"Cecilia Scharia. She is the previous Saint of Schicksal. She's an S-class Valkyrie and the strongest Valkyrie of her time. Her character, appearance, and strength are all models of Schicksal in her era. She was the most dazzling star of her era."
"Then why did she marry dad?"
Listening to Angel's narration of Cecilia's great achievements, Kiana felt both admiration and extreme confusion.
Although he is her father, let's take a fair look at Siegfried. He has a sloppy beard, is unkempt, drinks, and smokes. It's hard for Kiana to say that flowers are stuck in cow dung if he stands with any woman like this, let alone a woman like Cecilia, who sounds super perfect.
Go to the key store on the street and ask: is he worthy?
He deserves a trash can!
Angel felt like she has seen someone disown their father. Although she had no feelings for Siegfried, she couldn't help but say something good for him in this situation.
"Uncle Siegfried was also the most outstanding Kaslana of his time. Although he was dissolute in his early years and even ran away from home to escape his knightly duties, he later passed the S-rank assessment with his strength and made great achievements in battle. He was worthy of Lady Cecilia... Well, barely."
"See, you're not confident anymore, right? So how did they get together?"
Kiana blinked her bright eyes, her face full of curiosity.
Children always find it hard to resist their parents' love stories.
Angel thought for a while and explained.
"It was a political marriage at first."
"Wow! That's what I thought! Although it may not be appropriate for me to say this, it's a pity for my mother."
Kiana shook her head and sighed, with a tone of "as expected," and seemed very upset for Cecilia.
Once again scolded by filial piety, Angel spoke with a dull wooden face.
"But as far as I know, it should have been true love."
"Huh?"
"It should be said that with Lady Cecilia's status, position, and strength at that time, if she did not agree, the marriage would not have been realized at all. Even the Archbishop wouldn't have forced her."
In fact, Otto really did not force Cecilia.
He first arranged the encounter, let the two develop feelings, and then let Siegfried and Cecilia voluntarily come together.
Such a tactful and laborious arrangement was to ensure that Cecilia was willing. If she had truly objected, the situation would have been very different.
Kiana nodded ignorantly.
"Well, although I can't figure it out, it's a good thing as long as my mother didn't feel wronged. Alas, it's really like a turtle looking at a mung bean, and there are all kinds of eyes."
"... I always feel that you have a lot of dissatisfaction with Uncle Siegfried."
"Ah, of course!"
Kiana straightened her chest as a matter of course.
It's more than dissatisfaction; if they faced each other now, she could perform a rising dragon punch at any time!
Angel's eyes were drawn to Kiana's jugs.
Judging by her appearance, the white-haired Husky already has a treasure chest of considerable size, and with her perfect thin waist curve, the sense of fluctuation could be slightly seen through the thick down jacket.
Then Angel turned her head to look ahead, at a vast expanse of snow-white and then lowered her head to check the map.
"We're getting closer and closer, about 200 kilometers away is the ruins of the Babylon Experimental Tower. It's also the place where the Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, was born."
"...Mom, did she die there?"
Kiana's mood visibly depressed. She stared blankly ahead, as if she could see the battlefield of that year.
Angel nodded and did not comfort Kiana at this time but continued to tell this history.
"The Second Honkai War was extremely tragic, even Schicksal paid too much. The the Archbishop's Guards who never left the headquarters were almost wiped out. In the end, humanity's victory was achieved by Lady Cecilia's self-sacrifice. But I think there are many hidden secrets here. Because there are many vague and contradictory records of the entire war, which cannot be explained by the fierce battle and the inability to record them."
"It sounds really uncomfortable."
Kiana frowned slightly. Facing a terrible threat as the Second Eruption and then seeing the struggle of humanity against each other with these secrets, she found it disgusting.
Angel sighed and agreed.
"Who said it wasn't? The intelligence information I can obtain is limited. Let's not talk more about it. At least one thing is clear, the Babylon Experiment Tower was a base for deep human experiments and the original Sirin was one of the experimental subjects."
"So, Sirin became a Herrscher because of human experiments?"
"Yes."
"..."
Another explosive truth. But Kiana barely managed to control her emotions.
Now she has friends, elders, and stable emotional bonds, so this messy darkness won't impact her mentality. Especially since she knows that Angel just experienced something terrible, then brought her out after recovering from a serious illness and told her the truth, she has to be strong no matter what, otherwise she will fail Angel's trust and care.
Kiana took a deep breath.
"Okay, but what is the connection between Sirin and me? Why did I dream about her?"
"You are calmer than I thought."
"You are flattering me. I have always been so calm and reliable, hehe!"
"It will be bright if you give me some sunshine."
After Angel determined the direction, she looked back at Kiana with a slight smile on her face.
In fact, after uncovering so many truths of her past, how could Kiana calm down so easily? She's been chasing this truth severally years now.
It's just that she thinks that this is no longer just her own business, but also a sample for the future Angel. So even if she is pretending, Kiana has to pretend to be firm and unchanging.
Angel didn't point it out, and started to reveal the next truth directly.
"To be frank, I suspect that Delta is probably not the first attempt of Schicksal to create a Herrscher."
"Huh!?"
...
Siegfried drove the fighter plane he had forcibly seized from the North American Anti-Entropy Base and rushed to the ruins of the Babylon Experiment Tower.
"Kiana Kaslana crashed in Siberia. If I'm not mistaken, the direction she was heading is probably the origin of the Second Eruption. I owed Ms. Cecilia my life back then. I also know that Siegfried is with you, so I'm giving you a friendly reminder. You're welcome."
That's what Cocolia told them.
But Siegfried remembered this favor. If he has the chance, he will find a way to repay it.
"Kiana... don't mess around... that's not a place you can go!"
Siegfried was so panicked that cold sweat broke out.
He didn't hesitate to let Kiana complain or even hate him, and he wanted to stay away from Kiana's sight and only guard her in secret because he was afraid of stimulating the sleeping Herrscher of the Void. He was afraid that Kiana would be hurt by the Herrscher of the Void.
And what is the Babylon Experiment Tower?
That is the abyss of sin that Sirin hates the most. The stimulation to the Herrscher of the Void is probably a hundred times stronger than seeing Siegfried himself, right?
Who asked Kiana to come to this dangerous place?
Is it Otto's conspiracy?
What is that idiot Theresa doing!?
Siegfried's teeth made a sound.
No matter what, he had to rush over to stop it, even if it was Otto's trap, he had to crash into it.
As a father who has lost everything, and for the sake of his only remaining daughter, Siegfried had no choice.
The plane passed through heavy wind and snow and finally arrived at the battlefield ruins that had long turned into a basin.
The vitality left by Cecilia still permeates this land, turning the sad land that was originally buried with countless blood and tears into a paradise on earth where pure white flowers still bloom in the ice and snow.
The strongest weight of the previous Schicksal can be seen from this beautiful scene.
Siegfried landed on the edge of this vast garden and then ran to the middle like crazy!
Because he had heard Angel's cold and ruthless lines across the plains.
"Kiana, why don't you have any memories before the age of 8? Why do you dream of Sirin's childhood? Why did Siegfried defect and take you away from the headquarters of Schicksal?"
"Stop talking!"
The man was running.
And Angel raised the corner of her mouth coldly.
"There is only one answer!"
"Shut up! Kiana, don't listen to her!"
The man was still running wildly, his eyes bloodshot, calling his daughter's name frantically.
Kiana just stood there blankly, listening to Angel's expressionless recitation of the villain's three-part laugh.
"Ha. Ha. Ha. Kiana, you are the experimental subject of the first artificial Herrscher created by Schicksal."
"Shut up!!!"
Siegfried finally reached Kiana, who was standing still, and quickly stretched out his hand, trying to cover his daughter's ears to make up for the loss.
Then, the fist wind blew from bottom to top, hitting Siegfried's chin.
A filial daughter who did not want to reveal her name burst out with the resentment accumulated over the years, shouting and punching:
"Damn dad! Take my ultimate rising dragon punch that has been accumulating for ten years!"
"Bang!!!"
That day, Siegfried flew very high, very high.