The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

For some reason, in front of Kiana who knew her identity, the maturity and stability that Yulandel had cultivated in the past seemed to have disappeared without a trace like being fed to a dog.

At least in Kiana's opinion, the elder sister who was ravaging her cheek was more like [Bianca] who followed Captain Li Shubai than [Yulandel].

Chapter 4 Siegfried: ? ? ? (k)

"In other words, in addition to solving the problem of the Herrscher of Corrosion, in these two days, you also met with Mr. Siegfried...our father?" asked Yulandel.

After a short and enjoyable play, Kiana lay on the iron bed in the room with her upper body tilted back, while Yulandel sat upright beside her.

Kiana, who was half paralyzed on the bed, hummed to show her agreement with this statement, then turned her head and looked at Yulandel, who had a serious face, with a slightly strange expression: "Compared to your stupid dad, you don't seem to care about the other two 'yourself' at all?"

"...You can't say I don't care." When Yulandel heard Kiana mention this, her expression became a little tangled for the first time in a long time. "But, according to what you said, they should have disappeared with the departure of Captain Li Shubai, right?"

"Aren't you curious about the relationship between the other two selves and that boy?" Kiana asked.

"No... Honestly, I'm very curious." Yulandel shook her head. "From the looks of it, the Yulandel who followed that boy into this world should be the 'me' three years ago. But, you should also know that I was exiled to the Stigmata space by Bishop Otto not long ago. By chance... or in other words, with the help and calculations of Rita and Bishop Otto, I was able to awaken Kaslana's Stigmata."

"And that Yulandel over there had already completed the awakening of the stigma three years ago?" Kiana asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, that's true." Yulandel nodded. "You also said that among the four invaders, my true identity doesn't seem to be a secret, and she... also has no intention of hiding her origins. In this case, she does not call herself the 'Valkyrie of Destiny' but a 'crew member under the captain's name'. From this point of view, the biggest possibility is that in their timeline, I followed the captain and chose to leave Destiny of my own will after receiving his help."

If you ask Yulandel whether she regrets what she did to St. Freya's College and Kiana because of Bishop Otto's order, she would probably find it difficult to nod frankly.

After all, even though she had lost her memory, she had accepted Bishop Otto's instructions and orders with her own will. Therefore, although Yulandel felt sorry and regretful for the suffering that destiny had brought to Kiana and her indifferent attitude towards what happened to Kiana during that time, she did not regret it until now.

However, if there is a possibility that allows Yulandel to have another chance to choose everything that happened in the past, now that she knows her true identity, it will probably be difficult for her to face Bishop Otto's orders with the same attitude again.

Even if she had a righteous cause and a legitimate reason of [bearing some mistakes in order to save more people], Yulandel was not the kind of person who could turn a blind eye to the sufferings of her loved ones and important people.

She was not such a rational person. In a sense, Yulandel was a very self-centered person from the beginning. She understood from a very young age that if she could not become stronger, then, as an orphan, she would be nothing. So, even if from the actual actions, she has always been a person who has made every effort she can to fight against the collapse, but in the final analysis, everything Yulandel has done so far is just to realize her own personal value.

Although it is a meaningless assumption that cannot happen in reality, if Bishop Otto's experiment object is changed from Kiana to Rita, then Yulandel will never allow herself to watch her best friend step into the abyss. Although if things really develop to that point, Bishop Otto should be able to predict Yulandel's attitude and resistance with his shrewdness, but even so, Bishop Otto will definitely not be able to distort Yulandel's personal will.

No one can treat everyone with absolute equality. Even the strongest Valkyrie, who claims to be fair and selfless, cannot escape this.

That's why Yulandel felt a little envious of the other self who followed that boy.

Compared to herself, three years earlier... at that time when many things had not happened yet, she had already completed the complete awakening of Kaslana's stigmata, and she was able to do more things and make more choices.

However, compared to Yulandel's considerations, Kiana was more concerned and interested in something else.

"Is that so?" She said with a teasing look on her face, "But I clearly felt that the other two 'Yulandel' or 'Bianca' chose to follow that boy, obviously because they like him."

"..."Yulandel's brain was stuck.

After a long silence, she uttered a tone of great astonishment: "Ah?"

What does it mean?

"It's my fault for not explaining everything to you clearly." Kiana's face showed an expression as if she was recalling something, "After that Yulandel and Bianca over there met with the stinky dad-"

——About half a day ago.

"Strictly speaking, there are three people in the 'Yulandel' that exist in this world right now."

The deepest part of Kaslana's stigmata space.

After hearing Yulandel's calm statement, Siegfried and Kiana were choked up.

Siegfried glanced at his innocent self with a strange look on his face, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Even with his strong nerves inherited from Kaslana's bloodline, he couldn't help but feel a sense of unreality after understanding the reality happening before his eyes.

Yulandel's true identity is his and Cecilia's biological daughter. In Siegfried's view, this matter was enough to make his heart stop. As a result, now, not only is his biological daughter still alive, but she has even transformed from an only child into triplets... Although the actual situation is far from triplets, with Siegfried's theoretical idiot brain, perhaps this word can make him understand the current situation as quickly as possible.

Of course, no matter how hard it was to understand, it was always a good thing that his biological daughter was still alive. So after hesitating for a moment, Siegfried put on an obviously awkward smile on his face again.

...Obviously, this was something that made him happy, but because it was a bit too magical, Siegfried found it difficult to express his feelings frankly for a while.

But just as Siegfried was calming down and preparing to ask in detail what Yulandel and Kiana had experienced over the years, and why they suddenly appeared in the deepest part of this holy scar space -

"Hmm? You guys haven't finished talking yet?"

The sudden appearance of two people in a spatial fluctuation made Siegfried's expression freeze for a moment.

His pupils shrank sharply, and his body flashed. In an instant, he was in front of Kiana and Yulandel. He slightly bent his waist and put on a posture as if facing a great enemy. Cold sweat broke out on his head, and his hostile voice was chilling to the bone: "Kevin Kaslana, you——"

Before he could even utter the question, Siegfried's words suddenly froze when he saw the culprit who had locked him up here. The words he wanted to say changed from a hostile question to a speechless complaint.

"——What's that posture?"

Kevin suddenly appeared in front of Siegfried, with bags hanging all over his body, including his hands. He looked at his offspring coldly, and said calmly without any emotion: "As you can see, I just brought you some daily necessities."

"Living supplies?" Siegfried thought he had misheard. He glanced at the packing bag full of Kevin's body and felt like he was dreaming. "Are you sure you didn't say it wrong? These are living supplies? Not some kind of torture device to torture me?"

Although in a sense, Kevin is indeed his elder with a blood relationship, but no matter how Siegfried looks at it, he feels that it is more realistic for this ice-like Kaslana to want to torture him than to bring him daily necessities.

After hearing this nonsensical question, Kevin's expression, which had seemed like an unchanging block of ice, suddenly changed in front of Siegfried's eyes.

He first looked at Siegfried carefully with a strange expression, was silent for a long time, and finally nodded: "If you have similar hobbies, I can prepare it for you."

"Puh, puh, puh! You have a similar hobby! Your whole family has a similar hobby!" Siegfried's face turned black on the spot, but soon, he suddenly realized that something was wrong and shook his head fiercely, "No, compared to that kind of thing, you bastard actually locked up Kiana and Yulandel here as well?"

"Huh?" Kiana was stunned, "...wait, Dad."

"No need to say more, Kiana." Siegfried interrupted Kiana's words with a determined tone. He turned around and gave Kiana a gentle smile: "Even if I risk my life, I won't let you and Yulandel be locked up here by this bastard!"

"...Calm down." Kevin's expression was as calm as ever. "I didn't bring these two people here by force."

"Huh?" Siegfried turned back to look at Kevin's calm face and sneered, "Who else but you could bring them to this extremely cold hell? Do you think I don't know about the bad things that the snakes in your world do?"

"..." Kevin, feeling that he was making things worse, silently turned his head and looked at Li Shubai, who had just casually asked "You haven't finished chatting yet?" and started eating melons after arriving here. The meaning in his eyes was self-evident.

Hey, explain yourself, this guy doesn't listen.

Li Shubai, who was also covered in bags like Kevin, coughed and snorted: "Mr. Yue... please calm down first."

"Hmm?" Siegfried frowned, and then turned his gaze to the strange boy. He looked Li Shubai up and down, and said in a low voice: "Are you also a cadre of the World Serpent?"

Li Shubai was speechless: "...How do I look like a World Serpent cadre?"

"If you're not a World Serpent cadre, why are you following this bastard?" Siegfried said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"That makes sense... that's indeed the case." Li Shubai thought for a moment, threw the bag he was carrying to the ground, and shrugged: "But unfortunately, I'm neither Kevin's subordinate nor a cadre of World Snake."

"..." Siegfried didn't say anything, but just looked at Li Shubai coldly with an expression of "Are you kidding me?"

Looking at Siegfried's expression, Li Shubai knew that Siegfried would most likely not listen to anyone in his current state, so he didn't bother to explain.

Then, without even looking at Siegfried, he waved to Kiana and Yulandel: "Let's go, Kiana, Yulandel, and the two of you."

"Huh?" Siegfried was startled.

Although his purpose was indeed to let Kevin release Kiana and Yulandel from this holy scar space, after hearing Li Shubai's indifferent greeting, Siegfried immediately developed a feeling similar to disdain.

Who are you, kid? How could Kiana, Yulandel, and another me and his daughter all obey you when you call them?

However, such confidence was instantly shattered after hearing a stern response.

"Yes." Yulandel's voice was as steady and powerful as ever, and she responded concisely.

"Huh?" Siegfried was stunned.

"Okay, okay, I'll come right over." [Stigma Will] Siegfried spread his hands helplessly.

"Huh???" Siegfried was stunned.

"Coming, coming!" Bianca ran over skipping.

"Huh???" Siegfried was stunned.

After watching Yulandel, another self, and little Bianca walk one after another from behind him to Kevin and the boy, Siegfried's neck began to click like a rusty robot. He looked at Kiana, the only one still behind him, with a dull look, and said in a disillusioned voice: "You...you guys."

“Sorry… I’m sorry, old dad!” Kiana didn’t dare to look at Siegfried’s face, but after struggling for a moment and recalling the agreement at the beginning, she finally stuck out her tongue and clasped her hands together in front of Siegfried with an apologetic look on her face: “We will come to see you again in the future! So… I have to go first!”

Siegfried, can't rise again.

Chapter 4: Those who break others’ defenses will eventually be broken (k)

On the ice field, a cold wind filled with desolation blew across the man's gray figure. Siegfried, who was petrified on the spot, only felt his beating heart being chilled by the biting cold wind.

He squatted down, and his fingertips circled on the hard ice, drawing a pink and white circular pattern. His whole body was shrouded in a cloud of despair, and his mouth kept opening and closing as he kept muttering something like "girls can't be kept at home when they grow up", "no one cares about their dads anyway", "you guys keep busy, it's better if you keep busy..." and other confusing and frustrating words that were difficult to understand.

On the ice, Siegfried's back, which had shrunk into a ball as he squatted, looked particularly desolate.

Fortunately, although he called Youlandel and the other four to his side, Li Shubai did not act so disrespectfully as to turn around and leave on the spot.

He looked at Siegfried's back, which was full of desolation and loneliness, and shook his head with a mixture of amusement and anger. He thought that the Kaslana family seemed to be cast in the same mold. Kevin was like this, Siegfried was like this, and even Kiana and Yulandel had similar tendencies. If the reality that had already happened was not slapped in their faces, they would all be so stubborn that they would not listen to anyone else at all.

Thinking about all these things, Li Shubai turned his head and glanced at Kiana, who was looking at Siegfried with a conflicted look on her face, but felt extremely embarrassed to stand beside him because she had to abide by the agreement with herself. He suddenly felt very angry.

She's obviously a very clever girl, why does she become so rigid at this time?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand, patted Kiana on the back, and pushed her a little towards Siegfried.

Kiana, who was suddenly attacked from the back, staggered forward a step, turned around in confusion, and happened to see Li Shubai's unpleasant expression looking at her in the direction of Siegfried, his lips opening and closing.

We haven't left yet, why don't you go and explain to your dad.

After reading Li Shubai's lip language, Kiana breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he knew that Li Shubai and Kevin had already talked it out, the reason they chose to keep Siegfried here was not because they really wanted to imprison him, but to try to make the next developments continue to develop in the direction of the future that he could foresee.

But to be honest, seeing that Siegfried was the only one left in the deepest part of this holy scar space, even though she had brought him enough supplies for him to live a comfortable life, Kiana still felt a little unnatural as an accomplice of Li Shubai and the others.

But Kiana didn't really dare to break the agreement between herself and Li Shubai. It's not that she didn't know how to adapt to this extent. After all, in the confrontation with Otto and the World Snake, Kiana had already learned to make some small deceptions to enemies that were clearly incomprehensible without any psychological burden.

But first of all, Li Shubai and Kevin, who had reached a consensus with Li Shubai, were no longer the kind of enemies who were completely incomprehensible and impossible to communicate with.

Secondly, with Kiana's personality, she would not casually put the matter of [letting Li Shubai, who can interfere with time, find the best way to fight against the end] on the table to violate the agreement.

Long before this, when Siegfried's stigmata will helped Siegfried himself to regain his personal consciousness scattered in this stigmata space, Kiana discussed with Li Shubai for a long time in order to ask him not to use Yu Duchen to delete her memory.

As for Kiana's request, Li Shubai gave a positive answer after weighing the pros and cons.

"I can choose not to delete Raiden Mei, nor can I delete your memories of this period of time."

This is what he said to himself at that time.

"But you have to understand that for me who is not from your world, it was not my duty to help you fight against the end from the beginning."

"I will let Kevin continue with his Stigmata Project, not entirely because we need to observe a future that does not deviate too much, but because... even if I do not agree with the Stigmata Project, I have to admit that if no one else in this world, including me, can come up with a way to fight against the End, then the Stigmata Project is a pre-determined plan that must exist in such an extreme situation."

"After all, no matter how much you hate it, Honkai is something that has no room for communication from the beginning."

"And for the humans of your generation, the time left...is running out."

"Kiana, are you really fully prepared to face that fateful moment?"

Every word he said was so insightful that it left Kiana speechless.

To be honest, although Li Shubai has always liked Kiana and the others, and even has a certain degree of respect and affection for Kevin and other thirteen heroes of the former civilization, and therefore sincerely hopes to rewrite the tragedy that happened to these heroes, but... having a good impression does not mean that there is no dissatisfaction.

Even though he had figured out from Kevin's character that the Stigmata Project was not his ultimate goal, and could roughly guess that the people of the Civilization Era had paid something and thus successfully suppressed the Collapse with sacrifices they could barely accept, he had indeed been dissatisfied for a long time with the fact that the two sides did not speak human language to each other.

In his opinion, the conflict between Kevin and the current civilized era was completely avoidable. Kevin had been preaching about the horror and difficulty of fighting the Collapse and the End, but he had never taken the initiative to reveal the truth about the Collapse to the people of the current civilized era. The people of the current civilized era had been fighting against the Stigmata Plan that Kevin was implementing, but at the same time, like Kevin who did not speak human language at all, they had never given a detailed plan on what means and methods they should use to fight against the End.

Of course, Li Shubai, who knew that Kevin had probably not wanted to live for a long time, could understand Kevin's stubborn behavior. Kevin had never thought about how long he could live. If he knew that his death could allow this generation of humans to survive the Collapse safely, he would probably wake up with a smile in his dreams, and then lie in the grave with an extremely satisfied attitude.

On the other hand, Li Shubai could also clearly realize that it was unreasonable to ask the Valkyries and Herrschers of the present civilization era, who had already tried their best, to come up with a detailed plan to fight against the End in just a year or so.

But as he said, collapse is never something that can be reasoned with. It is neither fair nor reasonable. Many worlds have perished because of collapse. Therefore, Li Shubai could not control his rationality and subconsciously demanded the same unreasonable high standards from Kiana and other Valkyries, Herrschers, and himself.

It was also for this reason that even if Kiana, whom he liked very much, made a request to him, he could harden his heart and list the pros and cons of the matter one by one with a cold attitude to Kiana in this world.

He will not deprive Kiana of the right to choose, but at the same time, as the price of the right to choose, Kiana must also bear the corresponding responsibilities.

The time travel that his Hyperion can carry out is, after all, still a kind of power of the Second Herrscher. The prerequisite for using the Second Herrscher to travel through time is to find the existence anchor point corresponding to this world.

Otto once used the power of the Second God's Key and the stigma of the Kaslana family to anchor Kallen Kaslana's existence on the timeline, and after re-injecting his own water of life into her soul that should have died, he successfully rewrote Kallen's inevitable fate.

However, in this process, what Otto changed was the future of Kallen, not the past of this world.

What he saved was indeed Kallen of the past, but in this world, no matter what he did, the fact that Kallen was already dead could not be changed.

And for Li Shubai, this is also the reason why he will always try to prevent the future from deviating too much.

If the future of this world deviates too much, then a completely new possibility will be born in the world. At that time, whether his Hyperion can still observe and anchor this new possibility, whether he can further interfere with this possibility...all these things will become completely unknown numbers.

Of course, if Li Shubai had a crueler heart, he could simply ignore this world, and also ignore the memories of the heroes who completely disappeared from this world after experiencing the time of the Herrscher of Erosion.

For his world in 2014, there was still plenty of time. He still had plenty of time to use the people in these worlds to conduct experiments against the collapse and the end. Even if he really couldn't find a way to fight the end in these three years, he could just drive the Hyperion and abandon that world to save himself. Even Li Shubai had speculated whether he had done similar things more than once before he lost his memory.