In the future I observed, if your life and death were the dividing line, then should you remain alive until the final moment, you would become the Herrscher of the End. Should you die, the Cocoon of the End would use your body as a template to create her Herrscher of the End.
In other words, in this era, you were destined to be the End.
"Good heavens..."
Kiana slapped herself.
It hurt.
This wasn't a dream!
I'm so screwed.
She really had gotten the Young Lady script.
What the hell was this supposed to be?!
Thinking back on it now...
In the Original Work, the heroes of the Previous Civilization went to the moon to face the End. That Herrscher of the End who held Earth in her hand, whose breasts were bigger than the planet itself—didn't she look exactly like Kiana?
In other words!
That... was me?
Damn it!
And according to the system...
It could observe the future and monitor the future. Its credibility was seriously high.
It seemed even more like it had the script in hand than she did, someone who had seen the plot.
If what it said was true, then according to the scenes shown in the game from her previous life, not only was she the End, she was also the one who had failed to last until the final moment and died ahead of time.
That was why the Cocoon of the End had created a new Herrscher of the End, like a puppet. In the end, even her remains had been shattered and left lying on the moon like ruins.
What was this even supposed to be...
The grave I thought I was looking at was actually my own.
I'd even laughed at it before.
Go on, try laughing now?
Damn it.
"Can I put it simply like this... Other Herrschers might not be guaranteed, but I am?" Kiana asked.
Yes, the system answered.
"Can I also understand it this way? In the future, I might enter politics, go into business, become a pastry chef, or become a singer..."
"But right now, I don't have those abilities at all."
"If I wanted to become a singer, and you made more people believe that I would become a singer in the future..."
"Then make the future shift in that direction."
"..."
"Would I be able to master the skills a singer needs faster?"
"..."
Kiana pondered for a moment before asking.
Naturally, the answer was affirmative.
Yes, the system answered.
Then Kiana seemed to understand something.
She considered it briefly, gave several examples to confirm it, and finally, with the system's equally affirmative answers, understood completely.
So that was how it worked...
The mechanism wasn't all that complicated after all~
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Kiana: From Today On, I Make My Grand Debut?
First of all.
The system had said from the very beginning.
It could observe the future.
But the future changed every moment.
Even if a single second were divided into countless points, countless futures would be born, and countless futures would disappear.
Because every person's choices and thoughts intertwined with one another, influencing the direction of the future.
At most.
Some people carried more weight.
Others were insignificant.
Obviously.
Kiana was someone incomparably important to the world.
As the End vessel of this era.
She had even been born favored by Honkai.
If the threat came only from Honkai Energy corruption, or even disasters caused by Honkai Beasts, zombies, or Herrschers, then with Honkai's favor, she would instead be fine.
But if human conflicts and mutual attacks caused something to happen to her...
Then that would be pointless.
Because fundamentally, she was still only human.
Kiana even suspected that the version of herself in the Previous Civilization's story had died early because human infighting had gotten her killed.
After all.
Even if she did not enter politics or become a councilor...
If her family's political enemies set their sights on her, she would probably still be in deep trouble.
What's more, as the Young Lady of the family, was it possible that she would not inherit the family business? Of course not.
Even without considering all that.
Maybe during some battle against a Herrscher, the Herrscher had not even intended to kill her, only for her to be killed by human weapons instead. That was not impossible either.
Since she knew this world was so dangerous.
Kiana naturally hoped that she could obtain powerful strength.
That she could protect herself.
And beyond that.
The system's most important mechanism was deception.
Why had it repeatedly emphasized that she needed more people to believe in this future and hope for this future before she could gain more emotional energy and shift the future in that direction?
Because.
Even among futures, each one carried a different weight.
The more weight a future had, the more likely it was to happen.
If someone wanted to interfere with it.
Even the slightest push required greater power.
The power of human emotions was a wondrous thing.
When she was young.
Kiana lent her light to Diga.
Diga had achieved his Shining Form and defeated an incomparably terrifying enemy.
If more people in the world believed in something, if public sentiment gathered and was guided...
Then even the tiniest, most insignificant influence could become the final straw that broke the camel's back.
It could produce unexpected results.
So in truth!
This wasn't entirely deception.
Because.
I might have painted you a pretty picture.
But as long as you believed in it, then that picture would become real and could be realized.
Why did the system recommend that Kiana polish what she exposed, even using highly subjective language and wording to guide the public's thoughts?
That was precisely because.
If she simply edited footage and presented images, everyone might interpret and view them differently.
Everyone's thoughts would differ as well.
It was like manipulating public opinion.
If someone spoke in a subjective, more strongly biased manner, not everyone would necessarily believe it, but it would not be useless either.
For instance, as everyone knew, Sirin was one of humanity's most terrifying enemies.
But if you stood from Sirin's perspective, there was another way to see things.
She was hateful, but she was also pitiful.
In the end, she added a few softer hues to the existence known as Herrschers.
Then if she said that Herrschers could also reclaim themselves...
Wouldn't it mean that, as long as someone believed it, the Herrschers of the Previous Civilization might have had even the faintest possibility of preserving themselves without Elysia needing to sacrifice herself?
Don't think that such a tiny possibility was barely worth mentioning.
Sometimes, turning the impossible into the possible was a breakthrough from zero to one.
Sometimes, it was just that little bit.
Then wouldn't the entire world's situation become different?
"So, if I tell everyone through the videos exposed on the sky screen that I, this Herrscher of the End, am someone they can win over. Someone who can strive to preserve her humanity."
"Then would I have a better chance of preserving my consciousness? And, while I'm at it, skipping class with the whole world?"
"..."
Kiana thought of this.
Her furrowed brows relaxed slightly.
Though she was only asking, she knew that even without such a possibility, with the system at her side, she would certainly no longer be manipulated by the Cocoon of the End.
Perhaps she could even take control of the Cocoon of the End in turn. Who knew?~
As if a great weight had been lifted.
She felt much more relaxed.
The system likewise affirmed Kiana's words.
But it still said.
The more significant the change and the greater its weight, the more emotional energy would be needed to pry fate in that direction.
It might not be possible to accomplish it all at once. But if they persevered, constantly advancing now and continually correcting the future...
As long as we worked hard, we would always make it happen.
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