Until Bell returned and everyone had finished dinner, Kiana and Hestia did not come out of the room.
After everyone had returned to their respective rooms and Takatsuki and Bell had gone to sleep, Kiana's door quietly opened.
Hestia walked out of the room, then went to Takatsuki's bedside and patted Takatsuki.
"Takatsuki, Takatsuki."
Takatsuki slowly opened his eyes, looked at Hestia in front of him, and immediately sat up: "Hestia!"
Seeing the darkness around them, Takatsuki quickly lowered his voice: "How is Kiana?"
Hestia pointed outside the door. Takatsuki glanced, nodded, got up, and followed her outside.
"Kiana is already asleep, Takatsuki, I want to ask you something, and you must answer me truthfully."
As soon as they were out, Hestia spoke to Takatsuki with a serious expression.
"Do you know Kiana's true identity?"
Hearing Hestia's words, Takatsuki nodded: "I know."
"I'm not just talking about the Herrscher you mentioned, but also about her and her father, and that you know she's not her father's daughter."
Hearing Hestia's words, Takatsuki continued to nod.
"Ha… So, that means you lied to Kiana when you said you were her old friend, right?"
"Ah, that…" Takatsuki immediately scratched his face awkwardly. Just as he was about to brush it off, Hestia warned him: "You cannot lie in front of a god!"
"Sigh, yes. But I had already thought of a countermeasure. The Kiana I said I knew was the real Kiana."
Takatsuki sighed, no longer intending to hide it.
"Her father, Siegfried, wasn't very smart. He gave his missing daughter's name to Kiana, and Kiana is a clone of the real Kiana, so they can be said to be exactly the same. I originally wanted to pretend I had mistaken her for someone else, since not many people know about this."
Hestia was stunned upon hearing this: "There's a father like that! That's too irresponsible!"
"Then did the real Kiana die?"
"No."
Hestia looked at Takatsuki, who answered without hesitation, folded her arms, and puffed out her chest: "I've noticed you seem to know a lot of things others don't. How much more are you hiding?"
"Ah, Hestia, please don't make things difficult for me here. There are some things I really can't say."
Takatsuki replied with a bitter smile, but Hestia also saw Takatsuki's predicament: "Alright then, I can see you're doing it for their good. Do you know where the real Kiana is now?"
"I do."
"Mm, I probably know how to comfort that child now. Alright, you should get some rest too."
Takatsuki was really not good at comforting people, so he had to leave it to Hestia to solve.
…
The next morning, everyone except Kiana had gotten up from their rooms.
"Today, I will continue to comfort Kiana. You all can go adventure in the Dungeon with peace of mind."
Hestia said to the others.
"But Miss Kiana…"
Bell was interrupted by Hestia before he could finish: "Bell! Do you not trust me, your Goddess?"
"No! How could I…"
Hestia smiled at Bell: "Then just leave it to me!"
"Alright…"
Just then, Fu Hua suddenly spoke: "I won't be going to the Dungeon today."
Before anyone else could ask, Fu Hua continued: "Yesterday, I felt that I could further improve my martial arts; it seems I can perfect Edge of Taixuan. I need to train by myself, in seclusion."
"Seclusion, will it be long?"
Fu Hua shook her head: "I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be too long."
"I understand. Then today, it will be the four of us… five of us."
Takatsuki said halfway, then saw the Herrscher of Thunder emerge from behind Mei and corrected himself.
Thankfully, Bell and Hestia didn't mind the correction.
When updating her abilities in the morning, Mei's skills changed. Her magic disappeared, and the skill [Stigma: Crazy Diamond] became [Dual Heart Unity], and the skill description turned into a series of unresolvable question marks.
However, everyone knew that it had actually transformed into the Herrscher of Thunder, but it seemed to be unresolvable because of its excessively high existence.
During their adventure in the Dungeon, Takatsuki noticed one thing.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the battles of Stand users looked like two chuunibyous.
But the destruction and effects produced were real.
This led to, in Bell's eyes…
Monsters inexplicably exploded one after another.
"Takatsuki, do you really not have a sword? It's too disgusting for this queen to punch these guys."
After some communication, the Herrscher of Thunder finally stopped arrogantly calling others humans or insects.
"If you're talking about a sword, I have one." Takatsuki raised the Kusanagi Blade in his hand: "But not a katana."
The Kusanagi Blade has the appearance of a double-edged sword, which does not meet the requirements of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū. Although it can be used reluctantly, it is still very unaccustomed to use.
"So, Raiden, who told you to break Snowblade Dance?"
It was a bit inappropriate to keep calling her the Herrscher of Thunder, but calling her Queen or something was too strange, so Takatsuki finally gave her this name.
In Takatsuki's words: "You two are, in the final analysis, the same person, both Raiden Mei. Neither of you is complete without the other, but to differentiate, let's split your names when addressing you. After all, you are only complete as Raiden Mei when you are together."
And the ability of Raiden, who had transformed into a Stand, perhaps because it evolved from Crazy Diamond, acquired similar abilities.
That is the deconstruction and reconstruction of molecules. The former could be roughly achieved by the Herrscher of Thunder through her power of lightning, and the latter was the ability of Crazy Diamond. When the two merged into one, they became a more unreasonable form of decomposition and reconstruction.
Takatsuki's first reaction was Herrscher of Reason, but then he thought it was somewhat different, because she couldn't control the creations she reconstructed. Her creations were simply creations. Even if she completely understood the principles of Anti-Entropy mechs and created them, she would still need to manually input programs.
Reconstruction could only be considered a variation of Crazy Diamond's ability.
"Forget it, in that case, I'll just use what I made myself."
Wielding weapons forged with reconstruction abilities, because she didn't understand sword forging, the weapons were merely superficial, and their quality could only be considered ordinary weapons.
But with the ability to reconstruct, even if it was damaged a few times, it could be repaired.
Moreover, as part of Raiden Mei, she could also use the authority of the Herrscher of Thunder.
Of course, Bell couldn't hear what Raiden said, which led to…
He felt a bit out of place with the team.
"Sorry, Bell, but I don't have a Stand for you right now."
Takatsuki quickly noticed Bell's discomfort and said apologetically.
"It's okay… Takatsuki, I'm fine."
Looking at the white-haired young man who was still trying to improve himself, Takatsuki realized that if he didn't find a way soon, this young man might be ruined.