Yao Guang—Chaldea Headquarters. Murata Himeko smiled, her eyes filling with relief, along with a trace of melancholy and heartache.
Because Kiana had paid far too much for this growth. She was clearly still a young girl, at an age when she ought to have been happily living as a student, yet she had already taken on far too much. By now, the girl had become a true warrior.
It was both sigh-inducing and moving.
If possible, Murata Himeko would not have wanted Kiana to grow up this way. But since things had already come this far, she needed to grow stronger quickly.
Only by growing fast enough could she outrun tragedy.
Now, Kiana had successfully exchanged her growth for the power to turn that imperfect story into the one she wanted.
Meanwhile, at St. Freya Girls' School, Kiana watched Sky Meteor in the Light Screen footage, her heartbeat steadily quickening. She felt that the version of herself in the footage was just insanely cool.
But precisely because of that, Kiana, that supposed genius, felt immense pressure. The pressure of seeing how outstanding her other self was only made her own uselessness stand out.
No, she couldn't keep being such a loser. She had to rise up, had to work hard, had to make herself look more badass!
Yeah, starting tomorrow, she'd work hard—though she had no idea how exactly she was supposed to do that.
In the Light Screen footage, when Sky Meteor's dazzling radiance erupted into brilliant "fireworks," it was clear that the Honkai energy bomb had detonated.
The brilliant radiance blooming in the night made countless people in Sky Dome City involuntarily shut their eyes. The light was simply too dazzling for their eyes to bear.
Fujimaru Tachibana was the same, raising a hand to shield herself