Let the Bizarre Adventure of the Joestars begin.

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I learned a little about someone's methods for handling Spanish duck.

There might be another chapter today. Damn it, I have a cold, I'm so sleepy, I just want to go to sleep.

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Thanks to Karen, who's holding Sirin, for her salty fish stab.

Honkai Stone Gate: Chapter Fourteen - The Dramatic Changes in the Raiden Mei Family

After the Christmas break, the Far East has a long holiday that successfully divides the second semester. Although there are several other holidays besides Christmas, it has to be said that the Christmas break is the longest holiday in the entire Far East.

Of course, this does not include students' winter and summer vacations.

As the girls, dressed in thick clothes, returned from a new semester—or rather, a holiday—a transfer student arrived.

"Now, let's have the transfer student introduce herself." As the teacher spoke, a silver-haired girl with pigtails appeared, seemingly not yet old enough to be in high school.

"Hello everyone, my name is Bronya Zaychek," the girl introduced herself, which was met with a huge cheer from the whole class. After all, who wouldn't like a cute girl?

However, there are three exceptions among these people.

The first one is Kiana K. Joestar. Her reaction to Bronya's enrollment was, "Holy crap, why did Mom dump her here?"

The second one is Kiana Kaslana. Of course, this person who maintains the demeanor of a young lady on the surface does not cheer with the others, and seems to be not following the crowd because of her good upbringing.

The third one was someone who surprised everyone.

No, it's not so much unexpected as it is inevitable. It's more like it was only natural after that incident, or rather, it was the most normal thing for that person to become like that after it happened.

And that person is none other than Raiden Mei, the young lady of ME Corporation.

During the Christmas holidays, Raiden Mei's father, Raiden Ryoma, was imprisoned for alleged financial perjury and was also dismissed by the board of directors of ME Corporation.

Under these circumstances, everyone looked at Raiden Mei with indifference, and the previous admiration seemed to have vanished.

However, anyone with a brain knows that the Raiden Ryoma incident is not as simple as it seems on the surface, but no one dares to say it out loud. Among those who are not, we must exclude Miss Jeanne and Sirin.

After all, one of these two guys tried to destroy all of humanity, while the other, although not as horrific as the former, was still fearless in the face of power.

After digressing a bit, let's get back to Raiden Mei. Ever since Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned, Raiden Mei has experienced the coldness of human relationships and has come to understand her situation a little better. While maintaining her haughty demeanor, she has become even more aloof.

Kiana commented that this posture looked like someone who was afraid of getting hurt had built a wall around themselves. I wonder if Raiden Mei should cry or laugh after hearing this comment.

However, considering the current situation, Raiden Mei might angrily turn around and leave. Although she is very good at fighting, she won't take action at school.

Because Raiden Mei knew that if she made a move at school, her situation would only become more difficult.

"Alright, get out of class dismissed." The teacher said this shortly after the bell rang.

Then, a group of people surrounded Bronya, asking her all sorts of questions, while Kiana had no intention of helping Bronya out of the predicament.

Perhaps Bronya doesn't need anyone to help her out of this predicament; she handles her classmates very well, unlike the situation Kiana has observed from her interactions with Bronya over the past few days.

"Excuse me, could you move aside?" Bronya finally said, ignoring the question, and walked towards Kiana's seat as if she were about to do something.

"You forgot to bring the bento Auntie made for you." Bronya said in an irresistible tone, carrying two bento boxes, as if she would cry if Kiana didn't accept the bento. Ah, that last sentence was imagined by the surrounding classmates.

Kiana thought Bronya was speaking as if she were carrying out an order, but she still took one of the two bento boxes from Bronya's hands.

"Really, I told you not to make it." Although she didn't understand why her mother, Jeanne, wanted to make her a bento, she figured she might as well eat it since it was already made; it wasn't a big deal anyway.

“Aunt Jeanne said yes, this was an extra portion, and yours is the extra one,” Bronya said.

However, Kiana knew very well that Bronya wouldn't have said such a frivolous thing if it were just her, but if someone had instigated her, that would be a different story.

"That line, I think, was taught to you by Kiana's mother. After all, no one else could have guessed my reaction except for that person." Kiana only took a few seconds to figure out who had instigated Bronya to say that line.

"Aunt Jeanne also said that if you guessed it was her who said it, you should remember to take your lunch with you." After hearing Kiana guess that it was Miss Jeanne who made Bronya say those words, Bronya quickly added another sentence, which, of course, was also instigated by Miss Jeanne.

"…………" For some reason, Kiana suddenly felt very angry, and even wanted to go home and fight Jeanne right now. Although she would only end up being taught a lesson by Jeanne, it seemed wrong not to fight Jeanne after being teased like this.

"Fine, I understand." He spent some time comparing the combat strength of both sides and the consequences of losing.

Kiana managed to suppress her anger. After all, getting angry always comes at a price, and Kiana didn't want to pay that price. So, Kiana ultimately succeeded in suppressing her anger.

The activity continued at noon. After discovering that Bronya was temporarily staying at Kiana's house, everyone became slightly interested in Kiana, and in this bespectacled girl who wasn't particularly noticeable in class.

Finally, of course, there's the issue of how similar Kiana K. Joestar and Kiana Kaslana look.

Although the group of girls never figured out why the two looked so alike, they gave up on investigating further.

However, Kiana Kaslana eventually noticed this.

This also successfully piqued Kiana Kaslana's interest in Kiana K. Joestar, though not in any particular way.

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Two chapters have been updated. My cold is more important, so I'm going to rest now.

Thank you to Jokey, Jeanne Darc, Book Guest 42379738251, Domyouji Sakura, Tax Bureau Prime Minister Enkidu, and Red for the recommendation votes.

Thanks to TreeGraphCalculator02 for the recommendation vote and monthly pass.

Honkai Stone Gate: Chapter 15 This is Kiana 9982

Before the final exams in the Far East, there's always a three-day break. Students call this "studying break," which basically means going home to study before the exams. Damn, I wish I had a break like that too!

However, such a holiday is of little use to good students, and even less so to poor students. Therefore, in conclusion, it can be determined that this holiday is designed for students with mediocre grades.

Of course, this holiday was of no use to Kiana and Bronya. After all, both of them had excellent grades, so for them, the holiday meant simply lying at home sleeping, or snuggling under the covers, or doing whatever they liked in the kotatsu.

But while the two of them were huddled under the kotatsu playing games, someone came—yes, someone knocked on the door.

"Bronya, go open the door," Kiana said, but the languidness in her voice betrayed that she didn't want to leave the kotatsu.

"No way. Wouldn't it be better for Kiana, the older sister, to go in this situation? Because the younger sister needs the older sister's care." It seems Bronya doesn't want to leave the kotatsu either.

"No, think about it. Your sister is giving you a chance to break through your own seal." Although the person outside was still knocking on the door, neither Kiana nor Bronya intended to open it since neither wanted to leave the kotatsu.

"No, shouldn't the older sister set an example even more?" Bronya retorted, but what she really meant was, "I don't want to get out of the kotatsu, go open the door."

"Kiana, classmate, I know you're in there." At this moment, the person outside the door finally spoke, a voice that was extremely familiar to Kiana.

"Kiana, it seems you can't not go." Bronya said, because even she could tell whose voice it was.

Similarly, if Bronya could distinguish the voice, how could Kiana not?

However, Kiana didn't intend to say anything; she simply got up from the kotatsu in silence.

For Kiana, although the kotatsu (heated table) is important, there are things that are far more important than the kotatsu, such as the person standing outside the door right now.

"Is there anything I can help you with, Kiana?" Kiana K. Joestar asked Kiana Kaslana.

However, Kiana K. Joestar has no intention of opening the door yet, because she is unsure whether she is prepared to face Kiana Kaslana.

I'm not sure if I'll punch her the moment we meet.

"I have something I'd like to discuss with Kiana in person," Kiana said from outside the door, as if she genuinely had something to discuss with Kiana inside.

"Kiana, open the door." Bronya had somehow walked up to Kiana and took Kiana's slightly cold hand in hers.

Feeling the warmth from that hand, Kiana suddenly realized something.

One is not just about that one event in one's past life; while the past self certainly belongs to oneself.

However, the past life has only formed a part of who we are now, not to mention that it was a life from who knows how long ago.

"Okay, please wait a moment, Kiana." Kiana said, then reached out and opened the door.

The door opened, and with the click of the hinges, Kiana opened it, intending for the first time to confront her past for the sake of her present life.

"I knew you'd come looking for me, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, Kiana," Kiana K. Joestar said to Kiana Kaslana as she opened the door.

Bronya, who was holding Kiana's hand, turned to look at Kiana K. Joestar.

Because, Bronya's feelings towards Kiana K. Joestar changed in just a moment. Kiana K. Joestar now felt like Jeanne Joestar, the head of the Joestar family.

Perhaps Kiana's words contained a strategic brilliance that was just like Jeanne Joestar's, which is why Bronya had such a misconception.

“It seems that Kiana anticipated my arrival?” Kiana Kaslana said, but her eyes were fixed on Kiana K. Joestar.

"What's wrong? Are you surprised that I wasn't wearing my glasses today?" Kiana K. Joestar asked, as if she were asking about the glasses.

"No, not at all. I just feel that Kiana looks a lot like me when she takes off her glasses," Kiana Kaslana said.

Bronya was completely confused by their conversation, but that was understandable, since she had never experienced a verbal exchange before.

“I still really want to talk to you, but it doesn’t seem quite right to keep a guest standing at the door.” The two stared at each other for a moment, then Kiana K. Joestar stepped aside to let Kiana Kaslana in.

"Then I'll be rude." Although the two had already made it clear from their staring at each other that they weren't very friendly, Kiana Kaslana still needed to maintain her image as a young lady, so she could only accept Kiana's invitation and walk in.

"Bronya, you chat with Kiana for a while, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some snacks." After watching Kiana Kaslana enter, Kiana took the initiative to walk towards the kitchen.

"Kiana-neechan, I can too..."

"No, I'll go. It's not good to leave the guests waiting." Kiana interrupted Bronya and ended up preparing some snacks.

Although Kiana Kaslana couldn't tell, Bronya understood perfectly well that Kiana had gone to adjust her mood.

After all, not everyone can remain unmoved when they see a clone bearing their name casually strolling around in front of them.

Although this rule doesn't seem to apply to Miss Jeanne.

Kiana and Bronya's vacation is still going on, but something a little off has gotten mixed in.

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I'm updating again today, but I heard it's snowing almost everywhere in the country. It's a shame that kids living near the tropics can only watch you all have snow. Damn it, I really want to see snow!

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