On the Light Screen, Raiden Mei stared blankly at the scene before her. Watching Kiana save her left her looking dazed.
"So... Kiana was the one who saved me back then...?"
"So that was it. So that's how it was... No wonder I felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when I first met Kiana at St. Freya Academy."
"So the root of it all lay in that forgotten truth..."
She let out a wistful sigh, her gaze filled with sudden understanding.
For Raiden Mei, it seemed that many of her past doubts had suddenly been answered.
In the life experiences she had integrated from the main world, Raiden Mei remembered being specially recruited into St. Freya Academy because she had the talent to become a Valkyrie. Much like the special schools for superhumans or magic academies in movies, it recruited talented people while remaining hidden from the ordinary world, displaying an extraordinary air of mystery.
It was against that backdrop that Raiden Mei entered St. Freya Academy, met Kiana there, and became friends with her because of an inexplicable fondness. They studied and grew together, eventually joining Chaldea as Valkyries of St. Freya Academy.
What happened afterward was known to the world.
Now, through Raiden Mei's recollections, people learned how the Raiden Mei and Kiana of the main world had met and become such close girlfriends.
Yet judging from the memory fragment now shown on the Light Screen, Raiden Mei and Kiana had truly met and forged their bond in the False Star city known as Changkong City, their fates intertwining when Raiden Mei awakened as the Herrscher of Thunder.
Without question, kind-hearted Raiden Mei could not accept that she had caused the deaths of several million people. When she regained herself, she had already prepared to face death.
However,