K424 of the Collapse World

It's not that I don't acknowledge him as my father, but I acknowledge his identity, but I don't care at all...

This kind of indifference that froze his heart almost made Siegfried breathless. In Siegfried's opinion, even if the girl was furious and yelled at him, it was better than facing the indifference of a stranger like this...

"Sister Shirley objectively told me the truth of a few years ago. I know... Mr. Siegfried, you went to the Tianming laboratory alone to save me, but in the end you only brought out a clone of me. To be honest, I don't hate you, because you did your best for me at that time. But... since then, you have ignored my condition and raised the experimental subject K423 as your daughter, and gave her the name 'Kiana'..."

"this is......"

Kiana sneered and continued without giving Siegfried a chance to explain.

"Do you know? At that time, I was locked up in the laboratory of Tianming, and my memory was repeatedly brainwashed and erased. I was subjected to hellish human experiments every day... I can't remember what happened during that period. Anyway, until I was completely fused and turned into a monster, the so-called "father" didn't come to save me in the end... Mr. Siegfried, can I think that you have completely forgotten me and regarded K423 as your only daughter? You didn't care when I was imprisoned, and when I was rescued by Sister Shirley, you, the father, suddenly appeared. I'm sorry, I can't judge the rationality of your behavior from a father's perspective..."

After saying this, the ripples in Kiana's eyes flashed away, and her blue eyes returned to their initial indifference. Suddenly remembering what another silver-haired girl had said to her at the top of her lungs a few hours ago, Kiana's brows began to furrow tightly, and then looking at Siegfried's complex expression of collapse, her thoughts gradually calmed down, and she sneered in her heart...

(Is this what you are going to give back to my father? k423... Unfortunately, I will not agree with this guy to be my father...)

Kiana had already decided how to face Siegfried from the beginning.

"I'm really sorry... Kiana. I admit it all, everything you said is true, I won't make excuses for the mistakes I made when I was weak, because I can never forgive myself. But... no matter what, please give me a chance to make it up to you... Otherwise, I won't be able to face Shirley, nor will I be able to face my deceased wife, your mother Cecilia..."

After saying this, Siegfried took several deep breaths before looking into the girl's eyes again. However, after hearing what Siegfried said, Kiana showed a strange smile.

"Really? You're willing to do anything? Well... abandon k423 completely, kick out the imposter who took my place, and I'll forgive you, how about that?"

"..."

After hearing the girl's offer, Siegfried froze in his tracks. His expression changed countless times in just a few seconds, and his lips trembled slightly. But Kiana said nothing, just staring at the man silently, waiting for his answer.

"Feel sorry......"

This simple answer seemed to drain all of Siegfried's strength. He raised his head, looked at the expressionless silver-haired girl with a sad but determined look, and took a deep breath.

"I can't do it. I can't abandon her... I rescued that child from the laboratory, so I must be responsible for her to the end... I'm sorry, Kiana, even if it costs me my life, this is the only thing I can't do..."

Hearing this, Kiana fell silent, and soon a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"That can't be helped, Mr. Siegfried.

You can't even fulfill one of my little requests to give birth to a daughter. You don't deserve to be my father!"

"..."

Siegfried lowered his head and remained silent, but the next moment, the girl's soft voice sounded again.

"But I'm very happy... Siegfried Kaslana, you are not the scumbag I imagined..."

Compared to the previous coldness and indifference, the voice was so gentle that Siegfried even thought he was hallucinating for a moment, until he saw the girl's equally gentle eyes, and then he suddenly woke up.

“Why…?”

"Don't get me wrong. I've made it very clear just now that you are not worthy of calling yourself my father, Mr. Siegfried. A pale apology cannot be the reason for me to forgive you, but why is it... a guy like you who abandoned me is surprisingly not annoying..."

Kiana smiled and shook her head, no longer meeting Siegfried's gradually enlightened gaze. She hesitated for a moment, turned around, and looked towards the green area at the edge of the academy.

"Also, if your answer just now was to abandon K423, I would not hesitate to embed you into the stone wall behind..."

"Eh? Could it be that..."

"Don't be too greedy, Mr. Siegfried. There are people who need your affection more, but you insist on building a meaningless relationship with me? I have Sister Silis, and that's enough for me. I don't need any extra cheap fatherly love, and I don't want to deprive an innocent girl of her happiness. Our conversation is over... Siegfried Kaslana. Now, shouldn't you go to the banquet? If you dare to refuse Sister Silis' invitation, just wait and see..."

As she spoke, the girl took a step and began to move towards the place where her eyes were.

In Siegfried's dull eyes, the girl's back gradually faded away. The bright moonlight sprinkled on her silver-white hair, and the scattered silver arcs seemed to reflect the brilliance of the stars.

"Wait! Kiana, where are you going?"

"Don't worry. Just now, an idiot stuffed a bunch of things into my hands for no apparent reason and ran off. I just went to return the things to her and make it clear who they belonged to. Besides, I won't allow... my sister to skip Sister Shirley's party!"

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Didi...

In the green area at the edge of the academy, the communication prompt sounded extremely clear under the night sky, and the faintly flickering blue light illuminated the small patch of flowers under the tree. The next moment, a slender hand gently picked up the terminal placed next to it, pressed the button on the front of the machine, and a light screen emerged.

Sitting under a tree in the green forest, the girl looked at the brief communication content on the light screen, lowered her hands expressionlessly, pressed the terminal button again to turn off the light screen, then threw the machine in her hand back to the ground, buried her head between her knees again, and returned to her original posture.

After returning to Saint Freya from Singapore, the girl was not in the mood to braid her hair back into a pigtail, and kept it in two strands...

"That's great... Mei-senpai is going along, too. This way, she'll be able to get to know the real Kiana instead of staying with the shameless fake. This should be a good thing for Mei, right...?"

She muttered to herself and gently closed her eyes. Although the girl felt that it was really stupid to talk to herself like this, when she was alone, she couldn't help but speak out her heart. It didn't matter if there was no one listening, because it was just to convince herself.

You can also use deception to convince yourself. But it doesn't matter. As long as it makes you feel good, there's nothing wrong with lying to numb yourself, right?

"Since I told Kiana to return everything, I should follow through with it... She is much better and stronger than me. Compared to a time bomb like me that could go berserk at any time, she will definitely be able to protect Mei-senpai better..."

The September night was not cold, but her heart was cold. The silver-haired girl curled up tightly and hugged herself tightly, trying to get a little warmth.

Regret? She didn't regret it. Since she had been told the truth, it would be better to give up and leave alone as soon as possible instead of waiting for the victim to get everything back. This would more or less comfort her shattered self-esteem.

"But come to think of it, my own losses don't seem to be that much... The only things I lost were Mei-senpai and my current identity as a Valkyrie. The other things never belonged to me in the first place. Theresa only cared about her real niece from the beginning, right? Aunt Himeko should be the same. I have enjoyed the love that should have belonged to others for so long in vain, and I think I have earned it... Now, I have also been freed from the task of finding my father. Now that I have thoroughly understood my true self, it is time for me to embark on a new journey..."

The voice of her mumbling gradually became cheerful, the girl raised her head, a slight smile appeared on her slightly bitter face.

The girl herself didn't know whether she had let it go. But what she knew was that sitting there and feeling sorry for herself would not solve any problems. There was no place for her in St. Freya Academy anymore, so leaving was the best option...

(But... I still followed them back, back here... What on earth am I still clinging to? These things that don't belong to me, I've already made up my mind to return them, but I still can't let go... Eh!?)

At this moment, the girl's eyes suddenly focused. She raised her hand and pressed her right eye. After taking a few deep breaths, she took her hand away from her eyes.

Within the iris of the right eye, the fleeting golden light quickly faded, and the azure blue pupil seemed to have never changed.

"What Shirley said is indeed right... When my heart is shaken, the consciousness of the Herrscher will emerge. However, you are still too weak now, and you cannot affect my thinking to this extent..."

She talked to another consciousness in her mind more than once, but after the girl experienced several times of losing control, she was never taken away by the spirit of the collapse. Her willpower was not weak to begin with, and with conscious precautions, she would naturally not be infected by the will of the collapse in a normal state...

"I never thought... that the one who stayed by my side in the end was actually you, the embodiment of Honkai. How ironic. However, you shouldn't have attacked my spirit at this time... Even if everything was taken away from me, I would not let you do whatever you want. I am not the kind of person who would destroy something that I can't get!"

The Kaslana bloodline, which possessed the strongest resistance to Honkai, was fully mobilized by the girl, and the Honkai energy that was about to stir in her body was steadily and slowly suppressed...

However, this process was interrupted the next moment.

"Finally found it..."

A clear and gentle girl's voice sounded behind her ear, and the girl's pupils shrank. After confirming that she was not mentally ill, this extremely familiar voice made her recognize the identity of the person instantly.

"...What's up with the inferior clones? Miss Kiana?"

The girl's body trembled, and she slowly turned her head, looking at the silver-haired girl behind her with her right eye. The golden threads that had not yet completely dissipated began to gather in the depths of her eyes...

"Could it be that you are planning to completely eliminate this clone of mine that may pose a threat? Haha... That's a wise choice. After all, we look exactly the same. If I do bad things in your image, you will probably be quite troubled."

Turning completely around and facing Kiana with her front, the girl suddenly felt that her emotions, which had been tending to be stable, suddenly became excited again...

"No. If you want to take my life, why do you need to do it yourself? Just tell me, Miss Kiana, why are you here?"

The girl said this with a bit of hysteria in her tone, and her breathing gradually became rapid. After Kiana saw this, the silver-haired girl frowned slightly.

"This is......?"

Feeling the gradually rising concentration of Honkai energy in the air, Kiana's eyes narrowed slightly, and then she gave up the draft she had worked so hard to prepare.

"The Honkai energy is overflowing. What are you going to do? If this continues, the school's Honkai alarm will be triggered..."

"It's none of your business. It's my freedom to do whatever I want! At this point, I've already returned everything to you! We agreed that we owe each other nothing, but now, are you going to interfere with my personal freedom, Your Highness?"

The girl yelled at Kiana, and waved her hand, the gold in her right eye becoming more solid.

"Please stay away from me. Staying with a despicable replica is detrimental to your noble status. In addition, I am free to do whatever I want. This is the only reason I cannot obey your order. Please don't force me..."

The girl gritted her teeth and the dissipated energy formed three black and white sub-space spears, which spread out like wings and floated behind her, pointing the tip at Kiana not far away, revealing her threat completely. However, even though the weapon was pointed at her, Kiana's face remained calm.

"It is not allowed to endanger the freedom of others. With a high concentration of alienated Houkai energy, you made such a dangerous weapon. Are you planning to spread Houkai like the Herrscher?"

"I said, get out of here!"

"..."

Looking at the girl's sensitive and angry eyes like a lone wolf, Kiana was slightly stunned, then she sighed, slowly extended a hand to the girl in front of her, and her gentle temperament suddenly changed.

"It seems like you won't listen to anything I say now, right? Well... I need to let you calm down a bit. Now, let me teach you how to respect your sister!"

"You're finally here, Siegfried..."

In the restaurant's private room, looking at the white-haired man who pushed the door open, Shilis gently pulled away the red-haired girl who was still clinging to her, raised her hand and greeted the man. But the next moment, she looked around and revealed a puzzled expression.

"Huh? Why are you the only one here? Where are your two daughters?"

"about this......"

Siegfried's expression was still a little ugly. Seeing the girls looking at him with curiosity, he hesitated for a moment and then told them everything about his previous encounter with Kiana.

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"Oh? Kiana actually said something like that to you? That's not surprising... As expected, she won't forgive you so easily."

"Well... that's about it. Kiana said that she would go find the child and asked me to come here first. Miss Shilis, I'm still a little worried. Is it really okay to let them meet alone?"

Siegfried smiled wryly, with some worry on his face. After thanking Einstein for offering his seat, he sat down next to Shirley.

Although the girls noticed the only man who came to the table, they knew that he had something to discuss with Shirley, so no one asked and they continued to do what they were supposed to do. But Benares was stunned when she saw Siegfried, with a complicated expression on her face. It was not until Yaezakura and Mei reminded her that she came to her senses and threw the straight in her hand down, which immediately made the expressions of the two card players next to her stiffen...

On the other side, after hearing Siegfried's concern, Shirley smiled and patted the man on the shoulder.

"Don't underestimate Kiana. The torture she suffered at the Skyward Headquarters made her much more mature than her peers. Even though she is only sixteen years old now, that experience has already forced her to become a little adult. There is no need to worry at all..."

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Speaking in a light tone about the fact that made Siegfried extremely regretful, Hillis casually took a chocolate bean from the box in front of Einstein. Seeing that the doctor did not say anything, she put it in her mouth, picked up the bottle of wine beside her, and poured a glass for Siegfried.

"Anyway, let's have a drink together first. You don't have to worry about it. Just leave it to Kiana. As long as it's not related to me, she won't act impulsively. Believe me, even if the talks fail, Kiana will bring the child to see us, and she will never let her escape, even by force..."

Having said this, Shirley's voice suddenly stopped. She was stunned for a moment, as if she confirmed something, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

"The southwest wind has an energy shock, and this reaction...it seems like they are really fighting..."

"What?! Shilis, then should we...?"

"Don't worry, the Honkai energy reaction has begun to fade, and the battle seems to be over in an instant. I told you, leave it to Kiana and there will be no problem~!"

“Is… is that so?”

Looking at the nonchalant Siegfried, the corners of his eyes trembled, he sighed, and finally, as if he had given up thinking, he reached out and picked up the cup in front of him.

(How should I put it... As expected of Cecilia and her daughter? Well, since it's Kiana, there shouldn't be any problem...)

At this moment, in the jungle on the border of Academy Island, as the blast and flying dust gradually subsided, the silver-haired girl lying on the ground opened her mouth slightly, looking at the fist that stopped in front of her, her slightly widened eyes filled with complete astonishment.

"Impossible...Absolutely impossible!"

She cried out in surprise, and the golden light in her right eye quickly faded, revealing a slightly dissipated blue pupil.

I couldn't see anything clearly! Just now, there was no doubt that I was the first to attack, but the moment the Spear of the Sky was thrown, Kiana disappeared directly from her sight!

That's right, it just disappeared! Not even a shadow of high-speed movement could be seen, it just disappeared right where it was. Then a golden light flashed, and as the girl's eyes spun, she found herself lying on the ground for no apparent reason, with a slight pain on her face from the strong wind. When she opened her eyes, she saw the girl riding on her waist, with her right fist stopped in front of her...

"Now, are you calming down a bit?"

“That speed…you, you…?”

"It's just an advanced application of Honkai energy. If nothing goes wrong, you'll be able to do it in the future...Okay, let's get to the point. I came here specifically to find you, not to fight with you."

Kiana said softly, retracted her fist, looked at the girl who was still in shock, and gently smoothed her hair that was messed up by the fist.

"Um......"

The effect of Honkai energy on her emotions had disappeared. The girl hummed softly, her rapid breathing gradually subsided, and her eyes regained calm.

Kiana stood up and pulled up the girl who was lying down.

"All you owe me is your name."

"what?"

"Except for the name 'Kiana', I have no intention of taking away anything from you. Whether it's your status and position in Saint Freya or the friends you make, these have nothing to do with me. Of course, this also includes that stupid barbecue uncle. I don't even know him, okay?"

"..."

"I have my own life, and so do you. I already have enough happiness, and I shouldn't have barged into your life, but because of my obsession at the beginning... I'm sorry, it's my fault."

Kiana spread her hands and said this, looking at the dazed expression of the girl in front of her, she suddenly reached out and took the girl's hand, a hint of apology appearing on her face.

"I did resent you before... but I suddenly realized that this had nothing to do with you. Siegfried rescued you instead of me. This was just fate. He gave you my name to deceive himself. It can only be attributed to his weakness and helplessness... Everyone makes mistakes, but I just put all the blame on you. I'm really sorry..."

"Kiana... Na? What are you talking about? I... I'm just a fake who took your place, why are you..."

Hearing Kiana's apology, the girl's face was suddenly full of surprise. She had never expected this to happen. She spoke incoherently and her mind became a mess...

"If I took everything from you, what would you do? Leave alone, or give up on yourself and let the collapse erode you? K... Tsk, this number can't be used as a name, you have to let that stupid uncle give you a good name..."