I don't know what she was thinking, but Lady Yulandel chose to go through the difficulties of being a store manager with "Rita Rossweisse" instead of "herself".
"..."
Lady Yulandel, she would rather ask other Ritas for help than tell me the truth, would rather let other Ritas help her defeat the enemy, would rather let other Ritas climb into their beds than leave a place for herself -
When Rita thought of this, she felt that her whole life was dark, as if everything she had ever done had become worthless.
...She is probably just a useless maid, Rita said to herself with a pale face.
Compared to Rita, who was completely autistic, although Mei Raiden was also a little depressed, she could still barely muster the urge to resist.
She rubbed her facial skin, took a deep breath, stood up straight, and said word by word: "I didn't have my lover slept with like Rita!"
puff.
A sharp arrow pierced Rita's heart.
"Hmph, you still say no, then why do you have the same expression as Rita? Do you believe what you said?" The Herrscher of Thunder, Raiden Mei, snorted coldly.
Mei Raiden pursed her lips and said, "I don't deny that I seem to have some special feelings for the store manager, but before I confirm whether those feelings come from his ability, I will not regard this feeling as my own."
"Oh~" Herrscher of Thunder, Raiden Mei, made a meaningful sound, "Then why are you still standing there? Go with the dean and the others."
"?" Mei Raiden was stunned for a moment.
"Since you don't admit that the feeling comes from yourself, then it shouldn't be difficult for you to get rid of it." Herrscher of Lightning, Mei Yi, crossed her arms and continued, "Even if Kiana can't leave this cafe because she needs to control the Herrscher consciousness in her body, you don't have the same need as Kiana. Besides, if I remember correctly, the Conquest Gem in your body should have been taken away by the Herrscher of the Void a long time ago."
"Then why are you still staying in this cafe? Let's go." The Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, pointed towards the door and said calmly.
"I—" Raiden Mei was speechless for a while, and said hesitantly, "But, if Kiana is alone..."
"With the long-haired Rita here, this cafe shouldn't need any other staff, and if they really need someone, I can always come and help them." Herrscher of Lightning, Raiden Mei, "In my world, the door of this cafe appeared in a trial area called Paradise of the Past. I won't leave that place for a while. If you are really worried about Kiana, I can always help you look after her. As a fellow Raiden Mei, you should be able to feel the difference in our abilities, right? If it's a problem that even I can't handle, then you'll just be a hindrance here."
"But……"
After saying just two words, Raiden Mei's voice became softer.
Can't refute.
Faced with the words from "herself" in the near future, Mei Raiden was completely unable to make any effective rebuttal.
Damn it, in the near future, will she - Raiden Mei - actually become someone who doesn't care about other people's feelings at all?
This guy's words were like a knife. He didn't care about her feelings at all and just stabbed the truth into her heart again and again.
But just when Mei Raiden began to feel indignant, Theresa, who was already approaching the door, refused to accept it.
"Wait, when did I say I was leaving Kiana here?!"
"The two doctors of Anti-Entropy and Walter will help deal with her problems. Even if this cafe is so special that it can always control the Herrscher consciousness in Kiana's body, I can't just leave her here forever because of this! Besides, this cafe is so... so..."
After talking for a long time, Theresa finally didn't say the word "shameless" exactly, knowing that this cafe did help Kiana a lot and that they shouldn't make enemies with others easily. But as a qualified elder, how could Theresa allow her niece to stay in a place where an impart can be opened in broad daylight.
"Anyway, I'm worried about leaving Kiana here forever! If I have the chance in the future, I will visit here again and personally express my gratitude to the manager of this cafe, but now - Kiana, you come back with me!"
"Ah, ah, ah - no, no, no! Don't do that! My aunt -"
Theresa ignored Kiana's struggle and walked straight out of the cafe.
Just at that millisecond when Kiana's body and the door of the cafe intersected with each other, something strange happened.
Her pupils turned golden without any warning in a split second, less than a millisecond.
However, those golden pupils had lost their previous madness and indifference. Instead, after the personality change, they revealed an unprecedented feeling of shame and indignation.
Unprecedented feeling of shame and anger.
Chapter 4: The Herrscher of the Void Corroded by the Herrscher Core (k)
The Herrscher's will within Kiana lost control once again.
This is the fourth time the same drama has happened since the cafe opened to the public.
The first time was at seven o'clock yesterday evening. The manager left the cafe and went to Changkong City in 2013. After suppressing the out-of-control Herrscher of Lightning, Kiana from that world suddenly came to the door. After seeing Siegfried who was also hooked out, she was briefly deprived of control of her body by the will of the Herrscher of Sky.
The second time was at nine o'clock yesterday evening, before the cafe was about to close, Kiana from Sky City in 2017 suddenly visited, and soon after she saw the scene of the magical girl Sirin coming to seek refuge with the store manager, and the Herrscher's will in her body went out of control.
The third and fourth times both happened not long before today.
Compared to the Kiana in 2013, whose two out-of-control times lasted less than half a minute, the Kiana from Sky City in 2017 also had her Herrscher's will suppressed.
However, before coming to this cafe, the Herrscher's will in her body had already completely gone out of control once in Otto's plan.
If the Herrscher's will in the Kiana of 2013 was dormant most of the time, then the Herrscher's will in the Kiana of 2017 was always in a fully activated state.
From a certain perspective, the Herrscher's will in Kiana of Sky City was not suppressed, but rather she voluntarily suppressed it.
After all, from the very beginning, the store manager did not interfere with Kiana's will from Sky City.
He simply used his ability, which was extremely similar to "Cocoon", to forcibly requisition the Herrscher power possessed by Kiana who was in the cafe.
Although her heart is filled with hatred and the desire to kill humans and destroy the world, the Herrscher of the Void is not a brainless person. In other words, having inherited most of Sirin's memories, she understands the importance of power better than anyone else.
If she hadn't had the power bestowed by God, she would have been like the companions she met in the laboratory, with scars from human experiments wantonly carried out by the researchers of destiny.
She still remembered the pain that Xilin felt when those people forcefully injected her with the Honkai energy solution. The erosion lines of the Honkai energy unscrupulously climbed up her skin that was covered with scars and blood, as if a thousand pieces of broken glass were cutting inside her body. In her memory, Xilin could only watch her skin rot step by step and fall off her muscles. Whenever she smelled the rotten smell mixed with blood, she could not help crying out loud. At that time, she always looked at the experimenters outside the glass window with tears in her eyes, praying from the bottom of her heart that there was something that could send all these demons to hell.
In the end, Sirin succeeded. The power given by God allowed her to wash the hell-like Tower of Babylon with blood. But Sirin also failed. Theresa's Oath of Judah deprived her of her power as a herrscher, leaving her with the familiar and desperate feeling of powerlessness as she endured the piercing of those golden light spears, which pierced her body again and again.
The Herrscher of the Void, who had accepted this part of the memory, could certainly understand the importance of power.
Therefore, even though she was arrogant and crazy, and viewed all humans in the world as targets to be killed, she was able to temporarily retreat the moment Otto showed his "holy blood" because she sensed the possibility that the "holy blood" could threaten her.
Similarly, the Herrscher of the Void could also understand that after her Herrscher power was forcibly taken away by the store manager, even if she regained control of this body, it would only be humiliating herself. In this case, it would be better to temporarily transfer this body to its original owner.
Therefore, she chose to actively retreat into the depths of this body's consciousness. The Herrscher of the Void believed that as long as Kiana refused to admit that she was Sirin, she would one day find an opportunity to make a comeback.
However, this kind of self-confidence was completely shattered in less than twenty-four hours.
Because, in this cafe, she saw another completely different "Xilin".
That Sirin was kind and upright, with a warm aura all over her body. Unlike the Herrscher who was committed to destroying the world, in the world where Sirin lived, magical girls had always been a profession of saving the world and others in times of crisis.
She is the complete opposite of the "Xilin" in his memory.
If it were just that, it would be fine, but the problem is that Sirin has almost realized all the dreams that the Herrscher of the Void knew about.
She became the magical girl that all girls have more or less admired, and became a fashion designer who could sew the clothes she wanted... She also had familiar companions, a close adoptive mother, and even the "god" who had always supported her, who was like a store manager who could be touched by her at any time and protected her at any time.
There is no doubt that this magical girl Sirin possesses everything that the "Sirin" in her memory wanted but could not get. The moment she saw her for the first time, the Herrscher of the Void was immediately shocked by the brilliance and warmth emanating from her.
What followed was a feeling of hatred as if one had been betrayed.
There's no way not to hate her.
We are all Xilin, why, why can you have everything you want?!
The Herrscher of the Void is a being split from Silin's will. She has always regarded herself as Silin, carrying out Silin's unfinished mission and taking over the hatred and evil thoughts in Silin's heart. In this sense, what the Herrscher of the Void does is actually just imitation, just like a child subconsciously yearns for his or her parents.
However, because the memories that the Herrscher of the Void obtained from Sirin were too clear and the evil thoughts were too strong, the degree of imitation reached a level that was almost completely identical to the original "Sirin".
To put it bluntly, whether it is the past Sirin or the current Herrscher of the Void, they are actually not the kind of monsters without rationality. They have a similar thinking logic as humans, and even recognize the generally accepted concept of good and evil by humans. Sirin and the Herrscher of the Void who inherited Sirin's will would want to destroy the world. Instead, they made the final judgment that "human existence is wrong" on the premise of recognizing the generally accepted concept of good and evil by humans.
So, conversely speaking—
——If there is such a Xilin in this world.
——What if she accepted the kindness from humans, thrived in a normal social environment, and realized her dreams?
Would the Herrscher of the Void accept such a Siren?
the answer is negative.
There was no way she could accept this kind of Xilin, no way she could acknowledge that this Xilin was the same person as herself.
The Herrscher of the Void can fully exert the power of Sirin because she accepted everything about Sirin from the very beginning. If Sirin's life is used as a scale, then after she became an orphan, the vast majority of feelings she could experience were pain.
Even if I got some warmth in this process, compared with that insignificant warmth, the proportion of pain and hatred was still too large.
Therefore, in the competition for the power of the Herrscher core, the Herrscher of the Void has always held an almost absolute leading position, and Kiana must rely on external forces to barely use this power. Even if the power of the Void is requisitioned by the store manager, the Herrscher of the Void is still fearless, because in her concept, even if it is temporarily taken away, this power still belongs to her.
However, when she subconsciously began to deny that "Xilin" was "herself" and rejected such Xilin from the bottom of her heart.
An irreconcilable contradiction has arisen.
Although the Herrscher of the Void found the opportunity to forcibly take away her body the moment her physical body left the cafe, because she had left the space governed by the order set by the manager of the cafe, the requisitioned power also returned to this body.
At the same time, it was exactly the same as what Kiana had experienced before. At the moment when the power returned to the body, the feeling of being completely rejected by the power of the Herrscher, and even the body being eroded by the Honkai energy stored in the Herrscher's core, spread all over the Herrscher of the Sky in less than a millisecond.
pain.
Pain from the bone marrow.
However, the Herrscher of the Void did not show any distressed expression, but instead showed an unprecedented feeling of shame and anger.
——Because, with the return of the Herrscher's power, it wasn't just the feeling of the flesh being eroded that came with it.
In the inherited memories of the Herrscher of the Sky, there is still a scene where the real "Sirin" and "God" faced each other.
This is probably the same situation as it was back then.
Because her power was requisitioned, after she left the store manager's control area, the power of the Herrscher returned to her, allowing her to directly witness the store manager and the scenes around him, just like she had faced "God" before.
The Herrscher of the Void was so ashamed and angry. To be honest, when Kiana, that shameless bastard, was peeping at the scene of the store manager and "Sirin" hugging and loving each other last night, and she was forced to watch, the Herrscher of the Void was already ashamed and angry to death. Now, with the return of power, she once again faced the "God" who gave her the power - faced the store manager who was conducting a team battle in the dungeon. At the same time as she was ashamed and angry, she suddenly felt that it was not worth it for the magical girl Sirin.
No, that's not right! How could I have such an idea?
She was startled, and then groaned in the sudden escalation of pain:
"Well--"
After a brief moment of shock, the fear from the bottom of my heart instantly invaded me.
Why, why is the Herrscher Core rejecting me?!
Damn it—I am Sirin, the Herrscher of the Sky! The embodiment of Honkai! The Queen of Destruction! Why would the Herrscher Core actually... corrode the same thing as that damned experimental subject—? !
In the intense pain, the Herrscher of the Void could not help but half-kneel down - although she inherited most of Sirin's memories and evil thoughts, the Herrscher of the Void did not undergo systematic training to become a Valkyrie after all, and her tolerance for pain was far inferior to Kiana's.
“Ouch—it hurts—it hurts…it hurts so much…”
So, under the torment of the pain, the Herrscher of the Void fell to the ground on the spot, crying uncontrollably.
Theresa was shocked when she saw this. In her concept, the Herrscher of the Void should not be able to be eroded by the Herrscher Core, so she did not realize that Kiana's personality had been switched silently. Therefore, after "Kiana" cried, she pulled her back to the cafe without thinking.
“You…what’s wrong with you?!” Theresa asked anxiously, while the Herrscher of the Void cried and answered subconsciously, “It hurts…it hurts all over…”
"..." Looking at Kiana's tearful expression... Although her eyes suddenly turned golden, Theresa instinctively felt that something was wrong, but she thought that the Herrscher of the Void, with her queen-like temperament, would not cry like this, so she turned her gaze towards Dr. Tesla without any doubt, "Doctor, can you help me get some Honkai inhibitors from Hyperion?"
"Need not."
At this moment, a vague voice suddenly sounded, and a flame burst out from the brow of the Herrscher of the Void without warning.
A translucent red and white figure rapidly condensed right above the Herrscher of the Sky.
Fu Hua looked at the crying Herrscher of the Void with a complicated expression and was speechless for a long while.
Hiding deep in Kiana's consciousness, she had been observing the two wills in this body. At the moment when the Herrscher of the Void suddenly took away control of the body, she was actually ready to take action, but for some reason, this "Herscher of the Void" inexplicably encountered the same situation as Kiana.
Seeing the Herrscher of the Sky crying like a tearful pear blossom, Kiana, who was already full of resentment towards him, just started to attack.
God knows how many times the Herrscher of the Sky tried to retreat into the depths of his consciousness during this period, but all of those attempts were kicked back by Kiana without exception.
Don't you want control over your body? Here you go!
——This is clearly a serious matter concerning the control of the body, why does it always feel like the fight between these two consciousnesses has become like a quarrel between little girls?
With such a strange thought, Fu Hua shook her head helplessly:
"It would be more efficient to bring her directly to the store manager for help rather than using the Honkai Inhibitor."
Theresa hesitated for a moment, and a trace of confusion flashed across her young face, which was slightly flushed: "But isn't the manager of this cafe now..."
It is not known whether the experience during this period has quietly crossed the moral limit of her own, but the upright Fu Hua said calmly: "He didn't close the door properly."
A few minutes later, the second floor bedroom.
A silver-haired girl with tears on her face was suddenly thrown in from outside the door.
"Excuse me, please help me deal with this child."
"Well, I didn't see anything. Please continue."
At the sound of Fu Hua's powerful voice, the hearts of the three women in the bedroom stopped beating suddenly.
The store manager rolled his eyes, inexplicably feeling powerless from the bottom of his heart.
