Why?

Seeing this, Ren Yu immediately understood. "This light-blue one... so it's Kiana's consciousness strand."

"Then whose is this one? Could it be the Honkai Consciousness?" He then looked at the other light-blue thread, frowning to himself. "No... that can't be right. The Honkai Consciousness should clearly be that pitch-black one. So who does this light-blue one belong to?"

Just as Ren Yu was about to examine the other blue thread more closely.

A series of images suddenly flashed past like a carousel.

He froze.

His eyes widened in utter disbelief!

How was that possible?!

Those images... were all of a middle-aged man and a white-haired infant.

"Is that Sig...fried?!" Ren Yu instinctively spoke the man's name.

Then he abruptly lowered his head and stared intently at the other light-blue thread.

"If that man is Sigfried, and the baby beside him is Kiana, then wouldn't the owner of this thread be... Kiana's biological mother—Cecilia Schariac?!"

But hadn't Kiana's mother heroically sacrificed herself over a decade ago, bleeding herself dry?

Could it be that, in this world, events had changed again and taken a direction he did not understand?

At this very moment.

Atop a towering emerald tree rooted in the center of the Sea of Quantum.

Near its uppermost reaches were tens of thousands of World Bubbles, each nurturing a prosperous civilization.

And within one of those World Bubbles.

Earth.

Inside the spacious, brightly lit principal's office of St. Freya Academy.

A woman dressed in a pristine white ceremonial gown, adorned in luxurious accessories, reclined halfway on a sofa chair. Just looking at the desk in the distance piled high with documents made her feel dizzy.

But she knew that no matter how exhausted she was, she had to finish everything before she could sleep.

At that moment, the white-haired woman