"Big sister, you're telling me this is Stan???"
Miss Kiana's mouth twitched as she pointed at the grimacing cat-girl in front of her.... The latter was the one they had just taken back from a young man at the base's gate.
Because of this, they were even lectured by the young man for a long time, about how they should be kinder to children and more tolerant.
And Durandal, the culprit, had not yet been able to leave her knees from the keyboard. Kneeling on the keyboard, Durandal explained the origin of this cat-girl to Rita and Kiana...
Specifically, it could be summarized as: "I don't know?" "As soon as I woke up, I saw the cat had turned into a cat-girl." These explanations said pretty much nothing...
"So, temporarily putting aside the reason why Stan has inexplicably turned into a cat-girl... A Calico cat like this that cannot speak human language and cannot write, only able to scribble and draw on paper..."
"Miss Kiana, what difference is there between this change and not changing..."
Miss Rita fell into deep thought, and finally reached the conclusion that this cat was no good at all...
"Meow!!!"
Seeing what Rita was trying to express, Stan bared her fangs in dissatisfaction. Yeah, making this kind of gesture in human form was unexpectedly a little cute?
"Hmm... That's true. Her transformation doesn't even come with clothes... My Bella is different..."
Hearing the underlying meaning, Kiana thought about her own Dragon Girl, Bella, who had also turned human, and nodded in agreement.
"Bella? Kiana, who is that?"
Hearing Kiana's words, Bianca frowned... and alertly perked up her ears—
Why does my younger sister seem to have a relationship with a beautiful girl? My Bella... has actually already been recognized as her own family member?
Damn it! I've never even heard her call me Sister Bianca—
"Sigh, Bella? Um... it's that dragon that appeared in the Schicksal headquarters before... She can turn into a very beautiful girl—"
"Wait... Kiana, are you talking about the Judgment-class Honkai Beast Benares?"
Durandal's eyes widened as she thought of something.
"Yes, yes—Sister, you even hugged her a few days ago..."
Suddenly feeling mischievous, Kiana nodded vigorously.
"I hugged her??? When—"
Durandal's face was covered in a giant question mark as her goose-brained mind started to spin rapidly, only to be overloaded by her younger sister's clarifying words...
"Huh? It was a few days ago when you, Sister Bianca, dragged me out shopping..."
"Wait, are you talking about those two incredibly lifelike dolls???"
After White Blazing Cat's reminder, the goose suddenly realized that a few days ago, she had taken Kiana out and bought two small dolls from a gray-haired, red-eyed female merchant at a street stall...
"So you mean... I let a Judgment-class Honkai Beast into the Schicksal base??? And I didn't even look at it once, letting it wander around..."
Durandal felt as if she had committed some serious dereliction of duty... After all, Overseer Otto was currently working in this very base... The image of the Lord Overseer dancing with a dragon... was too beautiful to imagine—
"Don't worry, Sister, Bella is very obedient—"
Kiana spoke up to comfort her, seemingly sensing something from Durandal's somewhat panicked expression.
"Wait a minute... Kiana, I remember we brought two dolls in, right? The gray-blue haired one should be Benares... Who's the purple-haired one???"
"The purple-haired one... Sister, you know I'm a Herrscher, right..."
"Of course, the Overseer said you're the Vessel of the Second Herrscher. What's wrong???"
Durandal looked at Kiana naturally, while the latter just silently stared back... as if hinting at something.
"Wait a second... Sis, do you mean, that purple-haired one is the original consciousness of the Second Herrscher????"
Durandal practically leaped off her keyboard, grabbed the Black Abyss White Flower in her room, and was about to launch a sonic-speed raid on Kiana's room...
"Whoa, Sister, calm down! It's just a doll, the kind without Herrscher Authority! The worst thing it can do is deflate Overseer Otto's tires and cut his clothes!"
As Kiana's words fell, the room temporarily fell silent...
"Kiana, my dear sister, do you know why we had to walk for half a day to go to the local shopping street last time?"
"Why?"
"Because we wanted to borrow a vehicle from the base, but for some reason, all the tires were deflated that day... And we couldn't exactly go shopping in a flying ship or a hover-vehicle, could we..."
"So you dragged me on a 30-kilometer cross-country hike? You should have told me sooner! Couldn't we have just teleported there?!!!"
"Ehehe~"
Durandal scratched her head sheepishly, her expression turning serious again.
"So, Kiana... what does that Herrscher Consciousness mean to you?"
"Uh, why are you suddenly getting so serious, Sister..."
Seeing Durandal's sudden change in demeanor, Kiana instinctively shivered.
"This will determine my attitude toward her, Kiana."
"Hmm... I see. I feel like Sirin is like an older or younger sister to me? And now that she's lost her power, she's gone from a destructive, attention-starved brat to a simple troublemaker who just lacks care and attention..."
"So that's how you see her, Kiana. I understand now. Since she's your sister, she's my sister too! Disciplining the Herrscher Consciousness Sirin cannot be delayed!!"
Durandal once again grabbed Black Abyss White Flower... planning to launch a surprise attack on Kiana's room—
"Sister, what are you trying to do now—"
The white-haired Knight Princess timidly grabbed the blonde knight's skirt armor, trying to prevent the tragedy of a certain little doll being nailed to the wall and spanked—
"The Kaslana family's ancestral method of family education, of course—"
"...What Kaslana education method? Why didn't Dad ever tell me about this???!"
For some reason, Kiana felt that this phrase vaguely carried an ominous vibe...
"The answer to your question is simple, Miss Kiana... Mr. Siegfried Kaslana was Schicksal's most troublesome child back then. As the heir, he even ran away from home for several years..."
Rita, standing by, explained to the white-haired knight—
"As for the Kaslana family's education method... well, because of the Kaslana family's constitution... the Kaslana family follows the attitude of 'if you can't be beaten to death, then beat them to death'?"