In the Light Screen footage, the situation entered Durandal's time to shine.
Yes, it was Durandal's moment.
After entering the Kaslana Stigmata Space, Durandal encountered the incarnation of the Kaslana Stigmata.
Through their conversation, she learned that the reason this stigmata incarnation looked like Kevin was because the origin point of the Kaslana Stigmata Space was Kevin himself. He was the direct embodiment of a Previous Era MANTIS, as well as the pinnacle creation of Previous Era MANTIS technology.
The project known as Chimera had created Kevin, the strongest MANTIS. His body contained the genes of every Honkai beast from the Previous Era, and those genes had been passed down through the bloodline of the Kaslana Family.
All along, the Kaslana Family's so-called bloodline obsession—the ideal of salvation and the belief in being a shield that protected the people—had been the influence of the Kaslana Stigmata. In other words, they had been influenced by Kevin's will.
Every generation of Kaslanas fought to protect the world, and the key reason was that Kevin, the origin point of the Kaslanas, had been influencing his descendants through his will to "save the world."
Without a doubt, it sounded like a curse—a curse an ancestor had placed upon his descendants, turning them into nothing more than "machines" meant to protect the world.
Perhaps every Kaslana had their own thoughts and convictions, but in the end, the belief in "protection" had never vanished. It had truly been passed down through the bloodline from generation to generation, and no Kaslana had ever been able to escape that fate.
This had created the tragedies of countless Kaslanas, causing innumerable members of the family to die in battles of protection.
Kallen Kaslana, the saint Otto had loved so dearly, was one such representative example!
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