"Griseo, what did you come to see me about?"
With Griseo interrupting her like this, Kiana's emotions had eased somewhat. She had been agonizing over it for the past two days and had reread the "Honkai" manga several times.
Every time she reread it, she blamed herself even more.
If she had been more sensible, worked harder, and stopped making everyone worry about her, perhaps the ending would have been different.
"This..."
Griseo handed her the manuscript for "Cooking with Valkyries."
"What is this... the plot that continues afterward?"
Looking at the manuscript Griseo had handed over, Kiana's first thought was that it was the story after Final Lesson. She really wanted to know what happened afterward too...
Himeko had given her life to save her. Kiana wanted to see whether Himeko's sacrifice had been worth it, and what she herself had gone on to do afterward.
If her future actions did not deserve Himeko's sacrifice at all, then perhaps from the very beginning, she should have... never existed.
Kiana had even considered simply staying in this world and never going back. If she disappeared forever in the Honkai world, then Himeko would not have needed to sacrifice herself.
But then she would never see Mei and the others again. That was equally unacceptable to her... it felt like she might as well be dead.
"No."
Griseo shook her head.
"It's not?"
Kiana was a little disappointed, but she quickly recovered. "Honkai" was still being serialized anyway. She only needed to keep reading to find out.
It was precisely because she wanted to know what the "her" who came next would do, and whether she would live up to Himeko's sacrifice, that she had been so indecisive these past two days.
Even if she was going to do something, she