"It's fine, you don't need to comfort me."
"I—I'm absolutely certain that everything happening around me is real. It definitely isn't fiction."
Hearing the girl's worried attempt at comfort, Kiana quickly returned to normal. She firmly believed that her world and everything about her were real. There was no way they could be some manga someone else had made up.
Every experience she had gone through, every person she had met, was etched so clearly into her memories. How could any of it be fake?
"Still, I'm curious about this so-called manga artist! Is her name Stars?"
Kiana did not doubt her own life. Instead, she became interested in the manga artist who had created a comic about her.
She was very curious about what was going on with her and why she knew so much about the things happening around Kiana. They clearly were not even from the same world.
"Mm, Stars is her pen name, so everyone calls her Teacher Stars. As for her real name, I think it's... Griseo."
The girl did not know what Kiana was thinking, but seeing that she had not taken it badly put her at ease. She hurriedly answered her question.
"Stars... Griseo..."
Kiana thought about it, but the name meant nothing to her.
She did not know her either.
"Oh, right. This is what Teacher Stars looks like."
The girl remembered something and quickly took out her phone. Her wallpaper showed an adorable little Griseo, barefoot and holding a paintbrush as she painted.
"What? She's the manga artist?"
Looking at the blue-haired, purple-eyed little girl on the wallpaper, Kiana found it hard to believe that she was the author of Honkai.
It was a little unbelievable...
She was such a tiny little girl.
Kiana's original thought of beating her up first