To be honest, Kiana actually didn't taste what flavor that piece of tofu was.
Because the moment it entered her mouth, her brain erupted with a sharp explosion, as if the folds of her cerebral cortex were being smoothed out.
Because of this, after this piece of tofu... let's just call this thing tofu... after this tofu entered her mouth, she lost consciousness.
In a daze, her consciousness seemed to be dragged into the underworld. At the Bridge of Helplessness, she saw her deceased great-grandmother waving at her.
She also dreamed that Lady Meng by the Bridge of Helplessness served her a bowl of Meng Po soup, but when she picked it up, it looked like noodles no matter how she looked at it.
Before she could taste what flavor the noodles were, a sudden feeling of falling appeared.
So she woke up.
Looking blankly at the ceiling, Kiana found herself in Lucius's living room again.
Then she heard:
"You're awake. You're a Valkyrie now."
Hearing this, Kiana immediately reached down.
But soon, she realized she was already a girl, so her whole person deflated like a leaking balloon, her face gloomy.
Only then did she have time to look around. Raising her head, she saw Lucius standing in front of her holding a glass of water.
Seeing her sit up, he handed her the water glass.
Kiana took it and found it was actually warm water.
"Since you're not feeling well, drink more hot water." Lucius gave her a brilliant smile.
But Kiana was so gloomy she just wanted to smash the glass in his face.
However, feeling the nausea in her stomach, she still picked up the water glass and drank.
After the warm water went down and her stomach felt better, she thought of something else.
"Wait." Kiana stared at Lucius. "Wasn't I eating at Mei's house? How did I end up at your place?"
"Because I just fished you out of the ICU!"
"???"
Seeing Kiana's confusion, Lucius explained:
"You passed out while eating and were sent to the hospital by Mei's family."
"The hospital needed a family member to sign. To prevent your parents from finding out about your identity, I could only pretend to be a family member and bring you out to prevent your identity from being exposed."
"No need to thank me."
Kiana rolled her eyes.
"Oh, I really thank you!"
"Like I said, we're brothers, no need to thank me."
Kiana didn't speak, just drained all the warm water in the glass.
After drinking, she was about to return the glass to Lucius.
However, the moment she extended the glass in her hand:
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a shattering sound, the glass in her hand exploded into shards all over the floor.
Kiana stared blankly at the glass fragments remaining in her palm.
Only now did she realize that, excluding the nausea in her stomach, her physical condition was actually better than ever before.
She felt powerful strength flowing through her blood vessels. Right now, she felt like she could easily punch through a wall.
"This is...?"
To Kiana's confusion, Lucius gave an answer.
"Stigmata. I implanted stigmata in you while you were unconscious."
"Stigmata?"
"Just think of it as superpowers from fantasy works. Congratulations, my good brother. From now on, you're a Valkyrie with supernatural powers."
Lucius looked at the system task bar.
[Task: Witness MEI Corp's young miss Raiden Mei enroll in Chiba Academy. Reward: 300 Crystals, A-rank Stigmata Selection Box x1]
[Task Status: Completed, reward can be claimed]
[Task: Witness Kiana and Raiden Mei become friends. Reward: 300 Crystals, A-rank Stigmata Selection Box x1]
[Task Status: Completed, reward can be claimed]
While Kiana was still unconscious, he had already completed the check-in tasks.
First was the task of establishing MEI Corp. He directly used the huge funds obtained from Eden to acquire a company in Nagazora City that was about to go bankrupt, which mainly manufactured engineering machinery, and renamed it MEI Corp.
With Eden providing financial support, he could build MEI Corp from scratch, but he didn't have that much time.
With only about a year left until the Third Eruption, by the time he finished building MEI Corp's framework from scratch, the entire East Asia would probably have been wiped out by the great Eruption.
So the optimal solution was naturally to acquire an existing company and then open for business.
However, his arrangement for MEI Corp wasn't to be discarded after completing the check-in. The upcoming creation of St. Freya Academy would still need MEI's resources.
So next, he would carry out sweeping reforms and upgrades to this newly branded MEI Corp to ensure it could fulfill his requirements.
However, when MEI Corp was officially established, the system showed that the previously missing Raiden Mei had been detected, so the check-in was naturally completed.
At the same time, Kiana and Mei, who had already become friends, naturally allowed him to complete the second check-in task as well.
This reward gave a total of 600 crystals and two sets of A-rank stigmata.
Lucius directly selected one set from A-rank Valkyrie period Kiana and loaded it into his good brother's body, allowing her to gain most of the combat abilities of A-rank Valkyrie period Kiana.
In other words, only now was his good brother truly Valkyrie Kiana. Her previous state couldn't even compare to Kiana White Comet's stats.
Looking at the glass fragments remaining in her palm, Kiana was stunned.
Although she had already believed that Lucius was someone who returned from 50,000 years in the future and had witnessed his various incredible abilities during this time.
But only at this moment, personally experiencing supernatural power flowing through her body, did she realize the weight of these words.
After being told by Lucius about the future tragedy, her heart had always been uneasy.
Because no matter how powerful her future self was, right now she was just a high school student with slightly better physique. Facing the future calamity like natural disasters, she could only feel powerless.
But now, feeling the abundant power filling her body, her heart truly ignited with fighting spirit.
Power was precisely the most advantageous weapon to break fate.
Kiana pressed her lips together and said to Lucius with utmost seriousness: "Thank you."
In response, Lucius put his arm around her, hooking shoulders with her, and said with great pride:
"We're brothers, why be polite?"
"With you and I brothers united, we'll definitely make that Herrscher of Finality have no return!"
"Bang!"
Kiana gave Lucius an elbow, making him gasp.
But she quickly smiled again, hooking her arm around Lucius's neck in return, putting her arm around his shoulders and saying:
"You're right, Lucius, my good brother."
"If it's really as you said, the future is extremely dark, and I have the chance to become the savior who ends it all."
"Then take my power and use it. I trust you, just as you trust me, as always."
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