Chapter XXV-EX/EX-8
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Niggurath
Durandal
"Blade Durandal"
Shigure Kira
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Line after line of alien text rolled across the screen of Niggurath's control console. It looked like she was running some rather complicated progamsprogams.
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🔇 N/ANiggurath
Thank you. That was a tough battle.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
But I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer. Due to concerns about the stability of our communications channel, they've chosen to deal with some issues first, before re-establishing communications.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A
Durandal
They? Are you talking about Blade Durandal? Have you already made contact?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Yes, the AI. It's currently receiving the temporary link to the bubble universe broadcast by the Sugar Key, so it can't switch to a human form.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...Understood. I'll just use this time to get in the right frame of mind...I mean, prepare myself psychologically.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Anyway, I'm really grateful to have this opportunity today.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Hey, why are you being so modest? A friend of Kira's is a friend of mine.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Huh? Wait a second—
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Ah... excellent. Wow, that worked perfectly.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
What happened?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Success! It has received and implemented the connection protocol! There's no time to lose, let's try to communicate!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Ah, hold on—
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A???
Testing, testing. Bianka, do you read me? If you do, please reply.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...Loud and clear! I hear you loud and clear, Holy Blade Durandal!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Ah. It's been years. You were a girl back then, now you're a young woman. Wonderful, wonderful.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
What are your measurements now? Looks like you have nice proportions.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
... Hey!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
As soon as we establish communication, you say that kind of crap? Kira is still here!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Ah... Sounds like Rita isn't there, then.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Yeah. But don't worry, she's done well these past few years. It's just that she isn't physically suited to getting close to the Imaginary Tree, so she's not with me today.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Actually, just the fact that you were able to reach this dimension with their help is impressive.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
But how do I put this...I'm pretty impressive myself. I've finished all my important work, so I have time to chat with you.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...Huh? You're done with your work? I thought we were just about to start the critical phase.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Hehe. That's the power of a computer processor. I can do things at a speed you can't even imagine.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
But since this thing can't be done perfectly, I'm afraid after today I won't get much of a chance to come out and get fresh air. So I might lend out part of me.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Uh...what do you mean "lend out part of you"? Are you talking about the gems you're made of?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Ah, my fault. Sometimes my brain runs faster than my mouth. Well, in machine form, I guess I don't really have a mouth...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Enough with the jokes. We likely have limited time to interact like this. You'd better let me analyze the whole situation again.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
After operating for several years, I gradually became aware that the crisis in that bubble universe originated when it was born.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
50000 years ago, to ward off the Honkai threat, humans were trying to discharge Honkai energy into a bubble universe in the Sea of Quanta.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
But as thethe Herrscher destroyed their research center on the Mu continent, they were unable to implement their plan. Luckily the ether anchor on the artificial bubble universe wasn't damaged.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Humans then tried to turn the place they had been using as a "garbage dump" into a refuge that could be inhabited by humans— that's the the way we see it today.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
While the project of turning the bubble universe into a sanctuary was somewhat successful, the equipment from when it was a garbage dump had to be left in place.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
In the hands of a madman, this hidden equipment created a devastating tragedy.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Since then, the history of that world has been nothing more than a desperate struggle to survive.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Bianka, when you went on your expedition to that world, you not only sealed the fate of that madman, but also took responsibility for saving that world from collapse.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Just as Niggurath's analysis predicted, the dimensions of the bubble universe hindered it's reattachment to the Imaginary Tree.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
It's "inversion baseline" still has to be anchored on a stable negentropy system. To put it simply, there is no way to complete the mission at this time.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...That's ok, I've prepared myself for this. Everything will be just like it was, right?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
I'm afraid not.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Eh?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Although my responsibilities haven't changed— now you can share the burden that you once carried alone, Bianka.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Do you mean...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Come. I'll give you temporary access to the Sugar Key so you can experience it for yourself.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A< The screen goes black. >
The girl nodded her head. Countless streams of data suddenly began pouring into her mind.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AFor an instant, she understood what the Overseer meant when he said "a consciousness so enormous that it defied common sense."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ABut unlike what the Overseer had said about the Honkai Persona, this consciousness seemed to fill her mind with warmth and nostalgia...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A...Like a birthday candle Rita lit for her on New Years Eve.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Calm yourself, resting place of the universe."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"I am spacetime itself."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"The source of the power that destroys all."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"My role is to obliterate all universes."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AThe girl felt a familiar power flowing through her body.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AFive years earlier, she had used this power to cut through layered space, cutting a manifold that supported an entire continent free from the bubble universe.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AIn those 5 years, this power had been lying dormant not in base reality, but in a strange dimension within her body.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AIn terms of fighting capability, the girl who already possessed the Abyss Flower didn't need assistance from the Holy Blade. But as the name she now went by demonstrated—
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AThe Holy Blade Durandal had become a symbol of her life as a Valkyrie.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Now, after extracting my core, you can transfer the duty of protecting this world to any of your reliable colleagues.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
This way, more people can share the burden, right?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Well, strictly speaking, only one person at a time can assume the responsibility. But now you can take turns.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Through studying technologies that mimic the Sugar Key, I can now serve as an intermediary, and establish an indirect link between the bubble universe and the Imaginary Tree.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Although there is currently no way to realize our ultimate goal of an "independent bubble universe", we don't need to rely on your body to protect that world anymore.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Also, I've calibrated Sumeru for you: That way, after you give my core to someone else, you will still be able to use the power of the Astral Harness for a short time.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Huh— that means the Astral Harness didn't just disappear.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
That's right. Ultimately, the Astral Harness relies not on any particular bubble universe, but on the power of the Sea of Quanta itself.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
But aside from these high-tech devices, where did that thing called Sumeru come from? I want to find another one that I can use myself.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...In your database, do you have a record of a hero named "Su" from the previous era? He was the one who entrusted Sumeru to me.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
He said he once spent several thousand years implementing something called "Project: VALUKA". The development of parallel universes was observed in hopes of finding a way to counter Honkai.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
...I see.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Although I don't have any information about that...if a person like that was willing to transfer Sumeru to you— he must have found the answer he was looking for, right?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
It seems so. He said that in the end, Project Valuka finally found the only answer.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
But he wouldn't tell me any details. I gave the information he left behind to the Overseer, but he wouldn't tell me anything either.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
......
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Hahahah. That's very interesting.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Huh? Have you guessed what it is, Durandal?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
No, I have no idea.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
It's the fact that I don't know that makes it so interesting. Isn't it also this way for humans?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
I can only say that you have some strange ideas about humanity.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Aha, I am not an organic life form like you. Some misunderstandings are normal, it's what makes us unique.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
—Sigh[sic][sic]
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
What happened?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
I'm getting a warning, in 5 minutes the status of the link between the bubble universe and the Imaginary Tree may become unstable due to a chaos phenomenon.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
To ensure there are enough resources to respond, in the next three minutes, I must go manually control some programs.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...I guess that means that our time together is over.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Yes, it's a shame, there's a lot we didnt'didnt' get to talk about. Who won the ShicksalShicksal Championship? And what about the Anti-Entropy trophy?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
You— You care about this? You've never seen a soccer game in your life!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
So what? Hearing you talk about things unrelated to Honkai is the greatest joy for me.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Ah...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
I get it. Well...thanks.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Hehe. Miss Bianka is embarrasedembarrased. So cute.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Well, I really have to go now—
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Though in the future, people may have to sacrifice their lives...I believe that pioneer has found the "only answer."
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
I hope everyone continues to have faith in the world, their colleagues, and themselves. Time will prove them right.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A"Blade Durandal"
Until we meet again, how about I give my physical form to you for safekeeping..
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A
Shigure Kira
...The signal disappeared.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Yeah.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
We'll definitely be able to meet again, right?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
It's good to be optimistic. Though I have a feeling that those people from the previous era are kind of scary.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Hahah. In the beginning Dr. Su also threatened to lock me in his bubble universe.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
...Sounds like that was a bluff. That kind of person wouldn't change their opinion of you so quickly.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Then, Niggurath— where do you get the feeling that those people are scary..
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
I'm not sure.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
...huhhuh?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
It's just a feeling. I thought it was better to tell you.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Hehe, ThanksThanks.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
But when it's time to meet my fate, I will not back down.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
At least now I don't have to shoulder my burden alone.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Hey...maybe it's not so good to say that. That's exactly the way Cecilia thought about it.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
For example, I really don't want that sword of yours. You hold on to it, I don't want a flood of random thoughts coming into my brain!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Uh...I didn't mean it like that...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Sorry, didn't mean to stress you out.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
I just got a little excited. You don't need to apologize. Long ago, you surpassed Niggurath and I in your skill as a Valkyrie. I trust your judgment.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Well, however you say it, the important thing is to get the message accrossaccross, right?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Bianka knows that Kira is worried, Kira knows Bianka can behave herself. No need to dwell on apologies, the SUGARSSUGARS do not advocate such a thing!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Hehe, you're right. Just call us anytime you need help, Bianka.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Okay. And I'll remember to not be so polite next time.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
(...?)
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Then I guess that's it.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
The bubble universe mission has entered a new phase. And we each have many more missions to complete.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Since we can say that this experiment has come to an end—
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
I guess I'll start up the Genius device.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Leaving so soon? Won't you sit down for a while and have some dessert?
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Haha...Bianka is always like this. She rarely gives herself time to relax.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
"We don't need formal etiquette to understand each other." She's always had this approach to life.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Thanks for understanding, Kira.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ADurandal
Hope to see both of you again.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Yeah! Next time remember to treat me to a chocolate buffet!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
That's not enough...let's go sing Karaoke!
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Then forget it, haha. I'm too self-conscious.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/A...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
Her signal has completely disappeared from this space.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/ANiggurath
There's something that can be inferred from her calculations that you didn't bring up. I'm not sure you will have an opportunity to meet again.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
It wasn't the right moment. Besides...
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
...I think in some ways she is definitely different than Cecilia. She doesn't need our help to awaken her power.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
Although the road ahead will surely be difficult, she and Rita will do what they've always done-- find a solution.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AShigure Kira
It'll be alright.
🔇 N/A🔇 N/AEnd