"Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?"
"You ask me, who do I ask? I don't know a damn thing, all I know is how to eat..."
Houraiji Kyuusyou, Bronya, Raiden Mei, and Kiana stood on the deck looking at each other, back and forth.
The four of them had been training just fine in the black hole world, but then the black hole suddenly vanished, and in the blink of an eye, they appeared on the deck.
"Wow, I didn't really notice in the black hole world, but now I see it. Kiana, you really look like Aunt Cecilia when you grew up!"
Houraiji Kyuusyou walked up in surprise and started groping Kiana all over, feeling the changes in her body.
"Hey, stop touching me! Compared to me, Houraiji Kyuusyou, your changes are even bigger!! Why did your chest get even bigger!"
Kiana yelped at Houraiji Kyuusyou's actions, then groped her back in retaliation.
"Damn it... why hasn't Bronya changed at all! That bastard Houraiji Kyuusyou, all you do is hit me, why don't you share some of your chest with Bronya!"
Watching Kiana and Houraiji Kyuusyou happily groping each other to compare sizes, Bronya sadly looked down at her own chest, which couldn't be flatter.
Oh, wait, Bronya was now bigger than everyone present!
Bronya struck a bodybuilder's pose, flexing her pecs, which were bigger than Kiana's head.
Mei, on the other hand, took out a mirror to look at her current appearance.
Besides her figure becoming more alluring and voluptuous, her face, like Kiana's, had become more mature, more like her mother, Raiden Kikkaka, just lacking some of that matronly charm.
In the black hole world, the four of them had lived and trained at different time flows.
Houraiji Kyuusyou and Mei had spent about thirty to forty years, while Kiana and Bronya had spent over a decade.
The four little ones had now grown from children into graceful young women. No, three graceful young women, because Bronya had now become a 2.4-meter-tall titan.
However, before the four of them could fully appreciate the changes their bodies had undergone over the years, the Time-Space Reversion Bracelets Ryn had given them began to work.
The bracelets on the wrists of Houraiji Kyuusyou, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya burst out with dazzling light, enveloping them completely.
Their bodies rapidly regressed within the light, in a manner akin to time reversal, correcting their decades of experience back to the time that had passed in the normal world.
*Thump—*
The light vanished, and Bronya, who had reverted from a giant's physique back to a 1.4-meter-tall loli, fell to the ground on her butt.
The most obvious change for Houraiji Kyuusyou, Kiana, and Mei was that they went from mature back to youthful, and the size of their chests seemed to have shrunk by a few sizes.
But even after reverting to their sixteen or seventeen-year-old appearances, Houraiji Kyuusyou and Mei were still off the charts!
Kiana and Bronya were like wilted eggplants, squatting listlessly in a corner, drawing circles.
"Wuu wuu wuu— I'm back to B-rank!"
"Wuu wuu wuu— all the muscles Bronya trained for so many years are gone!"
"I think it's better without those exaggerated muscles..."
Mei muttered under her breath. Because she had watched Bronya grow little by little, she had gotten used to it and didn't find it jarring...
Now that Bronya had suddenly reverted to her original form, comparing the cute little loli to the titan from before...
*Eww—*
Mei shook her head with a look of disgust.
"Really? Does Big Sis Mei like how Bronya looks now?"
Upon hearing Mei's muttering, Bronya's sadness instantly turned to joy. Her lips curved into a slightly stiff but happy smile, and she bounced over to Mei, giving her a bear hug.
Mei noticed the smile on Bronya's face and suddenly felt that something was wrong, but her brain, having been in a daze from training for decades, couldn't quite put her finger on it.
The next moment, regardless of whether Bronya's expression was right or not, Mei knew that she was the one who was not going to be all right, because the strength Bronya had trained for hadn't disappeared with her size!!
"Aaaah! Gently, gently, my back is going to break!! Bronya, let go!!!"
Houraiji Kyuusyou and Kiana, standing to the side, looked at each other.
"How are you now?"
"I can open black holes at will, but their power is still limited. I feel like blowing up a planet should be no problem, though.
I still can't just raise my hand and release a stellar-mass black hole like Brother Ryn, but give me some time and I burn some of my life force, I should be able to release one the mass of the sun.
What about you, Kiana? How's your Power of the Saintess?"
"My situation is a bit hard to explain... The Power of the Saintess should be more or less fully developed. I can do things now that I couldn't do before.
It's just... I feel like my Power of the Saintess is a bit different from Mom's and the others'..."
Saintess Kiana
Kiana blinked her golden eyes, which then reverted to sky blue.
"I can feel that my strength has also increased a lot. I can easily take down the enemies that appeared before.
But... I feel like I've gone down the wrong path.
All these years, I've been focusing on developing the Power of the Saintess and training my body... but instead... never mind, it's a feeling I can't quite describe."
Kiana shook her head and didn't say more.
In recent years, another voice in her heart had been telling her not to cultivate Honkai energy, but if she didn't cultivate Honkai energy, what else could she cultivate...
"Where are Ryn and Seele? I didn't see them in the black hole world; they probably didn't come in with me."
Kiana looked around, searching for Ryn and Seele.
But apart from the empty deck and the distant Stellar Leviathan singing its "Whale Song," there was nothing to be seen.
"Not sure, but the black hole belongs to Brother Ryn. He should know our situation and will come find us soon."
Houraiji Kyuusyou said, then looked up at the sky, her gaze piercing through the Bubble Universe's barrier to the space beyond.
But unfortunately, with the naked eye alone, she couldn't see the Sea of Quanta outside. The space beyond the Bubble Universe was like the normal world, an endless starry sky.
"Strange... I clearly feel something up there, but why can't I see anything?
Kiana, do you feel the call from beyond the heavens? The infinite energy within us has granted us the right to act as we please. Let's go together and see what it is!"
After speaking, Houraiji Kyuusyou lightly tapped the deck with her toes and took off, flying towards the heavens at supersonic speed.
"Mhm."
Kiana nodded and followed closely behind Houraiji Kyuusyou.