Chapter 1: "Beginning the story"

With his sense of space muddled, memories fragmented, and tinnitus hums making his head dizzy, he tried to remember.

He had forgotten how long he had been like this. He wanted to remember something, but every time he tried, he lost something too.

He had forgotten his name.

"[...Where is this?]"

When he opened his eyes, he saw a fireplace that was burning very warmly, hitting his cold face.

Above his head, he felt an extremely rough wide palm, continuously rubbing her white hair gently.

"... I'm sorry...."

Raising her head without him noticing. When he saw that person's depressed face, a dense flood of memories immediately entered his brain.

"Who? Where is this?"

Her mouth spoke without his will at all. Her voice was like that of a sweet little girl yet filled with a sense of emptiness.

"Do you remember me?" Siegfried pointed his finger at his depressed face.

The white-haired girl who had a bandage wrapped around her right eye shook her head weakly: "Who?"

After saying that, the girl felt the hand that was stroking her head stiffen.

Siegfried's throat became extremely dry.

It is very painful.

"Your last name is Kaslana, and I am your father. Your mother died when you were 2 years old."

"Mother?" The white-haired girl asked curiously.

Siegfried closed his eyes in pain.

In the end, Siegfried just stroked the girl's head gently: "You don't need to know, all you need to know is that I am your father, and your last name is Kaslana, that's all."

"Hmm..." The Kaslana girl nodded her head.

The fire in the fireplace crackled and burned very quickly.

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Several days have passed.

The snow outside the house still hasn't stopped since yesterday. After all, it's still December.

Ever since he woke up, and heard the legendary dialogue above, he fell into deep contemplation.

Wasn't that Siegfried?

Then who am I? The spirit attached to Kiana's body?

bro! How come!?

There were two memories in his mind at the moment. Fragments of memory of an 18 year old man, seniors in the eyes of an otaku, and an intact memory of a 9 year old white haired little girl.

According to the 18 year old boy's memory fragment, this was a legendary conversation from a game.

Honkai Impact 3.

A game that has a modern background where all mankind in it is trying to survive the test of the almighty Honkai god.

A straight man will suffer instantly, a crooked woman will be happy and find her true love first before suffering.

After all, everything is suffering!

"[To hell with all the beauties in the world! This world isn't beautiful at all!]"

"W-Who!?"

When the white-haired girl looked around, she saw no one there except for the bonfire, which was still burning, keeping the guest room warm.

"[I am inside your mind.]"

"I-In my mind? Who?"

"[....A somewhat meaningful repeated question...]"

In their current situation, the two of them still had no names.

One doubted his own existence and identity, and the other had not even been given a name.

Kiana Kaslana, one of the three protagonists who has many storylines in the game is not the real Kiana. She was just a clone created by Otto using Kiana and Sirin's original DNA, and added the 2nd herrscher core as the finishing material.

According to the memories of the little girl in his mind, it had been seven years since she had been rescued by Siegfried from within the Schicksal headquarters.

Siegfried at first wanted to save the real Kiana from the Schicksal headquarters from the clutches of the evil Otto. However, due to an accident, the real Kiana fell from a plane from a height of thousands of meters, and he could only save this clone who has a face that almost exactly matches his daughter's.

Every time he comes home, and sees a girl's face that almost looks exactly like his daughter's, Siegfried thinks back to his dead daughter, he couldn't save, and he gets more and more depressed.

Siegfried didn't take very good care of this girl who had the exact same face as his daughter. You could say it's pretty rough.

The climax of domestic violence is when she turns nine, and is hit on the head by Siegfried because a certain pufferfish expands, causing her to lose her memory.

She, the girl he was talking to at this moment, was an innocent girl just like a baby.

"[Forget it, you don't remember your past, so just call me K-423, the other you you had forgotten when you were 9 years old.]"

".... You mean?" The girl asked confusedly.

"[...Just call me your other self. I'm too lazy to explain to someone who can't even understand.]"

"Then... the other me! Do you know what dad is doing right now?"

"[...Why are you curious?]"

"Every time dad comes home, his body always bleed... I... I just want to know!"

K-423 suddenly remembers something.

If I'm not mistaken, Siegfried is currently still fighting the Honkai beasts that roam around the nearby houses and villages.

Due to his body still recovering from the eruption of the second honkai eruption, Siegfried's body had become extremely weak, and he had still not recovered from his peak state.

When he fought the Honkai beast to clear the threat, of course injuries were inevitable.

That's why Siegfried always comes home in a condition that is always badly injured.

Maybe… Siegfried didn't even care about his own body.

His soul almost died after losing his wife and his daughter.

"[Don't mind it too much. If you don't know, how would I know? Maybe he was fighting a monster or something. Stay here and wait for him to come back home.]"

"But..."

"[Don't be too curious.]"

"...."

K-423 sighed.

Actually he didn't want this white-haired girl to know the truth.

After this incident the girl Kaslana loses her memory, Siegfried becomes a good person, and she brings lots of toys from the outside world for her to play with.

Perhaps it is a manifestation of guilt.

However, according to the storyline of this white-haired girl, she would learn from Siegfried how to fight the Kaslana family style and she would also get her real name when she was 11 years old.

Until then, K-423 can only wait.

The hardware is no match for the extreme conditions outside, and the software is still in a constant mess.

K-423 even to this day still feels something strange about him. His consciousness was so dizzy, to the point that it felt like it was going to break apart.

"[... Ugh.. what the heck is going on with me... Why is my head so dizzy...]"

With a final struggle he makes, K-423 returns to his deep slumber once again.