"What do you mean?" Luo Mio asked in confusion. "According to what you just said, those Golden Debris are also one of my 'souls.'"
"That's right. They are indeed one of your 'souls,' but you'd better not come into contact with them right now."
Luo Mio caught the implication in his words.
"Right now?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Do you remember the question you asked earlier?"
"That rampage eleven years ago..."
"!" Luo Mio was startled.
"What exactly do you mean? It's really annoying when you keep people in suspense like this."
Finality Luo Mio looked at him sharply.
"Do you know?"
"Inside your current Character Carrier, there isn't just Teacher, the system, you, and me!"
"?!!!!" Luo Mio was stunned. Finality Luo Mio's words sent a chill down his spine.
"You mean..."
"My current body has a third personality besides you and me!?"
Finality Luo Mio slowly nodded.
"Yes."
Leaving the Space
A third personality besides Luo Mio and Finality Luo Mio!
Luo Mio recalled what he had asked Saikyo Neine and Shinguji Kuroko after Saikyo Neine became his guardian.
What exactly had happened when he went berserk eleven years ago?
Back then, Shinguji Kuroko had shaken her head and said,
"When Neine and I arrived, Magic Knights were lying everywhere around you, having been knocked down by the purple energy released during your rampage. You stood alone in the center of the ruins."
Shinguji Kuroko lit a cigarette.
"The terrifying pressure battered our magic barriers like a raging flood."
"The way you looked at us was like a beast, filled with destructive intent—ferocious, sharp, and violent."
"At the time, Neine and I could only work together to trap you with our abilities, but we had no way to wake you up."
"Not long afterward, the purple energy in your body slowly began to dissipate. Your consciousness gradually slipped into slumber until you fell completely asleep."
Luo Mio asked, "What about before I went berserk? What happened?"
Shinguji Kuroko shook her head, indicating that she did not know.
Because all the Magic Knights who had collapsed at the time seemed to have lost their memories. None of them knew what had happened.
"The one who took control of your body and consciousness during that rampage eleven years ago was the third personality."
"And Wallenstein deliberately caused you to go berserk before because he intended to awaken him. I merely used my power to force him back into slumber, then squeezed him back inside."
"Squeezed him back inside..." Luo Mio's mouth twitched. Then, with a solemn expression, he asked, "Judging from your tone, it seems you know the true identity of that third personality?"
Finality Luo Mio's golden eyes, filled with an aura of destruction, turned toward the mysterious "sapling" that had just caused Luo Mio's soul to shatter.
"That third personality is different from me. If I am a personality consciousness born from the Herrscher core..."
"Then the third personality is..."
Finality Luo Mio slowly turned his golden gaze toward Luo Mio.
"A new Herrscher personality born from your Character Carrier!"
Luo Mio's mouth fell open, and the corners of his eyes twitched.
"A Herrscher personality born from within my body..."
Luo Mio lowered his eyes in shock. His tightly furrowed brows revealed the turmoil in his heart.
Finality Luo Mio said,
"When a Honkai outbreak occurs and its Honkai Energy exceeds 1000 HW, there is a certain chance that a Herrscher will be born at the site of the outbreak."
"The Honkai Energy within your Character Carrier surpassed 1000—2000 HW—a long time ago."
"That disturbance eleven years ago also caused the Honkai Energy within you to go berserk by chance, producing a Herrscher personality born within your body."
"By chance?" Luo Mio raised his head and looked at Finality Luo Mio.
"Eleven years ago, someone implanted other Golden Debris into your body."
"Other Golden Debris..."
"You should have felt it before. Whenever Golden Debris comes near you, the Honkai Energy in your body goes insane, trying to surge out of you."
That was true... Earlier, when Wallenstein took out the Golden Debris, both the Honkai Energy in his body and the Honkai Energy that had been converted into magic power had frantically tried to pour out of him.
"And under those circumstances, a Honkai outbreak occurred, and a Herrscher personality was born from your body."
Finality Luo Mio looked at him.
(Of course, Void also manifested. Though that little girl ran away.)
Luo Mio let out a breath. After calming down, he said, "You mean that if I come into contact with or absorb Golden Debris again, that Herrscher personality will emerge from my body and take over my consciousness, right?"
"In theory, yes."
"And compared with a Herrscher personality, I think that guy is more like a Honkai Personality driven by instinct."
"Honkai Personality..."
(Like a beast, filled with destructive intent—ferocious, sharp, and brutal...)
As well as the negative emotions that washed over him every time his consciousness came into contact with the Honkai Energy in his body...
"He's not like me. I'm a Herrscher personality born from a Herrscher core, one with intelligence and reason."
"He is more like a personality born from Honkai itself, carrying out only the will inherited from Honkai, filled with destructive desire toward humanity and civilization."
After hearing him out, Luo Mio complained speechlessly, "What about you, then?! You're still my Herrscher personality. Isn't your mission also to destroy and reset civilization?"
Finality Luo Mio tilted his head and gave a short laugh.
"I'm the fourteenth Herrscher of Finality. The first thirteen Herrschers haven't even been wiped out yet, so why would I come out?"
Luo Mio: "(.o_o)..."
That actually made sense.
A Honkai Personality...
"Ha..." Luo Mio sighed.
Troubles really were appearing one after another.
"Then this Honkai Personality, he..."
Before he could finish, Finality Luo Mio cut him off.
"Teacher put him to sleep inside your body with Feather of the Dust."
"Whew." Luo Mio exhaled. "Teacher really is reliable. That stupid system is nothing but a useless tool that hands out rewards."
"Indeed."
Outside Luo Mio's body, the little ball of light suddenly sneezed.
Fu Hua glanced at it with her vermilion eyes.
"Machines can sneeze too?"
"At this stage, as long as you don't come into contact with that Golden Debris, that guy won't awaken."
Finality Luo Mio analyzed the situation for Luo Mio.
"So we just leave him alone?" Luo Mio asked after hearing that.
"Of course, there's another way."
"What is it?"
"Find the other half of your missing 'core (soul).'"
Luo Mio immediately complained, "Isn't that in the depths of the Pacific Ocean?"
"Yep. When I manifested last time, I sensed it. Ten thousand meters beneath the Pacific Ocean."
"! Ten thousand meters beneath the sea..."
"Hiss..."
Luo Mio's soul body sucked in a cold breath.
"That's a difficult problem for me..."
Suddenly, Luo Mio felt as though his body had been struck. He looked down at himself.
"This is..."
Luo Mio's soul was gradually becoming transparent.
"It seems your soul is gradually returning to your Consciousness Space."
Finality Luo Mio said when he saw it.
"Is that so..."
Luo Mio looked up at him.
"Tha—"
Before he could finish, Luo Mio's figure vanished from this space.
Finality Luo Mio looked at where Luo Mio had disappeared, blinking his golden eyes.
"Did I forget to tell him something?"
Then he turned to look at the mysterious sapling behind him.
Ah...
"I forgot to tell him why he came to this space."
Finality Luo Mio scratched his head.
Light Beneath the Moon
Late at night, Room 44 of the hotel.
Fu Hua's vermilion eyes, bright as the rising sun, watched Luo Mio lying on the bed with concern.
The little ball of light floated quietly beside Fu Hua as well.
Meanwhile, a transparent blue barrier enclosed Ikki's bed, protecting him within. A red-and-white feather, Feather of the Dust, rested quietly atop Ikki's head. The faint red glow emitted from the feather ensured that Ikki's consciousness would be unable to awaken for a short time.
The Honkai markings on Luo Mio's body continuously released Honkai Energy. If not for the system and Fu Hua holding it back, the area within ten kilometers of the hotel would probably have already become a paradise of Honkai.
"This can't go on."
Her beautiful vermilion eyes stared fixedly at Luo Mio, who lay motionless on the bed.
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