The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"Don't be reckless, Kiana!!"

He still remembered the heart-wrenching pain he felt when he witnessed that scene, as if a broken blade was cutting his body. Every time he recalled that scene and that cry, he wanted to cry. However, the tears that had long since dried up did not allow him to cry.

But now, tears began to fall uncontrollably from the corners of this man's eyes, which should have dried up long ago.

Only, this time, the tears that fell uncontrollably were tears of happiness.

Bronya silently looked at Siegfried's strange appearance of laughing and crying, without saying a word, but waiting quietly.

After Siegfried calmed down a little, he wiped the tears from his face and smiled brightly but awkwardly again: "Sorry, I lost my composure a little."

"...It's okay." Bronya shook her head gently. "It's just that, Mr. Siegfried, I hope you can understand that Bronya can't tell you her current identity and whereabouts. It's not because Bronya doesn't want to tell you, but because..."

She paused for a moment, looking seriously into Siegfried's eyes, but her tone suddenly revealed a hint of dissatisfaction: "For a reason that you know yourself, these two facts are complicated and hurtful secrets. Even if Bronya tells you everything here, simply knowing the truth will not bring true redemption to you or your biological daughter."

"What do you mean..." Siegfried had just said four words when he suddenly stopped talking as if he noticed something.

Then, cold sweat began to appear on his forehead again.

Because he was somewhat overwhelmed by the sudden explosive fact and was so relaxed that his brain even lost consciousness for a moment, it was not until this moment that Siegfried finally realized something.

If... if, from the very beginning, his biological daughter had not lost her life, but was living peacefully in some other corner of the world just as Bronya said.

Then, my act of giving the name Kiana Kaslana to another daughter...

After realizing this, Siegfried finally understood why Bronya's tone was a little dissatisfied. Not to mention Bronya, even he wanted to slap himself in the face. If possible, he would go back to the past and shoot the self who didn't even bother to think of a new name a few years ago with the Holy Fire Judgement.

——What kind of crap is this?

"...Alas." Looking at Siegfried's complex expression of astonishment, regret and the desire to die, Bronya pressed her forehead weakly and sighed, "In short, although they are kind-hearted and don't care much about Mr. Siegfried's actions, and the relationship between the two sisters on our ship is quite harmonious, but... this matter really needs to wait until the best time, and it is better for her to come and explain it to you face to face. Bronya thinks so."

"...Huh." Siegfried put away his expression and sighed resignedly, "I'm sorry, it's obviously my family matter, but I still made you worry so much... Indeed, if telling me all the facts here will hurt the child, there is no problem with your choice."

Siegfried, who cared more about his biological daughter than not being able to see her in person, agreed to Bronya's decision without much hesitation. When it came to wanting to protect Siegfried's biological daughter, both Bronya and Siegfried were on the same page.

Just knowing that she is living a good life now is enough for Siegfried now.

It's just the loneliness of not being able to see each other. Siegfried has overcome so many years of despair, and it's not that he can't continue to endure.

At this time, a low roar was heard in the cloudless sky. Bronya, Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma raised their heads at the same time, staring at the huge airship that was slowly descending in altitude.

"That's enough of the small talk. Next, I should go back to the captain." Bronya raised her arm and revealed her wing-shaped weapon. "Mr. Siegfried, I think the day when you and your biological daughter will meet will not be far away."

"Heh..." Siegfried smiled, "Then I'll borrow your good words."

Bronya did not say goodbye. The general-purpose firepower floating unit named Heavy-Armored Bunny 0019 had a faint blue light on its tail.

The next moment, Bronya's body broke through the shackles of gravity and flew quickly towards the huge floating battleship.

After seeing Theresa and Himeko, the only two people who could sense her, jump off the ship to greet Li Shubai, Kiana and Raiden Mei, Bronya no longer hesitated and quickly entered the airship like a ghost.

With her knowledge of the Hyperion and the remote hacking module of the reinstalled Bunny 0019, Bronya bypassed all the guards and took control of the surveillance video in an instant. Soon, she followed the route she had planned and entered the hangar of the Hyperion.

She squatted down against the cold wall and gently closed her eyes.

For the Valkyries of the Hyperion, the technology of mind mapping was not unfamiliar, but it was the first time they put it into practical use. Therefore, they could only rely on themselves and slowly explore the characteristics of this dangerous technology in the process of practice.

Judging from Kiana's behavior, after the consciousness mapping is lifted, the memories and knowledge about the Herrscher of the Fire will also disappear. Similarly, for this "Bronya" whose consciousness was mapped by her, the power, appearance, and even the experience she gained during this period will all become a dream bubble the moment the consciousness mapping is lifted.

Although Bronya cannot keep her strength and abilities forever, if she wants to change what this body already possesses...it is not impossible.

After the Herrscher of Fire and Flame revealed his full power, the other consciousness that was originally hidden in Kiana's body, the Herrscher of Void, chose to sink himself to the deepest part on his own initiative, so much so that he was unmoved when he saw Siegfried reappear in front of him. This is irrefutable evidence.

In fact, when mapping this body, Bronya had already made some modifications to the biochip buried in Cocolia's brain. She removed the remote control system of the biochip, changed the communication system to a one-way selection channel initiated by her, and retained the original full-fire annihilation armed activation module.

In this way, even if Bronya of this era enters the "Alien Black Core Corrosion", an armored form developed by Cocolia that combines a large number of high-powered, large-scale annihilation weapons, she will not fall into Cocolia's control.

As for memory and knowledge... Bronya opened her eyes, and the faint light in her hand slowly condensed.

Although he lost his Herrscher core, he also lost most of his powers.

But...if she just needed to materialize a few pieces of paper, it wouldn't be an impossible task for Bronya, even if she had to rely on her muscle memory.

After placing several pieces of paper constructed with incomplete power beside herself, Bronya suddenly frowned and shifted her gaze in a certain direction.

"This scale of Honkai energy..." She muttered to herself, "No way? Is it Yulandel? Why is she here? And judging from the trajectory of her actions... the destination... seems to be Hyperion as well?"

Chapter 31 A silly goose fell from the sky

Hyperion, in the conference room.

Theresa frowned and stared intently at the large cloud of dust flying in front of her.

On her right hand was a golden cross that was taller than her. The gorgeous golden cross split forward and backward with the base as the base, revealing dozens of sharp golden spears arranged in a fan shape in the center. Behind her followed Li Shubai, Kiana and Raiden Mei, all with nervous faces. On her right stood Mujira Himeko, who also had a solemn face.

About three hours ago, Theresa, the supreme commander of the Far East Branch of Destiny, the great president of St. Freya Academy, the cutest and most silly person in the world, Apokalis, who had nothing on her except the Oath of Judas, flew alone from the command room of the Far East Branch across hundreds of kilometers at the fastest speed to the outbreak site of the third Great Collapse: Changkong City, and reunited with the Hyperion, which she thought had died gloriously in the Great Collapse two hours ago.

"The headquarters sent us a message, asking us to pass on some information to you when we meet up with you." Just a few seconds after meeting up with the Hyperion, Jizi came up and brought Theresa, who had a confused look on her face, into the communications room of the Hyperion.

Then, the communications room of the Hyperion exploded. Not in the literal sense, but the loud and high-pitched hissing sound made by Theresa at that moment almost took away all the electronic equipment in the communications room.

According to incomplete statistics afterwards, no one could make out the specific meaning of the syllables that erupted in the communications room at that time, and no one was willing to listen again to the indescribable voice recorded by the monitoring equipment in the communications room.

After about an hour of searching the entire city, the Hyperion's probe successfully captured a series of explosions in a neighborhood on the edge of Changkong City near the suburbs.

Although the Hyperion arrived at the site of the battle at full speed, when the floating battleship arrived at the battlefield, Theresa and Jizi found that the battle was over. The ground was full of Titan mecha debris, smoke rose, and flames burned everywhere. In the center of the battlefield, which looked quite miserable, three young men standing there raised their heads and cast their eyes over from a distance.

Of course, Theresa also spotted the white-haired ball with red and swollen eyes among the three people.

As soon as the landing platform was lowered, Theresa rushed out in a hurry in the direction of Kiana. In the eyes of Kiana who was a little confused, and Mei Raiden and Li Shubai who were watching the show, she quickly glanced at the surrounding battlefield, and asked Kiana about her well-being. From "How have you been recently" and "Why are your eyes so red", she concluded that "Have you been bullied?" Then she quickly turned to "These broken things are Titan mechas of Anti-Entropy, right?! Did the bad guys of Anti-Entropy bully you!" Finally, it became "Those bastards of Anti-Entropy, don't be sad, my dear niece, your aunt will help you to get rid of all those guys who bullied you!" and so on.

Kiana looked increasingly embarrassed. She probably couldn't stand the awkward look from Mei Raiden behind her. She broke free from Theresa's hand and stretched out her arm weakly, pressing on Theresa's shoulder to keep the two of them at an arm's length away from each other. "Um... period? Anyway, calm down first."

"Calm down? Oh, right! We should settle you down first, the two of you..." Theresa stretched her neck and turned her head, bypassing Kiana's body. She glanced at the embarrassed Mei Raiden and Li Shubai who was trying not to laugh. Her face flushed slightly, and then she coughed and snorted: "You guys come with me, Jizi, ask the medical team to prepare three beds and help them check their bodies first."

Fortunately, Theresa, who was in chaos, at least did not lose her basic common sense, otherwise Ji Zi would have had the urge to turn around and leave at this time.

Jizi and Theresa led the three to the medical room and performed a detailed and accurate full-body scan on them. After confirming that Kiana, Raiden Mei and Li Shubai were not eroded by the Honkai and did not have any serious injuries, Theresa prepared three new sets of clothes for the three according to the body data just scanned by the medical room.

Although they were not eroded by the collapse and did not suffer any serious injuries, after half a day's trek and several rounds of tug-of-war with tactical mechas, the clothes they were wearing were damaged to varying degrees, and their bodies were covered with dust, making them look rather disheveled.

Theresa handed the new clothes to the three people and asked them to take good care of themselves. Then, the three people who changed into new clothes returned to Hyperion's meeting room as Theresa instructed and met Theresa and Himeko.

The five people had just met in the conference room when the red warning lights suddenly flashed wildly. Along with a piercing buzzer, the broadcasting equipment transmitted the anxious-sounding alarm of the observation team's communicator: "The unknown heat source reaction is approaching rapidly from above at a speed of 1,210 kilometers per hour. The estimated arrival time..."

Bang! Before the communicator could finish the second half of his sentence, there was a loud bang, and the ceiling of the conference room instantly shattered into pieces. The shock wave shattered the huge tabletop in the conference room and raised a cloud of dust that obscured the view.

It seemed as if something was falling from directly above.

"What!!" Was it a sudden attack by the Honkai Beast? In an instant, Theresa's eyes froze after making this judgment. She flashed in front of everyone at lightning speed, stretched out her hand, and the huge golden cross loyally waited for the master's order. It flew in from the door of the conference room that had not yet been closed, and finally came to Theresa's right hand side. With a sound of metal collision similar to mechanical sound, she instantly deployed all her weapons.

Li Shubai, Raiden Mei and Kiana, who had just changed into new clothes and were stained by a large amount of dust, looked at each other with nervousness. Ji Zi, who was one step behind Theresa, had a serious look in her eyes. Obviously, she made the same judgment as Theresa.

But when the dust settled, revealing the thing that had smashed through the hull of the Hyperion and into the conference room, everyone present was stunned and looked at each other in confusion.

A pair of long legs wearing knee-length black stockings and blue and white leg armor were seen sticking out from the broken floor, with the long azure skirt scattered all over the ground.

It was obvious that it was a person.

Moreover... judging from the style and texture of the blue and white leg armor... Theresa and Himeko could even recognize that it was a certain Valkyrie of destiny.

Whose Valkyrie is so stupid? How could she fall straight down in such an upside-down position while flying at high altitude? Theresa and Himeko's mouths twitched, not knowing what words to use to express their inner speechlessness. But when the Valkyrie, who had smashed through the ceiling from the outside and finally sank into the floor, struggled to pull herself out of the hole with a "pop", seeing the beautiful and smooth golden hair and the slightly embarrassed face covered with dust, Theresa and Himeko were stunned.

"Yulan Daier???"

Chapter 32: Youlan Daier is framed

What does it feel like to free fall from an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters?

If there is a competition in this world called: comparing the height of free falls, then Yulandel, who has experienced two free falls from an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters in a career of less than 20 years, will definitely take the lead and far exceed the second place by several times.

But Youlandel was not proud of this at all. She just felt extremely depressed, helpless, and confused.

In fact, until now, Yulandel "Gengen Rider" didn't quite understand what was going on. She was still staying well on the Hyperion the last second, and because she was removed from the list of consciousness mapping by Stargazing, she didn't know what to do next, so she silently stayed beside Aponia and Fu Hua "Hersher of Knowledge" who were performing consciousness mapping operations; and Bronya "Secondary Silver Wing" who was connecting her consciousness to another self in a parallel world.

As a result, for some unknown reason, the consciousness of the secondary silver wing had just returned to her own body. Regardless of the dizziness and discomfort that had just been lifted from the consciousness mapping, she immediately stood up quickly, and without saying a word, she locked her eyes on herself who was about to step forward to ask about her physical condition, and pushed her into the diving cabin where the consciousness mapping was.

"Don't ask me why. Time is running out." Secondary Silver Wing didn't even look at Tianyuan Qiying, who was pushed into the diving cabin by her with a confused look on his face. He quickly ordered Aponia and Herrscher of Knowledge, "Hurry up and send her over. It will be too late if we are late."

Seeing that Secondary Silver Wing even ignored the uncomfortable feeling in her own consciousness and wanted Tengen Qiying to immediately carry out the next consciousness mapping, Aponia and the Herrscher of Consciousness did not ask why. After switching the leader, they immediately carried out the third consciousness mapping of Tengen Qiying, following Secondary Silver Wing.

...As a result, due to the sudden intervention of consciousness mapping, Yulandel, who was originally flying well in the sky using the gamma particle flight module of the Bright Knight Yuepo and was about to reach her destination, lost control of the God-killing Armor in an instant and closed her eyes.

Floating + losing power = falling. Even the most powerful Valkyrie in Destiny, even if she has condensed Destiny's most advanced God-killing armor at this stage, cannot escape this theorem.

Then, without any suspense, Yulandel fell straight down from mid-air.

By the time the consciousness mapping was completed, Yulandel could already see the white hull of the Hyperion right in front of her.

At this distance, even Yulandel would find it difficult to evade, so she could only watch herself fall headfirst into the shell and finally stop in a room with a relatively solid floor and table.

Fortunately, with her current physical condition and the god-killing armor she was wearing named the Shining Knight Yuepo, even if she experienced a free fall from a height of tens of thousands of meters again like when she was a child, it would not cause any harm to her body.

She supported herself on the ground beside her with her arms, and then exerted force to get her slightly disheveled upper body out of the irregular hole. Then, with a dazed look in her eyes, she shook her head, which was a little dizzy from the wind, turned her neck, and looked around.

"Yulandel??"

Then, she heard someone calling her name and instinctively turned her eyes towards the direction of the voice.

The smoke and dust cleared, revealing the surrounding environment and the five familiar people in front of her: the captain, Himeko Muruta, Kiana, Mei Raiden, Theresa, and the Hyperion meeting room. For a moment, Yulandel was even a little dazed. Was this still Hyperion? Did the consciousness mapping fail? But the next second, the memories of the original owner of the body flooded into her mind like a tide. There was basically no difference between her and herself, but there were still some subtle differences in some places. Yulandel came back to her senses all of a sudden.

[Go to Changkong City as quickly as possible and try to recover the experimental subject K423 in Changkong City before Theresa arrives in Changkong City]

Is this... an order from Bishop Otto? Youlandel frowned, looking a little unhappy.

She realized why the Secondary Silver Wing was so anxious and asked her to quickly map her consciousness without any explanation. It must be because she sensed the arrival of her own self in this era, so she speculated that the Yulandel of this era must have received the order of Bishop Otto, and thus asked her to quickly replace the original self who wanted to execute Otto's order.

This decision was undoubtedly correct. If Yulandel was originally slightly dissatisfied with the behavior of the Second Silver Wing, now she no longer thinks so.

Her face turned ugly because she, at this time, chose to obey the orders of Bishop Otto without knowing anything.

——At the order of Bishop Otto, he came to Changkong City to capture his sister.

Even though the order given by Otto was to "try to recover the experimental subject K423 in Changkong City before Theresa arrives in Changkong City", Yulandel could clearly realize that if it were her original self, with her serious and somewhat paranoid personality, even if she was one step behind Theresa in finding Kiana, she would definitely force Kiana back to the Schicksal Headquarters in order to execute the order.

Although Yulandel understood that ignorance is not a crime, when she thought about what she was going to do to her sister while being kept in the dark by Bishop Otto, Yulandel, as an elder sister, felt ashamed.

"......?" Theresa and Himeko looked at each other and saw big question marks in each other's eyes.

Ever since she got herself out, Youlandel's face had been turning pale and blue, and she didn't say a word, leaving Theresa and Jizi confused. They couldn't figure out what this most powerful Valkyrie with a reputation as the destiny was thinking. Finally, Theresa broke the silence: "Ahem."

She coughed twice, calling back Yulandel's consciousness which was in entanglement and thought, then she slapped the Oath of Judah, retracted her weapon, strode to Yulandel with a serious face.

"No, Senior Theresa." Seeing Theresa's pretentious dignity, Youlandel almost blurted out "Aunt". She scratched her blonde hair and looked around the conference room, which had completely changed. She felt a little guilty: "Well, Yuepo's gamma particle drive system suddenly failed and it fell here out of control. I'm sorry for the financial loss. I will compensate you later."

Chapter 33: Yulan Daier was caught

"...Big?" Theresa was confused at first, then she narrowed her eyes, walked forward with a suspicious look on her face, and circled around Yulandel a few times.

“Um…” Youlandel’s scalp was numb because of Theresa’s twisting. Her neck involuntarily followed Theresa’s petite figure and she couldn’t hold it in any longer. She asked, “What’s wrong?”

"Your Moon Soul Armor..." Theresa circled around Youlandel and asked in a strange tone, "It's not broken?"

At this time, Yulandel realized that Theresa was not observing her body when she was circling around her, but was looking at the God-killing armor on her body. Sweat broke out on her forehead, and she began to rack her brains to think about how to explain to Theresa that she would not pursue this question that she had no way to answer. She was really not good at lying, and every time she told a lie, she had to use another lie to cover it up after revealing the flaw... This kind of thing may only be easy for Bishop Otto, but Yulandel...

Fortunately, Theresa didn't seem to intend to delve into the issue any further. She glanced at Yulandel's dusty appearance, then turned back to look at Li Shubai, Raiden Mei and Kiana who were all covered in dust. Finally, she waved her hand weakly and said, "Go get rid of the dirt on your body first. We can discuss other things later."

Youlandel breathed a sigh of relief and followed Li Shubai and the others out of the conference room door timidly. Then about ten minutes later, the four people, who had tidied up their appearance, came to another room.

Theresa, who had been waiting here for a long time, raised her eyes and glanced at the four people, and finally focused her sight on Yulandel, and said lightly: "Tell me, why did you come to Changkong City at this time? If you came here to provide support, the source of the collapse of Changkong City has been successfully dealt with. Apart from the post-disaster handling, there is nothing else to do. It shouldn't be necessary for you, the captain of the Undying Blade team, to go out, right?"

"Bishop Otto asked me to come here." Yulandel was silent for a moment, and finally chose to answer the question truthfully. Theresa would most likely go to the mission system of the Destiny Headquarters in the near future to check the mission she came to Changkong City to perform. Moreover, even if she wanted to lie about this question, it would not make much sense. "Bishop Otto asked me to come to Changkong City and bring Miss Kiana Kaslana back to the Destiny Headquarters."

This answer made Theresa and Kiana frown. Theresa narrowed her eyes slightly, with a dangerous light flashing in her eyes.

Seeing that Theresa was about to explode, Yulandel quickly added: "However, the specific instructions I received were to take Miss Kiana away from Changkong City as much as possible before Senior Theresa found her. Now that Senior Theresa has successfully found Miss Kiana, I will not take Miss Kiana away by force."

"Hmm?" Theresa, who was about to get angry, couldn't help but be startled after hearing what Yulandel said. However, her frown did not relax. "But, if that's the case, how are you going to explain it to Grandpa?"

"Tell the truth." Youlandel did not hide anything from this question, but answered honestly, "If Bishop Otto wants to punish me for this, it is because of my own lack of ability. I have no complaints about it."

"How can that be!" Theresa was reluctant to let Youlandel go because of her honest appearance. In fact, Theresa was a soft-hearted person in most cases. She waved her hand and said, "How can I let you be punished by Grandpa for such an unreasonable thing? Don't worry, I will take care of it with Grandpa. You can come back to Saint Freya with me during this time."

Just after she finished speaking, Theresa realized that Yulandel seemed to have some complaints about the loose teaching style of St. Freya Academy. Based on Yulandel's evaluation of St. Freya, if she invited her to come to St. Freya here, there was a high probability that she would be rejected.

"This..." However, contrary to Theresa's expectations, Yulandel only hesitated for a short time and nodded gently, "Then I'm sorry to bother Senior Theresa."

"It's nothing. Since the next itinerary has been decided, you can move freely on the Hyperion." After finishing the topic with Yulandel, Theresa turned her attention to Li Shubai and the other two, "As for you..."