Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Ryoma Raiden woke up.

It had been a long time since he had such a good sleep. The last time he had such a relaxing opportunity was... well, a while ago.

'Spending time with my daughter like an ordinary father and daughter, what a wonderful new year. To see… huh?'

Ryoma Raiden rubbed his eyes, seeing two ponies happily kicking each other in the yard.

"Neigh!"

"Neigh!"

The two ponies looked very energetic, as if they were dissatisfied with each other.

Bronya was very depressed. She didn't even know why she got punished for putting in a good word for Raiden Mei.

She realized that Noldrei was becoming increasingly accustomed to the art of ruling primitives.

Just like how modern people who travelled to feudal times and became feudal lords would quickly become corrupted, she hadn't expected that the future human who fought in that cruel future would also quickly degenerate into a useless human leader when he came to modern times.

How tragic! Truly tragic!

What had she, Bronya, done wrong? Why was she being treated like this?

'It's all Cocolia's fault!'

Thinking of this, Bronya started fighting with Cocolia again.

As ponies, their fighting strength was the same. Soon, Cocolia was defeated by Bronya's more advanced combat experience, rolled around several times by Bronya.

'Pony-level battles are so scary! Fortunately, I'm a Teletubby, and I can still use my hands and feet to fight. But I don't think I can beat Doctor Tesla in her current state.'

Ryoma Raiden didn't want to be hit by the window-cleaning cannon he had witnessed a few days ago.

Pretending not to see the ponies in the yard, he went into the kitchen and started his 'career.'

Making breakfast with his daughter.

"Mei, I'm here to help."

Raiden Mei yawned, she had visited quite a bit of Kaslana family history yesterday.

In short, it was just the same old thing.

Fighting Honkai, getting married and having children, then dying. And then fighting Honkai again, getting married and having children, then dying. And then more fighting Honkai, getting married and having children, and then dying.

Generation after generation fighting Honkai to the very end, then getting married and having children, then dying.

A very cruel, yet awe-inspiring history.

Although some Kaslanas with their own ideas occasionally appeared, those weren't important…

Raiden Mei didn't sleep well because she also had to digest the memories brought by Shadow Mei.

As she was cooking, Mei heard her father's gentle voice.

"Happy New Year, Mei."

"Father?"

Raiden Mei looked at her father in surprise.

After learning that her father had tacitly approved of the experiments on her body, Raiden Mei felt somewhat distant from him.

But after all these days, and her father's cautious attitude towards her, Raiden Mei's attitude had also softened unconsciously.

"I'm here to help you cook. Anything I can do? You don't look very well?"

"Yeah, I saw a lot of things in the Stigmata space yesterday. Remember not to talk too much with Mr. Siegfried and Kiana at the dinner table. It's easy to make mistakes."

Raiden Mei knew that Kiana had personally witnessed the real Kiana, and that scene…

Fortunately, she had good self-control and only suffered a minor mental shock.

Kiana was currently receiving comfort and treatment from Theresa and Siegfried.

She had no idea what that comfort and treatment entailed.

"My good niece, don't be so down. Look at me, after all these years at Schicksal, I haven't even been able to recognize my real niece. Isn't the real Kiana even more miserable?"

"Yeah, yeah, just think about it, Ki… Durandal also forgot her past after falling. And I couldn't even bring her away from Schicksal in the end. Who knows how much she has suffered there!"

Siegfried couldn't help but cry as he spoke, causing Kiana to look at him speechlessly.

"Actually, she received the best education at Schicksal. She even came to St. Freya High School before, but then she complained that our courses were too slow and the management was too lax, so she returned to the headquarters. I know the benefits of being an S-rank Valkyrie. Although I can't say she's living a life of luxury, but she's never had to worry about money."

"Overall… she's living much better than the two of you, father and daughter."

Theresa thoughtfully told Siegfried about Durandal's past.

'Is this how you comfort someone?!'

Kiana was almost angered to death by this auntie of hers.

Siegfried slapped the back of Theresa's head and immediately said, "Don't listen to her nonsense! I chose to live a hard life on purpose! It was to train the golden spirit of the Kaslana family! And you should be proud!"

Kiana looked at her unreliable father in confusion and asked, "What should I be proud of? Proud that I wasn't the one who got abandoned? Or proud that I'm a clone? Now, what Noldrei said has come true, I've also become a child without parents… sigh…"

As she spoke, she felt that life was truly unpredictable.

It was just that not a single gene in her body was the same as before, so she saw things a bit… differently?

It wasn't as difficult to accept as she had imagined. Perhaps it was because she had already accumulated enough stimulation from Noldrei to have developed a golden spirit.

"What I mean is, if I had taken her with me, then she might have met Noldrei first and become like you are now."

Before Siegfried could finish speaking, Kiana refuted him.

"Impossible. If I hadn't been there, he would have found another person with a Honkai core in this city. That is, Mei. And turned Mei into me, instead of finding Durandal… forget it, I'll just call her Durandal."

Kiana knew that if she hadn't been taken away at that time, she would probably have been used for all sorts of human experiments by Schicksal.

The reason Durandal hadn't been experimented on was that she wasn't really related to Herrschers, so all she had to do was to be the strongest Valkyrie.

But Kiana knew her situation was different, as she was created using Sirin's genes.

"Oh dear! Something's wrong!"

Kiana suddenly realized something, and said in shock, "Logically speaking, my dad should be Otto! After all, the one who saw me being born was Otto! Auntie, you should be calling me… niece!" [Theresa is the younger sister of Kiana's birth mother, so she should be Kiana's aunt, and Kiana is her niece].

Theresa was shocked, she didn't know if Kiana was right or wrong.

Perhaps it was because of her changed body, but Kiana's ability to adapt to these setbacks and injuries was astonishingly fast.

She quickly recovered from her emotional state, quickly accepting the fact that she wasn't Siegfried's real daughter?

That was naturally impossible.