"The world isn't peaceful?" Kiana muttered, taking a mouthful of rice. "Are you talking about the Honkai? I think it's just so-so; I was already fighting it in Siberia when I was twelve."
"Then do you know why vast areas of Siberia remain no-man's-lands to this day?" Xia Yu asked in return. "Is it because the Russians don't want to develop that land?"
"In that great catastrophe in the year 2000, fewer than a hundred civilians in Siberia survived. In the end, if Miss Cecilia hadn't sacrificed herself, more than half of Asia would have been reduced to a wasteland!"
"Wait, why have I never heard of sothing this big?" Raiden i asked in shock. "And that Sea of Quanta from before... are Yakuza families playing at such a high level nowadays?"
She didn't understand, but she was deeply shaken.
"Because these things have been hidden away," Xia Yu shook her head upon hearing this, then looked at Kiana. "Wait, i's expression is one thing because Raiden Ryoma never taught her this common knowledge, but why do you, a Kaslana, have such a shocked expression?"
"I'm an outcast, an outcast," Kiana hurriedly laughed it off. "No one has ever told about these things."
"True, those over in Europe are used to acting inhuman," Xia Yu didn't expose her, nodding solemnly instead. "Lady Cecilia... even if we were from different factions, I have nothing but admiration for a person as noble as her. She was a true Hero."
"She clearly could have been saved, but the European side directly launched Honkai Fission Bombs for a carpet-bombing strike... Hah."
At this point, she casually ntioned: "Speaking of which, the reason your target Siegfried defected from Schicksal is likely related to this incident."
"Why?" Hearing Siegfried's na, Kiana asked subconsciously, "Was it because he was disheartened?"
"It was hatred," Xia Yu frowned and looked at her. "They were truly willing to use such ruthless thods just to test Siegfried. You don't even know about this?"
An inexplicable sense of panic gripped Kiana. "Wh... what thing?"
"Cecilia was Siegfried's wife," Xia Yu nodded and said. "During that catastrophe back then, the two of them, husband and wife, were deployed together."
Wife...
Wife...
Which ans... Mom?
Hearing this, Kiana stood frozen on the spot.
My... Mom?
She had once asked her old man why she didn't have a mother, and he always remained silent.
She never expected to hear about her mother here...
I...
A massive Sense of Nihility surrounded Kiana, and her body began to tremble.
Xia Yu, anwhile, stared intently at her eyes.
A flicker of unstable Golden Light flashed and vanished.
"Though I don't know what's wrong," seeing this, Xia Yu reached out, pulled her over, and held her in her arms. "Looking at you, you must feel very wronged."
"Be good, it's all in the past. I'm here."
Raiden i, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.
What was going on? For Kiana to look like this... could her background also be...
Thinking of this, and then thinking of herself, she couldn't hold it together either and silently lowered her head.
Xia Yu reached out and pulled her in as well.
Looking at the two girls sobbing in her arms, Xia Yu sighed and began to reflect—had she gone too far?
But so things... they had to face eventually. One had the Second Herrscher inside her, and the other had the Gem of Conquest...
Xia Yu always felt that preparing them to step onto the battlefield was better than saying nothing under the banner of "it's for your own good," only to push children who had no preparation at all into the fray when the ti ca.
She was also prepared: if Sirin took over the body, she would directly use the power of an Emanator to suppress her. Absorbing whose Honkai Energy was still absorbing energy, after all. If the Herrscher of Thunder wouldn't co, using the Herrscher of the Void first wouldn't make a difference.
But for so reason, the latter didn't show its head.
She thought she had hidden herself quite well...
After a long ti, the emotions of the two gradually cald down.
"Aunt," Raiden i wiped her eyes and asked, "Does my father's situation... have sothing to do with my body?"
"Yes, of course," Xia Yu nodded and looked at Kiana. "You saw it too, right? That strength of hers that exceeds ordinary people."
Raiden i recalled Kiana smashing a desk with a single bat in the classroom and nodded involuntarily.
"That is the innate power of the Kaslana family," Xia Yu explained. "People like us are always different from ordinary people."
"But this difference isn't always a good thing. For example, you, i."
Xia Yu sighed and said, "You are a Natural Stigmatic. It would be fine if the Stigmata awakened at fifteen or sixteen, but you awakened too early!"
"How can a toddler withstand the power of a Stigmata? To save your life, Raiden Ryoma took a treasure without authorization and implanted it into your body. It likely requires regular maintenance."
Hearing this, Raiden i thought of the physical exams she had to undergo every year and nodded.
"But the funds required for such a project are astronomical, and the organization... it's impossible they would approve such a plan for his daughter, so he could only carry it out in secret."
Mainly, they couldn't approve the implantation of the Gem of Conquest; the money was a secondary issue...
Xia Yu shrugged helplessly. "At first, I also thought he was frad. I was ready to settle you in and then go demand an explanation. But after checking your body... sigh, I understand his difficulties."
"So... that's how it is?" Raiden i lost all her strength upon hearing this.
She had always thought her father was frad, but the truth was actually like this. It was for her sake that her father risked everything to do such a thing...
As a daughter, she could not harbor any resentnt toward her father.
But... but...
Raiden i's heart was in a ss.
"Don't worry, you still have ," Xia Yu patted her head. "It's just a few billion dollars. I'll pay it back for him. At most, he'll just serve a few years in prison; it's no big deal."
"Sister Acheron, you're that rich?" Kiana, who had already composed herself, leaned over and asked.
"I don't have money," Xia Yu smiled. "But I'm very good at making it."
For example, splitting Mars in half with one strike and then grabbing a random rock to sell to Schicksal—would they dare not pay?
Just a joke.
"I see," Kiana felt a sense of loss. "Money is good to have in the future."
"Don't worry, you won't be left out," Xia Yu casually pulled out a piece of Terrapin Gold from Terra. "This will be our living expenses for these few days."
"But regarding Raiden Ryoma's matter, I still need to investigate thoroughly. I have a feeling the person who sent him to prison might have more than just that goal," she said with a frown. "If it were just an investigation into embezzlent, there would be no need to signal others to bully i."
"I think she has other hidden motives."
"Bronya, where did you go today?"
At the Corp headquarters, Cocolia looked at her daughter who had returned alone and frowned. "Why couldn't you be contacted?"
Even as she said this, she had known Bronya's whereabouts all along. She even knew about her following soone who looked very similar to Raiden i and breaking the limbs of many people across the city.
"Bronya went out with a snake," Bronya was very clever. She knew she wouldn't get answers if she asked directly, so she simply used her words to bait Cocolia-mama.
"What? A snake?!" Hearing this, Cocolia stood up instantly and walked quickly to Bronya, nervously checking her up and down. "You t a snake? You weren't hurt, were you?"
"The snake told Bronya many things," Bronya stared fixedly at Cocolia.
So... the snake really existed.
Then, was it Seele...
"Back then, the data for that X-10 Experint ca from them. Seele falling into the Sea of Quanta was also because of them," Bronya stared deathly into Cocolia's eyes, not missing a single emotion, and said: "Including now, Seele is in the hands of the snake."
"What? The snake actually..." Cocolia's face turned pale instantly. Black Snake had never told her this!
The two had many collaborations, from the X-10 Experint to the current experint regarding the Great Honkai in Nagazora City, but she had always thought that experint back then was an accident...
So it wasn't an accident; it was Gray Serpent wanting to take the opportunity to seize her daughter to manipulate her?
But if that were the case, why had he never... No, wait!
She suddenly looked down at Bronya. "Bronya, you're lying, aren't you? He has no reason to bypass to contact you!"
"...Mama," seeing this, Bronya already had the answer in her heart. "You really are collaborating with the snake."
"You don't understand, Bronya," Cocolia said in panic as she saw the unfamiliar look in her daughter's eyes. "To save Seele..."
"But Seele is in the snake's hands right now!" Bronya jerked her hand away from Cocolia's grasp. "Cocolia-mama, why don't you think this is a conspiracy?"
"Seele is in the Sea of Quanta; she must rely on the snake's protection to survive! Bronya can tell that you didn't know this news, right?"
"Why did the snake you collaborate with never tell you this! Mama, wake up!"
Hearing this, Cocolia stared blankly at the daughter who was showing anger. Since her emotional circuits were damaged, this was the first ti she had heard an inflection in her tone.
To express anger toward her.
"Give so ti... Bronya," Cocolia turned away in pain. "You go out first; I need to be alone."
"Bronya doesn't want to lose anyone else, Cocolia-mama," Bronya left only that sentence before turning to leave.
And Cocolia, after her daughter closed the door, angrily connected to Gray Serpent's communication.
"My dear ally, has sothing happened with the experint..." Gray Serpent on the other end had just started speaking when Cocolia angrily interrupted him.
"You sent soone to contact my daughter, didn't you!"
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