Vostok 51 Town!
A secluded place far from the center of town.
This was a garden where delicate and colorful flowers were in full Bloom everywhere.
A riot of colors, clusters of blossoms everywhere.
A faint floral fragrance permeated the air, making one feel relaxed and happy.
And in the center of this sea of flowers stood an ash tree of unknown age.
The spread-out canopy was like an umbrella, casting a patch of shade on the ground.
Looking from here, one could vaguely see the scattered houses of the town.
Through the vigorous tree trunk, the building closest to this garden could be seen: an orphanage.
When Shiro pushed aside the grass and came under the big tree,
his gaze was immediately drawn to the scene in front of him.
At the base of the tree, an infant was surrounded by tender vines brimming with life and pink crystals.
She lay quietly amidst the pink crystals, her supple skin making one feel an instinctive affection.
Cute and pure.
That was the first impression people would have of her.
When Shiro reached out to pick up the baby girl from the pink crystals, perhaps awakened by the movement, she suddenly opened her eyes in a daze.
Within those light blue, slightly pinkish eyes, diamond-shaped pupils were filled with curiosity about the new world.
Looking at the newborn baby girl, as pure as snow,
Shiro softly called out her future name, “Elysia…”
A moment later, Shiro walked toward the town, holding the infant Elysia in his arms.
After all, it was inconvenient to travel the current world with Elysia as an infant.
Therefore, you planned to follow the original trajectory, raising Elysia in Vostok 51 Town until she was four or five years old before taking her on a journey.
[You found Elysia, the Incarnation of the Power of Origin.]
[You took her to Vostok 51 Town, intending to give her a growth trajectory similar to yet different from the original.]
[Having just finished raising Mobius, you didn’t expect to welcome an even more thorough life as a stay-at-home dad.]
[Sometimes you wonder if this counts as adapting in advance to a future married life with kids?
(Heavy fog/Just kidding)]
[Unlike your upbringing of Mobius, you do not intend to teach this cute and pitiful baby girl scientific knowledge about leading the progress of civilization.]
[As the First Herrscher, facing the various hardships to come in the future, she should have a happy and joyful childhood.]
[When the baby girl was one year old, you discovered she could speak.]
[The first sound the baby girl made was calling you ‘Papa’.]
[For you, your feelings were quite complicated.
Meeting Elysia and living with her was one thing, but this was nothing like you imagined!!!]
[You began your life as a stay-at-home dad.]
[You would tell her fairy tales, journeys to other worlds, and even about countless strange races and civilizations never heard of before.]
[As Elysia grew day by day, the girl’s liveliness and cuteness were also deeply loved by the town residents.]
[With the passage of time, on the girl’s third birthday, you gave her a fairy tale picture book that contained her name.]
[After reading the picture book, the girl was filled with Yearning for the flawless paradise and the eternal land described within.]
[Thus, the girl loudly announced: “My name is Elysia!”]
[It signifies a flawless paradise, an eternal land.]
[Just as the Herrscher who loves people seems to be the trajectory of destiny, you found that from a young age, she liked playing with other children from the orphanage.]
[Regardless of status, she equally showed a pure and beautiful smile to every person she came into contact with.]
[Of course, besides that, her pure and cute appearance also hid a mischievous and narcissistic side.]
[Unfortunately, for now, only you know about this side.]
[When Elysia was five years old, she began to realize that she seemed to possess a slight difference from others.]
[At the same time, the predecessor of the Fire-Moth Organization also began to explore and investigate in Vostok 51 Town.]
[So you simply took Elysia and left the town to continue your travels.]
[In the blink of an eye, Elysia was eight years old.]
[During these three years of travel, you took Elysia to witness many events, meet many people, and also witness many emotions worth remembering.]
[And after witnessing so much, Elysia still maintained that cuteness and innocence.]
[During this period, Mobius would also send you messages from time to time.]
[She told you that she had become the head of the First Research Institute of a certain organization and already had relatively in-depth research on the kind of energy you gave her back then.]
[At the same time, you also told Mobius about Elysia, which you had hidden for a long time.
(Why hide it?
Nonsense, you adopted another one right after Mobius Mobius left; you were really afraid Mobius Mobius would turn into a giant python and come swallow you whole to keep you by her side.)]
[You could notice that after eight years, the now 20-something mature Mobius Mobius had a moment of silence.]
[In the end, with a cold snort from Mobius Mobius, the latest contact ended.]
[Elysia asked you about Mobius.]
[You jokingly told Elysia that she was her older sister.]
[In this peaceful daily life, within the thousands of years of human civilization’s development, a terrible calamity struck.]
[The First Honkai Eruption broke out.]
Near an unknown town.
Over the years, this was already the third travel destination for Shiro and Elysia.
Elysia held Shiro’s hand as they walked through the town, which was not very densely populated.
Unlike the prosperity of the city, the town appeared relatively backward.
The townspeople were all doing their own thing, only occasionally glancing at the two people walking down the main street.
A black-haired young man and a pink-haired girl who looked like she was carved from pink jade.
“Father, how long are we going to stay here for this trip?”
Elysia asked the young man beside her in a playful tone while looking around curiously.
As she moved, her slightly curly pink hair swayed gently.
“This time, we probably won’t stay for too long.”
“Hmm?”
Tilting her head slightly, Elysia took light steps, her slender and tender legs wrapped in pinkish-white children’s stockings.
Compared to her future preference for black stockings with a mysterious and seductive allure, at this age, she still preferred white, which highlighted her purity and cuteness.
In addition, she wore a pink and white dress with a hem reaching about her knees, and a cute doll hung at her waist.
Facing Elysia’s inquiry launched with a ‘cuteness offensive’, Shiro asked himself—if it weren’t for his years of parenting experience, he really wouldn’t have been able to withstand it.
Not getting an answer, the pink-haired loli didn’t care much.
She continued to hold Shiro’s hand, humming a song.
Halfway through, she suddenly asked again: “Father, why have I never been able to find this song on the internet?”
Young Elysia seemed to always have endless doubts and questions.
“This song comes from a certain Goddess of Flowers.”
“Goddess?
Do gods really exist in this world?”
Elysia was a bit confused.
Because lately, she was always dreaming, and in the dreams, it felt as if something was calling out to her.
“Of course, my lovely Elysia, you are also the goddess in my heart.”
After saying that, Shiro also lightly squeezed the girl’s tender little hand.
“Hmph.
Father, you aren’t out there deceiving other girls like this too, are you?”
Elysia, who was following closely, turned sideways and showed a somewhat mischievous smile.
Hmm, not bad, she already has forty percent of the flavor of her future mature self.
Shiro also jokingly replied: “That’s right, your sister Mobius was tricked into my hands just like this.”
“That won’t do.
As for deceiving girls, having me alone is enough.”
The nine-year-old loli’s words unexpectedly had the flavor of an adult being jealous.
Thinking back carefully, for Elysia, Shiro relied more on his own memories to encounter her.
As for Mobius, that was entirely a gift from heaven (Child of Destiny), a chance encounter.
Just as Shiro and Elysia were strolling and chatting,
at a certain moment, Elysia seemed to sense something, and then Shiro also noticed an abnormal accumulation and increase in Honkai Energy.
The two of them, one after the other, looked toward a distant land.
In a city an unknown distance away in that direction, under the corrosion of a certain terrifying energy, a figure appeared high in the sky, accompanied by the constant emergence of mechanical constructs around it.
The First Honkai Eruption broke out.
The Herrscher of Reason was born!