Kiana and the Captain's Bizarre Adventure

Chapter 319 Birth

A heads-up before you read: this chapter contains a lot of background information. If you find it confusing, I apologize in advance.

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“I know what you’re thinking, but Kiana actually established relationships with them much earlier than you think.”

"You mean Kiana and she started their connection a long time ago?" Sora asked.

"At least earlier than Kiana carried out her plan."

"So what exactly is Kiana's plan? Why does the captain think this is related to Kiana's personality change?" Paimon still didn't understand.

"Could Kiana's plan be...?"

Considering Kiana's previous appearance in that archaeological team and what I learned from Farusan afterwards, I've come up with a conjecture, but I'm not entirely sure.

"Could it be that she wants to recreate those recorded great achievements in history?"

“Yes.” The captain nodded. “While this history is the past for Teyvat, it is indeed an uncertain future for Kiana. As long as she doesn’t truly return to the past, it will ultimately remain a false history, and Kiana will be unable to truly anchor herself as the creator of Teyvat.”

For us, it may have been only a very short time, but for Kiana, it truly felt like thousands or even tens of thousands of years had passed. This long period of time forced her humanity to begin to fade. Although on the surface she was still the Kiana we knew, her inner self could not be guaranteed to remain the same…”

"But thankfully, she hasn't changed much, has she?" Kong comforted her.

"Yes, that's also thanks to her..."

"Benefited from?"

"No, it's nothing. I've told you everything I know. If there's nothing else, let's call it a day."

After saying that, the captain got up to leave, leaving only Kong standing there thinking. Of course, he had already paid for the tea.

"So what should we do now?" Paimon asked.

"Let's leave it at that for now. There are no other useful clues at the moment. Let's spend the time investigating the Abyss and the Abyss Cult in various places."

"It seems like this is the only way..."

After deciding on their next step, Kong and the others left Sanwanbuguogang, and a few months later...

During this time, Kong did not find any trace of the Abyss, as if the Abyss had disappeared again since then. Only a small number of Abyss cults were found by Kong and prevented from leading the Abyss to invade Teyvat.

Today is Kiana's birth day, and Sora, who helped search for the Abyss during this time, has been invited to Kiana's residence. Coincidentally, today's date is December 7th, the same day as Kiana's birthday.

With a loud cry of a newborn and the midwife's congratulations, Kiana's child was born.

It was a girl. Kiana was lying on the bed, looking tenderly at her husband holding their newborn daughter. The room was crowded with relatives and friends who had come to offer their congratulations.

Of course, the godmothers who wanted to be Kiana's children crowded around the bed, loudly discussing the child's name. Unfortunately, the child's name had already been decided from the beginning; rather, it was a family tradition from Kiana's previous life. The firstborn daughter of the legitimate family had only one name, and this was a name reserved for the patriarch of each generation—

"Alright, stop arguing. I've already decided on the child's name: Feng Lixi."

This statement naturally ended the naming war, but it also raised another issue.

Why name the child after Liyue?

"Since this child was born in Liyue, why can't he have a Liyue name? As for Kaslana's surname and given name..."

"name is?"

"Keep it secret!"

Kiana would never admit that she hasn't actually decided what her child should be named if she uses Kaslana as her surname, otherwise there would be another naming battle.

Navelette, who had been silently watching the whole thing unfold, naturally understood Kiana's thoughts, but he held the same opinion: he absolutely could not reveal that Kaslana's surname and given name were still undecided.

Kiana's words, of course, did not convince the others, but before they could ask any more questions, Violet stepped in to help them out.

"Please keep quiet. This is better for both Kiana and the newborn baby. If you have anything to discuss, please go outside. Kiana needs to rest right now."

As he spoke, Navelette tapped the ground heavily with his cane. The crowd, seeing Navelette's imposing aura, simply gave him face and remained silent, then quietly went outside.

A few minutes later, only the Captain, Kiana, and Navelette remained in the room. Seeing that everyone else had left, Navelette nodded to Kiana and then left the room to return to Fontaine.

Just kidding. He skipped work for ages to witness Kiana's baby's birth, and if he doesn't go back now, he won't be able to sleep tonight. Although even if he goes back now, he'll still have to work until late at night.

As Navelette gently closed the door, only Kiana, the captain, and Kazeki in the captain's arms remained in the room.

Seeing that everyone had left, the captain gently placed Kazehime next to Kiana and looked at Kiana with a somewhat heavy expression.

"Did they ultimately choose this name?"

"Yes, you know about my family..."

The captain sighed, and then his thoughts drifted back to his past life.

In his past life, he first met Kiana in the fifth grade of elementary school. At that time, the homeroom teacher told them that a transfer student would be joining the class later and hoped that they would treat her well.

Since then, the captain and Kiana have formed a bond. They not only attended the same middle and high schools, but were even in the same class. In college, they were admitted to the same university.

This has led some familiar classmates to complain that the two of them are like characters from a novel brought to life. They studied in the same place from elementary school to high school and even university. It's hard to imagine that this isn't a world from a novel.

Even worse, the captain's parents passed away in an accident when he was in high school. That period was the darkest time in the captain's life. If it weren't for Kiana always being by his side and her cheerful personality gradually influencing him, the captain would probably have already fallen into depravity and self-destruction.

Although the two hadn't officially confirmed their relationship by the time they got to university, their feelings for each other were already obvious, and their classmates and friends silently blessed them and offered their support from time to time.

Finally, during his junior year of college, the captain met Kiana's parents, but the first meeting was not pleasant. It wasn't because his future in-laws looked down on him because of his background; after spending so much time with Kiana, the captain understood that she was indeed from a very prominent family.

On the contrary, Kiana's parents actually thought highly of the Captain, but at that time Kiana was going through a rebellious phase and did not want to inherit the position of clan leader. Therefore, when Kiana's mother, who is also the current clan leader, mentioned when Kiana planned to inherit the position, the atmosphere at the dinner table became cold. The Captain and his father-in-law quickly changed the subject, but ultimately failed to change the mood.

Ultimately, the dinner meeting with the parents ended in an unpleasant atmosphere. Afterwards, the father-in-law and mother-in-law privately approached the captain, hoping that he could persuade Kiana, since that was their family's rule, and Kiana was also the most talented heir in the family's history.

Therefore, even though there were dissatisfactions within the family, they ultimately accepted Kiana's status as the young clan leader.

However, this situation is not good in the long run. The current clan leader, who is also Kiana's mother, is becoming weaker and weaker. She is worried that one day a terrible disaster will break out in Kyushu, and she cannot guarantee that she will be able to solve the disaster.

At first, the captain didn't believe her, only outwardly agreeing with her because of her status. Deep down, he harbored some resentment towards the Kiana family's somewhat outdated practices, and her statements made it seem as if the world possessed some kind of spiritual power.

This was hard for the captain, who believed in materialism, to accept. It wasn't until the disaster that caused the captain and Kiana to travel through time that the captain realized that the world he came from in his previous life was not as simple as he thought.

Now that Kiana has brought up this name again and named her daughter after it, in other words...

"Kiana, tell me the truth, did you truly accept this name out of nostalgia and a sense of peace, or did you have some other purpose?"

"Half and half, I suppose. Speaking of which, Captain probably doesn't know the truth about our past life's world, does he?"

The captain nodded. Although Kiana's mother in her previous life had revealed some information in a veiled manner, it was all very fragmented information, and the captain didn't know much about it.

Kiana then began to explain all the hidden secrets of their past life's world, which the consciousness consortium called the Creator World.

Simply put, their previous world did indeed contain mysteries, and there was also a world will.

Of course, this world's will has different names in different parts of the world. In Kyushu, it is called the Way of Heaven, while in countries that believe in Christianity, it is called God.

Meanwhile, throughout the world, there exist beings who can connect with the world's will and are known as incarnations of the world's will. These beings, having developed over many years, have grown into extremely large families. Kiana's family in her previous life was one of the branches, or rather, the origin, of this family in Kyushu.

After all, the original embodiment of the world's will was Nuwa from the mythology of Kyushu, which is why Kiana's previous family patriarch was named Feng Lixi. The family members firmly believed that the inheritance of bloodline and name was a way to get closer to their ancestors. The eldest daughter of each family in the clan was chosen as the successor to the patriarch based on the purity of her bloodline. Therefore, there were quite a few cases of consanguineous marriage within the family, all in order to ensure the purity of the bloodline.

This has always been the case for the clan leaders, with the exception of Kiana's parents in her previous life. Kiana's father in her previous life was not a member of the clan but an outsider who married into the family.

Therefore, some within the clan speculated that Kiana's bloodline would be diluted considerably, and the position of clan leader might change hands. Unfortunately, Kiana's birth proved these people wrong; Kiana's bloodline was incredibly pure, making her the closest in history to that ancestor.

Therefore, Kiana received various forms of education within the clan from a young age. If it weren't for the clan leader's insistence on letting Kiana see the outside world despite opposition, she would probably have been trapped within the clan and never gained any freedom until adulthood.

"Ultimately, the reason I resisted inheriting the position of clan leader was because of this. Captain, can you imagine? A child is forced to learn all sorts of profound knowledge from the time he can remember, and if he doesn't learn it well, his meals for the day will be reduced."

"Isn't this abuse?"

"So my mother couldn't stand it anymore and sent me out despite the pressure. The price was that my mother couldn't see me anymore, and I ended up living in an ordinary family that had separated from the family."

"Is your 'ordinary family' really considered an ordinary family...?"

"Well, for our family, it's really quite ordinary..."

"All right……"

Also, thanks to the fact that the branch family doesn't place as much emphasis on inheritance as the main family, there were fewer rules and regulations. Kiana gradually became more cheerful during that time, until she met the captain at the age of twelve, and the gears of fate began to turn...

“I understand the logic. Since you have always possessed the power of our past life’s mystical side, why couldn’t you suppress the Herrscher of the Void back then?”

This was certainly not the captain complaining; he was genuinely curious.

"Well, although my identity in my previous life was indeed powerful, that's all there was to it. The power brought by the pure bloodline did not come with my soul when I transmigrated, and at that time, my soul strength had also decreased a lot due to some reasons, so I was no longer able to completely suppress the soul strength of the Herrscher of the Void."

"Did your soul strength decrease significantly for some reason?"

"It's all because of you!" Kiana muttered. "If you hadn't been caught in the crossfire and I hadn't tried to save your soul, I wouldn't have died along with you, and my soul strength would have decreased as a result."

Upon hearing Kiana's words, the captain recalled the scene from that time. Kiana was radiating a holy aura, and her hands were glowing with pure white light. The captain felt warm all over, but soon his consciousness was thrown into chaos.

"So it wasn't just my imagination back then..." the captain murmured. "Speaking of which, Kiana, do you still remember the specific details of that disaster?"

"What happened at the time?" Kiana replied, "I don't remember the specifics. I only remember that it seemed like two mysterious and powerful beings were fighting, which led to that disaster. I can't recall anything more specific..."

"That's all I remember. I think those two people were people we knew very well... and then... um... it seems like both of them had very beautiful silver hair... and... and..."

The more the captain tried to recall, the more his head throbbed with pain, and beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks. His memories of his past life seemed shattered, fragmented and incomplete; the more he tried to grasp the details, the more blurred they became…