Replacement

After Angela fell asleep, she arrived in a black space, exactly the same as the one Huang Hao had occupied before.

Angela calmly looked around. "Is it still you? This trick won't work on me."

That nauseating voice appeared again, repeating by Angela's ear, "That may not necessarily be so. It's nothing more than what you want."

Angela calmly dismissed it. "I don't want anything. I'm just a machine."

Honkai Will: "No, no, no, no. What you've always been pursuing deep in your heart has been revealed without reservation. Finding out what you want couldn't be easier."

Angela listened quietly, unconvinced, wanting to see what Honkai Will would say.

Honkai Will: "What's wrong? Are you looking forward to it?"

Angela: "What is there to look forward to? If there's nothing, then there's nothing."

However, Honkai Will suddenly said, "You're nothing but a replacement."

Angela's body trembled, and she immediately tensed up before demanding, "Y-You! What do you mean?"

Honkai Will laughed loudly, mocking the confident lie Angela had told earlier. "You're nothing but a replacement for your father."

Angela: "That's just an unsupported claim. Why should I believe you?"

Honkai Will: "I never said I was lying. You know this best. When you were created, you should have inherited all his memories. Even if you didn't inherit everything, you couldn't possibly be missing his most precious memories."

Hearing this, Angela lowered her head, her expression bleak, because what it said was indeed true.

Honkai Will continued, "There was already someone named Angela in his memories. Even your basic appearance was modeled after her. If I remember correctly, you're just a clone—a machine entrusted with emotions."

Angela was gradually corrupted by Honkai Consciousness, and darkness slowly surrounded her.

Angela kept thinking about her "predecessor," and tears fell involuntarily. Even so, she struggled to say, "All of that is in the past. What Father commemorates now is me."

"Hahaha, are you kidding me? Think about what he's said to you recently. He's always reminiscing about that period, and he keeps unconsciously mentioning it in his words. Are you still indulging in your own lies?" Honkai Will mercilessly mocked her after hearing Angela's words.

Angela remembered the words, "I'm X, but I'm not A," and completely broke down. Everything felt so eerily familiar. Huang Hao had been the same back then. The only difference was that Angela had not resisted the corruption completely, and there was no one left to come and save her.

"That's more like it! Join us! You'll become even more perfect!" Honkai Will shouted joyfully as it admired the masterpiece before it.

The darkness completely corrupted Angela, step by step.

Before she was fully corrupted, Angela weakly spoke her final words. "Father, where are you..."

After that, nothing remained but darkness.

At the same time, at Moth to the Flame...

At Klein's insistence, Mobius reluctantly confined Klein to the detention room.

While conducting experiments in the research institute, Mobius lazily muttered, "Honestly, without my assistant, I have to handle so many little things myself."

At that moment, an explosion suddenly rang out outside, instantly putting Mobius on guard.

Mobius: "This is... Oh no!"

Mobius immediately realized what was happening, but Klein had already charged out and arrived in front of her, launching an attack...

On Qian Jie's side, thanks to Angela's warning, Immer had only just transformed into a Herrscher when Qian Jie pinned him to the ground.

However, Qian Jie was having a very difficult time and did not know what to do. Still, for the sake of his own selfish motives, he secretly hid him away.

(I have a question: Why did an assault rifle kill the genuine Sixth Herrscher, while Skyfire couldn't kill her even after the Authority of Death had been weakened?)

The Tenth Honkai officially began with Angela's corruption.