"They're fighting! They're fighting!"
Bronya notified Kiana about the situation.
Noldrei wasn't on Earth; he was currently on Venus, sweet-talking Sa.
Kiana didn't react for a moment, looking at Bronya's communication projection and asking, "Who's fighting who?"
"Shigure Kira, the woman our boss picked up. She's fighting Benares because of their grudge from the Second Honkai Eruption. All the members of Shigure Kira's squad were killed by Benares."
Bronya recalled that her own mother seemed to have been taken away during the Second Honkai Eruption, and she wondered if she should go and stop the fight. But if she didn't, Sirin would cause a fuss when she returned.
"Hmm?" Kiana pondered for a moment, then said hesitantly, "Wait... haven't we already resolved the past conflicts? Oh, right, Shigure Kira is an old-timer that Noldrei brought back from the outside."
She remembered Shigure Kira's situation. It meant that during her years in the Sea of Quanta, Shigure Kira hadn't changed from the moral values of the old era. In contrast, the people of Academy City had quickly accepted the new human morality.
"Equal rights and responsibilities" was the most basic rule of Academy City now.
Whether it was morality or law, nothing escaped this framework.
At this moment, Shigure Kira didn't realize that being a Valkyrie itself meant a kind of political power, and that one couldn't simply separate a Valkyrie's identity from her person.
And Shigure Kira hadn't undergone the continuous power education that had been promoted in Academy City over the years.
"This is trouble. I'm afraid this girl is going to suffer."
Kiana thought to herself that she couldn't just grab Shigure Kira and give her a few lashings with her tentacles. After all, Shigure Kira was a victim in a way.
But if Shigure Kira really acted recklessly, Noldrei would definitely not let her off easily. It wasn't that he was afraid of her causing trouble, but that she was still clinging to old ideas.
Even Old Yang had led people to suppress North America more than once. To implement his political ideals, Old Yang had suppressed countless asshole North American bigwigs.
'I wonder what will happen to her... but how can I stop her from seeking revenge? I can't just tell her things like 'for the future of humanity, love and peace,' right?'
Kiana felt that would be a bit too much. But it also seemed inappropriate to let Benares bear the consequences of past mistakes. After all, Benares was one of the first Herrscher apostles to surrender, even if her initial intentions weren't so pure.
The contributions Benares had made in Academy City with her own Honkai factor were enough to atone for the sins of her chaotic period, not to mention that she didn't have many sins on her.
The ones Benares killed were just the bastards from the Babylon Labs who were conducting human experiments.
Whether it was the infinite right to self-defense under the old human morality or the new era's equal rights and responsibilities, Benares's actions had already been classified as permissible.
"This is a bit troublesome..."
Kiana really hadn't thought that she would have to deal with this kind of conflict between the old and the new.
'Why did that guy go to Venus at this time? He couldn't have intentionally thrown this trouble at me, right?'
"Mei, do you have any good ideas to stop them?"
Kiana had really asked the right person. The reason Raiden Mei hadn't gone looking for trouble with those who bullied her in the past was precisely because she had her own way of solving problems.
"It's simple. Just turn Shigure Kira into a little pony. As long as she can become a little pony, her anger will quickly be extinguished. Thanks to the different body structure of a pony and a human, the threshold for anger outbursts is also completely different. So, let's turn Shigure Kira into a little pony!"
Raiden Mei said to Kiana with an encouraging look, "Just like what Noldrei did back then. Turning into a little pony can help people better control their emotions, so they won't be so easily consumed by hatred!"
"In the end, hatred is a special emotion constructed by human memory stimulating hormones through the body. In that case, we just need to change her body structure."
Kiana looked at Raiden Mei in shock. She felt that Raiden Mei was more suited to Noldrei's way of thinking than she was. Wasn't this a very typical Noldrei solution?
However, what Raiden Mei said wasn't without reason.
"You're right. Controlling one's emotions through the body and then slowly changing their way of thinking... that's indeed a common method of Noldrei's. It's just that he's rarely done it since he had enough manpower. I almost forgot about these things."
After figuring out the situation, Kiana immediately contacted Benares and told her in detail about the inconspicuous little pony switch behind Shigure Kira.
In fact, Benares's fight was no longer as restricted as it was at the beginning. After all, the Security Force had quickly arrived at the scene after the incident.
Today's Security Force was no longer the same as when the city was first built. There were also members of the United Student Council assisting, making it a typical military-political force in Academy City.
Shigure Kira was facing not only Benares, but also the suppression of the Security Force, which had marked her with Imaginary Energy.
The blood flowing from her injuries during the battle further stimulated Shigure Kira's brain.
The pain, twisted with the agony of her comrades' deaths in her memory and the death of the person she admired in the Second Honkai Eruption, all seeped into her body and mind.
She no longer had the strength to think about whether she could escape the suppression of the crowd.
After returning to Earth, her past memories were like a disease clinging to her bones, difficult to remove.
Salome Jokanaan, Shub-Niggurath, Cecilia Schariac, Cheng Lixue, Patrick Highsmith...
All these Valkyries were dead, but Benares, who had fought against them, was still alive and well in this world.
Even the Second Herrscher was just inherited in another "form of existence."
This Earth was no longer the Earth Shigure Kira remembered.
No one would shed a tear for the Valkyries. Even their missions had become just a sad historical story in Schicksal's political mistakes.
"Why..."
"Why? Why did you bring me here? Why did you bring me back!!!"
Benares's heart stirred. A strange power had descended upon this woman who had returned from the Sea of Quanta.
In Benares's eyes, Shigure Kira was undergoing Herrscherfication at an incredibly frantic speed.
'Why? Didn't they say the Previous Era had already controlled the path of Herrscherfication? Why is this happening?'
Before Finality had even descended, the newly arrived Shigure Kira had torn apart the Herrscher descent route planned by the Previous Era!
At this moment, the Cocoon of Finality...
It had finally seized a moment of respite from the Sea of Quanta!