Collapse, Kaslana's Way of Survival

Kaino covered his face.

It’s all over…

Photos of Otto being beaten into a pig's head, photos of Yae Sakura he took in his spare time, photos of him, Seele, and Bella before going to Nagizora City, photos of him and Bianca playing in the amusement park, and photos of him and Seele hanging out in a haunted house together.

The photo of Kiana sleeping with her saliva on the table in the library, the photo of him and his friends at the cold drink shop, and even the earlier photos of Xiaozhi, Fu Hua, and Li Sushang... All the records that Kaino had taken, whether they were pranks or memories, were turned upside down in one go.

Accompanied by the exclamations of Houmu and Houla and the continuous sound of shutter clicks in Houli, Houmei's eyes, which were filled with an increasingly full smile, gradually narrowed.

"Hey, Brother Kaino!" Houmu, who had finished watching, glared at Kaino with dissatisfaction, "Why are all my personal photos full of embarrassing pictures?"

Pretending to be nothing, Kainuo took his phone back and silently glanced away, pretending not to hear what he said.

Anyway, this matter really has nothing to do with him. Kiana has been naughty in the academy for a few days, and there is really nothing left except various funny photos.

There was no picture of him sleeping in class, which meant he was listening attentively.

However, even if she could dodge Kiana, she definitely couldn't dodge someone of a higher rank.

"Speaking of which, Kainuo made a lot of friends and left a lot of good memories."

She took two steps forward and put her arm around Kainuo's arm affectionately. Huo Mei moved closer to Kainuo's head, and her voice, which was filled with inexplicable joy, became extremely small.

"But seeing that you took so many pictures of girls, Kaino, Mom can't help but feel a little curious."

"Come on, tell me quietly, is there a girl in there that you like? Is it the girl who appears in the most photos, or someone in the group photo?"

"Ah, this..." Kainuo scratched his face uncomfortably at the question, "The most—I'm talking about the girl with black and red hair. You Xiaoshi and Fu Hua may look the same, but their personalities are completely different."

"Don't worry, your mother can still tell the difference."

"But is that really the case? The girl in black and red... is just as I expected." Houmei nodded with a smile on her face. "Well, speaking of which, Kaino, you must be hungry too. Let's eat first."

"The other Kainuo's cooking skills have been honed here very well. He will definitely surprise you."

Glancing at Houli, who was full of confidence, Kaino nodded and said, "Okay."

As long as it’s not two Kianas or my mother cooking.

Hou Mei suddenly shuddered as if she sensed something, and her eyes slowly widened.

Kainuo suddenly became a little nervous: "What's wrong, Mom?"

Can my mother also have telepathy?

"Sorry, Kaino, I might not be able to eat for a while." Her expression gradually returned to normal, and a strong interest rose in Houmei's eyes. "Bianca and Theresa, I think I have news about them."

Chapter 203 Reunion

The time is set forward five minutes, somewhere in the Destiny Airport in the Stigmata Space.

Bianca and Theresa, who had finished watching another memory, closed their eyes and suddenly appeared here out of nowhere.

"Huh!" Theresa opened her eyes almost at the same time as Bianca, took a deep breath, blinked, and looked at Bianca beside her with a slightly playful look.

"Niece, is this your memory of your first meeting with Rita?"

Bianca nodded, a look of reminiscence on her face.

"Yes, that's right. At that time, I was invited by the Bishop to go to the Destiny Headquarters to take the Valkyrie entrance test. I didn't know the way and ended up meeting Rita who happened to be nearby."

"Looking back now, fate is truly marvelous. Although we didn't get to know each other properly that time, a subsequent mission completely tied our destinies together. In the end, she even became my best friend... well, maybe the best one yet?"

Bianca said uncertainly.

"Yeah, Auntie knows everything." Theresa nodded, and a strange smile appeared on her face.

"But niece, even if you don't know the way, you can still tell. You can't even tell left from right... Even your aunt can tell the difference!"

Bianca smiled shyly, as if she didn't hear Theresa's joke.

"Back then, you were a little nervous, weren't you? And you weren't as calm as you are now. Although my brother did say he wished I could be more lively like before... ugh, where's Dad?"

As she was talking, Bianca was slightly stunned when she suddenly realized that there was someone missing beside her.

"Huh? Siegfried is really missing?!" Theresa belatedly noticed the missing figure. "We finally found one person, but how could he suddenly disappear again? Siegfried never said anything like this would happen."

After entering this stigmata space, she and Bianca were the only two left of the original four-person team. Speculating whether this stigmata space, like the Honkai, had some bias against men, the two began searching for a way out, following clues left by unknown individuals.

As a result, at the end of the clues, he was drawn into a building that was almost identical to Bianca's sanatorium, and there he found Siegfried who had just woken up and turned into a faded homunculus.

After some communication, Siegfried explained that he had entered this holy scar space before, but after failing the trial, part of his consciousness was intercepted here. Except for occasionally being able to learn about the outside world through him, he was almost always asleep until he re-entered and merged with that consciousness.

So, the two of them were led by the other person with full confidence to leave that space. Although the process of leaving was smooth, the other person disappeared again after leaving.

"I'm not sure either." Bianca frowned and shook her head, "But Dad might be nearby. Let's go look for him."

Bianca took action immediately.

Under the base of the bench, in the cargo cabinet, in the grass on the roadside, and above the Destiny Sky Island... the two searched all the places around where people might be hiding, but in the end they found nothing.

"Ahhh, Siegfried has disappeared again at this time. We were still trying to find little Keno, but now all our efforts have been in vain!"

Theresa collapsed on the bench where she had just finished searching, holding her forehead with her hand and shaking her head.

"Oh, I can't do it anymore, niece. I need to rest for a while. I don't know why I feel dizzy, and everything in front of me is almost white." Theresa said in a depressed tone. "Really? I'm so strong."

Bianca was surprised: "Hey, Auntie, have you become like this too?"

"Also?" Although she was dizzy, Theresa still quickly noticed the blind spot and widened her eyes in disbelief.

It wasn't that she felt inferior, but she was certain that her eldest niece's physical strength was far superior to hers, despite having fused with the Honkai Beast's genes. Furthermore, she had been intentionally or unintentionally helping Bianca share some of the work, so why was Bianca also experiencing this symptom?

"Could it be..." Theresa widened her eyes.

"This should be one of the trials of this space." Gently pressing her aching temple, Bianca carried Theresa on her shoulders and ran in a random direction.

"Anyway, we can't just sit here and wait for death... Auntie, I'm sorry!"

Theresa's stomach was shaken by Bianca's shoulder. She rolled her eyes and grabbed the clothes on her back tightly with both hands, trying not to move and suppress the nausea.

Bumps, high speed, dizziness, shock... at the same time

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a few small dots running towards her.

Is that... Houm? No, there's also Homei, Houla, and Holi?

Why is Houmei the only one missing?

Wait, the one with white hair is my nephew?!

“Bianca, stop the car!” Theresa screamed. “It’s little Keno, he… Ugh, ugh!”

Theresa, who suddenly leaned back because of Bianca's forced braking, finally couldn't hold it in and vomited.

……

While wiping his aunt's mouth, Keno reproduced a set of clothes that was exactly the same as Bianca's original one and handed it to her.

"Let's go to a more secluded place and change later."

"Huh, thanks to your ability, brother. Although I don't care much, it is indeed very inconvenient to wear this set of clothes all the time now that there is no way to wash it in time." Bianca said after taking the clothes handed to her by Keno.

"Well, niece..." There was still a trace of mosquito coil in her eyes as Theresa swayed her upper body and apologized to Bianca.

"Aunt, please stop talking for now."

He took out another bottle of water and fed it to his aunt. Kainuo stroked the other's lower body, grabbed her free left hand and pressed it on the memory fragments not far away from him.

"Bianca, put your hand over here too."

"Ah good."

Bianca nodded blankly, and without asking anything, she went with the two of them to touch the debris.

Then, almost instantly, the dizziness in her brain, the tingling in her temples, and the white fog that almost covered her entire field of vision dissipated, and her mind suddenly became extremely clear.

"So that's how it is. Do I need to touch these things regularly?" Bianca said, understandingly.

Theresa, who had suddenly felt much better, had finally recovered a little. She suddenly hung on Kainuo and burst into tears.

"Wow, nephew, you're the most reliable one. Siegfried didn't tell us anything, so we had such a hard time looking for him!"

"Theresa, you can't say that about Siegfried."

Before Kainuo had time to comfort his aunt, Houmei, who had been standing silently beside him, suddenly spoke with a somewhat displeased tone.

"This time, it was Siegfried who relied on our intermittent connection to urgently contact me to help you. I don't know where he is now, and I can't contact him again. I don't even know if he is safe."

Without paying attention to the other party's accusations, Theresa, who was very familiar with the voice, widened her eyes and looked at the other party with disbelief in her eyes.

After a moment, Theresa's lips trembled, and she turned her head to look at Kainuo: "Nephew, who is she?"

"Uh, let me introduce you."

Kainuo stood up and scratched his head, then introduced several members of the Roar family to Bianca and Theresa one by one.

"This is Bianca when she was a child, this is Kiana when she was a child, this is me when I was a child, and..." Finally, pointing at Houmei, Kaino looked at the expressions of the two and raised his tone.

"The last one is my mother."

Looking at Bianca and Theresa, who were in a state of confusion and surprise, Kaino shrugged and explained, "They were all created by Dad, or rather, they were created through his memories and longings. So, there's nothing wrong with my description of them this way."

"As for how I met them, I'll explain it to you later. Now, Aunt, please tell me what happened after we separated."

Chapter 204 Separation

"strangeness."

After listening to Bianca's story, Keno tapped his brow lightly with a puzzled look on his face.

"Since Dad separated from us because he had participated in this trial, why would I also separate from you?"

At first he thought that the four of them were separated to participate in the trial individually, but in the end it turned out that only he and Siegfried were separated.

But the reason why Siegfried was singled out was that he had participated in this trial before and was a cheater, but he had never participated in it!

I can't be targeted by this stigmata space, right?

"That's certainly a suspicious point," Bianca frowned, a worried look on her face.

"And we still don't know the reason why Father suddenly disappeared. If you, brother, suddenly disappear too..."

"Ah, don't worry about that." Kainuo comforted with a smile.

"Unlike my father, I can control space. Bianca, take this. Even if I suddenly disappear, I can immediately return through my power."

As he spoke, Kainuo took out another piece of Yudu Dust and handed it to Bianca.

Come to think of it, how many feathers have I given away?

"As for Dad's matter, maybe we can ask Mom? We don't know much about the Stigmata Space, but Mom might have some guesses." Kainuo suggested.

"Ah."

Bianca nodded in agreement with Keno's proposal, then looked at Keno expectantly, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Without any memories of the past, it was difficult for her to accept the rabbit's appearance for a while, so it was indeed difficult for her to talk to Hou Mei without changing her expression.

Kaino nodded helplessly, understanding what the other party meant. Then he turned to look in Houmei's direction, "Mom, you..."

Kainuo's face suddenly turned dark.

At this moment, Hou Mei was stroking Theresa's head with a smile on her face, as if she was coaxing a child. Theresa seemed to be enjoying it very much, hugging and rubbing against her.

Sighing helplessly, Kainuo walked forward and directly lifted his aunt away.

"Auntie, can you at least be a little more normal?" After flicking her head with an indignant and dissatisfied look, Kainuo continued, "You're an adult after all. You should pay attention to your image."

"Don't hit me, nephew!" Theresa rubbed her forehead and said in a dissatisfied tone, "Besides, what do you mean I'm an adult? I, your aunt, have always been an adult!"

"Cecilia and I haven't seen each other for over ten years. And even though she's not a hoe, she's at least a hoe... How can I resist?"

"You're not saying that to me. I don't think you're any more of an adult than me, Auntie." Kaino curled his lips and pointed at Houmu, who was trembling behind Houli and Houla. "Look, you've even scared Kiana."

Houmu, who was behind Hou La, stuck his head out and nodded in agreement.

Theresa's face flushed red.

"Okay, Kainuo, don't make things too difficult for Theresa." Hou Mei, who was standing nearby, took over the conversation with a smile. "Come to think of it, was there something you wanted to talk to me about?"

"It's still about Dad," Kainuo said, "about his sudden disappearance. Mom, do you know where we can find him?"

"I really don't know Siegfried's current location," Hou Mei said. "After all, we've lived in the airport area for years, and whenever Siegfried leaves, the tenuous connection between us is completely severed."

"But I do have some ideas about how to find Siegfried."

Kainuo didn't say anything, waiting quietly for the other party to continue.