Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

Holy crap, why does Himeko's face look like Bronya's?

Jiuxiao was startled awake.

As soon as Jiu Xiao opened his eyes, he saw Bronya staring at him with an unfriendly expression, while he was hugging Bronya in his arms like a pillow.

Jiuxiao was so exhausted and sound asleep that he completely forgot he had left Bronya a spot to rest. Now he was in trouble; he'd ended up using Bronya as a pillow to sleep.

Seeing that Jiuxiao had woken up, Bronya strained her voice, trying to imitate his tone, and then spoke loudly and deliberately, in a sarcastic manner:

"I don't like Bronya, that emotionless loli~ I prefer Kaguya and Himeko~"

"shut up!"

Jiu Xiao quickly covered Bronya's mouth; if Bronya continued talking, she would be so ashamed that she would commit suicide.

Chapter 143 I am Kiana and Sirin, what's the problem?

Jiuxiao had a dream, and this dream was unlike any other...

In a sea of ​​flowers, Kiana and Mei, both wearing their school uniforms from Chiba Academy, lay together on the grass.

The sunlight shone on them, highlighting the youthfulness of girls.

But then the scene shifts, and the entire sky is covered by a giant eye. The cloudless, sunny weather is instantly shrouded in dark clouds, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

Kiana and Mei had also changed their clothes... Both of them had wings formed from materialized power on their backs, and Honkai energy circuits covered their entire bodies.

The warmth between them was gone; Kiana held a spear, pointing it at Mei. Mei's desperate gaze hardened as she rose to her feet and met Kiana's eyes.

After a brief exchange of glances, the two began to fight.

The thunder signifies the Thunder Queen's anger, but no matter how angry she is, she is just a child throwing a tantrum in the face of the end.

The earth was divided, the sky was torn apart... The two fought from the ground to the air, and then into space.

In the final moments of the battle, Kiana grabbed the exhausted Mei by the neck, tears streaming down her face. Kiana strangled Mei to death...

After Mei died, Kiana's head emitted light, and the final beam struck the Earth's surface...

The Earth's surface was cleared, life was wiped out, and the entire planet was branded with the cross of the end.

The dream is over...

Jiuxiao looked at the Holy Mark in his hand; the cross in the center of the Holy Mark's design was so similar to the End Cross in his dream...

"I..."

Jiuxiao wanted to say something, but found himself unable to utter a word.

Neither Kiana and Mei's loving harmony nor their final life-or-death struggle could compare to the oppressive feeling brought to the heavens by the enormous eye that obscured the entire sky... Kiana and Mei's final dance seemed like puppets controlled by the giant eye.

The dream was so real, just like reality... but Jiu Xiao was certain that Kiana and Mei were not the ones he knew, and that was definitely not the world Jiu Xiao lived in.

There's only one truth... it's the memory recorded within the Stigmata...

Jiuxiao placed his hand on his chest, feeling the pulse of the Holy Mark resonate with his own. At the moment the Holy Mark and Jiuxiao's will resonated, Jiuxiao successfully projected his will into the Holy Mark's space.

The Holy Mark consciousness had long ago told him how to enter the Holy Mark space, but Jiu Xiao couldn't find a resonance with it. But this time, the dream, so clear that it filled Jiu Xiao with fear, allowed him to touch the boundary of resonating with the Holy Mark.

This was the first time Jiuxiao had successfully entered the Sacred Mark Space, but what lay inside left him stunned...

This is the exact same meadow as in my dream, the meadow where Kiana and Mei lay together...

Jiuxiao originally entered the Sacred Mark space to inquire about the dream from the Sacred Mark's consciousness, but at this moment, Jiuxiao's jaw dropped...

Because on that grassy field, a fluffy white ball of fur, Kiana, was lazily lying on her side, eating popcorn, watching a TV series playing on a large screen not far away, and occasionally scratching her own bottom...

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At the moment when the Nine Heavens and the Stigmata resonated, Judah, powered by the Nine Heavens' Honkai energy, emitted a light, much to the bewilderment of Kiana and the others...

Judah has become... Kiana?!

"Huh?! Judah, why are you looking like me?"

"I don't know. I'm Soul Steel, and I've passively responded to Jiuxiao's will and taken his shape... I think you should ask Jiuxiao why his energy is in the shape of Kiana..."

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"Oh, you've finally come in."

Kiana, with her hands behind her back, waved her little hand and removed all the popcorn and the big screen. Then she skipped and hopped over to Jiuxiao's side, looking him over.

"Why are you so shocked? You already saw Kiana naked. Me too~ Oh dear, how embarrassing~"

Kiana covered her face and squatted down to the side, swaying her body shyly.

After twisting for a while, looking at Jiuxiao who had turned into a stone statue, Kiana touched her lips with her finger and said curiously:

"Don't like Kiana? Then I can become Sirin!"

Kiana snapped her fingers, and then holy light flashed, transforming the stigmata's consciousness into the form of the little angel Sirin.

Saint Seiya Sirin stretched out her arms and leaped into the sky.

"Nine Heavens, hug me!"

Jiuxiao snapped out of his shock and dodged the attack of the Holy Mark consciousness.

"Enough...you're kidding me!! One minute you're Kiana, the next you're Sirin! Why don't you just turn into Kaga or Mei?!"

"Tsk, I'm so cute and you actually refuse my hug." The Stigmata's consciousness clicked its tongue and transformed back into Kiana's form. "I can't do that. Why would I turn into Kaga and Mei for no reason? Besides, what do you mean by turning into Kiana and Sirin? I am Kiana and Sirin!!"

"What's the meaning..."

"It means exactly what it says. Your Stigmata belongs to that guy, and that guy is Kiana Kaslana! And as the manager of this Stigmata, what's so strange about me being Kiana and Sirin?"

With a wave of its tiny hand, the consciousness of the Holy Mark shifted the entire Holy Mark space, revealing countless fragments of time.

Some scenes are in laboratories, some are in the Herrscher Forge... and in either one... Kiana and Sirin are constantly struggling in the scene...

Do you believe in fate? No matter how the world goes through cycles of reincarnation, some things seem to be unchanging points in time, never to be altered...

Even if the world is completely changed and the nodes are altered, it's merely a change in form on the surface; the essence remains the same...

Kiana and Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void, have merged—this is an absolute point in time, an unchangeable reality!

"The only difference will be the process and the outcome... Will it be collapse leading to the end, or the children of fusion, or nothing at all? Who knows?"

Kiana shrugged. Anyway, this was something her original self experienced, so what did it have to do with her?

Jiuxiao thought of the Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, within Kiana. Could this also be the absolute point in time mentioned by the Stigmata? Sirin had been merged into Kiana's body...

"so..."

"Don't ask me. You need to prove the truth for yourself. My perspective is synchronized with yours. How would I know what's going on in your world..."

But I can tell you with certainty that the Kiana you know and perceive is Kiana Kaslana! Just as you and Houraiji Kusho are counterparts from another world, she is an counterpart of Kiana Kaslana from another world.

Chapter 144 Your indulgence of me is truly filling me with resentment.

"You're in deep trouble. Take care of yourself."

Kiana, the Stigmata, tiptoed slightly and tapped Jiuxiao's forehead, pushing him out of the Stigmata space.

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Jiuxiao was still puzzled, but when he opened his eyes, he understood everything.

He was still holding Bronya, but Bronya had closed her eyes and was pretending to be dead. Beside the bed, two fluffy white creatures were watching him with beaming smiles...

If neither of the two Kianas were carrying a knife, it would be double the fun.

"It's all an illusion, even what I saw with my own eyes isn't real. Kiana, I can explain, you have to believe me!" Jiuxiao shouted in a panic.

"Go to hell! Who told me they'd never love anyone else again?! It hasn't been that long!! They're already sleeping with Bronya in their arms!!!"

Kiana picked up the knife from Judah's hand and immediately began using dual swords. Every strike avoided vital points, but every strike was aimed at killing.

Bronya's slightly closed eyes suddenly widened. Kiana said she was going to cut down the heavens, but it seemed like everything was aimed at Bronya!

Jiuxiao, not wanting to be stabbed more than twenty times but only judged as having minor injuries, decisively lifted Bronya up and slid her to her knees in front of Kiana.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong! I'll never do it again!!"

Kiana put down the knife and sighed.

Then the two swords merged into a larger 40-meter-long sword, which he slashed fiercely at Jiuxiao and Bronya.

"You two, you dare to do this again?!"

As the blade drew ever closer, Jiu Xiao finally gave up struggling. "My life, I have no regrets!"

"To hell with your 'no regrets'! Bronya was forced!! Bronya is innocent!!!"

Bronya summoned Heavy Bunny to try and withstand the attack, but the power of the Divine Key was beyond Heavy Bunny's current ability to withstand, and Heavy Bunny was defeated once again.

"You bastard Kiana, you actually attacked!!"

"You wicked brat Bronya, you must have seduced Jiuxiao! I'll kill you today!"