In the end, the matter concluded with Ryn giving Kiana's silly head a good knock, and Kiana squatting down, holding her head in defiance.
After feeding Kiana a simple meal, he took her to the living room to listen to Kallen's story.
Then he saw an enraged Kallen throwing a pillow at him.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing!" Ryn shouted as he dodged in a hurry.
"You bastard, what the hell is this 'Kallen: Sakura Dies Twice'!! I'm going to take you down with me today!" Kallen yelled furiously.
Kallen had been sitting peacefully on the sofa, waiting and thinking about how to narrate the story of the three of them. Then Bronya also came to the living room. Seeing Bronya, Kika latched onto her to discuss strategies for "Kallen: Sakura Dies Twice."
Kallen, hearing a familiar name, asked curiously, and then discovered that the protagonist of the story was herself... Even more outrageous was the cheesy romance plot in the game, which made Kallen's CPU completely overheat.
After finding out that Ryn was the one who made the game, the scene of Kallen beating Ryn with a pillow ensued.
And then Kallen was turned into a balloon by Ryn, floating in the room...
Looking at Kallen floating around the room but surprisingly starting to have fun, Ryn spread his hands and said.
"Would you believe me if I said this was Otto's twisted sense of humor?"
"Hmph." Kallen didn't want to talk to Ryn right now.
Seeing the floating Kallen, Kiana suddenly became interested too. "That looks fun... Ryn, I want to fly too!"
"Don't mess around, this isn't a toy."
"Hmph." Kiana crossed her arms and turned her head away in a huff. "Ryn is so biased."
"Alright, alright, I'll take you flying outside another day."
"Yay, Ryn is the best!" Kiana clapped her hands happily.
Before long, Ryn let Kallen down. Unresigned, Kallen hit Ryn with the pillow as soon as she landed.
Looking at the resentful Kallen, Ryn helplessly pinched Kika's small, chubby face. Kika then shyly went to pinch Mei's chest. Then Kika and Mei started fighting, and the kind-hearted Kallen ran over to pacify them.
*Hmm... successfully diverted the conflict, as expected of me,* Ryn secretly gave himself a thumbs-up.
*Hmph, you won't let me kiss Mei, but you go and kiss Kika. I knew you wanted a harem, you bastard Ryn!*
Kiana thought as she viciously pinched Ryn's side, making him cry out in pain.
Bronya, holding a Homu doll, quietly watched all of this with dead fish eyes and couldn't help but think, *So lively...*
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"First off, the story will be told from Kallen's memory perspective... It might contain some personal subjective thoughts..."
"Mhm, mhm, hurry up and tell us," Kiana, Ryn, and the others said impatiently.
(Although it's written from Kallen's perspective, it's mostly written from the author's first-person perspective, so please don't mind the details.)
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The first time Otto and I met as children was...
My father took me to visit Otto's family. Otto was a super tiny little thing back then, and well... so was I.
Otto tinkered all night and made a small airplane that could fly... Otto joyfully launched the small plane, only for his brother to knock it down with a stone.
The small plane fell to the other side of the wall and was picked up by me—no, by Kallen.
Otto kept trying to climb the wall to retrieve the paper airplane, but the frail Otto couldn't make it up and was constantly taunted by his brother.
But Kallen could climb it...
Kallen climbed onto the wall. She excitedly said to Otto below, "It flew so high just now!"
Sitting on the wall, Kallen took out the broken small plane from her pocket and handed it to Otto.
"Is this yours?"
"I made it..." Otto was a little insecure, nodding cautiously.
"Wow, you're so amazing! You'll definitely become a great inventor in the future!" The innocent Kallen said the words that would hang Otto for a lifetime.
That was the first time Otto, who had been abandoned by everyone, had heard such encouragement. For the first time, Otto felt that he too could be looked forward to by others, that he too was needed.
"It's a pity it's broken," Kallen said, looking regretfully at the small plane in her hand.
"If you want it... I can make another one!" Otto replied eagerly and earnestly.
Looking at Otto like that, Kallen's heart was a little moved. She then jumped down from the wall, walked over to Otto, and said to him:
"By the way, great inventor, I have one more request... come and help me save the world!!"
Looking at Kallen's radiant smile, Otto felt as if he had met a true god...
After that, Kallen and Otto were always together...
Because Kallen was always telling Otto how amazing her father was, Otto thought that someone like Kallen's father must be able to save the world!
Filled with admiration, Otto asked Kallen to take him to see her father in battle. So the two of them secretly ran to a place ravaged by Honkai Beasts to watch people fight against the Honkai...
But Honkai Beasts were everywhere, and Otto and Kallen were ambushed... If Kallen's father hadn't arrived in time to save them, the two of them might have already died together.
Kallen's father, Francis, stood before them, dual-wielding the Judgment of Shamash in its twin-gun form. Without looking back, he said, "Stay there. I will protect you."
Looking at Francis's back, at that moment, he was almost omnipotent in their eyes...
Otto thought that Francis could truly protect them forever, but soon came the terrible news: Francis had sacrificed himself by using the Zeroth Power of Shamash—Might of An-Utu...
(miHoYo retconned this. In the early parts of the manga, they said Francis was still alive, but later in the manga, Francis had been dead for ten years. Let's just assume the one who was said to be alive was the Francis in the data space, and the real Francis had sacrificed himself long ago.)
Otto couldn't believe that the man who was like a god would perish along with the Honkai Beast... That was the first time Otto had doubts about "God"...
Seeing Kallen crying her heart out over the coffin, Otto knew he had to do something...
He went to the sanctuary that the Apocalypse family had guarded for generations, where there was a relic of infinite wisdom that the first ancestor had obtained from Asia.
It had always been enshrined there, and no one could use it. Otto didn't know if he was worthy of using it, but he felt that the relic could surely resurrect Francis.
After much effort, Otto successfully unlocked the relic's seal. But the relic told him that to resurrect Francis, he would have to offer his own body.