To this, Kiana-chan couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time.
She didn't say yes, but she didn't say no either.
She simply smiled faintly.
"Confirmed. Definitely Kevin's bloodline. So young, and already thinking about going all out," Mobius chuckled, teasing.
Kevin facepalmed.
"Oh no! Mei's such fine bloodline, tainted by Kevin! This won't do... Hey, Mei, why don't you marry me instead?" Elysia hugged Dr. Mei, her words leaving Kevin utterly speechless.
Kiana, drinking her milk with a perfectly serious face, said, "Actually, I don't mind. If it really comes to it, Mei, you can just marry me. Join my harem, and I guarantee you at least a seat as an Aeon. How about it?"
Dr. Mei seemed slightly tempted.
This sent Kevin's sense of crisis into overdrive! "Just what are you all doing?!"
Pfft~ Miss Mei covered her mouth, suppressing a giggle. Seeing Kevin so flustered made her quite happy.
But Kevin also smiled.
When Mei acted like this, it usually meant she was joking. Thank goodness, his wife was safe.
One Elysia, one Kiana.
Truly, terrifying!
[You should know, the Thirteen Flame-Chasers were the ones closest to me back then, and also the strongest thirteen in the Flame Chasers at that time.]
[At the very least, each was the strongest in some particular aspect.]
In the scene.
After Kiana said this.
Yuzu immediately raised her hand.
[Is Lady Pardo one of them too?]
[Of course!]
Kiana-chan nodded, her expression noncommittal.
[Although her combat prowess wasn't outstanding, she possessed luck stronger than almost anyone else in the entire world.]
[Don't look down on her, you know.]
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In Sundown Alley.
Miss Pardofelis, holding a calico cat, was also surrounded by a group of stray cats. They all looked up at the Sky Screen together. When she saw this part, she just chuckled, not even realizing it was about her.
She was just an ordinary person.
How could she ever become a Flame-Chaser?
Those who weren't quick on the uptake just listened.
But the clever ones had already started taking notes.
"Quick, anyone named Pardo! Find them, immediately!"
"Write it down, start moving tomorrow! Hurry up!"
They prayed the images would reveal more about the identities of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers.
Although they had already guessed some, it still wasn't confirmed. They wanted more verification.
[The Deliverance - Kevin, The Ego - Elysia, The Discipline - Aponia, The Gold - Eden, The Helix - Vill-V...]
Miss Yuzu really did list them.
Counting them off on her fingers, one by one.
[The Decimation - Kalpas.]
"Huh?"
In a certain village.
A masked man, tied to a totem pole for who knows how long, let out a sound of surprise.
He never expected his name to be called too.
"This... I remember, this god's name is Kalpas, right?"
"Yes, yes! Kalpas... that's his name!"
"As expected of a god! May the god bless us!"
Yet, the irony was that precisely because he fell from the sky, these ignorant villagers had mistaken him for a deity descended from the heavens.
And their way of treating this deity was to tie him up and constantly cut his flesh and draw his blood.
Because they firmly believed that drinking the deity's 'gifts' would prevent illness, be it Honkai Sickness or anything else. They would be safe.
After all, that was how the deity had cured that child back then.
The deity allowed them to do this; this was the deity's grace, the deity's protection.
Little did they know.
Kalpas simply couldn't be bothered to care.
Having fallen from the sky with no memory of his past, his only memory was of this village.
No matter what these villagers did.
This was, after all, the place he considered his home.
At least, for now.
[Then, The Setsuna - Sakura, The Bodhi - Su, The Daybreak - Kosma...]
Somewhere on a coast.
A young child sat by the sea, looking up at the sky screen. "That's... my name?"
[The Infinity - Mobius.]
[The Stars - Griseo...]
[The Vicissitude - Hua, and The Reverie - Pardo...]
"Hua, it's you! That's amazing!"
"I knew it, I just knew you'd become an Aeon too!"
Carole, holding her phone, excitedly called Hua.
Hua shook her head slightly. "What's important isn't me, but Kiana. Without her, none of us would have become Aeons in the future. It would have been impossible."
"But you did become one in the future, and that's what matters!" Carole didn't mind the details. From now on, she could tell everyone she met that her sworn sister, Hua, was an Aeon, and that her good friend, the young lady, was even the master of the Tree and Sea.
What more could you want in life?!
The list of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers was finally revealed.
Some names were already familiar.
But others were completely unknown.
Regardless, a global census was practically restarting to find these people. Anyone with even a hint of a connection had to be prioritized.
Wasn't this basically a list of SSR-tier characters?
The tier list was being handed to you on a silver platter.
If you didn't know how to copy the answers now, you'd be a fool!
[Each Flame-Chaser had an emblematic epithet from the very beginning. Later, when they ascended to Aeons, they used these as the names of their Paths. Was that a coincidence? Or was it prepared in advance?]
(T/N: Oh mai goto I made a mistake in the previous chapters but since Gold and Setsuna don't really make sense I'll just keep it as Wealth and the Moment, which is the english translation of Setsuna or if there is a specific term)
In the video.
Miss Yuzu asked.
Kiana thought for a moment before speaking.
[It wasn't really a coincidence.]
[After all, the epithet itself represents the path they each walked.]
[It's like... the prototype of a Path?]
She asked.
[You know, the Path system only integrated into our world after we connected to the Star Rail universe. Before that, we couldn't access Path power; all we had was Honkai energy.]
In that moment, the Sky Screen exposed another truth.
Their world's future was not isolated; it would connect to a grand universe called Star Rail. Only by going there would they be covered by the Path system, gaining the opportunity to walk a Path, and even become Aeons.
Simply put.
The Path system could be starkly divided into three tiers.
First, Pathstriders, who embody a Path and walk it. The further they walk, the stronger they become.
Next are Emanators.
It feels like a power bestowed by the heavens.
It's after receiving an Aeon's blessing, granting you greater grace, that you attain such strength.
They are essentially the Aeons' representatives.
Though not absolutely.
But in theory, their words and actions also represent the Aeon.
And then, above them, are the Aeons.
Why is there a stark difference?
Everyone had their speculations.
After all, this three-tier classification was only mentioned briefly in previous videos.
It would be even better if they could explain the Aeons and their various factions in detail; then everyone could understand the future cosmic landscape better.
It was a bit of a shame.
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