Otto naturally would not pass up such an excellent specimen. His brainwashing education was still ongoing anyway. Even if she could not be sent to the battlefield as a warrior, he could still collect relevant data during training.
After finally calming down the little idiot K423, tonight's "late-night talk" came to an end.
"...See you tonight."
Sensing that she was about to wake up, True Kiana felt a trace of reluctance.
She did not ask K422 to keep sleeping and prolong their happy time together.
"See you tonight." She answered with a serious expression.
After saying goodbye, she opened her eyes and woke from her dream.
This time, she learned the name of the Schariac Family's ancestor from True Kiana.
She was also becoming increasingly accustomed to the identity of Kiana Kaslana.
I'll Show You Something Good~
"Today, we'll be learning about the history of Schicksal..."
The blonde, busty, long-legged big sister Otto had arranged for her held a pointer and indicated the content on the whiteboard.
The pointer, black stockings, and female teacher outfit were all for the atmosphere.
It was simply this big sister's hobby.
Mm, what a great hobby!
The big sister's outfit and excellent teaching quality truly stirred up enthusiasm for learning.
If she had had a tutor like this in her previous life, getting into a top university would have been easy.
According to her, Schicksal had been established to eradicate Honkai from the world. It advocated universal love, equality, and freedom, fought for the people, promoted a positive spirit, and so on.
Simply put, the Schicksal Organization in her words was a proper organization. Although it had religious elements in its early days, which would now be considered a cult or pyramid scheme, back then it was called providing spiritual comfort to the people.
After several centuries of development, the religious flavor within Schicksal had long since faded significantly. Other than its leader still being called the Grand Bishop, the strongest Kaslana Family still being called a knightly family, and the Schariac Family, as its public face, still selecting a Saintess each generation, Schicksal had actually developed toward becoming a conglomerate.
Throughout Schicksal's history, countless Schicksal warriors had sacrificed themselves fighting Honkai.
The most memorable event was naturally the Second Eruption in 2000. Humanity had been on the verge of extermination by the Second Herrscher, and the one who saved the crisis was Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, Cecilia.
The big sister spoke very seriously, her words filled with admiration for Cecilia.
"Mm, another one of my mom's fangirls..."
Since leaving the cultivation tank several days ago, she had encountered no shortage of Cecilia's fangirls.
Thanks to these fangirls' enthusiasm, she had been living through hell every day.
She remembered someone in her previous life saying that life was like rape: if you could not resist it, then lie back and enjoy it.
She had originally wanted to say that was complete bullshit.
Then she proved with facts—damn, you were right!
As for the history written on the whiteboard, she did not believe a single word of it.
With what Schicksal's Grand Bishop was doing now, if anyone claimed Schicksal was clean, she would eat a keyboard.
Who was Keyboard? Why did she have to eat Keyboard?
She put the keyboard issue aside for now.
In her opinion, nine out of ten organizations connected to religion were dirty, and the remaining one was a cult made up of lunatics.
Schicksal originated in Europe and had once possessed enormous power, even enough to interfere in other nations' politics.
Even the monarchs of other countries needed to be appointed by Schicksal's Grand Bishop.
Officially, it was done in God's name.
In other words, the so-called divine right of kings. Several kings who had disagreed with Schicksal had been stripped of their thrones because of it.
Yet the whiteboard recorded it like this... Schicksal had overthrown tyrannical kings with the support of the people.
Because her first impression of Schicksal came from Otto, she knew very well that Schicksal was absolutely not as great as the whiteboard portrayed.
Strip away the whiteboard's righteous description of Schicksal and its smears against those tyrannical kings, and the actual content of that history was simply Schicksal interfering in politics.
A religious organization had manipulated public sentiment and reduced several kings to commoners.
For an organization with such enormous power to be clean? Fat chance.
Of course, Schicksal had been able to gain such great power because the political priority at the time had been resisting Honkai.
So she only listened to Schicksal's history casually.
After all, history was always written by the victors, and Schicksal had always been the victor.
Even her mother Cecilia's mutual destruction with the Second Herrscher could be explained by a conspiracy theory: Bishop Otto feared that her mother's reputation would threaten his position, so he sabotaged her mother during her battle with the Second Herrscher, turning a fight she could have won into mutual destruction.
In fact, there was evidence supporting that conspiracy theory.
True Kiana and she herself were the best proof.
Not long after Cecilia died, True Kiana's father, Siegfried, mysteriously disappeared. True Kiana was also imprisoned by Otto, who created more than four hundred Experiment Subjects over several years.
So Schicksal could not exactly be called evil, but it was nowhere near clean. As for Otto, he was black to the core.
"Heh, studying history won't save True Kiana. Besides, how could the history on the whiteboard possibly be as nice to look at as those long legs?"
K422 muttered inwardly.
That said, she still memorized everything written on the whiteboard.
Even if this history lacked truth, it was more than enough to make her look like she was studying seriously and accepting the brainwashing education.
After three hours of studying while admiring legs, Bishop Otto, who had not appeared for several days, entered the classroom.
"Bishop Otto..."
The big sister appointed to teach her hurriedly bent at the waist and lowered her head.
This was already a simplified form of etiquette. In Schicksal's early days, meeting the Grand Bishop would have at least required kneeling on one knee.
It simply was no longer fashionable now, and Bishop Otto had long ordered Schicksal to change the related etiquette.
Of course, some "families" that had grown through reliance on Schicksal still retained certain aristocratic traditions.
"...Bishop Otto."
To pretend that she had already submitted to Schicksal, she rose from her seat and bowed her head with the others.
"Kiana, how have you been learning? Have you remembered anything?"
Bishop Otto smiled as he walked up to her, then raised a hand and gave her a head pat—an especially effective move on little girls.
However, her heart remained completely unmoved.
She even felt a physical disgust, goosebumps rising all over her skin.
"???"
Bishop Otto was utterly baffled. This tactic had always worked without fail.
Not to brag, but with his appearance, gentle and friendly demeanor, and a head pat, he could win over any little girl in one move.
Even the notoriously hot-tempered second daughter of the Schariac Family became extremely obedient after his combo.
Before, he could have blamed her poor condition. But now, he had carefully dressed up and even sprayed on some mature men's cologne, Father's Scent, which could make any little girl feel paternal warmth.
Even the real Kiana would momentarily forget her hatred for him before such a combination.
"It smells awful. Please don't come near me..."
Yet to a certain someone, it was unbearably pungent.
Seeing K422 take a small step back, Bishop Otto felt as though he had suffered tons of damage.
Because his research had not been progressing smoothly, he had decided on Amber's suggestion to change his mood by observing his experiment subject up close.
"Ahem, it seems Kiana does not like the scent of this cologne."
Bishop Otto hurriedly blamed the cologne for K422's rejection of him. Mainly because this cologne imitated the scent of Siegfried Kaslana.
Father's Scent came in many varieties, and this one could be said to have been made specifically for Kiana.
He simply had not expected it to be completely ineffective.
Considering that K422 might possess the Second Herrscher's personality, and that during the Second Eruption, the Second Herrscher had been chased down and slashed at by Siegfried with a blade, it made sense for her to hate Siegfried's scent.
"It seems the gift I prepared for you can only serve as an apology now."
As he spoke, Bishop Otto waved toward Amber, who was standing outside the classroom. Amber entered while carrying an enormous yellow plush toy.
"Kiana, this is my gift of apology."
Believing that it was the imitation Siegfried scent on him that had made K422 look so disgusted, Bishop Otto did not take the plush toy himself and instead had Amber hand it directly to K422.
"Bishop Otto, this is..."
The huge plush toy Amber carried was even bigger than she was. It looked like a rabbit, but it had a row of sharp teeth, making it unexpectedly cute.
"This is a plush called Homu. I originally planned to give it to you as a gift."
"A gift? Bishop Otto, why are you giving me a gift?"
"Of course, it's a small reward for studying diligently. It has simply become an apology now. Oh, right, Kiana, I'll show you something good."
Bishop Otto's tone at that moment carried the same feeling as a creepy old man taking a little girl to see goldfish.
"Let's end today's lesson here. Amber, take the plush toy to Kiana's room. I'll take Kiana to see 'that thing.'"
Bishop Otto was still being mysterious.
But with all this talk of something good and that thing, it sounded pretty sleazy.
She really did start to become curious about the true nature of the thing Bishop Otto was deliberately keeping hidden.
After saying goodbye to the blonde big sister, Bishop Otto took her to a "special laboratory."
Along the way, they passed one experimental area after another, as well as training areas for cadets. The researchers in the experimental zones and the cadets in training were all delighted by Bishop Otto's arrival, greeting him one after another. Bishop Otto returned every greeting.
This showed that Bishop Otto truly was very popular.
Even though Bishop Otto was black to the core inside and out, no one could deny his ability.
It could be said that Schicksal's strength was inseparable from Bishop Otto.
"Here we are..."
Bishop Otto took out an antique key and unlocked the electronic lock on the metal door before them. The heavily guarded door, like the entrance to a bank vault, opened to both sides.
The moment she entered the special laboratory, the first thing she saw was naturally a white-and-black Knight Lance displayed inside a crystal case.
"That is?"
"The Sixth Divine Key: Black Abyss White Flower, the weapon your mother Cecilia Schariac used during her lifetime..."
Upon hearing Bishop Otto's description, she could no longer look away from the Knight Lance.
On the outer surface of its white shaft was the Schariac Family crest.
After studying with the blonde big sister for so many days, she naturally recognized the crests of Schicksal's three great families.
"...My mother's weapon, but why do I feel like it's calling to me?"
"???"
Bishop Otto looked completely confused upon hearing that.
"Wait, it's calling to you?"
"Mm, it seems to be calling to me."
As if responding to her voice, the white-and-black Knight Lance in the crystal case trembled slightly.
"Kiana, stop for a moment. Can you do a test with me now?"
Seeing Black Abyss White Flower's reaction, Bishop Otto's eyes lit up as if he had discovered a treasure.
Then he grabbed her and ran to a nearby experimental area, commandeering a laboratory to test her ability to manipulate Honkai Energy.
The results showed that she not only possessed extremely strong resistance to Honkai Energy, but also the ability to manipulate it.
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