Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 72: How to handle a makeup exam?

"Waaaaah, I hate studying! I hate exams!"

"Stop complaining and read more books."

Sora sympathizes with Kiana Kaslana, who is mired in a crisis known as the "failure to retake the exam".

In Qiong's opinion, what Paramecium needs most right now is intensive tutoring, followed by some "unorthodox methods": such as going to Theresa and begging for help, or going to Himeko and Lao Yang to ask for "Cai Cai's help," which might have some effect. After all, judging from Kiana's repeated forced participation in field missions to earn credits, her GPA and credits from exams are probably not very good.

Seeing how pitiful Kiana was, Sora decided to give her a little pointers.

"Kiana, besides studying hard, let me give you a suggestion: go to the headmaster's office."

Qiong's real intention was to go to Theresa's office. Theresa dotes on Kiana so much that she'd likely help Kiana in various ways, including but not limited to tutoring her personally and secretly negotiating with other teachers to give her a break... After all, St. Freya Academy is ultimately her family's business. While it might not be the most legitimate way, it could at least offer some relief in an emergency.

But the semi-literate paramecium clearly misunderstood what Qiong meant.

"Go to the office? Great idea! Little Grey, that's a really good idea!"

Kiana threw down "Honkai Chronicles" and jumped up from her desk, startling Sora. Looking up, Kiana's eyes were sparkling.

"We can steal the exam papers from Auntie's! As long as we know the questions beforehand, we're guaranteed to pass!"

Qiong immediately interrupted Kiana's fantasy, "This is absolutely unacceptable!"

"Remove the word 'door'! Besides, the people who set the exam are all the subject teachers, so you won't be able to steal anything from the headmaster!"

Qiong was truly dumbfounded. How did this guy even think of this? Is your IQ 250?

“That makes sense. Let’s go to Teacher Yang’s office tonight. We know the way!”

"Kiana, are you serious?"

"Kiana, study hard. Thinking about cheating is wrong. Sora, you too, don't lead Kiana astray."

"Idiot Kiana, you can't even keep your cheating a secret."

Kiana, who was surrounded by onlookers, slowly sat back down.

"I just said it offhand, just said it offhand, hahaha..."

In a sense, Qiong admired Kiana for being so honest; she dared to shout it out loud even when she wanted to do something bad. He certainly couldn't do that.

"Little Grey, do you have any other ideas?"

Qiong thought about it and realized there really was one.

"Any other methods? Would jogging in the morning to activate the brain count?"

"What a terrible idea! No way!"

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If there's anything that can make Kiana feel a little better, it's that she can now legitimately stay at Himeko's place under the guise of organizing a study session. Theresa even surprisingly agreed to let her stay overnight at Himeko's house until her makeup exam on the weekend.

"What happened to studying?"

However, rather than a study session, Sora preferred to call it a hot pot party. Heaven knows how Kiana convinced Raiden Mei to change a proper dinner into a hot pot meal.

"Let's go after we eat hot pot, let's go after we eat hot pot."

Faced with Kiana's extremely perfunctory attitude, both Himeko Sora and Mei shook their heads in unison.

It's truly a case of the emperor not being worried while the eunuch is. Despite the imminent grand trial, this person remains completely unperturbed, leisurely enjoying hot pot.

You're eating, eating, eating! You're in such a dire situation, how can you still eat?

An hour later, at Himeko's urging, the arithmetic lesson officially began.

"I can't remember, I can't remember anything at all..."

Kiana, soaking in Himeko's study, felt like she was drowning.

"Why do we have to take such a boring subject as history?"

Although Sora really wanted to reply to Kiana by saying that history is actually quite interesting, it wouldn't help... So let's say something more constructive.

"Bronya, lend your sister a hand?"

Don't get me wrong, it's not that Qiong is being nosy and asking others for help, it's just that this useless study session is taking up the time he and Bronya spend playing games!

Bronya was already a quiet person, and recently Qiong was afraid that if she opened her mouth, she would ask about things like the girl duck (thank you Lao Yang, I'm not afraid now). Therefore, the two mainly communicated through games at night, and Bronya, who was focused on the game, would not talk about anything else.

Kiana's study session successfully destroyed the last remaining time he and Bronya could have spent communicating.

I'm sure Comrade Bu will readily agree, right?

Bronya held up three fingers.

"Bronya can agree, but Qiong must agree to three conditions."

You bastard, you're taking advantage of my misfortune like this! It's not like I failed the exam, why are you trying to extort me? A paramecium isn't worth him selling himself for.

If the conditions are less stringent, it's worth considering.

"Too many, just one!"

"Deal! Kiana will be left to Bronya!"

"Little Grey, I'm so touched! You actually agreed to this little dwarf's request for my sake..."

"..."

But after agreeing to Qiong's request, she suddenly realized something.

Wait a minute, in the original timeline, no matter what, Bronya would interfere with Kiana's studies. Wouldn't I be at a disadvantage?

"Once Bronya helps Kiana, Qiong must tell him everything she knows!"

"Bronya, aren't you asking me to do something I shouldn't?"

Kiana, who always repays kindness, felt that Bronya's request was unreasonable and decided to speak up for Sora.

"Little Grey was almost forgetting who he was back then, how could he possibly remember what you want..."

"Arkhangelsk".

Qiong interrupted Kiana, which also attracted Bronya's attention.

"I don't remember much, just some vague bits and pieces. If you want to hear about them, I can tell you later."

Arkhangelsk, a province on the Russian Arctic coast, is also the largest city in the Russian Arctic. Bronya had heard of this place.

According to Cocolia's investigation, that was likely the hometown of some of the children in the orphanage.

After diverting Bronya's attention with a place name, Qiong's heart involuntarily raced—a natural reaction to lying. Fortunately, Bronya's attention wasn't on him, otherwise he would most likely have been exposed.

It seems I need to practice lying without blushing or skipping a beat.

I'm sorry, Bronya, I didn't mean to lie to you! It's all Uncle Yang's fault; he wouldn't let me tell the truth! He's utterly wicked. If you want to settle scores later, set up your drones and go find Uncle Yang! Please don't hold me, this weak, pitiful, and helpless pioneer, accountable!

“Okay, Bronya agrees.”

Less than two minutes later, Bronya pulled out two Houmu helmets. One of them, a yellow Houmu helmet, was already on Bronya's head, while the other, a blue one, was obviously meant for Kiana.

"Bronya, what is this?"

"HoumHoum Virtual Reality Connector".

Bronya seemed to have pressed some kind of switch, causing the eyes of both of them to lose their sparkle in front of Sora. Sora then waved her hands in front of their eyes.

Kiana? Bronya?

"Quiet little gray fur, don't make a sound!"

Oh, so this thing doesn't block sound.