Collapse, Kaslana's Way of Survival

Hou La, who was completely oblivious to what was said, took a deep breath, twitched his arms to no avail, then leaped up and kicked towards Kainuo with his legs.

Having no choice but to use the wind to completely restrain Hou La, Kainuo's voice was filled with helplessness: "Calm down for a moment, let's talk slowly, okay?"

"Asshole, who wants to be calm with you?!"

While struggling to free himself from Keno's restraints, Hou La cursed:

"If I don't beat you to death today, I won't be called Kiana!"

Kayno, who was originally feeling helpless, paused and gave up using his power to restrain the other party. Vaguely realizing a possibility, his eyes began to light up.

Looking at Hou La who had just fallen to the ground and was about to get up to continue fighting, Kainuo's voice was full of anticipation.

"Wait, how old are you now? How long have you been in this consciousness space?"

Chapter 197 Release

Although Bianca was a bit naughty when she was young, she had always been a good child. Keno had seen her curse at others and then fight at the same time, at least twice.

Once, a child from the Kaslana family beat him, who was still an ordinary person at the time, so badly that he was bruised and swollen. Bianca went to avenge him. Another time, the child was beaten and secretly cursed Bianca for not having a mother, so she chased him and beat him for most of his life - the kind that even the passing Valkyries would not help him.

To be honest, Kainuo still doesn't know how that kid dared to do that.

Regardless of the child's final fate, it was precisely because of this past that Kaino felt confused and puzzled by Hou La's sudden attack on him.

But if his latest guess was correct, then it made sense why Hou La had behaved that way. In his opponent's view, his previous words were on par with the two previous crimes, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were a combination of the two.

only……

"What's it to you? What does this have to do with you?"

Kainuo dodged sideways another flying kick from Houla who had climbed up again and sighed helplessly.

It seems difficult to confirm his guess.

He stepped on the wall with one foot, completely offsetting the potential energy of his impact. At the same time, Hou La used the force to spin and kicked Kainuo's head. His agile skills were completely inconsistent with this bloated Hou La puppet suit.

But Keno, who has a physical advantage, is not afraid at all.

Clamping Hou La's legs together again, Kainuo took the opportunity to explain.

"I'm really Kainuo. I didn't die after the plane crash!" Kainuo squatted down and approached Hou La, holding her head to prevent her from hitting him with it, and said, "If you don't believe me, look at this house. This is the one we lived in when we were little!"

"Do you take me for an idiot? Asshole!"

Finding himself outmatched in physical strength, Hou La tried to win with his words: "Heh, I've already said that my memory is patchy, and I haven't shown any familiarity with this house. It's up to you to say whatever you want at this time."

"Besides, you just called my name wrong. How are you going to argue? Keno has never called my name wrong before, you bastard!"

"..."

He is unjust!

Keno closed his eyes tightly, feeling a surge of despair in his heart, but he also completely confirmed the other party's identity.

Just as he had thought when he had a flash of inspiration before, this roaring girl is more like Kiana than Bianca.

This was not the Kiana named by his father Siegfried alone, but the Kiana who grew up with the name Kiana and accompanied him through most of his childhood.

Her memories contained no trace of Bianca's past, and judging by her appearance, her memories seemed to have been severed at the moment of the plane crash. It was for this reason that she felt completely indifferent to the name Bianca.

This also explains why the other person's voice is Bianca's childhood voice. This is not a coincidence, but the Bianca who was materialized by someone's fragmented memory was already in her childhood.

But this would make the situation even more troublesome...

Kaino frowned.

The preconceived notion that the other party was Bianca Benca made him lose trust in the other party first, and the other party's incomplete memory made it difficult for him to produce some evidence to re-prove his identity.

Taking a deep breath, Keno clenched his teeth.

There was no choice but to tell all the secrets between him and Bianca.

"I ate all the ice cream that was in the freezer when you were five. It was because I was greedy, not because I was worried that you would catch a cold!"

The inexplicable words startled Hou La, who was being held down by Kainuo: "Psycho, what are you talking about?!"

"The reason you bit into the bitter cake on your sixth birthday was because I secretly replaced the cake, not Dad who ate it!"

Hou La became more and more impatient and struggled harder and harder.

Keno had no choice but to continue:

"When you were seven, you thought the snacks in your bag miraculously wouldn't decrease. It wasn't because they were going to give birth to babies. It was actually me who secretly put them in there!"

Hou La paused and his struggle weakened.

"When you were eight years old, the PSP that appeared next to your pillow at Christmas was actually bought for you by me, not the old man riding a reindeer."

The strength to resist completely disappeared, and Hou La stood there in a daze, staring at Kainuo blankly.

"Nine years old..." Kaino took a deep breath and looked at Houla, who had stopped resisting, with a complicated look in his eyes. Or rather, Kiana, whose memory died in the plane crash. "When we were escaping by plane, you helped me block most of the debris and stray bullets, so I was able to hold on until the priest rescued me. But in the end, you lost your memory and nearly died."

"You, you...you you you!" Hou La raised his head and looked at Kainuo in disbelief, his voice trembling with inexplicable sorrow, "Are you really Kainuo? You're not dead?!"

“That’s why I said I was.”

Keno said somewhat helplessly.

But fortunately it seemed that the other party believed it. He was mentally prepared to be beaten and told some things about the past out of strong shame.

Patting himself up and standing up, Kainuo pulled up Hou La, who had not yet fully recovered from his shock.

"How did you get so big?!" Houla, who had come to his senses, became excited and tried to pat Kainuo on the head, but in the end he could only touch his shoulder: "How many years have passed outside?"

"Eight years... probably." Kaino said, "At least eight years since we crashed."

"So long? No wonder you've grown so big, I couldn't recognize you." Hou La nodded, then glanced at Kainuo's head, smacked his lips and said in an unhappy tone.

"Tsk, and what's with your hair and eyes? Are you dissatisfied with the white hair and blue eyes of our Kaslana family?!"

In response to the other party's accusation, Kaino waved his hand to remove the disguise, shrugged and expressed his helplessness: "The situation has been a bit complicated in the past eight years. I am pretending."

"And don't gloat over your misfortune now. Your hair has turned golden now. Not only that, it's the kind that grows out golden without dyeing it."

"? I'm still alive... Oh, yeah, you just said I survived but lost my memory. So the Bianca you mentioned before must be the name I was given after I lost my memory."

Taking in so much information at once made Houla scratch her head in annoyance. Then, with a slightly worried tone, she asked Kaino, "Well, we're not enemies like in those comic books, are we? Like, brother and sister turning against each other?"

"No—wait, when have you ever seen a comic like this?" Kaino's eyes widened in shock. "Are you really that upset with me? Aren't all your comics about villainous sisters beating up their good brothers?"

"You're the villain!" Hou La complained. "It's clearly a story about a decent sister searching for her villain brother who's hiding in the dark..."

Kaino scratched his head.

Why did he feel that this story had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu?

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this for now!" With a wave of his hand, Hou La looked at Kainuo, his voice full of worry: "Kainuo, have you encountered any danger? How did you get dragged into this trial? Let me tell you, this trial is very dangerous."

"Although I've mostly forgotten the difficulty of the trial, I do know that Dad didn't make it through in the end, and his consciousness remained here for fourteen... uh, fifteen years?"

Chapter 198 The Second Memory Fragment

"Fourteen or fifteen years?" Kainuo nodded thoughtfully and asked Houla for confirmation: "That's around the time of the Second Collapse?"

"The second... collapse?"

Scratching his head, Hou La pondered for a while and then shook his head in frustration: "I have forgotten the exact time when the second Honkai broke out, but I still have a deep impression of it, so it must have been around that time, right?"

Kainuo's heart was finally at ease.

It can now be basically confirmed that Siegfried, who manifested as Hou La and the others, was undoubtedly drawn into the Stigmata Space to participate in the trial during the second collapse. So, Siegfried who came in with him this time may not have failed ten times in a row.

Furthermore, since Hou La said that Siegfried had already participated in the trial and failed once, and he had not shown any abnormality for such a long time except that he had not mentioned this stigmata space at all, it can be temporarily concluded that the only punishment for failing to participate in the trial is the loss of memory.

only……

Kainuo looked at Houla, his voice a little puzzled. "Why did Dad, who clearly participated in the trial at that time, end up manifesting you several years later?"

If this memory of Hou La continued until before Bianca entered the Stigmata, then it could be that the Stigmata itself was filling in her memory. However, it stopped at the moment of the crash, which is somewhat intriguing.

"How could I possibly know?" He asked back, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Even the real me can't answer these questions, right? Although I've been here for so many years, I've only pieced together an incomplete Kiana based on some of his memories and the fragments of memories in the stigmata space."

"You're asking me this kind of question...Kaino, you're really putting me in a difficult position."

...Could you please not be so righteous?

The corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably, and Keno couldn't help but feel sad for the future of the Kaslana family.

Seeing Kainuo's sad expression, Houla, who misunderstood, hesitated for a moment, then patted him on the back comfortingly, "Okay, don't be sad. Although I don't know, mother, you, and the sister we rescued have all been materialized. They might know!"

"My mom has also been materialized?!" Kaino said happily, "Wait... is there also Kiana who we rescued?"

"Yeah," Hou La nodded, speaking matter-of-factly. "Probably after I died... well, I mean, a while after the plane crash, she materialized. Because she and I have the same name, she caused quite a bit of trouble back then!"

“…Forget it, there’s no point in thinking about it here.”

Kaino patted his head, frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and sighed.

Pulling Bianca's arm, Kayno pointed downstairs and said, "Then Bi... Kiana, let's go find Mom and the others who were materialized."

"No problem." He nodded and was about to take a step forward when Hou La slapped his head and broke free from Kainuo's hand.

"Kaino, wait for me for a moment, I'll be back soon!"

After leaving these words, Hou La ran up the second floor without hesitation, and after a while, he went into the room with the word "Kiana" written on the door.

After the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, Hou La ran out with a few photo frames in his arms, his voice filled with unconcealable joy.

"Hey, luckily I found these photos. Mom said she really wanted to see what we'll look like when we grow up!"

"Alright, Kaino, let's go!"

Nodding, Kainuo took a few photo frames from Hou La's arms and took her downstairs.

"Come to think of it, since this is our home, then where is that extremely unforgettable place that Kainuo mentioned?" While walking down the stairs happily, Huo La asked Kainuo in an excited tone.

"Let me guess, kitchen? Dining room? Uh... shouldn't it be the bathroom?"

"...In your eyes, am I just a person who only knows how to eat, drink, defecate and urinate?" Kainuo said helplessly.

He even suspected that if he had not been found in the bedroom by the other party, he would have been forced to add a large bed for sleeping.

"Of course not," Hou La retorted immediately, "At least you can cook, Kainuo. Now all of us rely on you to cook for us!"

Ha ha.

Keno glanced aside, his eyes dull.

From a person who only knew how to eat, drink, defecate and urinate to a person who also had to cook, he was not quite sure whether his status had dropped or risen a level.

"Ah, okay, we're here."

Seeing that Hou La seemed to want to say something, in order to avoid further trauma to himself, Kayno pushed open Siegfried's door and walked in first.

"This is it, Dad's room."

"Hey, Dad's room?"

Hou La walked into the room with doubts. After looking around, his eyes were fixed on the black cube floating in front of the computer desk in the room.

"It's really here?!" Hou La was a little surprised. "But why is this the place you can't forget the most in your heart, Kainuo? Even when we play games, we play more on the TV, right?"

"...If you forgot, don't ask again. It won't be good anyway."

Patting Hou La's head, Kainuo walked forward and pointed at the memory fragment and looked at Hou La.

"So, just a touch like last time will do?"

"Correct!"

Seeing that Kainuo didn't want to tell him, Hou La didn't ask any further. After doing it, he asked Kainuo at his home about his plan and then explained to Kainuo.

"Although it looks like an ordinary memory fragment, if it really is a fragment growing at this spatial node, then after we receive the memory, we will appear outside this house!"

Nodding, Kainuo looked at Hou La with suspicion.

"You look quite experienced?"

"Of course!" Hou La said proudly, his hands on his hips. "After spending so much time in this stigmata space, how could I just stay at home and not come out every day? Exploring the surrounding memory fragments and even similar spaces like this like a treasure hunt is almost a daily routine for me!"

Kainuo nodded without comment, reached out and gently touched the memory fragment.

The inky darkness instantly spread, enveloping both Kainuo and Houla. With a slight sense of spatial dislocation, the familiar memory flooded back into his mind.

……