Am I dead?
I shouldn't be. After all, if I were dead, I wouldn't be thinking about whether I'm dead or not.
Kiana opened her eyes and saw a white-haired girl sleeping soundly in front of her, looking almost like she was carved from the same mold.
She's so cute, and she looks so much like me! But she doesn't seem as lively and energetic as me, she looks a little dazed?
Still a bit groggy from waking up, Kiana curiously poked her cheek. It was soft and tender, and Kiana couldn't get enough of it.
"Wait, wait! What's going on!!"
Kiana suddenly became fully awake and sat up in bed in shock.
She quickly scanned her surroundings and checked the spatial medium around her.
After confirming that she was now in her own room, she fell into deep thought.
But before thinking, she first tied up the "other me" on the bed with Imaginary Chains, just in case she was a bad person who might suddenly attack.
"Strange... my memory seems to be a bit fragmented... The last thing I remember is sending Seele away, and then being blown up by something? So, I should be dead, right?!"
Kiana touched her body, giving herself a full check-up to see if anything was missing or if there were any hidden injuries.
"Nothing? How strange... I'm actually stronger after dying once?"
She felt better than ever now, and even felt that her physical fitness had multiplied several times over.
Kiana happily jumped off the bed and bounced around the room, testing her current body.
If she had another chance to launch a sneak attack while sparring with Class Monitor Fu Hua, Kiana was confident she could knock Fu Hua out with a single punch.
After a brief moment of excitement, Kiana rare for her, quickly calmed down.
This world had many sad stories, and behind every beautiful story, many people had borne countless pains for her.
Kiana didn't like such stories, nor did she want such stories to happen to herself...
She walked to the full-length mirror, looked at her reflection, and closed her eyes.
"Sirin... are you there?"
"Sirin... are you there!"
"Sirin...?!"
Kiana called out several times in a row, but the voice she both disliked and was very fond of never echoed in her heart...
Sadness suddenly flooded her heart. Everything has a price, so... did Sirin bear the consequence of death for her?
"Sirin!"
Kiana's heart grew more and more anxious and panicked as she shouted, and she couldn't help but shout Sirin's name out loud in the room.
Awakened by Kiana's shouting, Sirin, who was on the bed, angrily shouted back at Kiana: "What are you shouting about!! Can't you even let me rest!!"
"Sirin?!"
Kiana turned around, overjoyed, two streams of clear tears clearly sliding down her cheeks.
Kiana looked at Sirin on the bed, blinked in confusion, then closed her eyes and turned her head back.
It seemed her sadness was causing her to hallucinate. Sirin wasn't in her heart, so how could she be on her bed?
"Wait!" Kiana suddenly turned her head back, looking in disbelief at Sirin on the bed, who was tearing off the Imaginary Chains on her body.
"Sirin! You're not dead?!"
"You're the one who's dead!"
Sirin tore off all the Imaginary Chains from her body, then threw them along with the pillow at Kiana.
———————————————
———————————————
Ryn was pushed into the portal by Honkai God · Ryn and teleported back to the prime world.
Caught off guard, Ryn free-falled from the sky like a meteor.
He hated people who spoke in riddles, especially when that guy said he had something to tell him but didn't make it clear...
He must have said something, but it also felt like he said nothing at all.
Judging from his final lip movements, Ryn suspected he said, "I'll be waiting for you in the future's past."
A very meaningful sentence. Although Ryn recognized each word individually, when put together, he couldn't understand what he was trying to express.
He could only confirm that he would see him again in the future.
Whatever, he would think about the future in the future. The most important thing now was to focus on the present.
Being a savior or something, how could that be as happy as being a perverted lazybones~
No, no, Ryn, oh Ryn! You can't be so degenerate anymore!
Ryn spread his arms and descended with the wind, landing on the ground.
Then, while dialing Kiana's number, he rushed towards St. Freya High School at full speed.
Beep beep—
The call was quickly connected, and Kiana even initiated a video call.
Seeing the call connect, Ryn breathed a sigh of relief. That guy really didn't lie to him; Kiana was fine.
But when the video connected and two Kianas appeared on the screen, Ryn froze on the spot.
In the video, a Kiana with golden-yellow eyes looked at him with a long face, then waved to the side, pulling over the blue-eyed Kiana who was eating.
"Stop eating, Ryn is on the phone!"
"Coming, coming!"
Kiana's cheeks were stuffed full and her mouth was greasy. After stuffing the last piece of fried chicken into her mouth, Kiana smiled and leaned against Sirin, squeezing together in the small screen, revealing two cute close-ups, one unhappy and one clueless.
"Stupid Kiana, don't squeeze me! You can't see anything like this, can you?"
"Hehe, but this way Ryn can see both of us clearly~" Kiana hugged Sirin, insisting on being close to her.
"Bastard! Wipe your face before you come over!!"
Sirin pushed Kiana's face away with a look of disgust, not letting her get any closer, because the idiot Kiana had wiped her greasy mouth all over her face.
"Um... hmm?! My method of opening this must be wrong..."
Ryn closed his eyes and rubbed them hard in disbelief. This scene was a bit hard for him to comprehend.
Although Sirin and Kiana were two completely independent consciousnesses, they were essentially the same soul born from a Herrscher Core, so...
How on earth did they become two!?
Ryn opened his eyes again and looked at Sirin and Kiana with confusion. They also looked back at Ryn with puzzled expressions.
———————————————
"Anyway, it was like this, and then like that, and then whoosh whoosh, slurp slurp, and after we opened our eyes, the two of us seemed to have separated?"
In the living room of Himeko's house, Kiana and Sirin were animatedly explaining their current situation to Ryn.
They explained it very well, but Ryn said he didn't understand a thing.
So, Kiana and Sirin explained it again seriously together...
They saw the twins raise their hands at the same time, then spread their hands, shrugged, and said in unison:
"Actually, we don't know the specifics either..."