Inside the dormitory, Yae was tending to Kiana, who had just woken up.
"It can't be true..."
Kiana had been muttering similar words over and over since earlier.
Naturally, her mind was in complete chaos now.
"You've got to be kidding me. My mother was an S-rank Valkyrie, and she died in the Second Honkai War?"
"But why hasn't that damn old man ever mentioned it? Why did he take me away from Schicksal for so long?"
"Could it be..."
"Yae, I'm fine now. I want to go out for a while."
It was abnormal—far too abnormal. Even Yae could tell that Kiana was hiding something from her.
And it was something extremely important.
"Kiana, where are you going?"
As if deliberately trying to keep it secret, Kiana unusually chose to be evasive.
"I'm not telling you. Hehe..."
That answer only made Yae even more certain that Kiana was hiding something.
(The Schicksal database... There must be records about Mom inside!)
The girl had no idea how drastically her life would change after entering the database.
"I'm sorry, Kiana. You can't enter here."
Only Sirin's soul had been removed from Kiana's body. The other things implanted inside her had not been taken out. If she learned how her mother had died, the shock would inevitably activate those things within her.
To prevent his plans from being disrupted, Feng Chen had to stop Kiana here.
Even if that meant fighting her...
"What? It's Feng Chen."
"Since you say I can't go in, then I won't."
Feng Chen was even more uneasy instead. How could Kiana be this obedient?
His prediction was correct. Kiana could never be this obedient.
As her voice faded, the kick she sent out was caught by Feng Chen just like that.
"That isn't something a good child