K424 of the Collapse World

"You are too polite. Even without me, you can easily eliminate Caroline..."

"If you hadn't come just now, I'm afraid...ha, I'm afraid I would have become that woman's toy."

“How is it possible…?”

Seeing the surprise in the raven's eyes,

A trace of helplessness once again appeared on the girl's pale face.

"Ah...really, can't you see? I can't even move normally now, huh...not to mention that Kiana and the others have become hostages. If Caroline had seen through my disguise of being strong just now...huh...you can guess what would have happened to us, right?"

"..."

"But fortunately, even if I fall into your hands... it is still much better than being toyed with by that crazy woman. Now, I no longer have the energy to pretend..."

"Please don't say that."

Even after several years, Raven still clearly remembered the first time she met Shirley in the coastal area of ​​Australia. Facing the attack of the Herrscher of Flame, the girl saved her as a stranger, but she herself was buried in the flames of the Herrscher. Although she later learned that it was Shirley's clone, it was still a life-saving grace, and it could not be changed no matter what.

Later, she was arrested in an operation against the Far East Branch while working with Caroline, but she was forgiven by Shirley again and got the opportunity to join the Far East Branch... Although the ending was not very good, these things have established the image of Shirley in Raven's mind.

Natasha Sciora is not a mean person who is ungrateful. Even though she joined the World Serpent, an organization that would do anything to achieve its goals, and did many things that went against her conscience, she never lost the last bit of nobility in her heart.

Yes, Shilis is a Herrscher, but so what?

However, Raven originally just wanted to reduce some trouble for Shirley, but he didn't expect that his actions would happen to save the girl's life.

Looking at the gray-haired girl in front of her, Shilis seemed to understand something, and her eyes were completely relaxed.

"Ms. Xiola, please don't do anything to Kiana and Diana. Don't hurt them... This is my only request, okay?"

"Absolutely not."

After receiving the assurance from Raven, the silver-haired girl slowly closed her tired and blurry eyes. Forced to move under the effect of the inhibitor, she had already exceeded the limit of her current body. As long as the two girls were safe, her mission would be over.

As for the abnormality of the main body and memory, let's talk about it later...

"..."

Seeing the completely unconscious Shilis, Raven walked forward, slowly hugged the silver-haired girl's neck, and carefully picked her up by the waist. He completely ignored the Houkai energy in the girl that was like a deadly pathogen, and walked to the door of the isolation room.

"Ugh......"

Thinking about the action report, Raven couldn't help but feel a headache.

After all, like Jackal Caroline and the others, her attack on Caroline's base to help Shirley was not approved by any superiors and was also a spontaneous private action...

St. Freya Academy......

In the end, the sentry mission taken over by Asakura Miyuki was replaced by Shirley's clone K442, leaving Miyuki in the secret experimental warehouse.

874 Abnormal Individuals>>

Then, the remaining two individuals began to tell the girl about what Kiana did in the subordinate organizations of Tenmi and ME after she defected from the Far East Branch, and how they later colluded with other members of the Far East Branch to set traps and sieges against her...

"In addition to Diana and Bronya, even Mr. Raiden Ryoma and Dr. Tesla betrayed me? Lady Shiris, this..."

"There is no doubt that Kiana received their help. But in a sense, it can't be called betrayal. They are most likely just affected by Kiana's consciousness."

K453, who was a person with little emotion, explained. She had a serious expression all the time, and the situation seemed to become more critical as she spoke.

"For some reason, Kiana gradually awakened the abilities of other Herrschers, including but not limited to the Herrscher of the Void, the Herrscher of Lightning, the Herrscher of the Heart, and the Herrscher of Corrosion. Her current individual strength is probably beyond most of the strongest people in the world."

"..."

"Don't worry so much, Miyuki-nyan~ Kiana-chan is no match for me. In fact, one of my clones can almost subdue Kiana-chan~!"

However, when Asakura Miyuki's eyes were solemn, K447 next to her suddenly came over, and her cheerful tone completely ruined the solemn atmosphere on the scene.

"Ah...ah?"

Asakura Miyuki opened her mouth in confusion. She was a little confused. Was the current situation critical or stable?

"Lady Shilis, you mean..."

"Before Miyuki came here, I had already used K438 to test little Kiana! I basically had a standard for judging little Kiana's current strength, and I also hooked out Diana who came to help, and finally came to the conclusion -

It won't be a problem to deal with both of them at the same time~! Then..."

When she said this, K447 Shirley's excited expression suddenly froze, and her bright blue eyes were instantly covered by the shadow of murderous intent.

Then, K453 Shirley next to her continued the second half of the sentence with a cold expression.

"Then, Kiana and Diana activated the secret weapon made by Tesla and killed the K438 clone directly."

"Kiana...killed Lady Shilis's clone?!"

"Yes! It was an instant kill, without mercy, without hesitation! I was stunned when the consciousness link was interrupted on the spot, and only after I came to my senses did I realize that I had died once. Kiana-chan is so hateful! Without knowing that I am a clone, she killed K438...! Kiana... wuwu... I am so sad, wu ...

At the end, k447 lay on the ground and burst into tears without caring about her image. Hearing the heartbroken and shrill cry, Asakura Miyuki hurriedly leaned over, touched the girl's head and comforted her.

Looking at "himself" crying, k453 rubbed his forehead helplessly.

"Ah... I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. The emotional awareness of the clone K447 is somewhat special. Some of his emotional behaviors are completely out of instinct. I can't control it myself."

"Ah! It's okay, Lady Shirley. You must be very upset about this. It's a good thing to cry in this way. I don't mind..."

Looking at the silver-haired girl who was wiping her tears in her arms, Asakura Miyuki said with a wry smile, gently stroking the girl's little head.

"But... Lady Kiana is really too much! To do such a thing to Lady Shiris without mercy..."

"In the final analysis, Kiana was also affected by the will of Honkai... and a certain bad guy, which is why she became like this."

"Woo...! That's right, this can't be entirely blamed on her! As long as we get rid of those bad guys, Kiana will be able to return to the well-behaved and sensible little sister we used to be! The same goes for Diana and the other people who were controlled!"

K447 also climbed up with red eyes, clenched his fists and shouted loudly, thus putting all the blame on Honkai.

"So, Lady Silis, what are you going to do? How can I help you?"

"It's hard to say at this point. The worst case scenario is a civil war in the Far East, but I still need to confirm some things, so there's no need to take action for now."

"No need to take action? But..."

"Oh my~ Don't worry, Miyuki-nyan. I told you these things in advance to prevent Miyuki-nyan from being kidnapped by some bad guys. After all, in addition to the people who were instigated by Kiana, there are many traitors who are trying to take advantage of the situation. Before dealing with the rebellious Kiana-chan, we need to clean them up first☆"

k447 stood on tiptoe and rubbed Asakura Miyuki's ears, and said in her usual cheerful tone.

"Miyuki, don't leak what happened here when you go back. Pretend that nothing happened. I will contact you when things are over here, so during this time..."

K453's Shiris was speaking seriously, but her eyes suddenly became sharp. At the same time, K447 beside Asakura Miyuki suddenly turned to the other side, protecting Asakura Miyuki behind him.

——Crack, crack, crack

The next moment, accompanied by the slight sound of a hard object breaking, a glass container not far from the three people quickly developed clear cracks visible to the naked eye! Then, a blue solution began to slowly seep out of the cracks and slid down along the broken marks...

The silver-haired girl floating in it spit out a string of bubbles, her blue eyes opened quietly with a hint of panic, and her hands and feet began to struggle and swing unconsciously.

The increasingly intense energy fluctuations began to impact

In response, the two silver-haired girls outside simultaneously assumed fighting stances.

"The second... no, the third abnormal individual!"

875 Disobedience

——Wow! !

Glass fragments were scattered on the ground, and were swept around by the suddenly overflowing solution. After losing the buoyancy of the water, the silver-haired girl in the container fell down and knelt weakly on the pedestal.

"Cough...cough cough..."

Like every test subject that had just left the culture tank, the girl's body trembled violently and she began to cough weakly. The first time her lungs came into contact with air, she kept coughing out the remaining culture solution, and she had no time to pay attention to the surrounding situation.

Swah——

The next moment, k453 suddenly took a step forward, and a golden spear of light instantly extended from his palm and pressed against the girl's throat.

"There is a resonance of consciousness fluctuations, but it is not acting under the influence of my mental connection... There is no doubt that it is an out-of-control abnormal individual."

K453 lifted the girl's chin with the tip of the spear, staring coldly at the panicked silver-haired girl. The fingers holding the spear rubbed the spear handle slightly, ready to pierce the girl's neck.

.

If the K-series experimental subject that awakened for the first time had not been transformed and strengthened by Shirley's Herrscher energy, its strength would not even be as good as that of a normal person. It would be as fragile as Shirley when she escaped from the laboratory. A piercing of the throat would be enough to easily kill her.

It was not until then that Asakura Miyuki came back to her senses from her daze. She pulled K447 Shirley's shoulder in confusion and looked at the silver-haired girl in front of her who was pointed at by a spear.

"Lady Shilis? What on earth is this......"

"Don't ask too much, Miyuki. This is necessary work. I can only say that leaving these three clones here is to eliminate safety risks like this."

k447 explained casually, blocking Asakura Miyuki behind him, preventing her from taking a single step forward.

“Ahem… ahem… you, you are… eh?!”

After being forced to raise her head, she saw K453's delicate and cold face. The cold murderous intent instantly woke the girl up from her daze.

"Ugh...?! What...what are you guys going to do? Where is this place?"

The moment she looked into those icy eyes, the silver-haired girl's pupils shrank and she subconsciously avoided the other's gaze, but she didn't dare to turn her head away, for fear of being pierced by the golden spear tip in front of her neck.

Seeing the silver-haired girl's panic, K447, who was protecting Asakura Miyuki from behind, blinked and took a few steps closer with interest.

"Oh wow~ I can't sense any external mental interference. It seems that I have a completely separated consciousness like that guy..."

"What did you say... wooo!"

Hearing K447's mumbling, the girl was about to look to the side, but the slight pain in the front of her neck made her tremble again, and she dared not move her eyes away at all.

Looking down at the tearful girl, k453 had no mercy in his eyes. The sharp tip of the spear pierced the girl's skin and began to move forward little by little.

"You don't need to know this. Tell me, what is your mission? What kind of mission did Honkai implant in your mind?"

“No…please don’t do this…!”

Feeling her blood gradually seeping out of the wound, the girl's expression revealed an uncontrollable panic, and her body could not help but shrink back. However, no matter how much she tried to escape, the tip of K453's spear always calmly pressed forward, never leaving her neck, and continued to pierce her neck accurately and steadily.

"You still have seventeen seconds until your carotid artery is completely severed. I will not give you a second chance."

"What... Collapse? I don't know! I don't understand what you are saying! Woo... Help! Someone save me! Woo..."

The constant stinging pain and the residual heat of the blood made the girl's expression of fear even more panicked. She cried helplessly, trying in vain to grab the advancing light spear with both hands, but with her fragile hands, she was unable to shake the power of the Herrscher's clone at all.

"..."

875 Violation>>

Asakura Miyuki stared blankly at the silver-haired girl who was steadily pushed towards death. For some reason, a certain memory that had been buried for a long time in her heart surfaced again.

Standing at the end of the empty corridor, in front of her was a silver-haired girl who looked just like Shiris. Her bloodstained silver hair was scattered in the crimson. Her empty blue eyes stared at Asakura Miyuki, staring at Asakura Miyuki who tore open her chest again and again with her claws...

This was a nightmare she had tried to forget countless times, but it was a curse from the Ruler of the Heart that could never be eliminated.

While Asakura Miyuki was in a daze, the interrogation of K453 continued.

"Eleven seconds. You can't be ignorant of everything. You woke up under my interference, but you swallowed up my consciousness fragments and actively cut off the connection to become an independent individual. This is not something that can be done casually."

"Help......"

"Hmph... maybe it's really memory damage. The changes in consciousness and soul, any phenomenon is possible. Since you don't know anything, then you are useless."

No longer restraining the power of the spear, k453 suddenly thrust out the spear of light in his hand, intending to directly pierce the silver-haired girl's neck, then watch her slowly die, wait for her mental fluctuations to completely disappear, and then deal with this abnormal individual.

"...!?"

However, she was forced to stop at the first step of her plan.

Seeing the purple claws gripping the light spear, K453 Shiris's eyes flashed slightly, and she looked expressionlessly at Asakura Miyuki who was standing in front of the silver-haired girl, allowing that insignificant power to stop her action.

"Miyuki, what are you doing?"

"I......"

Asakura Miyuki stammered and lowered her head, biting her lips and ultimately unable to respond.

No matter what the reason, as a follower, I should not go against the law-breaker I am loyal to.

But, this is the only thing...

"Ah~~ Miyuki-nyan is really kind. But you shouldn't have interfered in this matter."

K447 Shirley walks slowly

Before, his tone, which had always been cheerful and light-hearted, was now filled with an unquestionable majesty.

For the first time, she showed the same serious look as k453.

"If you need me to, I will explain to you in detail the reasons for executing abnormal individuals. But after that, please do not interfere with my actions, okay?"