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Staying in her own cabin, Kiana looked at the familiar body in the mirror with some joy, but also with some anxiety about gains and losses.
Being able to get back her own body was naturally something worth being happy about, but having experienced the convenience and pleasure of a boy’s body… cough cough, using her own girl’s body again, she inevitably felt somewhat awkward for a while.
Of course, she absolutely, absolutely did not have thoughts like — it would be nice if she could switch back to her own body a little later!
“Knock knock knock~”
The sound of knocking came from outside the door.
“Who is it? It’s so late, won’t you let people sleep?”
Kiana, who had originally planned to go to sleep, muttered quietly, but still got up and opened the cabin door.
What came into view was an expressionless, delicate small face that required her to look down to see.
“Oh, it’s Bronya. What do you need from me?”
The white-haired fluffball scratched her head and looked at 【Bronya】 standing at the door with some confusion. She had originally thought the other party had come to find her to play games, since these few days on the ship had been quite boring, and Ducky often brought her game console to find her.
But 【Bronya】 obviously didn’t have the game console she would usually carry.
“Bronya came to borrow something from you.”
Words without much emotional fluctuation rang out. As she spoke, the silver-haired girl’s eyebrows slightly raised — this self-reference…
Subconsciously using the most familiar way of referring to herself that this body had formed as a habit left a certain someone somewhat unable to keep a straight face.
It wouldn’t be impossible to change it and adopt his own habits, but it would be somewhat troublesome and awkward.
…Whatever, it’s not like it’s anything important anyway.
Having successively used the pink fatty and white-haired fluffball, Jiang Qiao didn’t mind following along with one more duck’s habits.
“What thing…”
Kiana instinctively wanted to ask something, but felt her consciousness gradually becoming hazy. Before her heavy eyelids closed, the last scene she saw was that emotionless, delicate little face.
Project Bunny, sharing the same intentions as 【Bronya】, obeyed his will and materialized from the air, supporting the falling white-haired girl.
“Although I know it doesn’t really matter, for the current you, it’s still best to avoid contact with these things as much as possible. This is what’s best for you, Kiana.”
The milky voice rang out in the not-so-spacious cabin as the silver-haired girl’s palm gently caressed Kiana’s pretty cheek.
The white-haired girl was placed on the bed, her pajama top lifted to reveal a glimpse of snow-white delicacy.
But 【Bronya】 gaze didn’t linger on this at all, instead pressing her joined index finger against the former’s chest.
The soft sensation — someone’s unattainable dream, but what was important to Jiang Qiao was…
Pink light representing the color of Origin spread weakly from the slender fingertip across the girl’s chest, followed by a bright yellow glow.
The next moment, an orange-yellow crystal flickering with strange light emerged from Kiana’s chest and slowly fell into the silver-haired girl’s palm.
— At this moment, the Herrscher of the Void’s mood was simply like she’d eaten shit.
Originally, seeing that easy-to-bully one of hers had come back, she was about to cheer and celebrate.
But then…
Are you f**king kidding me?
Running into someone else’s body and still coming to mess with me?
— Miss Pufferfish, residing within the core, currently wanted to kill someone.
Don’t think I can’t recognize you just because you changed bodies! You dog!
“What do you want to do?! Taking away the Herrscher core, that substitute will die too!”
Miss Pufferfish’s angry words rang out in 【Bronya】 mind.
The core of the Herrscher of the Void was not only her dwelling place, but also Kiana’s, the true spiritual core of the vessel 【K-423】.
Extracting the core of the Herrscher of the Void would be equivalent to extracting Kiana’s ‘soul’ along with it.
“You’re actually so worried about that idiot Kiana, how truly rare.” The expressionless, emotionless milky voice carried some surprise and playfulness. Although it was somewhat difficult to express with this body’s incomplete nervous system, 【Bronya】 still roughly displayed flexibility that exceeded Bronya.
“Bullshit, would I care about that substitute?”
Miss Pufferfish was somewhat angry.
Well, she did care a bit. Although she kept calling her a substitute, as the side of Sirin that yearned for good, Miss Pufferfish still cared quite a bit. And if something happened to her, what if those two bastards came running over again? Wouldn’t she have to perform the defeat CG again?
“Don’t worry, she’ll be fine.”
【Bronya】’s tone was calm.
Since he dared to do this, he dared to guarantee nothing would go wrong.
Although the Herrscher of the Void was indeed the spiritual foundation of the individual ‘Kiana’ — he was also carrying part of the authority belonging to the Herrscher of the Void and Herrscher of Origin.
Using part of the Origin authority as a framework and filling it with part of the Herrscher of the Void’s authority, Jiang Qiao left Kiana with a mixed version of a pseudo-Herrscher core that only accommodated her alone, for her exclusive use, without worrying about Miss Pufferfish rebelling.
“Besides, Bronya is just borrowing it temporarily.”
The chuckling silver-haired girl said this, without a moment’s hesitation fusing this Herrscher core into 【Bronya】.
With a muffled grunt, a circle of dense purple patterns crawled up her neck and cheeks, then gradually faded.
The next moment, the blinking girl’s silver eyes were tinged with the golden color belonging to the Herrscher of the Void, radiating thick divinity.
The imaginary authority flowed in her palm, bringing a sense of abundant power while also bringing a sense of rejection as a foreign object.
“So this is what it feels like to be invaded by Honkai Energy.”
Feeling the tearing pain of cells throughout her body, the silver-haired girl with slightly furrowed brows experienced this power she had never felt before. While finding it somewhat novel, she also showed a helpless smile.
The Herrscher of Origin, being a natural-born Herrscher with special properties, wouldn’t suffer any backlash when he wielded Origin in 【Elysia】 form.
The Herrscher of the Void was similarly a natural-born Herrscher, but through the contingencies left behind and clear will, Jiang Qiao could forcibly take away all the authority mastered by the Herrscher of the Void in 【Kiana】 form with ‘Sirin’s’ identity, perfectly wielding the authority of the imaginary.
But 【Bronya】 was different.
The core of the Herrscher of the Void had an owner, and Bronya’s compatibility with the Void core was very poor — Miss Pufferfish wouldn’t cooperate with him obediently.