Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

"Well done!" "Oh, oh, oh!!"

The crowd cheered for Karen's righteous act and even spontaneously gathered around her to prevent the missionaries from rushing over.

They dare not stand up to stop those destined by fate, but they will not prevent others from stopping fate either.

Karen led Shakespeare into an alley and put her down. The proud Shakespeare blushed and gave Karen the mask before hurriedly leaving. Karen happily waved goodbye to Shakespeare.

Looking at the happy Karen, Otto recalled their first meeting, when Karen had smiled so brightly. He remembered the invitation Karen had extended to him back then.

"Come help me save the world!"

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That night, Karen kept holding the mask in her hand, lost in thought. Finally, she excitedly told Otto that she wanted to become a phantom thief, to steal the gold coins from that despicable Victor, and to let Victor know that justice still exists in the world.

Otto did not reject Karen, because he knew she would make this decision.

They opened the hidden wardrobe, which contained countless outfits that Otto had kept. Otto had Karen try on one after another, and finally, after much appreciation from both of them, they chose a purple dress—Sixth Night Rhapsody.

Karen, having finally finished choosing her clothes, collapsed onto the floor, exhausted.

"By the way, why do you have so many clothes... and they all fit perfectly..."

"It's a secret~ Come see the little gadgets I prepared for you!"

Otto took out a necklace, a bracelet, and a bunch of other odds and ends.

"Otto's Little Lecture is about to begin! This bracelet can launch a slingshot, this necklace is a smoke grenade to confuse the enemy... this is... and this..."

As Otto explained the effects to Karen, he equipped her with various gadgets that he had invented.

"Next up is the announcement!"

Is it necessary to send a letter of notification?

"Of course... only those who send out advance notice and then precisely steal something can be called a phantom thief..."

When writing the letter, Otto dared not look at Karen, nor tell her its contents, because the letter contained his own selfish motives. In the letter, Otto subtly hinted to Victor that he must hide the things in the basement well.

Otto didn't want Kallen to know what Schicksal was really up to. If Kallen found out, he and Kallen could never go back to the way things were...

The next day, Viktor received the letter and, thinking that a phantom thief was coming to steal the experimental data in the basement, he was so frightened that he deployed all the guards to the basement.

That night, Otto dressed in a green dress and a green hat, disguised as a woman with a sprained ankle, and lured away the remaining guards for Karen.

Karen took the opportunity to sneak into Victor's mansion.

Because all the guards had been redeployed by Viktor to defend the basement, Karen was able to enter the mansion with impunity, searching it thoroughly until she finally found where Viktor had hidden his money.

"...I remember Otto taught me that the gold coin was the most valuable, but I've completely forgotten... Oh well, it's not heavy anyway, I'll take it all!" So Karen packed up all the gold coins and prepared to leave.

But just as he was leaving, Viktor arrived with his men.

"Hmph, just as I expected. Despite writing such an arrogant notice, they still fell into my trap. Where are my gold coins?! Where are all my gold coins?!" Victor laughed wildly at the door, but he was dumbfounded when he saw that his room, which was full of gold coins, was completely empty.

When Victor looked at the white-haired girl in purple carrying a large sack, he seemed to understand everything.

"How could you fill it all up in sacks? Those are things that even ten strong men couldn't lift!"

"With that hair color and that freakish strength, you must be Kaslana's stupid daughter!" Victor said, pointing at Karen with a smug look.

"Think quickly, think quickly, Karen, think of a way, or her identity will be exposed..." At this moment, Shakespeare's speech came to Karen's mind.

"Poor thing, have you fallen into the trap of love?"

Ahhh, Karen, what are you saying?! That's a line from that stage play!! Oh well, as long as I don't get recognized.

Karen was so embarrassed she felt like she was going to dig a hole through the floor, but she kept talking in order not to be recognized.

"Are you going to say her name while I'm in pain?!"

Seeing the stunned crowd who were shocked by her words, Kallen took the opportunity to throw down the smoke bomb given to her by Otto and then disappeared from everyone's sight.

Karen, who had escaped, distributed the gold coins to beggars and sufferers on the road.

Finally, Karen stopped at the house of the florist she had visited before. Gently pushing open their window, Karen looked at Sasha sleeping, placed the gold coins beside their bed, and quietly left.

But not long after Karen left, Sasha turned over, and a holy mark quietly appeared on the back of her hand.

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In 1470, the Honkai began to spread like the Black Death. Schicksal tried many methods, but none of them worked, and they even exacerbated the death of many patients.

Otto sat in the laboratory, tears streaming down his face. His experiment had failed again; the test subject had been turned into a suicide bomber and killed.

No matter how many times I try, I'll fail... but if I can't become a great inventor, I'll definitely be abandoned again...

Anyway, these patients are all going to die, I will keep trying until I succeed.

Driven mad, Otto began conducting a series of human experiments, but all failed. Until finally, Eleanor, possessing a Stigmata, was brought before Otto...

Having tried everything to no avail, Otto, in desperation, began extracting his own blood and continuously purifying the Shaniat portion within it.

After Eleanor gazed upon her own blood as she lay dying, she miraculously recovered. The symmetry between Eleanor's stigmata and her holy blood was disrupted, achieving a bizarre balance...

When the antidote worked on Eleanor, Otto cried tears of joy, knowing he could live up to Kallen's expectations and become the great inventor everyone hoped for.

The true "saint" of the Schariac family was born, and Otto bestowed the name Schariac upon Eleanor. Eleanor Schariac then became Otto's most loyal supporter.

Chapter 92 The Malice of the World

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Because of the defeat in the war, Karen was stripped of many rights, and her reputation plummeted. Her and Otto's positions in Schicksal were also directly reversed.

Kallen sealed almost all the Honkai Beasts in the underground of the Cathedral of Destiny, and the Honkai spread in the form of disease.

Seeing that Otto had been engrossed in the laboratory lately, Karen felt that since Otto was already working so hard to save the world, she couldn't fall behind.

The phantom thief is becoming increasingly rampant, and Schicksal has reached the point of deploying the Valkyrie Squad to capture him. But Otto is determined to protect Karen, even replacing the Valkyrie Squad that Schicksal uses to arrest the phantom thief with his own Valkyrie Squad.

However, Otto did not expect that Eleanor, the captain of his Valkyrie squad, was so loyal to him that she misunderstood Otto's orders and began to relentlessly pursue the phantom thief Kallen.

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After the success of his experiments on Eleanor, Otto became increasingly obsessed with human experimentation, even attempting to experiment directly on healthy living people.

"To become a great inventor and save the world with Karen" has become almost an obsession for Otto.

Otto realized he seemed to have completely gone astray...

But there was no turning back. The living, the dead, the half-dead… Otto didn't know how many he had killed, but he knew he absolutely couldn't let Karen know what he had done…

But the truth will eventually come out...

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Sasha, the commoner girl from the florist's shop, awakened her Stigmata. Sasha's extraordinary abilities led the Destiny organization to discover her.

She should have been a fine Valkyrie candidate... but the Honkai has turned into a pandemic...

One night, men in black from the Destiny organization broke into Sasha's house and kidnapped her. This scene was witnessed by the phantom thief Kallen, who had just finished performing a good deed.

Karen tried to stop them, but they ran away with Sasha.

She chased after the men in black but ended up at Victor's mansion...

Karen searched the entire Viktor's mansion but couldn't find Sasha. However, this time Karen discovered a basement she hadn't noticed on her first visit to the mansion...

"What's this door made of?! Why can't I even open it?!" Karen frantically smashed at the iron door to the basement, but it wouldn't budge. "Why is there the symbol of destiny on the door...?"

"Who?! What are you doing? Guards! Someone come quick!"

Karen's commotion didn't break down the basement door, but it did draw Victor out.

"Open the door right now if you don't want to die!" Karen grabbed Victor and slammed him against the door.

Viktor couldn't understand why the phantom thief would come back to rob him of all his money, but fearing for his life, he still opened the basement door.

After all, it contains... Otto and the Valkyrie Squad.

Upon hearing Kallen's voice, Otto immediately hid. He realized that what Schicksal was doing in the basement could no longer be kept from Kallen, but at least... he couldn't let Kallen know that he was also involved...

"Sasha...why!? Why are there so many little girls locked up here?! What's going on?!"

Karen took Victor hostage and entered the basement, only to witness a heartbreaking scene... Not only Sasha, but also many other children were imprisoned there.

"Let them go!" Karen shouted, ordering Victor.

"No! These are His Holiness the Bishop's orders!" Victor struggled and shouted. He knew Karen wouldn't kill him, but if he was released, Otto and the Bishop would definitely kill him. Where the hell is that bastard Otto? Come out and do something about this damned woman!

"Let them go now, or I'll break your arms and legs right now."

"No! This research is extremely important! It can help us cure the Black Death..."

"nonsense!"

“No…you don’t understand.” Victor stopped struggling. Since Otto wouldn’t come out, he would tell this naive little girl the truth.

Viktor pointed to the Honkai crystal box in front of Sasha and said to Kallen, "The Black Death can be cured with medicine, but if we can unlock the secret inside that box... we can completely defeat the Honkai!!"

"Captain Karen!"

"what?"