As soon as she walked to the center of the cathedral, Kiana suddenly felt the entire underground cathedral begin to tremble at high frequency, and some kind of gravity beyond time and space was pulling her consciousness downward.
Accompanied by several shifts in space, when Kiana came back to her senses, she suddenly found herself standing upon a vast snowy plain.
"Where is this...?"
At the highest point of the snowy plain, a towering steel tower stood, imposing and fearsome. The cold wind howled, and the sky was constantly shrouded in layers of gray clouds.
Looking at the high tower surrounded by endless glaciers and snow that never melts throughout the year, Kiana felt a wave of oppression in her heart.
What caught Kiana's attention even more was, even though this was clearly her first time coming to this place, why did it feel so incredibly familiar?
Moreover, she had clearly come in here following Theresa, so why did Theresa disappear in just a short moment?
"I can only see that tower, whatever, I'll go check it out first." Saying it and doing it, Kiana lifted her legs and headed toward the distant tower.
However, what Kiana didn't notice was, right after she left, a dark-purple silhouette suddenly appeared at the position she had just been in.
———
When the people in the real world saw this scene, they all began cursing the scriptwriter's family.
Because this dark-purple silhouette was precisely the Second Herrscher who had appeared before in Kiana's dream world.
Previously, due to Van's intervention, the Second Herrscher hadn't appeared for a long time. Now that Van was out of the picture, she appeared, the timing couldn't be better.
On the other side, in St. Freya Academy's girls' dormitory, after seeing this scene, Raiden Mei and the others also broke into a cold sweat for the Kiana in the video.
"I wonder if the Kiana in the video can find a way to save Van," Raiden Mei said with worry.
"Of course she can do it! Mei!"
Kiana said confidently, "Even though in real life, my academic performance is... average at best, this video world doesn't determine success or failure by grades! I believe that the me in the video can definitely do it!"
"In a way, this video actually replicates our character settings pretty well. For example, Mei is a cooking master both in and out of the video, and I inherited my hacking skills. As for Kiana..."
At this point, Bronya glanced at Kiana.
"What are you looking at me for!" Kiana glared at Bronya, "Whether it's in the video or real life, I'm still the same."
"The same idiot," Bronya interrupted.
"Ah!!! Stinky Bronya, I'll fight you!" Kiana lunged toward Bronya on the other side of the couch.
The two beautiful girls instantly became a tangled mess.
———
Just as the two were messing around, the Kiana in the video finally encountered someone else besides herself on the vast snowfield.
And that person was Theresa.
However, to Kiana's surprise, not only did this Theresa not recognize her, she even mistook her for an illusion of the Second Herrscher.
"Hey! Theresa, wake up! I really am your niece, Kiana Kaslana!"
Kiana shouted while defending against Theresa's attacks.
"Don't try to confuse me, Second Herrscher!"
Theresa said resolutely, "My niece Kiana is only one year old right now! So, die, illusion!!!"
———
Seeing this, people in the real world also began to realize something. This Kiana clearly time-traveled, and traveled to Siberia in the year 2000.
Linking this to previous plot developments, many detail-oriented fans began speculating that Kiana might be able to change history.
[Time-travel plot?! Things are starting to get interesting!]
[Could the upcoming plot be Kiana changing history?]
[Master, I've got it! Kiana, this little butterfly, went back to 2000, did some things, and thereby affected the currently unconscious Van in the real world, ultimately achieving the goal of saving Van!]
[Awesome, bro, awesome! I'm taking the writer's pen from the scriptwriter and handing it to you, you write the rest!]
In the video, after a few exchanges with Kiana, Theresa suddenly stopped.
"Wait! The technique you're using... could it be the Kaslana family's gun-fighting technique?! Who taught you that?"
"Of course it was my dad," Kiana said matter-of-factly.
But Theresa across from her looked confused, "Who's your dad?"
"Siegfried, Siegfried Kaslana."
Upon hearing this familiar name, Theresa suddenly didn't feel so good.
And then, thinking about Siegfried's terrible reputation, Theresa instantly deduced the backstory of this situation.
In the real world, just as the many netizens were expecting the past-Theresa to deduce that the Kiana in front of her was from the future...
Theresa instead said with firm conviction, "I understand now! You must be Siegfried's illegitimate daughter!"
Kiana in the video, "Huh?"
Kiana in the real world, "Huh??"
Netizens in the real world, [Huh???]
In the video, Theresa said righteously, "Damn that Siegfried! I already knew his private life was messy. Rumor has it the guy even groped every Valkyrie's butt! But I didn't think he'd have such a grown illegitimate daughter!"
Looking at Kiana's head of pure white hair, unique to the Kaslana bloodline, Theresa's expression also softened.
"So that's why you called yourself my niece."
"Who... Who is an illegitimate daughter!" Kiana's face was full of speechlessness.
"Poor child, I know this truth is hard to accept, but this is not your fault. It's that pervert father of yours!"
Looking at Theresa, who seemed to have accepted this as fact, Kiana could only helplessly go along with it.
'Forget it, with Theresa's IQ, it looks like explaining it clearly is impossible.'
Kiana thought to herself, 'I'll just go along with what she's saying for now, so she'll help get me out of this damned place.'
———
[Oh my god, my precious bug actually had a day where she looked down on someone else's intelligence!]
[Shocking! The bottom limit of Honkai Impact 3's IQ has been found!]
[What Theresa? More like Deli-dumb!]
At St. Freya Academy, as the headmaster of Qianyu Academy, Theresa had already been troubled by how her height and appearance made it hard to establish authority among the students.
Now, that concern was finally resolved.
Because after this video aired, let alone gaining authority, the students not laughing behind her back would already be considered good.
Thinking of this, Theresa thought viciously, 'MiHoYo's number one idol Aichan, right? Don't let me run into you, or I'll smash you to death with Judah!'
As soon as she finished speaking, Theresa suddenly froze, having noticed a blind spot.
'Eh? What is "Judah"? Why did this word suddenly appear in my mind?' Theresa thought in confusion.
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