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

"If you want to ask about Alexandra's current situation... you might as well ask the one with whom you have the most special relationship... oh no, to be precise, those two people."

"...! Bronya understands."

“I’m curious how you did [this].”

"You mean... re-condensing the core of the Ruler of Reason?"

"You have already gained the approval of those 300,000 thoughts, so it's not surprising that you can do this. What I really care about is... you don't have the ability to erase any fragments of consciousness in the core - that is not the power of the Ruler of Reason, and you haven't achieved that level at all.

Did you... not use the core, but memorize those 300,000 thoughts completely by your own will? Or... did the core of the Herr of Reason sense your will and automatically help you do this?"

"...From Bronya's personal experience, I'm afraid the latter is closer to the truth. To be honest, Bronya didn't think too much about it at the time..."

"If the core of a Herrscher has a certain "capacity", then in order to carry the ever-growing "past" and always be able to move towards the "future", Bronya can only make herself another "core". What happened later was more of a matter of letting things take their course as a Herrscher."

"Bronya feels that... they have become a part of Bronya in another form, and as Bronya changes in the future, they will also adapt to the future."

"...Heh. Is this what you call a 'hindsight perspective'? You don't have to be modest - as far as I know, your metamorphosis was smoother than any other Herrscher."

"Three hundred thousand thoughts... even if they are not active wills, they are enough to overwhelm any human brain. Not to mention changing their form of existence. But... this is you, Bronya. Thank you for letting me witness what a Ruler of Reason is. Although this victory seems to be a "coincidence", you, as the key to it, are a kind of "necessity." "

"Although you have passed my test, I have to make it clear that I do not have the ability to reverse the Stigmata Plan, and neither does my Lord. However, after it has come to this, I will not stand in your way any longer."

Misterlin waved the flag in her hand and retreated into the stigmata space. After a while, Kiana and Raidenya rushed to her side.

"Uh... Bronya... you..."

"Hmm? Is there something wrong?"

"I'm afraid that's a bit too much. Anyway, our ability to return to reality from [that place] should be closely related to Bronya's victory over Mistrin."

"...By the way, why are there only you, Youlan Dell and Su Shang?"

"… Let's start from the beginning."

After they were defeated in the battle with Kevin, they were locked in a special space again. Except for Bronya, who escaped by cutting off her connection with the Herrscher Core before the prison was completely closed, everyone else was locked in a maze that seemed to have no end no matter how they walked.

After some investigation, everyone found that Kiana and Mei Raiden, who were Herrschers, and Youlan Dell and Li Sushang, who were Stigma Awakeners, seemed to have reached a delicate balance to some extent. Therefore, as long as this balance was broken, a way out could be found.

In the end, Kiana and Mei chose to stay in the maze to explore, while Li Sushang and Yulan Dell chose to rely on Genius and walk directly back to Earth from the moon.

"Well... although I still don't understand what happened between you and Hatagi, but... Bronya is now a "complete" Herrscher of Reason, right?"

Bronya then took a quick look at her body but didn't say anything special.

"……Um."

Recalling the last similar situation, she couldn't help but look around her. After re-condensing the Herrscher Core, she immediately built a new machine for her "partner". The heavy-armored bunny hovered there quietly, and it was very different from before - but it seemed to have never changed.

"Change without changing", this is exactly the key to her victory just now.

"Okay, what we should do next..."

"Sister Bronya!"

Before Bronya could finish her words, a figure threw herself into her arms.

"Xie'er?"

"That's great... Sister Bronya is okay!"

"Thank you. But how come you..."

"Of course I called her here. You guys made such a big fuss and didn't even take me to play. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

"Well...Xiaozhi, now is not the time to joke around. We still have a lot of things to do next."

"Monitor?! Great, you finally woke up."

"Yeah. Long time no see, Kiana, Mei, Bronya... and Seele."

"... Wait, what about me?"

"You have helped me a lot. I must thank you individually later."

"Uh--Old...you..."

Fu Hua's straight shot disrupted the Herrscher of Consciousness's thoughts, and for a moment he didn't know what to say next.

"Kevin has left the Moon now. He has set out to carry out the next step of his plan without encountering many real challenges. Of course... from his perspective, whether we are his enemies or not is actually for us to decide."

"…The next step in the plan?"

"Isn't it obvious? Kevin doesn't care about this place at all - he just stopped for a moment to show us what he can do."

"I think Kevin... wanted to find something from you. To this end, he repeatedly set up obstacles for you and personally confirmed your fighting will and ability. He not only gave us his all, but also showed us some leniency - he even took the initiative to tell the Herrscher of Knowledge how to return to Earth from here."

"what?!"

"Well, isn't he looking down on us? Although you and I can't be considered as one. At that time, I saw that I couldn't beat him, so I pretended to surrender to him. This guy probably wanted to show his magnanimity, and told me several things about this moon."

"What about the influence of the Awakened Stigma on space, the world bubble that can trap the Herrscher, and the "wormhole" that everyone can use."

"You mean... wormhole?"

"Oh, yes, that's the place where you just fought. It was originally a "star gate" used by the Fire Moth to travel between the Earth and the Moon. Unfortunately, it was destroyed before the "end" came that year."

"But that popsicle also said something like, 'If you develop the power of the Ruler of Reason to the extreme, then the moon will not be able to become a cage to imprison the Ruler of Reason.'"

How...looking at this posture, do you want to try it according to what he said?"

"If we don't even dare to try, then we will really be looked down upon by the World Serpent."

"Sister Bronya, you won't force yourself, will you?"

Hearing about the work of "opening a passage" again after Klosten, Seele in Bronya's arms almost instinctively felt a sense of fear.

"Don't worry, Seele. The current Bronya... is more powerful than any Herrscher of Reason in the past."