Chapter 126

Liv originally wanted to come up and help K422, but when she thought about K422's unusually heavy weight, she suddenly realized that she obviously couldn't lift it with her small arms and legs. Liv had no choice but to seek help from the Propaganda Department staff who were resting on the Escort Ship.

Then K422, who was lying in a wheelchair, was transported onto the Escort Ship as heavy luggage. The staff used the wheelchair somewhat like a single-wheeled cart.

"..."

K422, who was still not unconscious, lay slumped in his wheelchair with his eyes half-closed, falling into a long silence.

I feel like all the effort I put into creating this atmosphere has been ruined.

Don't you know what a show is?

Although she was completely exhausted from treating all the wounded, it was only a matter of physical exertion.

After returning to the Floating Battleship, K422 began to recover her strength by eating a lot, and even received a full-body massage from a maid.

I originally wanted to take this opportunity to win people's hearts, but the way I boarded the Escort Ship just now probably only makes people laugh and won't inspire any respect at all.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter if the show didn't turn out well."

The captain of this Floating Battleship is an old woman who treats the airship like her daughter.

K422 wanted the Floating Battleship to move forward at full speed, but the other side refused outright.

"Kiana, even if it's your order, I cannot use a piloting method that would harm my own daughter!!" the female captain shouted.

"..."

Don't I, the Acting Grand Bishop, have any dignity?

"If Kiana forcibly issues such an order, I will... fight to the death with my daughter!!!" the female captain said, as if she had entered a berserk mode.

"..."

Okay, you win.

K422 had no choice but to go back to his room for a short nap.

To treat hundreds of wounded soldiers, she analyzed the genetic blueprints of hundreds of people. In addition to the huge physical exertion, she also consumed a lot of mental energy, so she was indeed exhausted and sleepy.

"Kiana, should we forcibly requisition this Floating Battleship?"

"Forget it... I don't want to die together with her."

K422 only hoped that it could remember to travel on a Floating Battleship next time.

"But Kiana, isn't there something urgent..."

"Even if it's urgent, it will take an hour. I can only trust the medical unit that Welt has assembled."

Even if he were to rush there now, Theresa would still be receiving treatment in the emergency room, and he still wouldn't be able to see Theresa.

"Of course, my priority right now is to rest and recover my strength, as the power of Creation of the Black Abyss White Flower requires a lot of physical strength..."

"Understood, Kiana. You should go to sleep now."

Liv placed her hands together in front of her and left K422 with an elegant maid's demeanor.

K422, who was about to ask for sex, was stunned into silence.

You weren't like this before!

K422 returned to her room feeling dejected, expecting her maid to provide soft pillows.

As soon as she lay down on the bed, the side effects of repeatedly using the power of Creation surged up again. It was as if K422 hadn't slept for several days in a row, and fatigue and drowsiness kept coming over her like a tide.

As soon as K422 closed her eyes, her consciousness sank into darkness.

But when I blinked, I found that everything around me was a vast expanse of white.

"Here it is?"

K422 looked around in a daze.

But soon, K422 noticed where this white expanse of space belonged.

"Is this the core of the Black Abyss White Flower? Could it be... Mother?"

However, what appeared before K422 was not Cecilia, the mother she had longed for, but a girl who looked very similar to the Little Seele she knew, but was about ten years older.

Although they looked very similar, the girl in front of them, who appeared to be fifteen or sixteen years old, had a curvaceous and slender figure, and her smiling eyes contained a hint of gentleness.

"Who are you?"

K422 couldn't help but ask.

"Me?"

"I don't even remember my name anymore..."

The girl with a gentle expression was lost in her memories, but the look on her face grew increasingly confused.

"But I should be... a vessel for the power of the Herrscher of Death."

"The vessel of the Herrscher of Death??"

Looking at the gentle-looking girl, she said this in a confident tone—

K422 trembled uncontrollably.

(Why is this happening! How did the Herrscher of Herrscher of Death end up here!?)

This vast white space is the space within the Herrscher Core, where Cecilia's consciousness slumbers.

"The Herrscher of Death symbolizes Silent Death. Her duty is to spread death and cause life to wither. She should represent the Death God... I'm curious, why do you use the power of Creation to save people?"

"Your physical structure has long since evolved into that of Herrscher, so why waste your energy healing unrelated people?"

Despite her gentle expression, the girl's face was still full of confusion.

She had been asleep for so long that she had forgotten even her original name and duties.

But the girl remembered what the Herrscher of Death was originally like.

That is the Death God of death who spreads death, not the saint who saves lives.

"I'm human, what's so strange about that?"

K422 didn't know the other party's true purpose, but that didn't stop her from giving a standard answer.

But her answer seemed to leave the girl speechless.

"Human? How could you be human? You're clearly just a clone!"

The girl, who looked remarkably like Little Seele, became increasingly confused.

"Don't you know about this? Why do you insist that you are human?"

"I don't know what your purpose is, but I am human, and if I believe that, then I am human. Even if I were Herrscher, it wouldn't change the fact that I stand on the side of humanity."

K422 stated this quite frankly.

(Is the Herrscher of Death's vessel truly just a vessel, and not the Herrscher of Death herself, assimilated with the Honkai Consciousness?)

Even the Schicksal doesn't have detailed information on beings like the Herrscher.

The current First Herrscher Welt Yang, also became Herrscher by inheriting the Herrscher Core of the previous First Herrscher Welt Joyce. After inheriting the Herrscher of Reason Core, he gradually mastered the Herrscher's abilities with the help of a group of companions.

During this process, he was naturally influenced by the Honkai Consciousness, but Welt, through his own willpower and the bonds he shared with his companions, avoided being Honkai Consciousness it.

If it weren't for a group of good friends at the time, Welt couldn't guarantee that his will would have remained steadfast.

"You choose to stand on the side of humanity? Even knowing that the Honkai is invincible?"

"Is the Honkai invincible? Who knows? Perhaps we will find a way to completely eradicate the Honkai in the future. In the past, the Honkai has broken out in the form of the Black Death, plague, and even war. At that time, the Honkai also gave people the feeling of being invincible."

Ultimately, the Black Death was contained, and the number of Black Death outbreaks in various countries decreased significantly.

The same is true of plagues and wars; they also give people a sense of invincibility.

But humans can always find a corresponding solution.

K422 smiled.

"Since you insist, then I'll wait and see."

"Of course, I will also lend you my power... You haven't even unleashed the full power of the Black Abyss Black Abyss White Flower, and you don't even know how to use it..."

What the girl really wanted to say was, 'You don't know how to use the Divine Key at all; you treat it completely as a convenient Honkai Energy converter...'

However, the other party's actions cannot be said to be wrong.

The girl was also worried that her words might be too direct, and what if the other person stopped coming to this core space in the future?

"I will teach you how to use the Black Abyss White Flower, and I will also teach you how to properly use the power of Creation and the power of Wither."

"Uh, sorry, I didn't intend to use the Black Abyss White Flower as a weapon."

K422 chose to reject the girl who spoke so sweetly.

To her, the Black Abyss White Flower was more like her mother's sleeping house, and K422 had no intention of using her mother's house to fight.

"???"

The girl was once again filled with confusion.

Is the Divine Key really just a converter to you?

How long have I been asleep? What has become of this era?

137. That's an incredibly long reaction time!

The girl was confused; she didn't believe the other person was unaware of what kind of weapon the Divine Key was.

However, it is indeed possible that the other party is unaware of the true power of the Black Abyss White Flower.

Therefore, the disheartened girl rallied and prepared to speak for the Black Abyss White Flower.

Just as the girl was about to speak, K422 waved her hand, interrupting her.

"Excuse me, Herrscher of Death, or rather, Vessel... there's a reason why I won't use the Black Abyss White Flower as a weapon, but that reason has nothing to do with you, so I don't want to explain it to you, and I don't have time to listen to your explanation right now. That's all—"

Because she frequently constructed consciousness spaces to chat with True Kiana and K423, and had previously entered and exited this core space, K422 quickly figured out how to leave.

K422 closed her eyes and focused her consciousness, instantly exiting the core space, leaving the girl who claimed to be the vessel of the Herrscher of Death bewildered in the white world.

"... This, this is the new kind of 'I won't listen, I won't listen, I won't listen'?"

The girl tried calling out to the other person again, but received no response.

Yes, that's just how capricious the K422 is.

In reality, K422 opened its eyes.

"... Where are we now?"

"Kiana, you've only just closed your eyes..."

The maid Liv was puzzled by K422's actions, and the almost non-existent time to move forward made K422 want to say, 'What? My timing was pretty good, huh?' but these thoughts remained buried deep inside.

"I thought I had been sleeping for a long time."

Like the consciousness space, the core space is not synchronized with real time.

As the main entities constructing the consciousness space for nighttime chatting, they spend roughly half their time in this space compared to their sleep time.

In other words, if three people sleep together for eight hours, they can only stay in the consciousness space for four hours.

The first time I went to the core space, I met Cecilia for several hours, but in reality, only a few minutes had passed.

This time was no different; we chatted for a while in the core space, but in reality, it didn't last long at all.

"Kiana, what happened to you?"

"There's nothing there. I'm going to sleep a little longer."

K422, who had closed his eyes again, soon felt the core space pulling at his consciousness.

This time, she clearly felt that what was pulling at her consciousness was the girl who claimed to be the vessel for the power of the Herrscher of Death, so... she decisively chose to refuse.

The girl in the white, misty space once again showed a bewildered expression.

I almost became withdrawn.

At that moment, a faint sound also rang out in the white space.

"I'm sorry, Miss from the Previous Civilization who was possessed by the power of the Herrscher of Death, my second daughter might be a little shy around strangers..."