Honkai Impact: Starting from Wandering with Kiana

When Karen heard someone call her, she instinctively turned around to respond, but then saw Eleanor looking at her with the Valkyrie army.

"As expected, it's you who have repeatedly obstructed destiny and hindered Lord Otto. No matter your reasons, I'm taking you back!!" Eleanor attacked Karen, wielding three daggers in each hand.

"Eleanor, listen to me! These children are innocent..." Karen didn't want to hurt Eleanor or involve the children, so she kept dodging and didn't fight back.

"Get serious, fight back!"

Eleanor, who hadn't touched Karen at all, shouted angrily.

Then Karen fought back... and kicked her flying...

"Stop... I don't want to have a conflict with you..."

"Hmph, don't underestimate me..." Eleanor reached behind her, then began to channel her holy blood, her hair gradually turning white... and a jet-black spear began to appear in her hand—the Black Abyss.

Black Abyss, a part of the Black Abyss White Flower, a key to the Divine Key. After the decline of the Shaniat family, not only did they grant the power to bestow the name of the Saintess to the Apocalypse family, but they also gave the Apocalypse a part of the Black Abyss White Flower that represents the Saintess's identity to the Apocalypse family.

With her Holy Blood unleashed and the Black Abyss's blessing, Eleanor instantly overwhelmed Kallen, and the withering power released by the Black Abyss continuously weakened Kallen, rendering her powerless.

Lacking proper equipment, Kallen could only dodge constantly this time, but in the end, as the Black Abyss continued to weaken her, Eleanor found an opportunity to slash her leg.

The power of the abyss spread directly up from the wound on Kallen's leg, causing her to collapse helplessly to her knees.

"Stop struggling, I won't let you hurt Lord Otto again."

Eleanor raised the Abyss high, ready to execute Kallen on the spot.

Karen closed her eyes; corrupted by the Abyss, she was powerless to resist any longer.

Tick-tock—

However, the Black Abyss that Kallen had envisioned did not materialize.

"Stop! Eleanor!" Otto gripped the Abyss with his hand, blood dripping continuously from it.

"Lord Otto!!"

Seeing Otto appear behind her, wounded by her own Black Abyss, Eleanor frantically threw away the Black Abyss.

Why...is Otto here?!

Before Kallen could think further, Eleanor was ordered by Otto not to harm Kallen, so he summoned her teammates from the other Valkyrie units and ordered them to take Kallen away and imprison her.

As she watched Karen being taken away, Eleanor turned to look at her Lord Otto.

"Is your hand alright...? Oh... Lord Otto!!"

Otto, wounded by the Abyss and weakened by the power of decay, has fallen into a coma...

Chapter 93 Bearing the Name of Kaslana

In the middle of the night, Otto, who was bewitched by the Void Treasury, suddenly awoke with a start. Without a second thought, he frantically rushed to the prison, unaware of what the Destiny organization would do to Kallen!

But when Otto arrived at Karen Prison, he found that the Bishop of Schicksal was already there.

"Stop being childish! Once we unlock the secret of the box, we can defeat the Honkai itself. Stop worrying about the sacrifice of just a few people!" the bishop scolded Kallen, but Kallen ignored him.

She still looked sorrowful, and the light in Karen's eyes had faded...

“Your Excellency!…” Otto approached the bishop.

When the bishop saw Otto arrive, he turned to leave. As he passed Otto, he patted Otto on the shoulder and whispered something to him.

"Try to persuade her to stop opposing us. We can't afford to lose Kaslana's power."

After the bishop left, Otto opened the prison door and went to Kallen, who was lying on the ground looking down at him, kneeling down on one knee to look her in the eye.

But Karen kept her head down, not wanting to look at Otto... The bishop had told Karen many things before Otto arrived...

"Kallen, I'm so glad you're alright..." Otto gently stroked Karen's head, a gesture he always used to comfort her when she was sad.

"I'm sorry, but in order to defeat the Honkai... the experiments on those girls were necessary."

Snapped!

Karen slapped away Otto's hand that was stroking her head.

"You're wrong, Otto. Those girls are what I'm protecting. To protect them from the Honkai..."

I'm willing to give my life!

Kallen turned her head away, closing her eyes to avoid looking at Otto. She only knew that she was betraying Otto... but this was the mission she, Kallen Kaslana, had to fulfill.

Looking at the resolute Karen, Otto seemed to see Karen sitting and weeping before Francis's coffin...

It's as if Karen, like Francis, will disappear before his eyes to protect others...

"Stop joking!!" Otto, who had lost control of his emotions, grabbed Karen's hands and pinned her against the wall.

"You think sacrificing yourself will save the world?!"

Look at what happened to your father! The dead can't do anything!

The moment Otto uttered those words, Kallen felt her heart break... Nothing she had suffered that day could compare to the pain Otto's words caused her...

Francis was Karen's idol and idol, and also the person Otto once admired...

Anyone can insult Francis, but Otto and Karen themselves cannot. It was Otto's curiosity, Otto's insistence that Karen take him to the battlefield, that led to Francis's sacrifice to protect them...

"Don't you dare insult my father!!"

Karen slapped Otto hard, crying and shouting at him.

The slap jolted Otto back to reality, and he remembered why Francis had sacrificed himself...

He died in battle while using the Heavenly Flame to protect himself and Kallen...

“I will find a way to let you and Sasha go, but this experiment must continue.”

Otto wiped his mouth, stood up, and left the cell.

Both he and Karen need to calm down...

After Otto left, Karen slammed the cell door that Otto had deliberately left open shut shut.

Then Karen crouched in a corner of the prison, hugging her knees and burying her head between her thighs, finding some comfort in that.

After an unknown amount of time, a panicked shout rang out.

"elder sister!!"

Karen looked in the direction of the voice and saw Sasha...

Sasha stood outside the cell calling out to Karen. Karen saw Sasha and immediately pried open the iron bars of the cell and came out.

"I'm so scared..." Young Sasha threw herself into Karen's arms, sobbing softly.

Looking at the crying child in her arms... Karen finally made up her mind...

"I'll take you home right now..."

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Not long after, Karen took Sasha back to the flower shop, where Sasha's mother hugged her and the two of them broke down in tears. Seeing the mother and daughter embracing and weeping, Karen also wanted to cry, but she held back in the end.

Rain began to fall, and Karen walked dejectedly down the street...

She came to the cemetery and to the grave of her father, Francis Kaslana.

Otto and Karen used to come to pay their respects to Francis together, but when did Otto stop coming?

Karen silently placed the flowers in her hands aside; perhaps this was the last time she would come to pay her respects to her father.

Seeing Sasha and her daughter crying tears of joy, I didn't think I had done anything wrong, but I realized... that I would have to do the rest by myself.

"I will no longer feel lost. The Kaslana family must always look forward."

Because we are the ones fighting on the front lines, because Kaslana is the people's shield.

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In the early morning, sunlight streamed through the church, making the cross inside gleam.

Before the cross, Otto, Victor, and the bishop watched intently as Eleanor used the Abyss to communicate with the black box.

Finally, Eleanor successfully extracted a Honkai crystal from the box, and the bishop held the crystal, shouting excitedly.

"The day has finally come... We'll soon be able to unlock the secret of the box!"

But the bishop's joy was short-lived; a massive object smashed through the skylight and crashed in, knocking him to the ground. When he came to his senses, he realized it was the pale gold Covenant of Judah...

"I won't let you succeed!"

Karen, her clothes still damp from the rain, leaped from the horizon and landed on Judah. ​​Judah then snapped open, revealing thirteen incredibly sharp golden spears hidden within.

The light that was originally shining on the cross in the church was now focused entirely on the oath of Judah.

Judah has now shed the dust of time and radiates a brilliant golden light. The Kaslana coat of arms in the center of its cross shines even brighter and is extremely dazzling.

This is the complete Judah, the complete Karen, the complete me... The oath of Judah proudly rises.

Self-awareness born in accordance with Karen's will

Image. (From the main text)