The moment she reached the center of the church, Kiana suddenly felt the entire underground church begin to tremble at high frequency, while some force of gravity transcending time and space dragged her consciousness downward.
After several shifts in space, when Kiana came back to her senses, she suddenly found herself standing upon a vast snowfield.
"Where is this...?"
At the highest point of the snowfield stood a terrifying tower of steel.
The cold wind howled, and the sky was perpetually shrouded in grayish-white clouds.
Looking at the tower surrounded by endless icebergs and year-round snow, Kiana felt a wave of oppression in her heart.
What concerned Kiana even more was...
This was clearly her first time coming here, so why did it feel so incredibly familiar?
And she had clearly entered with Theresa, so why had Theresa vanished after only a short while?
"The only thing I can see is that tower. Forget it, I'll go take a look over there first."
No sooner said than done, Kiana started walking toward the distant tower.
However, what Kiana failed to notice was...
Not long after she left, a dark-purple figure suddenly appeared where she had been standing.
When people in the real world saw this, they immediately began sending regards to the scriptwriter's family.
Because that dark-purple figure was the Second Herrscher who had appeared in Kiana's dream space before.
Because of Ye Li, the Second Herrscher had not come out to cause trouble for quite some time.
Now that Ye Li was in trouble, she appeared at once. Her timing could not have been better.
Elsewhere, in the girls' dormitory of Senba Academy.
After Raiden Mei and the others saw this, they too broke out in a cold sweat for the Kiana in the video.
"I wonder if the Kiana in the video can find a way to save Ye Li," Raiden Mei said worriedly.
"Of course she can, Mei!"
Kiana said confidently, "Although my grades in real life are... pretty average, the world in the video isn't one where success or failure is decided by grades. I believe the me in the video can definitely do it!"
"In some ways, this video is quite faithful to our characterizations.
For example, Mei is a master chef both inside and outside the video, while I retained my hacking abilities. As for Kiana..."
At that point, Bronya glanced at Kiana.
"Why are you looking at me?!"
Kiana glared at Bronya. "Whether inside or outside the video, I'm just as exce—"
"Just as much of an idiot," Bronya cut in.
"Ah!!! You smug Bronya, I'll fight you!"
As she spoke, Kiana lunged toward Bronya on the other side of the sofa.
The two beautiful girls instantly became a tangled mess.
While the two were fooling around, the Kiana in the video finally encountered the second person besides herself on the vast snowfield.
And that person was Theresa.
However, to Kiana's surprise, this Theresa not only failed to recognize her, but even mistook her for an illusion created by the Second Herrscher.
"Hey! Theresa, wake up! I really am your niece, Kiana Kaslana!"
Kiana shouted at her while fending off Theresa's attacks.
"Stop trying to confuse me, Second Herrscher!"
Theresa declared resolutely, "My niece Kiana is only one year old right now! So die, illusion!!!"
Seeing this, people in the real world finally realized what was happening.
Kiana had obviously traveled through time, and she had traveled to Siberia in the year 2000.
Recalling the plot that had appeared earlier, many lore enthusiasts said that Kiana might be able to change history.
A time-travel story?! Things were getting interesting!
Could the later plot be about Kiana changing history?
Master, I understand now! This little butterfly named Kiana went back to the year 2000 and did something that affected the Ye Li lying unconscious in the real world, thereby saving him!
Amazing, bro, amazing! I'll snatch the scriptwriter's pen for you—you can write the rest of the story for me.
In the video, after exchanging several rounds with Kiana, Theresa suddenly stopped.
"Wait! The technique you're using... could it be the Kaslana Family's gun kata?! Who taught you that?"
"Of course my dad taught me," Kiana said as if it were only natural.
But Theresa, standing opposite her, asked in confusion, "Who is your dad?"
"Siegfried. Siegfried Kaslana."
Upon hearing that familiar name, Theresa felt utterly terrible.
Then, recalling Siegfried's awful reputation, Theresa had already deduced the whole chain of events!
In the real world, just as countless netizens expected the Theresa of the past to deduce that the Kiana before her had come from the future.
Theresa instead said with absolute certainty, "I understand! You must be Siegfried's illegitimate daughter!"
The Kiana in the video: Huh?
The Kiana in the real world: Huh??
The netizens in the real world: Huh???
In the video, Theresa said indignantly, "That damned Siegfried! I already knew his private life was a mess, and there were even rumors that he'd groped every Valkyrie's butt, but I never imagined he had such a grown illegitimate daughter!"
Looking at Kiana's white hair, unique to the Kaslana Family, Theresa's gaze softened.
"Now I see. No wonder you called yourself my niece."
"Who... who's an illegitimate daughter?!" Kiana's face was filled with speechlessness.
"You poor child. I know it's hard for you to accept this, but none of this is your fault. It's all your perverted father's fault!"
Seeing that Theresa seemed to have already accepted this as fact, Kiana could only helplessly go along with it.
"Forget it. With Theresa's intelligence, it looks like it'll be hard to explain this clearly to her."
Kiana thought to herself, I'd better agree with her for now and let her take me out of this damned place.
Oh my god, my Chongchong actually has a day when she looks down on someone else's intelligence!
Shocking! The person with the lowest intelligence in Honkai Impact 3rd has been found!
What Theresa? I think she's Dumb Theresa!
Senba Academy, staff dormitory.
As the principal of Senba Academy, Theresa had always been troubled by her inability to establish any authority as principal in front of the students because of her height and appearance.
And now, that problem had finally been solved.
This was killing me.
Because after this video aired, never mind authority—it would already be a good thing if the students did not laugh at her behind her back!
Thinking of this, Theresa thought viciously:
"MiHoYo's First Idol Ai-chan, is it? Don't let me run into you, or I'll smash you to death with Judas!"
The moment she finished speaking, Theresa suddenly froze, having noticed a blind spot.
Huh?
What was Judas?
Why had that word suddenly appeared in her mind?
Theresa thought in confusion.
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