Chapter 13: "How to deceive history"

How does it feel to lick your own spit?

Whatever the answer, never ask someone who has experienced it. They will be angry.

K-423 had sworn that she would not use the power of the stigmata of the Kaslana family for her purposes. Yet now, she had instead taken the initiative to use it.

Her pride as a human somehow feels humiliated.

... Oh, she suddenly remembered something.

She is now a will of stigma, so it's fine.

"Reversing time isn't as easy as it seems. Even if I feel like I could do it, there are several criteria that have to be taken into account so as not to turn it into a completely horrific disaster."

"Each of Kaslana's bloodlines in historical periods is a transit point that can be used to bend the future using the stigmata corridors of the Kaslana family. But the drawback is that I can only repeat it once, and can't change the past too much. That would lead to a paradox."

Like the famous grandfather paradox theory. If you killed your grandfather, how could your father be born?

It is also a warning to K-423. If she changed history too much, she would most likely disappear in the process of the enormous butterfly effect.

"My goal is to save Cecilia, Kiana's mother and the wife of Siegfried. However if I save her from the second Honkai eruption then history will change too much. I will most likely disappear instead."

K-423 looks at the things she has arranged on the blackboard, and she thinks with her little brain.

"I suddenly remembered Okabe Rintaro's words from the anime Stein Gate. To deceive the past, you must first deceive the future."

"To save Kurisu, Rintaro went back in time, and deceived the old self that Kurisu was dead. But she wasn't."

"So, am I going to use this kind of method? Deceiving myself... How to deceive history..."

K-423's brain felt very hot.

"No, my situation is different from him. A long time span is the biggest problem there is. In that case, I'll have to use other means to deceive history."

When all the possibilities are arranged together on the blackboard. K-423 thought harder and harder, and all the messy answers started to drift away one by one.

"Cecilia must die."

That's the thing she can't change the most. And inviolable.

Cecilia used her own holy blood before she died to neutralize the excess honkai energy. Here, senior Hare, crystallized stigma, was also born.

But if Cecilia dies, what's the point of turning back time? All the effort she puts in will be in vain.

"Auhh... My head hurts so much... I can't think anymore. This ability is completely useless. What's the use of being able to go back in time but not changing history? Watching tragedies live!? If Otto acquires this ability, he should be able to use it better than I can."

K-423 is feeling very sad.

"I'm also still 9 years old! What do you expect from a 9 year old girl!? This world is bullying me!"

The sadness eventually turned into deep hatred. K-423 increasingly feels she is completely useless.

"If Otto can get this ability... What will he do? Oh, of course he will revive Kallen first." K-423 enters daydream mode.

"But... How?"

Remembering all of Otto's history in the game, and all the words that came out of his mouth. K-423 closes her eyes, and starts recalling all the memory fragments, that she can recall in her mind.

"Wait... Thus spoke apocalypse!"

K-423 opened her eyes wide.

"Once one's soul is gone, one cannot be brought back to life. The world allows the mind to find new vessels, but does not allow vessels to collect lost thoughts!"

"Doesn't that mean I can just take Cecilia's soul when she dies, and bring her back to this timeline to revive her? That won't change history either, and I can also revive Cecilia after finding a new body!"

"K-423, you are such a genius!"

She praises herself shamelessly.

"But the main problem is, what must I do to carry Cecilia's soul through time and space, given that souls themselves are abstract?"

K-423's brain is dizzy again.

"If it's Otto... No, why should I think exactly like Otto? Because he's the most experienced at resurrecting the dead? Well... that has some truth to it."

She suddenly froze because she was hit by her own mouth counter.

"How about asking him directly?"

K-423 himself understands how her brain capacity is. She couldn't be as genius as Otto who had lived for nearly 500 plus years using the wishing system. Instead of thinking to understand his train of thought, why not just ask him directly?

"No, it's too dangerous. However I seem to have another method that can be used."

Kaslana's family stigmata holds all the memories of all of Kaslana's lineage. This meant that all of their memories could be read here.

Then, who had Kaslana's bloodline, but also had research as high as Otto?

So the answer is only one person.

Amber.

A-303, a mechanically created bionic based on the genes of Kallen Kaslana, Otto's most trusted helper, and also Theresa's sister.

K-423 remembers that all matters at Schicksal headquarters will be handed over to Amber if Otto is busy or when Otto is not willing to work.

She was Otto's most trusted right-hand man.

When it came to knowledge, who would dare to compare with her who had read high-level documents every day? Except for Otto, maybe she is the only person who knows every Schicksal secret that has never been revealed to the public eye.

Now, since she also had Kaslana's bloodline, didn't her own memory also exist in this space corridor?

"Check the surroundings... There's no sign of Homu's surveillance, and Avatar Kevin is still silently in place. Looks like he's really bored in the sea of ​​quanta to the point of visiting this place every day. I have to be careful."

Enter the stigmata space of the Kaslana family, and stand on the vast red sand. K-423, who has an abstract form, resembling the memories around her, looks around her with full alertness.

One of the things to watch out for when visiting Kaslana's stigmata space is supervisor Homu. He was like an automated message that kept an eye on everything here tirelessly.

Plus he can also change his form into other forms, into familiar things. K-423 must be extremely vigilant even for memory fragments in flight. Most likely, it could be him.

"Let's find Amber's coordinates, and leave my stigmata as a link. Reading the memory in Kaslana's stigmata space is too dangerous."

Kevin still doesn't know of a special existence like K-423 at this time.

It is not known what kind of chemical reaction it took when he discovered that K-423 was actually the will of an additional kaslana stigmata that could impart a special stigmata to all of its offspring.

No, she already knew.

Kevin will most likely control her as hard as he can.

However, K-423's existence is almost the same as the final product of the stigma project.

When they figure out what it's used for, it's not just Kevin who will arrive. But the senior Hare in charge of the stigma project would be there to talk seniority to her.

K-423 could only lift the GG board because it had been bullied.

"I have to hurry..."