The civilization before the collapse, heroes and heroes are reborn with me

If my legs were still intact... maybe I wouldn't have to just watch like this...

Kiana's appearance always reminded Bronya of someone, the girl she would never forget in her life. The child was very timid, but gentle to everyone. In the end, in order to protect her, she accepted her mother's experiment, and disappeared in front of everyone because the stigmata got out of control.

"Xie'er..."

Chapter 18 Determination

After the Valkyrie Fifth Team reunited with their own thoughts, they headed to the main control room on the bridge. On the way, because Mei was weak, Bronya hacked into an operational Titan mecha, and Kiana volunteered to take control.

"Kiana, how come you don't even know how to operate a Titan?" Mei asked weakly.

Bronya chose to remain silent. She had already accepted the fact that the stupid Kiana was almost omnipotent in almost all aspects except her poor academic performance. Now, apart from her academic performance, the only thing she was confident of crushing Kiana in was her gaming skills. Forget about her hacking skills, which were no different from bullying.

In short, when it comes to playing games, Kiana has never defeated herself.

As for Mei's sister... Well, at least Mei's cooking is better than Kiana's... In terms of swordsmanship, although Kiana rarely uses the sword, she is not bad either. When she was fighting Ji Lin alone, she threw away her dual guns, gave up gun fighting, picked up Mei's sword and switched to swordsmanship.

"After all, I wandered directly from Northern Europe to the Far East in my early years. On the way, before entering Qianyu Academy, I also encountered several Honkai." Kiana said while manipulating the Titan to hammer away one Honkai beast after another. "You also know that the only way for ordinary cities to fight Honkai, besides the support of the Valkyries, is to manually operate the Titan."

It just so happened that I was a little curious about Titans at the time, so under Feng's guidance, I "stole" a Titan and played with it for a while. Although I accidentally broke it, I also managed to get rid of all the Honkai beasts in that area.

Kiana has plenty of experience fighting Honkai beasts.

Even before she met Feng, she had started clearing out Honkai beasts with Siegfried.

"Kiana..."

Mei lowered her eyes. She had been wandering around in search of her father since she was young, and had found her way all the way from Europe to the Far East. When Kiana was still wandering in Europe, she was still the eldest daughter of the ME Club, living a life of luxury.

Perhaps it was because of that kind of life in the early years that Kiana developed her current personality...

Looking back on my own experience, because my father was arrested and imprisoned, I went from being a young lady who was flattered by everyone to a down-and-out person avoided by everyone in just a few days. It was only then that I realized that those so-called "friends" who surrounded me at the beginning only cared about their status.

It was then that she had to learn to live alone. She had never cooked before, but she had to learn how to cook in order to survive. Then, in this day-to-day loneliness, the Third Great Collapse broke out, and she was almost crushed by negative emotions and became the Third Herrscher.

In the end, it was Kiana who appeared in front of him, saved him, and brought him back to consciousness.

She asked Kiana why she did that, and Kiana said, "Because I paid attention to you when I was in Qianyu Academy, and you were a very kind girl. I thought I might be able to help you. After all... I happen to have some special powers."

The power of the Holy Maiden... Kiana herself couldn't explain what that ability was and why it appeared. The principal was even more secretive about it, and just said that it was normal for Kiana to have this power.

She originally thought that she and Kiana were both lonely people, but later she found that Kiana didn't seem to care about loneliness at all, or rather, compared to herself, Kiana had already gotten used to loneliness. However, after seeing Kiana's light, she could no longer look away.

On the other side, Anti-Entropy North American Base.

Siegfried put down the headphones in his hand, pressed his head with both hands, and was silent for a long time before he let out a long sigh.

Now half of his body has transformed into a Honkai beast. It is impossible for him to go out in this state, let alone secretly go to see Kiana. The battle with Ivar in Singapore made his already poor health even worse. Not long ago, the medicine developed by Anti-Entropy to suppress the Honkai beast factor in his body became completely ineffective. He can only rest in the Anti-Entropy base.

He was not fully aware of Kiana's wanderings after he left, because the Shanyat family was always chasing her. After quietly following Kiana and observing her for a while, he had to accept the arrangement of Anti-Entropy and hide in the dark. He would hear about Kiana's recent situation from Einstein and the others at regular intervals.

Now, hearing from her own mouth, in such a calm tone, her recounting of her experiences during those years, Siegfried's heart was filled with deep guilt.

When Ivar was fighting him, he had asked him, "Don't you have any idea of ​​treating her as a substitute for your own daughter?"

How could it be possible to say no... If not, why would he tell her about his past with another Kiana as if it was the past of the current Kiana?

"As a father...what can I do..."

Recent investigations by Anti-Entropy also show that while Kiana was wandering, Otto from Skyrim had actually been paying attention to Kiana for a long time, which made Einstein's original speculation constantly appear in Siegfried's mind.

After Einstein made that guess, Siegfried carefully read almost all the legendary records about Lucifer, and finally extracted one message from the legend: Lucifer may have the ability to reverse life and death.

This coincides with Otto's long-cherished wish to resurrect Kallen.

If the ultimate goal of the Shaniyat family is to resurrect Lucifer, then Lucifer is Otto's hope for resurrecting Kallen, and Otto will definitely not give up this hope, so he will definitely assist the Shaniyat family.

Well, his daughter's life or death was unknown after the plane crash, and Theresa didn't receive any news. She was not sure whether her daughter was still alive. This made Siegfried feel hopeless for a while. Even though Anti-Entropy has now reached a secret cooperation with Theresa, Theresa is still unwilling to say more about what happened back then.

Raiden Ryoma once comforted himself by saying that no news might be the best news.

But can an 8-year-old child really survive if he falls from a height of several thousand meters?

Siegfried still remembers that scene. The aircraft was hit by a missile and shook violently. While he was desperately trying to control the balance of the aircraft and avoid the Valkyrie who was also chasing him in a fighter plane, his daughter tied the safety belt firmly to the current Kiana with her own hands.

By the time she came to her senses, she had already fallen from the aircraft.

If his daughter was Lucifer's vessel, then after the vessel disappeared, did the Shaniyats find another one?

But what else can he do now?

"Your daughter... is indeed very mature..." Raiden Ryuma, who was also beside him and listened to the conversation of the trio in the Moonlight Throne, said softly.

"She didn't need to be like this... It's me who failed to fulfill my responsibilities as a father."

Raiden Ryoma glanced at Siegfried, then looked away. Siegfried blamed himself for not fulfilling his father's responsibilities, but what about him? Did he fulfill his responsibilities?

The perspective returns to the trio.

With the assistance of Titan, the three successfully reached the bridge. Bronya turned on the battleship's main control system and was surprised to find that all permissions of the main control system were open, and there was an email in it.

"This battleship... is it a gift for me?" Kiana frowned and read the contents of the email. "The password of the navigation system is my birthday? What on earth is going on?"

"Let's try it first." Bronya entered Kiana's birthday and easily obtained the navigation permission. "It seems that what it said above is correct. The permission password for the navigation system is your birthday, idiot Kiana... I'll change the destination to St. Freya Academy first, so that Major Himeko doesn't have to send additional drones to pick us up."

"I remember that this battleship was dropped here by Anti-Entropy, right? A gift for me? Do we have such a good relationship with Anti-Entropy?" Kiana said to Mei with an expression of disbelief on her face.

"It's really suspicious..." Mei thought, "Who from Anti-Entropy put this here? What's their purpose?"

[Kiana, be careful of Bronya! ]

"Um?!"

Kiana, who was looking at the internal environment of this "gift" given to her, suddenly looked at Bronya, only to see red stripes appearing on Bronya's body.

"Confirm permissions and enter exclusion mode."

"Bronya?!" Mei was surprised by Bronya's sudden change, but before she could react further, Kiana had already taken action.

Bronya, who had entered the elimination mode, just turned around and Kiana had already arrived in front of Bronya and slashed at her with a knife.

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Before Bronya could do anything, she was knocked unconscious by Kiana's knife, and the red stripes on her body quickly faded away.

Mei, who had just thought that there would be a tough battle: "..."

This... is the end? No hard fight? Just a single blow to end it all?

She suddenly remembered one thing. When she and Kiana met Bronya at Senba Academy, Bronya was actually ambushing them in the dark, and then she was knocked unconscious by Kiana's knife after approaching her, just like today.

Really... As long as Kiana is here, I don't have to worry about anything. No matter if I encounter an emergency or danger, Kiana reacts faster than me and can handle things quickly...

But, Kiana, the more you are like this, the further away you feel from me...

Well, it's decided. I have to catch up with Kiana no matter what. I will practice more when I get back! I must practice more!

Before meeting Kiana, Mei was actually the successor of the Hokushin Ittoryu of this generation. She had obtained the level of Menkyo Kaiden at a young age, but... she had only reached this level in terms of skills. Her mentality was never right. She was unable to bring out the full power of the Hokushin Ittoryu, and was unable to perfectly combine the use of Honkai energy with the swordsmanship she had learned.

In the battle between Chi You and Ji Lin inside, the sword in his hand was knocked away by Ji Lin, and Kiana threw away the double guns in her hands, picked up her own sword to fight Ji Lin.

Although the dual guns that I took later were actually pretty good... but swordsmanship is my specialty after all, I can't be surpassed by Kiana in this aspect, right?

Kiana’s gun fighting skills can be said to have been taught by Siegfried, but who could have taught her swordsmanship?

Absolutely, absolutely cannot fall too far behind Kiana, you must practice more, you must practice more no matter what!

Kiana didn't notice Mei's look, which was complicated at first and then became determined, but waited quietly for Bronya to touch her head and sit up.

"This familiar feeling of pain... just now it was the stupid Kiana who hit Bronya with a knife again, right?" Bronya looked at Kiana and said.

"What else? I haven't asked you why you suddenly entered the elimination mode. Is there something wrong with this system that affected the chip in your head?" Kiana asked.

"Hmm... Bronya is not sure either..." Bronya said with some doubt, "From what we have seen before, the battleship's system does not have any special viruses, and Bronya, who has a heavy-duty bunny, is not afraid of any virus... Could it be that there is something wrong with Bronya's own chip?"

"Do we need to go for a check-up or something after returning to Saint Freya?" Kiana asked again.

"Of course. If there is a problem with Bronya's own chip, this problem must be corrected, otherwise the same thing may happen again in the future. Bronya... doesn't want to hold everyone back." Bronya said.

"Well... Actually, Bronya, you don't need to feel too burdened. If it can't be cured, it's no problem. You transform once, and I can knock you out once." Kiana waved her hand and said.

"Bronya doesn't want to be knocked out by you, the idiot Kiana, with a knife again." Bronya said with a slightly disgusted tone, but sighed in her heart.

I say I don’t want to hold everyone back, but the most important thing is you, stupid Kiana…

You had already walked too far by yourself, so far that Bronya and Mei could hardly catch up with you. So...why would Bronya want to hold you back?

It’s fine if I can’t catch up with you, but it’s unacceptable if I keep you behind.

Thinking about this, Bronya also recalled the first time she met Kiana and Mei, and recalled the experiences of the three of them during this period of time... They were members of the fifth Valkyrie team, and they often played and joked with each other on weekdays...

However, Bronya is also very clear that no matter how close they seem now, they may still be separated in the future, because Kiana has gone too far, and she herself may not have the courage to face the life experience she carries now. When she finally chooses to face her life experience, she and Sister Mei, who will still not be able to catch up with her, will inevitably be separated from her.

"Bronya, I will never let this happen."

Chapter 19 It’s broken, the boss is me

The Moonlight Throne mission was completed, and Kiana and others drove this mysterious battleship back to Saint Freya.

As soon as she returned to Saint Freya, Bronya asked Theresa for a comprehensive physical examination. She had inexplicably entered the exclusion mode on the Moonlight Throne, which had always bothered her.

At the same time, the Valkyrie level test will be held soon.

Dean's Office.

"Kiana, you should know why I called you here, right?" Theresa said, her hands folded and resting on her chin. "The Valkyrie level test is coming soon. Even if you have already applied to become an A-level Valkyrie in all aspects except academic level, but... an A-level Valkyrie requires not only outstanding martial arts, but also academic level. And your academic level... if you continue to fail this time, you may be demoted to a C-level Valkyrie, which is a logistics Valkyrie."

"Eh? But when I went on the investigation mission with the squad leader before, couldn't I make up the credits in this area?" Kiana said with some confusion.

"Do you think those few credits can fill the gap in your almost all-round red lights?" Theresa put Kiana's recent grades on the table. After a moment of silence, she continued, "Kiana, I have seen your performance during your time at St. Freya's. Although you seem to be not serious about studying, the Qianyu Academy you attended before entering St. Freya's is a school with extremely strict requirements for academic performance... Kiana, how long do you think you need to prepare?"

Although Feng regarded Theresa as gullible, she was not stupid. She had some idea of ​​Kiana's real situation. She half-made the matter clear now in order to confirm Kiana's attitude.

Kiana was silent for a moment, then said, "I remember that there will be people from the headquarters coming to the practical test of the upcoming Valkyrie level exam, right? Is it... people from the Shanyat family coming?"

"That's right." Theresa lowered her eyes and said, "And he's the worst person..."

"The worst person?" Kiana tilted her head.

"Maria Shaniyate... the examiner of the qualifications of the Destiny Valkyrie, and one of the several S-rank Valkyries currently in service..." Theresa sighed deeply, "In terms of seniority, she is Cecilia's cousin, and also your aunt by blood."

"My... aunt?" Kiana was stunned for a moment, then looked at Theresa and said, "Should I call her the second aunt or the third aunt?"

【puff……】

Theresa's face was filled with black lines.

"What are you laughing at?" Kiana said to Feng in her heart.

[I think you have been calling Theresa "Aunt" for too long. You may have forgotten that Theresa is not actually related to you by blood. Your real aunt should be Maria.]

"..."

Well, that seems to be the case...

Seeing Theresa's dark face, Kiana quickly changed the subject: "So, Principal, why is my aunt the most troublesome person? Is she on bad terms with my mother?"

"It would be troublesome if they have a bad relationship, but on the contrary..." Theresa's face looked unhappy. "She has a very good relationship with Cecilia. Although she is ten years younger than Cecilia, she has always liked to follow Cecilia since she was a child... It is because she has such a good relationship with Cecilia and Cecilia holds such a high position in her mind, so... she is the most troublesome..."

"Why do you say that?" Kiana was still a little confused. If they had a good relationship, why would Theresa say that it was troublesome?

Theresa was silent, as if she was struggling with how to explain this to Kiana.

[It’s because of Siegfried…]

"Because of Dad?"

[Your past, the truth of the past, is about to catch up with you, Kiana.]

Kiana lowered her eyes, then raised the corners of her mouth to smile slightly. She looked up at Theresa and said, "Is it about what happened when my father defected from the Mandate of Heaven?"

"Hmm..." Theresa nodded, "Kiana, you...may have to be prepared this time..."

"I understand." Kiana said calmly, "You said I had to be prepared, but in fact, I may have been prepared a long time ago, but I was not willing to take the initiative to accept it. Now that the truth of everything has come to me, I have nowhere to hide, right?"

Theresa opened her mouth, but in the end she just leaned back on the chair weakly. After a long while, she said, "You don't have to be too nervous. Maybe things are not as bad as you think... I just want you to be prepared first. You should also prepare for the written test during this period..."

"Yeah." Kiana nodded, turned and left the principal's office.

After the door was closed, Theresa scratched her hair in annoyance and muttered to herself frantically: "Siegfried! Look at the mess you left behind!"

Why did you choose the name Kiana? You gave the child a name, but why did you impose Kiana's past on her? ! (PS: Let me explain here. In the main storyline, Kiana recalled her past with her parents before the awakening of the void. If we don't consider the fact that MHY eats the book, then Siegfried has to bear the blame.)

Kiana will know her true identity sooner or later, but it doesn't matter. You've never thought about how devastated she will be when she finds out about her non-existent past.