Work Text:
Kiana knelt there, hand on the trigger, grip firmly nestled in her palm. Though it was long familiar to her, the knurling hadn't quite been so pronounced in a long, long time.
It created hot spots where it dug in, a patch of warmth vividly contrasting the rain-cold tip of her barrel, uncomfortably cold but otherwise feeling quite homely nestled against her throat.
The rain was loud, but she couldn't hear it.
Sirin was oddly quiet, finally a break from her taunting.
The Honkai beasts in their droves, scraping and carving, crashing and burning in their wake, yet even this could she not parse.
She waited. Waited, cold knees scuffed by the road, socks soggy from puddles. Waited, waited for what?
It was her last gambit, why would she wait?
She had to do it, to stop Sirin.
Had to...
This was the moment, wasn't it?
When usually someone else would show up, tell her things would be alright, and bring her back to her friends?
No...Sirin had shown her.
Though she hated Sirin, she couldn't deny what she had seen either.
Her friends would either kill her to protect humanity, or betray her again.
...Was betray even the right word?
Living weapon, K-423, vessel of Sirin, Herrscher of the Void, how did she have any right to call what they did betrayal?
She was the invader, she was never meant to be.
Just a defective tool in someone else's war. What would be for her body, is death, or Void.
Kiana would be no more either way.
She loved the world too much, to see Sirin obliterate it all.
Loved Mei, and Bronya, and Theresa, Fu Hua, too much for that.
Loved Aunt Himeko too much for that.
"Sorry Aunt Himeko, you...you should be here. If you'd only made the right choice..."
And she also hated Sirin too much for that as well, so getting her to shut up would be really nice too.
*bang*
"Aaaaaaauuuuugh!"
Pain. White hot pain travelled through her throat, her tongue, her soft palate, straight through and out the top of her brain. But where out the top of her brain? What part did she fail to hit to kill herself!? She was using the calibre of bullets that you use against Honkai!
"Did-did you fail to kill yourself, human? ... pathetic...you can't even die right! Well, you've at least made your corpse unusable for me, so you've won with that. Congratulations, human! Your prize is paraplegia, memory loss and a speech impediment, along with years of trauma and guilt. I'll wait for someone to make me another vessel, perhaps a less, ugh, determined one. Then I'll come back and..do nothing to you, in specific, really. It will be much more fun to see you squirm as your friends and cities are crushed like the insects you are."
The last thing she saw before blacking out was the Herrscher of the Void, vanishing in her trademark black hole.
And the last thing she heard, the loud wailing cries of Fu Hua.