After rushing out of the laboratory, Kiana and Mei learned from Rita that the device World Serpent intended to use to trigger Honkai was located atop the signal tower at the very center of the city. Once it exploded, Honkai would erupt throughout the city, and then... none of those survivors would be spared.
Just as Kiana was rushing over to stop it, Raven intercepted her along the way.
Although she successfully drove Raven back, there was no longer enough time...
If they could not stop it, the entire city would be destroyed, and it might even spread to other cities and regions.
"World Serpent... Has Kevin gone insane? He's actually taking the initiative to trigger Honkai!"
Kiana, who was also reading the comic at the moment, spoke with an ugly expression. After finishing Fire Moth, she had initially understood this Kaslana ancestor quite well.
He had given up too much to defeat Honkai. He had endured too many despairing things.
But she could not accept it. She could not accept Kevin's willingness to disregard other people's lives in order to defeat Honkai.
This was absolutely not something a savior should do. All she could say was... in order to defeat Honkai, in order to carry out Project STIGMA, Kevin had already become obsessed.
"You can't blame Kevin. That responsibility—the responsibility and duty that had weighed on him so heavily he could barely breathe—for thousands upon tens of thousands of years... For him to have only reached this point, he was actually already being very restrained."
Hearing Kiana's words, Fu Hua understood Kevin quite well.
Perhaps without knowing what Kevin had been through, seeing Project STIGMA would make one feel that World Serpent was evil, that Kevin was a terrifying, insane enemy.
Too cold and heartless.
But once one