The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Hmm?" Perhaps she was confused as to why she suddenly stopped going on? After a long silence without feeling the warmth again, Kiana, with a few traces of tears still on her face, turned her head and stared at Li Shubai's face with a look full of doubt and dissatisfaction.

Those soft eyes were filled with pleading, just like a little animal begging for food from its owner.

The corners of Li Shubai's mouth twitched. Although Kiana's soft eyes mixed with expectations made him subconsciously want to respond to the other party's expectations, what had been done was gone, so he could only harden his heart and slightly retract his arms in Kiana's slightly disappointed gaze.

Well, motionless.

...It should be said that he is worthy of being a member of the Kaslana clan. If Li Shubai did not use all his strength, he would not be able to break free from Kiana's soft and powerful palm.

And judging by the gentle yet resolute force, Kiana didn't seem ready to let go of his wrist.

"Okay, it's over!" So, with a somewhat embarrassed look on his face, Li Shubai could only say helplessly, "It's about time to let me go."

Chapter 4: The Captain's Fear of Insufficient Firepower (k)

The moment she heard the words "it's over", a hint of uncontrollable disappointment flashed across Kiana's eyes.

For a long time, Kiana has not been a girl who is good at suppressing her emotions.

For her, if she likes something, she likes it; if she dislikes something, she dislikes it; if she wants something, she will want to get closer to it; if she dislikes something, she will stay away from it.

Therefore, when she was still a student at St. Freya's Academy, in the eyes of many people, including Theresa, Himeko and even Raiden Mei, Kiana could not be called a worry-free child.

She would cling to Raiden Mei without thinking because she was greedy for her body, would confront Bronya because she lost the game and was mercilessly ridiculed, and would sleep soundly in class because she couldn't concentrate on her studies, and then of course, Himeko would wake her up affectionately with a piece of chalk...

Of course, after going through many hardships and becoming the Herrscher of the Fire, Kiana's style and behavior have become much more mature and responsible than before.

Even in extremely boring meetings, she would endure boredom and sleepiness and listen carefully to what Einstein and Tesla said, which seemed to her like the Book of Heaven. At the same time, when she was with Raiden Mei, Kiana's behavior was much more restrained than the past self who blatantly threatened to drink Mei's juice.

This was the first time since Kiana became the Herrscher of the Fire that she truly desired something from someone else. Although she would not show dissatisfaction even if she was rejected given her current personality, she still felt a little uncontrollable loss.

Of course, such little emotion only appeared for a short time before disappearing completely from Kiana's mind.

Because in the next second, she was slightly depressed when she heard Li Shubai's next words -

"It's about time you let me go."

Ok?

Let me go?

Because of these three words, Kiana instinctively shifted her gaze to her hand that was tightly holding Li Shubai and refused to let go, and she even forced him to touch the back of her neck. Suddenly, she shuddered all over and woke up at once.

“Hug, hug, sorry—!!!”

Only then did she realize how rude her behavior was to a man she had only known for less than a week. She hurriedly let go of Li Shubai's hand and kept bowing to apologize: "I-I-I was too excited. I'm really sorry!! (?＞_＜?)"

"Alright, alright." Li Shubai coughed and snorted, pretending to be calm as he withdrew his hand. He muttered in a low voice: "In a sense, this is also a reward for me..."

"Huh? Did you say something just now?" Kiana raised her head cautiously.

"Well, I mean, use that power well." Li Shubai lied calmly and changed the dangerous topic without hesitation: "The power you just felt is something that already exists in your body. I just used some relatively special means to activate it."

"Yes, that's right." Kiana, whose tears had not yet completely disappeared from her face, straightened her back. She raised her arm, wiped her cheek with the back of her hand, and continued with Li Shubai's words with a blush, "Come to think of it, what exactly is that power? You said it was something that originally existed in my body, but why didn't I realize its existence before today? Otherwise, I wouldn't have..."

It’s so embarrassing to cry in front of you guys...

Halfway through her speech, Kiana's voice became barely audible. Although she was no longer the extremely self-conscious person she used to be, after she fully realized that she was crying like a tearful pear blossom under the nose of a boy she was not very familiar with, Kiana was so overwhelmed by shame that she almost dug a hole in the ground and buried herself in it.

"As for the details, let her tell you herself after you use that power." Li Shubai did not tell Kiana all the details. Although he was not the kind of person who liked to be vague, in the current situation, Li Shubai was actually not sure whether this power would be useful to Kiana at some point in the future.

Earlier, when they followed Kevin into Kaslana's stigmata space, Li Shubai had told Kiana and Yulandel that whether it was Siegfried and Bianca who appeared in front of them in Kaslana's stigmata space, or Cecilia who was unable to show up because she was not a member of the Kaslana family, the wills contained in Li Shubai's stigmata space were not real living people.

Therefore, although Cecilia's stigmata will is indeed contained in his stigmata space, without any special circumstances, Li Shubai has no way to let Cecilia meet Kiana, Yulandel and others in the real world.

--Yes.

Limited to the [real world] where [no special circumstances occur].

After Li Shubai and Kevin temporarily left Kaslana's stigmata space and told each other what they were going to do and how far they could go, Li Shubai made Kevin see the possibility and hope of changing the tragedy of the past while defeating the Honkai, and thereby successfully convinced him and also received Kevin's full assistance.

In the process of mutual assistance, in addition to letting Kevin accompany him to complete the experiment related to part of the power of the end, Li Shubai also naturally knew what the Stigmata Project that Kevin would implement in the near future would specifically turn the world into.

Although Kevin had not planned every step of the Stigmata Project in detail, at least in terms of the general direction, no matter what obstacles might be encountered along the way, if the Stigmata Project was successfully completed in the end, then it was certain what the world would eventually become.

Li Shubai actually thought about it for a long time before making up his mind to engrave Cecilia's stigmata will into Kiana's body.

Otto once had the delusion of the immortality of the soul and will, and relying on this delusion, he tried to resurrect Kallen in modern times, but ultimately failed. As a result, he had no choice but to seek a new possibility for Kallen in the past.

However, although Otto's original purpose failed, the idea that [the soul and will are eternal] is not a simple delusion in a sense.

For humans in the real world, the soul is something that must rely on physical media to be preserved. For humans, the destruction of the brain means the demise of both will and soul.

But on the other hand, if they can exist without matter, then the soul and will are truly immortal.

Human death is ultimately only the end in a biological sense, and if the human body can be maintained in a state where it does not lose its activity in a biological sense, then that person will certainly not die.

Compared to [rewriting the physiological mechanism of human beings], the Stigmata Plan is a bit more excessive. To be honest, when Li Shubai heard the full picture of the Stigmata Plan told to him by Kevin, he was actually very confused, because [transforming humans who cannot awaken the Stigmata into Stigmata, and sinking their will into the world as the foundation of eternity], this description almost uncontrollably made Li Shubai think of another thing that should have no connection with this world.

But no matter what, if the Stigmata Project is really implemented to a certain extent, the appearance of [Stigmata Will] Cecilia will also become a possible reality.

With this in mind, Li Shubai, who briefly entered the Stigmata space, expressed his request to Cecilia [Stigmata Will], and Cecilia agreed without any hesitation - it would be better to say that if she knew that she could meet Kiana and Yulandel in the real world, Cecilia would not even need Li Shubai to ask her, and she would most likely come up to Li Shubai and try to ask if he could let her go out to see her daughters.

It is pitiful to see the love of parents in the world. Although there is already a Bianca in the stigmata space, for Cecilia, not being able to witness and accompany the growth of Kiana and Yulandel in person is also an eternal pain for her as a mother.

Therefore, at the moment when Li Shubai engraved Cecilia into Kiana's body, Cecilia, as the will of the stigma, wrapped all her strength around Kiana's body without reservation.

At that moment, the feeling of Kiana's body being surrounded by her mother's arms was not an illusion or a metaphor.

If anyone could see Cecilia, they would probably see a mother hugging her daughter tenderly yet tightly.

"She...?" But for Kiana, all of this was unknown. So, after hearing Li Shubai's vague words and completely wiping away the tears on her face, Kiana could only tilt her face in confusion, with a big question mark floating above her head.

"When you use that power, a person you don't know but have met once will appear in front of you, but..."

Li Shubai sighed and swallowed the second half of the sentence silently.

Although Li Shubai personally engraved Cecilia, the will of the holy mark, into Kiana's body, and Cecilia sincerely hoped to contribute her mother's strength to her daughter, at the same time, neither Li Shubai nor Cecilia hoped that Kiana would ever need to use that power.

Because, when Cecilia appeared in front of Kiana, it also meant that the changes in the world had reached the point where the stigmata that should not have appeared alone in the real world could also appear; and... the power that Kiana possessed was no longer enough to deal with the danger in front of her. Please remember these two things.

After all, even if Cecilia was engraved into Kiana's body, Li Shubai had already told Cecilia his ultimate goal.

In order to fight against that end, and to accurately reach the coordinates of this world in the next time travel, they cannot let the future of this world deviate too much, and they also need to curb the birth of other possibilities as much as possible.

If in the end, they succeeded in saving the world from tragedy, but because of the offset of the world coordinates, the saved world actually became a [new possibility], then even if they succeeded in saving everything, they did not change anything.

If it comes to that point, you'll be completely trapped in a bottomless swamp from which you can't escape.

Therefore, no matter how much they wanted to meet Kiana, Cecilia, who was engraved into Kiana's body, would not be able to appear in front of them unless it was necessary.

For Kiana, the future of this world is a test, but is it not the same for Li Shubai and Cecilia?

Of course, since Li Shubai had already engraved Cecilia's stigmata into Kiana's body just in case, then Li Shubai had to give another thing to Kiana as well.

"for you."

"This is..." After suppressing her inner confusion, Kiana's pupils shrank slightly when she saw what Li Shubai handed to her. "Black Abyss White Flower? No, although they look very similar, I always feel that there are some subtle differences?"

"Don't doubt it, this is the Black Abyss White Flower." Li Shubai said, "However, this Black Abyss White Flower, like the Oath of Judah that controlled you and Yulandel, has undergone my super-limit transformation. If you want to distinguish it from the Black Abyss White Flower in your world, you might as well call it the Spiral of Nirvana."

"...But why did you give it to me?" Kiana shook her head and refused to take the spear handed over by Li Shubai. "You have helped me a lot. I can't just..."

"Just take it if I tell you to! Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Li Shubai glared and stuffed the Black Abyss White Flower in the Super Limit state into Kiana's hand without giving any explanation. "It's just a handful of Black Abyss White Flower. I have more than one. Besides, Kevin didn't say anything about the boss you're going to fight next. Why are you being so pretentious with me?"

After forcing the Black Abyss White Flower into Kiana's hands, Li Shubai thought about it and felt a little worried, so he took out a bunch of weapons including his Judas, Skyfire, Yu Duchen, Ksitigarbha Soul, etc.

"Take these too. Don't tell me that you, the Ruler of the Void who can expand the imaginary space, can't even take these things back!"

"Uh..." Seeing Li Shubai constantly taking out a bunch of weapons that looked invincible, Kiana broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't help muttering in her heart...

This guy... really is a tsundere, right?

Chapter 5 The Valkyries Begin to Block People (k) (End of Volume )

Half a day later, on the coastline of Klosten, in Hyperion.

In her room, after confessing some of the things that could be said to Yulandel, Kiana, who had just been full of ridicule for her sister's emotional drama, suddenly began to secretly criticize her.

How should I put it... At that time before, because of the power that the boy had engraved into her body, she suddenly couldn't control her tears. In order to calm herself down completely, Kiana didn't have the energy to think carefully about what the boy's behavior meant until they disappeared from her sight and she returned to the Hyperion alone after everything was over.

As a result, it was not until now, after having a conversation and confession with Yulandel, and recalling and reviewing everything that had happened before, that Kiana finally realized that something was wrong.

Although it seems a little late to realize this matter after Captain Shu Bai and his crew left this world, but now thinking back on all he did from the time he came to this world to the time he left this world, Kiana always feels...are they too friendly to people like her?

No, rather than being friendly, it was as if he was trying his best to help them.

Of course, if they were just being kind to them, Kiana could understand it. After all, it was just like what she and Yulandel had deduced when they were subdued by the four invaders. Since there was a real Yulandel over there, it was reasonable to conclude that the four invaders should also know the people on the Hyperion and even the Saint Freya Academy. And since they did know the people in their own world unilaterally, it was reasonable for the four invaders from other worlds to be kind to them.

But even so, from Kiana's perspective, the help that Li Shubai and the others gave to the people on their side was a bit too much, right?

Could it be that in their world, the relationship between Mei and him... is actually much closer than he imagined?

Or could it be that the self in that world has also become a crew member of that captain long ago, just like Yulandel in that world?

According to what Yulandel of this world had just confessed to herself, she entered the stigmata space of the Kaslana clan during the process of awakening the stigmata, and in the consciousness field of that stigmata space, she saw what she had experienced in the past when she still retained the name [Kiana Kaslana] and had not lost her memory. Only then was she able to understand her life experience and the truth of that year.

In other words, judging from the experience of the Yulandel she was familiar with, the Yulandel over there was able to understand her own life experience and should have experienced the same thing.

The fact is indeed as Kiana guessed. Although the specific means and methods are unknown, in that world, Yulandel, who is three years earlier than the time they are in, has indeed completed the awakening of the stigma of the Kaslana clan and successfully entered the Tianyuan realm.

So the question is, according to the experience of Yulandel in their world not long ago, when the stigmata awakens, she also has to recover her past memories. The prerequisites for completing these two things at the same time are very harsh.

Otto's action of exiling her into the imaginary space, the Sumeru mustard seeds given to Yulandel by Su, and the Gnius specially prepared by Rita for Yulandel - the three guides and the holy blood she already possessed, under the combined influence of these four indispensable prerequisites, Yulandel had the adventure in that holy scar space.

But how did Yulandel over there do it?

According to common sense, since the two Yulandel are fundamentally the same person, the differences between the two Yulandel should be guessed from the same differences.

Apart from the fact that [the stigmata were awakened three years earlier], the only difference between that world and the Yulandel on their side... should be the stance, right?

At least as far as Kiana knew, before Otto was defeated, the Yulandel in this world and the Hyperion had never had any connection, and her immediate superiors were no one other than the two new and old bishops, Theresa and Otto.

Was it the captain who helped Yulandel complete the early awakening of the stigmata and regain her past memories?

Well, since Yulandel in that world was able to awaken the stigmata of the Kaslana clan three years ago, could I in that world also be able to——

Kiana couldn't help but start to think wildly. After the Herrscher of Domination incident, she had indeed let go of most of the tragedy and misfortune that happened to her, but letting go never means forgetting, and Kiana could not really forgive herself for killing Himeko. It was also because she had always kept the sins she [Sirin] had committed firmly in her heart. When she realized that the self in another world might have had the power to change the tragedy three years ago, Kiana was relieved, but she couldn't help but feel jealous of the help and adventures that the self in that world might have received.

Yes, even though Kiana knew that this was unreasonable and irrational to herself in another world, at this moment, she was indeed a little jealous of her other self... and she was so jealous that she felt sour all over.

Now that I think about it, after catching me, the captain did say something like "Because Kiana is fun to bully."

In other words, before meeting him, the captain had actually bullied other Kiana more than once.

If the captain was always by her side, based on the impression Li Shubai had left on Kiana in the past two days, she was almost certain that her other self and the people of St. Freya's Academy would not experience the same things that they had experienced in this world. In other words... Teacher Jizi would not die because of Kiana in that world, and Kiana in that world would not have enemies of the same level as Yulandel. Mei in that world would not leave Kiana, and even Siegfried in that world would return to her side because Kiana in that world had completely mastered the power of the Herrscher. Kiana in that world...

Ahhhh! Even though I know I shouldn't do this, the more I think about how lucky Kiana is in that world, the angrier I get. What should I do?

If she could change so many tragedies, let alone being bullied by Li Shubai, even if Kiana bundled herself up as a gift and sent her to his room... she would accept it with a smile! Without any hesitation at all!

Under Yulandel's gaze that was mixed with worry and confusion, Kiana suddenly raised her hands, scratched her silver hair angrily, and then showed an expression of unwillingness to admit defeat as if she realized something, and slapped her face with both palms.

"Qiana, you..." Looking at Qiana's strange behavior, Yulandel asked tremblingly, "...are you okay?"

"It's okay! What can happen to me? I'm full of strength!" Kiana released the two hands on her face, revealing her red cheeks.

She stood up from her bedside, took two steps forward, and turned around in front of Yulandel's confused gaze. She bent down and held Yulandel's arms, her face full of seriousness and solemnity: "Now that everything has been said, let's not waste time. Yulandel, are you free next time? If you are free, please help me go to the training room and exercise!"

According to past situations, Yulandel should be pleased and agree to Kiana's proposal without any hesitation. But this situation was so strange that even a crab could sense that something was wrong, so Yulandel did nothing but stared blankly at Kiana's face full of enthusiasm and didn't dare to respond.

"?" Looking at Youlandel's motionless appearance, Kiana tilted her head and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Do you have anything else to deal with next?"

"Things... there's nothing to deal with... If you really want to practice, I'm happy to accompany you, it's just..." Yulandel was a little hesitant and a little worried, "... Kiana, don't you really need to see a psychiatrist?"

"Uh..." Only then did Kiana realize how strange her behavior was, and she quickly loosened her hands that had been pinching Yulandel's arms. She straightened her back again, scratched her head, and smiled awkwardly, "Don't worry, I'm really fine! It's just... I do feel like I need to push myself a little bit."

"Besides..." After a moment of silence, Kiana's eyes revealed a determination to win, "I also don't want to lose, that's all."

Compared to just now, after suddenly realizing something, Kiana no longer felt jealous of herself in another world. Instead, she felt an extremely strong desire to win.

Although it was three years late, the captain did come to his side and helped him to the best of his ability.

In other words, even though the starting points were different, from this moment on, he and Kiana from that world were indeed standing on the same track.

Yes... Although it seems like a fantasy idea, at this moment, Kiana Kaslana [Hersher of the Fire] suddenly had a strong desire.

While she wanted to not lose to herself in that world...she also wanted to lure the captain named Li Shubai... over!

Kidnapped into their world!