She was merely an ordinary person; could a matter like defeating Honkai really be accomplished?
“Vester, they all say my dad has passed away. What does this mean?”
Kallen, with a face full of tear tracks, raised her head and grabbed Vester’s sleeve.
“You’ve asked a complicated question.”
‘You father and daughter really just love giving me difficult problems.’
To be honest, she was still very confused.
However, she had already understood what Francis wanted to achieve.
“Kallen.”
Vester patted her friend’s head and tilted her head to look at the gold-stamped nameplate on the coffin.
“When you pick the carrots you dislike out of your plate, no one will smile and ruffle your hair anymore.”
“After you make a mistake and sneak out of the house, no one will grab your ear and drag you back anymore.”
“When you act spoiled or throw tantrums at others, no one will helplessly shake their head and tolerate your self-will anymore.”
“So-called death and parting are nothing more than this.”
Reaching out to pick up a pure white flower, Vester handed it to the still somewhat clueless Kallen.
“These, are the things your father would use a weapon driven by his life to protect.”
“Do you resent him? After all, his choice caused you to lose these things.”
“No, of course not!”
Kallen shook her head in denial.
“Haha, this shows that you, Kallen, possess the same qualities as your father.”
Perhaps to ease the atmosphere, or perhaps mocking herself, the blond girl gave a dry laugh:
“However, not everyone is like Kallen and can understand your father’s approach. They will feel that your father could have done better, and that what your father did was meaningless.”
“Yet, your father won’t feel that way. He will only go and protect every single person he can protect.”
“Because, this is what he wanted to do from the very beginning.”
“Saving the world—your dream is also just a matter like this.”
“When the ice and snow melt together with the enemy, and true spring finally arrives, he who protected what needed to be protected is the last glimmer of light in the dark night, as well as the first beam of light in the dawn.”
“Perhaps during this process, not many people will be able to understand you. Even so, Kallen, are you willing to walk the same path just like your father?” New chapters come out on g.com first.
“Right now, is saving the world still your dream?”
“…”
Kallen’s pupils suddenly dilated, she gripped the flower in her hand tightly, wiped away her tears, and nodded.
“Haha.”
“Then, both Otto and I will help you.”
As a former captain, Vester had always had the idea of changing the development of worldlines and modifying the tragedies in the plot, but her starting point was extremely selfish.
To put it bluntly, she just didn’t want those wives of hers to die just like that; she didn’t care that much about the life or death of others.
However, since this was Kallen’s dream…
“After all, this is our promise.”
…then it wouldn’t matter if she came to help out a bit.
Saying this, Vester, with her back to the sun, reached out her hand towards Kallen.
The former’s face had already become blurred under the illumination of light and shadow, and all Kallen could see clearly was that bright yet somewhat sluggish smile like the winter sunshine.
This inevitably reminded her of that night that had long sunk into distant memories.
“Daddy, Kallen wants to be your bride in the future!”
At that time, she had said so.
“Kallen, once you grow up, you won’t be able to make this kind of joke anymore.”
“It’s not a joke at all!”
“Hehe, then let me change the phrasing.”
In the scene, Francis’s face wore a doting smile:
“In the future, Kallen will encounter a much more suitable partner, so spare this old uncle of a dad.”
“A more suitable candidate?”
“Mhm, one who can encourage you, will always support you, and is willing to spend a lifetime accompanying you…”
Reaching this point in words, Francis’s rough, large hand stroked Kallen’s cheek:
“… That kind of person is the partner you should become a bride for.”
“A lifetime—can a girl do too?”
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“Vester.”
“Mhm.”
“Can you stay with me all the time, until a lifetime?”
“A lifetime—does that mean saving the world for a lifetime together?”
Hearing this, probably recalling some memories that did not belong to this world, the blond girl shrugged.
‘Kallen is a saint, how could she suddenly turn into a black hole with her own gravitational field?’
“Sure, I promise you.”
Having persuaded herself, Vester very rashly reached a new promise with Kallen.
A lifetime’s promise.
However, she did not anticipate one thing.
In the original trajectory of fate, Kallen would comprehend the true meaning of protection amidst tears, thereby becoming the saint who loved every single person in the world.
However, this gift of pain was replaced by the blond girl who reached out her hand at this moment.
When she was right in the grief and confusion of losing her father, the blond girl gave her brand new hope.
Thus, Kallen, who should have awakened here, nailed the anchor point of her dream onto Vester.
Kallen’s yet-unformed sense of justice was thereby completely distorted, and mixed into it was her emotion towards the blond girl.
‘Vester, as long as I go save the world, are you willing to be with me for a lifetime?’
‘If this is your wish.’
‘I will definitely do it, I will definitely do it.’
Vester, reflected in Kallen’s pupils, was so sacred and beautiful at this moment.
She just reached out her hand like that, mercilessly agreeing to the other party’s request.
Mercilessly covering Kallen’s eyes, completely depriving those eyes of the power to accommodate anyone else.
Other than this golden figure bathed in sunlight, Kallen’s eyes could no longer accommodate a single other person.