I Want to Ask You for a Favor. (cont.)

Kiana suddenly felt a headache.

"Jana... oh, she's still on that planet, Jarilo -VI."

Yomi noticed her headache and comforted her, "Don't worry, I've told her about your situation. She knows why you haven't replied to my letters lately, so she won't make a fuss."

"Huh?"

Kiana, who was already troubled by this matter and unsure how to explain it to Jana, was somewhat surprised. "She knows about my situation? Or did you tell me Mei? What's going on? I remember... Mei, you and Jana haven't been in contact, have you?"

Why does it feel like everything around me has changed since I woke up? Jana and Yomi are extremely incompatible; Jana disliked Yomi a lot back in Belobog.

So she was genuinely surprised.

"It's Ruan Mei."

Yomi truthfully replied, "I only learned about what happened to you after she arrived. Although I've known you the longest, my understanding of the Honkai is even less than Ruan Mei's."

"Jana is your Honkai Beast, so she should know more about you. That's why I approached her and told her about your situation."

Kiana asked curiously, "Did Jana say anything?"

Jana does indeed know a lot.

"After saying a few things, there was some gain. She calmed down after learning that you weren't missing."

Yomi paused for a moment, then smiled calmly, "Return the message to her as well, and to Miss the Nightingale; she's also very worried about you. Sirin asked me to pass on this message."

"You and the Nightingale seem to have a good relationship too. Well, you've been touring together for so long, you must be very good friends."

Instead of asking Kiana, he was talking to himself, asking and answering his own questions. Kiana noticed that Yomi was talking much more than before, seemed more energetic, and was less taciturn.

"She seems to want to talk to you about something."

"Mei, are you...?"

Kiana noted these things down and didn't continue the conversation with Yomi at this point, instead steering the conversation towards Yomi himself.

People don't seem so empty anymore.

Why?

"You want to ask about the changes in my body, right? It's a good thing, I guess. At the end of the Stigma Trial, the Stigma gave me the core of Herrscher. It helped me withstand most of the erosion from the Void."

Oh, right!

Kiana's eyes widened as she finally remembered this, and she asked Mei why she had suddenly Herrscherization.

It turned out to be the Trial of the Stigma.

"For Stigma to eventually become Herrscher, that's really..."

Kiana's expression was indescribable.

For now, it seems like this is a good thing for both her and Yomi.

She's completely overwhelmed with this matter and doesn't need to focus on this aspect anymore.

Yomi, on the other hand, was freed from the influence of nothingness.

Wait, Yomi said such bold things, could it be because he wasn't affected by the void, so...?

That's not right.

Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Things have already turned out this way, there's no point in continuing to think about it.

"It should be considered a good thing, this force is currently under control. But what about you?"

Yomi patted her head. "Is there anything else you want to say to me?"

Kiana paused, turned to look at Yomi, who was much taller than her, and after a moment of silence, tentatively asked, "I like Mei the most?"

Yomi was taken aback by Kiana's sudden remark, and the hand on Kiana's head froze for a moment. Although that wasn't what she meant to say, hearing Kiana's unexpected confession was truly...

It makes me feel happy.

"I also like Kiana the most."

She planted a kiss on Kiana's cheek, then said in high spirits, "The shadow that Izumo has completely vanished. I've confirmed it; the influence of the Void is no longer here."

"This one."

So that's what you wanted to ask. Kiana touched the spot where Yomi had just kissed her and smiled, "Because Izumo has now completely become my world."

"There's no need to worry about the void anymore, nor about the Honkai. As long as I'm here, the Honkai on this planet will always remain within a controllable and exploitable range."

From a perilous and desperate situation, it has become habitable again, even the climate has returned to normal, and we can still see the sunshine.

Kiana recalled her initial thoughts, and a slight tremor ran through her heart. In the past, she had to give up those ideas under the persuasion of Yomi and the others.

Because that's too far away and too difficult.

But things are different now.

She can now do many things she couldn't do in the past, especially now that the world has been completely assimilated by the Honkai, she can do even more.

The Stigmata world...

Perhaps it will no longer be a dream.

"... Sirin is still on the Xianzhou, discussing cooperation matters in Luofu. I told her about the situation in Izumo. There are two different opinions within the Ark. In a few days, a group of people should return to Izumo."

There's no rule that you have to choose one, so just take them all. Some people will return to rebuild Izumo, while others will stay in Luofu temporarily to learn the technology and discuss cooperation with Luofu.

Kiana nodded, her mind filled with thoughts of the Stigmata world, but even though she was now confident she could do it, she didn't dare bring it up with Yomi again.

Let's discuss it with Ruan Mei.

She still needs to go to Belobog to find Jana, but there's no rush now; she needs to go back first.

Yae Sakura's Stigma are not with Jana.

She also needs to go back and retrieve Yae Sakura's Stigma, and then put Yae Sakura's Stigma into Jana's Stigmata world.

Only then can the final experiment be conducted.

She found her phone, which she hadn't used in a long time, and when she opened it, she found a lot of unread messages. She quickly started checking them one by one.

Jana sent the most messages, continuously for a long time, until recently when she stopped, presumably because she learned of her situation.

I replied with a few simple words to comfort her.

Other friends also sent messages, more or less, and she replied to them all.

Everyone else is fine.

She was slightly stunned when she saw the message from the Nightingale, and was momentarily dazed.

She ignored the messages from those who cared about her, asked about her situation, and to whom she had replied. She stared at the two new messages that had just appeared.

[The Nightingale: I need your help]

[The Nightingale: It's about the Penacony Grand Gala. If you have time, I'd like to meet with you to talk about it, is that alright?]

Penacony... The Grand Gala...

This year?

How long did I actually sleep?

Kiana murmured in a daze.