Siegfried Slacking Off

In the video.

After deciding to bring Kiana along, Theresa contacted headquarters through the communications device and obtained Siegfried's location.

Hearing that she was about to meet her long-missing good-for-nothing dad, Kiana felt both happy and nervous.

"By the way, Theresa, I need to ask you something. When we meet Siegfried later, please help me keep it a secret that I'm his illegitimate daughter."

"Huh? Why? Aren't you..."

Theresa did not understand why Kiana, who had been clamoring to find Siegfried earlier, suddenly did not want to acknowledge him.

Seeing Theresa's puzzled expression, Kiana could only draw upon all the knowledge she had accumulated in her life and make up what she considered a perfect lie.

"Well... look, this is a critical point in the mission. If we waste time on something so trivial, then Mom... Lady Cecilia might end up in danger!"

At the thought that the mother she had never met was about to face danger, Kiana's tone became anxious as well.

"So we have to meet up with Siegfried quickly, then defeat the Second Herrscher!"

Seeing Kiana being so considerate of the bigger picture, Theresa could not help sighing. "I understand. As expected of my niece~"

In the real world, after seeing this, the viewers all burst into laughter and began making jokes in the comments.

Theresa Dummy, what exactly did you understand?!!!

I'm dying, Kiana and Theresa Dummy—two huge idiots.

I get it now. No wonder Kiana and Theresa are both so powerful. They traded away their intelligence for it!

You brat.JPG, then how do you explain Ye Li?

While the viewers were discussing it, Theresa and Kiana arrived at the agreed location.

Then they saw a handsome middle-aged man with a white ponytail sitting some distance away, smiling at them.

"Yo~ Theresa, you finally made it. I heard you ran into the Second Herrscher earlier. I was really worried about you."

Normally, when a man spoke to a woman in such a somewhat frivolous tone, she would instinctively feel uncomfortable.

Yet strangely, neither Theresa in the video nor the women watching it in the real world felt that way.

Not only did they not feel uncomfortable, they even felt an inexplicable sense of reassurance.

My new husband!

Father-in-law, please accept this bow from your son-in-law!

Kid upstairs, I noticed you a long time ago! You're stealing my wife from me, and now you're even trying to steal my father-in-law?!

To be fair, although miHoYo's writers are awful, they really know how to cast! This handsome uncle is completely my type!

In the real world, at the Schicksal Group.

Siegfried Kaslana was smoking in the company stairwell.

At that moment, the stairwell door was suddenly pushed open. Startled, Siegfried hurriedly ground out his cigarette under his shoe, then pretended to be playing on his phone.

He was terrified that the cleaning lady would catch him and report him to Cecilia.

Little did he know, the smell of smoke hanging in the air and his black phone screen had already thoroughly betrayed him.

"Senior Siegfried, so you were here~"

Accompanied by a sweet voice, a girl with long grayish-blue hair entered Siegfried's view.

She wore a demure white-trimmed short dress, with a playful blue bow tied at her collar. She had on black thigh-high stockings and white knee-high boots with two black straps around them.

For a man, if such a youthful and well-behaved girl came looking for him, he would surely be secretly delighted.

However, Siegfried was different.

"Ah~ It's Shigure Kira."

After seeing that it was not the cleaning lady, Siegfried let out a long sigh of relief and pulled another cigarette from his pocket.

"Um... I'm going to smoke. You don't mind, do you?"

Shigure Kira shook her head, forcefully suppressing the disgust in her eyes as she said sweetly,

"It's fine, I'll be leaving soon. By the way... Senior Siegfried, have you been watching P-site lately?"

"No. The department's been pretty busy lately, so how would I have time for that stuff?"

Siegfried lit his cigarette and began puffing out clouds of smoke.

"Forget playing on my phone, even this time to smoke was squeezed out of my schedule."

Shigure Kira's eyes shifted, and she put on a sympathetic expression as she said softly,

"You've worked hard, Senior Siegfried~ Balancing work and rest is the most important thing.

By the way, there's a very popular video on P-site lately called Honkai Impact 3rd. I saw Bianca and Kiana in it~"

"Oh~ You mean that one? I watched it before too."

At the mention of his daughters, Siegfried's bitter expression softened.

"I never expected those two little girls to go make a movie. They really are Cecilia's daughters~"

Upon hearing Cecilia's name, Shigure Kira's eyes lit up considerably.

But when she remembered that the goddess she admired had already become someone's wife, Shigure Kira became utterly indignant.

"I was surprised too, but what surprised me even more was you, Senior Siegfried~" Shigure Kira said through gritted teeth.

"Huh?" Siegfried looked confused. "What did I do?"

"Stop pretending, Senior Siegfried. You appeared in the latest video too..."

Siegfried barely took in the rest of what she said.

After perfunctorily dealing with Shigure Kira, Siegfried hurriedly pulled out his phone and opened the newest video.

After confirming that the man in the video really was him, Siegfried could not help but put up a huge question mark.

???

Why don't I remember going off to make a movie?

It could only be said that the Kaslana Family truly was thick-skinned and simple-minded.

In a situation like this, his first reaction was not to question the video's origin, but to question his own memory instead.

Meanwhile, while Siegfried stared blankly at his phone in utter confusion, he had no idea that a sneaky figure behind the stairwell door was glaring at him viciously.

"Hmph~ I really don't know what Lady Cecilia sees in such an ordinary man!"

Click.

Accompanied by the faint sound of a shutter, the stairwell fire door quietly closed.

Soon afterward, a photo posted by an anonymous account titled "Siegfried Slacking Off, Smoking, and Watching Videos in the Stairwell" spread throughout the entire department.