"I can't rember... I can't rember any of this..." Kiana stared down at the history textbook, its pages blurring into a ss of beyond understanding symbols. Her eyes began to spin in circles, a groan of pure frustration caught in her throat.
"Isn't this all rather simple?" A calm voice drifted over, and Rovel casually stooped to pick up a book that had fallen near Kiana's feet.
He glanced at the cover. Ah, it just so happened to be the one detailing the great achievents of Saint Kallen, who sacrificed herself for the people. Rovel weighed the volu in his hand. This single book was as thick as three other historical records combined. How to put it...
'Otto, you really outdid yourself,' he thought with a wry smile.
No wonder Kiana looked so bewildered. It was perfectly normal to have trouble morizing a book so saturated with blatant personal bias.
"Eh? Why are you here?" Kiana looked up, her confusion montarily overriding her academic misery. "Wasn't Bronya supposed to be in charge of history?"
The group had a clear division of labor for her redial studies: Bronya was responsible for tutoring Kiana in history, while Rovel was actually in charge of the mathematics portion.
"Ah, about that," Rovel began, his tone light. "Bronya is currently imrsed in a ga called 'Honkai Kingdom.'She said she's busy subjugating the'Homu King' and asked to help you study for a while. She'll take over after she's finished saving the world."
"Oh..." Kiana sighed, scratching at the roots of her white hair. "Dammit, I'm so jealous that you have a photographic mory! If only I had that ability too."
"Are you jealous?" Rovel chuckled softly, shaking his head. "If I could, I'd rather not have this talent."
"How could anyone not want to be smart?" Kiana looked at him, puzzled by the strange remark.
"No more idle chatter. Let's begin." Rovel deftly cut off her line of questioning and set about starting her history tutoring.
He produced two Homu-thed headsets, one blue and one yellow. With a flourish, he placed the blue one over Kiana's head.
"What is this thing?" Kiana asked, curiously prodding the device perched on her ears.
"Bronya hacked into Schicksal's database and created a connection device. Rather than having you morize things by rote, it's better to let you experience it firsthand." Rovel paused for dramatic effect. "This device is called the 'Homu Homu Virtual Reality Connector'."
Kiana stared at him, her expression dripping with disdain. "Honestly, I'm surprised you can say that na without being embarrassed."
"LINK START."
Rovel shouted the command, and Kiana's body instantly went limp, slumping over as her consciousness was pulled from the world and interfaced with the Schicksal database.
When Kiana opened her eyes again, she was no longer looking at Rovel, but at the towering shelves of a massive, seemingly infinite library.
"Look behind you," a youthful voice rang out.
Kiana turned around as instructed, but saw nothing.
"Down here."
Her gaze dropped, and the mont she saw him, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Pfft... Hahaha! Why did you turn into a fox?!"
Rovel had been transford into a pink-furred fox, no bigger than the palm of her hand. He was, she had to admit, actually quite cute.
"This must be the avatar Bronya designed for ," he said, his voice retaining its usual calm even in this ridiculous form. He began to walk toward a bookshelf on his short little legs. "Let's go in order, starting from the earliest recorded history of the Honkai."
Rovel reached out with a tiny paw, touching one of the books. The massive bookshelf before them split in two, and the very fabric of the environnt around them began to dissolve and reshape itself.
As the world shifted, Rovel leaped nimbly onto Kiana's head, pawed at her hair a bit to get comfortable, and then lay down.
"Hey! Why are you climbing onto my head?" Kiana yelped, flailing her arms.
"I'm tutoring you. Can't you give a ride for a bit?" Rovel spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world, and without waiting for her consent, he settled into a nest he'd made of her white hair.
Kiana wanted to argue further, but she was quickly captivated by the scene materializing before her.
By now, the girl and the fox had arrived in the middle of a dense, prival forest.
"Wow... this is so realistic!" Kiana marveled. She reached out to touch a leaf on a nearby branch, but her finger passed right through it.
"This is a virtual world made of data. Under normal circumstances, you can't touch anything," Rovel reminded her from his perch. "This is Shenzhou in 2717 BC. This is where the first records of the Honkai appeared."
Suddenly, the surrounding bushes began to rustle violently. A pack of hulking, Beast-class Honkai Beasts crashed into the clearing, their roars shattering the tranquility.
Kiana instinctively dropped into a fighting stance, but a petite figure was even faster than her.
Though the figure looked to be only about 1.4 ters tall, with a very youthful face that made her look like a child, the power erupting from her body was extraordinarily staggering. With a series of swift, precise movents, she effortlessly dispatched all the Honkai Beasts.
"She is Ji Lin, the Yellow Emperor of Shenzhou," Rovel explained. "She was the first human in recorded history with the ability to fight the Honkai. Legend says she beca so powerful because she awakened a Stigmata."
"So cool..." Kiana watched the heroic Ji Lin, a look of pure admiration flashing in her eyes.
"The history of Shenzhou isn't the main focus for this exam, so we'll just skim through it. Next... hm, here."
Rovel selected a new ti node, and the scene before them began to dissolve once more.
However, at the very mont they vanished, Ji Lin seed to cast a fleeting, curious glance toward the space the two of them had just occupied... a detail that went completely unnoticed by the ti travelers.
"This is Europe at the beginning of the 14th century," Rovel's voice narrated as a new, far grimr world solidified around them. "The Apocalypse, Kaslana, and Schariac families united to form Schicksal, which beca the main force against the Honkai."
The scene was one of squalor and despair.
"As ti went on, those within Schicksal beca dissatisfied with their current influence. They began using 'protection'as a shield to hide their true motive of'aggression' as they launched the Crusades."
"anwhile, as the Black Death ravaged Europe and Schicksal's policies failed, the people were left in misery. Starvation was everywhere, and the stench of death hung heavy in the air."
Kiana walked down a muddy street, surrounded by refugees with gaunt, hollowed-out faces. Every so often, grim figures wearing bird-beak masks would pass by, carrying away the dead on crude carts.
She instinctively covered her mouth and nose, her brow furrowed in horror. She feared she might vomit if she wasn't careful.
"It is said that the Black Death was also induced by the Honkai, manifesting in the form of a disease," Rovel continued, his tone somber. "The plague swept across all of Europe. In just six years, it claid the lives of 25 million people."
Kiana continued walking forward, her heart heavy, until a massive cross in the center of a desolate square caught her attention.
"This cross... why does it look so much like the one Aunt always carries?" Kiana asked in confusion.
"It's the sa one Theresa carries," Rovel explained. "This is the 'Oath of Judah,'a Divine Key. It's the sa type of weapon as the'Judgnt of Shamash' passed down in your Kaslana Family. Both are weapons crafted from the Herrscher Cores of the Previous Era and Soulium."
"Judgnt of Shamash?!" Kiana's eyes instantly lit up at the ntion of the legendary weapon. After all, her dear old dad had famously used it to toast cheese. "So, which one is stronger, the 'Oath of Judah'or the'Judgnt of Shamash'?"
Her hand instinctively reached toward the virtual image of Judah.
"Generally speaking, the 'Oath of Judah'should have the upper hand," Rovel mused.'Within the 'Grace Field,'all beings are equal; the Herrscher of Binding was simply too overpowered. Although the Judgnt of Shamash has its Greatsword of Finality form, that only appeared when Kevin infused it with the power of Finality. The normal upper limit of Shamash is actually its'Might of An-Utu' form.'
"Eh? This Judah isn't just data, I can actually touch it?!" Kiana exclaid, her fingers making contact with the cold, solid surface of the cross.
Suddenly, a flat, chanical voice echoed through the simulation:
[User Na: Kiana Kaslana. Confird as a mber of the Kaslana Family. Comncing playback of hidden records.]
Imdiately after the announcent, Kiana felt the ground vanish from beneath her feet. A sickening lurch filled her stomach.
In the next second, she discovered to her horror that she was, in fact, falling through an endless, open sky.
"Aaaah! Don't grab my hair!" Kiana scread, her voice roaring at the tiny fox clinging desperately to her head.
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