After Kiana and Stelle arrived at the Astral Express, they followed Pom-Pom through a small initiation ceremony.
After reciting some awkward lines and being handed two tickets by Pom-Pom, the two officially joined the Astral Express.
"Attention passengers, the Express will begin its warp jump in ten minutes to leave the space station's safety zone. Please be prepared, pom!"
Pom-Pom stood in the middle of the Parlor Car and shouted to those around.
Hearing this, March 7th jumped straight off the sofa, spread her legs, and assumed a horse stance.
Stelle tilted her head as she watched March 7th, slightly confused. "Is a ritual required before the warp jump?"
"This time, I'm definitely going to stay standing during the warp!"
March 7th's words made Stelle, who was about to imitate her, stop. She sat back down and looked at March 7th as if she were a fool.
Meanwhile, Kiana sat on the other sofa with Himeko and Mr. Yang.
"Kiana, could you tell me what happened in your world?"
Mr. Yang pushed up his glasses. His voice was deep and steady, and combined with his resolute middle-aged face, it made people feel very at ease.
Himeko also stopped her hand from brewing coffee and glanced over slightly.
Although the Astral Express Crew respects its members and doesn't ask about their pasts, she was indeed very curious about Kiana's experiences.
"Not much happened on my end. It's just that I fell into a deep sleep for certain reasons, and then for unknown reasons, my consciousness appeared in this universe."
Kiana spoke truthfully.
Though she didn't know what Mr. Yang and Himeko had been thinking before, this was the truth.
Just... that...?
Himeko didn't know whether to laugh or cry. So all those plotlines she had imagined about Kiana's background were just her own wishful thinking?
But fortunately, Kiana's past wasn't full of tragedy like she had imagined.
Things like being the residual soul of a fallen Xianzhou person, losing memories of the past... Although it didn't match her theories at all, the fact that it wasn't like that made Himeko breathe a sigh of relief.
At least this child wasn't that unfortunate.
Moreover, did this child actually come from the same place as Welt?
A flash of surprise crossed Himeko's mind; she hadn't expected the universe to be so small.
"You said you fell into a deep sleep for unknown reasons... Was it on the moon?"
Mr. Yang frowned and continued to inquire.
In the place he came from, Kiana had only slept for a while due to resonate reasons during the Luo Xing Incident.
And later... before he and Void Archives came to the universe through the Sky People's Stargate, Kiana had been in a normal, awake state.
So Mr. Yang wanted to know which time period's parallel world this Kiana came from.
Whether it was the Kiana who slept during the Luo Star period and came here for unknown reasons, or some time period after he left Earth.
This was very important to him.
Because if it were the latter, then his Solar System might be facing an unknown threat.
He would need to speed up finding a way back, and this Kiana might have some clues regarding that method.
"Sleeping on the moon...?"
Kiana tilted her head, her brow furrowing slightly on one side, looking somewhat confused.
The moon... sleeping... ah...!
As she thought about it, the confusion in Kiana's brow dissolved, replaced by a knowing smile.
She remembered the original trajectory of fate; there indeed was such a segment!
It was just that she had resolved the Honkai so quickly that she had forgotten the fate the original her was supposed to experience.
"Could it be that you didn't fall into a deep sleep on the moon?"
"I didn't, Welt-sensei~"
"Then... what year is it currently in your world...?"
"If you're asking about Earth's time, it's 2015. If it's the universe's time, it's Star Calendar Year 8081."
Kiana crossed her arms and held up one finger, speaking to Welt in a gentle tone.
She felt that watching Mr. Yang's somewhat anxious expression was quite interesting, so she decided not to tell him the details yet, teasing him a bit.
"2015... At that time, shouldn't you have been in..."
"Should have been at Saint Freya, right?"
Kiana's eyes sparkled with mysterious colors as she curled her lips and lowered her voice, interrupting Mr. Yang.
Kiana's mysterious appearance caused Mr. Yang to fall into silence.
"..."
This Kiana seemed to know everything, yet the timeline she was in was too early. Theoretically, she shouldn't have grown up yet... but somehow, this Kiana even knew about the Star Calendar... What on earth happened in her world... Mr. Yang racked his brain but couldn't imagine what kind of mess Kiana's world had gone through.
If they had contacted the universe, how far must the Honkai have upgraded, and how did they deal with it?
"It seems you have some misunderstandings about me, Welt. Allow me to reintroduce myself..."
The Herta Puppet instantly went limp on the sofa, and Kiana's spirit floated out, a mysterious smile playing on her lips.
Silver divine waves of energy enveloped her spirit. She spread her hands slightly, a silver light flashing in her eyes, and said in a calm tone:
"I am the General Taiyin of the Xianzhou Alliance's Xianzhou Wangshu, Kiana Kaslana. I am also..."
Kiana drew out her tone slightly, continuing under Welt's shocked gaze:
"The Herrscher of Finality..."
The diamond-shaped marks in Kiana's pupils lit up slightly, making Welt's heart tremble.
Although Kiana couldn't use her Herrscher clearance for the time being, she could still manage to control the 'colored contacts' in her eyes (lol).
Furthermore, Kiana felt that revealing these two identities was enough for now. As for God of Destruction, the Third Administrator of the sea of trees system, and such... they were too terrifying and might affect her social life!
Welt was currently staring at Kiana's form, dumbfounded.
Although he couldn't sense Kiana's aura, this unknown was precisely what was most terrifying.
And... doesn't the Xianzhou Alliance currently only have six ships? Where did Wangshu come from...?
The Data Bank has no record of this Xianzhou ship at all.
Like Mr. Yang, Himeko also fell into deep thought, wondering if Wangshu was a Xianzhou ship hidden in the shadows by the Alliance.
In fact, this ship didn't exist in this world at all.
Not far away, Dan Heng, who had just finished tidying his room and arrived at the Parlor Car, froze in place upon hearing Kiana's words.
He caught the keywords: She is a Xianzhou General!
But he quickly snapped out of it.
Wangshu? General Taiyin?
What on earth? He had never heard of it, and there was no such thing in Dan Feng's memories.
Could she be forging a Xianzhou identity?
To be so bold? Isn't she afraid of being hunted by the Xianzhou...?
No, he had to tell her about the dangers involved.
Thinking this, Dan Heng quickly walked over to Kiana, but just as he opened his mouth, Kiana beat him to it.
"Are you all thinking that I forged the Xianzhou Wangshu? But that is the wonder of parallel worlds."
Kiana spread her hands and continued:
"Parallel worlds have different historical paths. For example, a certain person in World A might have this ability, while that same person in World B might have a completely different ability. This is the slight variance between worlds."
"What you say is not without reason."
To this, Mr. Yang nodded in agreement after stroking his chin in thought.
He had been in the Sea of Quanta and witnessed the development of countless world bubbles. It was indeed as Kiana said... even with the same worldview and the same group of people, the stories they continued were not identical.
Furthermore, some characters might even be born earlier or later.
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