Honkai Impact 3: Deadwood

Perhaps because she was in a good mood, Jizi drank several glasses of wine. The boss was not surprised and simply put the small ice bucket and two bottles of wine on the plate, pushed it next to Jizi and asked her to refill it herself.

"I didn't expect that you would lead such a young man to an izakaya."

The man joked unceremoniously, but Jizi didn't care at all. She just shook the wine glass in her hand and said with a bad smile: "He is my successor and is now one of my immediate bosses."

"Isn't it a pity? It has reached the point where young people are on duty to replace them."

"cut…"

"So are you, the young man next to you. It's too late to run away now. This guy made trouble in my store when he was drunk. It's not just once or twice."

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

"I hope you can say the same when she tears down my store."

"It should have been the same when she demolished the dormitories at school?"

"Ha ha ha ha."

"Haha."

The two laughed in unison, and the captain shook the glass in his hand. To be honest, he was indeed used to it. After all, no one would get drunk like Hime and run to Hyperion's bridge. I vomited violently for a while...

Ji Zi on the side snorted softly, picked up the plate and left. In the end, these two guys sat on the same boat and started persecuting themselves.

Seeing Himeko moving her seat, the captain chuckled and followed her. The two of them found a quiet corner. I have to say that the atmosphere in this store is quite good.

"What's wrong, Captain, you're not really old enough to drink, are you?"

Seeing that the golden liquid in the captain's cup was not missing at all, Jizi asked. Of course, it was just a joke. She had actually known some things about the captain for a long time.

The captain looked at the wine in the glass, smiled and shook his head, "It's just that every time I drink, I always think of an old friend."

"Old friend?"

"Well, she is a very good person, and a very famous... um... singer? The first time I saw her, she was standing on the stage, but that day, there was no singing or music on the stage... Instead, there was only the panic and screams of the crowd, and tens of thousands of spectators fled in all directions until the flames burned everything in her world."

"what happened?"

"It's probably...a fire."

"That's it."

Ji Zi heard it a little confused, but to ordinary people, it might be a fire...a fire that burned down the entire city and burned away all the hope and beauty there.

"Like you, she also likes to drink. Every time I advise her to drink less, she always says: Human beings need good wine and fine wine. It can temporarily make people indulge in the dreams of the past and forget all the sorrows in front of them... And then she wouldn't stop drinking until her brain shut down."

"Hmm...I agree. Your friend has quite good taste. Human beings do need good wine, otherwise it would be too boring."

"Ahem, but she never goes to where other people work to vomit when she's drunk."

"hiss…"

The dark history was revealed, and Jizi suddenly frowned. It seemed that she couldn't get through this, although she was sorry for the time she ran to the bridge to vomit and even vomited on the captain.

The two chatted for a while, and in a blink of an eye, their table was the only one left with customers in the store. It was already very late, but Jizi didn't plan to go back in a hurry, because both she and the captain knew that there were still some very important things that were left unsaid.

"Captain, do you know about the "Second Collapse"? "

"of course."

Facing the topic that Jizi suddenly mentioned, the captain seemed very calm. He knew that Jizi was going to say something that he didn't know.

Originally, It was Theresa who was going to talk to him about this, but Theresa was busy preparing the procedures for going to the Oceania branch and things related to the mission these days, so she entrusted Himeko to ask him out. , those two theater performance tickets were also given by Teresa.

Jizi looked at the ice cubes shaking in the cup and was not in a hurry to continue. Theresa said that the captain was a trustworthy person and he should know this, but why didn't she understand it?

More than a year ago, when the young man in front of her came to St. Freya Academy for the first time, she remembered that when she was still in the "Valkyrie Stormtroopers", she was in the photo in Captain Ragnar's room. The person she saw, she was sure at that time, was the young man in front of her.

However, she finally spoke. Perhaps, during this brief silence, she was just thinking about how to explain these things.

"After the "Second Honkai" ended, Tianming used the genes of the "Second Herrscher" to try to study deeper methods of fighting against Honkai. After several years of experiments, they finally got the results. The final result of that research is... the Kiana you know now. "

"..."

The captain did not speak. He still had questions in his mind, but he remained silent. Even with such shocking facts, he just remained silent, waiting for Jizi's next words.

"Captain, you must be surprised, right?"

"Well, as far as I know, Kiana should be the daughter of Mr. Siegfried and Ms. Cecilia."

"Yeah yeah…"

Saying that, Jizi drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

"During the research process, they not only used Sirin's genes, but also secretly mixed Kiana's genes into it. That is, they used Kiana's genes to create experimental artificial humans."

"..."

"K423... At that time, she only had such a cold number. Then, about eight years ago, in 2007, Siegfried kidnapped K423 and Kiana, but he was intercepted by Destiny on the way. In the end, Siegfried kidnapped K423 and Kiana. , Siegfried only rescued Kiana’s experimental subject numbered K, and the whereabouts of the real Kiana has been unknown since then.”

"Is it…"

"Kiana should have told you what happened next, right?"

"Well, I heard her say that she and her father lived in the snowy field. It turns out that this is how it is..."

The ice cubes in the wine glass melted, making a "clicking" sound from time to time.

Just like what Otto said, after knowing these things, a thread seemed to appear in the captain's mind, a thread that connected all the fragments and clues so far.

But Jizi just sighed and drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, as if to relieve the depression on her face.