A crystalline purple javelin pierced through Sirin's body from behind, then continued through Ryn, who was in front of her.
Her consciousness was already blurring from excessive blood loss. Sirin opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word. Her trembling hands scrambled to cover Ryn's abdomen, but the blood wouldn't stop flowing.
"You hit me so hard, I have to get my revenge~"
Sirin's eyes widened, and she turned to look at the white-haired woman who had suddenly appeared behind her.
"You... you..."
Sirin hoarsely tried to call out the woman's name, but her mind couldn't recall who she was, just as she couldn't remember who Ryn was.
"Get some rest... your memory gaps are quite severe..."
Hare lightly tapped Sirin's forehead, pushing her toward Ryn.
Sirin's body left a scarlet trail on the javelin, sliding down it like a skewer onto Ryn below.
"Are you a child? Running off to play by yourself, then demanding revenge when you get hit," Ryn glared fiercely at Hare, as if rebuking her for using such a method.
"Ehehe, it had to be done sooner or later anyway~"
Hare stuck out her tongue, winked playfully, and then skipped out of the Imaginary Space.
After Sirin landed on Ryn, Ryn wrapped his arms around her and began to softly sing a lullaby.
"Sleep now, sleep now... there is no pain, no nightmares. When you wake again, you will find everything as it was... Sleep now, sleep now..."
Whether it was fainting from blood loss or the effect of Ryn's lullaby, Sirin's eyelids grew heavier, her consciousness fading...
"If only... this was really a dream..."
"It will be. This is a baseless and selfish dream. Now, it's time for the dream to end."
As Sirin fell into a deep sleep, the javelin Hare had thrown quietly shattered, turning into pure light that flowed into Sirin's body.
Hare's energy entered Sirin's dream within a dream, helping her recover the memories she had lost over thousands of years.
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Back to that night in Singapore, after Ryn finished talking with Siegfried and left.
Siegfried knew about Sirin's existence and told Ryn his thoughts on her.
Siegfried: "There's no need to say any more about what happened in Sirin's life. Maybe back then, there was still a chance to salvage everything, but... I was the one who destroyed it all with my own hands.
But now, she is a pure, newborn soul. Even if the residual thoughts in the Second Herrscher Core affect her... she is still the daughter that I, Siegfried Kaslana, acknowledge and adore."
On the way back, Ryn walked and stopped, thinking for a long time.
Sirin's story, the events of the Second Honkai War, Cecilia and Siegfried's story... Ryn had recently gone through the database's live recordings in detail to understand it all.
Finally, Ryn took out the communicator Hare had left him and made a call.
"Hello, hello, can you hear me?" Hare's pleasant voice came from the other end of the line.
Ryn was silent for a moment, then spoke: "Misteln, I need you to do me a favor..."
"Oh? What favor? My time is very valuable, but if it's for you... I can give you a discount~"
"I need you to weave a dream that is real enough, vast enough... At a critical moment, you might even need to pull the consciousness of every living being in the world into this dream."
"Uh... did I hear you right? Ryn, are you crazy? What kind of favor is that! You might as well just say you've suddenly become the god of death and want to appoint me as your envoy to capture the consciousness of the entire planet!"
"You can understand it that way if you want... I just need to know if you can do it."
"I can, but I might miss one or two people. More importantly than whether I can do it... Ryn, I need a reason. Why do this?"
"Well, how should I put this?
There was an innocent girl whose life was destroyed by some malicious humans. She endured countless pains and evils in the world, unable to live, unable to die. She prayed every day for a god to save her from her suffering. Finally, one day, a god heard her call and gave her the power to change everything...
But when she was about to take revenge, to make them pay in blood, some people stopped her at all costs... and in her final moments, they gave her the warmth and love she had craved her entire life...
Blood debts must be paid in blood. No one can make her let go of her hatred with a few words, but no one can let her destroy the world either.
So I need you—Hare, the god who controls dreams and manipulates space. I can't let her take revenge, but I will give her a chance for revenge... even if it's a fake one..."
"..."
Hare was silent for a while. She already knew who Ryn wanted to weave this dream for.
"Ryn, did you know? I was actually born during the Second Honkai War, when Cecilia's Holy Blood and the Second Herrscher's energy reached a balance in the chaos, breaking the boundary between reality and illusion, and pushing past the limits of possibility...
My abilities to make dreams come true, weave dreamscapes, and alter space are all variant derivations of Sirin's powers. I can weave a dream to pull Sirin into, but she could easily detect it and reverse-engineer the dream..."
"Hmm... This is the first time I've heard about your origins. Don't worry, whether the dream is detected, how real or illusory it is, leave that to me..."
"Fine... But the energy required for this dream..."
"Leave that to me as well. I'll also give you an advance payment. I originally intended for you to rely on it to complete my plan, but now it seems giving it to you is only right and proper."
"Oh? Then I'll be looking forward to it~"
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Provoking Sirin, although there was a bit of reluctance in his heart... but it is only in anger that people become careless and reveal their weaknesses.
Ryn said some harsh things and successfully enraged Sirin. But after Sirin's heartfelt confession, Ryn was filled with reluctance once more...
Fortunately, in the end, Sirin chose to destroy everything in her rage and take revenge on humanity.
Ryn was being a bit selfish and arrogant, pulling all the world's living beings into a dream to let Sirin vent her anger.
He really wasn't a good person.
When Sirin left the Imaginary Space, she didn't return to the main world but entered another Imaginary Space. It was just that this Imaginary Space had been woven by Hare to look like the real world.
Hare's entire Imaginary Space was a massive dream world, a real world independent of the real timeline.
And this was Ryn's advance payment to Hare—the portion of the Herrscher of the Void's Authority that Stigmata Kiana held...
Within this dream Imaginary Space, Hare pulled in the consciousness of every living being on the planet, attaching them to the Earth and the countless billions of bodies Ryn had created.
The real world was also completely captured by Ryn using a black hole. The flow of time on Earth was stretched infinitely, so no matter how much time passed in the dream world, only a second would pass in reality.
Revenge without the targets of revenge is no good. As Sirin's true targets, Ryn paid special attention to everyone who was involved in the Babylon experiment back then.
For the rest, it would just be a nightmare. But for those involved, and even their descendants... this would be a slaughterhouse of torment by a thousand cuts, from which they could never reach the reality of death.