[Honkai: Star Rail] I Am Kephale

I am the World-Bearing Titan.

I can't hold on much longer.

I told my poor High Priest: "Daddy can hold out against the Black Tide for another three hundred years~ You all better get moving and find your own way out!"

"Heavenly Father, please don't abandon us!!!!"

He was so frightened that he died of illness.

Wait, couldn't you have passed on my divine oracle before you died?

...Children of Okhema.

In three hundred years, you're all going to be done for along with your daddy.

That's what I thought, right up until my cat child secretly put on a priest's robe.

[The light of the Dawn Machine will never go out, and Kephale's protection will know no end, ]

Oh my god! The Dawn Machine on my back has gained a mind of its own. It's running by itself!

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…Oh, my good cat, you're so capable.

Thanks to her, it seems I don't have to work hard anymore.

So should I just enjoy my retirement, silently watching over Okhema forever as a stone statue?

No way.

The children are working so hard. How could their father just slack off?

[Take the purest white stone and lodge the fragments of my soul within it.]

[Shed a drop of searing golden tears, and pour into it the last of my reason.]

[The final person created by Kephale is his broken self.]

Beneath the veil of lies, no one saw the many-armed colossus fade completely into darkness.

"Kephale's only begotten son, Caeus!"

Only a pale-faced man with ink-black hair wore a cocky yet feeble smile, surrounded by priests.

"The Holy Son? Hahaha, I've become my own son? Children, you should be calling me Holy Father!"

"What nonsense!"

The Senate sprang to its feet and slammed the table.

"How could Kephale's Holy Son look like such a madman!"

"Smack."

The next moment, a rod of discipline came crashing down from above.

"A child who isn't taught is the father's fault."

Caeus sighed mournfully.

"You deserved that, you unfilial daughter who slaughtered your own kin. Cough, cough... What's wrong, little Bai E? Why the pained expression?"

"I thought that, having been put forward by the priests to compete with me for the World-Bearing Flame Seed... you'd be more dignified."

"My dear child, there's something you don't know."

Caeus lifted the Savior's white cloak with solemn dignity and wiped the black blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"Just look at Nicadoli. After fighting the Black Tide for so long, it's perfectly normal to go a little crazy!"

"...Then why am I being called your son too? Wasn't that just a way to provoke me!?"

"Provoke you? No, this is all true. Cough, cough!"

Caeus affectionately held Wan Di's head beside him and gently stroked it.

"I am the World-Bearing Titan, the creator of all life. So whether you're the Prince of Xuanfeng, the Romantic Demigod, the Maiden of the Gateways, the Sage of the Tree Court, you, or Xilian, you are all my beloved children~"

"So, would you be willing to call me Daddy? Cough, cough, "

Wan Di: "…?"

Bai E hurriedly pulled out a message stone tablet.

"Miss Feng Jin, yes, it's delusions. Come save Caeus, quick!"

"And bring emergency medical supplies. Wan Di's committing patricide, cough, deicide, no... murder!"

"Get lost! Savior, HKS! He choked on his own blood and passed out!"

Theme: Cherish those who are here with you.