Mei, another bowl!"
"Mm, okay, no problem."
Byakuya handed the clean bowl to Mei nearby, who immediately skillfully refilled it with rice, and then he continued to feast.
This gluttonous, wild eating manner almost made Mei not recognize Bai. She almost thought it was some Paramecium in disguise.
But no matter what, seeing the person she liked enjoy her cooking so much was a happy thing for any girl experiencing her first crush.
Mei: (Eat, you can eat it all! If it's not enough, I'll keep cooking. If it's for you, I'll enter the kitchen and give you a full meal!)
On the other side, after several months, Byakuya finally got to eat Mei's homemade meal again, and it was Shenzhou cuisine, which immediately whetted his appetite.
He ate about as much as Kiana this meal.
(So delicious. Mei's cooking is truly the best. By the way… I wonder how Sirin and the others are doing now, and if they're eating well.)
This worry lasted only a few seconds before Byakuya shook his head, thinking he must be overthinking it.
With Cecilia, the super good mother, even if he hadn't been by their side all these years, Sirin and the others would surely have a wonderful life.
Byakuya thought that he must find an opportunity to visit them later, after all, it was a promise they had made.
But when he thought of Cecilia, he subconsciously thought of Kiana again, both Kianas, that is.
The true Kiana, which is Durandal.
Although he didn't know how she was doing now, he thought Otto wouldn't lay a hand on her after what he said before his death.
Byakuya genuinely wasn't worried about this, as in the original plot, Otto also treated Durandal as his student.
And the other Kiana, the one before Byakuya's eyes…
(The plot of the Second Honkai Eruption has been altered so much by me, how did this girl even come into existence?)
According to the system, no matter how Byakuya changed the past, as long as it wasn't completely wiped out, these destined important characters would be fine.
This meant that the birth of K423 Kiana was bound to happen; even if the past changed, the world's corrective nature would still ensure her birth.
Even if the process differed from the plot Byakuya knew, she was undoubtedly Kiana.
To give another example, the Shariac Stigmata crystal, Mistelin Schariac, which was originally born from Cecilia's death, would still come into existence in some other form in this world line where Cecilia survived.
Even if the process was different, the destiny of their birth would never be wrong, unless… Byakuya killed everyone in the past, doing something that completely destroyed the entire Honkai Impact 3 plot.
But now he was genuinely curious.
(According to the original plot, Kiana was an artificial human created by fusing the genes of Durandal and Herrscher Sirin, but since I changed the Second Honkai Eruption and Sirin avoided becoming the Herrscher of the Void, what exactly were this girl's synthetic ingredients… Ah? Uh, wait! Hold on a minute! No way, no way, no way!)
Byakuya suddenly realized.
He thought of a certain possibility.
He was so shocked that the chopsticks in his hand dropped.
In the original plot, when Otto created Kiana, he used the genes of Herrscher Sirin and Durandal, but was Sirin the important part? No, clearly not!
The Herrscher of the Void was the important part!
And now Byakuya had replaced Sirin as the Herrscher of the Void, which meant… the Paramecium in front of him was actually fused with his genes and Durandal's!!
"......"
Byakuya was speechless. After realizing this, he suddenly didn't even want to eat the food Mei made. He stared subtly at the Paramecium in front of him, his emotions incredibly complex.
Kiana, being stared at like that, was also a bit flustered. She subconsciously picked up Mei's cookbook to cover her face and spoke.
"Byakuya, why are you staring at me like that?"
Due to the Herrscher of the Void's core within him, Bai's attractiveness to Kiana was like catnip to a cat, full of temptation.
Kiana instinctively wanted to cling and lick him.
Byakuya folded his arms and was silent for a moment, then suddenly stood up and approached the Paramecium with an oppressive aura, saying.
"Call me Daddy!"
"Eh? Eh?"
"Hurry, call me Daddy!"
"Da… Daddy?"
Overwhelmed by this sudden aura, and with the core inside her making the white-haired furball instinctively obey Byakuya.
Of course, the most important reason was the Kaslana Family's inherited trait: when there's an external brain, their own brain goes offline. Kiana now regarded Byakuya as her external brain, and when he suddenly said that.
She subconsciously called out.
"Hiss!! It feels a bit strange, Kiana, call me again?" Bai blinked, taking a deep breath .
And Kiana, realizing what happened, immediately bristled.
"Byakuya, you tricked me! I'll fight you!"
"Hey hey hey, don't resort to violence. Alright, alright, I apologize. What's the big deal? Back in our dorm, who didn't have several 'good sons' and several 'daddies' at the same time?"
"What the hell is that?! I don't care, today I must show you how amazing this Miss is!"
"Oh? Then let me see it."
Byakuya curled his lips and beckoned to the Paramecium in front of him, indicating for the cat to come over.
"Hmph! Byakuya, you're finished!"
"Come on, if you lose, call me Daddy again."
"Fine! But if I win, you call me… Uh, why would I want you to call me Daddy? If I win, you give me the dinner Mei made with her own hands today!"
"Deal!"
…Ten minutes later…
Kiana knelt on the ground in defeat, OTZ.
Byakuya smiled, holding a chopstick, and squatted in front of her, poking the girl.
"How is this possible! How could I lose to Byakuya, ahhh, I can't accept this!"
"Heh heh~ A mere Kiana wants to turn the world upside down? Five hundred thousand years too early. Come on, hurry up and call, a knight of the great Kaslana Family has to keep their word, you know."
"Guh-woo, Da… Daddy…"
"Eh Good daughter, hahahaha"
Byakuya happily rubbed this white-haired furball.
It was normal that he couldn't beat the Paramecium when he was an ordinary person, after all, she was a Kaslana~
But now he possessed the Authority of five herrscher cores (incomplete) and a dual fusion Stigmata, plus Kiana herself was careless.
If he couldn't handle this Paramecium, Byakuya felt he might as well find a block of tofu and bash his head in.
As for 'Daddy' and such, it was just a joke. Although his genes might be part of her composition, it was merely an insignificant formality.
After all, no matter how she came into being.
She was the girl who would fight for all the beauty in the world—Kiana Kaslana.
Byakuya knew this all too well.