—Nicole
"I am curious though Nicole,"
"Yeah?"
"About Gaby"
"Uh…"
Lissandra, she looked like a rather ordinary girl, Elena on the other hand was what Gaby called a Sankta, a race from the game Arknights, one that could feel emotions and that was quite bad…
"Uhhh…"
"You can't hide your emotions from me y'know~" Elena said as she gave a faint chuckle, her chuckle triggered my assassin instincts as It felt similar, at the same time Lissandra…
"Ohhhh do I hear some tea???" Lissandra said with a beaming smile, at the same time my anxiety only further widened, after all Gaby did say a few things about them…
—Right before the trip…
"Oh Lissandra and Elena? They were my female friends before 'The Change' and before I splitted into 2, I will warn you though, Lissandra is a literal Tea lover and Elena won't stop pestering you when she gets interested…"
"What's a 'Tea' lover?"
"It's a slang that basically means , Rumors , so Tea lover means she loves rumors and gossips, if you somehow made her interested than goodluck~"
—Back to the present
"You know she was a he before right? How did the 2 of you meet anyways?" Lissandra's eyes were sparkling like a Predator slowly constricting her prey, preventing any excuses to get the essence or in this case the Tea.
"Don't tell me you were also a man once~?"
FUCK. NO STAY CALM STAY CALM JUST FEIGN IGNORANCE
"Ah I was right~"
"…" GOD DAMN IT THIS SANKTAAAAAA
—Yoisaki Kanade
"Ah…" I murmured as I looked at Nicole who looked overwhelmed as she was bombarded with questions by the excited Lissandra and Elena who were trapping her like prey, like an anaconda slowly constricting their prey leaving no escape
"What is it Kanade?" Kim asked me as she had to shift her head slightly to match my eye level, I looked at her slightly
"Ahh… it's nothing much, I'm just worried for for Nicole"
"Ah just let them be, they look like their having girl talk~"
"Okay…"
Breeeezeee
The sea wind was truly nice, yet it was slightly cold as I shivered slightly, I was already wearing a dark blue one piece yet it still felt chilly
Flutter
"Ah." a slightly large coat was draped over me, it was Klein as he gave me a slight smile
"Thank you…"
"The pleasure is mine" he said before walking away and creating a beach chair before sitting on it with Shiraori and the others, hmmm I just realized something but usually Kiana would also be here, where is she right now-?
—Nicole
"Ah so that's how it is~" Lissandra said as she gave a bright smile, Elena was also nodding while she posted some pictures to upload on OneFeed. And I? I've given up, truth to be told.
"Yes…"
"I am curious though~ How does it feel when you had to wear a skirt for the first time and when was it?"
"Well… Honestly I think it started when I had to learn at the academy?"
Their eyes instantly shifted focus, from doing their own thing to looking at me like what I'm about to say was a deep secret.
"I'm pretty sure you guys don't know this so I'll start from the very beginning"
"In the world I came from there existed 6 heroes, the titles don't really matter but they were called Cortina, Maxwell, Maria, Lyell, Gladius and me Reid the most elusive, as I was the Assassin Hero"
"I guess in the terms of this world I was a half-demon hybrid? Though the ones here are very diverse, in my world Half-Demons were made due to the past because of Yuri the God of Destruction in my world"
"But Hey I died saving a bunch of orphans and was reincarnated as the child of my former comrades, Maria and Lyell, obviously I tried my best to not wear skirts by insisting that I wear jeans but…"
"When I had to go into the academy, which would be the equivalent of Harvard , Peking , Oxford and the like? And turns out obviously we had to use skirts… Pleated skirts with gold like engravings and I was forced to wear one…"
"So-? What does it feel like?" Lissandra said as she shook both of my hands excited as hell.
"It felt breezy at first… It felt weird… my lower body felt exposed… Completely different from Jeans and normal pants"
"Say, say, you said you were hiding your identity, did you get caught?" Lissandra asked with an innocent smile
"…"
"She did." Elena said with a self-deprecating smile
"Oh."
"How early?"
"…"
" You messed up quite early huh…?"
"I forgot… and accidentally blurted myself…"
"And you call yourself the assassin hero???" Lissandra asked me with sarcasm
"…"
"It feels like such an unnatural way for you to do that considering you were the best assassin even crowned the Assassin Hero…"
"I honestly can't even remember why I made such a simple mistake"
"Then what happened?"
"Well we kept it a secret for years, but later when I had to choose between saving them or keeping my identity a secret"
"Of course in the end family matters more" Elena's final words made me remember the past. I had married and had kids and it was truly a happy ending, if I could relive those moments I would, but right now I'm with this new family.
"Say, say what's actually the difference between Kiana and Gaby? Also why did they change their name? It was ██████ before"
"Huh-? Can you say it again? I couldn't hear it"
"██████?"
"That's weird…"
"Do you know why Klein?"
As I said those words, The Pillar of Deviation Klein Moretti appeared right beside me still sipping
"Hm?"
"Kiana and Gaby's previous name"
"It was ██████" both Lissandra and Elena said simultaneously
"… I couldn't hear it." The Pillar of Deviation Klein Moretti said, his eyes still calm
"Wait, it wasn't you who hid it?" I asked Klein, I thought it was him who hid their previous name
Shake Shake
"Have you ever asked Kiana?"
"I did, but every time she tried to say something I was like I couldn't hear anything…" The Pillar of Deviation, blocked???
"Huh… That's weird, when I was still adventuring with them only Vireth seemed to be able to hear it, for the rest of us the word was strangely empty…"
"What about Elysia? She is the Pillar of Recollection after all?"
"Not even Elysia and Violet could hear her previous name, only Ezron, The Pillar of Cohesion could."
"Have you asked Aldric and the others?"
"They knew of it and could say it but I couldn't hear anything…"
"I mean we could go ask them later on, where are they even?"
Shrug
Confusion filled my head, he was the Pillar of Deviation, as a Pillar he could obviously find her if he wanted, ehhh probably nothing…
—Klein Moretti
Meanwhile Klein's real thoughts at this moment were what Kiana told her just a few hours ago,
"Klein"
"Yeah?"
"Can you please give me the coordinates for the Mariana Trench?"
"??? Can I ask why? Also why are you wearing that??? I thought you hated clothes that showed the curves of your body"
"I'm just matching the vibe, I'm a Herrscher, I don't need to breathe, eat or defecate but Gaby and Eve insisted I join them with this"
What was Kiana wearing you ask? As a Chinese and a keyboard warrior, I'm going to borrow the words the people from the US use, and a rather popular meme culture I think… what was it called? Ah yeah.
I invoke the 5th, pretty sure it was popularized by the channel called Law by Mike guy back in the early 20th century… Though that was quite a while back, I believe it would fit the current situation.
"Can't you just do it yourself? You have the authority of Void do you not?"
"Well I'm just saying this because, while yes I can do it I don't have the exact coordinates, I use intuition to do it and I've never been there, gotta be safe after all~ I'm not going alone after all, Gaby's a Noble Red but Eve's a human"
"I'll just send it to your mind or something?"
"Just like send me the rough place so I can do it next time"
"Done."
"Alright thanks~" She said before opening a portal and leaving me alone. As I prepared to enjoy this beach session, the portal didn't close, instead her head popped back up and said some words.
"If you leak or try to take a peek I'll kill you and end everything." She said with a completely emotionless tone, her eyes looked completely dead, her face completely dead panned for a second. I thought she was just joking.
"I swear in my name ██████ as The Pillar of Conclusion. I'm not joking."
"Anyways Cyaz~" She said with a cheerful tone before completely disappearing as the portal closed.
Twitch Twitch
I could swear to God I felt my eyes twitching even if I no longer have eyes in a conventional sense, as the Pillar of Conclusion her words are extremely potent especially when used with? A name? I think…
At that moment, I only had a single thought, What? The urge to scream Leodero in me has awakened but hey, at least it isn't as bad as Gavin's Valorant match…
A few hours ago—Kiana Kaslana? / ██████
"I don't get it, I can understand the 2 of you but why me?" Confusion in my mind, where are we at to be exact? Well currently we're still at Raja Ampat, Indonesia. A premier diving center known as the epicenter of marine biodiversity
"It's for the vibe, the vibe~" Evelyn's said with a snarky remark, right a question probably arises for all you people, when did we become quite close? We gotta take another flashback trip
One day before beach day—
I remembered I was just laying down while reading a story, I was rereading the Part 1 of the Honkai Impact 3rd story to be exact, after all it's been a while since I read it and out of no where Gaby quite literally just went
[Kiana! Kiana! Let's go to the beach as fast as possible]
[Uh… Why? I thought you hated the sun? You're a Noble Red right?] feeling slightly annoyed that my reading time was interrupted, alas she is also by technicality me, so it must be something quite interesting.
[Let's go Scuba diving! It'll be fun!!!]
[First of all, I'm a Herrscher and the Pillar of Conclusion, I don't need to breath, eat nor defecate no bodily functions, only the shape of me is that of Kiana Kaslana as it's literally because it's the only one I remembered at the beginning]
[Yeahhh, but it would be great for me right? Pleaseeeeee, I'm honestly curious about ittt, it's been a while, and no I couldn't try it peacefully when I was adventuring because I was focused on survival.]
[I get what you're talking about but it's not something I can try, I'll accompany you but that's all I'll do]
[Hey… don't be like that now, you were the one who had the most fun when we went to the island with the boys… C'monnnn pleaseeeee, just come with usssss pleaseeee pretty please… I beg you with the beggiest I can ever be…]
[… Fine.]
[Yayyyyyyyy!!!]
At this moment my thoughts were rather simple, I remembered the times where she was too scared to even talk to me, well even if I never intended to assimilate her, She is her own person too after all
[Also, please don't tell anyone, I'm going to tell mom and dad we're just going scuba diving and checking out the wild lifes there]
[Alright.]
[See ya~]
[Kk]
—
"Alright everyone have funnnn" Mom's voice was loud as everybody splitted up and did their own thing, on the other hand I'm just waiting for Gaby and Eve to appear, and when they finally came, a single sentence formed in my mind.
What the actual Fuck?