Durandal: Only the Strong Deserve Beauty

Half of the people believe that Rita is reasonable and, in the face of crisis, chose to put aside her primary mission and cooperate with Kiana, the mission objective, to protect the people.

The other half believes that the trigger for the massive Honkai caused by the World Serpent was Rita's order to crash the Honkai energy engine on the warship in the industrial area, so Rita was trying to save it.

"Rita is such a reasonable person," Kiana remarked.

After Rita defeated the Honkai Beasts, her communicator rang, and a familiar voice came through, followed by a mysterious smile on her lips.

"... If Lady Durandal captures me, then it's none of my business."

Kiana was completely bewildered. This part wasn't in her script. She had just thought Rita was a reasonable person, but she never expected her to betray her so suddenly, and even have her older sister come to arrest her herself.

"Rita, you!"

"Miss Kiana, this has nothing to do with one of my secretaries. It was your uncle, Yaqing, who wrote the script."

In order to obtain..., Rita was unwilling to offend anyone in the Kaslana family, so she directly shifted the blame onto someone in Schariac.

The scene shifts to Kiana and Mei, who are on their way to the Information Tower when they are stopped by Raven. Kiana, who can use Honkai energy, defeats Raven.

However, Raven's words stalled Kiana before the battle, buying time for the Stigmata Project.

"Kiana and the Herrscher of the Void are not the same person, so why are you attributing what Sirin did to Kiana?" Pardo said, dissatisfied.

"Didn't she realize that Kiana's efforts to save Sky Dome City were completely different from those of the Herrscher of the Void as recorded in the annals?"

"Pardo, Raven never saw what Sirin looked like when she was little," Sakura said. "Her memory of the Great Honkai three months ago was that Schicksal put down the warrant, but even so, I don't agree with her ideas."

"She talks about the evil deeds of the Herrscher of the Void, but has she considered that once the Stigmata Project is actually implemented, how will their actions differ from those of the Herrscher on the Siberian Snowfield?"

Kevin was very angry.

He was furious that his own character in the story would carry out such a cruel plan.

He was furious at why he was so obsessed with himself in the story.

To get to this point, Kiana squeezed out every last bit of power from her body, pushing it to the brink of collapse. Even so, could she still not stop the Stigmata Project?

"Kiana, use the power of the Herrscher of the Void to your fullest extent." Fu Hua told Kiana that she would do her best to help her suppress the Herrscher of the Void's consciousness. Only by using the core's power to its fullest extent could they have time to stop the Stigmata Project.

But Kiana knew that Fu Hua was already very weak, and if she used all her strength to help her restrain the Herrscher Persona, even she didn't know what would happen.

"Those who sacrificed themselves because of the Honkai are gone; they didn't have the chance to witness the world become a better place through your efforts."

"But you can let those who are still alive see all of this with their own eyes."

Fu Hua turned her head to the side, smiled slightly, and disappeared into the warm light amidst the drifting feathers.

"Go do what you should be doing."

Kiana gripped the feather tightly in her palm.

"Thank you, class monitor."

"This, this, this, this isn't going to happen, is it?!"

Little Knowledge watched the plot unfold, a sense of unease suddenly crept into his heart.

"We've all forgotten that this movie hasn't completely killed off anyone yet." Himeko recalled her own experience of being taken out of the movie theaters after the third one, and wondered if this movie was going to kill off Fu Hua?

"No, wait, wait a little longer..."

Cheng Lixue stared intently at the screen, muttering to herself.

Under the night sky of Sky Dome City, a lithe figure moved like an arrow, leaping and twisting among the skyscrapers like Spider-Man, evading the patrolling guard mechs under the cover of lights.

"Hmph, so you're here."

"I don't have time..."

Kiana pulled open her hoodie, flung the hood up, and a purple black hole appeared behind her, from which a baseball bat emerged. She grabbed the bat and charged straight out.

"I'll stay here with you!"

Grabbing the crane's hook, he used the momentum to jump from one rooftop to another, then quickly approached the guard mech along the steel cable, his White Comet combat boots flashing across the cable.

With his agile figure and baseball bat, he quickly destroyed three guard mechs. He then jumped down, dodging the fire from two guard mechs, grabbed a rope, and spun the baseball bat in the air to form a barrier that blocked the bullets fired by the mechs.

After landing, throw a baseball bat at one of the mech's arms.

"Neko charm!"

The giant cat paw reappeared, but the cat magic failed to crush the mecha. Instead, Kiana was blasted away. Just as the mecha was about to destroy Kiana suddenly opened her golden eyes and a purple barrier blocked the mecha's attack.

Countless cannon fire poured out, yet time seemed to stand still in this purple space. Kiana, like a dancing elf, rose into the air atop the cannonballs, culminating in a magnificent fall.

The shell exploded.

After taking down all the guard mechs, Kiana ran towards the center of the information tower, but the intense Honkai energy emitted by the Honkai Engine made her stop and let out a muffled groan.

Kiana gritted her teeth, her arms bearing the marks of Honkai energy erosion, enduring inhuman pain as she walked step by step toward the engine, grabbing it with all her might.

The terrifying Honkai energy gnawed at her muscles like a bone-deep wound, and even the Valkyrie armor could not withstand such a massive amount of Honkai energy, causing it to disintegrate.

In that instant, even his only blue eyes turned golden.

Starall, which served as background music, began to play at this moment.

Kiana.

A gentle yet familiar voice rang in her ear. Kiana looked to the side in disbelief. A somewhat ethereal Himeko placed her hand on Kiana's. Himeko turned her head slightly and smiled gently at her.

In the screening room, almost at the same time, everyone couldn't help but stand up, excitedly watching Himeko reappear. Although they knew it was Kiana's illusion, they still couldn't hide their excitement.

They were more inclined to believe that the real Himeko had returned to help the students who had given their all.

Final Lesson.

"Yes, I promised you." Kiana released her hand from her left eye and placed it on the Honkai energy Bomb. "I will tell this imperfect story—"

"To become what we want it to be!"

Kiana and Himeko uttered this vow together, and in the pure white space on the screen, Himeko's silhouette appeared, dressed as Vermilion Knight: Eclipse: Eclipse and wielding the Godkiller Sword Himeko.

Golden eyes.

Kiana unleashed the full power of the Herrscher Core, sending a purple beam of light soaring into the sky. In the next instant, she flew into the high heavens with the Honkai energy bomb, and Herrscher feathers appeared on Kiana's body as she gained control of the Herrscher Authority.

She was dressed exactly like the Herrscher of the Void, except that her eyes were still the azure blue of the sky.

That day, the people of Sky Dome City saw a purple shooting star streak across the night sky, but they didn't know that a young girl had risked everything to save their lives.

The scene flashes by as Rita looks up at the night sky and Mei looks worried.

As the rousing chorus begins, a meteor streaks through the clouds and hurtles towards the atmosphere. Gazing at the ever-approaching bright moon, Kiana chooses to pierce the bomb with her Spear of the Void.

The Honkai energy bomb exploded high in the sky, its purple light dazzling against the night. Kiana was falling, her face showing exhaustion and satisfaction, her voice weak.

"This is my promise..."

The movie hadn't finished playing yet, but just this one segment was enough to cause the previously quiet screening room to erupt in enthusiastic applause. Despite it being a movie theater, no one complained.

To them, the shooting stars in the sky and the Final Lesson were the same.

The only difference is...

The Final Lesson is Himeko's tears of sorrow at being willing to sacrifice herself, while the meteor shower is tears of emotion upon witnessing Kiana's growth.

That shooting star flying backwards inherited the dazzling flames.

"That's awesome! Kiana, you knew about this plot all along, but you kept it from us!" Little Knowledge vigorously rubbed Kiana's white hair, his heart filled with excitement and surging passion.

"Hey! Little Knowledge, don't pull my hair! It was that stinky uncle who said no spoilers! If you want to find him, go find him!"

Kiana complained incessantly, but Little Knowledge simply didn't know how much force to use.

Himeko looked at Kiana on the screen with satisfaction, then at the Kiana beside her, and smiled slightly. Although the mature and steady Kiana was good, she preferred the innocent and naive Kiana in front of her.

Back row.

Kevin stared blankly at the shooting stars in the sky on the screen, and it took him a long time to react. "Great! Excellent! This is the belief in protecting the people that is in the blood of Kaslana!"

"Yaqing, you really cheated! You actually got Eden to record two songs at once, and when the chorus started..." Elysia felt her scalp tingle. Although she loved watching the intimate scenes, she couldn't help but feel excited when she saw this.

"...COOL!" Kosma gave a serious thumbs up.

From the audience's perspective, although this movie did not kill off any characters, it buried more thorns than the previous movies, not hard thorns, but soft ones.

However, cutting flesh with a soft knife hurts even more.

The movie "The Meteor Shower" received extremely high praise online, with some viewers even leaving reviews before finishing the film.

The Collapse Official Website strongly recommends it.

As viewers witnessed firsthand Kiana's transformation from an innocent Brainless Idiot into Void Drifter who saves Sky Dome City, many felt a surge of emotion and were moved to tears.

It's like watching your own child grow up and become sensible.

Chapter 231 Durandal: Beauty Deserves Only the Strong

A meteor fell.

Just as all the viewers were anticipating Kiana's next move, the camera only showed Mei running towards the direction where the meteor fell, before turning towards North Africa, where an experiment to activate the Second Divine Key was underway.

Among them, the laws governing the universe, the mysteries of the cycle of life, and the Imaginary Tree —the place where all essences and origins are formed—captured the curiosity of all viewers.

This experiment yielded minimal progress for Otto; he still needed the power of the Herrscher of the Void to fulfill his long-cherished wish before the Honkai destroyed human civilization.

The plot twists and turns were rather abrupt, leaving viewers confused. One second it was a super exciting meteor shower in the sky, and the next it was an experiment on the Second Divine Key.

"What... what's going on?" Pardo, completely bewildered.

When May, Mobius, and Vill-V saw the term "Imaginary Tree," they all fell into deep thought.

They vaguely felt that the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta were connected, not only as an expansion of the Honkai series' worldview, but also as a new development beyond science.

All three of them turned to Yaqing, the screenwriter, hoping he could provide an explanation.

Yaqing shook her head slightly.

Since Otto will explain things to the audience later in the story, why should he waste his breath? He might as well keep them looking forward to it.

Mobius believed in Yaqing's wisdom and talent, but not in her own bold conjecture. She believed that Yaqing must have discovered something beyond their comprehension during those seven years in the laboratory managed by the Schicksal Consortium.

The Sea of Quanta is a space connecting various World Bubble, where parallel universes converge. What about the Imaginary Tree?

After the experiment was completed, Durandal received a report from Rita.

The scene shifts back to Sky Dome City, where the hero who saved the city is falling. A silver spearhead points to the ground, and a giant vine appears out of thin air to catch Kiana.

Mei was still on her way, filled with anticipation to bring Kiana home. Just as she was about to reach the vines, the blonde knight princess descended from the sky.

"It's Big Sister! Big Sister has come to save me!" Kiana exclaimed excitedly.

"Idiot, this doesn't look like saving you, it looks more like..." Bronya looked at the Brainless Idiot with its high ponytail, then at the peaceful sleeping face with its hair loose on the screen.

"Kiana, in the Honkai setting, Durandal's surname is Atagina, not your older sister. And I think Bronya is right." Mei suddenly had a bad feeling. During the voice acting, this part of the story...

"Oh well, never mind, would my older sister harm me?" Kiana crossed her arms, her eyes gleaming with wisdom, just like Theresa.

Knowing Durandal's power as an S-rank Valkyrie and the gap between herself and her opponent, Mei resolutely fought against her in order to protect Kiana.

However, the vast difference in strength cannot be erased by mere belief, Mei was undoubtedly defeated by Durandal.

Having witnessed the other party take Kiana away, Mei chased after them desperately, trying to catch up with the shooting star in the night until it disappeared from sight.

Mei ran for an unknown amount of time before finally stopping, exhausted.

She clutched Kiana's coat tightly, letting go of all her past strength. She cried like a child, her body trembling uncontrollably, her grievances, resentment, and pain turning into tears.

"I can't do anything..."

Durandal's casual actions and words were like a dagger hanging over Mei to breathe.

The screening room was completely silent.

They thought that after resolving the crisis in Sky Dome City, Kiana and Mei would return to the St. Freya Academy, but the plot took an unexpected turn.