"What truth? Are the truths you mentioned really that important?" Kiana said, and Bronya nodded after Kiana's retort. "That matter... is indeed very important to Bronya."
Bronya spoke without yielding in the slightest. "Bronya needs to know what exactly happened back then."
"And Kiana, too. Uncle Xu knows many things. Don't you want to know?"
Bronya's question made Kiana's expression change again and again.
"What if, after we ask him, Uncle Xu leaves us?" Kiana said.
"When all is said and done, Uncle Xu never had any reason to come to our side in the first place."
"He has always been doing things for us, without ever asking for anything in return..."
As Kiana said this, Bronya fell silent.
"Bronya understands... but Bronya still has things she needs to ask Uncle Xu."
Bronya said, "I have to know what the final result of the X-10 experiment was."
"And one more thing..."
Bronya said to Kiana, "If Uncle Xu would really just leave us like that, then he would not be Uncle Xu."
"..."
After hearing this, Mei stepped in to smooth things over. "All right, stop talking about this. Let's hurry up and change, then get some rest. Don't keep everyone else waiting here too long."
"Mm."
After that, Kiana said nothing more.
But many things continued to linger in Kiana's mind, stirring up memories from long ago.
Grandpa Xu's departure back then, Siegfried's disappearance... and things other people had said.
Those matters continued to swirl through Kiana's thoughts.
And that night, Kiana had a dream.
A... terrifying dream.
It was about herself, and about other people.
In the dream, Xu Yanwu vanished, while St. Freya became a... hellscape.
Everyone was dead, while she stood amid the ruins with her hands covered in blood.
Just like the night Siegfried left.