(The blurb has been revised. Feel free to remove it from your collection.)
"What do you mean, I have to build a Honkai: Star Rail world on this Earth?"
The player pointed at himself, trying to make his face look angry, but he couldn't hold back the wildly upturned corners of his mouth.
Sure, the only characters he could build were the ones on his own account, but come on, he had six full teams of top-tier old-timers!
*
"What is this? It's my precious baby~"
Red Robin clung desperately to the gray-haired young man's waist. "Himeko! That's a trash can!"
"That's exactly why it's a trash can!"
Impulse sucked in a sharp breath. "I knew he was always a little crazy, but I didn't realize his perception was broken too!"
"Don't ask me." Superboy took a reverent step back. "We weren't in the same lab."
*
"Mr. Superman, you have an exceptionally noble soul. Your path of salvation is arduous and full of hardships, yet you have never let them wear away your courage. I deeply admire you. I will adopt these noble ideals and hold myself to an even stricter code from now on, carrying through with my resolve to resist the devil.*"
"Though Mr. Batman is always wary of others, he acts in service of a greater purity, and holds himself to standards as strict as a knight's code. Please allow me to say that he, too, is 'beautiful.'*"
"Mr. Flash has a pure heart. Such innate kindness and good deeds are rare and precious. I hope to show these qualities greater care and respect. Across the galaxy, there are far too many people who are vulgar and greedy by nature, hiding behind clumsy sweet talk.*"
The red-haired Knight of Beauty won over the entire superhero community with his sincerity.
Wonder Woman said, "I want to know what other angle he can use to praise me from."
So stop trying to steal her teammate!
*
"One clown, two clowns..."
With a *joyful* smile, the girl with twin tails spoke on the city's CCTV livestream: "I've placed 21,900 clown dolls across the city, but only one of them is a real clown doll. All the others are fake. The real clown doll will explode in two hours and nineteen minutes. Now, let's join the queue and take part in the festivities!"
"Now that's a good time, isn't it?"
*
Instructions:
1. *These are original lines and may have been changed slightly.
2. This should be a lighthearted romp. There wasn't enough of this kind of story, so I had to make it myself.
3. The blurb may change, but the central gag, which is also the title, won't.
Theme: I will cross mountains and rivers, endure countless hardships, and find my way back to who I was at the beginning.