After spending some intimate time with Bronya in the morning, Kiana used her clearance of consciousness to inform all her acquaintances of her awakening, telling them she was going out for a bit and would be back soon.
This caused those who had originally intended to go see Kiana directly to stop in their tracks.
Going out again right after waking up? Well, a few more days wouldn't hurt... Mei didn't wait; instead, she transformed into a bolt of lightning and landed right in front of Kiana's door.
Kiana's sister and mothers—oh, and a younger sister too—rushed over from other rooms after receiving the message.
Bang—!
"Kiana, you..."
The door was pushed open, and Bianca was the first to peek her head in. Seeing Kiana acting all lovey-dovey with Bronya, the corner of her mouth twitched slightly.
All that worrying about her idiot sister for nothing!
She just woke up and she's already indulging in such beauty!
Several more heads popped out from beside Bianca, including a face Kiana hadn't seen before.
But judging by her features, this must be her younger sister, right?
She had the ancestral white hair and the ancestral blue eyes, and her face looked quite a bit like her Stinky Old Dad's.
The sight of the whole family's heads crowded into the doorframe with tears in their eyes made Kiana burst out laughing unkindly.
"Pfft... Hahaha... You guys look so funny!"
Forgive her; those few heads squeezed together really were too ridiculous.
"What are you all... doing blocking the way here?"
A very familiar voice came from outside the door, sounding slightly puzzled, as if not understanding why all these people were crowding there instead of going inside.
"Mei!"
"Kiana..."
Bronya furrowed her brows, looking at Kiana with a hint of resentment before grabbing one of Kiana's arms.
Although she didn't mind sharing Kiana with Mei, seeing Kiana get so excited at the sound of Mei's voice still made her a bit jealous.
"Bronya, didn't you say you wouldn't mind marrying in together with Mei...?"
Feeling the obvious jealousy, Kiana's waving hand froze, and she spoke up sheepishly in a low voice.
"The difference in your reaction between seeing me and seeing Mei is so big, Bronya is unhappy."
Bronya puffed out her cheeks and turned her head away, even subconsciously using the self-referential style she hadn't used in years.
"Bronya, next time we reunite, I'll definitely be even more dramatic than this...!"
"There's a next time?"
Mei walked in behind Bianca and the others, her gaze slicing toward Kiana like a knife upon hearing those words.
"Mei..."
Being scolded, Kiana pouted and looked over aggrievedly, which drew a light hmph from Bronya beside her.
"Bronya, you stop acting up too..."
Mei said, rubbing her forehead with a bit of a headache.
She had no objection to Bronya and Kiana being so close; she had prepared herself for this long ago.
But Bronya seemed a bit jealous now; it looked like she would need to have a heart-to-heart talk with Bronya when she had the time.
"Understood, Mei... Mei."
Bronya said, her face flushing as she immediately changed how she addressed her.
She was all grown up now and no longer as dependent on Mei as she was during the Saint Freya period, so she had stopped using that address for Mei long ago.
"I think I heard a familiar way of addressing me just now, Bronya..."
Mei chuckled at that, then continued looking at Kiana.
Bianca, Rita, Lin, Siegfried, Cecilia, Sirin, Bella, and... the younger sister whose name she didn't know yet, all gathered around.
"Daughter, it's good that you're awake, sigh..."
Siegfried rubbed his moist eyes, then patted Kiana's head, speaking softly.
"Dad, you won't be handsome if you keep crying."
"You brat, you're the only one who calls me Dad now..."
Hearing that familiar address, Siegfried's nose felt sore; he suppressed the urge to cry and scolded her with a low laugh.
"Hehe."
Kiana scratched her head with a silly grin.
Cecilia also reached out to rub Kiana's head, her eyes full of longing for her.
"Kiana, this child is your younger sister, Yueli Kaslana. Her name was specifically chosen in the Xianzhou style."
Cecilia pulled Yueli forward to introduce her.
Yueli blinked her large eyes, curiously sizing up this legendary, omnipotent older sister.
She doesn't look very bright... That was Yueli's first impression of this stranger of a sister.
Kiana's brows knit slightly; she felt like her sister was thinking something rude... It must be her imagination.
She looks quiet and gentle; she probably wouldn't badmouth me in her head.
Kiana thought to herself.
She wondered if it was because she grew up in Xianzhou; this personality didn't seem like something her Stinky Old Dad could have raised.
Logically, shouldn't she be a careless, lively, and active younger sister?
Strange, so strange... What Kiana didn't know was that this sister only appeared well-behaved and cute on the surface, looking like a gentle Demoiselle.
In reality... she was black-hearted to the core.
"Since it's our first time meeting, I don't have much to give you, so I'll just give you a herrscher core and some God Ki."
Thinking it over, there really wasn't much she could give.
Giving the same few things over and over made her look a bit stingy... She definitely had to get some items from the system later to fill up her warehouse.
After sleeping for so many years, there had to be some compensation!
Then Kiana thought for a moment; since she was her biological sister, she couldn't give her anything too weak.
"I've got it! I'll give you this!"
Using the Sequence of Causality as her clearance, Kiana created a Causality Herrscher Core, then sent the core carrying the God Ki into Yueli's body.
This clearance would allow Yueli to interfere with the Sequence of Causality, briefly rewriting the cause and effect of an event.
For example, for someone who has died, she could rewrite the cause of death so that the effect of being dead becomes a state of continued existence.
This was just a simple application; as for deeper uses, Yueli could develop those herself~
And as expected, her original body was more comfortable to use; creating a herrscher core was much faster.
She didn't even need to extract clearance from the Sea of Trees system to create the core... Hm?
Holy crap!
This core's clearance came entirely from herself, no longer being a Herrscher clearance from the Sea of Trees system.
But a system belonging solely to her.
Perhaps this was one of the improvements brought by the upgrade; Kiana could only assume so.
As for what other improvements there were, Kiana would have to research them later when she was alone.
In short, she should now be transcended beyond the worlds of the Sea of Trees system.
A system contains countless worlds and universes, and the universes within the Sea of Trees system are too many to count.
So Kiana felt that she had, at the very least, surpassed the Sea of Trees that nurtures and governs countless worlds.
"Thank you, Sister~"
Yueli gave a sweet smile, her gentle voice calling Kiana back from her wandering thoughts.
"No need for thanks, we're family after all."
Kiana reached out and rubbed the other's head, making herself look more like a reliable older sister.
"Why didn't you just keep sleeping forever, you mere vessel..."
Lin, wearing an anime T-shirt, crossed her arms and turned her head away tsundere-ly.
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