal with it tomorrow.

After all, for someone who had lived through Honkai, seen monsters, and survived a hail of bullets, the world occasionally acting up didn't seem like anything worth making a fuss over.

But when the clock struck midnight, the rooms that belonged to two different worlds quietly overlapped.

On one side was the ordinary, peaceful life of Changkong City.

On the other was a genius girl from the sea of stars.

When Qiong opened her eyes, the woman rumored to be arrogant, willful, and impossible to reason with, yet possessing an intellect capable of decoding the universe, was sleeping quietly beside her.

And the first thing Herta said when she woke up was:

“...Who are you?”

Qiong: “Shouldn't I be asking you that?”

Herta: “This is my room.”

Qiong: “No, this is my room.”

The two fell silent.

Then they both looked at the wall slowly merging between them.

“Well, since things have come to this, let's have breakfast first...”