Live broadcast of Honkai Impact 3rd, I chose to expose Kiana in Sky City!

This was indeed an unprecedented experience - if compared with the [newborns] among humans, she also did not choose to come to this world by her own will and was confused about this, not knowing where she should go.

However, unlike a baby, in the first moment after [birth], she already understands language, knows right from wrong, and even knows roughly where she came from.

[This is... very interesting. ]

Putting away her confused look, she began to feel curious about external objects like any other living being.

Indeed, [Snowstorm], [Machinery], [Sky]... She fully understood these concepts. But due to her own uniqueness, she had never come into contact with [Entity].

Her perception is so strange that she knows exactly what the temperature, touch, appearance, and even crystallization of snowflakes should be at a conceptual level.

—Although, until this moment, she had never [come into contact with] snowflakes.

【What happened here? 】

At this moment, Yutu finally has a name - Shanyiat (? ), but he only has a surname but no given name.

Although she was just a newborn, she seemed to know everything and began to search for clues at the scene.

For ordinary people, this seems to be a rather troublesome task.

But to her, it was nothing.

This is because she possesses a rather extraordinary ability - to directly analyze objects.

It was precisely because of this ability that she successfully found the clues she wanted on a gorgeous weapon.

Of course, strictly speaking, this has little to do with the weapon itself.

[What is related to me is not the weapon itself, but the blood stained on it?]

So, she decided to infiltrate this already dried up [blood] from the [conceptual] level.

As this process progressed, the sound of everyone in the live broadcast room exclaiming in shock appeared again.

[As you know, the holy blood named [Shaniat] that is dripping in your body can instantly make the Houkai energy within the range completely disappear.]

Although the subtitles say ???, I am very familiar with Archbishop Otto's voice.

Therefore, the same sentence emerged in the minds of everyone in the live broadcast room - Ah... It's Otto again.

"Hmm~ It's really interesting. Even though he has passed away, his existence... still deeply affects everyone related to him?"

A pink bullet screen floated across the screen...

To be honest, after the incident with Theresa, everyone thought that Otto would never appear again.

However, judging from the current plot, this does not seem to be the case.

All I can say is that this man is indeed extraordinary in terms of making trouble and setting traps.

Of course, what Alicia said is actually very emotionally intelligent.

To be more direct...

"In particular, rather than saying it's a profound impact, it's better to say it's an indelible shadow area?"

"Hehe~ If we analyze it from the perspective of the victim, it seems that everyone has reason to remember everything he did. After all~ what this man did was obvious to everyone."

Although it was not a nice thing to say, everyone was surprisingly unanimous in their recognition of Otto's contempt.

Of course, although he is indeed despicable, there are still some points worth praising about him.

If we put aside many factors, Otto has indeed made an indelible contribution to this generation.

Besides, he is already dead, so there is no need for everyone to continue complaining about Otto or anything like that.

At this moment, Archbishop Otto on the screen was explaining the effect of the Holy Blood of Shaniyat to someone unknown.

While chatting leisurely, the man's eyes were always on a quietly running device - it was silently and efficiently filtering the blood of the girl in the same room.

——That continuously flowing streak of dark red is setting the initial needle for many things that will happen later.

[So, according to what the bishop said, if I encounter an enemy that I am powerless to stop...]

It was not until Cecilia spoke that everyone realized that the person Otto was talking to was Kiana's mother.

It is not difficult to infer from her remarks that this scene might be a conversation that took place when Otto was researching the Holy Blood of Shaniate.

[As you thought - cutting their arteries is far more efficient than fighting them to exhaustion. ]

[However, I will not allow you to do that before [God-killing Spear] makes some progress.]

Cecilia was puzzled by this.

Otto, who was good at observing people's expressions, expressed his thoughts.

[After you have lost a lot of blood, we cannot give you a blood transfusion like normal people. ]

[In fact, the first step in developing the [God-killing Spear] is to clone this [Holy Blood]. But even if we can successfully do this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a way to mass-produce it. In other words, unless something extremely special happens... Otherwise, I won't allow you to use blood as a weapon.]

This statement seemed to reflect Archbishop Otto's selfishness - but in fact it was not, as he was at least worried that his experimental subjects would be killed in battle.

From this point of view, it is much better than the past when Valkyries were treated as tools and then abandoned immediately once they were no longer effective.

Of course, even this level of restraint was not enough to make Cecilia submit.

【But......】

[I know that with your personality, explaining this to this extent is probably not enough to stop you from going to die. You are still too young. Although you are experiencing the [blood of Shaniyat] every minute and every second, you know very little about its strangeness.]

[[Curse of the Stigmata]——This is the first time I mention it to you.]

"...similar, very similar."

Suddenly, a neatly written comment passed by the live broadcast room...

The one who sent it out was none other than Zhenqi, Youlandel, who almost repeated the fate of her mother.

At this moment, she couldn't help but sigh, this scene was exactly the same as when the bishop used herself as an experiment...

Chapter 495 Kiana: Mei, I can't do anything! Mei: Huh?

"Ah? Like what?"

The one who asked this question was Kiana.

Obviously, she was waiting for Bronya to solve the problem at this moment and didn't quite understand why Yulandel suddenly said this.

"Ahem...Nothing, I mean Archbishop Otto."

Of course, Yulandel would not tell Kiana that the second half of the sentence she didn’t finish was actually - like a conversation with her mother.

This has to be said to be a cycle. I have unknowingly repeated the life trajectory of my mother Cecilia.

Although the target has changed from her to himself, the man's speaking style has never changed...

However, Yulandel had to admit that compared to Cecilia, Archbishop Otto had hidden a lot of things from her.

[The curse of the holy scar? ]

Cecilia was a little confused and didn't know what this curse specifically referred to.

Otto's answer to this is...

[That’s right. Unlike the Kaslana family, what maintains the Shaniyat bloodline is an accidental [genetic mutation], or... [alienated information].]

[The holy blood in your body, including your entire genes, are all the products of my classification and purification of this information.]

Of course, after the explanation he did not forget to touch upon the key points.

[Note that I said [classification], not [optimization]. Even I can't do anything to completely remove the information that is likely to cause side effects from your genes.]

[Even the Bishop can't do it? ]

Cecilia was quite surprised.

However, Otto is not completely without a solution.

[There is actually a way... But if I do that, you will be weaker than an [ordinary person], let alone become the [strongest Valkyrie]. In fact, the contradictions of Shaniyat's stigma are beyond your imagination. Over the years, have you never had doubts about the two completely different powers of your fellow people?]

[Comparatively different...does it mean that some people are good at strengthening the Honkai energy they control, so they are suitable to be warriors; while some people are good at weakening the erosion of Honkai energy, so they are more suitable to be doctors?]

Cecilia asked back.

[Yes, Shaniyat's bloodline is a contradictory existence that conflicts with itself. In most descendants - such as me - the result of this conflict is just a little more resistance to Honkai that is better than nothing.]

Otto saw that the explanation was almost complete, so he began to talk about the conclusion.

[…This is the so-called [Curse of the Holy Mark]. If I purify either one separately, you will either become a test subject that can only provide holy blood, or you will be able to use the Honkai energy as if it were your own arm for a short period of time, and then quickly lose your life.]

[But if that’s the case, how can the bishop…——! ]

Before Cecilia finished speaking, she suddenly realized why Otto was able to do this.

[It seems you have guessed it. That's right, I will express the part used for [neutralization] in your blood, and the other part used for [strengthening] in your muscles and bones.]

[This cultivation process took hundreds of years, and I am not going to explain it in detail. But... Cecilia, you can be more proud, even if you only think of yourself as [a tool]. ]

"......ah?"

"Uh... I don't quite understand, but I can sense that he seems to have done something quite remarkable?"

"...It is truly remarkable, because this is probably a crossing of the line that is difficult for humans to accept. This man has truly touched upon the realm of God."

Otto's experiment is actually not difficult to imagine.

In other words, as the Bishop of Heaven's Will, he used his authority to facilitate a marriage between the two big families.

On the surface, this is to maintain stability in the system, but in reality it is genetic breeding work.

From some perspectives, it can even be understood that as a Bishop of Destiny, he is studying Kevin and May's descendants through blood fusion experiments.

It can be regarded as a continuation of the experiment that the top scientists of the previous civilization were unable to complete.

And this is just as Kaslana's Stigma Will had said to Yulandel before - it is the most proud masterpiece of her era.

Embracing the collapse with flesh and blood...

Because of this, Cecilia, like Yulandel, is also unique.

[In this way, you combine two conflicting forces into one, holding the Black Abyss White Flower in your hand, and wielding the power of creation and decay. And if you choose to break this delicate balance... perhaps the place where you sacrificed will become a forbidden place of collapse, a paradise on earth. But it is also possible that it will [reverse] as I worry about, and after leaving your body without being processed, it will degenerate into poisonous blood that condenses into collapse,]

Otto's talent in research has always been amazing.

At the same time, he also considered other possible unexpected events, but those unknown possibilities were difficult for him to predict.

This is where Hato's search for memories ends.

What she couldn't understand was that these didn't seem to have much to do with what she wanted to know.

And, these are all things she knows, right?

——She changed her perspective, adjusted the time in her mind, and then re-recognized this snowy field.

She went back to a time not long ago, when the event later known as the Second Collapse was about to end.

[Huh...Huh...I'm sorry, Siegfried. I lied to you...]

Before she died, Cecilia uttered these words with difficulty.

【This time, I can't go back with you. 】

[I'm sorry, Kiana...When you grow up, you must take good care of your father.]

[Holy Blood Release: White Flower Bloodshed], using more than half of her own blood as a guide, this strongest Valkyrie threw an all-out attack towards absolute disaster.

But for the being who was [interpreting] this scene, she was more concerned about not the earth-shaking heroic act.

Her stigmata, in this extreme state, indeed surpassed the Herrscher of the Void, and briefly broke through all boundaries between reality and imaginary numbers.

At this moment, the words Otto once said came to my mind...

[Of course, there are other possibilities that could be [accidents]. But in that case...with all due respect, even I don't know what will happen.]

At that moment when the imaginary numbers were connected, the existence called [Stigmata Space] by humans appeared in the world for the first time in an appearance similar to [human].

That was the first proof of the coming of [Idea] to the world, and it was the unexpected result of the curse of the stigmata brought to [Shaniat].

[That is... me? ]

"what?"

"what???"

"What?"