K424 of the Collapse World

Shiris smiled and turned around to continue processing the remaining dishes. She no longer paid attention to the absent-minded silver-haired girl beside her, nor did she guess what she was thinking.

Who can guess what is in the mind of an adolescent girl?

567 The Truth of Reincarnation

Under the cover of night, the brightly lit Academy Island illuminates the surrounding ocean. Within the range of the light, the dim water surface is rippling with ripples, like layers of tiny lily petals.

The winter nights are getting colder, heralding the end of the year is approaching.

Even though it is under the threat of collapse at any time, the Valkyrie Academy in the Far East is gradually taking on the atmosphere of the year-end traditional festival...

"Hmm...are you that curious?"

Sitting around the dining table filled with dishes, Shirley looked at the white-haired man wolfing down his food opposite her. She avoided his piercing gaze with some discomfort and squeezed closer to Kiana.

"Speaking of which, being able to cook... isn't something that's worth worrying about, right?"

“That being said, this is so delicious! It doesn’t look like amateur food at all! Sigh… ahem, Shiris, if you hadn’t cooked for me this time, I wouldn’t have known you were such a good cook!”

Siegfried chewed the food in front of him with big mouthfuls, and the expression of enjoyment had not disappeared since the meal started. At first, he was a little worried that the food made by the girl with the power of Honkai would be infected or corroded after eating. However, the moment he tasted the delicious food, Siegfried threw these concerns behind his mind.

Who cares if it's broken or not, as long as it tastes good! Even though puffer fish meat is poisonous, aren't there still a lot of people rushing to eat it?

Moreover, even if there is something wrong with what I eat, Shilis, the part-time school doctor, will definitely cure me...

However, Siegfried was also a little surprised. When did this girl learn to cook? In Siegfried's impression, although Cecilia knew a little bit of cooking, she was only good at baking bread and stewing. Moreover, Cecilia had never come across this kind of oriental style dishes before.

Kiana was also a little surprised. When she saw Shirley cooking, she thought it was just ordinary home cooking. The taste was not that good, but it was not too bad. However, when she took the first bite, the satisfaction that filled her taste buds made her have to admit that, just as Siegfried said, the taste of these meals was no less than that of the high-end restaurants in the city!

"Hmm... It's really delicious. This is the most delicious food I have ever eaten! And I'm a little curious. Sister Shirley either didn't eat at all before, or ate snacks like Diana. This seems to be the first time that Sister Shirley has cooked by herself... When did Sister Shirley learn how to do it?"

The enjoyment she got from the food even made Kiana subconsciously forget her dissatisfaction with her father, and she nodded in agreement with Siegfried's words.

"Oh... is that so exaggerated? I didn't expect such high praise. I'm a little embarrassed~ But is the way I learned to cook really that important?"

Looking at the two people sitting in front of her, Shirley had a faint smile on her face. Although Siegfried's sudden visit disrupted her original plan, now, looking at the harmonious father and daughter at the table, Shirley didn't think there was anything wrong.

Although she is Kiana's sister in name, there is still a distance between her and these two real relatives.

"Shilis, even though I haven't been with you for a long time, I never knew you learned cooking... Uh, could it be that every time you traveled far away in the past few months, you were practicing cooking?"

"Well, can't you come up with a more realistic reason? According to you, I went all the way to New Zealand just to attend culinary school? Hmm...but it is true that the truth seems to be even more bizarre than your guess."

Shirley's smile faded a little. Talking about the cooking knowledge she had obtained out of thin air, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

After obtaining the memories of "herself" in other world bubbles, the superposition of thousands of reincarnation memories made some knowledge-based things completely become her instincts.

Because of the principle of the butterfly effect, the development of each world line has differences, big or small, which also makes Shirley's experience completely different every time she reincarnates.

Because of the influence of the memories of the time traveler Lan Feng, she made the same choice in many world lines as in this life: escape from Tianming's laboratory, join Anti-Entropy, gain the trust of an executor or Walter Yang, and gradually expand her own power.

However, not every development is like it is now. Countless branches have extended from the main trunk of this world line.

For example, when she was brought back to the orphanage by Cocolia, she did not leave after a month. Instead, she was moved by Cocolia's sincerity during a conversation and stayed in the orphanage as her daughter, fighting for the radical anti-entropy faction. When she first met Fu Hua, she was knocked unconscious by Cun Jin Kai Tian and was captured back to Tian Ming in advance. When she faced Lan Feng's consciousness in the sea of ​​consciousness, her will was shaken for some reason and she was directly swallowed by Xilin's memory...

Such developments, in this

Every branch of the world line represents something the girl has personally experienced in every reincarnation.

Of course, in addition to these, there are even more twisted and outrageous world lines. For example, she was not rescued from the laboratory by Noni from the beginning, and was accidentally discovered by Otto as a self-awakening experimental subject. The naive girl who had just woken up and had only the memory of Lan Feng in her mind was soon "brainwashed" by Otto's emotional and logical persuasion and became a glorious Valkyrie; or after escaping from the laboratory, she did not meet Tesla and other anti-entropy members, but was picked up by the members of the World Snake, and under the influence of the World Snake's philosophy, she became Kevin's capable subordinate...

Although every world bubble that the girl actively chooses is exactly the same as the first reincarnation, there will not be situations such as Otto being a good person, Walter turning evil and destroying the world, and Cocolia inexplicably becoming a Valkyrie. But even if it is the same world, every minor difference around the girl will lead the world line into other directions.

But fortunately, when all the memories of reincarnation flowed back to her mind, even though most of them were already blurred, Shiris also gained countless unexpected information and knowledge, as well as some experiences that were difficult for her to describe...

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The source of this culinary knowledge is an experience in a world line that is difficult to evaluate: the girl escaped from the Destiny Laboratory, luckily avoiding Claire and Lillian who came to hunt her down, and neither encountered the anti-entropy Tesla nor the World Snake agents who were carrying out the mission. Dragging her weak body with genetic defects, the girl eventually fainted from exhaustion in a suburb of Germany, and was taken in by an elderly Chinese man who ran a restaurant.

Initially, the girl held the grand ideal of being a time traveler and did not plan to stay with the old man for long. However, because she had never been exposed to Honkai energy, she was unable to awaken the power of Honkai. Her fragile body made her pant after walking a few steps. A few months later, the girl, who had completely compromised with life, began to help out in the old man's restaurant, hoping to repay the kind old man for taking care of her.

As the relationship between the two gradually became familiar, the smart, well-behaved and sensible little girl with silver hair soon became the apple of the eye of this lonely old man. The old man taught his ancestral cooking skills to the girl without reservation and took care of the girl like his own granddaughter. The girl gradually let go of her reservedness as a time traveler and began to call the old man "Grandpa" in her soft voice. Whether it was destiny or anti-entropy, it was no longer important in the eyes of the girl at this time. In Germany, far away from the collapse disaster, the girl with the memory of the time traveler put aside her unrealistic ambitions and lived a plain and warm life with the old man...

Unfortunately, the ending of this story is not very happy. The girl who could not repair her body with the power of collapse was ultimately just a defective product with a damaged genetic blueprint. Ordinary medical methods could not heal her body at all. In the fourth year of accompanying the old man, the girl's gradually failing organs could no longer support her activities. She could only lie in bed all day, and endure the pain with a forced smile under the old man's grief-stricken gaze. In the winter of the fifth year, the girl, who was only fourteen years old, died of heart failure, ending her short life of doing nothing early, and her empty soul was thrown into the next reincarnation.

There is no doubt that these are all personal experiences of Shirley. Although accompanied by a fleeting sadness, it did touch her heart, but she herself did not have any real feelings. Because now she has no idea what she would think if she gave up fighting the collapse and chose to return to ordinary life...

It is worth mentioning that in many reincarnation branches, the girl's own name is different. In a world line similar to this life, she chose the name "Cilissa Kaslana"; but in the world line where she joined the World Snake, after bidding farewell to Lan Feng in the sea of ​​consciousness, she used the name of the assassination target "Lianna Kaslana"; and in the world line where she joined the Destiny Organization, the code name "k424" should have accompanied her throughout her life, but her bravery and strength as a Valkyrie won the respect of the Kaslana family, and she was officially accepted as a member of the Kaslana family by the current patriarch and was given the name "Brunhilde Kaslana"... It must be said that if it weren't for the fact that Cialis's mental power is no longer what it used to be, these extremely messy world line memories would be enough to make her schizophrenic.

Because... in the memories of those different world lines, she had killed her current partner more than once...

Shirley knew very well that these real and ethereal memories were irrelevant to this world, and the only useful things were the information and knowledge in the memories. She would not show mercy to the organization just because of the memory of joining the World Serpent, nor would she have any thoughts about the Valkyrie she had worked with just because of the memory of the Destiny Valkyrie.

Now I am just Shirley Kaslana, nothing more!

However, she also gained considerable benefits from overcoming the risk of schizophrenia. The Inch Heart Fist that she had honed in her reincarnation memories; the hacking and assassination skills that she had honed as a World Serpent agent; Brunhilde Kaslana's combat skills; the strategic knowledge of the fleet commander... plus life skills such as cooking and sewing, Shiris felt that she had suddenly become a master.

Then I activated the plug-in to max out the passive skill proficiency.

The accumulation of karma in reincarnation is not without cost. But the girl has already realized this.

"Uh... Shirley, if there are any secrets involved, then I won't ask. Also, I don't know why, but I always feel that your personality has changed in some inexplicable way since you came back from your trip..."

Seeing the silver-haired girl's eyes moving slightly as she fell into deep thought, Siegfried gave up the idea of ​​finding out what was going on and turned his attention back to the food in front of him.

There were already enough secrets about Shirley, so there was no need to dig into such a small matter. Compared with the girl's other strange features, her rapidly improved cooking skills seemed insignificant.

"Yes, that's true. Sorry, it's a little difficult to explain..."

Shirley smiled and followed Siegfried's words. To tell them the origin of her cooking skills, she would have to explain the theory of the world bubble and her own reincarnation of consciousness. The huge amount of information here was somewhat unnecessary for these two people.

"Is that so... Hehe~ It doesn't matter. Anyway, the food cooked by Sissy-sister is delicious. I have no interest in learning how to cook, so there is no point in asking these questions."

Kiana smiled, picked up a piece of twice-cooked pork with chopsticks, and gently put it towards Shirley's mouth.

"Sister Shilis, ah~"

"Ah um..."

Silith ate the piece of meat that Kiana fed her naturally, ignoring Siegfried's slightly envious look, and chewed the dish she made according to her memory with a slightly gloomy look.

Hmm, a familiar yet strange taste, but it is indeed...

very delicious.

"It's a pity. If Mei and Diana were here today, everyone would be amazed by Sister Shiris's cooking skills."

"Well, then it's a deal. I'll be the chef for the New Year party in a few days. Cooking is quite interesting..."

With a curl of her lips, a faint, beautiful smile quietly bloomed on the girl's face.

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into the night.

The building adjacent to the independent apartment is Saint Freya's Valkyrie Dormitory.

The silver-haired girl in the Valkyrie uniform sat on the ground, leaning against the wall motionlessly, with her head tilted up to face the night sky.

The bright moonlight filtered through the window into the dim room, and the silver twilight sprinkled on the girl's pigtails, glowing like stardust.

Staring at the bright crescent moon embedded in the night sky, the distracted and scattered blue eyes gradually gathered as the girl's thoughts, and the pupils reflecting the moonlight reflected a determination...

She raised her hand, stretched it toward the bright moon hanging in the sky, and clasped her palms together as if she wanted to hold the moon in her palm.

............

In the neighboring dormitory apartment, the noise of the loud TV and the noise of the girls mixed together. Although it was noisy, it was also full of the warm atmosphere of home.

The girl with silver-gray curly hair leaned against the sofa, ignoring the twin girls and the girl with peach hair playing around, as if she was watching the Homunculus anime on TV seriously. However, there was confusion in her gray pupils...

The girl with short dark blue hair sat beside her, looking at her sister with worry in her eyes, her lips moved slightly, but she didn't say a word. Her outstretched hand stopped in the air, neither stretching nor releasing, not knowing what to do.

(Sister Bronya...)

............

In the academy training ground, whose gates had long been closed, a cabin still had a dim light on.

In the spacious metal space, a tall figure with bluish-white dragon wings on its back was speeding and flashing in the air, using its sharp and deadly wings and claws to kill the simulated imaginary enemies one by one.

"No... it's not enough... Lady Shilis won't..."

Falling back to the ground, accompanied by heavy gasps, the girl with purple-gray long hair knelt on one knee, and the next moment she stood up again shakily, dragging her huge dragon wings on the ground, walked to the control console of the simulation device, and pressed the switch for the 45th round of simulation training...

............

In a dormitory near the restaurant area, two women dressed in traditional Far Eastern costumes sat opposite each other in a tatami-covered room, and the sound of their soft conversation and laughter could be heard from time to time.

A girl less than ten centimeters tall, like an elf, floated in the air and added drinks to the two people's cups. Then she gently landed on the head of the girl with long cherry-colored hair, hugged her pair of soft long ears, and sat down.

The cherry red katana and the dark black katana were placed on two knife stands inside the room. Next to them, a rough crimson heavy sword was casually placed on the ground, with a line of small characters engraved on the handle, implying the name of the sword.

Bull Demon Cut - Long Light

............

At the medical center, the red-haired girl with wolf ears glanced at the slender figure sleeping peacefully on the bed, smiled, picked up the exhausted black-haired girl beside her, and placed her on another bed next to her.

Then he turned and walked towards the door.

But it was just a fake move. Before leaving, she pulled the cat-eared girl's tail again, then ran out of the ward with a smirk in the face of her coquettishness, and disappeared around the corner of the dim corridor.

............

Staff quarters.

"Hey hey hey~ little fresh meat, come to the bowl quickly..."

A muffled laugh was heard from the dark bedroom.

On the messy sheets, the red-haired woman with her eyes closed and saliva at the corners of her mouth was hugging the silver-haired girl sleeping next to her tightly like an octopus. Her long legs were wrapped around the girl's smooth and white short legs, and her breath with the smell of alcohol kept blowing on the girl's face.

These middle-aged and elderly people are naturally not as energetic as young people, and they fall asleep before the midnight snack. However, Ji, who always likes to have a few drinks before going to bed, once again sleepwalked into someone else's bed after getting drunk...

The silver-haired girl who was hugged tightly had her brows furrowed, her cheeks slightly red as she bit her lips, as if she was in a nightmare.

Of course, the next morning, someone will pay for her actions...

............

The girl walked out of the bathroom and wiped the water off her body, her long black hair with a slightly purple tint falling down.

After putting on her nightgown, the girl lowered her head and looked at the Herrscher's mark on her chest. A complex look flashed across her eyes, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, putting it behind her.

There have been no problems for such a long time, so it shouldn't get out of control again...

"If Diana skips class again, she won't have lunch tomorrow. Okay, let's do this!"

............

On such an ordinary night, there was no apparent difference between the lives of Saint Freya's Valkyries and those of ordinary people.

Apart from their mission to fight Honkai, they are just ordinary humans.

——The girl sitting in front of the sink carefully holds a handful of clean water, and uses the breeze swirling in her palm to wrap the water droplets, forming floating water balls, like a playful girl who is playing in the water impromptu.

——In the teaching and research office, the black-haired girl who was receiving an IV drip stared intently at the terminal screen. She didn't care about her unfinished physical examination items at all, and began to carefully prepare the lesson plan for the next day, just like a dedicated university teacher.

——The blonde woman was holding a photo, looking at the purple-haired little girl with a bright smile in the picture. In the soldier's sharp and solemn eyes, there flashed a rare trace of tenderness and kindness as a mother.

——In the messy laboratory, a red-haired girl with messy twin ponytails stood in front of the experimental table, with the broken prosthesis of the blonde figure in front of her. Looking at the parameters on the light screen, she raised a fanatical and excited smile on her face and took out the scalpel from her white coat again...

Uh, the style of drawing of a certain twin-tailed doctor lady seems a little abnormal, but that doesn’t matter.

Even if we take a different path from ordinary people and transcend the ordinary world of appearances, the essence of human beings will not change after all.

Isn't a powerful warrior who possesses the power of Honkai also an ordinary girl longing for a little happiness?

............

At the dining table in Kiana's apartment, the father and daughter of the Kaslana family listened to the silver-haired girl's story and slowly widened their eyes. The crisis that prompted Anti-Entropy and Destiny to cooperate, and the "Quantum Ocean Project" as a response strategy, appeared in their cognition for the first time.

However, it is not too late for them to know now. After all, the long night has just begun.

At this moment, on the other side of the earth...

A coastal city in South America.

In the chaotic streets, the cold wind was mixed with the smell of tobacco and drugs. In this city that has been controlled by gangs and drug dealers, there is no security and order in a country ruled by law.

Of course, it wasn't like this at the beginning, but as the disaster of Honkai became more and more serious, the country gradually became unable to manage the cities in remote areas, and eventually could only let them develop freely...

Crime has long been the norm. It can be said that many crimes that are taken for granted in other countries are no longer subject to legal punishment here. Whether it is theft, fraud, human trafficking, or anti-social behavior such as founding cults and establishing private armed forces, there are no restrictions here.

However, in an environment where criminals are so rampant, this city has also developed a unique order. Gangs fighting for power and drug dealers vying for resources have created a delicate balance in this chaotic area amidst their mutual hostility. Civilians can only survive in this sinful city by either joining gangs or relying on protection fees to rely on local gangs for protection and guarding against the harm of other forces...

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