She could only cast Kiana a sympathetic glance. What a pity—this little cousin of hers, just like Bianca back then, had been instantly dazzled by the Doctor's pretty face.
You had to know, the prettier a woman was, the better she was at deceiving people. She was a snake, after all!
It was worth mentioning that Bianca knew Mobius had carefully considered what she needed to learn before coming here.
In Mobius's view, when the heavenly screen revealed everything, that Vup had mentioned that every other Herrscher was only a temporary choice made by Honkai, not some predetermined individual.
But the End was different.
She alone was fixed.
All the others were just freebies bundled with a phone plan.
Only the End was Honkai's precious daughter.
Normally speaking, the Moment of the End—just from the name, you could tell it should have been the final stage, right? In other words, she would guard the final trial.
Then before that, the vessel chosen in advance for the End had always been her, from beginning to end.
Didn't that make her something like an infiltrator hidden among humanity?
Perhaps the test had begun from the moment she was born.
Otherwise, why would they say that if the world treated her gently, she would repay the world, but if the world was filled with malice toward her, she would destroy it without mercy?
Like a mirror.
If it wasn't a test, no one would believe it!
Think tanks in many countries had gradually raised the same theory.
Thus, more and more people truly began treating Kiana as a test.
But Mobius wanted to know: once the End's identity was exposed ahead of time, what would happen to her? What would happen to the Honkai behind her?
Completely abandoning her and finding another vessel instead probably wouldn't work. It couldn't be that simple.
But from another angle, if her identity was exposed and her cards were revealed early, would that make her change ahead of time?
Now, she had her answer.
Mobius stared at Kiana, waiting for her to reveal her secret.
Kiana took a deep breath. Only after quite a while did she speak softly, as though deeply conflicted.
"Ever since then, I feel like I've been eating more, sleeping better, and no matter how much I mess around or stay up late, my skin stays smooth, my hair stays soft, and I never gain weight no matter how much I eat..."
"?" Mobius froze. Was that what she was supposed to hear?
Bianca pressed her lips together.
She almost couldn't hold it in!
But Kiana kept talking.
"Also, I've gotten stronger. My stamina feels better, and when I focus, my eyes can see really far away..."
That was at least somewhat useful.
Mobius nodded, pondering as she committed it to memory.
As the leading authority on Honkai research, even the title "Herrscher" had been established as a designation through her efforts.
Of course, she knew.
Some people could adapt to Honkai Energy.
The more they adapted, the more their strength would increase after being subtly enhanced by Honkai Energy.
Although Kiana rambled on about plenty of useless things.
Mobius could still extract the important details.
She judged that even if this wasn't an awakening, Honkai had already begun hoping that Kiana would gain power.
That itself was a gradual process.
Kiana had barely fought, never trained, and hadn't deliberately done anything. Naturally, all she would notice was that she had gotten stronger and could see more clearly.
But!
Kiana spoke casually, as if chatting about everyday matters, with no particular order, as though deliberately making things difficult for Mobius.
She was smiling.
Then she suddenly mentioned something.
Mobius snapped back to attention. Bracing herself against the table, she practically threw herself into Kiana's arms and grabbed her tightly.
"Doctor! What are you doing?!" Bianca shrieked like a startled marmot.
She had lunged so suddenly. Her little cousin would be frightened.
Bianca immediately looked over and saw Kiana pinned to the sofa by Mobius, almost like she had been kabedon'd. Mobius's gaze burned as she stared at Kiana and asked seriously, one word at a time.
"What did you just say?"
"I feel like my figure has gotten better too..."
"The sentence before that."
"The sounds around my ears have become clearer too."
"..."
Mobius's eyes lit up as she immediately pressed further.
"Sounds? What sounds? What is around your ears?"
"..." Bianca slightly raised her hand, then lowered it again.
The posture the two girls were in was simply unbearable to look at. Fortunately, Kiana's reaction was calm.
As expected of the Young Lady.
She really was composed.
Especially now, with Mobius's full breasts pressed directly against Kiana's legs, her entire body angled upward as she looked at Kiana from below and clutched her clothes.
The feeling was simply indescribable.
Although Kiana had done it on purpose, she truly hadn't expected Mobius to be this bold.
Once she came back to herself, her hands instinctively wrapped around Mobius's slender waist.
What a sin, what a sin.
Kiana, Kiana, how could you do this?
"Mm... It's a sound I've been able to hear ever since I was little. Now, it's become clearer too..."
"Since you were little?! You've always been able to hear it?!" Mobius shrieked. Wriggling upward, she climbed a little higher until she was staring directly into Kiana's eyes.
It was slightly intimidating.
If Kiana hadn't understood her, and if this had been before her memories awakened, she would have slapped her away already. She was way too close!
"Yes."
Kiana still followed her plan, nodding with a surprised expression, as if she didn't understand what was wrong with that.
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Kiana, You're So Despicable! ### "Can you hear clearly what that voice is saying?"
Mobius continued to question her.
But Kiana looked confused. She thought for a moment, then shook her head.
"I only know that it feels very familiar. It sounds like it's singing, like... a mother asking after my well-being and caring about me... It feels very warm..."
Of course, she couldn't say what it was actually saying.
The reason she had added this detail in the first place was to make Mobius fill in the blanks herself.
Kiana, the vessel of the End, had been able to hear voices ever since childhood. Then a few days ago, because the heavenly screen had exposed her identity and indirectly altered her fate, the voices had become clearer.
What did that make you think of?
Anyone would suspect that perhaps the Will of Honkai was trying to contact her, right?
Although it had never been confirmed that a phenomenon like Honkai truly possessed a will, based on the scenes previously revealed by the heavenly screen, it had stubbornly chosen a vessel for the End and insisted that it had to be that particular End. So even if it had a will, that wouldn't be too surprising.
It was understandable.
The only regrettable thing was that it had been an educational video, not some simple compilation or anything else...
Most of the explanations came from the Vup. Even when footage was shown, there wasn't much substantial information.
In fact.
Aside from the Herrscher of the End and several other Herrschers, whose character art had been made into Live2D animations.
Things like the catalogues of zombies or Honkai Beasts, in the heavenly screen's projection, looked as though they had been pulled from an encyclopedia.
But that made sense.
The video was explaining history from tens of thousands of years ago.
Where would they get footage for reference?
Being able to dig up catalogue images was already pretty good.
If it had been archaeological materials with illustrations, or incomplete ancient texts and murals, perhaps there would have been something to look forward to.
But if they really expected it to show precious footage from their own era.
Then the people of this era would be the ones breaking out in cold sweat.
Because think about it—who the hell would be fighting Honkai, not even knowing whether they would live or die tomorrow, and still go around recording videos?
For future generations?
Who would be in the mood?
Having a few photographs would already be pretty good.
But even so!
According to that Vup on the heavenly screen, the Old Era ended and the New Era began. If the Old Era really was their time, then all kinds of records from their era would surely still be passed down.
So perhaps the reason was that this video from the UP was merely meant to test the waters. They wanted to see the results, and if it performed well, they would make more episodes and put more effort into them.
Since it was the first episode, and even they didn't know whether it would work.
Naturally, they hadn't put that much effort into it.
Some people grumbled inwardly that the whole world was watching. If you had the guts, open a payment channel!
At the very least, every one of us can like it, tip it, and save it, okay? Hurry up and keep going!
Honestly.
No matter how they analyzed it, there was only so much information.
If there had been more footage, photographs, written records, or physical artifacts, they could have spotted more issues.
In truth, it wasn't as though Kiana hadn't captured scenes from the future.
She could have shown them in any form she wanted.
But later, she decided that since this was the first time, it was enough to make it an introduction.
That half-hour-plus of content had not only explained some scenes from the future, such as the Star Sea Alliance at the height of its glory, with countless starships coming and going as they soared through the cosmos. It also showed highly advanced cities, every detail brimming with a sense of futuristic technology that made people yearn for them.
It had also covered the most important concept: Honkai.
As well as Herrschers, the Herrscher of the End, vessels, Kiana, and so on...
All of that heavyweight information had been revealed.
From an educational perspective.
It might not have seemed unfamiliar to future viewers.
But to people of the present, it was like being dealt a royal flush. They would definitely need time to digest it.
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