Who Isn't a Herrscher

Luo Mio didn't understand what he was saying.

Finality Luo Mio continued to speak.

"The reason I pulled you into this space this time wasn't me or anyone else, it was the 'It' you were just staring at."

Luo Mio looked at him. From his behavior and tone from the beginning until now, he didn't harbor any ill will towards him. He let down his guard slightly and asked him.

"What is that? What is 'Its' purpose in bringing me to this space?"

Upon hearing Luo Mio's question, Finality Luo Mio showed surprise for the first time.

"You don't know?"

What did that mean...

Seeing the confusion in Luo Mio's eyes, Finality Luo Mio seemed to understand something.

"So that's how it is. The System didn't tell you? Didn't you ask it?"

Luo Mio frowned and said, "The System said my current authority is too low."

"Authority too low?"

Finality Luo Mio looked surprised again, then stared at Luo Mio.

Luo Mio felt a chill run down his spine as he was stared at so intently, as if he had been completely seen through.

"Wh-what's wrong..."

Not long after, Finality Luo Mio shifted his gaze to a sapling in the distance, then looked back at Luo Mio.

"The System is right, your 'authority' is not enough right now."

"If I were to let you know everything rashly, your soul wouldn't be able to withstand the information of those 'Existences' and would collapse, ultimately dissipating."

Hearing Finality Luo Mio's kind reminder and the concern in his tone, Luo Mio frowned, his mind filled with questions.

"Since you're my Herrscher personality, you came out during Wallenstein's rampage before, right?"

"Yes, it was me."

Luo Mio looked at him, his eyes shimmering with an unusual light.

"Then eleven years ago, my rampage was also you..."

"No, that wasn't me. If I had manifested then, this world would have been reset and destroyed long ago."

Before he could finish speaking, Finality Luo Mio interrupted Luo Mio.

"What?!"

"But if that's the case, wouldn't that destroy and change the world?" Luo Mio recalled what the System had told him about world rules when he first transmigrated.

(Whether inside or outside the world, no matter how strong you are, within the world, your status and rank will be lower than the world's!)

"No, I didn't break the rules set by the world..."

"Finish what you're saying! Don't keep me in suspense!" Luo Mio retorted.

"Did you forget? Ever since you entered the world of Chivalry of a Failed Knight, the threads of this world have been altered."

Luo Mio blinked.

Indeed, the System had said that ever since he entered this world, the world had been subtly changing...

But...

"But with my power combined with yours, no matter how strong we are, we'd still be within the world, our status lowered, right?"

Finality Luo Mio spoke, voicing what Luo Mio was thinking.

Finality Luo Mio looked at him and said.

"Did you forget!"

"Ever since you descended upon this world, Honkai Energy has also descended!"

Hearing this, Luo Mio's mind suddenly cleared up.

The Golden Meteor Shower sixteen years ago... Honkai...

The world's rules had changed along with it.

Chapter 41: Conversation (2)

The Golden Meteor Shower sixteen years ago brought the Honkai...

Honkai is a mechanism born from the competition between the 'Tree' and the 'Sea', a mechanism for selecting and correcting the development direction of 'Leaves (worlds)'.

Therefore, theoretically, once Honkai entered this world, it became one of this world's rules.

Finality's mission is to destroy (correct) and reset the world, so It will not be expelled or erased by the world.

"Then why, for sixteen years, have there been no related Honkai incidents erupting around the world?" Luo Mio thought of something and asked Finality Luo Mio.

The manifestations of Honkai are unpredictable, unfathomable, and unknowable. Wars, epidemics, climate disasters, comet impacts – there is no regularity.

Saikyo Neine, Luo Mio's current guardian and the third-ranked individual in the KOK Alliance, possessed an immeasurable amount of information. Except for some very special events, like the true core intelligence of the Golden Meteor Shower incident not being revealed.

As her guardian, Luo Mio sometimes used her communication pass to access information. However, none of the incidents he investigated were related to the Honkai outbreak.

"You know about the 'Honkai Source,' right?"

Luo Mio nodded.

Honkai Energy has a characteristic of mutual attraction; they attract and gather together, thus creating a 'Honkai Source.'

"Because the most important 'Honkai Source' split into two."

"Split into two?" Luo Mio was a little confused.

"!"

(At the critical moment, 'Samurai Ryoma' shattered the meteorite into two halves... one half fell into the depths of the Pacific Ocean...)

Luo Mio recalled what Arisugawa had said that day.

"Then what about the other half?"

The Herrscher of Finality looked at him and slowly spoke.

"Why did the other separated half of the Honkai Source disappear without a trace! Why do you have nearly infinite Honkai Energy within you! Why does your Honkai Energy constantly try to corrupt your mind! Why is your ability mental enhancement! There's only one answer! Because!"

"You, Toudo Touka, are the other separated Honkai Source that descended upon this world!"

"..."

Luo Mio looked at the excited speech of the Herrscher of Finality, Luo Mio, with a blank expression and said calmly, "It's just the two of us here, there are no starting runners."

"..."

Hearing Luo Mio's definitive statement, the Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio stood awkwardly in place.

"And why should I believe you?" Luo Mio asked, looking at him with his hands clasped.

The Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio glanced at him, then spoke very quickly and fluently.

"Drive F—Program Files—Learning Materials Collection—C97—All Kimi no Sei da Volumes 1 and 2."

Luo Mio's mouth opened slightly.

"Addendum—Ama Lilith, the artist is Mao Yu Niu..."

"Stop talking!"

Luo Mio instantly interrupted his chanting, closed his eyes, and held his forehead, gasping for air...

Although there was no air to gasp.

Luo Mio's mouth twitched, because that memory was something even the System didn't know about, let alone a teacher.

According to the System, memories, apart from shallow ones, were inaccessible even to them if they were deep-seated.

"I told you, I am you, and you are me. Besides, why would I harm myself?"

Luo Mio gave him a dead-fish-eyed glance.

"What kind of...

"As long as it's lewd enough."

...doujinshi I like."

Luo Mio looked at him with a complicated expression.

"You can believe me now, right?"

Hearing the Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio's words, Luo Mio slowly brought his thoughts back to the main topic.

He pondered what the Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio had just said.

When he first heard Arisugawa mention the separated half of the meteor, he had already suspected that he was that missing half of the 'meteor.' Now, hearing the Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio's answer, he couldn't help but feel a bit shocked.

At the same time, he also asked.

"Then, when you said earlier about finding the missing 'soul,' are you referring to the other half of the Honkai Source that fell into the Pacific Ocean?"

The Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio wagged his index finger.

"It's both the 'soul' and the 'body'."

"Body?"

The Herrscher of Finality Luo Mio nodded.

"You'll naturally know about this later. Of course, you can also understand it as the 'Herrscher Core'."

Herrscher Core...

"Then, what was that golden gravel in Wallenstein's hand before?"

Luo Mio asked him.

That time, the golden gravel Wallenstein took out made him unable to control the surging Honkai Energy within him, and he eventually lost consciousness and went berserk.

"That time you weren't berserk. If I hadn't appeared, that would have been true berserk."

"The golden gravel fragments in that person's hand were the debris that was split in half by Old Man Ryoma back then."

"Scraps?"

"Yes, residual particles after being split in half."

Residual...

The human experimentation that Arisugawa mentioned...

"Anything else you want to ask?"

Finality Luo Mio looked at Luo Mio, who was lowering his head in deep thought.

Luo Mio raised his head and looked at Finality Luo Mio, blinking his eyes.

"You're the other me, my Herrscher personality, right?"

Finality Luo Mio nodded.

"Then, according to what I'm familiar with under normal circumstances, shouldn't you be in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, in my other 'soul'?"

"Isn't that obvious?"

"What do you mean."

"The bottom of a dark, quiet, empty sea, or a land where you can see scenery and beautiful women everywhere. Which one do you choose?"

"The last one is the main point, isn't it." Luo Mio rolled his eyes.

Luo Mio, the Finality Herrscher personality, was exactly like another him.

"By the way, you should be careful."

Finality Luo Mio suddenly spoke.

"Huh?" Luo Mio was taken aback by Finality Luo Mio's serious tone and asked, "Careful about what?"

"You, right now, should avoid contact with those remaining golden scraps as much as possible."