With the help of that elder, I got a place to stay for a long time for the first time.
It was from that elder that I first heard the concept of "Valkyrie".
For the first time, she received clear information from her stupid father, and got the promise from the elder that "as long as she can become an independent Valkyrie, I can tell her the information about Siegfried."
Although Kiana didn't know that this was just a stopgap measure used by Theresa to fool her, she felt like she was in a dream when she was able to obtain such a series of good fortunes right after arriving in Changkong City.
Everything is so perfect.
Except that her lover seemed to have absolutely no interest in her.
But it doesn't matter! Kiana is not the kind of girl who would back down when faced with a little difficulty!
What a joke! We have gone through such a difficult journey from Siberia to the Far East, so what is this little difficulty?
Feelings can be cultivated!
If you like something, of course you should try your best to get it!
According to the "Theresa" who claimed to be her aunt, Mei has agreed to enroll in St. Freya's College, and she will have a long time to spend with her in the future. As long as Mei can understand my true feelings for her and as long as I can always protect Mei, then she believes that one day, Mei will be moved by her sincerity!
With yearning and expectation for a better life, Kiana gathered her energy and was about to report to the teaching building according to Theresa's instructions, when she suddenly discovered Theresa and Raiden Mei running out of the school like crazy.
Her brain immediately shut down.
When she came to her senses, Kiana found that she had already moved her legs and secretly followed the footsteps of the two people to the floating battleship that they had just left not long ago.
She watched the floating battleship quickly leave Saint Freya, watched the floating battleship return to Changkong City and land above a ruin. She also watched Mei and Theresa, who had got off the ship, run to a two-story building in the ruins, and then walked into the sea of stores and disappeared.
What is this place? Why is there a cafe in this ruin?
Kiana was confused and for some reason she felt a slight pain on her forehead.
What were Mei and Theresa doing in that cafe?
Why haven’t you come out for so long?
They flew all the way from St. Freya's College to Changkong City, they couldn't have stayed there just to have a cup of coffee, right?
Kiana's heart was itching, as if there were a thousand cats scratching it, so after waiting for the two men to return for a long time, she could no longer suppress her curiosity, and with a head full of questions, she quietly crawled through the ruins.
Because I came here secretly, the plan of breaking in through the door directly was too dangerous, so I just passed it.
Kiana, who was acting alone, was not so stupid as to not understand this.
But, for some reason, she had clearly reached the door of the coffee shop and could barely make out from the frosted glass that there were definitely people talking on the other side of the door. But even if she put her ear against the door, she couldn't hear a single sound coming from inside.
Isn't the sound insulation of this door too good? !
Kiana, who was leaning against the door, couldn't stop scratching her head deep down.
She even thought about just breaking in.
Although she accepted the proposal of "Theresa", and realized in the brief time they spent together that the "Theresa" who looked like a young girl was far from being as simple as she seemed, but was a nun with extremely strong powers, but in the final analysis, she had known Theresa for too short a time. Not to mention the awe of an elder, even the way of addressing her could not be changed back in a short time.
However, this tangled thought was interrupted without warning as the door was suddenly opened from the inside.
"Ouch!"
Because she was completely unprepared, Kiana, who put all her weight on the door, rushed in after it was opened.
Then--
bang——
"It hurts!!!!"
With incredible precision, with a sound that sounded extremely painful, her forehead, which had a lump on it for some reason, came into intimate contact with the wooden floor of the cafe.
“Hiss——It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts…ヽ(*。>Д<)o゜”
She covered her forehead, squatted down, and trembled uncontrollably in the intense pain. She gasped and felt like tears were about to come out.
Why...why does it hurt so much...TAT
Come to think of it, I had the same pain when I woke up suddenly yesterday...
Could it be that she was really hit by a club by someone?
Damn it, don’t let me find that person! When I find the guy who hit me with a club, I will make her pay!!!
It is not known whether it was the influence of the will of the universe, but Hyperion had intercepted her and sent her to St. Freya's College before she even entered Chiba College. This Kiana Kaslana, who had suddenly burst into the hall in Changkong City at the end of 2013 and fell headfirst to the ground, was still wearing a student uniform of the same style but opposite color as that of Raiden Mei from the same world.
Looking at Kiana squatting on the ground screaming in pain in a school uniform, the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, who opened the store door, fell silent.
She glanced at the scene outside the door, which was still the quaint and luxurious hall of the paradise of the past. Then she looked at the insect squatting on the ground, her mind full of question marks.
Where did this guy come from?
It couldn't be from her world, right? It didn't look like it. She had just met Kiana from her world not long ago. The Kiana who had already achieved the status of "Fire Flame" was obviously not as stupid as this one who rashly fell in now...
Looking at the clothes she was wearing, could it be the same as the "self" on the second floor, from three years ago?
And looking at the way she fell in...could she have been lying at the door and eavesdropping for a long time?
...It really has Kiana's style.
Just when the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, was speechless and inexplicably feeling a little nostalgic, the insect in a school uniform finally recovered from the sudden dull pain.
"hiss……"
She carefully moved her hands away from her eyebrows and raised her face.
Then, of course, he was stunned after seeing the scene in the hall.
In the center of the hall were Theresa, whom she had just met for less than half a day, and Mei Raiden, whom she had been thinking about all the time... There was no problem up to here.
But who could tell her why there was someone who looked exactly like her standing next to them?
Looking closely, in addition to them, there seemed to be two people who looked like my aunt in the corner of the hall. One of them was wearing an ancient costume with a Chinese style, and the other was wearing a very childlike-looking... uh, magical girl costume?
Oh, right, the person who just opened the door...
She turned her head, and when she saw the horned "Raiden Mei", she was stunned for a moment, with a trace of saliva flowing from the corner of her mouth as she drooled over the other's beauty.
This, this is Mei?
No, isn’t Mei next to her aunt?
So who is she?
She looks exactly like Mei, is she Mei's sister?
So... so beautiful! What a handsome sister!
That face! That figure! That eyeshadow! Those horns look so impressive!
AWSL!
Here, is this heaven!?
"..."
Looking at the pig-like look of Kiana from three years ago in front of her, the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
To be honest, the moment she saw this Kiana, she actually felt a little dokidoki in her heart.
Because, in her memory, the person who forcibly pulled her out of the endless darkness during the third collapse can be said to be completely identical to the Kiana in front of her.
only……
She recalled the bravery, fearlessness, and strength that Kiana had displayed three years ago when she lost control of her, and the attitude that she would never give up on her or abandon her... Then looking at the drooling Kiana in front of her, she felt that her whole worldview had collapsed.
The difference in image...is too big.
...No, no, this Kiana is not the one she knows after all. When the third collapse was contained by the manager, it is not a strange thing that this Kiana from three years ago shows this... uh, cute appearance.
Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, knows Kiana quite well. If faced with a crisis, Kiana can be said to be an extremely reliable comrade-in-arms. When facing the enemy, Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei can completely trust her with her back. But once peacetime comes, this guy's unreliability and laziness will immediately increase exponentially.
Fortunately, although Kiana's style of behavior has become extremely unreliable under the debuff of "peacetime", she has not yet been able to build a deep bond with Raiden Mei, and is just unilaterally coveting her body.
Fighting alone without an external brain, her brain was not completely useless at least, so after sending ○ to the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, Kiana, who came from three years ago and had not yet experienced the third collapse, finally managed to regain her rationality and thinking ability.
However, regaining the ability to think is not something to be thankful for for Kiana now.
Because at the first moment, she realized that compared to Mei Raiden and Theresa, people she had only known for a short time, and several other people she didn't know at all, the "other self" standing in the hall was the one she needed to pay the most attention to.
What...what's going on?
Why is there another me in this store?
No...that's not right. Kiana from three years ago shook her head. Although at first glance she looked no different from her, the person standing in the middle of the hall was obviously older than her.
"..."
The moment she realized this, a slight pain flashed through her brain.
The memories from several years ago suddenly crossed time and space and appeared before her eyes.
She recalled her childhood experiences. When she was taken away from Tianming by her father, it seemed that there was indeed... a person who looked almost exactly like her, but was slightly older than her...
"Sister...sister?"
——Almost subconsciously, she said the two words that appeared in the depths of her mind.
"Ugh?"
Kiana in the hall was stunned for a moment. She looked around and pointed at herself uncertainly: "Sister... Sister? Are you calling me?"
After she finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment and shook her head: "Sorry, you misunderstood, I am not your sister."
"Then why do you look exactly like me?!" Kiana three years ago widened her eyes, a look of disbelief written all over her face.
She didn't know why, but the moment the other party rejected her identity as "sister", an indescribable chill suddenly ran up her spine.
If this person wasn't her sister, then she could only be -
The pain in the mind became more and more intense. A hideous picture flashed. In the cold and inorganic steel cage, countless figures exactly like "oneself" were piled together like garbage. They could not think, they could not move, their bodies were dissolving from the soles of their feet. They turned their heads and looked at themselves with eyes full of blood and tears. At the top of them, a figure with golden eyes looked at themselves, and the corners of their mouth were crooked in a cruel and crazy arc.
She opened her mouth slightly, and her lips moved——
——Welcome to wake up——
——My Half Body——
Under the suggestion of the "Will of the Herrscher" in Kiana's body, which had just awakened last night, images from the past awakened violently, and memories burst out like a herd of wild horses trampling through her mind. The memory of the laboratory, the memory of opening her eyes for the first time, the memory of countless experimental subjects who collapsed due to genetic defects shortly after birth, the memory of being taken out of the laboratory by her "sister", all the buried memories became clear with the suggestion of the "Will of the Herrscher".
Chapter 4: Goose's Rush (5k)
The truths that Kiana shouldn't have known at this point in time suddenly came to her mind.
She was not a real person, but an experimental subject created by cloning technology, numbered K423. Before that, experimental subjects like her had been born, but they died quietly during the experiment... The memories of the death of those experimental subjects, the scene of Siegfried and her "sister" taking her away, the memory of the transport ship that her "sister" was driving away in danger being shot down, the memory of her forcibly cutting off Siegfried's arm on the eve of his departure, and the memory of killing dozens of soldiers who came to capture her when she was in fear...
For a long time, Kiana thought she had no memory before the age of eight. Siegfried told her that she had been in a serious accident and her head was injured in the accident, so she lost all her past memories. But for a creature like the Herrscher who has two consciousness storage organs in the body, in addition to the brain, the Herrscher core located in their body can also record everything they have encountered.
The terrible memories engulfed Kiana's personal consciousness like a vast ocean.
Logically speaking, without any external stimulation, the Herrscher consciousness in Kiana should not have awakened so suddenly.
However, because she encountered Siegfried last night, the Herrscher consciousness in her body had already rioted. Although the final result of that riot was that the Herrscher consciousness was forcibly suppressed by the store manager with a blow to the head. However, just like Kiana from Sky City, after the Herrscher consciousness in her body was controlled by the efforts of the God Killer Spear and the teacher, the Herrscher will in her body was still ready to take over her body at any time, the Herrscher consciousness in Kiana three years ago also went dormant after a riot.
Now, through the scene presented to Kiana by this special coffee shop, the Herrscher consciousness in Kiana's body, through suggestion, allowed some of the memories stored in the Herrscher core to flow into her brain again.
As Kiana's individual consciousness was completely engulfed by those horrible memories, her transformation into a Herrscher was completed in an instant.
Kiana's sudden loss of control three years ago did not escape the attention of other people in the cafe. Kiana and Raiden Mei, who were standing in the depths of the hall, both changed their expressions slightly at the same time. Although her appearance had not changed for the time being, the restless aura she exuded still made Kiana, who had had similar experiences, and Raiden Mei, who had witnessed the same situation on Kiana, understand that Kiana, who was standing at the door, had had control of her body usurped by the Herrscher of the Void.
The one who reacted faster than them was the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei.
Almost at the moment when Kiana completed her Herrscher transformation at the door, the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, immediately reached out her hand to the opponent's neck, and her movements were as fast as lightning.
——However, the outstretched hand hit nothing.
The deep space wormhole swallowed up the outstretched hand of the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei. Kiana, whose pupils turned golden in an instant, glanced coldly at the Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, who had a gloomy expression. Her tone of voice was filled with a bone-chilling chill:
"--traitor!"
The moment the words fell, several golden chains swarmed in from the depths of the hall.
Although Theresa was a beat slower in reaction than Mei, the Herrscher of Lightning, who was closest to the Herrscher of the Sky, she was still a top-level Valkyrie qualified for the S-class title. The moment she realized that Kiana in her world was suddenly out of control, she immediately called out for her Judas.
The golden cross spread out in a fan shape amid the sound of metal crisscrossing, and golden light spears popped out from the center of the cross.
Theresa drew out Judah's light spear without hesitation, exerted force on her legs, and her short body rushed towards the door like a cannonball with a burst of explosions.
At the same time, Kiana and Mei Raiden who were standing in the hall, and Rita who was not far from the kitchen, immediately followed Theresa to provide support.
