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A/N: Shorts, may or may not be continued/expanded. Not really proof-read, just a fluff idea. Initially I darker take on Kiana's fate, but it just turned strange. If you know Otto, sorry if I fail to keep him in character. This is my interpretation on speculated event, let me know what you guys think. I tried to see what I would do and say if I were in his position, except for the last part which I just did to insert some silliness. Depending on how you guys think on this idea, each log may become fully fleshed scenes, or just more logs like this, or other character's perspective if that ever arrives.
Idea: Otto keeps a logbook on his experiments when attempting to use Kiana to revive his deceased lover from the past.
Time period: After the 2nd Honkai Impact
Contents: Otto's [Log Entries], Kiana's [Diary Entries], (?)'s reaction to these entries.
Log Entry: 1
A month has passed since I've ordered the launch of the nuclear weapon to take out the Void Queen and Schicksal's only S-rank Valkyr. It truly is a shame that such a talented individual was lost, but an acceptable sacrifice to stall the progression of the Honkai.
Siegfried has yet to return and pick up his daughter, the turbulent emotions that must be stalling him as a result of losing Cecilia, while understandable, is one more advantage against the Honkai.
Today, I have informed Kiana Kaslanna (thereafter to be known as K-0) of her present situation. That is, her mother's death, her father's (seeming) abandonment, and her Auntie Theresa's incapacitated state.
I then gave her writing stationary and have informed her that from tomorrow onward she would be staying in one of the isolation chambers until further notice.
The child was obnoxiously loud and messy when she began expressing her extremely turbulent emotions to me on that.
She was valuable research material; her body must definitely remain unharmed.
Log Entry: 2
I have recovered the remains of Cecilia and Sirin from the irradiation zone.
Bluntly speaking, I was mildly surprised at several things.
First: Both Sirin and Cecilia's bodies are both almost completely intact, if totally lifeless.
Second: Their positions. One would expect, as adversaries, a harsh struggle as imminent doom approached them. However, it is quite intriguing how the bodies are positioned. I can almost simulate the last moments of their lives: Cecilia wrapping her arms around Sirin, gentler than a bear hug to entrap an opponent should be for a human, a more so for a Herrscher of Sirin's caliber. This seemed to be followed be a rotation to reverse positions, may haps one to be faced towards the incoming nuclear strike as a meat shield to offer some sort delay?
This is the most likely scenario, but Sirin's eagle spread position suggest she wished to cover as much area as possible, and that the Void Queen herself was the one on top of Cecilia. Cecilia was known to be incredibly weak and still recovering from child birth, at approximately 20 - 25% combat effectiveness on deployment, and as low as 2 - 6% upon nuclear detonation.
So how was it possible for her to overpower Sirin, who definitely still had more energy than dozens of Cecilia's at peak physical conditioning at the point of nuclear detonation, use such a weak body hold to flip Sirin over and time it to cause the Herrscher to be positioned to over her own body as much as possible?
Third: The personal analysis I conducted at the epicenter of the irradiated zone shows substantially less physical damage and radiation levels than the area approximately 1.948 meters in radius to be. This suggests that Sirin's Void powers may simply stop at surgically splitting the fabric of space to create portals, but also manipulate it into a spherical shape in an all-encompassing shield to dimensionally isolate that volume of space. She has never shown such an ability before, other wise she would be truly unstoppable.
Still even if it was a trump card using an exorbitant amount of energy to activate or a newly developed one at the precipice of certain death, it does not explain how she failed to survive and simply use this new ability to render all of Schicksal's measure useless while raining down an infinite ocean of Chariot-Class, Knight-Class, and Emperor Class Honkai to wipe out humanity.
Fourth: Cecilia's body is relatively less damaged than Sirin's. A Herrscher's body, even with its human fragility compared to a Honkai beast, is infinitely more durable than a Valkyrie due to the overwhelming amount of Honkai energy reinforcing it without the risk of corruption. Strictly speaking, Cecilia's body should be in far worse condition that Sirin's.
Fifth: While Sirin's body seemed to be almost drained to Honkai energy, Cecilia's is simply brimming with it, a gentle form that seems only to be present in a Herrscher's body. Did Cecilia turn into a Herrscher? How was this done without forming a core?
All these findings seem to be pointing to an impossibility, I will simply not acknowledge it.
A Herrscher is the enemy of humanity, the Valkyrie is the weapon of humanity.
Log Entry: 3
I have taken measures to cryogenically preserve Sirin and Cecilia's remain, their genes will play an important role a source to experimental material.
I have taken K-0 to see Cecilia, and told her that her mother will never wake up unless she cooperates with my experiments.
K-0's childish naivete has allowed me to fool her fragile psyche, reinforcing the illusion that her mother is 'not dead', but simply 'sleeping'. She does not understand the concept of death yet, despite having informed her of it two days prior.
I have received K-0's full consent to use her as experimental material to 'wake up' Cecilia.
The experiments will begin the next day, I have told K-0 to treat the notebook I have given her as a diary, to write down what she wishes to her mother when she wakes up.
K-0 seems to be delighted, but this matter little. As long as K-0 cooperates well, I have no issues in even building an illusionary world where she lives in perpetual bliss.
Log Entry: 4
The tests have begun and I have successfully extracted the least amount of genetic material needed from Sirin and Cecilia's bodies. The majority donor came from K-0, her flesh and blood would replenish itself over time with proper nutrition but the dead would only degenerate further.
I have already planned out the various tests to be performed on the clones K-1 to K-999, which of course would deplete K-0 if done immediately, at most her whole body would only provide for 100 clones.
K-0's hair, blood, skin, bones, marrow, internal organs, even her bodily excretions will be used in the most cost effective and sustainable manner.
K-0's hair, a single strand was used to create K-1, and K-0 is now to be fed an extremely nutrient rich diet to promote the body's natural regeneration, her whole body is to be fitted with electro therapy threads, it will allow her to keep fit and healthy even if she sleeps in bed all day. This technology is usually restricted to a bed-ridden Valkyr's to prevent muscular degeneration, but is usually taken with anesthetics due to the mild pain it causes.
I have set this on a higher setting, without painkillers. Any anesthetic would contaminate the samples taken from her in the future. K-0 must simply have to live with this constant pain from now on. It will be equivalent to a healthy adult male performing high intensity, high endurance, full body exercise. It will be useful in helping K-0's body efficiently make use of her nutrient rich meals from now on.
Log Entry; 5
K-0 expresses her extreme disgust at the nutrient rich meals I have issue her. Though this may be due to how I have refused to stop the electrotherapy, but it is important that the flow is no disturbed.
I have convinced K-0 to tolerate the painful electro therapy, and in exchange, will add various flavors to the nutrient-rich meals. The flavors are were: Chocolate on Monday, Milk on Tuesday, Strawberry/Blueberry on Wednesday, Banana/Apple on Thursday, Savory Beef/Chicken on Friday, Seafood on Saturday, and then Sweet and Sour Pork on Sunday.
K-0 has stopped voicing her complaints and was cooperating when we began drawing blood from her.
Log Entry: 6
Today, I began constructing the illusory world for K-0, with this she should have no more feelings of opposition.
It is a digital world based on K-0's memories, that I have copied from her the night before, supplemented by real-time world data. It will become a cage that K-0 will never willingly leave from.
The A.I.'s are also based on her memories of those she knows and those she does not. Their personalities were all developed based on deep learning algorithms to be as close to the personality in K-0's memories as possible. These A.I.'s will simulate Cecilia's motherly persona and Sirin's personality observed when she was a normal human. One to be her mother, and one to be her friend.
I have already informed K-0 that she will soon be able to communicate directly with her mother a potential new friend. It will be done using a device to only be used as a reward when she is an 'enthusiastic' participant of his experiments
I wonder how will she use the diary I gave her?
The A.I.'s will probably feel less lively and sluggish compared to what K-0 can recall, but I will simply pass it off as a side effect of sleeping too much. They will continue to learn and approach Cecilia and Sirin's personality over time. I have even set the A.I.'s to believe that they themselves are truly living breathing humans simply waiting to be revived. The Cecilia A.I. (thereafter to be known as CV-X) and Sirin A.I.(SH-X) will truly believe this fact I have embedded into their core logic programming.
Although I have not extracted any material today, it is also a highly productive task to ensure long tern operations remain unobstructed.
With this, K-0 will probably never be willing to leave this cage I have constructed for her, not even Siegfried will be able to pry her grips from me even if he does come along eventually to pick her up.
As for Theresa, one looks at how happy she is to remain at my side, will be more than enough to discourage any attempt to take her away should the event arise.
Log Entry: 7
Despite my warnings that CV-X and SH-X were still 'groggy' after 'waking up' from a rather 'long sleep', K-0 was rather adamant on seeing them just once.
Although K-0 did come out as disappointed as I expected, she was rather compliant with all me sampling requests.
In addition, CV-X and SH-X accelerated their deep learning after contact with K-0. If Einstein or Fu Hua were here, they would either be astonished at this finding or be utterly appalled. Creating consciousness through digital deep learning, it is indeed found breaking. It is unfortunate that my focus remains on the Honkai, and such findings are simply a convenience.
Log Entry: 8
K-1, K-2, and K-3 are failures, they not only failed to basic solid shape, but even degenerated into unrecoverable genetic slush that quickly evaporated as soon as they left their incubation chambers. K-4's remains evaporated at a slower rate than the other and K-6's remains were denser, so it seems there is some progress.
I hypothesize that the more 'essential' the genes extracted and used, the more stable. This is only a theory, and I have only been using very simple sources genetic material form K-0 she can quickly recover. I will have to perform more testing on non-essential sources to affirm this.
Log Entry: 9
K-7A to K-7Z were all created from a looks strand of K-0's hair but at various sections. K-7A was created with the outermost and oldest part of K-0's hair, with K-7Z used the sections nearest to the scalp.
K-7Z's remains seem to be the more promising, it held a semi-solid form when resisting decomposing.
Log Entry: 10
I did several more tests to affirm my theory. K-0, while cooperative did not seem pleased at the new bald spots on her head.
K-8A, K-9A, K-10A had similar results to K-7A, while K-8Z, K-9Z, K-10Z had similar results to K-7Z.
With this my experiment must now be reduced in frequency in order to accommodate K-0 regeneration speed.
Log Entry: 11
Today I took a slice of flesh from K-0's body, it was rather large so I applied some healing ointment to promote accelerated healing.
I let K-0 visit CV-X and SH-X as a reward for enduring the incision without any anesthetics. She was in quick to limp back into her room, whether from fear of another incision or excitement at another visit, it mattered little to me.
K-11A to K-11Z were created again based on the depth of the flesh used. Again K-11Z had the most remarkable results, holding a deformed, but solid form the longest.
K-12A to K-12Z tested volume. Surprisingly, the K-12 series showed similar results, which eliminated quantity as an essential factor.
Log Entry: 12
Contrary to what I believed; tests could be resumed in only a few days rather than a week. K-0 has completely recovered and is almost expectant in getting her flesh sampled.
It was quite a refreshing sigh, truly her behavior reminded me so much of Kallen.
I decided that the next session would be a week, as was scheduled. K-0 was free to interact with CV-X and SH-X for up to two hours a day between the flesh sampling sessions.
K-0 seems to be more at ease the longer she stays here, especially after giving her access to her little virtual world.
Though I have yet to ask her about her thoughts on the A.I., from the data feedback of the A.I.'s, the results are highly promising. K-0 is truly treating CV-X as her mother, and SH-X as a sister and playmate.
I had considered adding Siegfried in, but immediately dismissed the idea. The living was difficult to control, but the dead have nothing to prove. Besides, it was better to distance her as much as possible from the man as possible.
I had already received intel that the man had been in contact with known Anti-Entropy agents of significant rank.
Although the man has chosen to betray me, he has also served faithfully as a guardian of humanity, I have decided to not stand in his way should he choose to come back for his daughter.
Whether K-0 still wishes to leave with him when he comes, or not, is the true question.
Perhaps I should set up a recording device to capture his expression when K-0 makes her choice?
Log Entry: 13
This session was particularly taxing on K-0, since I took multiple sections of flesh from her body. K-0 could not move as a result and I had to move her to her room to rest.
Her pain tolerance seems to be improving greatly, she only grits her teeth throughout the procedure. I have decided to increase the settings on the electro therapy to accommodate for her adaption, this will only benefit her, if this I have no doubt.
The K-13A to K-13Z (hereafter to be known as K-13 series), shows similar results in progression of results.
In particular is K-18, which was developed from a single stem cell, it developed into a perfect clone of K-0. It was perfect!
K-18, although biologically alive, was essentially brain dead. However, she provided breakthrough in both the amount of research materials I could use and progression.
It was time to integrate Sirin's genes.
Log Entry: 14
They came.
Of course, they did, I had already expected them to arrive eventually.
Anti-Entropy demanded a fragment of he Herrscher core we retrieved from the battle field. It was just one of four fragments, so simply wrapped up the core they wanted to badly in a thick bundle of bubble wrap and duct tape (surprisingly still reliable low tech), went to the highest point in Schicksal HQ, and threw it into the still-charging barrel of their warship that was pointing at me.
Truly it was out of character of me to do something so strange, now that I look back at it. Perhaps it was of the recent breakthrough I made the other day, or something else.
Whatever it was, the sight of the Anti-Entropy's largest and heavily army ship threatening to blow me up, quickly disengaging and retreating as if the package I throw at it would obliterate them on contact certainly was amusing. More so were the Anti-Entropy agents, in their mechs or not, scrambling and tripping over each other to catch the wrapped up Herrscher core.
In the end, no one caught the core, it smashed into the hard ground at terminal velocity. The expression on utter terror the AE agents showed when it landed, as if it was going to explode, truly priceless.
Anti-Entropy eventually did retrieve the core and left rather hurriedly.
I was supposed to test the stability of Sirin's genes, and its compatibility to K-0's genes, but I suppose the K-19 series could use another day to stabilize.
Log Entry: 15
