Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 157 Let me tell you about Kiana's childhood.

North America, anti-entropy, between the Arks.

Entropy is a physical quantity in thermodynamics that represents the degree of disorder in a system. The entropy of the universe is increasing while its order is decreasing; this is a natural consequence. However, there are always some who want to defy the predetermined fate and change the established future through human effort, pursuing anti-entropy. This is the name given to the anti-entropy group after the original North American branch of Destiny broke away from Destiny.

After the New York incident, it was led by Emma Planck, whom Einstein called his "navigator," "pure scholar, beauty," and "Teacher Planck"... Of course, that's all in the past.

At this moment, standing beside the hooded "Leader" at the core of the Ark, is Cocolia, a representative of the reformist faction that has risen to prominence in recent years. Highly decorated conservative implementers like Liesel Albert Einstein and Frederica Nikola Tesla can only stand aside.

However, Cocolia doesn't seem to be so calm and collected.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to my intelligence, the Third Herrscher is currently being held at St. Freya Academy, the Far East branch of the Destiny Organization!"

Although Cocolia tried her best to control her emotions, the experienced and knowledgeable Ai-in keenly noticed Cocolia's urgency.

What, you couldn't persuade them to attack the Far East Branch of Fate last time, so this time you've brought in a "leader" to put pressure on them, right?

They're really bold. If they hadn't known that Walter and Theresa had already reached an agreement, they would have been confused for a while too.

"Now is the perfect time to reclaim the Third Herrscher! Let me explain the details of our plan to reclaim the Third Herrscher..."

What a perfect opportunity! Not to mention their own leader, the pseudo-Herrscher Yae Sakura, and other ordinary Valkyries, even Theresa and Siegfried are no match for them.

Einstein and Tesla exchanged a glance, both grappling with the same dilemma: should they expose Cocolia's false claim of the leader's order now and send her to accompany Ryoma, or wait until her mistake became even bigger and let Walter deal with Cocolia himself...?

"Destiny, Saint Freya..."

Before anyone could react, the hooded figure had triggered some keyword, and everyone in the Ark felt their bodies become heavier.

"How is this possible! It really is the First Herrscher's ability!"

"Alliance Leader, please calm down!"

Shocked, Einstein stopped trying to appease the imposter leader Cocolia in the stands and instead spoke with Tesla beside him.

Although it wasn't clear, one thing was certain: the voice didn't sound like Yang's; it sounded more like Joyce's...

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"Grey Hair, my aunt wants you to come over to our place for dinner tonight."

Can I say I don't want to go?

Kiana's invitation caused Qiong to wear a bitter expression. Why did you all want to harm me?

Dinner at Theresa's? With their cooking skills? The bitter melon dishes—even Kiana couldn't stomach them; the Skyfire toast—only Siegfried himself could stomach it; and the black tomato and egg stir-fry we just tried yesterday—any one of those would be like an emetic…

"No way, this is a task personally assigned by Aunt Flo! If you dare not come, I'll—"

Kiana stood with her hands on her hips, looking down at Sora, but then she got stuck.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems like she has nothing that can threaten Qiong?

"Just what?"

"Oh well, you absolutely have to come!"

Qiong: ...

What's going on now? He doesn't want to be sent to Baiji for emergency treatment!

But there was a solution, and Qiong quickly came up with an idea.

"Okay, okay, I'll go. But I have one condition."

Qiong raised a finger to Kiana.

"Mei and Bronya are coming too, otherwise I won't go."

With Raiden Mei overseeing the cooking, and Bronya responsible for getting back the Homura doll Theresa promised during the last mission to keep Theresa from interfering with her cooking and to keep Kiana from interfering with Raiden Mei's cooking, there shouldn't be any major problems.

As for Himeko Murata, I believe that as an adult, she can take care of her own dinner. How bad can a meal be if she doesn't eat?

Kiana's little brain didn't think at all; upon hearing "Bring Mei along," she instantly felt that this request was excellent.

"No problem, you promised you'd bring Mei along!"

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Although it's unclear why the family dinner, originally intended to foster closer relationships, turned into Kiana bringing several classmates over, it didn't stop Siegfried from considering her a son.

How can they get Sora, a child who feels no sense of belonging to Kaslana, to recognize her as their sister without revealing her clone identity? Theresa and Siegfried devised a less-than-perfect plan—although circumstances changed and the plan deviated slightly… it's not a big problem!

Qiong glanced at Kiana, who was being brutally beaten by Bronya in front of the game controller, and then at Raiden Mei, who was helping Theresa in the kitchen. It should be said that his plans had come true.

But he never expected that Siegfried would actually pull him down to sit and want to talk to him. Even though Siegfried had shown goodwill, Qiong was still restless.

It's not fear, it's just that anyone would feel a little uneasy in front of a man like this...

"Qiong, where do you live?"

"Is it considered part of China?"

If Lao Yang were around or Siegfried weren't, Qiong could continue to half-jokingly say he was one year old. But the person in front of him was Siegfried, someone he didn't know well! It's not good to go off-topic when you're not very familiar with someone…

Siegfried smiled and didn't press Qiong for more details.

It makes sense, considering we're from China. That Teacher Bai is also from China; I'll have to pay him a visit another day to express my gratitude for raising Kaslana's children for so many years…

However, it seems that Otto also instructed Qiong and Kiana to come to St. Freya? What exactly is that bastard plotting? Is it really worth crossing moral boundaries to clone people and stuff Herrscher cores into human bodies in order to fight against the Honkai?

“Child, wherever you come from, this is your home as long as you are willing—although Theresa would be a better judge of that.”

Qiong's eyes were full of surprise at Qi Gefei's statement.

No, what's wrong with you, Siegfried, today? You're acting all coy. Did you get switched by aliens?

"Oh, let me tell you a story about Kiana when she was little!"

Seeing that Qiong was unmoved, Siegfried knew that the first step had not been very successful, so he put on a smile and began to tell a story.

"When Kiana was little, I told her the story of King Houmu. Kiana told me that she wanted to become a brave King Houmu and fight against the big bad guys so that everyone could smile!"

Oh? That's interesting. Qiong imagined it for a moment: Did Kiana have the potential to become Triga when she was young?

"Then she waved the umbrella Cecilia had just bought wildly, and in less than two minutes she threw herself into Cecilia's arms..."

As he spoke, Siegfried stopped laughing; Sora probably thought of something.

Qiong: ...

So it's Durandal, not Kiana? Dude, if you can't tell a story, don't tell one! Who falls silent before making the other person laugh or breaking their nerve?

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A golden light flashed after a ten-pull!

My luck must have run out when I was trying to pull for Little Goose, because I got Rita Lost Rosemary... I got her! Converted into 50 Rosemary Fragments, S2...

Sigh, I'm so sad. I can't even muster the energy to write today... I need to grind until I get Qi Bao! (Completely going crazy)