Honkai Q&a, Starting with Kiana

'Seele... Seele is she here? '

A hand quietly held her, and Bronya turned her head to find Seele standing behind her and looking at her.

"..."

Bronya felt relieved, and held Seele's hand in response.

After Otto finished praying, Teresa put a small wooden cart in front of the tombstone, and the other children whispered to the tombstone, and then left together.

Following the footsteps of the crowd, Bronya deliberately slowed down, and Xier walked to the end of the line.

"They are holding a funeral. It should be a child's funeral. There are no flowers, no photos, only an adult and a group of children saying goodbye to him..." Bronya paused for a moment, then turned to look at Seele: "It's a strange sight, but It's not new to us..."

"It's an orphanage. These children live in the orphanage just like us." Xier said timidly, looking forward: "Sister Bronya, look, there is a wooden house in front of you, that should be their home Bar."

The children in the front row of the line began to walk into the gate of the wooden house one by one, telling them what to do respectively. He seemed very close to each child.

"That priest is the head of the orphanage."

"I didn't expect to see Bishop Otto..." Looking at Otto who was completely different from what I remembered, the corners of Bronya's eyes twitched slightly.

"Does my sister know him?"

"He is a very bad and dangerous person... But in this world, he may be completely different from the reality. After all, in the previous world, Cocolia's mother was a completely different person... In short, the world's The breakthrough must also be in Joachim, we must find an opportunity to touch him."

(In the small island of the villa, Bronya wrote furiously, "Write it down, it will be used to save Seele in the future.")

Bronya and Seele walked into the room and found that the priest had disappeared, and the children were sitting around a dilapidated wooden table without saying a word.

Theresa tried to open the topic with lunch, but no one answered her, and everyone looked sad, and Theresa's eyes were also a little dark.

Seele tried to go along with the other party, Teresa took the opportunity to respond, and intentionally raised her voice in order to enliven the atmosphere, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

"Theresa..." Joachim lowered his head and said, "I know you want us to cheer up, but you don't have to force yourself to take on the responsibility of comforting us..." He sadly said in a low tone, "Ka Rael is gone, everyone needs a little time, and so do you."

Teresa put down the spoon, lowered her head, and the atmosphere in the hall fell into silence.

"Huh? Are you eating?" Father Otto's arrival broke the sad atmosphere.

"Father, you changed your clothes, are you going to the town?" Teresa wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, trying to pull herself together.

"Well, winter is coming soon, and I want to go to the grocery store to buy some ingredients." The priest responded with a smile.

"By the way, Joachim, Mrs. Liesel is coming to pick you up tomorrow. Have you packed your luggage? Say goodbye to everyone today and don't leave any regrets." Nodding, Otto added: "I'm going out, I'll leave the housework to you, Teresa."

After Father Otto left, Teresa, as the oldest person in the orphanage, naturally assumed the position of the person in charge, ordering the children to work.

Bronya and Seele volunteered to help and accepted the job of chopping wood on the opposite hillside.

The two found a small forest and solved the Quantum Shadow on the road. They didn't encounter other enemies. It was obviously a deserted snowfield but there were no Houkai beasts, not even carnivorous animals.

But Bronya always has an ominous premonition, and always feels that there seems to be something bad in the air...

"Xie'er, don't hold on, let Bronya come."

Xier reluctantly raised the small axe, which made Bronya feel distressed.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I am in these worlds, I can maintain the current state. I also want to help, and I want to share a little bit for Sister Bronya."

Seele swung the ax hard and chopped off a branch.

"Life here is like the orphanage where we grew up. Seeing those children is like seeing us in the past."

"Although the days are hard, everyone will work hard to maintain this little happiness. We all lost family members, but found new family members in the orphanage."

There seemed to be light in her eyes, and she missed her former family members and the good life they lived in the small orphanage. Although there were some small conflicts, they were very happy.

Xier picked up the branches on the ground and piled them on the ground swept away by Bronya, and said in a worried tone.

"It's just that... the children here seem to be a little disunited. Joachim seems to be leaving the orphanage."

"From what the priest said, he seems to have been adopted." Bronya guessed.

"It's a good thing for a child in an orphanage to be adopted, but I always feel that there is something wrong with Joachim's reaction."

"There should be something hidden behind it, let's go back and ask Teresa."

The two tied up the wood, wrapped it with the cloth specially brought from the orphanage, and carried it back with them on their backs.

Looking at the back of the two holding hands in the video, Bronya's eyes are very warm.

Chapter 68 The Priest in a Coma on the Snow

The two who felled the wood returned to the orphanage, and Bronya gave the wood to Teresa.

Watching her deftly sort the wood and add fire to the stove, except for things the children missed, it was clear that Teresa was already very skilled.

Seeing this, Bronya curiously asked Teresa about her past.

"Although life is very difficult, as long as the priest and everyone are there, we will be able to overcome the difficulties."

Teresa answered in a friendly manner.

From her mouth, Bronya and Seele learned about Teresa's past in this orphanage.

Teresa doesn't have the first memory. Her earliest memory is waking up from the priest's shoulder.

She was not the earliest child in the orphanage, but she was the one who stayed the longest. She liked the atmosphere of the orphanage and did not intend to leave.

"And what about Joachim?"

Seeing Teresa let go of her heart, Bronya opened her mouth.

"Why did you suddenly ask about him?" Teresa didn't answer right away, her face was a little bad.

"During lunch, you seemed to have some disputes." Bronya had already found a reason: "He is leaving tomorrow, and Bronya wants to know what happened."

"I won't hide it from you, it's not about Joachim and I having any conflicts, but between the priest and him."

Teresa stopped what she was doing and was silent for a long time before she sighed and talked about the relationship between Joachim and the priest.

Joachim's father, killed by the priest.

Joachim's father, a doctor, has been studying how to replace Joachim's mother who died of illness.

He violated forbidden knowledge...

At the beginning, he used small white mice for experiments, and later turned into kittens and puppies, until finally, when he was discovered by the priest, he had already extended his hand to the stray orphans.

So, the priest killed Joachim's father.

...and then Joachim became an orphan.

"So, Joachim has always hated the priest." According to common sense, Bronya came up with a reasonable guess.

"If he really hated, it would be a relief." Unexpectedly, Theresa shook her head and gave the opposite answer: "Joachim knows the crimes his father committed, and he also wants to stop his father. , but there was nothing he could do, so he didn’t hold grudges against the priest.”

"He came to the orphanage, took care of other children like a big brother, and rushed to the forefront of everything. During that time, I thought he had forgotten the past..."

Everyone in the orphanage trusts Joachim, including Teresa and Father Otto.

So, one day, the priest told Joachim that he intended to make him his heir.

But since that day, Joachim has become gloomy.

Only then did the priest and Teresa know that Joachim had not forgotten that incident.

"It's possible that Joachim doesn't want to take over the orphanage." Xier made a hypothesis, the chicks yearn for the freedom of the unknown, and Joachim may also yearn for the unknown life.

Teresa shook her head and said affirmatively: "He is afraid... Fearing that one day, he will stand in the same position as the priest, face the same choice as the priest, and fear that the pain he once suffered will be imposed on another child. A nightmare he will never forget."

So, when Mrs. Liesel from the neighboring town offered to adopt him, Joachim agreed. He didn't want to face his past fears, he was running away.

Maybe leaving here, a new life can allow him to start again, Joachim hoped so much... even if this will never solve the knot in his heart.

"Many times, we all understand the truth, but there are some things in our hearts that are hard to let go." Teresa said with emotion, everyone understands the truth, but whether it is you or me, we can't let go of it.

Chai Fang became silent, Bronya, Xier, and Teresa looked at each other, but did not make any rebuttals.

"...Speaking of which, the sky is getting so dark, the priest should have been back long ago." Teresa turned her head to look at the darkened sky, frowning: "It's strange, I'll go out and have a look."

After all, Teresa was relieved of the work in hand, told the children to rest in peace, and hurried to the door, Bronya and Seele also followed after seeing this.

Stepping on the snow, Bronya kept recalling Teresa's words in her mind. She seemed to see the scene when she and Cocolia's mother met for the first time seven years ago.

That period of memories that she couldn't let go of has now become her painful shackles.

Difficult to let go...same for Bronya.

"When I was scared before, sister Bronya would hold my hand like this."

Seeing Bronya's confused expression, Xier held her hand.

"If it's a painful thing, don't think about it. Xi'er will always be with Sister Bronya, just like how my sister was with Xi'er before."

Seele showed a big smile, soothing Bronya's heart.

"...Thank you, Bronya is fine, just a little confused, but Bronya has decided to face it."

Bronya smiled back, turned around, and walked towards Theresa's position, but she didn't notice that the smile on Xier's face behind her gradually disappeared. There was a weird scarlet.

Bronya came to the hillside, looking for Theresa's figure. In the falling snowflakes, her ears moved, and her expression changed suddenly.

"Father—! Father—! Wake up, wake up..."

Bronya led Xier across the hillside following the sound, and saw Theresa kneeling on the snow, and...

"Father... Please, wake up!"

Father Otto was unconscious with strange purple lines all over his face.

Bronya, whose strength was limited, had no strength to take the priest back. The three discussed for a while, and Teresa and Xier took care of the priest. Bronya returned to the orphanage and asked the older children to come and carry the priest. .

On the way back to the orphanage, Bronya found the traces of the Houkai Beast. When she felt bad in the dark, she saw the Houkai Beast turned around slowly as if it was being manipulated, and headed back to the depths of the snow field.

Bronya noticed the strangeness in the air belatedly, and then she saw——

"The Eighth God's Key, Yu Duchen?"

"There are traces of feathers on your body. It allows you to see me and let me know everything about you. It's amazing. You don't belong here."

Yu Duchen held a feather and revealed its identity.

"I am one of the three thousand feathers left by Yu Duchen, and I have sensed the man's protection and appeared here..."

Chapter 69 The Badly Wounded Hero

Hearing Yu Duchen's words, Bronya immediately understood.