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Chapter 80 The Truth About the Past

The scene came to a warm family, and the Siegfried couple were preparing for their child Kiana's birthday, gifts, cakes, and room decorations...

"Stop, stop, didn't you just fight to death, why is it suddenly going to be my birthday...? Hermit, isn't your painting style changing too fast???"

Qiyana pointed at the parents in the scene and complained loudly, then turned to look at the hermit with question marks on her face.

"After Fu Hua finally lost, part of the Eighth God's Key fell into the hands of the Second Herrscher... She captured Siegfried Kaslana and Shaniat and threw them away Into the environment of Yu Duchen."

"But the Second Herrscher doesn't seem to know the real usage of Yu Duchen. He originally wanted to create a terrifying dream for them...but it turned into what you saw..."

The hermit shrugged.

"And in jealousy, resentment, or some kind of desire and emotion that Sirin herself doesn't understand...Second Herrscher Sirin also put her own consciousness into it."

"Her inexplicable longing...is a longing for love..."

The hermit looked at Sirin, who was dressed in a black sailor suit, jumped into a dream and landed in front of the gate of Kiyana's family.

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"For Sirin, the feather that cannot be freely controlled seems to respond to her true wish at this moment. Cecilia in the illusion regards her as her own daughter, giving her the tenderness of a mother to her children."

"In this dream, she tasted the cake her mother bought for her again, and it tasted exactly the same."

"At night, I felt the warmth of being hugged by my mother and falling asleep again..."

"Again, I took to the streets with my loved ones..."

"Again—protected by mother."

The hermit and Qiyana looked at Cecilia who was hugging Sirin under the broken glass of the mall explosion in the picture to block all the debris for her.

"Your mother, Cecilia Shaniat, has not been deluded by this illusion from the very beginning, and she has given this child her true feelings... She regards Sirin, the Second Herrscher—as Another daughter of his own."

"And Sirin once again heard someone talking to her."

"—lch liebe dich (I love you)"

The words containing the invisible [magic power] were uttered by the hermit.

......

"This sentence is so familiar...uh! My head hurts..."

"Hoo-hoo-! There are also headaches in dreams... the hermit?"

"Hermit??!"

Kiyana took a deep breath, recovering from the severe headache, and looked away, the woman in black and white with red combat uniform, hood and mask had disappeared at some point, only her voice was left Echoes in space....

"It's time for the curtain to close, boy—"

"You've seen it all begin—"

The scene begins to tell the turn

[As Bella fell, Sirin, who thought she had been deceived, attacked Siegfried in the dream]

【Walter Young who hides in the dream reappears】

[Dr. Einstein, who controls Arahator trying to peel off the Gem of Conquest, and the Herrscher core fragment that fell in the cockpit and belongs to Walter Young]

【The Siegfried couple locked in the infinite corridor...】

[Theresa who liberated Judah's zero power.... Siegfried Kaslana who went into a rampage]

And - the Second Herrscher who lost his regenerative ability and ran amok after being stripped of the Serenity Gem.

"The Houkai energy on the second Herrscher's body... went berserk?" Qiyana looked at the sky-reaching pillar made of Houkai energy in disbelief.

"Without the regeneration ability of the Tranquility Gem, the body of the Second Herrscher with multiple cores has also come to an end at this moment. The Houkai energy released from her body will continue to spread until it swallows half of the Asian continent."

The voice of the hermit resounded in the space again, but at this moment she seemed to intend to tell the girl the ending of the story only as a narration.

"Columnar Honkai can be continuously scattered around...some of them will fall towards your parents."

"—Walter Yang, who only had the core left, manipulated Arahato to prop up a shield for them, and his core fell into Siegfried's hands..."

"The two men communicated in the space of consciousness, Yang inspired your father, he still has people who should be protected, his most cherished people—"

"And your mother, listening to the casualty estimates from their headquarters, made up her mind..."

"Mom? Mom, what is she going to do?!" Kiyana looked at Cecilia nervously.

"The strongest Valkyrie of the Shaniat family in this generation is special; the descendants of the Kaslana family have extremely high resistance to the Houkai energy, and Shaniat has the ability to control the Houkai energy."

"And your mother has a more special ability under the transformation of the past Catholic Bishop Otto Apocalypse."

"Her blood can neutralize Houkai energy, making them disappear completely...but as you heard, it's blood, not anything else."

"Mom her!"

"She liberated another form of the Sixth God's Key... at the cost of almost the whole body's blood..."

"The chaotic Houkai energy of the Second Herrscher disappeared under the neutralization of the liberation of Cecilia's holy blood, and Siegfried put Yang's core into the Holy Fire of Heaven and released the seventh key of God real power."

"The real power...this is the one on your back—!"

Kiyana looked at Siegfried holding up the great sword, and suddenly remembered that this was the alien great sword on the hermit.

"Its name is—Skyfire·Kalpa"

Siegfried shattered the core of the Second Herrscher, and the berserk Houkai energy completely disappeared.

"Now, it's time to end the curtain. Cecilia, the most powerful Valkyrie of Destiny, poured her final strength into the black abyss and white flowers, and propped up the final barrier for your exhausted father Siegfried."

"Mom, what is she going to do...?!" Kiyana watched in a panic as the woman left the weapon beside her husband, turned around and walked away.

"Heh—" The hermit sounded like a mocking and lamenting voice.

"Hermit! Mom, what is she going to do!"

She didn't respond to the girl's question.

In the scene, Cecilia caught Sirin who fell from the sky, and she hugged Sirin and whispered to the girl, and this was originally only known to the purple-haired girl, and it echoed loudly in this space at this moment .

"Sirin, poor child. In the illusion, I saw your loneliness and pain."

"At that time, I really wanted to be your mother, to make up for what you lost...Unfortunately, I couldn't change anything at that time."

"At least, at the end of your life—so that you can feel the warmth."

"ich libe dich..."

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"At that time, the Catholic Bishop, who detected that the second Herrscher still had a life response, ordered all the troops to retreat, and fired a Honkai fission bomb at the position where the Herrscher was."

The voice of the hermit sounded again——

Waking up Kiana who was staring blankly at Cecilia.

"The second Honkai, in the final battle with the Second Herrscher, the only survivors were Siegfried and Walter Young's Herrscher core...and your mother died here."

"This is the truth of history...a completely different side from the textbook of destiny."

Chapter 81 The Beginning of Another Story

The story of the past seems to have ended, and the illusion has fallen into darkness here.

In the darkness, the hermit reappeared and walked among them, and the firelight on the sword became the only light source in the darkness, guiding Qiyana's progress.

The girl runs forward, chasing the light in front of her. She still has many questions to ask the hermit ahead, and she still has many puzzles that have not been answered.

However, in the darkness, the road under his feet seemed to be infinitely deriving, no matter how hard he ran, he couldn't catch up with the walking figure.

"Who are you? Why are you chasing after her figure?" A young voice asked in the darkness.

"I'm Kiyana Kaslana, I... still have a lot of questions I want to ask her!"

"Oh, well...Miss Kiyana, do you still remember your oath?"

The voice continued asking after a brief pause.

"Uh... my oath? What is my oath?! Why can't I remember all of a sudden—!"

Qiyana stopped chasing the light in panic and confusion...

After witnessing the end of the story, after hearing Cecilia's "ich libe dich" and the severe headache that can be felt in that dream, she seems to have forgotten a lot of things.

"If you can't remember your oath... you will never be able to catch up with that one, she never stops for the lost."

The voice spoke again, and he reminded the girl friendly, but in the girl's field of vision, the hermit was getting further and further away, leaving only a faint glimmer of fire in the originally bright sun.

"What is my oath, damn it! Remember it!"

Qiyana scratched her hair anxiously, and her neatly combed hair was messed up by her at this moment.

"Look at that sword... Miss Kiyana, didn't you make an oath before that sword..."

There was a girl's anxious and concerned voice sounding beside her. Qiyana had heard this voice before, and it was the voice of little Sirin she had met once.

"Look at the sword?...the great sword that burns...the flame...the great sword that dispels the darkness...the one that illuminates the way..."

Under the girl's reminder, a ray of light flashed through the girl's mind.

"Thank you...Xiao Xilin - I want to turn this imperfect world into what I want. This is my vow and belief!"

The girl announced loudly, and once again took her own steps to chase after the distant fire.

"What a kind kid... Forget it, let's just assume you passed this question."

The young man's voice sounded, and his tone was full of helplessness towards a little purple-haired girl who reminded the girl.

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"Then, Miss Kiyana...if——your surname is no longer Kaslana...will you still fulfill this oath?"

The young man's questioning voice sounded again... At this moment, the girl seemed to have forgotten her surname and the certain drive that came from her blood.

"...I will!" The simple and forceful answer without any hesitation made Su, who was under the cherry blossom tree in the world, look stunned, and made him doubt whether his ability had made a mistake.