"Kiana? K-423? H-how could that be? Kiana was a clone!?"
Raiden Mei in the memory footage widened her eyes, her face filled with disbelief and terror, as though she had just seen the most horrifying horror movie imaginable.
Likewise, the Raiden Mei watching the memory wore the exact same shocked expression as her past self. The startling revelation had shaken her beyond words, leaving her mind in complete chaos.
In the real world, Raiden Mei's pupils trembled as she instinctively looked at Kiana beside her. The latter wore a blank expression, utterly dazed, seemingly not yet having processed it. Her brain's CPU was physically overloaded.
Very soon, once Kiana finally understood what the Light Screen footage had said, her expression instantly collapsed. It was as if she had witnessed the end of the world; the light vanished from her beautiful eyes, and life itself seemed to have lost all meaning.
Seeing Kiana like that, Raiden Mei could not help feeling deeply distressed for her. Bronya also did not continue teasing Kiana at a time like this. Though her adorably blank little face showed no expression, the concern in her eyes was impossible to hide.
In fact, after getting over their surprise, the other students in class also looked at Kiana with varying degrees of astonishment. No one had expected that the lively, goofy Kiana in the Light Screen footage had such a background.
And they could not help thinking: since the Kiana in the Light Screen footage was actually a clone of the real Kiana, then could the Kiana in the real world be one too...
At that thought, the looks they gave Kiana could not help carrying traces of pity and unease, while some even felt frightened.
After all, the Kiana in the Light Screen footage had been far