Inside the Consciousness Space, amidst a sea of cecilia flowers, Verna looked tenderly at the Kiana resting on her lap, slowly telling the story of Sirin.
"That was a story from the year 2000..." Verna slowly opened the pages of the past for Kiana, the story of the girl named Sirin.
...
At the end of 1999, the girl named Sirin lost her mother that year...
It was also that year that researchers from the Schicksal organization lured the innocent Sirin into hell...
The wails and screams were the main theme of this Babylon Lab, and Sirin was one of those instrument.
Pain, pain...
From the moment she entered the lab, the uncles and aunts who had seemed kind in Sirin's eyes revealed their hideous side.
The white experimental tables and the purple liquid in the test tubes formed the nightmares.
"Aaaaahhhhh—" As if her body were being torn apart, every cell in her body was wailing. Extreme pain occupied her entire consciousness, leaving bloody scars in Sirin's memory.
Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes, blurring her vision until she could only see dark shadows and the incandescent lights above her head.
Under the extreme pain, Sirin's body trembled constantly.
Pain beyond the threshold of endurance should have caused her to fall unconscious.
But the researchers had injected some kind of drug that prevented the guinea pigs from passing out, forcing her to endure the agony.
It wasn't just Sirin; the other children were the same. At an age that should have been full of laughter, they have to endure extreme torture in the fucking name greater good.
..."It hurts... it hurts so much!" A child clutched Sirin's clothes with eyes full of tears and body covered in bandages.
"Bella, hold on, Bella!" Sirin held her companion tightly, wanting to give her strength, even though she herself was shivering from the pain.
"Truly useless, she's already dead just from that much."
A Lab Personnel walked into the room, Dragging the girl dead body out of the room.
"No! Bella! No..."
Sirin reached out, wanting to stop those bastard, but... she could do nothing, only watch as her friend was discarded like trash.
'I want kill them... If only... even just a scratch...'
Thus a little seed was planted on her heart.
...
It was another experiment, the piercing pain coming in waves, each more intense than the last. Sirin lay slumped on the ground, her body twitching uncontrollably, unable to even move a finger.
In this place, death was a mercy and a luxury.
"It hurts... Ma... it hurts so much... Mom..." In her extreme agony, Sirin cried out her mother's repeatedly.
Whether it was an illusion or not, with each call, the pain in her body seemed to ease slightly.
All around were the wails of children; outside the prison-like room were the screams of other children...
They were fixed to experimental tables, unable to struggle, resist, or escape...
They can only hoping that the next one will be the last time...
By the time her body recovered enough to move, the wails around her had long since ceased. Children lay scattered across the floor. Sirin struggled to prop herself up, wanting to see if her friends were alright.
"Agatha... Aurora... are you... okay?" There was no response.
A bad premonition quietly climbed into Sirin's heart, and she felt a surge of panic.
No, her friends couldn't have anything wrong with them... 'Everyone, everyone is just asleep... nothing will happen...'
Sirin pushed herself up, but her legs had no strength, and she fell to the ground. But she didn't give up, crawling bit by bit with her hands to their side.
"Aurora, Agatha... wake up." Sirin reached out, wanting to nudge her friends, but what she felt was ice-cold and stiff...
She knew what this meant. It was the same when her mother left her; her hands were just as cold and stiff...
"Aurora, Agatha, wake up, please... this joke isn't funny... wake up... wake up..."
Sirin wished that this was just a joke by her friends, that they would suddenly open their eyes and comfort her with weak voices, or laugh and ask if she was scared once they felt better.
But the reality is her friends... were already dead...
Tears she thought had long since dried up poured from her eyes again, dripping onto her bruised and battered body, turning into a memory of huddling together with her friends in the middle of the night for warmth, imagining a way to escape this hell... and then, they left one by one.
"Aaaaahhhhh—" Extreme hatred had filled the heart of the once-innocent girl.
Sirin's eyes stared at the back of the researcher who had broken in to take away their bodies.
...
At midnight inside Babylon Lab...
Two researchers were running for their lives. Behind them, a girl wrapped in Honkai Energy with limbs covered in bandages stepped out from the corner.
"Heehee" Sirin watched as the they running and let out a laugh like a cat catching mice.
The two researchers kept running and could already see the entrance to the next area ahead. Just then, the researcher in front heard a cry for help from the older researcher behind him.
"Save me! Don't go! Save me! I can't feel my legs! Aaaaahhhhh—"
The young researcher watched with his own eyes as that four limb of man behind him already severed...
Then, amidst the screams and blood, the man slowly breathed his last.
The young researcher had already stepped through the door to the next area and smashed his hand against the control panel.
"Fuck, close, close it!"
This was the first time he felt that the door moving too slow.
"It's okay... it's okay..."
Leaning against the closed door, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief. But the next second, a hand was placed on him.
"Do you think you really safe?~"
His expression froze in panic once more as he lunged forward. Behind him, a girl little figure slowly passed through the locked door...
On the midnight of February 1, 2000, 322 researchers in Babylon Lab were slaughtered by Sirin in a single night, and the surveillance cameras captured no clues...
Thus, the prologue to the Second Honkai Eruption began.
...
At noon on February 2, 2000, the Valkyrie Theresa Apocalypse was ordered to investigate the disappearance of 322 researchers at Babylon Lab.
Her partner was a Valkyrie named Patricia Highsmith, a former member of the Snow Wolf Squad and an A-Rank Valkyrie belonging to the Schicksal Intelligence Department.
It was also on this day that Theresa rescued the remaining people around that still alive.
That night, at midnight, Sirin came to the Honkai Reactor to absorb Honkai Energy but was discovered by Patricia.
The next day, the A-Rank Valkyrie Patricia Highsmith disappeared near the Honkai Reactor, leaving only a small amount of her blood and her weapon at the scene.
Because of this, Otto sent two more members of the Snow Wolf Squad, as well as... the S-Rank Schicksal Knight, Siegfried Kaslana.
"Dad... he was also involved in the Second Honkai Eruption?" This was the first time Kiana had heard of this. She looked at Verna, a slight pain rising in her heart.
Even though the Verna was recounting the story calmly, Kiana could feel the heartache. Back then, when Sirin was just a child, how much she gone through...
Kiana couldn't even imagine it.
"Yes, Siegfried participated in the Second Honkai Eruption, and your mother, Cecilia Schariac, also joined the battle later..."
Verna recalled the woman in Sirin's memory who had provided her with warmth and began to continue the story.
...
That was after the Void, Sirin, had obtained even more power from the moon following her first failure, killed the First Herrscher, and seized his herrscher core...
It was when Sirin use several feathers of Fenghuang Down to construct an illusion for Cecilia and Siegfried.
In the illusion, Honkai no longer existed in the world. Everyone was just an ordinary person living a beautiful daily life.
Sirin, seeing all of this, was somewhat annoyed.
"I clearly wanted to create a terrifying nightmare for them, but this feather just won't cooperate..."
Sirin bit her finger, watching the illusion of Siegfried and Cecilia. Her original annoyance gradually turned into envy for the girl named Kiana in the illusion.
Watching the birthday cake in the image, in a place Sirin didn't notice, Fenghuang Down granted her wish, and she entered Siegfried and Cecilia's illusion.
It was precisely in the illusion that Sirin felt Cecilia's warmth, a warmth she became greedy for and wanted to keep...
"If things had proceeded normally, Sirin might have truly..."
Verna gently stroked Kiana's head. At this moment, Kiana had no time to stay angry and was anxious to know what happened next.
"And then? What happened next? What caused everything to go wrong?"
"Afterwards..."
Verna's smile turned bitter. The later story... was Sirin losing her last friend, and discovering that Cecilia hadn't been hypnotized, making her think she had been deceived.
"She was lured into a trap, had her gems stripped away, woke up from the illusion, and faced the encirclement of Cecilia, Siegfried, and Theresa..."
Verna's smile was bitter. Sirin's memory overwhelmed other two normal memory, causing a tear to fall uncontrollably.
"Otto launched a Honkai Fission Bomb. Either to clear out everything or bury the void origin only he who know.
"At that time cecilia already lost too much blood and was on the brink of death..."
"At the very end, the Void, Sirin, felt the warmth of mother again from Cecilia and died in her's arms, within the sea of flowers..."
Hearing this, Kiana looked at the Verna and asked her a question.
"But you clearly..."
"I am not Sirin."
Since she had decided to confess everything, she would tell Kiana everything.
"Sirin already died on the battlefield of the Second Honkai Eruption, but the gems did not..."
Several years after the Second Honkai Eruption, Otto Apocalypse conducted an experiment using the DNA of the Void, Sirin, and the DNA of Kiana to create an experimental subject, hoping to allow it to use the Authority of Void.
But the experiments were failures all the way up to K423, when Otto took a risk and implanted the herrscher core. But after 18 hours, the experimental subject still had no consciousness.
"In the endless darkness, I had a false dream. In the dream, I missed that woman who wasn't my mother, and I longed for the warmth she gave me. That warmth gave me a sense of peace..."
Kiana's head suddenly hurt, and fragmented memory flooded her mind. She subconsciously finished the Verna's sentence.
"I thought more than once, if I became an ordinary person... could I live happily with her?"
"If I were given another chance..."
Verna looked at Kiana, her eyes filled with sadness, and in them was reflected Kiana's face, already covered in tears.
"I want to hear her voice again... that phrase, ich liebe dich."
Verna looked at Kiana and slowly spoke the truth that made Kiana almost break down.
"Sirin's death and her consciousness that yearned for a warmth allowed K423 to develop a consciousness. And the consciousness that carries Sirin's hatred... is me. Kiana Kaslana, who do you think you are?"
Like a clap of thunder exploding in her ears, Kiana finally realized all the inconsistencies.
Why she had no memory from before she was eight—because she wasn't Kiana at all! She was experimental subject K423... and also, Sirin...
"I... I'm not... the real Kiana Kaslana?" Kiana clutched her head. It all made sense now—why her old man was unwilling to call her by her name at first and was always cold toward her... why she had no memory at all.
Because she... was just a clone of real Kiana Kaslana... K423... Vessel of the Void...
Kiana couldn't accept this answer. The blurry memories of her birth slowly awakened. Yes, that was the real Kiana's voice. She and Siegfried could have escaped, but they wasting timInside the Consciousness Space, amidst a sea of cecilia flowers, Verna looked tenderly at the Kiana resting on her lap, slowly telling the story of Sirin.
"That was a story from the year 2000..." Verna slowly opened the pages of the past for Kiana, the story of the girl named Sirin.
...
At the end of 1999, the girl named Sirin lost her mother that year...
It was also that year that researchers from the Schicksal organization lured the innocent Sirin into hell...
The wails and screams were the main theme of this Babylon Lab, and Sirin was one of those instrument.
Pain, pain...
From the moment she entered the lab, the uncles and aunts who had seemed kind in Sirin's eyes revealed their hideous side.
The white experimental tables and the purple liquid in the test tubes formed the nightmares.
"Aaaaahhhhh—" As if her body were being torn apart, every cell in her body was wailing. Extreme pain occupied her entire consciousness, leaving bloody scars in Sirin's memory.
Tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes, blurring her vision until she could only see dark shadows and the incandescent lights above her head.
Under the extreme pain, Sirin's body trembled constantly.
Pain beyond the threshold of endurance should have caused her to fall unconscious.
But the researchers had injected some kind of drug that prevented the guinea pigs from passing out, forcing her to endure the agony.
It wasn't just Sirin; the other children were the same. At an age that should have been full of laughter, they have to endure extreme torture in the fucking name greater good.
..."It hurts... it hurts so much!" A child clutched Sirin's clothes with eyes full of tears and body covered in bandages.
"Bella, hold on, Bella!" Sirin held her companion tightly, wanting to give her strength, even though she herself was shivering from the pain.
"Truly useless, she's already dead just from that much."
A Lab Personnel walked into the room, Dragging the girl dead body out of the room.
"No! Bella! No..."
Sirin reached out, wanting to stop those bastard, but... she could do nothing, only watch as her friend was discarded like trash.
'I want kill them... If only... even just a scratch...'
Thus a little seed was planted on her heart.
...
It was another experiment, the piercing pain coming in waves, each more intense than the last. Sirin lay slumped on the ground, her body twitching uncontrollably, unable to even move a finger.
In this place, death was a mercy and a luxury.
"It hurts... Ma... it hurts so much... Mom..." In her extreme agony, Sirin cried out her mother's repeatedly.
Whether it was an illusion or not, with each call, the pain in her body seemed to ease slightly.
All around were the wails of children; outside the prison-like room were the screams of other children...
They were fixed to experimental tables, unable to struggle, resist, or escape...
They can only hoping that the next one will be the last time...
By the time her body recovered enough to move, the wails around her had long since ceased. Children lay scattered across the floor. Sirin struggled to prop herself up, wanting to see if her friends were alright.
"Agatha... Aurora... are you... okay?" There was no response.
A bad premonition quietly climbed into Sirin's heart, and she felt a surge of panic.
No, her friends couldn't have anything wrong with them... 'Everyone, everyone is just asleep... nothing will happen...'
Sirin pushed herself up, but her legs had no strength, and she fell to the ground. But she didn't give up, crawling bit by bit with her hands to their side.
"Aurora, Agatha... wake up." Sirin reached out, wanting to nudge her friends, but what she felt was ice-cold and stiff...
She knew what this meant. It was the same when her mother left her; her hands were just as cold and stiff...
"Aurora, Agatha, wake up, please... this joke isn't funny... wake up... wake up..."
Sirin wished that this was just a joke by her friends, that they would suddenly open their eyes and comfort her with weak voices, or laugh and ask if she was scared once they felt better.
But the reality is her friends... were already dead...
Tears she thought had long since dried up poured from her eyes again, dripping onto her bruised and battered body, turning into a memory of huddling together with her friends in the middle of the night for warmth, imagining a way to escape this hell... and then, they left one by one.
"Aaaaahhhhh—" Extreme hatred had filled the heart of the once-innocent girl.
Sirin's eyes stared at the back of the researcher who had broken in to take away their bodies.
...
At midnight inside Babylon Lab...
Two researchers were running for their lives. Behind them, a girl wrapped in Honkai Energy with limbs covered in bandages stepped out from the corner.
"Heehee" Sirin watched as the they running and let out a laugh like a cat catching mice.
The two researchers kept running and could already see the entrance to the next area ahead. Just then, the researcher in front heard a cry for help from the older researcher behind him.
"Save me! Don't go! Save me! I can't feel my legs! Aaaaahhhhh—"
The young researcher watched with his own eyes as that four limb of man behind him already severed...
Then, amidst the screams and blood, the man slowly breathed his last.
The young researcher had already stepped through the door to the next area and smashed his hand against the control panel.
"Fuck, close, close it!"
This was the first time he felt that the door moving too slow.
"It's okay... it's okay..."
Leaning against the closed door, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief. But the next second, a hand was placed on him.
"Do you think you really safe?~"
His expression froze in panic once more as he lunged forward. Behind him, a girl little figure slowly passed through the locked door...
On the midnight of February 1, 2000, 322 researchers in Babylon Lab were slaughtered by Sirin in a single night, and the surveillance cameras captured no clues...
Thus, the prologue to the Second Honkai Eruption began.
...
At noon on February 2, 2000, the Valkyrie Theresa Apocalypse was ordered to investigate the disappearance of 322 researchers at Babylon Lab.
Her partner was a Valkyrie named Patricia Highsmith, a former member of the Snow Wolf Squad and an A-Rank Valkyrie belonging to the Schicksal Intelligence Department.
It was also on this day that Theresa rescued the remaining people around that still alive.
That night, at midnight, Sirin came to the Honkai Reactor to absorb Honkai Energy but was discovered by Patricia.
The next day, the A-Rank Valkyrie Patricia Highsmith disappeared near the Honkai Reactor, leaving only a small amount of her blood and her weapon at the scene.
Because of this, Otto sent two more members of the Snow Wolf Squad, as well as... the S-Rank Schicksal Knight, Siegfried Kaslana.
"Dad... he was also involved in the Second Honkai Eruption?" This was the first time Kiana had heard of this. She looked at Verna, a slight pain rising in her heart.
Even though the Verna was recounting the story calmly, Kiana could feel the heartache. Back then, when Sirin was just a child, how much she gone through...
Kiana couldn't even imagine it.
"Yes, Siegfried participated in the Second Honkai Eruption, and your mother, Cecilia Schariac, also joined the battle later..."
Verna recalled the woman in Sirin's memory who had provided her with warmth and began to continue the story.
...
That was after the Void, Sirin, had obtained even more power from the moon following her first failure, killed the First Herrscher, and seized his herrscher core...
It was when Sirin use several feathers of Fenghuang Down to construct an illusion for Cecilia and Siegfried.
In the illusion, Honkai no longer existed in the world. Everyone was just an ordinary person living a beautiful daily life.
Sirin, seeing all of this, was somewhat annoyed.
"I clearly wanted to create a terrifying nightmare for them, but this feather just won't cooperate..."
Sirin bit her finger, watching the illusion of Siegfried and Cecilia. Her original annoyance gradually turned into envy for the girl named Kiana in the illusion.
Watching the birthday cake in the image, in a place Sirin didn't notice, Fenghuang Down granted her wish, and she entered Siegfried and Cecilia's illusion.
It was precisely in the illusion that Sirin felt Cecilia's warmth, a warmth she became greedy for and wanted to keep...
"If things had proceeded normally, Sirin might have truly..."
Verna gently stroked Kiana's head. At this moment, Kiana had no time to stay angry and was anxious to know what happened next.
"And then? What happened next? What caused everything to go wrong?"
"Afterwards..."
Verna's smile turned bitter. The later story... was Sirin losing her last friend, and discovering that Cecilia hadn't been hypnotized, making her think she had been deceived.
"She was lured into a trap, had her gems stripped away, woke up from the illusion, and faced the encirclement of Cecilia, Siegfried, and Theresa..."
Verna's smile was bitter. Sirin's memory overwhelmed other two normal memory, causing a tear to fall uncontrollably.
"Otto launched a Honkai Fission Bomb. Either to clear out everything or bury the void origin only he who know.
"At that time cecilia already lost too much blood and was on the brink of death..."
"At the very end, the Void, Sirin, felt the warmth of mother again from Cecilia and died in her's arms, within the sea of flowers..."
Hearing this, Kiana looked at the Verna and asked her a question.
"But you clearly..."
"I am not Sirin."
Since she had decided to confess everything, she would tell Kiana everything.
"Sirin already died on the battlefield of the Second Honkai Eruption, but the gems did not..."
Several years after the Second Honkai Eruption, Otto Apocalypse conducted an experiment using the DNA of the Void, Sirin, and the DNA of Kiana to create an experimental subject, hoping to allow it to use the Authority of Void.
But the experiments were failures all the way up to K423, when Otto took a risk and implanted the herrscher core. But after 18 hours, the experimental subject still had no consciousness.
"In the endless darkness, I had a false dream. In the dream, I missed that woman who wasn't my mother, and I longed for the warmth she gave me. That warmth gave me a sense of peace..."
Kiana's head suddenly hurt, and fragmented memory flooded her mind. She subconsciously finished the Verna's sentence.
"I thought more than once, if I became an ordinary person... could I live happily with her?"
"If I were given another chance..."
Verna looked at Kiana, her eyes filled with sadness, and in them was reflected Kiana's face, already covered in tears.
"I want to hear her voice again... that phrase, ich liebe dich."
Verna looked at Kiana and slowly spoke the truth that made Kiana almost break down.
"Sirin's death and her consciousness that yearned for a warmth allowed K423 to develop a consciousness. And the consciousness that carries Sirin's hatred... is me. Kiana Kaslana, who do you think you are?"
Like a clap of thunder exploding in her ears, Kiana finally realized all the inconsistencies.
Why she had no memory from before she was eight—because she wasn't Kiana at all! She was experimental subject K423... and also, Sirin...
"I... I'm not... the real Kiana Kaslana?" Kiana clutched her head. It all made sense now—why her old man was unwilling to call her by her name at first and was always cold toward her... why she had no memory at all.
Because she... was just a clone of real Kiana Kaslana... K423... Vessel of the Void...
Kiana couldn't accept this answer. The blurry memories of her birth slowly awakened. Yes, that was the real Kiana's voice. She and Siegfried could have escaped, but they wasting time trying to save her...
She killed the real Kiana...
She... everything about her was a lie!
Watching Kiana fall mental state, Verna finally couldn't take it anymore. She pulled Kiana up from her lap and gave her a slap.e trying to save her...
She killed the real Kiana...
She... everything about her was a lie!
Watching Kiana fall mental state, Verna finally couldn't take it anymore. She pulled Kiana up from her lap and gave her a slap.