On how PhDs become human evil

The scene suddenly changed, and Kiana was in the classroom, where Himeko was pointing a pointer at her from the podium.

"Let's talk about when the first Honkai occurred."

"Uh... Himeko-sensei, how would I know?"

Kiana never listens in class; she relies entirely on cramming the night before exams, and then forgets everything after the test.

Himeko glared at Kiana with exasperation and said, "Go back and copy the content about the first Honkai Impact from the textbook twenty times. Give it to me by the weekend."

"No, Himeko!"

"You should call her Teacher Himeko!"

It was the same familiar routine, the same familiar conversations, and the same familiar people.

(Himeko-sensei, your last lesson... I'll remember it.)

"Hey, you imposter, is this not enough? Stand up."

Kiana heard the voice of the person she least wanted to hear, yet most wanted to hear. Kiana looked over and saw the man in the white coat who haunted her dreams looking at her with a displeased expression.

"You yourself told me to beat you up, and you can't even take it after such a short time?"

"No, my legs are just sore! Let's try again!"

(Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever noticed... Has my brother ever smiled at me?)

Looking at Bai Jie, who was laughing as he beat up another version of himself, Kiana couldn't help but think that she was an imposter, a fake who had taken his sister's place. She knew this, so it was normal that Bai Jie didn't give her a good look and even did all sorts of outrageous things to her, making her too ashamed to face Mei.

Even so, she still respected her brother very much. She often proudly told her classmates: "My brother is the smartest scientist in the world!"

"Thank you for following our plan all this time, K-423. Your mission is now complete."

The scene changed again, this time to the Schicksal headquarters, which had been turned into a battlefield. Raven, one of the World Serpent's executives, said to Kiana with a sinister smile.

"Hand over your Herrscher core, K-423, and we guarantee you'll meet your friends without pain."

"I won't let you get away with this! Give me back my Mei!"

Having witnessed the loss of her close friend, Kiana, consumed by rage, ignored the numerous mechs poised to strike behind Raven and charged forward. The next moment, her figure was engulfed by the beams of nearly a hundred Demigod mechs.

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"Mei! Everyone!"

Kiana suddenly opened her eyes and shouted, only then realizing her situation.

The soft touch beneath her told her she was in bed. Judging from the moonlight streaming through the window, it was already night. Looking around the room, Kiana also realized that this was a man's room.

"She started yelling as soon as she woke up; it seems my worries were unnecessary."

The sound made Kiana's body tremble violently, and her pupils instantly contracted to the size of pinpoints.

There's no mistake, Kiana would never mistake this voice!

Trembling, Kiana turned around and saw Bai Jie, dressed in a white lab coat, sitting on a chair by the bed, smiling at her.

"Brother...brother?"

"What's up? Are you hungry or thirsty?"

Yes, those words that showed no concern for his younger sister, that cold attitude towards him—

"elder brother!"

Kiana threw off the covers and pounced on Bai Jie, hugging him tightly as if she wanted to merge him into her body—before that, Bai Jie had pressed his ruthless iron hand against Kiana's forehead.

"Put your clothes on before you pounce on me, you silly girl! You're trying to make me commit a crime by pounce on you in your underwear?"

After Bai Jie said that, Kiana felt a chill on her body. Looking down, she realized that she was only wearing two pieces of underwear, and was practically naked!

In other words, Bai Jie saw her body completely naked!

"Ugh... you pervert, bro!" Kiana's face was flushed with embarrassment. "But anyway, you've already seen all of me when you bullied me before, so I'll let you have this little bit of the advantage."

"Please, can we not bring up my past embarrassing history? I'm so ashamed just thinking about it." Bai Jie covered his face, and bullying Kiana was practically one of the few stains on his life.

“…Brother, you’ve really changed a lot.” Kiana suddenly said, “Before, you would have said, ‘I feel disgusted just looking at your body, let me stab you again,’ and then mercilessly pierced my shoulder with a dagger…Thinking about it now, it really hurts.”

"So can you stop talking now?" Bai Jie sighed deeply, then threw the clothes on the bedside table at her face and turned his back. "Wear these, Cecilia's clothes. I don't know if they'll fit."

After a brief silence, a rustling sound came from behind, and Kiana's voice rang out at the same time: "The dream I just had, brother, was it you who had it?"

Why do you ask that?

"I learned some methods of controlling my mind from the class monitor, and now I almost never dream."

"So how does it feel to see the past? Do you miss your old daily life?"

"Yes, I miss it, but it'll never happen again," Kiana's voice sounded melancholic. "Brother, I—"

“I’ve heard everything from Kevin,” Bai Jie interrupted her.

Turning around to look at Kiana, who was already dressed, Bai Jie said, "A lot has happened since I left. As her older brother, it's my fault for not being able to go back immediately. I'm sorry."

Kiana felt like there might be something wrong with her ears. What had Bai Jie just said? He called himself "brother" in front of her? Didn't that mean...?

"Brother, am I...am I your sister?"

“…Mm.” Bai Jie nodded, then reached out and touched Kiana’s white hair. “I will go back with you, Kiana, and help you get everything you’ve lost back.”

According to Kevin, Raiden Mei and Bronya are both seriously injured. Although they were taken back to headquarters by Anti-Entropy for treatment, they are still not out of danger. Theresa was also seriously injured by the Herrscher of the Void and is currently being protected by Rita and Durandal's remnants of Schicksal. Himeko Murata has fallen into the Imaginary Space.

It can be said that the Far East Branch is now defunct in name only, and what Bai Jie needs to do is to rebuild the Far East Branch and then reverse all the tragedies—this is not impossible, as there is no such thing as impossible in Bai Jie's dictionary.

"Ah..."

Looking at her brother's face so close to hers, Kiana finally believed it.

Starting with the unequal treaty she signed with him at the academy, the twisted feelings that sprouted from being bullied by him time and time again, and after experiencing one tragedy after another, Kiana's expectations of Bai Jie finally caused this feeling to undergo a qualitative change.

He cried out Bai Jie's name in despair.

In her grief, she longed for her brother's salvation.

"Brother... help me."

Kiana repeated this phrase countless times when she was alone, and before she knew it, Bai Jie had become her spiritual pillar to keep going.

Now, Kiana wants to transform this dependence into another kind of emotion.

Tilting her head back, just as she had imagined countless times, Kiana pressed her lips to Bai Jie's lips, gently licked them with her tongue, and then immediately separated them.

With a smile, Kiana looked at Bai Jie and said the words she had always wanted to say: "Thank you, brother (captain), I like you the most!"

Section 415, Chapter 47: The King of Push is at full potential.

"Thank you, bro (captain), I like you the most!"

Kiana, her face still streaked with tears, spoke these words with an incredibly bright smile, wrapping her arms tightly around Bai Jie's neck, and even moving her legs off the bed to wrap around Bai Jie's waist.

Kiana's sweet, youthful breath brushed against Bai Jie's face, and her soft touch penetrated his thin clothes. Kiana was practically pressed against Bai Jie. If a third party had witnessed this scene, they would have thought the two were doing something indecent.

Taking a deep breath, Bai Jie suddenly raised his hand and delivered a chop to Kiana's forehead.

"Ouch—bro, what did you do?!"

"You stupid girl, are you a kitten in heat? Do you really want me to get beaten to death by Chen and the others?"

Bai Jie said irritably, "Why does it feel like Kiana's personality has become even more twisted since we last met? And isn't her dependence on me even stronger?"

However, Bai Jie had some idea why Kiana had become like this.

(In such a desperate situation, even with Fu Hua's help, it would have been very difficult for Kiana to persevere. She probably relied on me as her pillar of support to get through it.)

Everyone needs a reason to live, and for Kiana, Bai Jie is one of her reasons for living, and it is the most important one.

Seeing Kiana covering her head, Bai Jie patted her head again: "Alright, stop fooling around. Go back to sleep for a while. I'll go downstairs and make you something to eat."

"Hey? Bro, when did you learn to cook?"

"Why are you looking at me like I'm a rare animal? It's just cooking a few dishes. You'll naturally learn how after living alone for a while. —What do you want to eat?"

"...Fried chicken, I haven't had it in ages."

Since the Honkai Impact, Kiana has been eating compressed biscuits and canned food. Although they are filling, they taste terrible. To be honest, Kiana hasn't had a proper meal in a long time.

"Eating fried chicken will make you fat—though I want to say that, I'll skip it this time. I'll call you when it's done, go back to bed and rest for a while."

Bai Jie stood up from the chair, turned around and walked towards the door. Just as he grasped the doorknob, Kiana's voice rang out again.

"Brother, you'll come back, won't you?"

The voice sounded somewhat trembling.

Despite having confirmed it countless times, Kiana was still worried that she was living in a dream, fearing that everything before her eyes would disappear again.

She no longer wanted to lose anything.

"Don't worry, I will definitely come back." Bai Jie turned around and smiled. "In fact, no matter what, I will come back this time. I can't bear to let my lovely little sister continue to suffer."

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Seeing Bai Jie come down from the second floor, Cecilia hurriedly came up and asked, "Darling, how is Kiana?"

"Physically, there's nothing wrong, but the mental injury is too severe to recover from overnight. I've temporarily stabilized it with a calming spell."

While Kiana was sleeping, Bai Jie kept using various calming spells to treat her mentally, such as the Tranquility Spell. But as Bai Jie just said, Kiana's mental trauma was too severe, and even Bai Jie could not completely heal her. Besides, mental healing was not his area of ​​expertise.

However, despite being the world's strongest magician, he couldn't even cure his own sister.

"By the way, Cecilia, Kiana said she wants to eat fried chicken. Do you have any chicken at home?"

"Can she eat unhealthy foods like fried chicken now? Would it be better if she ate something lighter?" Cecilia asked worriedly.

Bai Jie shrugged and said, "She hasn't had a proper meal in a long time, so let's go along with her wishes this time."

"...Okay, I'll cook then. Honey, you should settle Ji Dong and Lan Yu in first."

Nodding, Bai Jie went to sit opposite Himeragi Yukina and Aiba Asagi on the sofa.

Sitting back on the sofa, Bai Jie looked at the two people he had a close relationship with in the other world, and for a moment he didn't know what to say. After a long silence, he finally spoke: "Yukina, Asagi... what are you planning to do?"

"Given the current situation, you can't return to that world. You'll have to stay here. I'll help you with your identification. There are one or two rooms left in the agency, so you can stay without any problem. But what will you do after that?"