Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

Kiana shouted at the mechs, and after confirming that their cannons were all aimed at her, she turned and ran.

"I..." Mei suddenly didn't know what to do. After all, she had just been a model student not long ago. Although she was now holding a wooden stick and possessed the full power of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū, it seemed that none of it was as useful as Kiana's monstrous strength...

Hui Huo noticed Mei's confusion, but there was no time to comfort her. He summoned his Sabayon exosuit, equipped it, and then said to Mei:

"You'll be in charge of taking care of me later... My Sabayon has a simplified version of the Nexus system, it will drain me dry after one use, then I'll be counting on you."

"Ah."

Hui Huo aimed at Bronya, activated the Nexus system, and fully deployed her Sabayon exosuit. After a brief charge, a burst of red light blinded everyone. Hui Huo couldn't even maintain the exosuit's visibility and collapsed unconscious in Mei's arms.

The red beam pierced through the tactical mechs protecting Bronya, and they were all destroyed before Bronya and her team could even react. Fortunately, at the last second, Heavy Bunny sensed the danger and pushed Bronya away, but Heavy Bunny was also pierced through and will need a long time to rebuild.

Seeing that the attack missed Bronya, Mei's heart pounded with anxiety. Fortunately, after Bronya's Heavy Bunny was destroyed, she was stunned for a long time, and all the tactical mechs she was controlling stopped moving. Kiana seized the opportunity to place Cortana on the nearest tactical mech, and within two seconds, all the tactical mechs were under Cortana's control.

Bronya sat on the ground, duck-like, her eyes vacant. "Heavy Bunny... Bronya should continue the capture mission... but why does she feel she should repair Heavy Bunny first..."

"Never mind why, you're under arrest!" Kiana pressed a baseball bat against Bronya's neck, while rows of mechs stood behind Kiana.

Chapter 58 Personality Correction Fist

After removing all of Bronya's weapons, they tied her up and threw her aside along with the others. Meanwhile, Mei found a lot of canned food in their camp.

After a satisfying meal, Kiana pinched Bronya's cheek and asked Mei, "What should we do with her...? Looking closer, she seems much younger than us..."

"It's hard to believe that such a young child was turned into a weapon for girls... If Bronya's mind is controlled by a mechanical chip, should we try to awaken her senses through other senses?" Mei looked at Bronya with heartache, wanting to try to save the child.

"Understood, leave it to me." With that, Kiana punched Bronya in the face, much to the disbelief of Bronya and Mei.

"System completely silent...waiting for restart..." Bronya's eyes lost their luster, and then she fainted.

"What are you doing!" Mei exclaimed in surprise.

Startled by Mei's shout, Kiana awkwardly scratched her head and said, "Jiuxiao told me a story about how a single Personality Correction Fist can turn a madman into a good person... so I'm going to try it on Bronya..."

Mei hugged the unconscious Bronya with heartache, and said to Kiana in disbelief, "How could such a thing exist! It's just too unrealistic..."

"Indeed... I've watched a lot of anime, and the personality correction techniques in them are indeed very effective."

Huihuo, who had just woken up, came over after hearing the commotion. After listening to Kiana's statement, she nodded in agreement, then jumped up and smacked Kiana on the head, saying, "Idiot Kiana, the Personality Correction Fist needs to be used in conjunction with 'Talk-no-Jutsu'! What you did was just punch her!!!"

"Ah! Is that so?! That wretched Jiuxiao didn't even finish the sentence... I got it wrong..." Kiana, with tears in her eyes, hugged her head and squatted down, drawing circles in her hand. That wretched Jiuxiao was cursing her with those circles.

At that moment, a tactical mech approached, grabbed Bronya's hands, and lifted her up. Cortana's voice came from inside the mech.

“Let me do it. I’ll hack the control chip. You guys take the opportunity to verbally provoke her and awaken her sense of self. Forcibly removing the chip might harm her.”

呲——

As Cortana hacked in, a hissing sound began to emanate from somewhere on Bronya's body, and Bronya woke up.

Seeing that Bronya in her arms had woken up, Mei began to try to awaken her personality.

"Bronya! Wake up! Your consciousness has been controlled by machines! You are not your true self right now!"

"The real Bronya?... Mental fluctuations detected. Personality Suppression System level increased..."

Bronya's eyes lit up for a moment, then quickly extinguished. Mei noticed and excitedly grasped Bronya's hand.

"Bronya! Hold my hand, can you feel the warmth of my hand? You are not a machine, but a living, breathing human being! Don't give up your consciousness like this!"

"Temperature...give up...Seele..."

"Seele? Is Seele important to Bronya? Think of Seele! Bronya! There are still important people waiting for you, Seele is still waiting for you!"

Upon hearing Seele's name, Bronya's reaction intensified... She could forget everything, but she could never forget someone important... she couldn't forget Seele...

"Personality Suppression System Error... Bronya..."

"Now! System modification in progress... Program formatting in progress... Program formatting complete... Mei, remove the control chip from Bronya! Here..." Cortana pointed to a spot on Bronya's body, gesturing for Mei to remove it quickly.

Mei touched it, but found nothing.

"No!" "It's inside, feel around from below..." "Ah!!!"

"Ah...ah...it feels so strange, inside my body..."

"I've touched it...it must be this, please bear with it for a moment..."

"Hmm...uh..."

Finally, Mei blushed so much she looked like she was about to burst with juice, and after fiddling with it for a long time, she finally managed to remove the chip.

(A classic montage. Bronya originally had the control chip inside her body, but Kiana found it for her with her hand. So where on Bronya's body is the chip? This dialogue in the game is terrible; Kiana even blushed. *laughs*)

Bronya... how are you feeling right now?

“Bronya doesn’t know how to answer this question…” Bronya’s face was a little flushed, but she still looked expressionless despite losing her Emotion Module.

"It's okay, I'll protect you... You don't need to be a 'girl weapon' anymore, I'll be with you to find your Seele..."

"Sister Mei, Bronya is willing to follow your orders and find Seele..."

"No, no, absolutely not. From now on, no one will order you around, and you won't need to follow anyone's orders. Just follow your own heart. Seele, you'll have to find it yourself, but we'll definitely help you!"

"Bronya's own will... I think I understand a little now." Bronya looked at Mei's worried and gentle eyes and was slightly touched.

Suddenly, Bronya clutched her head, a sharp headache engulfing her as different memories surfaced in her mind.

"No...nothing's right, who am I...Bronya. Seele...yes, Seele, I have to save Seele..." Bronya struggled to fall out of Mei's arms, trying hard to stand up again, but her head ached so badly she couldn't. Bronya summoned her Heavy Bunny, but only a tattered, transparent shield appeared.

"Heavy Bunny... Heavy Bunny?!" Bronya's eyes widened before she fainted again...

"What happened..." "Maybe she lost her temper after seeing the Heavy Bunny get smashed?" "Don't look at me, I don't know either." The three little ones looked at each other, then waved their hands together. In the end, Mei picked Bronya up again and let her rest.

"Can I see that shield?" Cortana pointed to the virtual shield that Bronya was holding tightly in her hand. It was the original data source of the Heavy Bunny, and Cortana could read it.

Chapter 59 The First Herrscher

"I checked the data from Reload Bunny, and it records some things about Bronya... This control chip seems to be... something Bronya requested to have installed. Reload Bunny records this sentence: 'I can no longer bear life without Seele... Control me like this until Seele is rescued...'"

"..."

The three of them fell silent after hearing this. Seele was probably more important to Bronya than her own life...

"Hmm... there's one more thing. Bronya's brain and legs have suffered varying degrees of damage... her emotional module may be missing. Coupled with the time she was controlled by the implanted control chip, this has caused her current confusion in her thoughts and memories... but these will recover after a while."

Mei gently stroked Bronya's head and said to Kiana and Kaguya, "This is a poor child... Let's take her with us. I'll take care of her..."

Looking at Mei's gentle and considerate demeanor, Kiana felt as if she were seeing a great mother. "Mei will definitely be a good mother in the future... The radiance of maternal love is so dazzling~"

"What are you saying, you idiot Kiana?!" Kiana's words made Mei feel embarrassed.

Huihuo picked up a few cans of food and put them in Kiana's arms, saying to them, "Alright, alright, then Mei will take care of Bronya. Let's rest for a bit and then prepare to continue our journey to the safe zone that Schicksal mentioned, so we can evacuate. Changkong City is now full of Honkai Beasts and suicide soldiers."

"What about Jiuxiao... He told us to wait for him to come back!" Kiana shook her head, not intending to leave.

“Cortana’s mother is with him. We can locate him as soon as he appears, and with the equipment from Schicksal, we can support him better and faster. Otherwise, in our current state, even if Jiuxiao appears, we won’t be able to reach him, let alone resolve any potential crises. Even we ourselves are in danger.” Huihuo didn’t want to leave immediately, but everyone was in poor condition, and if a powerful Honkai Beast appeared, everyone would be in mortal danger. Kiana’s accident was more distressing to him than Jiuxiao’s own injury, so they should take Kiana and run away first…

"Well... alright..." Kiana didn't argue further, after all, they still had an injured person with them.

Kiana and the others then headed towards the safe zone provided by Schicksal, where no spaceship from the Far East Branch would be there to receive them, the survivors. As for the other members of Anti-Entropy who had been captured and abused, Kiana released them from their restraints and informed them of Schicksal's evacuation point. Whether they wanted to go or not was up to them; no one had any interest in helping those who wanted to harm them. Except for Bronya, who was being controlled and was a child.

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Back to Jiuxiao.

The light engulfed Jiuxiao and Seele, and then the two disappeared together from Seele's timeline. The sea began to reshape Seele's body, using Jiuxiao as an anchor point, and bestowed upon her the sea's blessing. The tree also began to exert its power, stuffing various kinds of energy into Jiuxiao's body, making sure it wasn't inferior to what the sea had given Seele. The strange competitive spirit of the two supreme beings resurfaced. Seeing the tree's efforts, the sea also began to stuff various things into Seele.

"Give me some authority."

"There's no need. You've already given her the power of life and death, which is far too much."

"So what? I'm happy, I like it, are you unhappy?"

"Do whatever you want. I don't care how many people I resurrect. Anyway, when their world order collapses, it'll just be your problem to deal with. But resurrect this kid of mine too. It's rare to find someone I like. It would be troublesome if he got killed by that Honkai guy."

"Tsk tsk tsk, just like Seele now, she can be resurrected every once in a while, but only until she inherits the powers of that girl named Janna. To be honest, the Honkai was really out of their minds. It's one thing to create Janna, but they also created a Will Ruler, and now everything is out of their control. If those two little ones hadn't become gods in the future, transformed into rules, and killed the Will Ruler, we would have had to clean up their mess."

"It's alright. A rigid, unchanging order is only interesting when there are variables. Besides, have you been corrupted by those other worlds? Why do you sound like that..."

"none of your business."

"..."

After an unknown amount of time, when Jiuxiao awoke, he found himself back in his own body, and Xier, who also had a body, was lying on top of him, still fast asleep.

Jiuxiao felt his consciousness was clearer than ever before, and a continuous stream of power flowed into his body from the quantum sea and the imaginary space, as if he now possessed the power to hold the sun and moon in his hands and reverse the heavens and earth.

"..."

No, wait, it seems I really do have the ability to reverse the world...

"Stigmata?! Come out here and explain yourself! Where's my Law of Reason power? I feel like my power is to manipulate gravity!"

[Hey...Isn't the First Herrscher's power to manipulate gravity?]

"Damn it, I remember the First Herrscher was the Herrscher of Reason, and her ability was to understand reconstruction! How could it be manipulating gravity?!"

Well... how should I put it... your world's first Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, in the records of Tree and Sea... seems to just be playing with gravity. His understanding and use of reconstruction abilities are just so-so... but he's really mastered the art of manipulating gravity.