Honkai: It’s broken, I have become the Herrscher of Corrosion?

Theresa closed the book, put it aside, shook her head, and felt a lot of emotions in her heart.

“…After all, I founded this organization and have led it for over 500 years. Even though I can’t bring Kallen back to life, I still have some feelings for her…”

Looking out the window, Theresa was filled with emotions. After a series of abnormal weather conditions, the sun finally broke through the clouds and fell on the small town of Kolosten again. The traces of the battle in front of St. 357 Church and on Hyperion had been washed away by the rain a few days ago.

The ship and the old town returned to their former peace. As a result, everything seemed to be the same, yet it was no longer the same as before.

When I walked out of the room, I bumped into Cecilia who had just boarded the Hyperion.

"Oh, Cecilia, I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, but Theresa, you look like..."

"Well, there have been too many things happening recently, and each one of them has challenged my inherent cognition over the years... I feel like my brain is going to shut down."

Theresa returned to her room again and sat on the bed. Cecilia glanced at the book on the bedside, and then sat down next to Theresa very naturally.

Theresa also relaxed very naturally and leaned her body onto her.

"Alas, at that time... when I saw you again in a daze, I really thought I had gone to heaven after death. I didn't expect that the thing I dared not to think about countless times in my dreams would become a reality..."

Theresa snuggled in her arms and put her little hand in hers:

"Cecilia, it's great to see you."

Cecilia smiled:

"Yeah, me too. I have to thank... Oh, by the way, Enosia told me that she went to the World Serpent Headquarters and it was related to Raiden Mei."

"She left so quickly that I didn't even have time to thank her... By the way, I've already informed Siegfried of your return to the world. According to Mr. Walter, he is now in the Anti-Entropy's Mexican base with Mei's father, Mr. Raiden Ryoma, and is expected to be here in a few days."

"Although I haven't seen you for a long time, I know that Siegfried has been... Well, I won't say more. Anyway, you are back and you will be overjoyed to see that you have a daughter."

"It is true that he has a new daughter, but to him it is not Xilin but Qiana. After all, Xilin has no concept of a father, and her first impression of Siegfried is not very good. I don't want to embarrass her."

Theresa nodded, then showed a puzzled expression:

"So what you just said is..."

At this time, the communication came again, it was Alvette, the designated tool of the Undying Blade.

"Lady Theresa, Lady Rita has arrived at Klosten."

Rita was sent by Otto to contact the World Serpent, but she did not get along well with Raven and others, and caused quite a conflict, so she returned a few days late. When she returned to Klosten, everything was over.

"she……"

"Ah, Lady Theresa, Lady Yulandel has woken up. After hearing about what happened in the past few days, she went to visit Lady Yulandel first."

"Yulandel is awake?! I'll be there right away."

After the call ended, Theresa immediately got up from Cecilia's arms and ran out of the room. Cecilia followed closely behind, but she showed a relieved expression.

Yulandel had been in a very dangerous state since she was knocked unconscious by Cecilia at the entrance of the Saint 537 Church. Because her control over Honkai energy had completely failed, the Honkai energy contained in her body was higher than that of an ordinary Herrscher, and she was like a balloon that had been inflated to its limit.

In order to prevent the balloon from exploding, she had to use gentle means to slowly deflate it. Therefore, she had been lying in a coma in the medical cabin for the past few days, and until today, the Houkai energy in her body finally dropped to normal levels, and her body's self-regulation mechanism also recovered, and she woke up naturally.

"Great! Lord Youlandel, you are finally awake!"

As soon as Youlan Dell left the medical cabin, he saw Susanna, who was alive and well but a little flustered. Apparently, she had been helping to take care of herself before she woke up.

"Susanna, what happened during the time I was unconscious?"

"Um……"

Susanna walked to her backpack, rummaged around for a while, then took out her notebook and read through it at a glance.

"Lord Orlandel, please wait a moment. Let me look for it... Ah, I found it. According to Lady Theresa and several doctors, you were affected by the power of the Law Constraint and went out of control on the spot."

Youlan Dell's heart tightened.

"When I lose control, I won't lose..."

Susanna waved her hands quickly:

"Ah, no, no. After noticing your abnormal condition, Miss Kiana, Miss Silin, and Miss Enosia took immediate action and worked together to control you. Then, Lady Cecilia took decisive action and knocked you unconscious. At that time, we acted in a hurry and hoped..."

"Ah, of course. I won't let this...wait, Susanna, who did you say took action in the end?!"

Yulan Dell's emotions suddenly fluctuated greatly, which scared Susanna and her voice immediately dropped octaves.

"Cecilia... Cecilia Shaniat-senpai..."

"Susanna, I think...Yulan Dell's point is why Lady Cecilia, who was confirmed to have died 17 years ago, suddenly appeared in front of everyone."

The door of the medical room opened. Although Rita still looked as elegant as usual, Youlan Dell could clearly feel that her breathing was faster than usual and her pace was much faster than usual.

"Rita, I'm sorry to have worried you."

"No, I feel relieved to see that Lord Youlan Dell is still so energetic."

Susanna saw that Rita and Yulandel were getting closer and closer, and their attention was on each other. She didn't know what to do next, so she stayed where she was for a while. She didn't notice that Alvette, who was following behind Rita, had been winking at her.

Seeing this scene, Alvette shook her head helplessly, walked forward, and pulled Susanna out of the medical room, leaving enough privacy for the two.

Not long after, Theresa and Cecilia arrived. Theresa looked at the closed door and gave Alvette a questioning look.

"…Um…Lady Yulandel and Lady Rita are inside…"

Looking at the somewhat nervous Alvette, Theresa was a little confused and raised her hand to open the door.

"Theresa, wait a moment."

Cecilia shook her head.

"Perhaps it would be better to knock before opening the door..."

Cecilia took a step forward and knocked gently on the door three times. Soon, there was a rustling sound from inside the house, followed by hurried footsteps. It was Rita who opened the door.

"Lady Theresa, and Lady Cecilia, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Theresa noticed that when Rita looked at Cecilia, her face seemed to show some... uneasy expression. In her impression, Rita seemed to be the one who made others feel uneasy. Why did she...

When she looked at Youlan Dell again, she found that she was even more uneasy, with her hands rubbing back and forth on the edge of the bed, and her feet swinging constantly. Theresa had known Youlan Dell for so many years, and she had never thought that she would become like this.

"Ah, Principal, and mother, you are here."

Kiana and Silin arrived here just after Theresa and Cecilia.

"…I'm sorry, I made everyone worry, but luckily nothing irreversible has happened…"

Youlan Dell looked around and finally said what was in his heart.

"I know everyone must want to know where I went before I fell from the sky... Let me start from the beginning."

"Just before you arrived at Kolos Teng, I was ambushed by Melide and Otto. Otto exiled me to a place in the imaginary space. It's a special dimension that looks... like a red desert."

"When I arrived there, countless fragments of memories flooded into my mind. Endless history... kept appearing in my subconscious. I saw a man who had lost his wife and daughter, and whose life had long been like a piece of paper torn to pieces by [fate], but he still faced everything bravely. Although the world kissed him with pain, he embraced it with songs. In that memory, even though he had such a tragic experience, he never lost his fighting spirit and continued to move forward optimistically."

"In the myth, Sisyphus pushed a huge rock up a mountain with great effort, and then watched helplessly as the rock rolled down the mountain... and so on and so forth."

"From a certain perspective, this may be the norm of life. The life of each of us is a cycle to some extent. But... the experience of that gentleman touched me a little. Because he chose to be a fighter for fate, and chose an attitude that I hope I can live like this. Never bow to fate, never surrender to the world, and always carry out the purest belief in your heart... This is the true mark that Sisyphus left for us, the proof of a hero, and even more the proof of "humanity."

"When this belief expanded to a certain extent, the memory of him came to an abrupt end, and what followed was another memory...a memory that I had lost before I was 8 years old."

"At that time, I had not received any treatment, so my hair was originally white, and the gentleman just now... was actually my biological father..."

"Yulan Dell, your hair... ah, sorry, is my focus a little strange?"

Faced with Kiana's interruption, Yulan Dell did not get angry, but patiently explained.

"…It's okay. I was planning to reveal everything to you today…I had an accident when I was a child, which caused me to lose my memories before the age of 8. It was Otto who saved me and used a new technology, a unique treatment he thought of while upgrading his prosthetic body—using soul steel as a carrier to regulate the stigmata, to artificially induce the re-division of stem cells, so that the various indicators of the new living body tissues can eventually be comparable to those of soul steel."

"According to him, I was the only one who survived the treatment - and my recovery was almost perfect, far exceeding expectations. Even the only 'blemish' left by the treatment was this unique head of bright and beautiful curly hair like winter waves."

"... Let's get back to the topic just now. In that memory, when I was young, my father and I carried out a plan that could be called crazy..."

Youlan Dell closed her eyes, and the scene that had appeared in her mind reappeared:

[The young father is asking his young daughter: OK, repeat our action plan again.]

[The young daughter replied seriously: First, we set out from the family villa where we have lived for several days and take a car to the development center outside Klosten.

After arriving at the development center, we went to your exclusive training room. There, if someone talked to us, I would say, "Dad, you've finally come home, and I want you to teach me some more of Kaslana's ancestral gun fighting techniques."

Then, when we got to the training room, we climbed through the window to the unused locker room in the building next door - my dad had to put on a chemical protective suit and pretend to be a worker maintaining the equipment; and I hid in the waste box that my dad was transporting.

When everything is ready, we will sneak into the scrap yard of the experimental area, and I can crawl back into the core area of ​​the experimental layer from the scrap port there. During this time, Dad, you will get a stealth fighter; and I will saw open the window from the inside of the experimental layer and welcome you in.

Finally, we need to find the laboratory where the clone is and snatch her away from those bad guys! If we are intercepted, we will use force to break through the siege! 】

"And the ultimate goal of this seemingly flawed plan is to rescue a clone who looks exactly like me in the laboratory..."

"what!"

Kiana and Theresa's eyes widened immediately, while Silin and Cecilia sighed and shook their heads.

"So... that means Siegfried and Cecilia's biological daughter, the real [Kiana Kaslana], is actually you?"

"...Yes, my reaction at that time was not much better than Theresa-senpai's, but this... is indeed the truth."

Theresa felt more regret than surprise and emotion. The truth was right beside her, but she had missed it again and again. If...if she could find a chance to talk to her, maybe...

But there are no ifs in history, only results. Perhaps Otto thought of this and deliberately avoided this situation, allowing her to stay in Saint Freya and not return to the headquarters for many years.

"Rita, let's go out first. I think... we need to give some space to the family that has just reunited."