Chapter 599 "Fighting for a Beautiful New World"

"Pfft!"

Kiana spat a mouthful of blood foam on Guinevere's feet. ̢̜̳̱͈̹͓͛͜ḩ̷̻̩͍̱̗͔̺̏̓͊̀͂̀ͅṵ̵̙̻͉̦͙̗̥̉̓̓͊̑̂̑x̸͍̘̳͂͊̂̊̀͊̕͘.̷̹̦̆̆c̶͙͈͚̽̄̈̎̒͜ó̶̧̧̝̳̠͇͕̺̲̹̔̈́̃͝͝m̷̗͓̽̂̌̋̃̌

"No matter how much you say, it's just a waste of saliva. I will never give in!"

"Oh? "

Guinevere raised her eyebrows, but she didn't mean to get angry. She just grabbed a small piece of Kiana's hair and twisted it around her fingertips.

"But, you heard it just now, didn't you? What's going to happen next has nothing to do with whether you surrender or not. On the contrary, if you can communicate with Sirin, it's better to give her a shot of prevention. Eh, no, that won't work. Maybe it will make Sirin's consciousness agitated..."

"You——"

Kiana's eyes gradually became wise (crossed out) and blurred. She was a little confused about Guinevere's intention of saying these words. Did she feel that she had won, so she spoke without restraint, or was it a real reminder?

She didn't know.

For a moment, her eyes became much more vigilant-perhaps, those words were just said by Guinevere to let her relax her vigilance.

But in the end, Kiana still looked at Guinevere with complicated emotions. She saw a few puppets walking towards them in the distance, and she couldn't help but seize the last opportunity to ask:

"Guinevere! You... why do you also... you still have self-awareness, right! You haven't lost to the personality of the Herrscher yet, right! Let me go quickly, I just felt it, each individual Herrscher is not very strong, we have a chance, and now most of the individuals are gone, we can completely..."

"Enough! Kiana!"

The dark pupils stared at Kiana intently, staring and staring for a full ten seconds, and then Guinevere's eyes trembled slightly because of the sourness, and then moved away.

"What you said is the same as Sister Bronya."

"You..."

Kiana then recalled her previous words.

"What did you do to Bronya!"

"Don't worry, you also said that our strength is very weak, and it is definitely not enough to deal with a Herrscher, even if it is an incomplete Herrscher. "

"But you also said that your Lord God took action. "

Guinevere blinked, and seeing that Kiana had completely missed the key words, she couldn't help but reveal a distressed expression.

However, if she could calmly analyze the other person's words in this situation and not care about the life and death of her companions, she couldn't be called Kiana at all.

Even if some people kept shouting "growth", it rarely brought such a fundamental change. If Kiana could understand her subtext, she would doubt whether the person she was communicating with was Sirin.

But it's hard to say, it's not impossible that Sirin is dumber than Kiana.

"Now you should not worry about such things that you can't control at all."

"..."

"Come to think of it, you just asked Senior Wendy why she became a Herrscher, right? What's wrong? Now that the object has changed to me, you don't even have the desire to ask?"

Guinevere's words quickly attracted Kiana's attention.

But after another brief eye contact, Kiana's eyes became more confused.

"I don't understand. In my eyes, whether it is Senior Wendy or Guinevere, they should not be the kind of people who simply succumb to darkness and collapse. "

"Although I am happy to hear you say that, Kiana, people who will not succumb to darkness will also fall. And... don't make it seem like you know me very well. Senior Wendy, I don't know, but you probably don't know me very well. I have too many dark thoughts in my heart, I want to kill some people, I want to catch some people in a small dark room and torture them so hard that their muscles are shaved off and only their internal organs and bones are left, but they are still alive and can't die. Or let him gnaw himself from his feet to see if he will die first from being full or bleeding too much.

"Of course, I can't control my jealousy. I'm jealous that you were born so lucky, carrying the power of the Second Herrscher and the inheritance of Kaslana. I'm jealous that Seele didn't do anything, but just had a good birth and had the power of the stigmata, so she can survive better in this cruel world. I'm also jealous of Bronya. She was born with nothing like me, and her adaptability to Honkai was not good, but she accidentally got the inheritance of the Herrscher of Reason.

"Only me, in the end, I still have nothing. Even if I struggle as an ordinary person, all I can get in the end is to be swept away by the trend of the times and live some unhappy and unwilling days. Look, without you knowing, there is such a dark person lurking around you. Now you can feel more or less about what I said about [Unintentional Evil]. "

Kiana sighed, and was silent for a long time, and finally replied sullenly:

"Everyone has evil thoughts in their hearts, but I believe you have never put them into action. "

"Yes, I have never taken action, but that is because I am too weak. If I had your power, do you think I would still do nothing?"

After saying that, Guinevere waved her hand and no longer gave Kiana a chance to refute.

"Okay, end of chit-chat. In fact, I lied to Wendy. I did not tell me at all, nor did the gods tell me how to awaken Sirin's consciousness without injecting a large amount of Honkai energy. My target has always been you. I just want you to see - Kiana, even if you and the Second Herrscher are treated separately, you have still committed a lot of sins and been stained with a lot of darkness. I just want you to understand this."

The time is calculated just right, every second is accurate. When the last word fell, several puppets controlled by silk threads slowly walked up to Kiana.

One of the dolls uncharacteristically greeted Kiana warmly:

"Oh! Isn't this sister Kiana! Long time no see!"

"You... know me?"

"Of course! You are the great hero who saves our Tianqiong City!"

"Who are you……"

"Ah? Sister Kiana, can't you recognize my voice?"

It does seem that there is some sense of familiarity, but given the current situation, Kiana's muddy brain can't find the energy to search for the corresponding information one by one in the complicated memory.

The puppet sighed in disappointment, and the joints throughout its body twisted "clicking", its movements were like a happy dance after being electrocuted.

It's a pity that it can't adjust the atmosphere of the scene.

"Sister Qiana has really forgotten me. I have to introduce myself again - my surname is Bai and my name is Jian Yun. Sister Qiana can call me Jian Yun, or you can call me Xiao Bai like my mother. "

"Oh...wait! You were at the station at that time..."

"Yes, Sister Kiana finally remembered. I am the little guy who was saved by you at the station!"

Kiana opened her mouth silently, and was speechless for a long time.

"Xiao...Xiaobai, where is your mother? No...why do you talk like this?"

It turns out that her memory is pretty good. The main reason why I couldn't recognize the girl based on her voice right away was that this girl, who must have just turned fourteen this year, had a yandere tone of "I'm broken" even when she seemed to greet her lively. Sometimes, it can also make her feel shuddering.

"Is there anything wrong with Xiaobai's way of speaking? Hehehe!"

The puppet cracked its own head and laughed heartlessly.

"As for mother... mother... oh, yes, my mother has died a long time ago. This is the Domination Theater, not the world after death. Of course you can't see her."

"Sister Su, no... why would you..."

"What I want to say are all unspeakable things. Do you really want to hear it, Sister Kiana? It's okay not to listen, right?"

The figure, which was much smaller than the other dolls, grinned with a warm smile and turned its head to an angle, facing Guinevere sideways.

Guinevere's brows widened, she touched the doll's head, and then imitated her tone and said to Kiana:

"Yes, yes, it's okay if Sister Kiana doesn't want to hear it!"

Is it possible?

I mean, is it possible that Kiana would choose the second option?

Of course it is impossible. Although she knows that the next words may not be pleasant to hear, it may also stimulate her in some way, and even affect the suppression of the Second Herrscher - Guinevere denied this. But Kiana is not stupid enough to believe the enemy's words.

Even knowing this, Kiana still nodded heavily:

"Tell me, I have to know."

She does not want to escape, whether it is to escape from the enemy's verbal/mental attacks, or to escape from the consequences of her unconscious behavior at a certain moment in the past.

If the ancestor who had trained her for half a year knew what she was thinking at this moment, I'm afraid he would be disappointed and think she was naive.

Of course, it is also possible that she might feel the same way and feel that she deserves to be a Kaslana - at least Kiana admires herself, even in this case, her brain still has room to think about it.

"Okay, you want to know, you should also know, sister Kiana."

The small doll squatted in front of Kiana.

"My mother is a really good person. Unfortunately, my father is a scumbag. We used to live in the city, but he lost all his money and his house in gambling. He can only go to that kind of place. Find an empty house to live in. He also always likes to beat me and my mother. His favorite is to burn me with cigarette butts and tie me to a stool. I saw him and his mother having sex at the dinner table. The most important thing is that after changing to a worse environment, his gambling addiction seems to have become worse. People come to collect debts every day. Although he has no money at all, as long as his father Put them in a room with their mother, and then after one afternoon, they will leave on their own.

"Such a family must be very desperate. So that night, the reason why my mother and I showed up at the station was to steal all the remaining cash from home, thinking that going anywhere, even begging for food all the way would be better than staying here. Strong in that family... But what a coincidence, the station was obviously in the city, but a battle broke out. If sister Kiana hadn't saved us, my mother and I would have been crushed to death by the collapsed station hall.

"It seems that the city government didn't expect this to happen. That night, my mother actually didn't fall asleep until five in the morning. She had been waiting for the refund of the ticket to be received so that she could take me to another station in the north of the city to buy a ticket. Leave. But there was no result in the morning, and my mother didn’t want to bother Sister Kiana anymore, so she took me home first, at least to get some food - after all, according to past experience, my father was not awake at this time. Woolen cloth.

"Sister Kiana, you know. While on the road, my mother turned on her phone and found your wanted poster. Even the reward for providing a simple clue is enough for our mother and daughter to start a new life. But after all, Sister Kiana saved us. Although we don’t know why she was wanted, Sister Kiana who saved us must not be a bad person, right? Mom probably thinks so too, so we really didn’t betray you. , Sister Kiana.

"Of course, this is all because Sister Kiana has done good things. My mother has said since childhood that good people will always be rewarded, so Sister Kiana also thinks that what my mother and I do is natural, right? But, just because What my mother and I did was just a matter of course, not a good thing, so there would be no good results. In other words, it was because my mother and I wanted to betray Kia at that moment. Sister Na’s bad thoughts, that’s why retribution comes back so quickly.

"When we got home and opened the door, we happened to encounter that group of people who were looking for dad to collect debts. Even the last money was stolen by my mother and I. Of course, dad had nothing to use to pay off the debt. Oh, actually there are still Yes, but my mother has been used to pay off debts too many times, so according to those uncles, it has devalued, so..."

"No! Don't say any more!"

Kiana suddenly shouted. His head also lowered unconsciously.

"Huh? Why?"

The small doll twisted its body one by one, leaning forward, but its face was raised upwards in an extremely awkward posture, facing Kiana's face.

"Why are you still crying, Sister Kiana? No, Sister Kiana. Xiaobai has given you a choice a long time ago, but what you chose at that time was to hear Xiaobai's story to the end. Don't give up halfway. , you can’t escape it—aren’t these the creed that Sister Kiana has set for herself in her heart?”

Completely seeing through Kiana's thoughts, the small doll's words drove Kiana away like a sharp sword, directly inserted in the way of Kiana's retreat, leaving her with no choice.

"No!"

Kiana's reaction was quite intense. She struggled again, seemingly forgetting the fact that she was restrained for a moment, and simply wanted to raise her hands to cover her ears.

The flesh on the wrist was blurred in the blink of an eye, and the handcuffs and chains were covered with scraps of flesh sticking to the skin, and through them, the pale pink wrist bones painted with blood could be seen. But the chain seemed to have some extremely special power. Even though Kiana's physical strength was enough to punch through the multi-layered armored wall of the Salt Lake City base with one punch, she was still helpless with the chain.

"No...don't..."

When she realized this, her voice couldn't help but grow low again. Rather than saying it was fierce resistance, it was more like showing a "pleading" look in front of the [enemy] for the first time.

However, the small doll just grinned, as if showing off its well-defined and neatly arranged teeth.

"So, it's normal for Sister Qiana to think that Xiaobai is strange and that Xiaobai is 'broken'. Because Xiaobai is already broken, those uncles seem to be very fond of Xiaobai. Satisfied, he gave his father an extra sum of money. I don’t know where he went after that, but it had nothing to do with Xiaobai. Xiaobai and his mother were locked in a small room with no windows, and they didn’t know each other. My uncle raped us, raped us over and over again.

"Then suddenly one day, my mother died while being raped, and all those uncles ran away before they even had time to put on their pants, and they didn't forget to lock the door. Then no one came to see Xiaobai anymore. Xiaobai didn't He knew where to go, and there was nothing to eat at home, but Xiaobai was very smart! He used the lighters dropped by his uncles to light the fragments of the bed and stool, and burned his mother's body. The body was thrown on the fire and roasted. After Xiaobai finished eating the meat from one arm, God finally appeared and rescued Xiaobai. When he opened his eyes again, Xiaobai arrived at the Domination Theater. Although people will quarrel, they will not beat Xiaobai anymore, and they will not rape Xiaobai anymore. We are all good people, and they are not the bad people that Sister Qiana imagined."

"Ahhhhhh-"

Kiana just screamed meaninglessly, while Guinevere looked at her quietly, and after a while, she silently covered her mouth.

"No! No! That's not the case! You all have the personality of the Herrscher, just pretending to be novices! Don't think you can deceive me like this!"

In an empty theater, Kiana's yelling could always be heard far away, but after the space stretched out the time, the sound was too thin.

"That's not true! That's not true!"

The small doll twists its hips and twitches its arms, while its head turns in a classic click.

"No, Kiana, she is not, and none of us have the personality of a Herrscher."

Guinevere swallowed hard and squatted in front of Kiana again.

"We all chose this path of our own will, and you will soon understand the reason. Of course, I know you don't want to believe it, so I'll trouble Xiaobai to prove it."

After the voice fell, the small puppet smiled and held its head, and then pulled it up-

Kiana's breathing suddenly stopped, but what appeared in front of her next was not a bloody scene. Under the puppet's head, it was a familiar girl's face.

The girl lifted her long hair, and Kiana glanced at the scar on her neck caused by the cigarette butt.

For a moment, there was no word to speak, but the lips kept trembling, trembling, and then tasted the salty taste.

Why?

Why do I feel uncomfortable, why do I regret it?

It's obviously something that has nothing to do with me, and it's obviously not my fault at all.

"But, Sister Kiana. Xiaobai has also thought about it - everyone told Xiaobai that if Sister Kiana hadn't come to Sky City, there would be no fighting at the station, and Xiaobai and her mother could have escaped, is that right?"

"Yes... yes."

Kiana choked up and uttered an affirmative answer.

Of course she knew this, but there was another voice in her heart that kept reminding her - this was not her fault at all.

But maybe she was still wrong in this matter, and the fault was her existence.

Yes, her existence there was the error itself.

But if the error was given a percentage, Kiana clearly understood that her proportion was only a very, very small part.

These sufferings were not caused by her, but her existence made the whole thing go to the worst point like an absurd drama.

If it weren't for her, Xiaobai and her mother might have suffered less suffering, and might have successfully left the demon cave in Sky City, but it might not be long before they died of illness, starvation, or were killed by Honkai beasts on the way to beg.

The cause of all this was ultimately the evil of human beings, and it had nothing to do with Kiana.

She understood, she understood this very well.

But she still regretted it and blamed herself.

They had a few hours to spend together. Maybe if she had been more careful and observed more, she would have been able to see the scars on Xiao Bai's body and then take the initiative to help them.

But why didn't she notice it at that time! ! !

"Don't cry, and don't think too much, Kiana."

Guinevere seemed to have been saying some inexplicable words, just like now.

"Xiao Bai doesn't hate you. She just greeted you, didn't she?"

Kiana closed her eyes tightly, squeezed all the tears out of her eyes, and then raised her blurry eyes to meet Guinevere's dark eyes.

"She knows very well, and I know very well too, that the fault in this matter is not yours. Such a thing happened because of the ugliness in human form. And Kiana, you are looking forward to beauty too much, so when you hear such things, you will add burden to yourself."

"So, what do you want to say?"

"It's not interesting, but if you insist, it's not the first time you've heard it. Kiana, Senior Wendy should have told you. The reason we gathered here is because we want to burn this old world full of ugliness and darkness, and welcome the new world promised by the gods that can heal all pain and resentment. So, Kiana, if you really yearn for a beautiful world, join us - not as the second Herrscher, Silin, but as Kiana Kaslana, let us fight for a beautiful new world!"

In Guinevere's expectant eyes, Kiana shook her head firmly again and again.

"Why? Why? You've seen how ugly humans are, how dark the world is, and how much you yearn for beauty. Why don't you want to fight with us? Do you still want to fight to protect this old world and this kind of humanity?"

Guinevere kept asking.

Kiana looked away, "No, I just want to remind you that the God you mentioned said the same thing to Sirin, but at the headquarters of the Destiny, he betrayed Sirin without hesitation. He also betrayed me, Mei, Bronya, Seele, and everyone else. I don't know if what he said is true or not, but even if it is true, you will most likely be abandoned by him in the next moment and will never see the so-called new world."

"Oh! As expected of Kiana, she's taking over and starting to sow discord?"

Guinevere stretched out her finger and quickly scratched Kiana's chin, as if she was dealing with a pet.

"You...what are you doing..."

"Nothing, just punishing you."

Before Kiana lowered her head to bite, Guinevere took her hand back.

"Unfortunately, your provocation is useless - at least for me, I don't care whether God will abandon me or betray me. As long as I follow him, even if I can't see such a future, just becoming an unknown cornerstone towards such a future is enough for me. If I don't even have such awareness, how can I say [Fight for a beautiful new world]?"

Kiana was completely speechless.

Anger, sadness, despair...all of them mixed into extremely strange emotions in her heart, and then spread.

If Guinevere is allowed to continue like this, and if these emotions are allowed to ferment for a certain period of time, what will they evolve into?

Unfortunately, this is ultimately a false proposition, because in the next moment, accompanied by a vibration in the space that almost no one noticed, Kiana and Guinevere both raised their heads, and then looked at each other inadvertently.

"Tsk!"

Guinevere raised her eyebrows and smacked her lips helplessly.

"The people who rescued you came really quickly." (End of this chapter)