Chapter 155: You Sneaky Jiang Qiao! Acting in Front of !
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Looking at the sanatorium that had returned to its lively atmosphere, Aponia showed a heartfelt smile, then walked to the side of the pink-haired girl near the wall and softly expressed her gratitude: “Thank you for your help, Miss Elysia.”
“No need to be polite. I’m also very happy to be able to help others as much as possible.”
“If you’re done with your business, then we should talk about the main matter.”
Hearing those words that carried a hint of seriousness, Aponia sighed lightly and nodded:
“Please speak, Miss Elysia.”
Although she hadn’t yet figured out what exactly the Fire Moth that Jiang Qiao ntioned was, just from the inhuman thods that this girl nad Elysia had displayed in front of the Apocalypse Church, anyone could tell that this pink-haired girl was definitely not an ordinary person.
And her target seed to be herself — Aponia’s intuition told her so.
“First, let explain the concept of Honkai to you…”
【Elysia】 spoke softly, her gaze falling on the faces of those children who had regained their laughter — the keen eyesight and sensitivity to Honkai Energy that a Herrscher possessed allowed her to easily sense the traces of Honkai on so of those individuals.
In this world, there weren’t only large-scale disasters like major Honkai eruptions; there were also countless small-scale Honkai incidents. According to the intelligence he had obtained from I, the Eastern European region where Twilight Street was located had already beco a frequent area for small-scale Honkai incidents after the Third Eruption. Previously, due to scale issues, Fire Moth’s main focus was still on the Asia-Pacific region, so their attention to this area was sowhat limited by distance.
Honkai sickness… Aponia was already taking in such patients at this ti.
While explaining the concept of Honkai to Aponia and observing those patients, Jiang Qiao understood in his heart.
Indeed, the timing was about right.
Not long after the Fifth Eruption broke out, Kalpas, who had been hiding sowhere unknown, ended up on Twilight Street. Shortly after, a major Honkai eruption occurred in the Twilight Street area and was investigated by Fire Moth — Kalpas and Aponia were brought back together by Sakura.
Although the tiline was completely off when looked at from a temporal perspective, as the original Third Eruption in Nagazora City should have occurred at least one or two years after the Second Eruption, considering what he had done in Nagazora City, as well as the successive appearance of the Herrscher of Domination and the Herrscher of Wind… if the Herrscher of Domination was born before the 4th Herrscher, then actually the current Herrscher of Wind would be the true 5th Herrscher.
It all matched up, everything matched.
“The world… is actually like this?”
Although she appeared incredibly calm and composed, and indeed was so, no matter how strong Aponia’s ability to accept new things was, after learning of the existence of ‘Honkai’ as soone who had previously been an ordinary person, she inevitably felt sowhat shocked and lost.
After a mont, she ca back to her senses and looked toward the patients she had taken in, showing a sorrowful expression as she murmured in despair:
“It seems I’ve done sothing terrible again.”
Among the secrets that Jiang Qiao had revealed, it was inevitable that the concept of ‘Honkai sickness’ would be involved.
And the truth about ‘Honkai sickness’ was like a bolt from the blue for the current Aponia.
After all, she had taken in these holess people suffering from terminal illness out of good intentions.
— But this was definitely not doing any good deed.
Although Honkai sickness was not a highly contagious disease, it still had a certain degree of infectivity… when the scale reached a certain level, it would greatly increase the probability of Honkai occurring in an area, or even directly trigger a Honkai eruption.
The tragedy of Twilight Street could be said to have been caused by Aponia’s kindness.
She had taken in those patients, resulting in originally healthy children also contracting the terminal illness and becoming targets for elimination. Even the residents of Twilight Street who often helped the sanatorium lost their lives in this unwarranted disaster.
Although the current Aponia had not yet reached such an outco, that kind of ‘foresight’ ability that she would only possess after fusing with the genes of ‘Mitra’ seed to already show signs even when she was still an ordinary person.
After learning the true nature of ‘Honkai sickness,’ she seed to have already foreseen such a future.
A sense of guilt from the bottom of her heart arose — born from good intentions, yet bringing evil consequences. She would not feel disgust or hatred toward those she had helped; the only thing she had was the sin placed upon herself.
Filled with sin, thinking only of redemption — Aponia instinctively wanted to do sothing to atone for this transgression, but quickly fell into bewildered helplessness.
How could she act? No matter how much she sought redemption, what she brought seed to be only bad and worse results.
A sincere sense of powerlessness spread from her limbs and bones, making her collapse weakly to the ground like soone about to drown, even breathing felt difficult.
At this mont, Aponia felt even more desperate than when she had been on the stake enduring the scorching flas.
At least the heat and pain brought by the flas could give her a mont of peace, serving as a kind of ‘punishnt’ to judge the sins she had committed — even though in Aponia’s view, that was so insignificant.
Emotions of guilt filled her entire body, making this compassionate sister’s shoulders tremble uncontrollably — but before this desperate emotion could spread and grow, a pair of delicate hands grasped her trembling hands. Looking up, what ca into view was the pink-haired girl who had sohow also sat down on the ground in front of her. ‘She’ held her hands and showed a reassuring sweet smile.
Without excessive words, the girl calling herself ‘Elysia’ seed to be saying: “It’s okay, I’m here.”
The reassuring feeling made Aponia’s gradually silent heart beat again, as if new vitality had been injected into it.
Like the dawn of hope, once again driving away despair from around her.
It might sound sowhat ridiculous — Aponia, who ca from a choir, was actually not much of a believer in the existence of so-called deities, even though she appeared so devout, it couldn’t hide the rebellion against fate in her bones, the impulse to change others’ unfortunate destinies.
But—
Looking at the girl before her, feeling that temperature no different from an ordinary person.
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