The cosmos is boundless, vast, and desolate.
Countless stars dot the sky, yet it is filled with an eternal, profound loneliness.
Kiana didn't care for this kind of atmosphere.
But…what could she do?
Precisely because she disliked it, Jyahnar might not care for it either. Even if Jyahnar herself had no particular opinion on the matter, Kiana still wished she could be spared some hardship.
So, she came.
Right into the kitchen.
Kiana pushed the door open directly—phase-shifting, twisting the fabric of imaginary and real numbers, folding space—arriving here in an instant.
This place, the very edge of the solar system, was right at the doorstep.
But there was one thing worth noting.
Normally, the Alpha Centauri system is about four to five light-years away from Earth.
Which means, if you were observing it through a telescope, what you'd be seeing now actually happened four or five years ago.
So in theory!
By the time the astronomical observatory detected Jyahnar, she would've already been practically at Earth's doorstep.
But!
Because Jyahnar's existence was actually a result of Kiana tweaking the worldlines—intercepting elements from other worldlines and grafting them here ahead of time—the reality was, the moment she was observed, time synchronized.
Because her appearance had been declared.
So when Jyahnar set out, there might still be some time lag in their early warning, but definitely not as much as one might think.
In principle, Kiana should have gone beyond the solar system to welcome Jyahnar.
However, let's not forget!
In the world of Honkai Impact 3rd, the boundary ends at the solar system.
It's an isolated island.
Surrounded by tides of Imaginary Energy—a loop sealed off by countless layers of Imaginary energy and Imaginary Space.
You could observe the scenery beyond through telescopes.
But!
Actually getting out?
Tough luck.
Not that Kiana absolutely couldn't leave.
It's just!
Compared to going out there, she thought it might be nice to welcome Jyahnar right here.
Though if she stayed here, it'd take some time for any message to reach Earth.
What the eyes see depends entirely on the propagation of light.
The speed of light is, well, light speed.
For ordinary people, that might be a terrifying, nearly impossible barrier.
But for Kiana, or Jyahnar, it wasn't so. You might not achieve light-speed travel, let alone faster-than-light, but they weren't bound by such limits.
Just flying alone could accomplish this.
As if disregarding all laws of physics.
Honkai energy—pretty amazing, huh?
Right then.
As if sensing Kiana's presence, Jyahnar's speed skyrocketed, increasing by a massive margin.
If earlier she was just cruising steadily on the highway, now she was stomping the accelerator to the floor, completely ignoring speed limits or tickets—full speed ahead!
She didn't want to keep Kiana waiting too long.
She couldn't bear to dawdle when she knew Kiana was so close.
Have you ever seen a starved tiger spot a tender piece of meat and still stroll over gracefully, step by step?
Not a chance!
"Slow down, no need to rush!" But Kiana still used her power to transmit her voice, urging Jyahnar to be careful.
After all, this Imaginary energy tidal zone might not look like much, but it was actually quite a thick layer.
Jyahnar was clearly planning to crash right through.
Kiana wasn't worried about much else, just whether Jyahnar might get hurt or something.
Most of the time, even Aeons preferred not to mess with these Imaginary Space barriers isolating the worlds. Wouldn't crashing through like that be risky?
"It's fine!" Jyahnar wasn't bothered in the slightest!
She didn't really know whether she was the Jyahnar from the world of GGZ or the native Jyahnar of Honkai Impact 3rd.
But it didn't matter!
The Herrscher of Finality was here, and the Herrscher of Finality liked her—so she was this world's Jyahnar!
Time flowed on.
Kiana stood silently in the void.
Amid the vast universe, a single person seemed infinitely small.
Her mind drifted idly to the civilizations of Mars and Venus.
Both had encountered the Honkai earlier than Earth, and both had fallen, completely and sooner.
If you go by the original setting's timeline, Mars should be the one before Earth, right? Wiped out hundreds of millions of years ago.
All that's left now is that super quantum computer.
Maybe she didn't even need to go to the current era of Honkai Impact 3rd—she could just dig it out when she had time.
Leylah hid within it, scheming to pursue Senadina.
Everything seemed preserved, yet after vanishing, only data remained.
As for Venusian civilization, the sole survivor, Miss Vita—
Originally, she should have become Sa.
The Vita sister that players are familiar with was actually a clone of Sa, who eventually betrayed Sa and took her All-Knowing Eye.
Now, without the Ark Project carrying those genetic libraries—
Phosphorus couldn't be born.
Sa might still be lurking in the Sea of Quanta, developing.
Vita, too, couldn't break free from control.
Kiana mused.
If she encountered them, she wouldn't mind helping out.
Even though the current era of Honkai Impact 3rd had its own Vita, wasn't the Previous Era's Vita also quite appealing?
In Kiana's eyes, she might be a 'bad woman,' even calling herself one.
But!
To be fair, she was more like a Masked Fool with her own moral code.
Even more reliable than Sparkle, honestly.
She remembered, before she crossed over,
Honkai: Star Rail had a crossover with Honkai Impact 3rd.
Star Rail sent 'Director Sparkle' over, had a showdown with Vita, gave her a mask, and invited her to join the Masked Fools' tavern.
Who did Honkai Impact 3rd send over, though?
Surely not just Welt, right?
They must've sent someone else?
Like, maybe the goofball?
Her goofball became the Herrscher of Finality, an Emanator—probably a high-ranking one, and pretty free-spirited at that.
But she could still grow stronger.
Wouldn't it make sense for her to go to the world of Honkai: Star Rail?
Kiana suddenly remembered that time she'd dreamily, almost by accident, connected with the Kiana of the Honkai Impact 3rd current era in a dream, logged into her account, and messed around a little.
She wondered how that Kiana was doing now.
She hadn't experienced anything like that again recently.
Sure enough…
Even if she tried to influence the future, setting things up so such events could happen more often—maybe even beyond just her counterparts—actually making it happen wasn't so easy.
It still depended on fate!
BOOM!!
Right at that moment.
In the vacuum of space, where no sound should carry, a world-shattering roar erupted.
Science? Physics?
What are those?!
Do they taste good?
The very fabric of space seemed to heave and tremble, as if the sky were collapsing. Violent shockwaves, accompanied by the frenzied surge and piercing shrieks of the Imaginary energy tides, radiated outward.
The area, resembling an oceanic current swirling in reverse, twisted and contorted.
It was like a city wall shattering completely, countless bricks and tiles made of dense energy.
Until finally, a massive breach was torn open by sheer force!
The entire Imaginary energy tidal zone, like a line of dominoes, began collapsing from that point, inch by inch, spreading and expanding wildly to both sides—like a pie with a huge bite taken clean out of it.
A startling, breathtaking sight.
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