I Am the Saintess of Heavenly Mandate Chapter 11

The so-called rehabilitation course was nominally meant to restore physical damage from the experiment accident through exercise, but in reality, the main curriculum was the common knowledge lessons arranged by Otto.

Although she appeared to be an amnesia patient, she truly lacked common knowledge of this world and had no understanding of Schicksal's power.

Since Otto had decided to mold her into Kiana Kaslana, he naturally wouldn't forget to provide Kiana Kaslana's past experiences.

Of course, she only learned from True Kiana that most of the experiences Otto provided were fake.

Something about being nurtured under Bishop Otto, her thoughts elevated, wanting to become a Schicksal warrior possessing the eight cardinal virtues.

She didn't quite understand how Schicksal's warriors got tied to the eight knightly virtues, but in short, the fake experiences Otto cooked up portrayed Kiana Kaslana as someone with high awareness, high upbringing, and high knowledge.

Supposedly she could solve world-class problems at age five.

Yeah, she felt Otto was deliberately making things difficult for her—Kiana422.

And she loved the people, was positive and progressive, and took her mother Cecilia's self-sacrifice for the people and her ideals as inspiration, wanting to become Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie.

To summarize—I'm the woman who will become the strongest Valkyrie!

In short, Bishop Otto was talking nonsense.

Unfortunately, even if she saw through this, she couldn't resist the lessons Bishop Otto arranged.

Especially since the teacher Bishop Otto assigned her was a black-stockinged blonde older sister—she couldn't refuse that at all.

True Kiana expressed great envy over this; she also wanted an older sister to teach her to read, and if not an older sister, a younger sister would do—anything was better than Bishop Otto teaching her.

Of course, she didn't know what Bishop Otto had been busy with lately, but she could feel the intensity of surveillance had dropped significantly.

The clearest proof was that Amber, acting as the monitor, had appeared before her far fewer times these past few days.

But her range of movement was still restricted.

At least without sufficient clearance, she could only move within a certain area, the farthest being St. Fountain.

Taking this chance to investigate True Kiana's location was naturally impossible.

After all, the little maids Amber assigned to her had been split into three shifts, following her around all day. Even if they weren't monitors, with so many people watching her, she couldn't openly investigate True Kiana's matters.

Of course, after so many days of acting together, she could now calmly accept bathing and sleeping with the little maids.

"...Pervert!"

True Kiana coldly retorted.

"Don't say that."

She wiped non-existent sweat from her face.

The little girl beside her was unusually not crying, but since she couldn't insert herself into the conversation between her and True Kiana, she simply continued sleeping in this dream.

"Don't you want to hear how my day went?" She spread her hands.

True Kiana snorted and turned her face away.

She herself was locked alone in a deep room within Schicksal Headquarters, with even the meals sent to her room mostly machine-synthesized.

She desperately craved communication with others.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have collapsed when Bishop Otto cut off contact.

Now in this dream, she had two companions to talk to. K423 clearly lacked the ability to communicate, so naturally she could only talk with K422.

That said, through K422's mouth, she learned that her mother Cecilia might have a thing (tongue roll) with a legal loli named Theresa.

She didn't know why you had to roll your tongue when saying "have a thing."

Most importantly, she was shocked.

If Mom had a thing with that little sister named Theresa... then what about Dad?

Then she listened to K422 talk about her daily life.

Like which maid little sister she bathed and slept with today, and K422 even said which little sister had particularly big and soft chests—yeah... K422 had indeed taken action.

Thinking that K422 was now using her name, True Kiana was naturally furious.

o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

True Kiana wasn't angry that K422 was ruining her reputation—she didn't understand what reputation meant yet—she was simply envious that K422 had so many companions, including little sisters to bathe and sleep with.

She also wanted to bathe and sleep with little sisters.

"I'm ignoring you."

True Kiana huffed and turned her back.

For the record, she didn't know what "pervert" meant either; she just felt it was a fitting word to scold K422.

"Alright, I admit fault... Let me talk about something else. Today at Schicksal, I ran into our little aunt."

"Theresa?"

"No, seems like her name is Angelina Schariac."

"Who? Do we have that relative?"

True Kiana looked completely bewildered.

13. Actually a Relative (Revised)

"I've never heard Mom mention this relative..."

True Kiana was hearing about having such a relative for the first time.

Of course, she had only been a little over two years old when Otto locked her in that dark room, so there wasn't much she could remember. The fact that she could still recall her parents' appearance at all was a testament to her early intelligence.

Besides, she had inherited the excellent genes of both the Schariac and Kaslana Families.

Her learning ability and physical prowess far surpassed those of her peers.

Even calling her a genius wouldn't fully capture her talent in these areas.

But True Kiana's talent didn't bring her any help; instead, it made her quickly withdraw into herself once she understood her situation.

"They say the poor have no relatives even in a bustling market, while the rich find distant kin in the deep mountains. Do you think this person might be trying to claim kinship?"

She asked curiously.

But the little girl who appeared before her, claiming to be her aunt, didn't seem much older than her. Usually, people who falsely claim kinship are shameless adults. And that little girl looked so delicious—cough, she meant cute... a little girl that cute didn't seem like the type to falsely claim kinship.

But the Schariac Family was noble, after all.

However powerful the Schicksal Organization was, the Three Great Families were just as powerful.

Even if Schicksal was run by the Otto... oh, by the Apocalypse name, the Kaslana Family, as Schicksal's ace fighters, and the Schariac Family, as its image bearers, could ride that wave of status.

Maybe some shameless adult had instructed the little girl to claim kinship.

After all, the little girl she'd met didn't seem very bright.

"...Falsely claiming kinship? Impossible. She might really be a relative."

"But she doesn't look like us. Look, you and I both have white hair and blue eyes. Mom has white hair and blue eyes too. That little girl has blonde hair and blue eyes."

"The reason we have white hair and blue eyes is because we're from the Kaslana Family."

"Huh?"

"( ′? ??`) Eh? You didn't know?"

"No, I didn't."

She really thought she looked this cute because she inherited Cecilia's excellent genes. As for her father's side, she didn't feel she'd inherited anything from them.

"The Kaslana Family has always had white hair and blue eyes. The Schariac Family has apricot-colored hair, but the stronger the Saintess bloodline, the whiter the hair. And Mom's eyes are actually a bit more cyan."

"Apricot-colored?"

"Yeah. It's said that Lady Eleanor Schariac's hair was apricot-colored."

True Kiana knew she was completely blank on this subject, so she quickly explained.

Of course, she only knew this from the lessons Otto had arranged.

"Eleanor Schariac?"

"Yeah. The ancestor of the Schariac Family. Among Schicksal's Three Great Families, the Schariac Family has the shortest history."

"Learned something new. So that little girl who called herself Angelina Schariac really might be our relative."

"Maybe. So what?"

True Kiana was very curious about what happened when K422 met the little aunt at Schicksal Headquarters.

She also yearned more and more for the outside world.

She really wanted to know what Angelina, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, looked like.

"Let me continue. When I met this little aunt, she pointed at me and said that the Schariac Saintess belonged to her sister Maria."

"So we have another relative named Maria?"

True Kiana blinked.

She didn't know her. Speaking of which, her mom—cough, not a curse word—True Kiana really hadn't heard much about the Schariac Family from her mother.

Clearly, her mother didn't like talking about the Schariac Family.

"What did you say?"

"Me? I saw her puffing out her chest with an 'my sister is amazing' look, so I patted her chest and said, 'So small.' Then she let out a wail and ran off."

After listening, True Kiana said calmly, "You beast!"

She didn't know why she had to use that word at this moment, but she felt she absolutely had to.

K422 shrugged indifferently. "I don't know why I did it either, but I felt like it would make her cry."

"Anything else?"

Compared to waking up to a room where she was the only one, True Kiana preferred to stay in the dream and talk with K422 and K423.

Even if K423 only cried and couldn't really communicate, she still found it sweet.

Unfortunately, she could only enter this dream when K422 was asleep. Otherwise, she'd want to stay in the dream twenty-four hours a day.

"That's it. I don't have that many encounters in a single day. It's not like new characters show up every other minute."

Although the new character was cute, with big watery blue eyes that instantly misted over, making her look easy to bully, the first thing she did was snap at her: "The Saintess of Schariac belongs to my sister Maria." It left her completely baffled.

Did she even care about the Saintess of Schariac?

Well... maybe she would end up caring about that Saintess position someday.

"That's it... sigh." True Kiana said regretfully.

"Alright, when I have some amazing adventure someday, I'll definitely tell you."

"Really? I'm looking forward to it."

Even though she still had to shut herself off after waking up, in this space, True Kiana had become much more cheerful.

Then... the awakened K423 started crying.

Although K423 couldn't communicate with her and True Kiana yet, in this space, she and True Kiana could feel K423's emotions—she was hungry.

And so she wailed loudly in this dream.

Her cries followed a two-two-three rhythm, very rhythmic.

Translated, it meant: I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm so hungry. Seriously, if you're hungry, why don't you just wake up?

Whether waking naturally or being woken by someone, either way you could leave this space, like having a lucid dream.

Of course, when she woke up, True Kiana and K423 would both be kicked out of this space; but when kicked out, True Kiana and K423 wouldn't wake up immediately—often they'd keep sleeping.

The starving Crybaby looked like she wanted to bite someone.

"Tch, I wonder who she picked that up from."

"...Are you blaming me?"

True Kiana raised an eyebrow. She felt it was time to let this beast know This Seat's power.

After all, she had been trained. Although she didn't have the Schariac family's ability to manipulate Honkai Energy, she had inherited the Kaslana family's extremely high Honkai resistance.