Chapter 222: "Three key of home"

"What should I do?"

Have tried to open this pair of giant hands in various ways, including violent methods too. Kiana, who didn't make any changes, gave up.

She asked Misteln for help.

However, after she waited a few minutes and there was still no response from the other party, Kiana began to realize something was wrong.

"Outsiders should not participate with this test. I kicked her out."

"Grandpa Kevin?"

looked to the side in surprise, and realized that there was Kevin standing next to her, staring at the pair of giant hands with a cold gaze. Kiana approached Kevin with a look full of hope.

"Grandpa, can you help sister Thea?"

Kevin shook his head: "This was her choice, the consequences she had to face for being too greedy. Kaslana's responsibility was much heavier than she could have imagined."

"I won't help you wake up your sister. You have to do it yourself."

"Go that way, [she] seems to be looking for something too. I hope you can find what you're looking for and pass this test."

Speaks in a Riddler tone as usual, and makes Kiana even more confused. Kevin refused to speak any more, and Kiana could only look at the path that Kevin had just opened.

"She?"

One last look at the pair of giant hands, and decided to leave, following the path opened by Kevin. the scenery around her slowly began to change.

The black mist began to slowly spread. Snow began to fall from the cloudy sky, and gusts of cold began to cruelly hit her face.

Realizing that her surroundings were slowly turning into a snow field. Kiana, who saw the familiar old cabin, let out a hot breath from her mouth.

Thea's stigmata room.

She didn't expect that she would be led to this place.

Hold the doorknob, and try to open it. The old cabin door didn't move, and Kiana scratched her head in confusion.

"What's wrong, am I not allowed to go in?"

Tried to get into the old cabin using some secret tricks she knew, but it still didn't work. Kiana became frustrated.

Suddenly, she heard someone shouting from a distance.

"Get away from me you damn monster!"

"Ah? Big sis?"

Heard a very familiar little girl's voice, and decided to check this voice first. Kiana ran along the snow, and she found what she was looking for.

A little girl with white hair with purple tips, was holding a baseball bat tightly, and swinging it around to scare away the wild wolves that were approaching her with a very ferocious look on they face.

The little girl looked scared, and there were traces of tears in the corners of her eyes. But her hand holding the baseball bat did not tremble, and she shouted even more boldly.

"What are you looking at, Roar!!! This person standing in front of you is the person standing at the top of the food chain, human!"

"Get away from me before I beat you all black and blue!"

Crazy wolf: "GRRRR!!!"

Seeing that the skinny wolves showed no signs of retreating, and instead there was black smoke mixed with red, coming out of their bodies making them even more ferocious. The little girl took a few steps back with some fear.

"I-I'll be a good girl... Please don't be angry okay? It was just a joke..."

"Roarrrrr!!!"

The infected wolves didn't care about the little girl's apology, and they all started to open their mouths wide.

The little girl's body stiffened.

"Sis, you have to watch your mouth carefully. Don't use your mocking skills casually."

"... Who?"

Seeing Kiana appear in front of her, and finish off the wolf infected with honkai energy very easily, only needing a few slashes. The little girl's face flushed with admiration.

When Kiana smiled brightly at her, the little girl took Kiana's outstretched hand very excitedly.

"So amazing! Is big sister a valkyrie? May I know what your name is?"

Kiana's hand, which wanted to clean the little girl's hair from the pile of snow, suddenly froze.

Looking at her big sister, Thea, who was now smaller, the same as she had seen in the stigmata room several years ago. Kiana asked carefully.

"My name is Kiana Kaslana, a valkyrie! If I may ask what your name is?"

"My name is K-423, nice to meet you valkyrie sister! Thank you for helping me!"

Felt a lump in her throat because she heard a name she hadn't heard in a long time. Kiana looked at this small version of Thea with a complicated look.

She realized that something was wrong with the little girl in front of her.

"What are you doing here?"

"Me? Oh! I was sent by her to come here to look for the missing parts. Without that, I couldn't go home."

Kiana suddenly realized: "The house you mean is the pair of giant hands there?"

K-423 was confused: "Ah, how did big sister know?"

Confirming her guess that this small version of Thea was related to the real Thea, and those missing parts probably had the function of opening that pair of giant hands. Kiana breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed that even without her help, big sister Thea could save herself.

"Missing parts? May I go with you to look for them?"

"Of course, the more the better. Moreover, big sister is a very strong valkyrie, this trip will be very easy!"

"Then what are you looking for?"

Hearing this, the smile on K-423's face suddenly froze.

"Hmm... That... I think I forgot."

K-423's expression became ugly.

"B-But wait a minute, I remembered something! I have to take those three parts before I can go back home."

"That's right, Something precious, something painful, and something that must be guarded!'

"Yes that's it!"

Seeing K-423 using her brain's full capacity, trying to remember what she was looking for. Kiana tilted her head in confusion.

"Something precious, something painful, something to guard?"

Somehow it feels very abstract.

It sounds like searching for a lost memory. Is that what the little version of Thea and the real Thea are looking for?

"Ah, it's no use remembering, I completely forgot what all that meant."

K-423 became extremely frustrated, and she stomped her feet in anger.

"But even though I've forgotten what I was looking for, I at least know where they all are."

"Sister valkyrie, come with me!"

K-423 led the way, and Kiana just shrugged her shoulders and followed the little girl somewhere.

Got to the front of the old cabin, and grabbed the doorknob. The door that Kiana couldn't open was finally opened by K-423.

"Here, I can feel that one of the things I'm looking for is here!"

"Something precious!"

"Sister valkyrie, come on in!"