"Griseo, what did you come to see me about?"
With Griseo interrupting her like this, Kiana's emotions were no longer quite as intense. She had been agonizing over it these past few days, rereading the Honkai comic 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.
"Um..."
Griseo handed her the manuscript for "Cooking with Valkyries."
"What is this... the story that comes next?"
Looking at the manuscript Griseo had handed her, Kiana's first thought was that it was the story following Final Lesson. She wanted to know what happened afterward too...
Himeko had paid with her life to save her. Kiana wanted to see whether Himeko's sacrifice had been worthwhile, and what she herself did afterward.
If her future actions did not deserve Himeko's sacrifice at all, then perhaps from the very beginning, she should have just... not existed.
Kiana had even thought before that maybe she should just stay in this world and never go back! If she vanished from the Honkai world forever, then Himeko would not have needed to sacrifice herself.
But that would mean never seeing Mei and the others again. That was equally unacceptable to her... It almost felt like she would be better off dead.
"No."
Griseo shook her head.
"No?"
Kiana was a little disappointed, but she quickly recovered. Honkai was still ongoing 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 hesitant these past few days.
Even if she was going to do something, she