[Honkai: Star Rail] A Raccoon's Cat-Stealing Adventure in the World of Curses

[Also known as The Azure Sky Where It Dwells. Cover: Birds Crossing Green Mountains]

What's it like to jump into a JUMP portal to the second dimension and actually end up in the second dimension?

Thanks for asking. I'm at Shibuya Station, just off the subway. Hideous monsters are all around me, and in front of me is a robe-wearing weirdo making ridiculous faces and holding a skull.

With everyone watching, Qiong feels something hard beneath him. He reaches down and pulls out a cube covered in eyes.

In the silence, the robe-wearing weirdo across from him stops smiling and slowly puts the skull back on his head.

In the name of the God of Elation, this is delightful.

Bad news: I can't find my baseball bat. All I have in my arms is Myriad Paths of Writing, and I can't use the powers of any other Paths. What do I do?

Good news: the Chrysos Heirs in Myriad Paths of Writing can come to Qiong's side and help him fight, just like shikigami summoned through the Ten Shadows Technique.

At last, he doesn't have to grab the book and whack people while clutching the cat box and running from the authorities. Qiong sheds a tear of gratitude.

So, in Shibuya, engulfed by cursed spirits, the daughter of the River Styx crosses a sea of flowers in death. She gently strokes the cheek of a transfigured human whose soul has been twisted, granting a suffering soul eternal rest.

She looks up at the blue-haired cursed spirit across from her. A massive scythe flickers in her hand.

"Those who trample life will one day be swallowed by countless living beings."

Deep inside an ancient, decaying building, a blonde woman gazes through unfocused eyes, seemingly unable to see. Yet golden threads silently slice across the neck of an elderly man in a position of power.

"Are you nervous? Your breathing has changed."

A thousand years ago, beneath that same moon, the Heavenly Spear streaks across the sky and shatters into countless blood-red crystal fragments beneath a slash. A man covered in ancient markings, his golden eyes like the sun, walks toward the King of Curses.

He will pierce this dark age and blaze a path forward for countless ordinary people with blood and fire.

"A king never uses his strength against the weak. Fight me, Ryomen Sukuna."

Years later, a massive train crashes down from the sky into Shinjuku.

With rotten oranges beneath his feet, a brain in a jar beaten into submission, the jujutsu world rebuilt, and his white cat wife whom he won fair and square in his arms, Qiong returns to the train and laughs wildly from the observation lounge:

"Ahahaha! I'm the boss now!"

A little walk with Uncle:

1.

Pure Love Guy: I'll take on all four of them! I'll kill Kenjaku myself!

Mint Cat Teacher: Great, love the enthusiasm! Tell me why!

Pure Love Guy: Because I absolutely won't let you suffer the pain of killing your best friend again!

Little Raccoon: Ah, someone's teaching credentials are melting like cream.

White Cat Teacher: Yuta's such a good kid! By the way, the great Gojo-sensei doesn't have teaching credentials!

2.

Little Raccoon: Usually brothers give each other nicknames to get closer. I have two brothers who call each other Sun Bro and Pain Bro, but why aren't you two like that?

Big Brother of Justice: ...

Pure Love Guy: ...

White Cat: Are you trying to steal my love just to get my attention? That's so sly, Suguru.

Big Brother of Justice: You're talking nonsense again, Satoru.

3.

The little raccoon returns to the past with the cat box and falls into some crab-worshipping cult. He looks up and sees that little-eyed guy in a robe again.

Little Raccoon: It was fate! An unjust fate led me here!

Little Raccoon: Geto Suguru! I brought you huimian... I mean, a best friend!

Big Brother of Justice: ?

The big white cat in the cat box: ?

Reader's Guide:

Massive OOC! Lots of creative liberties, and it's a serious story, not a pure power fantasy! I don't recommend it to anyone, no matter what you're into, because I'm really just making things up.

1. Qiong x Gojo Satoru. This fic completely rejects the game and all the spicy nonsense, and completely rejects the author going crazy. The Astral Express Crew will appear later.

2. Gojo Satoru will join the Astral Express at the end. Goodbye, cursed jujutsu world. Tonight, I'm heading off on a long journey. And don't worry about Gojo's power level in the Honkai: Star Rail world. He'll become an Emanator. As for which Aeon he'll serve, that's a spoiler for the story, so I can't say. Hehe, take a guess!

Also, there's a chance Geto Suguru will appear in the Stellaron Hunters side story. His ending in the main story hasn't been decided yet.

3. This is a fake secret identity story. The secret identities use bodies from before version 3.7, but the Chrysos Heirs whose souls control those bodies are from after version 3.7!

4. I'll try to give every Chrysos Heir an appearance, but how often they show up will depend on the story. This is my first time writing a medium-length or long novel, so I may not get all the details right. Please forgive me.

5. Many elements and details will be altered to some extent to blend the two worlds' settings.

Theme: When you have a chance to make a choice, don't let yourself have regrets.