Nagazora City under the cover of night, its streets filled with ruins and broken walls.
A giant creature, its body covered in white carapace and as large as a skyscraper, sent a petite girl with gray hair and spiral twin-Tails flying.
"Bronya—!"
A black-haired ponytail girl wearing a sailor uniform shouted worriedly at the flying Bronya.
Before she could react, the giant creature raised its blade-like arm and smashed it down toward her stunned figure.
At the very moment the blade was about to fall on the girl, a silver-haired girl with twin Roman curls, wearing the same sailor uniform, rushed in front of the black-haired girl like a flash of lightning.
"Mei, always thinking about that Little Dot Bronya, I'm going to get jealous."
As soon as she finished speaking, the silver-haired girl suddenly pushed the girl she called Mei away.
At the same time, the monster's blade-like arm crashed down.
Puchi—!
The silver light fell, slashing harshly across the silver-haired girl's back. Blood splattered instantly, and her body slumped forward weakly, like a falling leaf.
Mei's eyes widened, her face turned pale, and her pupils shrank. She reached out and caught the silver-haired girl, her pale lips trembling slightly.
"Ki... Kiana..."
Mei murmured subconsciously, her voice filled with heartache and self-reproach, and then a powerful energy erupted from her body.
"AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
With a roar, purple lightning flickered all around Mei as she slowly stood up, holding Kiana.
Five diamond-shaped light wings of varying sizes, flickering with lightning, gradually condensed behind Mei's left side. She looked at the giant creature before her with cold eyes.
"Die, you scum."
Rumble— Crack—!
A bolt of purple lightning fell from the sky, engulfing the giant beast and turning it into ashes in an instant.
"Kiana, I won't allow you to die at the hands of anyone but me."
As she spoke, she raised her cold eyes to look at the giant floating battleship that had appeared in the sky at some unknown point.
"After I deal with these ants, I'll save you, my Kiana."
'Mei' held Kiana and slowly floated into the air.
On the battleship, a red figure descended rapidly, finally landing on the open ground in front of 'Mei'.
While the two were in a standoff, Kiana, whose eyes were closed in 'Mei's' arms, suddenly frowned, her face showing a hint of pain.
A memory that felt both familiar and strange gradually surfaced in her mind.
It was the memory of a youth named 'Kugimiya Rie (lol)'.
At the same time, a power within Kiana, who was lying in 'Mei's' arms, rapidly spread outward, instantly enveloping the entire world and dyeing everything gray.
Everything within the space seemed to fall into eternity, frozen at that very moment.
Time stopped flowing—
"These memorys, could they be..."
Floating in the Consciousness Space, Kiana looked at the surrounding memory fragments and murmured.
These memorys felt incredibly close and familiar to her, as if she had experienced them all herself.
The memory fragments kept changing—
From birth, to being abandoned, to being adopted by an orphanage, and then living twenty unremarkable years as an otaku, until finally cosplaying as Kiana at a convention and being punched into a 'close encounter' with the sun by a stranger cosplaying as the Dayun Auto Man.
The youth's memory came to an abrupt halt, followed by her own memories, the youth's soul merging with the little girl in the laboratory incubation pod.
The subsequent scenes perfectly matched everything she, Kiana, had experienced so far.
The memory finished playing, and all the fragments merged into a ball of light, becoming one with Kiana.
"Having digested these... let's call them memories of a past life, after digesting these memorys, This Young Miss hasn't changed much."
Personality is built from scratch, formed by one's environment and experiences.
Even with the awakening of past life memories, for the Kiana who now has a complete personality, it's only equivalent to watching a deeply moving movie.
"It's just that..."
Kiana's eyes flickered, she bit her lower lip, clenched her fists, and her expression became somewhat depressed.
From her past life memorys, she learned the truth that she was merely a Clone created by a cuckold pure-love warrior to fulfill his long-cherished wish, and was not the real Kiana.
Although she knew that Durandal would later personally acknowledge her, the truth of being a 'Clone' was still very heavy for her right now.
But surprisingly, her mind didn't collapse—perhaps it was because of the past life memorys?
"No! Now is not the time to be depressed, Mei!"
The depressed Kiana suddenly snapped out of it. Thinking that Mei might be injured by that Honkai Beast outside, she became anxious to leave.
Perhaps due to excessive worry, she selectively forgot the plot from her memorys.
Just then, a mechanical voice of indeterminate gender suddenly appeared in her mind.
[Detected Host's memory recovery, system officially starting up.]
"System! No matter what system you are, let This Young Miss out! I promised Mei that I would always protect her!"
Kiana slapped the system screen anxiously.
[Detected Host's body is severely damaged, awakening is currently not recommended.]
[Furthermore, time outside has temporarily stopped flowing. During this period, the Host need not worry about Miss Mei suffering any DMG.]
"Whew... that's good."
Kiana breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and patted her chest, causing those little bunnies to jiggle adorably.
As long as her Mei is okay, nothing else matters!
[Since the system has just started up, the Host is granted 3 spins on the Lottery Wheel.]
[The characters in the wheel are all '■■■' from the myriad worlds.]
A giant Lottery Wheel with a sticker of Kiana's face in the center appeared before Kiana.
The wheel had countless slots, most of which contained a black silhouette.
"Why do these silhouettes' figures feel so familiar...?"
Kiana scratched her cheek, feeling slightly puzzled.
Why do some of the silhouettes look more and more like scaled-down versions of her?
Unable to figure it out, she simply stopped thinking about it. Kiana went to the side of the wheel, jumped to grab it, and pulled down with all her strength.
The wheel spun at high speed. Kiana returned to the front, her deep blue eyes shimmering with anticipation as she watched the spinning wheel.
"Dad, bless me. Please let me draw something good so I'll have the power to protect Mei from ever being hurt again!"
The wheel gradually slowed down and finally stopped. The pointer landed on a slender silhouette with fists clenched, arms semi-bent at its sides, and a long, thin Tail behind it.
[Congratulations to the Host for drawing a random skill *1 from Dragon Ball Super Universe's '■■■'.]
[Note: The Host can randomly obtain one of the skills that this character has mastered either now or in the future.]
"Yay! As expected of This Young Miss, my luck is pretty good~"
Seeing Dragon Ball, Kiana's previous gloom was swept away, and she jumped up in joy.
After all, no matter how weak an ability from the Dragon Ball world is, it won't be that bad.
At least for the current stage, it's more than enough for self-defense!
[Beginning the draw for the character's ability!]
A square light screen appeared before Kiana. The patterns on the screen kept changing, finally slowing down and bursting with multicolored light.
[Congratulations to the Host for obtaining the Technique of the Gods: Ultra Instinct!]