Honkai Star Rail: I Played the Villain, Now the Heroines Want Revenge — Chapter 243

Chapter 243: The Master Diviner’s Troubles

Divination Commission.

It was one of the six major commissions of the Luofu Celestial Ark, a critical department responsible for calculating the fleet’s navigation routes and predicting the future of the Alliance.

Its leader, Master Diviner Fu Xuan, was an even more legendary figure, rumored to be omniscient, her third eye capable of piercing the veil of reality.

[Inorin’s Note: The text uses “Grand Diviner,” but the official English title for Fu Xuan’s rank (太卜/Tàibǔ) is “Master Diviner.”]

However, recently, this legendary Master Diviner has been plagued by a recurring, vivid nightmare.

In her dream, she is not the current Master Diviner, but an acting general during a time of great crisis for the Luofu. The real General is gone, and she is forced to take command.

By her side is a white-haired Foxian diviner she trusts implicitly, named “Jiang Xuan.”

He is her rock. Her strategist. The only one she trusts.

She relies on him. She admires his calm, his intellect. In the quiet, late hours spent over the star charts, she even… likes him. A feeling she hasn’t allowed herself in centuries.

But at the end of every dream, it’s always the same.

It’s always that face she trusts the most, smiling gently at her.

And then… the betrayal. The knife-twist.

He smiles as he pushes her into the abyss of her own mind.

He takes advantage of her unpreparedness, lures the Lord Ravager Phantylia, and lets that demon possess her body.

She can only be trapped deep within her own consciousness like a prisoner, a silent, screaming passenger in her own skull.

She is forced to watch helplessly as “Fu Xuan”—as Phantylia—personally leads the Luofu to destruction, betraying her allies, her people, and her duties.

And that man, the man Phantylia calls “Orion,” watches indifferently from the sidelines, his work complete, his cold eyes devoid of the warmth she thought she saw.

Every time she wakes from this dream, Fu Xuan feels a piercing, visceral sense of loss, humiliation, and a cold, burning hatred.

She feels lost because the “Jiang Xuan” who made her heart flutter doesn’t exist in reality.

And she hates the traitor named “Orion” in her dream.

This contradictory, impossible emotion often makes her distracted during work recently.

Until a few days ago, she heard a name from Jing Yuan’s intelligence report:

Orion.

A Trailblazer who had just boarded the Astral Express.

That’s the name!

Fu Xuan immediately ordered to see this person with her own eyes.

She had to know.

She wanted to see if he was the man who haunted her dreams, the man whom she hated to the core!

When Orion arrived at the building suspended above the Starskiff Haven, the Divination Commission, with the rest of the Astral Express Crew, Fu Xuan was already waiting in the center of the Matrix of Prescience.

She watched the black-haired young man approach, and her mind, for the first time in her life, went completely blank.

It’s him!

That face. That aura. Those profound, dark eyes that seemed to see through everything…

They were exactly like the man in her dream.

But…

Why?

Why isn’t he a white-haired Foxian?

Why is he a black-haired human?

The huge cognitive dissonance plunged Fu Xuan into a vortex of confusion.

Could it be… truly just a dream? Just a cosmic, cruel coincidence?

“Greetings, Astral Express Crew. Welcome to the Divination Commission.”

Fu Xuan forcibly suppressed the turbulent waves in her heart and turned around, her small frame radiating an immense, practiced authority.

Her gaze bypassed Welt, March 7th, and Stelle, locking firmly onto Orion.

“Mr. Orion… we… finally meet.”

“Does the Master Diviner have something for me?”

Orion acted as if he didn’t know her, his relaxed, almost casual demeanor further stinging Fu Xuan’s heart.

Just like this… she thought, her fingers tightening. In the dream, after he betrayed me, he also looked like this!

“Nothing major.”

Fu Xuan walked to a low tea table, sat down gracefully on a cushion, and tried to regain her composure. The Matrix of Prescience hummed softly around her.

“I just heard that Mr. Orion defeated the Lord Ravager by himself. I am very interested in someone who can do such a thing.”

She personally poured a cup of tea for Orion, her movements calm, but her fingertips were a little cold.

Orion picked up the teacup and took a small sip. “Oh? The Master Diviner is interested in me?”

“Yes.” Fu Xuan nodded, her third eye closed, but her focus entirely on him. “My Matrix of Prescience can calculate the laws of all things. Throughout the Luofu, and even this starfield, there are few people and things I cannot see through.”

She looked directly at Orion, her gaze sharp.

“But you are an exception.”

“In my calculations, your past is a chaotic, unreadable mess. A void. And your future… is even more a void. You are like a variable that appeared out of thin air, a black hole in the data, disrupting all the causal lines.”

“I… cannot read you.”

“And that,” she concluded, her voice dropping, “makes you the single most dangerous thing on this ship.”

Orion, hearing this, laughed. It was a soft, genuine laugh.

“Master Diviner, are you telling my fortune?”

He put down the teacup, leaned forward, and moved closer to Fu Xuan.

That face, identical to the man in her dream, was now within arm’s reach. She could feel the warmth radiating from him, smell the faint, clean scent of the Express.

“Then why don’t you calculate again,” he whispered, his voice laced with amusement, “when I left the restaurant today, did I step out with my left foot or my right foot first?”

This almost flirtatious remark, this casual, challenging smile…

It made Fu Xuan’s heart clench sharply!

Too similar! This is exactly like the ‘Orion’ who betrayed her in the dream!

She subconsciously clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. She adjusted her breathing, forcing her training to take over, barely managing to maintain her composure.

She didn’t know whether she should love him or hate him now.

The duality was agonizing.

“…Left foot.”

She gave the answer almost without thinking.

“You are a person who habitually keeps the initiative in your own hands. Whether in action or words, stepping out with your left foot first aligns with your subconscious aggressiveness.”

Orion’s smile froze for a moment.

Thinking back, it seems… he really did step out with his left foot first.

This girl… she has something going on.

“Interesting.”

Orion leaned back in his chair, the playful smile returning. “So, Master Diviner called me here just to study me, this… ‘variable’?”

“Studying is one of the purposes.”

Fu Xuan also picked up her teacup, hiding her distraction.

She decided to try a different approach, rubbing her temples, showing a hint of genuine fatigue.

“More importantly, I want to give you a piece of advice.”

“What advice?”

“Do not get too deeply involved with that woman.”

“…That woman?”

“Jingliu,” Fu Xuan said, her voice turning to ice.

“She is a sinner of the Luofu. A monster. Anyone who associates with her will be considered an enemy of the Celestial Ark.”

This was a warning.

Orion immediately knew who she was referring to.

“Master Diviner worries too much.”

Orion looked innocent, spreading his hands. “I’m not familiar with her. Yesterday was the first time I met her. I’m just a passing enthusiastic citizen who lent a hand.”

“Is that so?”

Fu Xuan was noncommittal.

The third eye on her forehead, the Matrix of Prescience itself, suddenly opened. It radiated a brilliant, divine light and looked straight at Orion!

She was done playing games. She wanted to forcibly pry into his mind, to find out the truth!

However, the moment that all-seeing, calculative power touched Orion…

It was like a mud ox entering the sea. It disappeared without a trace.

Orion’s mind was not a void; it was a fortress, protected by the power of Finality.

Not only that, but a voice—his voice—echoed directly in Fu Xuan’s mind, bypassing her ears.

“Master Diviner, the habit of peeking into other people’s minds isn’t very good, you know.”

“!”

Fu Xuan’s body trembled violently, her fingers holding the teacup almost lost their grip.

She looked at Orion in horror, who still maintained a calm, composed, and slightly amused demeanor.

This man…

Unfathomable!

It’s him! It must be him!

Aside from a slight difference in appearance, this feeling, this method, this… arrogance… is definitely the person from my dream!

But… why? How?

Fu Xuan withdrew her power, knowing that conventional methods were useless against him.

“Mr. Orion, you truly live up to your reputation.”

She put down the teacup and gave him his marching orders, her voice cold.

“Our meeting today ends here. I hope you have a pleasant journey on the Luofu.”

Orion didn’t mind. He stood up, stretched slightly, and prepared to leave with the Astral Express Crew.

As he reached the door, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Fu Xuan.

“Oh, and Master Diviner.”

“Hmm?”

“You should use the Matrix of Prescience less often recently.”

“Too much work can be tiring, don’t overwork yourself… I see fine lines around your eyes already.”

With that, he didn’t linger and left the Divination Commission.

Leaving Fu Xuan alone, sitting in her original spot, her expression shifting between light and shadow.

She subconsciously raised her hand and touched the corner of her eye.

It was smooth as ever, with no fine lines at all.

But for some reason, Orion’s last, gentle words touched her heart.

If I… if I collapse from exhaustion one day… will you…

No, that’s not right…

What am I thinking…

That Orion… who exactly is he…?

What is his connection to my recurring dream?!

Fu Xuan, for the first time in her life, felt her omniscient calculations failing her completely.