K424 of the Collapse World

"..."

The black-haired girl still did not respond, but silently hugged the trembling girl behind her and looked at the other two silver-haired girls beside her with pleading eyes.

"Huh... Miyuki, it's not a big deal, but it's really hard for me to deal with you. I usually try to accommodate everyone as much as possible and never show any authority as a leader. But this doesn't mean that I will allow anyone to interfere with my decision."

"..."

"Miyuki, I don't want to force you in any way. So please understand me and leave that guy immediately. She has nothing to do with you or me. She is just an individual that was accidentally created by an experiment."

As K447 finished speaking, K453 once again wordlessly raised the spear of light in his hand, pointing it at the silver-haired girl hidden behind Miyuki.

"..."

At this point, Asakura Miyuki knew that she could no longer remain silent.

Shirley stopped before just out of respect for her. If Shirley really wanted to take action, she could always bypass her and kill the weak girl.

"I......"

Under the pressure of the spear of light, Miyuki finally raised her head and tearfully stated the reason that even she could not convince herself of.

"I just don't want to see... Lady Shilis die in front of me again..."

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The solidified spear of light gradually dimmed, and finally disappeared completely in the hands of the silver-haired girl.

Faced with the sobbing Asakura Miyuki, K453 Shiris finally stopped. The oppressive feeling brought by the huge Herrscher energy dissipated, and the aura lock on the newborn girl was released.

"So, you think she is me? Just because she is a K-series experiment and looks similar to me?"

"Woo..."

Listening to Shirley's question, Asakura Miyuki could only wipe her tears and shake her head. She herself didn't know why she did such a meaningless act. After all, she knew very well that even if these experimental subjects looked alive, they were just substitutes for Shirley. Moreover, the one behind her was a self-awakened abnormal individual, and it might even be accompanied by serious threats.

However, he was unwilling to watch this girl die in front of him. Even if he turned around, covered his eyes, and forced himself to leave, he couldn't do it...

However, this is probably the limit.

There was no point in stopping her, at best it only slightly prolonged the girl's life. Lady Shilis would never let go of such a huge safety hazard for such a trivial reason.

Although I know all these truths, my rationality is unable to suppress my impulses. I am truly a hopeless fool.

(I'm sorry, Lady Silis...)

"..."

Looking at the black-haired girl who was speechless but still unwilling to let go, K447 Shirley rubbed her head for a long time, and finally sighed helplessly.

"Ah... I can't do anything about you. Okay, okay, okay, stop crying, Miyuki-nyan. I'll let her go."

"Eh?! What did you just say?!"

"I said, let her go."

k453 continued, his calm ice-blue eyes reflecting the black-haired girl's astonished face. Her solemn expression showed that she was obviously not joking.

"But you...why? Aren't you going to punish me?"

"It's not a big deal. I can basically guess why this thing was created. The destruction was just for convenience."

After saying that, individual K453 took a few steps back, leaving all the space to the more friendly K447. The latter walked forward with a wry smile on her face, and as if to avoid scaring them, she slowly squatted in front of Asakura Miyuki and the other silver-haired girl.

"And... you actually did this because you didn't want to hurt 'me'. I'm really happy that you dared to disobey me for this reason. How could I bear to punish you?"

"But I..."

"I have always been like this before. In order to protect Kiana-chan and Frey, I would ignore their personal wills and impose my ideas on them. Although I later realized that this was wrong...Miyuki-nyan will make the same mistake as I did before. At least it proves that you really want to protect me, right?"

"Well......"

Listening to the gentle voice of K447 Shirley, Asakura Miyuki lowered her head in embarrassment. Indeed, in terms of loyalty to the Herrscher, she dared to swear to the heavens that she was absolutely loyal to Shirley. However, hearing Shirley praise this point in person,

She was really flattered.

"So, in order to reward the loyal little kitty, I'll take a step back for the first time in a long time~ But it's really strange... Miyuki-neyan has a cat's mutant organ, but her personality is like a dog's."

"Eh......?"

Looking at the slightly bent ears of Asakura Miyuki, K447 rubbed the black-haired girl's ears with some amusement, and then looked at the silver-haired girl who was hiding behind Asakura Miyuki, still in shock.

"Okay Miyuki-nyan, move aside for a moment~ I need to confirm something with this guy first."

"..."

"Why are you looking at me like that? Ugh... I promised you to let her go. Don't you think Miyuki-nyan really trusts me?"

"No! Lady Shilis, it's just that she..."

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Asakura Miyuki explained hurriedly, then moved her body slightly to the side. K447 then saw that the silver-haired girl hiding behind Asakura Miyuki was clinging to her back like an octopus, trembling with tears in her eyes, and her slightly distracted eyes were still full of fear.

Asakura Miyuki tried to push her, but failed to push her off.

"My goodness, it seems that the genetic defect in her body has not been repaired yet? She can actually exert such great strength. Her desire to survive is probably stronger than mine back then."

"that......"

"Never mind. This doesn't matter."

Looking at the girl who regarded Asakura Miyuki as her life-saving straw, k447 couldn't help but complain a few words. He didn't care whether Miyuki was blocking his way or not, and went straight to the side of the silver-haired girl.

“Wuwu…!! You, you…!”

Seeing k447 approaching, the silver-haired girl tried desperately to hide backwards, but she was already in Asakura Miyuki's arms and had nowhere to hide.

Forced to look K447 in the eye, a scarlet feather of light quietly reflected in the trembling pupils of the silver-haired girl, as if a huge eye opened in her consciousness space.

"Let me see... the number is k476. Tell me, what do you know about yourself?"

"I......?"

"Oh? What's your name then?"

"My...name? I...I don't know..."

"So, do you remember anything else? You can use pictures, sounds, or text."

"I... wuwu..."

After asking a few simple questions, k447 hesitated for a moment, then stood up and left the silver-haired girl, leaving her to hide behind Asakura Miyuki again, sobbing slightly.

"Hmm...I didn't lie. Well~it seems my guess was correct."

k447 clapped his hands and sat next to Asakura Miyuki again.

"Lady Shilis, so who is she...?"

"It should be a soul fragment that split off from me. Because the mental connection was abnormally interrupted, it formed an independent consciousness, and there are serious memory gaps... In short, this guy is like a completely amnesiac and powerless 'me'. Apart from the soul that originated from me, it can almost be regarded as a brand new life."

K453 stepped forward and explained to Asakura Miyuki in detail and rigorously. Apparently, Shirley didn't think that K447, who was too jumpy, could perfectly handle the explanation, so she used the standby 453 to explain.

"Hmm~ In other words, it's basically certain that she's not dangerous... Yeah, basically. Anyway! Since you promised to let her go, Miyuki-nyan should just take her away. It doesn't matter whether you raise her as a sister or a daughter."

"Ah? What...I'll raise him?"

Asakura Miyuki opened her eyes wide, and the corners of her mouth twitched. Although she instinctively protected the girl, she had not expected this step.

"What else? I don't have time to keep a useless experiment right now. If I have to deal with it, the only way is to destroy it. If Miyuki-nyan doesn't want to keep her, then let her go and let me just..."

"No, no, no! Please don't do this, I do. I will take good care of her!"

Asakura Miyuki said hurriedly, and hugged the girl tightly in her arms as if she was afraid that Hillary would go back on her word. She looked so flustered like a mother cat protecting her cubs, which made Hillary couldn't help laughing.

"But it feels a bit weird to send 'myself' to someone to be raised as a daughter. But never mind, it's quite interesting anyway... maybe it can bring me some surprises~"

He looked at the shivering silver-haired girl meaningfully, and a meaningful smile flashed across K447's face.

"By the way, Miyuki-nyan, let me tell you another interesting thing now."

"...?"

"The guy in your arms is not the first abnormal individual to lose control~"

878 Self

Reach out and catch the snow falling from the sky, gleaming with a glimmer of icy blue

Flowers, the girl looked at the water stains slowly spreading in her palm, exhaled gently, and blew away the increasingly dense snowflakes in front of her eyes.

There was no white mist like the breath of winter. After all, Honkai beasts were essentially cold-blooded animals, and they still retained this characteristic even when they transformed into human form.

Benares looked ahead and saw a slender figure walking slowly forward in the vast snow. She hesitated for a moment, then followed, stepping across this very familiar ice field, approaching the clear destination.

The ruins of the second collapse, the Babylon Experimental Base in the heart of Siberia. Since the first Second Herrscher was annihilated, he has been sleeping here until he was awakened by the sixth apostle of this world and resumed his duties as a follower...

Two years later, following in that person's footsteps, I returned here again.

Why did she bring herself here?

Why did she come back suddenly?

Why should I follow her?

have no idea......

She knew nothing and let her instincts control her actions for the first time in a long time. However, because of this incident, she was able to get out of the vortex of chaos and no longer be forced to make a choice, which was a good thing in a sense.

She did have the power to enslave herself, and she did not force herself to do anything difficult to accept. At least for now, Benares could not think of any reason to disobey her. Subjectively, she did not want to return to the Far East Branch, where the situation was complicated, for the time being...

In the wind and snow of the extremely cold land, the two walked forward one after the other. It was unknown how long it had been, until the vague figure stopped in front of a cliff, waiting for the purple-haired girl to be on the same level with her. Only then did Benares realize that they had arrived at their destination.

The ruins of the tower at the Babylon base were the site of the final battle of the second Honkai. After being baptized by the Honkai fission bomb of Destiny, all that was left were a few metal wreckages that merged with the vast snowfield, and it was basically impossible to see the appearance of any experimental base.

The endless snow has whitened the scorched earth left over from the past war, but those craters like lunar craters have been preserved forever, silently showing the details of that battle.

"Hmm~ It shouldn't snow in this season... Never mind. The impact of the end of the Honkai on the world, no matter what kind of phenomenon it causes, it's not surprising."

The silver-haired girl, who was about 14 years old, whispered to herself, and warm white mist dissipated with her breath. She only wore a piece of thin white cloth as a robe, and did not seem to be covered with other clothes, not even shoes. Her white and delicate feet stepped on the snow, letting the cold air lick her exposed white skin.

"..."

Looking at the slightly purple ends of the girl's hair, Benares said nothing. He just stood silently beside the girl, waiting for her next words.

"Let's go, Bella. Although it is buried very deep, the underground space of the Babylon Laboratory is still basically intact. Let's go there."

After saying that, the girl jumped lightly, and disappeared in mid-air accompanied by golden halo ripples. When she reappeared in a flash, she had reached the bottom of the crater.

Seeing the girl's extremely precise spatial manipulation ability with almost no energy loss again, Benares' eyes moved slightly. He shook his head to temporarily dispel the familiar feeling of nostalgia, and jumped down to the crater in front of him. The huge blue dragon wings spread out behind him, and he reached the bottom of the snow-covered crater in a breath, and landed not far from the silver-haired girl. The silent snowflakes once again fluttered in the strong wind.

"Slow down, Bella! I don't want the satellite imagery of Destiny to pick up any abnormalities. Phew, if the energy wasn't insufficient, I could take you in directly from up there..."

The silver-haired girl puffed up her cheeks in reproach, and when the blue dragon wings were retracted again, she walked forward and grabbed Benares' hand without saying a word.

As the golden ripples spread out before his eyes, Benares only felt his vision flicker, and the white snowfield in his vision instantly turned into a dim mechanical space.

Not to mention Shilis, even Diana, who truly inherited the core of the Herrscher of the Void, had never performed such a perfect space jump...

At this moment, they were already in a spacious terminal room of a computer room. The walls of the room had long since collapsed, and broken metal bridges were piled up in a haphazard manner above. The silent environment was like a wasteland after the apocalypse.

How deep is this place from the ground? Three hundred meters, or five hundred meters? Benares didn't know. However, the coldness of the snowfield was no longer felt here, and there was even a slight amount of geothermal heat.

It would be difficult to return to the surface from this depth by my own strength...

The silver-haired girl let go of Bella's hand, walked out of the terminal area along the broken narrow passage, and began to move deeper into the underground space. Benares hesitated a little, but followed her.

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"Um...can you tell Bella where exactly you want to go? Xili...no, Lady Xilin."

"Relax, Bella, I just want to find a relatively safe place before we talk.

It's just a place. After all, even if the consciousness connection is cut off, it's still easy for her to find me. Of course, there are other reasons for coming all the way to Babylon Laboratory, and you will know it soon~"

The silver-haired girl turned around, her golden cross-shaped pupils glowing in the darkness, and the figure of Benares was reflected in her gentle eyes.

"Lady Xili...Lin, may I ask, when you say 'she', who do you mean?"

"Hehe~ Actually, there is no need to distinguish the names. Shilis is Xilin, and Xilin is also Shilis. However, I am a little different from the Shilis you are familiar with in my current state of consciousness."

"That......"

"But I still like to hear you call me Sirin~"

Seeing Benares's dazed expression, the silver-haired girl couldn't help but laugh. Walking on this relatively flat straight passage, she simply turned around and walked backwards towards Benares.

"This body is the K440 experiment subject of a certain destiny experiment project. You should know that this experiment is the project that created K424 Shirley. And this incomplete body can move because of a consciousness test conducted by Shirley on a whim..."