K424 of the Collapse World

The girl slowly explained her origins, as well as the principle and effect of Shilis's soul splitting to Benares. Of course, she also made no secret of the fact that she was an "abnormal individual".

"In other words, you have split from Lady Silis's soul again and become the real Lady Silin?"

"Well... I can't really say that. Shirley is the real Sirin. I am just an individual dominated by Sirin's memory. Even if my soul and consciousness are close to the former Second Herrscher, and no matter how different I am from my original body, I am still the stupid Shirley in essence."

"Eh? Then...why are you scolding yourself?"

"What's wrong with scolding her? I'm going to beat her up!"

"..."

"Well, as for that 'I', although she has long accepted herself as the Second Herrscher, she has always kept the most superficial contact with the memories of more than ten years ago, not wanting to let her consciousness be tainted by too many things. Therefore, she will never be able to reproduce her former self, that is, the me in front of you."

The silver-haired girl sighed and continued. Although Benares could only half understand some of the words, she was now certain that the purple-haired Shilis in front of her should be her earliest master.

However, when he thought of what the girl had just said and the master's original wish, Benares's eyes drooped slightly.

"Lord Xilin, are you planning to...become an enemy of Lady Shilis?"

"Hmm? Why do you think so?"

"Didn't you just say..."

“Oh! That was just to teach her a lesson. Although I am the main body of Sirin’s consciousness, I still remember that I was not controlled by Honkai consciousness as Siris, so I would not want to kill myself. Don’t confuse me with the immature me back then!”

The girl explained with a pout, but seeing Benares's still confused expression, she shook her head helplessly.

"Forget it... The situation is a bit complicated. I will explain it to you slowly while I find the most important thing first..."

The silver-haired girl, Xilin, continued speaking, casually pulling open the door at the end of the passage, looking at the spiral base structure deeper below the passage, and pulling Benares down with her.

"Actually, Bella, I don't want to act independently. In this state of consciousness, the painful memories of the past will emerge more clearly, which is really not pleasant..."

"Are you... okay?"

"There's nothing I can do. After all, that arrogant girl has started crying and begging me to help her. I can't just watch my years of hard work go to waste and be taken over by something that doesn't make any sense."

"What do you mean . . . ?"

"Ah, don't worry about it... She should have been dealt with by now anyway. You're such an irresponsible guy, leaving all this mess to me."

Xilin smiled bitterly and spread her hands. Without further explanation, she began to go deeper along the spiral staircase.

(Lost in the pursuit of power, the soul is engraved with a new mark, and then becomes unrecognizable... Haha, I really fall into the same trap easily~☆)

Right, Shirley?

879 Pure White

"Do you remember who you are?"

(I...who?)

"Do you remember your duties?"

(What...duties...?)

"Heh... Have you forgotten everything? Well, forget it all, and never think about it again. Perhaps this is the best outcome for you..."

(Wait! I...)

......

Far East Canghai Outer Boundary Area

, St. Freya Academy Island......

In a locked dormitory room in a makeshift apartment for garrison personnel in the outer edge area, the petite silver-haired girl blinked and continued to sit stiffly in the middle of the bathroom, hugging her knees with her hands, curling up on the stool like a white-haired ball.

Crystal clear water droplets slid down the girl's wet silver hair and onto her face, leaving a trail of water on her skin that had turned slightly pale from not seeing the sun for a long time, and then slowly dripped down along the curves of her exquisite body.

No one, including herself, noticed that a teardrop quietly mixed into the sliding water mark and was swallowed up by the current in an instant.

"Hmm~? Hmm~? Hmm......"

The black-haired girl sat behind her, humming a relaxing tune while using the shower head to wash the girl's body. Her gentle movements seemed like she was caring for a small animal.

After being brought back to the dormitory by Asakura Miyuki, the girl was first taken to take a bath to wash off all the remaining culture fluid and dust on her body.

The wet cat's tail swayed gently to the tune sung by Asakura Miyuki, and the silver-haired girl's slightly curious eyes followed the arc of the cat's tail. However, she did not dare to reach out to grab it, and sat there obediently, allowing Asakura Miyuki to wash her body, almost motionless throughout the whole process.

After rinsing off the foam all over the girl's body, Asakura Miyuki wiped off the water droplets on the girl's body, carefully dried the girl's shiny hair, and slowly combed it neatly with a comb.

"Phew~ Great, that's the end."

Asakura Miyuki clapped her hands and shook her wet cat ears. Standing in front of the mirror, looking at the silver-haired girl who looked exactly like the one in her memory, Asakura Miyuki's eyes became a little dazed.

Come to think of it, when was the last time I helped Lady Silis take a bath like this? I remember it was in the student bathhouse of St. Freya, and Kiana and Diana were also there...

Although it has been a long time, the days of that time are still vivid in my mind. Who would have thought that now Kiana and Diana joined the rebellion of ME Society and began to secretly attack Shirley. The former Far East Branch has fallen apart. I don't know if I can go back to the past...

Recalling the beauty of the past, Asakura Miyuki sighed, silently wiped her soft silver hair, and continued to immerse herself in those memories.

"Ugh...A-chu——!"

At this moment, the girl seemed to feel a little cold, and suddenly sneezed lightly, shivering as she wrapped the bath towel around her body.

"Ah! Sorry, I'll help you prepare clothes quickly~"

After coming back to her senses, Asakura Miyuki said something apologetically, then hurried into another room and began rummaging through her closet, trying to find a piece of clothing that could temporarily cover the silver-haired girl's body.

After all, the silver-haired girl was only covered with a towel and was not wearing anything else.

When she was taken out of the laboratory by Asakura Miyuki, she was even naked. As a defective mass-produced experimental subject, K476 was not equipped with those expensive laboratory operating clothes. Asakura Miyuki was too embarrassed to ask Shiris for a piece of clothes, so she had to carry the girl and quickly return to the temporary apartment for combat personnel. With her superb skills, she avoided other people and monitoring equipment and hid directly in her own small dormitory.

Although I have obtained the permission of Shilis, if others see me wandering around with a "Shilis", it will definitely cause a lot of trouble...

The attack by the Double Herrschers a few months ago destroyed the entire surface structure of St. Freya Academy. The loss of equipment and resources was innumerable, and the amount of reconstruction work was enormous. Until now, the repair work has not been completed.

However, even though the academy island will be unusable for a long time, the monitoring and defense measures in this area were repaired in the first place. The reason is that St. Freya Academy is not only the training center of the Far East Valkyries, but also an important node of the Far East Sea's defense network against Honkai. Even if the academy cannot function, it must continue to play a role as a strategic defense base of the Far East Branch.

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Moreover, only the school's teaching buildings and research institutes were destroyed by the collapse. The deep underground structures such as the church sanctuary and the database were only temporarily paralyzed in terms of energy supply, and they themselves were still intact. The Far East combatants such as Asakura Miyuki were stationed here to protect these important core facilities...

"Oops... I was only thinking about the mission when I came here, and I didn't even bring an extra uniform!"

After rummaging through the closet, Asakura Miyuki only found a pile of Valkyrie combat uniforms that she had customized herself, and nothing else.

The girl was nearly twenty centimeters shorter than her. If it were ordinary clothes, it would be fine, but this kind of semi-metal combat uniform that was strictly customized according to the size was basically impossible to wear.

In the end, Asakura Miyuki had no choice but to put her home clothes on K476, and she only wore the tights lined with the Valkyrie armor, and returned to the bedroom carrying the silver-haired girl.

Although she has experienced a lot, Asakura Miyuki is still a 17-year-old girl with almost no childcare.

However, even she could handle this well-behaved girl who was comparable to early Kiana with ease.

"By the way, are you hungry now? I have canned food and compressed biscuits here... Well, Leila from next door seems to have secretly brought some snacks here, can I go ask her for some?"

"No... no need..."

Faced with Asakura Miyuki's concern, the girl still seemed very reserved, shyly avoiding the gaze of the black-haired girl, but her eyes involuntarily glanced at the furry ears, and the curiosity in her eyes was obvious.

The two of them were facing each other, and her little eyes naturally could not escape Asakura Miyuki's eyes.

"Hehe...are you interested in my ears?"

"Ah! I didn't..."

"So don't be nervous. Alas~ I'm used to seeing Lady Shilis being gentle to me, but you know, this timid and weak expression really doesn't suit you..."

"Ugh...I'm sorry..."

"Hey, don't cry! I'm not blaming you..."

Miyuki smiled helplessly, gently rubbing the little head of the silver-haired girl and comforting her softly. At this moment, she would rather the girl was a naughty kid like Arlene and her sister who dared to climb up the roof and tear down the tiles, than to see her trembling like this.

As Asakura Miyuki comforted her, the girl gradually calmed down. Looking at Asakura Miyuki's raised cat ears, she finally mustered up the courage to ask.

"Then...Miyuki-nee, how are your ears..."

"As for my ears, it's not really a secret. Because I don't have any special Herrscher abilities, I can only simulate the fighting methods of high-level warriors. Among them, the fighting method of the Claw Warriors is my favorite, but the side effect is that I will grow a cat's mutant organ. It's interesting, isn't it?"

Asakura Miyuki told the story slowly, hugging the girl's no longer trembling body, and leaning gently against the head of the bed.

"After that... I thought it was convenient to keep the Claw Warrior form, and I also thought cats were cute, so I never switched. And then a long time passed unknowingly, and when I remembered it, I found that the mutant organ had already taken shape and could not change..."

"Miyuki-sister, what is a Herristics Pseudo-Hermitor?"

"Well...ah, sorry, I forgot you didn't remember anything, so I subconsciously thought you were Sirius-sama..."

Asakura Miyuki smiled shyly. But when she heard the name, her body instinctively shrank, and a hint of fear appeared in her misty blue eyes again.

"Shilis... is that the bad guy just now?"

"this......"

Asakura Miyuki hesitated for a moment, but had to nod in agreement. But then she hugged the girl in her arms and whispered a promise.

"Yes, it is indeed her. But don't be afraid, Lady Shilis is actually a very gentle person. It's just that she has been too tired recently, so she is a little impatient when dealing with things... Well, when all the recent troubles are over, she will definitely smile at you!"

880 Reset

Going deeper into the spiral mechanical facility, Benares followed the silver-haired girl in front of him, slightly widening his eyes to scan the dilapidated metal buildings around him.

Even though there is no light here, as a Honkai beast, she can see every detail of the surrounding environment.

"Well......"

The girl raised her head with a slight uneasiness, her eyes looking through the intricate broken steel bars, looking at the top floor diagonally above, which was the terminal control room space they had just arrived in. And now, just from that location, they had already gone nearly 500 meters deeper underground.

"Lord Xilin, where are you going?"

"Don't worry, we should still be some distance away from our destination."

The silver-haired girl walking in front of her did not look back, and moved forward decisively along the damaged and twisted metal passage. When she encountered some intersections where she could not tell whether they were holes in the wall or forks in the original passage, she always chose the route without thinking, as if she knew the environment here very well...

how can that be possible!

"Do you really know the way? This place is so dilapidated that I can't tell where it leads to... So, what are you looking for?"

"Hmm? Bella...you've only been with me for a short while, are you already getting impatient?"

k440——the host of Xilin's consciousness slowed down a little, turned around and asked hesitantly. Although her tone still carried the arrogance and casualness of the former Second Herrscher, Benares could easily hear that the girl's mood began to decline.

"No! Bella just thinks that this underground space is too big. Why didn't Lady Xilin just tell me what you were looking for? In this way, Bella can help me find it..."

The purple-haired girl hurriedly explained, fearing that the other party would misunderstand that she was unwilling to continue following her.

After hearing what Nales said, Xilin smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, and her slowed pace returned to its previous speed.

"Huh...it seems that little Bella doesn't hate me. I'm very happy~"

"How could I possibly hate Lord Xilin..."

"Yeah~ I understand. Anyway, don't worry. Even though the structure of the Babylon Experimental Area is a bit deformed, I still remember the location of the energy configuration room and the backup reactor very clearly... Hey! Don't force your way in. If you damage the support structure here, we will really be buried alive!"

Xilin got into a pile of collapsed metal frames and passed through easily with her petite body. When she turned her head and saw the dragon girl raising her fist behind her, trying to break through the obstacles and rush over, she quickly waved her hand to stop her, and used the remaining little Herrscher energy to create a short-range warp gate, pulling Benares over through the air.

"I'm sorry, Master Xilin... But it's still hard to believe that you can tell the location in a place like this? It's already been destroyed like this..."

"Don't underestimate my memory, Master. After all, I have been tortured here for several years, and it is difficult for me to forget some things. Not to mention the remains of buildings buried underground after the collapse, even if they were all burned to ashes, I can recognize them."

The silver-haired girl spoke calmly, observing the small, shattered space for a moment, and pointed to a passage blocked by debris not far away.

"Look, do you see the quarantine corridor with warning colors over there? I have some impression of that short stretch of road. When traveling between the laboratory and the shelter, those Fate researchers always took this corridor. Whenever I see it, I can think of those guys in chemical protective suits and holding electric batons..."

"Lord Xilin..."

"However, we are not going over there, but to this pit next to it. Going down from here, it should be near the sample storage room of Area F. If we continue forward along the exit passage over there, we will reach the location of the secondary energy allocation center."

The heavy tone slowly changed, returning to Xilin's slightly lazy and calm tone. Then, she waved to Benares, who was hesitant to speak, and jumped into the gap where the wreckage was piled up.

"Huh? Why is it blocked down there? Bella, dig this up for me!"

"Eh?! But you just said that we can't destroy the structure here..."

880 Reset>>

"Can't you be a little more gentle? After following Shirley for two years, has your brain become dull as well?"

It turns out that Xilin's sense of direction was not wrong at all. The unforgettable pain brought her hatred that she would never forget. But now, the girl, who had long since escaped the manipulation of the will of the collapse, began to control her hatred in the growth of her soul and used it in the right place...

"They have been buried underground for nearly twenty years, and the solid-state Houkai energy stored in these instruments has not dissipated. Sure enough, in a sense, Houkai is a kind of immortal 'substance', right?"

The tightly structured energy distribution center sank into the depths of the earth along with the collapse of the laboratory, but it was not damaged much. Looking at the precise and neatly connected parallel collapse reactors along the way, Xilin sighed with a hint of irony, and then walked along the stairs to the control console at the top.

"Bella, didn't you just want to know why I was looking for these things?"