Lone Guardian - A Honkai Impact Story

Serpent's Awakening

Timeskip, 2005, 9 Years Before 3rd Eruption

It has been already a few years since I arrived here, with that not much has changed. Our little restaurant has not been so little anymore and it expanded quite a bit, a few staff that has been highly trusted by our neighbors and us has been here too.

With that I needed to tread carefully, with the Kaslana Family being our neighbors, I'm sure Otto is keeping tabs on them

That, and the vampire has been shoving more updated info in my head, the truth behind the fate of Siegfried, to the eventual climax of Kolosten.

Like damn, all these things are now confusing since I am here changing the timeline

(Don't want to spoil you guys to those who haven't reached to the point of the story of nearing the end of the Kolosten Arc)

I sigh, it's best not to dwell on it, with that new info in y head thanks to Mr. Kaleidoscope, I'm getting more confused how I can press on.

Onto other matters, I had finally sealed the deal with Sakura.

(Yes, I know what you'll say Takeshi, whoever you are)

Thanks to a bunch of MATERIAL, I managed somehow.

(Don't ask for codes pls, there are some who are still pure reading this I swear)

Now, she's on her final month of pregnancy, the doctor said we'll be expecting twins.

Kallen on the other hand decided to go incognito, but she sends letters regularly. From time to time she visits and takes a rest here, knowing that her childhood friend had become a madman hellbent on bringing her back.

Don't get me started, when I shared what I know of Otto, she broke done crying and she blames herself for what had he become.

Flashback

"No.... That's not true right?!" My memories don't lie, sharing my specific memories of what I know of Otto, she falls to her knees.

Sakura just embraced her while I grit my teeth, it was a hard decision but it had to be done.

I know for sure Theresa knows more, while Siegfried and Cecilia just only have a glimpse of Otto's track record.

"If only I had just went along with him, he could've had been.... AAARGH!" She continue to break down, with her fist cracking the ground in her frustration and grief.

Deep down, Kallen still cares for Otto, as she became the light of his world, without her, he had been drowned in hate and grief, carrying her will, knowing her heart does not belong to him.

"He had lived for 500 years already, the same time your soul is trapped in the Stigmata Space. He became less cruel over time, but not less ruthless, he'll watch the world burn just to see you again." I started, as the two girls listened on.

"You can cry, you can grieve, but you must not give up, by doing so, it may be too late to drag him back from his already blackened heart over the years. As for me, I hate him, but I respect his character."

"Huh?" Kallen wondered about that, hating a person but respecting their character? Sound contradictory.

"I don't know more about him, out of all the people in the world, only you understand him and know him better, even if you can say that Theresa had been with him for a long, long time. For sure, I'm sure you know about what he was doing before your execution."

Kallen always knew, about his inhumane experiments just to cure the Black Death, but she didn't say anything, knowing her dear friend has only few allies and friends to call his own.