Although Kiana did indeed head towards the infirmary after her meal, she had no real intention of lying down to rest properly.
The infirmary usually had a teacher on duty. If someone was genuinely sick and needed to see the school doctor, they'd typically go to the actual clinic, not this place.
Kiana told the teacher she wasn't feeling well.
The teacher told her to find a bed and lie down.
She chose a spot by the window and drew the curtain around it, blocking the view from outside so no one could see what she was up to.
Then, rubbing her hands together excitedly, Kiana pulled up the system panel.
'System.'
[I'm here.]
'Let's keep going.'
She said it cheerfully.
Honestly, Kiana didn't have to go this far. Letting go of her idol burden when no one was around wasn't a bad thing, but that little look on her face gave off a sneaky vibe.
Cute? Sure, it was cute.
But it was also kind of hard not to facepalm.
Besides, her communication with the system happened entirely in her mind now. Even when she looked at the system's semi-transparent panel, or performed various tasks—like editing, narrating, or even muttering to herself—no one in the real world would have a clue.
But still! Maybe it was all about that sense of ritual?
Anyway, if anyone actually heard her adding commentary while editing videos, Kiana would just die of embarrassment. If there was even one person around, forget commentary—even muttering to herself while watching a show felt unbearably cringe.
Seriously!
A job like deceiving the whole world had to be kept under wraps.
Not that she was exactly deceiving the whole world, but still!
Working with the system to extract bits of the future and prepare exposure videos made her instinctively extra cautious.
Sneaky and low-key.
Maybe it helped set the mood? Nothing wrong with that, right~
Kiana shook her head slightly and glanced out the window at the sky.
Better hurry up and get the first video finished.
She'd already sorted out some of her ideas while dozing off that morning.
As for the rest… no need to worry. She could take it slow…
Honestly, she looked just like a little girl who'd gotten a new toy—excited and eager to try it out.
When people were around, she was the proper young lady.
When alone, she could be as cringe as she wanted. That was the real her!
'Ahem…'
She cleared her throat softly in her mind.
Lying on the bed, hands folded over her stomach, she stared up at the screen.
'Ciallo~'
'Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, dear viewers.'
'This is Yuzu.'
'…'
It wasn't exactly split personality stuff.
The main thing was—Kiana knew very well that she had to separate herself from this. She needed to create a distinct persona specialized for making videos, doing commentary, and using the system.
That way, no matter what the sky screen exposed, she could act like an outsider—What are you looking at me for? I'm just as shocked!
That would make it harder for anyone to suspect her.
Even her commentary tone had changed, and the voice quality was noticeably different from her real one.
But since it was all formed in her mind, the vocal tone and such would need fine-tuning by the system later.
Even the edited videos, the extracted materials, and everything Kiana was thinking right now—it was all just a first draft.
The system would still need to polish it up afterward.
The system asked:
[After the final product is ready, would you like to review it?]
At that, Kiana replied with full confidence:
'No need! I trust you!'
More importantly, she genuinely wanted to experience the exposed videos as a viewer.
It was like opening a blind box—there had to be some surprise involved.
That's what made life fun, right?
If she handled everything herself and had already seen it all, then when it played on the sky screen, it would just be boring.
If she were a real livestreamer, then sure—reading comments and the donations would be part of the fun.
But the sky screen was up in the heavens—where were the donations even supposed to come from? Even comments would have to wait until later.
She didn't want that.
So, the system didn't have much else to say.
It would follow her lead.
But again, she had to keep the video-making role separate from her current self.
A new persona was absolutely necessary.
Kiana thought back to the livestreamers she'd watched in the past, and after a few tries, she more or less found the right vibe.
Like right now:
She set it up so that these projected videos would be updated works made by a historical commentary livestreamer named 'Yuzu' from some distant future time.
They were just being projected into this world for unknown reasons.
No fixed update schedule, no fixed content.
Not accepting any criticism.
Take it or leave it.
Theoretically, since there's such a huge gap in time, whatever you say goes—yeah, sure, you're right.
Everyone in this current era would basically be long dead from that livestreamer's perspective.
Calling them ancestors would be putting it mildly.
Who knows, maybe she'd even dig up your grave someday.
Even though posterity should look at history rigorously, sometimes official history is history, and unofficial history is history too. She wasn't some old scholar specialized in studying this stuff—of course she'd do whatever was fun.
Guaranteed accuracy?
Nope, no guarantees~
Besides, time washes everything away.
The older the history, the fuzzier it gets.
That gave Kiana plenty of room to work with. Even if she made mistakes, it was fine.
Who could guarantee that the history we see today is even real?
Of course!
That said, because this world had Herrschers and Honkai energy, it definitely wasn't like the ordinary Earth of her past life, where history flowed onward and dynasties rose and fell, leaving only fragments behind from ancient times.
Certainly, there would be people who'd lived for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, all the way up to now.
So, Kiana needed to have some idea of what the future was like.
Even if observing parallel worlds thousands or even tens of thousands of years ahead was pointless, she still wanted to understand what the future world she hoped for might actually look like.
Whether it could really happen or not, she at least wanted to paint a compelling picture first!
It's worth emphasizing again: even if the future exposed by the sky screen is the most likely, best possible future, the very act of exposing it means that future can no longer happen.
Just like the saying:
The future that is known is no longer the future.
So, Kiana had even less reason to feel any psychological burden.
Wrong? Right? Lying? Yeah, I'm lying to you!
So what!
She openly admitted she wanted to deceive the whole world. Wasn't it way more fun to watch the world react to her videos?
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