K424 of the Collapse World

"Descendants of the Kaslana family...right?"

"Shut up! You shameless fellow, you are not worthy to mention the name of our family... Kiana Kaslana! You, like your father, are traitors who have betrayed the Kaslana Creed. At this point, you still have the nerve to reply... Ugh!"

Before the girl could finish her words, Shilis could no longer bear it and grabbed her throat and lifted it slightly, blocking her insult and forcing her to open her eyes and look up.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not Kiana. Although I have some Kaslana blood, I have basically nothing to do with the Kaslana family. But even so, it doesn't mean I can accept you slandering them like this!"

With a gloomy expression, Shilis looked directly into the slightly fluctuating pupils of the white-haired girl. Looking at her fearful but unyielding eyes, she sighed and slowly loosened her hand.

"You don't understand anything... Kaslana's honor? As far as I know, Kaslana's meaning is protection. Even if Siegfried betrayed the destiny, he at least protected his family. What are you protecting? The honor of the family? Humph, a fool who regards honor as a meaningless thing above all else... Very good! Why do you think they rebelled against the destiny? How much do you know about the destiny organization? Tsk... At this juncture, I don't want to use those truths to incite Otto's Valkyries. But you, as a member of the anti-Honkai organization, such undisciplined behavior will surely be punished appropriately... Now, disappear."

Watching the Valkyries taking the attacker away, Shilis stood there for a long time without moving. Yulandel saw this and frowned slightly.

"Um, Miss Hillis..."

"It's okay, don't worry. I just...

I just have some feelings. For a normal person, shouldn't the most important thing to him be something that really exists? In this era, there are still people who care so much about family honor... Are the Valkyries in your Tianming headquarters all the products of this kind of brainwashing education... "

"..."

"Sorry, I was a little abrupt. Forget what I just said. By the way, where are we going next?"

"The battleship's built-in helipad. Please follow me, Miss Hillis."

Still maintaining her previous serious look, Yulandel led the silver-haired girl towards the hangar. Recalling what Otto had asked her to ask before leaving, she hesitated for a moment before asking the girl behind her.

"Miss Hillis, when do you plan to complete the task assigned to you by the Bishop?"

"It's not a mission, it's just a request from that guy. It's completely my freedom to do it whenever I want."

"Um... Then, when do you plan to..."

"Of course I have to wait until I've dealt with the really important things before I deal with these little things...Okay, I know you're asking on behalf of that guy. Given that old guy's impatience, he might be eavesdropping on our conversation even now. In short, before I convince our anti-entropy leader and find the ruins of Haiyuan City, I don't plan to accompany him to do those boring experiments..."

Shirley said lightly, and as she suddenly thought of something, her expression became playful again.

"Besides, I guess that guy has been busy lately... The current gene samples that Hill and I have should be enough for him to study for a while. In short, you don't have to worry about that guy having any opinions about your work, Miss Yulandel. In the future, when studying the Quantum Sea, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you and Miss Rita a lot~"

"It would be my pleasure, Miss Hillis."

Yulandel bowed to Shilis like Rita did, and she was a little curious. What happened to the girl who was just a test subject of the Serenity Gem Fusion a year ago that allowed her to cooperate with Otto on an equal footing? And what was the reason that allowed her to let go of her previous hatred and work together with her former perpetrator?

All these things are unknown, but there is no doubt that this girl who is an anti-entropy executor has officially formed an alliance with the Destiny Organization, and the pattern of the world's collapse against the organization will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes...

"Could it be that... the threat posed by Honkai has exceeded the scope that Destiny and Anti-Entropy can face alone?"

"Your bishop will tell you about these things when the time is right. Miss Yulandel, I hope to fight alongside you next time we meet..."

(Even if I become your enemy, I can still see the power of the strongest S-class Valkyrie...)

After adding this sentence in her mind, Shiris slowly walked into the hangar of the Glorious Covenant, boarded a very expensive-looking aircraft, and asked Yulandel to contact the person in charge to unlock the driving system.

"As a partner of Tianming, I will requisition this thing first~"

"this......"

"Why? The Bishop wouldn't be so stingy as to not even give me a flying machine, right?"

As she smiled, Shiris adjusted the aircraft to automatic flight mode in advance, looked at the helpless blonde girl standing below, and waved at her.

"If everything goes well... Destiny and Anti-Entropy will probably no longer fight each other. In any case, since we have a common enemy, there is no reason for us to continue to be hostile. Goodbye, Miss Yulandel."

371 events

Far Eastern Branch, St. Freya Academy...

"Kiana, hurry up! The next class is Teacher Claire's physical education class. If you are late again, she will really punish you by making you stand upside down and eat dirt!"

"Eh~~? How could she do that? Humph, my aunt is the principal, I might as well just skip it..."

"Hey! You idiot! Hurry up and get up......!"

......

In this Valkyrie training center in the Far East, everything is still the same as before. Under the deliberate design of the school principal Theresa, this combat training school, which was supposed to be managed in a military manner, is becoming more and more like an ordinary girls' high school.

The Valkyrie students who were still studying walked leisurely from the dormitory to the teaching building as usual. They were wearing training uniforms and chatting leisurely. They were basically indistinguishable from ordinary female students.

Unlike the elite students who have become B-level and A-level Valkyries, most of the ordinary students are naturally not qualified to participate in the Chiyou annihilation battle a few weeks ago. For them, that epic battle is just an independent record of "annihilating a Judgment-level Honkai Beast" in the Far East Branch's public archives. These lower-level Valkyries will never know what happened in that battle.

Of course, they couldn't possibly know that the two

A red twin-tailed girl and a blue-haired girl sitting side by side on a swing like ordinary girls, apart from being St. Freya's physics teacher, what other identities could they have...

"I'm so angry...! Aiyin, do you know? Shirley didn't answer my call yesterday! I called her during her break, but she didn't answer... What do you think happened?"

Tesla spoke very quickly, and although she was expressing her concerns, the displeasure in her expression was obviously greater than her worry.

"So... the important matter you mentioned before that needed to be discussed with me? Is this it? You called me here from the ME company just to vent your emotions? I remember you would call her to harass her every day, right? Shiris complained to me about this last time..."

"What do you mean by harassing phone calls? I'm just showing my concern for my friend, okay? Aiyin, don't you find it strange? I haven't seen her in person for so many days since the battle that day. Although she is indeed with the leader, she never gives a direct answer when asked what she is doing... She must be hiding something big from us..."

Hearing this, Einstein sighed, looked at the young students who passed by her and occasionally greeted her, grabbed the swing rope, and stood up with some difficulty.

"Hiss... My waist hurts a bit. It seems that I am really old... What you said just now, isn't that already a consensus among everyone? Hasn't she said until now what she did during her time on the Skyflight flagship? Since she went directly to Mr. Walter after that, it proves that she at least did not betray Anti-Entropy. On the other hand, it is enough to show that she hid certain things from us with the consent of the Alliance Leader."

After repeating the conclusion of his analysis to Tesla again, Einstein stretched himself, looked up at the fork in the road not far ahead, and began to think about which way to go to leave Saint Freya as soon as possible.

"Tsk...! Joachim used to call me sister Tesla when they were little, but now he's become arrogant... The same goes for Shiris! She was so cute when she was little, but now she's teaming up with that kid to fool us elders..."

"Didn't we all decide from the beginning to let Mr. Walter take over as the leader?"

"I don't doubt his ability! I'm just worried that those two guys are planning to do something dangerous without telling us, just like they did more than a decade ago... Then again, the agent we captured earlier also disappeared inexplicably, and we didn't have time to interrogate him. Things have been really bad lately..."

Tesla bit his nails and jumped off the swing. Before Einstein could take action, he stepped in front of her.

"Don't leave in such a hurry! Aiyin, are you willing to live like this? Have you forgotten that you are being kept in the dark by them without knowing anything? Those two are 'saints' who don't take their lives seriously. Are you really willing to let them mix together and secretly plan something?"

"So what do you want to do, Dr. Tesla? Although the leader didn't leak any information, he gave a clear order. 'Complete the Moonlight Throne as soon as possible.' I remember you were there when he gave the order. Besides, they also said that they would tell us everything after the Moonlight Throne was completely completed."

"I don't care. I just can't understand it... Guys like Cocolia are fine, but is there anything we can't know? When we founded Anti-Entropy, we didn't hide things from each other like we do now!"

"...So, what do you want to do?"

Helplessly, Einstein turned around and asked Tesla with empty eyes. Out of trust in Walter, she was not worried that the two would do something uncontrollable. But Tesla was different. Although she trusted Walter Yang exactly the same as Tesla, she had something more difficult to give up...

"I'm sure I'm not the only one who's curious about this... Since they don't plan to tell us directly, let's look for the answer from other places! Kiana locks herself in her room all day and comes and goes without a trace, so we probably can't get anything from her. But... the principal of St. Freya should also be interested in the secrets here, right? So, with her intelligence network, we just need to..."

——Ding ding!

Suddenly, a ringing sound came from Tesla's terminal designed to look like a mobile phone. From the unique prompt tone, she was sure that this was not a call from Ji Zi urging her to substitute for a class, but a communication request from an unknown identity...

Tesla's expression became serious when he saw this. This kind of precise and targeted communication request was not a trivial matter like a wrong number. It was definitely not a coincidence that the communication could be directly connected to her terminal.

"Sorry, Aiyin...I may have to leave you for a while."

"Oh? I just said to the leader

"You are dissatisfied with the concealment. Are you going to accept secret communications now? I have to go back first. Hmm... A completely unfamiliar source of communication. Have you found a new love? Dr. Tesla."

"Stop making fun of my rumors! I don't know where this communication came from... Never mind! I haven't done anything wrong anyway, so I can just connect it in front of you, right? I want to see... who found me!"

As Tesla agreed to the communication, the light screen popped up. Before the image was loaded, a familiar voice of Tesla came out from the communication...

"Well, I remember... you're Dr. Tesla, right?"

"This voice...who are you?"

Although Tesla could not identify the other party based on the voice alone, as the light screen finished loading and the image was clearly displayed in front of them, Tesla and Einstein were both stunned.

"You are......?"

"It's you?! This is surprising. After such a long time, I almost forgot that I left my terminal address to you..."

"It's an honor. It's been more than ten years, and Dr. Tesla still remembers me."

"Don't forget that we met again a few years ago. Your terminal location is... Singapore? Ultra-long-distance and precise communication across continents must have taken a lot of effort. I guess you didn't connect to me just to chat. Tell me, what do you want from us?"

Although his appearance had changed a lot, both Tesla and Einstein could recognize the identity of the white-haired man at a glance.

"It's been a long time, Siegfried Kaslana. Before that, would you like to meet your daughters?"

When the white-haired man in the video heard Einstein's emphasis on "daughters", he was stunned for a moment, hesitated a little, then shook his head with a wry smile.

"This... forget it now, let's talk about it later. Doctors, I recently got some information that should be of some use to you. I don't have much time here, so let's get to the point quickly..."

St. Freya's Fifth Dormitory Area

In the empty dormitory, Kiana (k423) lay silently on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Although she skipped class under the pretext of taking a longer nap, Kiana actually had no desire to sleep at all. After Mei left the dormitory, she just lay on the bed with her eyes wide open, thinking about something she had accidentally learned some time ago...

“Your name is not Kiana, poor imposter… Your true identity is just a mixture of the genes of the real Kiana and the Second Herrscher, and you are an experimental subject numbered k423 from the Sirin Project!”

She heard these words from a member of the Anti-Entropy named Xing Maer. The words of that crazy-looking girl were not very credible. But for some reason, these absurd words were deeply rooted in her mind. Even though several weeks had passed since the incident, she still couldn't forget them. Whether she was in class, during combat training, or even when she was accompanying Mei for a physical examination, those words that seemed to have magical power kept hovering in her mind, like a nightmare that she couldn't get rid of at all...

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Thinking of this, the girl's palms began to slowly exert force, and she clenched them into fists while trembling.

"According to that guy, Diana is the real Kiana? That Shirley and I are clones created based on her genes? What a joke... But Diana and Shirley look exactly like me! If what Xing Maer said is true..."

So, when was I cloned? Was it right after I was born, or after I acquired my memories at the age of nine? Or... just recently?

"I'm a clone... If that's the case, then my memories of Dad and Mei are all fake?! What's going on here...!"

Kiana's breathing suddenly became rapid, and her slightly dilated pupils showed something bad about to show. But the next moment, as the girl let out a long breath, her emotions gradually stabilized.

However, those blue eyes had lost their former liveliness, leaving only an intense desire for knowledge and tears on the verge of collapse.

"We must... figure everything out! Yes! We must find the so-called real thing and ask her what is going on!"

At this moment, in the Anti-Entropy headquarters far away in North America, among the Arks that were originally the gathering place for the Executors, at this moment, those suspended platforms and blocks are filled with strange mechanical equipment, occupying nearly half of the space.

among them

Many staff members in white coats were sitting in front of these devices and operating them. These researchers were obviously not the executors of anti-entropy. It was not that the outsiders had absolutely no right to enter here. As long as the person who made the rule agreed, the saying that "only executors can enter the Ark" would naturally be meaningless.

On the central platform, a silver-haired girl in a lab coat stood in the huge lab cabin. The tight, thin lab coat highlighted her immature figure. But at this moment, neither she nor the others around her cared about it.

The researchers were fascinated by the instrument data in front of them, while the girl just silently placed her palm on an extraction device, with a bright golden light flickering at her fingertips.

"Hmm... In this way, the collection of energy data is completed, Mr. Walter."

After an unknown amount of time, the girl suddenly turned around and asked. When she saw the man with glasses nod, she stopped releasing the power of the Herrscher and pulled her hand out of the instrument in front of her.

"Thank you for your hard work, Miss Shilis. With this data on the Herrscher's energy, I'm afraid there will be unexpected surprises when the Moonlight Throne is finally completed..."

Walter wiped the sweat from his head, signaled the researchers around him to import the analyzed energy information into the reference data of the Moonlight Throne, and then turned to the silver-haired girl who slowly walked out of the experimental cabin.

"To be honest, we originally planned to study the eleventh God's Key in Minister Theresa's hands and collect data from it. But we never had the chance. Now, I didn't expect that you could actually obtain the internal power through the God's Key, allowing us to obtain the data on the restrained energy before completing the ultimate weapon. Thank you, Miss Shiris."

"You're welcome. Anyway, this is the end, right? Sigh, almost an hour has passed without me noticing. If Ain and Fulei were also involved, this process would probably be much simpler..."

Looking at the busy researchers on the platform on the other side, Shiris yawned slightly and began to take off her tight-fitting laboratory suit.

Even though it was voluntary, Shirley still felt resistance from the bottom of her heart towards these props related to human experiments.

The operating suit had not yet been completely taken off, and the black and gold dress formed by the condensed light instantly covered the girl's skin that should have been exposed.

Using Honkai energy to construct clothes again, Shiris threw the experimental operating suit into the experimental cabin and turned to Walter again.

"When are you going to tell them the truth?"

"At least, after the Moonlight Throne is completed... Now, they shouldn't be disturbed by these things that are too far away, and I don't want them to be under too much pressure."

Walter said lightly, glancing at the silver-haired girl beside him.

"What about you, Miss Shilis? As far as I know, since the last Chiyou crusade, you haven't met with your friends for such a long time except for long-distance communication, right?"

"......Eh?"

"The data needed for the Moonlight Throne has been collected. Don't you plan to go see your sister? And, Dr. Tesla, it seems that he also wants to see you. Now that the business is over, why not..."

"I'm sorry...I can't go back just yet."

Before Walter finished speaking, Hillis shook her head, and her eyes, which had slightly lit up when she heard Walter's words, dimmed again, revealing a hint of reluctance.

"In my eyes, they are like my family... Although a short period of comfort may not necessarily lead to depravity, unfortunately, I am not a person with strong beliefs. If I were to meet them now, I would definitely lose my current unstoppable motivation, become cautious amidst numerous concerns, and become even more timid..."

The girl whispered, biting her lip and lowering her head.

“That won’t do… I, who have mastered the power of restraint, am undoubtedly the biggest threat to the Honkai. In other words, I am the strongest individual in this world against the Honkai. If even I lose the courage to fight, who will fight against the powerful Herrscher?”

"You're forcing yourself..."

"I don't deny it, but I have to do this now. I'm afraid that I will be immersed in beautiful things and unable to extricate myself. Whether it's Kiana or Tesla, I don't want to see their lives continue to be toyed with by the cycle of collapse! Even if I don't meet them, as long as it is for this purpose, I can continue to work hard with this belief."