The so-called rehabilitation course was nominally meant to help her recover from the physical damage caused by the experimental accident, but its main content was actually common-sense lessons arranged by Otto.
Although she acted like an amnesiac patient, she truly lacked common sense about this world and knew nothing about the power of Schicksal.
Since Otto had decided to mold her into Kiana Kaslana, he naturally would not forget to provide her with Kiana Kaslana's past experiences.
Of course, she only learned from True Kiana that most of the experiences Otto provided were fake.
Things like how, under Bishop Otto's cultivation, her thoughts had been elevated, and she wanted to become a Schicksal warrior possessing the eight virtues of a knight.
She did not really understand how Schicksal's warriors had anything to do with the eight knightly virtues. In any case, the fake background Otto had created portrayed Kiana Kaslana as someone with high aspirations, refinement, and knowledge.
Apparently, she could solve world-class problems at the age of five.
Yeah, she felt Otto was making things difficult for Kiana K422 No-Brains Kaslana.
She was also supposed to love the people, remain positive, and take her mother Cecilia's sacrifice for the people as her ideal, aspiring to become Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie.
To sum it up—
—I am going to become the strongest Valkyrie!
In short, Bishop Otto was full of crap.
Unfortunately, even if she had seen through that, there was no way for her to resist the courses Bishop Otto had arranged.
Especially since the teacher Bishop Otto had assigned her was a blonde older sister in black stockings. That made it even harder to refuse.
True Kiana was extremely envious of this. She wanted an older sister to teach her how to read too. Even a younger sister would do if there was no older sister. Anything was better than Bishop Otto teaching her.
Of course, she had no idea what Bishop Otto had been busy with lately, but she could tell that the surveillance had relaxed considerably.
The clearest proof was that Amber, who acted as her watcher, had appeared before her far less often these past few days.
But her range of movement was still restricted.
At the very least, without sufficient authorization, she could only move within a certain area. The farthest she could go was St. Fountain.
Naturally, taking this opportunity to investigate True Kiana's location was impossible.
After all, the Little Maids Amber had assigned her had already split into three shifts and followed her around the clock. Even if they were not watchers, she could not openly investigate True Kiana's affairs with so many people watching her.
Of course, after spending so many days together, she could now calmly accept the fact that she bathed and slept with the Little Maids.
"...Beast!"
True Kiana coldly remarked.
"Don't say that."
She wiped away nonexistent sweat from her face.
The little girl beside them, very unusually, was not crying. But since she could not join the conversation between her and True Kiana, she simply kept sleeping in the dream.
"Didn't you want to hear about my day?" she said with a shrug.
True Kiana snorted and turned her face away.
She herself was being held alone in a room deep within Schicksal Headquarters. Even the three meals delivered to her room were mostly machine-made.
She desperately longed to communicate with others.
Otherwise, she would not have broken down when Bishop Otto cut off contact.
Now that she had two companions to talk to in this dream, and K423 clearly lacked the ability to communicate, she could only talk to K422.
That said, hearing from K422 that her mom Cecilia might be having an affair with a legal loli named Theresa—rolling her tongue—
She had no idea why she had to roll her tongue when saying "having an affair."
The main thing was that she had been scared silly.
If Mom was having an affair with that older sister named Theresa, then... what about Dad?
Then there was listening to K422 talk about her daily life.
For example, which maid sister she had bathed and slept with today. K422 had even said that one of the maid sisters had especially large and soft breasts. Yeah... K422 had definitely touched them.
Thinking about how K422 was currently using her name, True Kiana naturally became furious.
o(￣ヘ￣o＃)
It was not that True Kiana was angry at K422 for ruining her reputation. She did not yet understand what reputation was. She was simply jealous that K422 had so many people accompanying her, including older sisters who bathed and slept with her.
She wanted to bathe and sleep with older sisters too.
"I'm ignoring you."
True Kiana turned her back on her in a huff.
By the way, she did not know what "beast" meant. She simply felt that the word was perfect for scolding K422.
"Fine, I admit I was wrong... Let's talk about something else. Today, I met our little aunt at Schicksal."
"Theresa?"
"No, I think her name was Angelina Schariac."
"Who? Do I have a relative like that?"
True Kiana looked completely bewildered.
She really was a relative
"I've never heard Mom mention this relative..."
This was True Kiana's first time hearing that she had such a relative.
Of course, she had only been a little over two years old when Otto locked her in a dark room. There were not many things she could remember, and the fact that she could still remember her parents' faces now already proved that she had matured early.
Not to mention that she had inherited the excellent genes of both the Schariac and Kaslana Families.
Whether in learning ability or physical ability, she far surpassed children her age.
Even calling her a genius was not enough to describe her talent in those areas.
But True Kiana's talent had not brought her any help. Instead, after understanding her situation, she had quickly shut herself off.
"They say the poor have no visitors even in a busy city, while the rich have distant relatives even deep in the mountains. Do you think she came to claim kinship with us?"
She asked curiously.
However, the little girl who had appeared before her and called herself her little aunt did not look much older than her. People who randomly claimed kinship were usually shameless adults. A girl who looked so appetizing—cough, cough, she meant cute... A little girl who looked that cute did not seem like someone who would randomly claim relatives.
But the Schariac Family was too prestigious.
As powerful as Schicksal was, the three great families were just as impressive.
Even though Schicksal belonged to the Ott—oh, the Apocalypse family, the Kaslana Family, Schicksal's ace fighters, and the Schariac Family, Schicksal's public image, naturally rose in status along with it.
Maybe some shameless adult had instructed the little girl to come claim kinship.
After all, that little girl she had met really did not look very smart.
"...Randomly claiming kinship? Probably not. She might really be a relative."
"But she doesn't look like us. Look, both you and I have white hair and blue eyes. Mom also has white hair and blue eyes, but that little girl had blonde hair and blue eyes."
"The reason we have white hair and blue eyes is because we're from the Kaslana Family."
"Huh?"
"( ′? ??`) Huh? You didn't know?"
"I didn't."
She had genuinely thought she was so cute because she had inherited Cecilia's excellent genes. As for the paternal side, she had not felt that she had inherited anything.
"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 becomes. And Mom's eyes are actually a little greener."
"Apricot-colored?"
"Yeah. Apparently, Lady Eleanor Schariac's hair was apricot-colored."
Knowing that her knowledge in this area was severely lacking, True Kiana hurriedly explained it to her.
Of course, True Kiana had only learned this through the courses Otto had arranged.
"Eleanor Schariac?"
"Yeah, the ancestor of the Schariac Family. Of Schicksal's three great families, the Schariac Family has the shortest history."
"I've learned something. Then that little girl calling herself Angelina Schariac might really be our relative."
"Maybe. Then what happened?"
True Kiana was very curious about what it had been like when K422 met their little aunt at Schicksal Headquarters.
At the same time, she longed for the outside world even more.
She really wanted to know what Angelina, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, looked like.
"Then I'll continue. When I met this little aunt, she pointed at me and said that Schariac's Saintess belonged to her sister Maria."
"So now we have another relative named Maria?"
True Kiana blinked.
She did not know her either. Speaking of which, her mom—cough, cough, that was not a curse. True Kiana really had not heard much about the Schariac Family from her mother.
Clearly, her mother did not like talking about the Schariac Family.
"What did you say?"
"Me? She puffed out her chest with this 'my sister is amazing' look, so I casually patted her chest and said, 'So small.' Then she wailed and ran away."
True Kiana calmly said after hearing this, "Beast!"
Although she did not know why she had to use that word at this moment, she just felt that it would not do if she did not use it.
She shrugged indifferently. "I don't know why I did it either, but I just felt like doing that would make her cry."
"Anything else?"
Compared to waking up to a room where she was all alone, True Kiana would rather talk with K422 and K423 in the dream.
Even if K423 could only cry and could not really communicate, she was still willing to accept it.
Unfortunately, she had to wait for K422 to fall asleep before entering this dream. Otherwise, she really wanted to stay in the dream twenty-four hours a day.
"No. How could I have that many things happen in a day? It's not like new characters show up all the time."
Although the new character had been cute, with big watery blue eyes that immediately filled with mist and looked very easy to bully, she had opened by snapping, "Schariac's Saintess belongs to my sister Maria," leaving her completely baffled.
Did she care about being Schariac's Saintess?
Well, perhaps she really would care about the position of Saintess in the future.
"There's nothing else... o(︶︿︶)o Sigh." True Kiana sounded disappointed.
"Fine. If I ever go on some wonderful adventure, I'll definitely tell you about it."
"Really? I'll look forward to it."
Although she would still shut herself off after waking up, True Kiana was much more cheerful in this space.
Then... K423 woke up and started crying.
Although K423 still could not communicate with her and True Kiana, in this space, she and True Kiana could feel K423's emotions—she was hungry.
Then she began crying loudly in the dream.
Her crying came in a two-two-three beat, with a very distinct rhythm.
Translated, it meant: I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm so hungry. Seriously, if you're hungry, why don't you wake up?
Whether she woke naturally or someone woke her up, she could leave this space. It was 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 they were kicked out, True Kiana and K423 did not wake up immediately. Many times, they would keep sleeping.
The starving Crybaby looked like she wanted to bite someone.
"Ah, I wonder who she was influenced by."
"...Are you blaming me?"
True Kiana raised an eyebrow. She felt it was time to let the beast know how formidable the original was.
After all, she had received training. Although she lacked the Schariac Family's ability to manipulate Honkai Energy, she had inherited the Kaslana Family's extremely strong Honkai resistance.
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