Chapter 631 Kiana, I Really Envy You

"call--"

The fist was punched out with all its strength, and the air was suddenly compressed to the extreme, grazing the edge of the fist and making a whimpering sound like a rocket.

When the girl's fist was punched, she was only less than half a meter away from the face opposite her, but there was only a smile on the face that was exactly like her own.

She didn't even bother to dodge, and the next moment, the fist full of anger smashed into a hollow. Kiana wanted to withdraw her strength, but it was already too late. Then she received a punch on the back of her head - it was undoubtedly her own fist.

"cut--"

This phenomenon has been repeated countless times in the past long time.

How long has passed? Kiana, who was focused on fighting, had no time to pay attention to the flow of time.

She just kept fighting and attacking, knowing that she was not strong enough and that she could not defeat the opponent in front of her, but the energy in her heart made her unable to stop.

She will knock down Siren here, and then go to find the Tenth Herrscher to avenge Himeko.

No matter how much time passed, this thought still retained its original fiery temperature in her heart. She knew that this was unrealistic. Even if she defeated Sirin, the power of the Herrscher of the Sky would still be very likely to be dominated by the Tenth Herrscher. She alone could not defeat the Tenth Herrscher at all, and she would even lose power because of her power. Being taken away will in turn increase the danger for everyone...

But what else could she do? Could she just stay where she was and do nothing?

"Drink!"

Enduring the severe pain in the back of her head and the dizziness caused by the blow to her brain stem, Kiana lowered her body, closed the distance with Sirin again, and then swept across with a whip leg from right to left.

"Bang!"

Hit! Phase deflection was originally a defensive method against long-range penetrating attacks. It was effective against straight punches, but it was ineffective against whip kicks with a wider attack surface!

But, did it really hit?

The one who was kicked... was it really Siren?

There was pain from the collision of a hard object on the instep, and Kiana knew clearly that she had indeed kicked something, but it was not Sirin's body.

"Imaginary number barrier?!"

There is no doubt that it is. The figure of the Second Herrscher followed the power of Kiana's kick and flew back in the air, calmly opening some distance.

Kiana slowly retracted her numb foot, choosing to stand there and wait for the counterattack launched by the second Herrscher.

Hmm... It's not correct to say it was a counterattack. From the moment the battle started, the person who launched the attack again and again was Kiana. To be precise, it was only Kiana.

Why? It's obvious that he has taken a stance of opposition. She was obviously the one who blocked the way in the first place, but why did she...

Why had she never attacked?

Her confident smile never faded from the beginning to the end. She just kept dodging Kiana's attacks, and occasionally taught Kiana a lesson when she made a fool of herself and threw a straight punch - just like before.

Being still gave Kiana time to think, but thinking did not necessarily lead to answers.

Siren, or the Second Herrscher, what exactly does she want to do, what does she want to gain through this conflict, and what are the benefits to her of stopping Kiana...

One question after another popped up in Kiana's mind, and in the end, only chicken feathers were left on the ground.

It's like the ground is covered with gravel. You can pick up a gravel easily, but they are neither valuable nor have any special meaning. It was only after being affected by the long and boring battle that it broke away from its solid body and fell to the ground.

Picking up such stones seems to have no meaning other than increasing one's own weight.

But after all, the relationship between thinking and picking up pebbles is an inappropriate metaphor.

With some immature thoughts, not even "formed", Kiana took two more steps forward, getting closer to Sirin, and then stopped steadily.

Taking a deep breath, watching her chest become full, as if what filled her lungs was not air but courage, Kiana tried her best to keep a calm tone and spoke:

"Xilin, do you still want to continue this kind of fighting?"

Xilin, who was floating in the air like a rootless duckweed, smiled and asked half teasingly and half disdainfully:

"Fighting? Why are you asking me about this kind of thing? Aren't you the one who has been fighting? It all depends on you whether you want to continue fighting or not, so why bother asking me?"

"...So, you don't agree with the decision I made, so you blocked me in this way?"

The Second Herrscher subtly lowered the floating height a little. Her attitude seemed to have softened as Kiana stopped attacking, but after hearing Kiana's words, she let out an unhappy snort again. .

"Don't agree? Do I have the right to disagree? Will you discuss it with me? In the final analysis, the relationship between us is life and death. There is no need to discuss your decision with me. I don't agree with your decision. I never need to tell you, I just need to do it like this... I will kill you when you are stupid."

Her lip was bitten with blood for a moment, and Kiana took deep breaths quickly and continuously. After a while, she straightened her chest and faced the Herrscher, with prayer and expectation in her tone:

"Is that so? Then...come on Siren, come and kill me. Do it now, right here."

"you--"

The smile on the Second Herrscher's face could no longer be maintained, and what appeared on that face was a look of disbelief and anger:

"What nonsense are you talking about? You want me to kill you? Are you crazy? There must be a limit to madness! Who was so afraid of me that you couldn't sleep well, afraid that I would take over your body if you didn't pay attention... What about now? What are you doing now? If you are so eager to give your body to me, then you shouldn't have resisted at the beginning!"

"The past is the past, and the present is the present. As the squad leader said, it's a different time now."

"Tsk, I never thought I would hear such elegant words from you one day."

"Hehe."

Kiana giggled twice, her eyes unconsciously narrowed because of the smile, and when she opened her eyes again, the Second Herrscher had landed on the ground and walked slowly towards her.

"No, actually... I'm still too stupid. How long have we been fighting? If it were Bronya and Mei, they would have noticed the problem right away, but I... Sirin, you didn't want to fight me from the beginning, you just wanted to talk to me, right?"

Looking at Kiana's slightly smug expression because she guessed something, the Herrscher turned his head away with a look of disdain.

"Really, who wants to talk to you? What can I talk to you about?... But since you have something to say to me, I might as well wait for you to finish talking nonsense before considering how to kill you."

"..."

Kiana couldn't figure out why the Herrscher's words became more aggressive?

What's going on?

No, that's not the problem.

The problem is that Kiana chose to stop fighting and communicate verbally because she vaguely felt that Sirin was going to say something to her.

But now Sirin asked her to speak first?

What should she say? What can she say?

Should she continue fighting?

For some reason, Kiana felt a little sad.

Why was she sad?

Strictly speaking, unlike the uncle with a body on fire in Mei's mouth, she was not a person who enjoyed fighting.

But feeling sad because of fighting was indeed something she had never experienced before... No, it was not something she had never experienced before.

She had experienced an extremely sad battle in the past.

Time, half a year ago.

Location, the rooftop of the teaching building of Chiba Academy in Changkong City, where she and Mei had eaten lunch boxes countless times.

The object of the battle, Mei.

So, at this moment, the image of the Second Herrscher in her mind has overlapped with Mei?

How is it possible?

Yes, it is impossible.

But different objects do not mean that similar emotions will not be generated.

What triggers certain emotions is the "story" itself, not just the characters in the story.

So...

The last story was "parting", and this time it is...

Kiana's eyes suddenly widened to the maximum -

Parting?

"Although those guys are just pitiful weaklings, you are not much stronger than them now. Do you want to die?"

"Defeat me, then come on, let me see how you can defeat me!"

At first, Kiana just understood this as an angry provocation.

After all, the Second Herrscher always maintained an angry attitude most of the time except for tasting food, and she would scold him if she was not careful. Compared with that attitude, these two sentences can be regarded as a normal tone.

Yes, a normal tone, but it's a pity that Kiana didn't realize it at the first time.

"Xilin..."

Kiana squinted and raised her head. Her eyes were extremely sore and her vision was a little blurred, so the Herrscher who was gradually approaching in front of her also changed in a blur.

With every step forward, her body outline shrank a lot, until she was half a head shorter than Kiana, and her long white hair turned purple in an instant.

"Xilin--"

"Forget it, with your idiotic language organization ability, how long will it take for you to be able to say a complete sentence? You'd better listen to me honestly. Tsk--"

Xilin stood in front of Kiana and had to look up at her because of her height.

But she soon smacked her lips in anger, and then bit her fingers while floating up.

But this time, she didn't float too high, just a little higher than Kiana by half a head, so that she could look down at Kiana without any effort, and she didn't have to worry about the degree of neck soreness from looking for a long time.

Of course, it's not impossible to float higher, but then Kiana can't see her face at all when she raises her head. Xilin naturally doesn't have the habit of showing her butt to others, even if this person is, in a sense, [another her].

"Let me tell you another thing first. Not long ago, your mistress Raiden Mei found me... Wait, how long ago was it? Anyway, it was not long after you rushed towards me like a fool, waving your fists..."

"Uh... am I that stupid? No, Mei? How did she..."

Xilin narrowed her eyes, looked away, and curled her lips silently.

"Why do you care so much? You haven't really taken over the full power of the Herrscher until now. Some things can't be explained to you even if I explain them to you a hundred times... No, this should be your own problem, right? Why can't you be as smart as that Raiden Mei and Bronya? And you're not as well-behaved as that Seele... It can't be my problem, right?"

For a moment, Kiana thought that Sirin was crazy because she couldn't understand what she said at all.

It was like... she was talking to herself.

But she did understand that Sirin took the opportunity to say that she was stupid.

Well, this grudge is remembered. If I have to settle accounts with Sirin one day in the future, I must count this.

"So, what did Mei say to you?"

"She was quite surprised to see me. She thought I had taken over your body and almost fought with me. Then I let her look at you through the Herrscher core. She was relieved to see you still chasing me vigorously."

"..."

"Anyway, that little guy said that the Tenth Herrscher committed suicide by merging this bubble with the intrinsic world. Anti-entropy also joined forces with Destiny again, preparing to completely eliminate that idiot. If Dr. Mei and Otto join forces, the idiot Tenth Herrscher will lose. You just need to stay under the protection of my imaginary barrier and wait for them to rescue you."

"..."

"It's been almost two hours since Mei found me. Those humans have a poor copy of my power, and the charging time for large-scale space transfer is two hours, which is about right."

"Is that so... So Xilin, you constructed this imaginary barrier and isolated us in it, just to let me stay here until the battle is over?"

"What else?"

Xilin turned her head away, annoyed He waved his hand:

"Why don't you let this idiot die? With your strength, what can you do? If the Tenth Ruler gets the power of space, and this power hurts Mei, Bronya, Seele, etc., will you blame yourself and cry in the middle of the night? Instead of that, it's better to lock up this impulsive idiot. Besides, don't think that your life belongs to you alone. If you die, I won't be happy either."

"Uh... didn't you say before that you don't care whether you live or die?"

"..."

"Can't you still hide in the core and continue to live..."

Cieren's cheeks twitched twice, and she quickly raised her voice and answered:

"Is there any problem? Storing consciousness in the core can indeed continue to exist for a period of time, but it is impossible to find a suitable container like you again. What's the difference between that and death?"

"Why do I feel that it's because I can't eat in the core..."

"What did you say just now?"

"Ah... I think you are right."

The two suddenly fell into silence.

After a while, Kiana let out a long breath, sat down on the ground without any image, and then went a step further and lay down without any defense.

Xilin made a disgusted "tsk" sound, quickly fell back to the ground, walked to Kiana's side, and kicked her on the butt.

"Oh! It hurts! Don't be so hard, bastard!"

"Who told you to lie here?"

Kiana rolled to the side. The coldness on the floor made her stomach cramp twice, and the gravel was also uncomfortable, but she was indeed much more energetic.

She scratched her head and said sullenly after a long time:

"I'm tired and want to lie down. Anyway, you won't let me go out..."

"Tsk. Don't you want to go and avenge Ji Zi?"

This made the atmosphere heavy again.

Kiana also pointed the back of her head at Xilin and didn't answer for a long time.

In fact, no matter what she said, it was meaningless.

Only by snatching power from Sirin can we have the capital to fight the Tenth Herrscher, and even so, we must be careful that the power will be controlled in turn.

But in fact, there is no need to worry about this kind of thing, because if you don’t snatch the power, you can’t leave the space temporarily isolated by this imaginary barrier. And if you want to snatch the power, you must defeat Sirin first.

To defeat Sirin, it is impossible to do it with the existing small amount of power, so you must snatch the power from Sirin first-the paradox has reached a closed loop.

Unless Sirin is merciful and gives her the power on her own initiative.

But Kiana knows that Sirin will not do this.

She has even made a choice that is not in line with her identity.

She helped Kiana, and if she hadn’t stopped her, Kiana would have gone to deliver food to the Tenth Herrscher now.

But... I’m still unwilling...

Before, I could divert my attention through dialogue, but once my mind was empty, the scene of Jizi dying in front of her would be replayed in my mind again and again.

Why didn’t I save her at that time?

Why did she come to save herself at that time?

Questions, pain, and unwillingness did not overturn everything in a short time like a tsunami, but just like ordinary sea water, slowly draining the body temperature of a person who fell into the water in an imperceptible time, until she lost all her strength as the temperature was lost, and finally sank into the dark seabed.

Why is it always like this... Why again and again, whether it is this world, Meiyi or Jizi, she can only watch and can do nothing...

The mission of the Kaslana family has become a perfect mockery. Kiana only feels that perhaps she is not qualified to accept this name at all...

If the real Kiana is still alive, she will definitely look down on her.

She did nothing, did not protect anything, and just nailed the precious name "Kiana" to the pillar of shame as a loser.

But suddenly, a cold hand gently placed on her cheek.

Kiana's body stiffened for a moment.

She was not afraid, but just surprised. After all, there was only one person here besides her.

"Sure enough, Kiana, you still want to fight, right?"

"..."

Xilin's tone was weird, so weird that Kiana didn't even dare to respond.

"To be honest, Kiana, I really... envy you."