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Chapter 1: Life is Not Easy, the Herrscher Cries

Divine calendar ○ year ○ month ○ day...

A flight departing from North America and ending in Singapore is now stopping at a city in the far east for transit. In the first-class cabin, a girl in a black dress with a slightly gloomy face watched the fuel truck that refueled the plane slowly leave from the small window on her right-hand side.

“God, why did you let me go to that place? ....Yes, I said something wrong, sorry!” The girl lowered her head, and a rare, strange expression similar to embarrassment appeared on her face.

After a while, she raised her head and undid her too-pale face. She grasped the corner of her clothes impatiently with both hands and muttered in her heart why this broken plane had to stop here for so long.

While she was complaining in her heart, the energetic voice of a young girl came from behind her: “Class monitor, how could my aunt think of letting us sit on this to completely? ...Um, class monitor, why are you covering my mouth!”

From this youthful and enthusiastic voice, it is not difficult to see that the owner of this voice is a little rich princess who is spoiled by many people. It’s a pity that people’s joys and sorrows are not connected, and Hina only feels that its noisy.

Before turning her head to the other side, Hina accidentally noticed the two people coming from behind. The girl who was pushed forward from behind with her mouth covered was completely in line with her stereotype of a "little princess."

“Okay, Kiana, keep a little quiet in public places and don’t disturb others.”

How to say! This young lady is pretty. It would be better if she could change those two big braids into a different hairstyle.

Hina complained in her heart and then looked at the girl behind the white-haired girl, who was called the class monitor.

For some reason, after seeing the young woman with red-framed glasses and a neat suit behind the white-haired girl, Hina instinctively felt something strange, and even the suppressed Honkai energy in her body fluctuated.

That kind of indescribable and strange feeling, as if... the girl with glasses could kill her with one punch.

Hina's intuition has always been very accurate. As soon as she noticed something was wrong, she immediately retracted her playful gaze and looked at the two obviously unusual girls with the corner of her eyes.

“Ms. Fu Hua, Ms. Kiana, please follow me; your seats are here...” A nearby flight attendant spoke.

“Oh! Is her name Fu Hua?” Hina hummed, then raised her head and shook off the unrealistic thoughts in her head, secretly saying: “I hope they won’t get in my way in Singapore...”

Buzz!

With the noisy engine sound, the plane that had been parked here for a long time started again, flew up along the runway, and soon disappeared into the vast sea of clouds.

Leaning on the soft recliner, Hina felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and then she fell into deep darkness.

In the endless darkness, there was no light. Hina didn't know where to go and could only walk slowly along the dark path in front of her.

Gradually, the passage that appeared to have no end was illuminated. Hina walked forward in surprise but stood there in shock.

“Mom...Mom?”

“Why are you here? Aren’t you already...” Hearing Hina's words, the middle-aged woman standing in the light flashed a trace of disgust in her eyes and snorted with disdain.

“Hina, how could I die! I just found an opportunity to leave you. In my eyes, you are just a disaster that brings bad luck to my relatives and friends!”

“What...what?” Hina couldn't believe that her dearest mother would say such hurtful words to her, and she wanted to refute several times. But what was even more tragic was that she couldn't find any words to refute.

Was she the calamity that brought bad luck?

Recalling her short life, Hina sadly discovered that what her mother said...maybe...was all true...

However, the woman in the light curtain was still chattering, criticizing Hina to the core.

“Stop talking! Stop talking!” Hina looked up at the chattering woman, gritted her teeth, and rushed toward the light curtain desperately.

Ping pong!

The light curtain was broken, and when Hina came to her senses, the light curtain returned to its original state.

Boom!

In the distance, a dull thunder sounded. Along with the rolling thunder, large drops of rain fell from the sky.

“Hina, you freak! Stay away from me!”

“Go home!”

“She’s a freak anyway; just die.”

“Tsk tsk tsk, look at her; does she look like a ()?”

“Freak, monster, hahahahaha...”

The harsh and familiar shouting came from the screen, and several half-grown children had replaced their mother and were throwing stones at Hina. The way they looked at her was as disgusting as seeing a dirty stray dog on the roadside.

If it were usual, she would definitely cover her head and hide far away.

But this time, Hina had no intention of tolerating them. She bent down to pick up the stone on the ground and walked step by step toward the bastards who had bullied her for several years.

Snap!

Hina raised the stone high and swung it in a beautiful arc in the air, knocking these bastards to the ground one by one. Ignoring their pleas, Hina repeated her mechanical movements over and over again until the cries completely disappeared. Only then did she leave the bloody stone and slowly stand up.

Looking down at the bloodstains on her sleeves due to excessive force, Hina felt happy for no reason.

Snap! Snap!

The light curtain shattered again, and Hina raised her head woodenly. She wanted to see what she could see this time.

…

This time, nothing happened: no abuse from relatives or curses from others, only comic-like images.

Everyone in the image had a smile on their face, and each one was so... happy.

Compared with them, Hina felt that her life was so ridiculous. It was the same life; why were others so happy and comfortable, while what awaited her was only darkness and pain?

In an instant, Hina felt that all of her strength was drained and fell to her knees on the ground.

All the grievances, anger, unwillingness, and thoughts that were hidden in her heart and dared not be revealed to the world all came out at once.

After the pictures were displayed one by one in front of Hina, they disappeared, and everything returned to darkness again.

Only the low whispers of the so-called "God" came to Hina's ears.

"Child, you are an alien in the eyes of these dirty humans, and you will never be able to integrate with them. But when you see them so happy, don't you feel angry in your heart? Don't you want to destroy their happiness?"

"Angry...I...angry?" Hina lowered her head and muttered. After a long time, she raised her head and stated, "God, what should I do?"

When this sentence came out, a strong light suddenly descended and domineeringly dispelled all the darkness around, making Hina unable to open her eyes.

Until she completely adapted to the brightness of the surrounding environment, Hina looked around in confusion, and in such a nearly blank space, she saw a "person."

No, maybe it could be said that it is incomprehensible to humans... A God.

Accompanied by surprise and fear, Hina's heart began to doubt and waver.

'Child, are you willing to become my apostle, carry part of my power, and help me destroy the dirty human civilization?'

"Destroy humans? Can I? I'm just a..." Hina hesitated for a moment, and before she made a decision, the voice of 'God' sounded in her mind again.

'It seems that you are not firm enough or confident enough, but I am willing to give you a chance and a small gift. Use all the means you can to take back () () () (), let me see your determination, and I will give you real power!'

After the words fell, the light dissipated. Hina opened her eyes, covered her head, and sat up. No one knows when her pair of gray-blue eyes, which sparkled like gems, had been stained with a faint golden color.

"Miss Hina, are you okay?"

The stewardess who came over leaned down with concern and handed her a warm towel.

Hina raised her hand stiffly and took the towel handed to her by the other party. As her white palm just touched the towel, a layer of light blue ice crystals spread upwards at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hey!" Hina was stunned at first. Then she grabbed the towel, wiped her forehead lightly, and squeezed out an ugly smile, saying, "I'm a little thirsty. Please help me get a glass of water; thank you..."

"Okay, please wait!" The stewardess retracted her gaze from the seat beside her and turned to walk to the end of the aisle.

Only Hina was left looking at the white towel frozen into an ice lump in her hand in disbelief and muttering to herself, "Is this the little power given to me by 'God'?"

Putting down the ice lump and covering her chest, Hina looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to her. She then lifted her clothes. As far as she could see, several pink lines like blood vessels extended from her chest to her limbs and then disappeared. She felt that there was  something extraordinary in her body.

………

Five minutes ago, at St. Freya Academy, in the dean's office.

"Himeko, what's going on?" The dean who wore a miniature nun's uniform hurriedly closed the comic on the table, grabbed a document, and pressed it on top, looking at the visitor with a guilty look.

"The Science Department reported that a huge Honkai energy fluctuation was just observed over the southern part of Shenzhou Sea. Although it lasted for less than 0.01 seconds, from the energy level, it seems to be the fluctuation of a Herrscher!"

"Impossible! Theoretically, only one Herrscher will appear in each Honkai Eruption. Isn't the third Herrscher still under our surveillance?!" Theresa walked out from behind the desk with her waist bulging. She looked at the report handed over by Himeko and asked in confusion, "The Honkai energy fluctuation is fleeting? Could it be that the instrument is wrong?"

"This... I don't know. After all... the energy peak only appeared for 0.01 seconds and then returned to normal."

"If you ask me, the guys in the Science Department are still very reliable most of the time. It's better to believe in existence lf a new Herrscher than not to believe in it. It doesn't hurt to send someone to investigate." Himeko spread her hands and said helplessly.

"Then let Fu Hua and... Oh, by the way, Fu Hua has already gone to Singapore with Kiana to carry out the mission."

Halfway through her words, Theresa slapped her forehead fiercely, pulled Himeko over, and said with a wry smile, "How about Major Himeko, you take the trouble to take two students to check the situation?"

"Tsk, our dean is really good at ordering people around!" Himeko put her left hand on her forehead and her right hand on her waist, and finally succumbed to Theresa's unusually generous verbal promise: "After this trip, you won't ban me from drinking for this month, right? Okay, I'll take this mission!"

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Chapter 2: This is the Power Given by God!

When the plane landed, it was already afternoon local time.

Hina walked cautiously through the airport, looking at the road signs in several languages around her and fell into deep thought: These place names are so strange! Where should I go?

Because she was in a hurry to leave, Hina did not prepare her luggage. The most important thing was that all her savings were used to buy the last plane ticket.

She now had only three coins left in her pocket. In this place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, let alone survival; even buying a bottle of water is a luxury.

Oh! No, she seems to no longer need to eat and drink water, which can be regarded as saving herself a lot of money.

Standing on the busy roadside, Hina felt the grandeur of the city for the first time, as well as her own confusion. She suppressed her panic and prayed in her heart: "God, please give me some guidance. Where should I go...?"

"You have to feel the power I give you with your heart; it will give you guidance!"

Feel it with your heart?!

Raising her hand to cover her chest, Hina's ice-blue gem emitted a faint fluorescence, and the light pink lines slowly extended from her chest to her limbs.

In a trance, an image of a blue-purple gem appeared in Hina's mind.

Somewhere between the blue-purple gem and Hina, there seemed to be a thin thread. Even from a distance, Hina could vaguely feel the location of the gem.

"Is this what God needs me to get?" Hina opened her eyes, and her originally thin face had become much paler in this short period of time. Against the backdrop of a black long skirt, she looked like a paper doll walking out of a painting.

Under the guidance of the fuzzy thread, Hina determined the direction of her destination and tragically became the first Herrscher who traveled on foot... (Please remove the word "tragically" first; otherwise, it would be too rude.)

In the evening, on the upper floor of the Queen's Hotel in Singapore, an old man in a white coat was nervously holding a silver-gray suitcase. He sat on the sofa nervously, looking at the banana man standing beside him with the corner of his eye, and asked in confusion:

"What is Cocolia doing? Doesn't she care about this gem very much?"

"Why don't you take it directly back to Anti-Entropy? Why do you want me to come to this island country specially?!"

"It's just a few minor setbacks. Someone will be sent to take you to the headquarters in two days!" The man sat on a chair turned around while peeling a banana.

"Stay here with peace of mind. The Schicksal's troops cannot enter this country. Even if a few little bugs sneak in... there are bodyguards."

"With me being here, even if those little bugs sneak in, I will have fun with them."

After speaking, the man licked the banana, and the old man on the sofa twitched his eyes.

…

"Miss, this way!" the waiter at the hotel door greeted Hina enthusiastically. Hina nodded politely to the waiter, looked around the hotel lobby, and walked toward the elevator.

Entering the elevator, Hina looked at the panel in front of her that did not move even after pressing the button and fell into deep thought: What’s going on? Do elevators in big cities still require facial recognition?

Just thinking about it, a passenger who was leaving the elevator couldn’t help but remind her: "Little girl, this elevator can only be used by swiping the room card..."

"Huh?!" Hina was slightly startled but quickly reacted. She touched the back of her head and stuck out her tongue at the passenger: "Oh no, I forgot that the room card is with my mother!"

This reason can be considered reasonable. The passenger just glanced at Hina and, seeing that the embarrassment on the girl’s face was sincere and not fake, did not intend to meddle in other people’s business.

He casually left a sentence: "Oh! So! Then go to the hotel front desk and call your mother to come down to pick you up!" and turned and left.

After exiting the elevator, Hina silently walked out of the hotel lobby while watching the long queue at the front desk. She believed that with her "amazing wisdom," she would be able to get in.

Fifteen minutes later...

In the hotel staff's locker room, Hina stuffed a hapless guy lying on his back into the closet and sighed: "Okay, I admit that sometimes stupid methods are much more effective."

After changing into the red cheongsam worn by hotel staff, Hina was about to use her employee pass card to swipe the employee elevator to the floor she wanted to go to when she came face to face with a fat man dressed as a supervisor.

The fat supervisor walked past Hina as if he didn't see her and suddenly turned around, putting his hand on Hina's shoulder: "Wait, why do I feel like I haven't seen you before?!"

"I... I'm new today..." Hina found an excuse and said calmly.

In Hina's opinion, this reason was tenable, as long as this man was not...

"I am from the HR department. We don't have any new employees today. Tell me, which side are you from? Are you sent by Schicksal...ah!" Before the fat man finished speaking, he let out an indistinct scream.

"Ah! My hand, my hand!"

As he retreated, the fat man tripped over a chair, fell backward, and touched the marble floor lovingly. The hand he was talking about also broke into countless blue crystal pieces during the fall.

"Huh?!" Hina looked at the fat man's wound, which didn't bleed at all, in surprise. She didn't expect that she had such powerful power just by thinking about it.

"Hiss, girl, you are really sent by Schicksal..."

As the fat man crawled back, he touched the remaining intact arm to his waist. As a peripheral person placed in this hotel by Anti-Entropy, he always had a loaded pistol at his waist.

Click…

At the moment the pistol was pulled out by the fat man, Hina raised her right hand reflexively, freezing the bullet, the muzzle, and the man into a complete whole ice sculpture.

"I..." Hina stood there at a loss. She looked at the frozen ice sculpture and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Until someone's voice came from not far away, Hina came back to her senses. She tried to push the ice sculpture with her hand, and it took a lot of effort to move the ice sculpture three or five centimeters on the ground.

Seeing the footsteps getting closer and closer, Hina gave up the idea of hiding the ice sculpture before others came here.

She closed her eyes, made up her mind, and raised her right hand like the frozen fat man just now...

...

"Well, I'm finally off work. How about going for a drink later?"

"Okay! That new one is good!"

The two hotel employees changed their clothes and walked out of the staff locker room, talking and laughing. Hina didn't come out of the empty closet until their footsteps became farther and farther away.

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Chapter 3: Defective Herrscher and Pseudo-Herrscher

"Ladies, please come this way!"

At the entrance of the hotel restaurant, two maids in red cheongsams greeted the guests enthusiastically.

The two girls who entered were both wearing slim-fitting cheongsams. The girl on the left, with proud white hair, had a pair of beautiful pigtails.

She playfully raised the corners of her mouth and smiled brightly at the dazzling array of delicacies. On the other hand, the girl on the right in a blue cheongsam had very obvious muscle definition and was a good candidate for martial arts training.

Of course, if she weren’t wearing women’s clothing, we would mistake her for a young man, which would seem acceptable...

As soon as she arrived at the table, the white-haired girl set her mission aside. She sampled a bit of this and a bit of that until her mouth was full. "This is delicious! This is also delicious! I didn't expect to eat tasty food during the mission!"

"Ah..." The young woman in the blue cheongsam sighed as she picked up the high-footed glass beside her and poured herself a glass of grape juice.

"Huh?" Kiana turned her head to look at her unhappy companion. She took a bite of the chicken leg in her hand and said vaguely, "Class Monitor, don’t you want to eat?"

"I..." Fu Hua was about to speak when Kiana began asking questions: "Speaking of which, I don’t know what the goal of this mission is! And... why did you choose me as a partner? You said before that we should stay in this hotel first, so we booked a room. Could it be that... you actually want to seduce me with food and then do something bad to my body?"

"No! My body and heart belong to Mei-senpai!"

Fu Hua: "..."

Looking at Kiana’s wild imagination, Fu Hua was momentarily speechless. She hadn’t expected this girl’s imagination to be so vivid. If only she had half the energy to think like this in class, she wouldn't have failed the course...

"Kiana, you worry too much. This mission is just to collect intelligence. I can complete it by myself." Fu Hua adjusted her glasses and awkwardly picked up a piece of cake to explain: "The reason I chose you as my partner is that I wanted to come to Singapore for this mission. Moreover, I also want to repay Kiana. When Anti-Entropy invaded the academy before, if Kiana hadn't stepped forward, my life might have been in danger."

"Ah? Really? I didn’t expect you to be so nice!~ Then I won’t be polite!~" Kiana scratched her chin shyly, took the cake from Fu Hua’s hand, and threw it into the air, swallowing it in one bite as if it were popcorn.

...

In a corner where no one was paying attention, a security guard in a suit watched Kiana eating in the restaurant with a look of astonishment.

To be honest, this was the first time he had seen a girl eat a roast suckling pig in three mouthfuls. So much so, he didn’t even notice Hina walking behind him with a plate...

"Regular communication, A12. Report the situation in the restaurant. Has anyone suspected of being a Valkyrie entered?"

The call from the Anti-Entropy personnel came through the bodyguard’s headset.

"Well, two girls just came in, but don’t worry, they are just ordinary girls. There’s nothing unusual." The suited security guard reported while watching Kiana eat. To be honest, watching this girl eat was really appetizing.

"Don’t be careless; keep monitoring," the person on the other end of the headset kindly reminded.

The entire exchange was caught in Fu Hua's peripheral vision. Seeing the suited bodyguard's head retract, Fu Hua turned around and walked toward the corner.

'There is only one elevator leading to the VIP room where Dr. Maki is... Well, there is indeed a guard,' Fu Hua thought. Just as she came up with a not-so-useful method, she saw a young staff in red pushing a dining cart out of the kitchen and walking toward her.

“Hey! Got it!” Fu Hua curled her lips slightly, quietly walked behind the girl in red, and when they passed an empty corner, she incapacitated the maid with a swift motion, then changed into the maid’s red cheongsam in the utility room.

“I can sneak in like this!”

Fu Hua adjusted her clothing, and the next moment, after she pushed the dining cart in front of the utility room door and passed a nearby corner, the door of the utility room opened from the inside.

...

Hina covered her sore neck and looked at Fu Hua’s back as she walked away, unable to help mumbling, “If you need to change clothes, just tell me! Why hit me? Now I need to find a way to sneak in again.”

Now, after being hit, Hina completely understands of the situation. The bodyguard in a suit, who was squatting in the corner of the restaurant and contacting people from time to time, was in the same group as the unfortunate man who had been turned into an ice sculpture by her. It was likely that he was the one currently in possession of the gem.

Although Fu Hua didn't know who she belonged to, her purpose was probably the same as Hina’s: to obtain the Gem of Serenity that God mentioned.

And Hina needed to snatch the gem from these two groups of people. It must be said that the difficulty of this task was a bit high for someone just starting out.

To be honest, shouldn’t the first task for a novice be simpler?

Can we only say that she is now worthy of being the future apostle of God?

Even the difficulty of the internship task is frightening... Forget it; don’t think about it. I need to get another set of employee clothes to wear...

On the other side, fully outfitted, Fu Hua walked through the elevator and inspection without any trouble. She approached the door of the VIP room and knocked: "Hello, room service."

"Got it! Come in!"

As soon as the voice fell, the door of the VIP room emitted a series of crackling sounds.

Pushing the door open and stepping into the dark room, a thin figure emerged from the shadows behind Fu Hua. "I didn’t order the food delivery service, little bug. Welcome to my cage."

"Not good!" Fu Hua’s face changed, and she quickly distanced herself from the man behind her...

………

In the restaurant, Kiana, still feasting, didn’t notice when a white-haired old man approached her.

"Miss... can you help an old man?" the old man smiled and greeted Kiana, holding a bottle of red wine with a half-broken cork.

…

In the VIP room...

Fu Hua, who had deliberately went easy, pretended to be defeated by a defective Herrscher clone and allowed herself to be suspended in the air by him.

"It's a trap, damn..." Fu Hua(Actor) gritted her teeth and glared at Welt in front of her, wishing she could bite this tasteless, vulgar, and even hentai guy to death.

Watching Fu Hua struggle painfully while suspended in the air, Welt felt he had control of the situation and decided to pop open some champagne. He frivolously pinched Fu Hua’s fair face and rubbed it roughly. "Hmph, according to Cocolia’s orders, I have to stay in this city for a while. It's so boring here; I need to find some fun for myself!"

"Don't worry; I won't kill you before leaving this city. Just remember to make me happy."

"The 'gem' has been... staying in this city?" Fu Hua suddenly asked, like some stubborn Valkyrie.

"Tsk, what a stubborn Valkyrie! Are you still thinking about the mission at this time? Don't worry; the thing is still in this city." Welt let go of her and casually added the most important detail: "But it's not here. We put it in the underground safe a long time ago."

"Underground safe?” Hearing the answer she needed, Fu Hua frowned and planned to get out and retrieve the gem. Then she broke from the man's grasp.

Yes, Fu Hua easily broke free from Welt's restraints as if she were pulling apart two strands of hair, and she cut off Welt's tongue the moment she landed.

Welt clone: @#＠半％ (How is this possible?)

Using her fists, she knocked the confused Welt clone away. Fu Hua picked up the glasses that had fallen on the ground earlier, smiled at Welt, who was doubting his life, and said, "It seems you have a lot of questions."

Wat: "@%&%$#@$%%" (One million volts of voltage; even an A-level Valkyrie can't recover so quickly.)

"Well, although I would like to answer your question out of politeness, unfortunately, I can't understand what you are saying right now. However, I still have to thank you for the information you provided." Fu Hua put on the glasses, stretched as if she hadn’t warmed up yet, and smiled. "After all, there’s no need to hide your strength in front of the dead."

'Why did Cocolia leave the gem in this city? Shouldn't she be in a hurry to bring it back to headquarters? It seems we need to quickly gather information about the "underground safe." Also, since this is a trap, Kiana is also in danger, and we must get her out of here quickly.'

Before leaving, Fu Hua, lost in thought, did not notice the resentment on Welt's face; rather, she noticed it but didn't take it seriously. The moment she opened the door, the poisonous spider mechs on the ground suddenly emitted a crisp mechanical sound: "Self-destruction system activated. Countdown: 5...4...3..."

Hearing the explosive mechanical sound, even Fu Hua couldn’t remain calm. After all, no one has the unique habit of being blown up by bombs.

"Tsk, Cocolia, that cunning female vixen!"

As she spoke, Fu Hua abandoned her escape route through the main entrance and turned around, rushing back into the room. Crossing her arms in front of her, she slammed into the huge French window.

Crack!

With countless glass fragments falling from the sky, Fu Hua landed steadily on the ground and disappeared into the dark alley before the astonished eyes of passersby.

…

In the restaurant, the old man in white took the opened bottle of wine from Kiana and thanked her warmly. "Thank you for helping me open this bottle of wine, kind lady."

"You're welcome, Grandpa! Protecting humans—oh no, helping others—is my job..." The helpful Kiana placed her left hand on her chest and said proudly.

Unfortunately, before she could finish her words, the building shook violently due to the self-explosion of the poisonous spider robot.

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Chapter 4: Tranquility Gem

"Is this... an explosion upstairs?"

Following the direction of the vibration, Kiana turned around and looked at the ceiling above her in surprise. Her expression turned cold, and she urged, "It's dangerous here, Grandpa; you should leave quickly!"

"Yeah." The white-haired old man looked meaningfully at the ceiling and casually set the bottle aside. He produced a needle from seemingly nowhere and took advantage of Kiana's distraction as she raised her head, then pierced her neck directly.

"You..." Kiana covered her neck and stared at the old man in white in surprise.

Uncertain of what was in the old man’s needle, Kiana felt her entire body weaken within just a few breaths, and everything around her began to blur.

Finally, she staggered back a few steps, her vision darkened, and she fell to the ground.

This scene was witnessed by Hina, who had changed into a new set of clothes in the employee locker room.

"Eh? Isn't this that Fu Hua's companion? I think her name is Kiana..." Hina avoided the panicked crowd around her and hid in an empty corner, watching the old man carry Kiana away openly, heading in the opposite direction of the hotel.

His calm and indifferent demeanor was out of sync with the chaos around him caused by the explosion.

"Something is wrong. The explosion was so loud, but the old man didn’t run away. Instead, he took advantage of the chaos to grab the little girl. There must be some unknown secret behind this! Maybe he's in cahoots with the guy who can draw a gun from his waist."

After thinking for a moment and stroking her chin, Hina arrived at a solid conclusion:

Conclusion 1: I will follow and abduct Kiana, then try to exchange the gem with Fu Hua when she succeeds.

Conclusion 2: If Fu Hua fails, I, the apostle of God, will kill the old man and take the gem.

No matter what the result is, I seem to be the winner!

With this thought, Hina stepped out of the corner and quietly followed the direction the old man had gone. Like an agent in a movie, she trailed him closely, almost getting thrown off several times by the old man carrying Kiana, but Hina stubbornly maintained a distance of ten meters from him.

Finally, under Hina's "miraculous" tracking, the old man carried Kiana and opened the door to a room.

"Is this the room?" Hina stood at the door, struggling to come up with the right lines to shout as she broke in.

To her surprise, as she raised her leg to kick the door, the old man opened it from the inside.

"How did you find me..."

Caught red-handed, Hina silently retracted her raised right leg and asked weakly.

"Uh, the TV in my room can see the surveillance of the entire building."

Hina: "..."

Ah, Technology changes life; this is really true.

The old man and the young girl stared at each other across half the corridor, creating an awkward silence for a moment.

"Uh..." Dr. Maki looked at the girl in front of him, who appeared unusually weak, and finally broke the silence: "Little girl, you are also a Valkyrie who came to Singapore with her, right?"

"Eh?!" Hina was momentarily stunned, unable to comprehend for a long time. A large question mark seemed to hover over her head.

Valkyrie? Who? Me?

What a joke! I am the apostle of God; how could I be...

"Yes, I am!" Hina shamelessly accepted this identity and looked at Maki coldly.

She wanted to pretend to be Miss Fu Hua's companion, first criticizing the strange old man for capturing the little girl from a moral standpoint and then asking questions to understand why the gem disappeared, as it had vanished from her perception.

"You look so weak; you must have been seriously damaged by Honkai! If you trust me, let me inject you with a potion that can neutralize the Honkai energy in your body and repair your tissues damaged by it." Maki motioned for her to follow him into the house, making way for her to enter.

"..."

Hearing this, Hina's expression shifted as she looked at Maki.

In her opinion, expelling Honkai Energy from someone's body was akin to picking a pocket!

This old man is not a good person!

"That... what will be the consequences of injecting the potion you mentioned?" Hina decided to give this old man one last chance to realize his mistake.

"As long as you continue to use this potion, you can remove the Honkai energy from your body and return to being an ordinary girl."

"Neutralize the Honkai energy... turn me back into an ordinary girl? But won’t I lose my power?" Hina imagined the aftermath of losing her power and felt her already cold heart grow even colder.

"Why should you girls have this power? I have obeyed Otto's orders for more than 40 years, transforming countless girls into Valkyries and sending them to the battlefield. They sacrificed one by one, and finally, even my granddaughter died in front of me! Only then did I realize how sinful my actions were!"

"So I developed this medicine and stole the gem. I will use everything I have to stop Otto!"

"This is my atonement!"

As he spoke, Maki burst into tears, his hysterical demeanor that of an old man who had lost everything.

But his mention of stealing the gem instantly caught Hina's attention.

Sure enough, he knows the whereabouts of the gem...

"Gem? What gem?"

Behind Maki's back, Hina clenched her hands tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white, while her face maintained an expression of ignorance.

"You don't know?"

"Know what?"

Looking at Hina's feigned ignorance and her doubtful words, Maki was taken aback.

In his opinion, the Valkyrie who appeared in Singapore must have come for the Serenity Gem he had taken.

But now, this Valkyrie had the audacity to say she didn't know about it.

If these Valkyries weren't after the Serenity Gem, then what was their purpose for coming here?

In an instant, Maki pondered extensively but couldn’t come up with an answer.

Ultimately, he chose the simplest method—directly asking: "What mission did your superiors send you here for?"

"Uh..." Hina looked at Maki's serious expression and silently complained in her heart

How do I know what the Valkyrie's mission is...?

"This is confidential and cannot be disclosed," Hina scratched her head and fabricated an answer that was nearly perfect.

Hearing this, Maki breathed a sigh of relief.

Only those stubborn little girls could respond in such a way to questions.

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Chapter 5: Here Comes the Gem Qualifiers~

"Okay, let me make it short. The girl lying on the bed is your friend, right?"

"Friend... yes... it counts..." Hina nodded calmly, silently praying that Kiana wouldn’t wake up suddenly at this moment; otherwise, the scene would become very embarrassing.

"Child, do you want to protect your companions?" Maki placed his hand heavily on Hina's shoulder and said solemnly.

Uh, it has come to this point—can I still say I don't want to...

Hina's mouth twitched slightly, and she nodded in response to Maki: "I want..."

"Then wait for your friend to wake up and convince her to leave Schicksal with me!"

"You..." Hina almost spat out a mouthful of Honkai energy solution out of anger. She resisted the urge to tie the old man to a chair and torture him about the whereabouts of the gem. Instead, she squeezed out two drops of crocodile tears and began to play the victim.

"Okay, I admit that I lied to you just now. I know what the mission goal is, but I didn’t tell the truth." Hina lowered her head and began to craft a more logical story.

"So... what are you hiding?" Maki looked at Hina in confusion, as if waiting for her answer.

"The order I received is that someone intends to use the Serenity Gem to create a large-scale Honkai Eruption to directly select a suitable owner for the Serenity Gem, effectively creating an Artificial Eruption." Hina expressionlessly shifted the blame onto others for her purpose, as she was intending to use this to force Maki to make a decision.

From their long conversation, she had roughly figured out Maki's character and was just waiting for him to fall into her trap and expose the location of the Gem.

As expected, when Hina broke this significant news, Maki couldn't sit still. He looked at her seriously and asked, "Child, is your information reliable?"

"Although... those guys aren’t very trustworthy in some matters, they are indeed experts in intelligence..."

"Damn it!!" Maki turned around and fiddled with the computer on the table. Soon, a picture similar to real-time monitoring appeared on the computer screen.

In the picture, a blue-purple gem suspended in a glass container emitted a long light in the dim environment. Around it, a group of people wearing special Honkai protective suits were busy in this almost enclosed space.

They kept taking out purple crystals from special containers and piling them around the Gem of Serenity's container.

"This are... Honkai crystals! Why are they putting these things here?!"

Ziziziz...

After a few seconds, the monitoring seemed to be disturbed, and it kept flashing until Maki's computer screen was filled with static.

"I understand! I understand!" Maki covered his face, beads of sweat dripping down his cheeks. He looked at the surveillance screen full of static, beating his chest and stamping his feet: "Cocolia, that vixen! So this is her real plan! She doesn’t want to analyze the gems at all..."

"She wants to soak the gems in high-concentration Honkai energy crystals to produce a chain reaction!"

"Your information is correct. Cocolia plans to create Artificial Eruption here and select new gem-qualified individuals!"

"Then can we stop them in time?" Hina asked.

"Stop..." Maki raised his head to look at the thin girl standing beside him and glanced at the time on his watch. "If we go now, it should be in time, but..."

"But what? The safety of the entire city now depends on the two of us. Even if there is any danger, I will go." Hina's fingers tightly pinched the corners of her clothes, and her tone became anxious.

Who would have thought that the woman named Cocolia was even worse than her? 

She doesn't know what kind of mindset this person has!

"You’re the only one here; are you going to die?!"

"So what?" Hina glared at Maki angrily, speaking word by word: "I can’t just watch the new Herrscher appear anyway."

Because I must get this gem!

When the word "Herrscher" escaped her lips, the pain and hesitation on Maki's face disappeared, replaced by firmness and determination: "Yes! Herrscher... if this kind of thing appears..."

"You stay here to take care of your friends. I'll go. If I fail, you can contact your superiors and let them handle this!"

"You? Can you do it with your old arms and legs? How about we go together? If there's any problem, I will run?!" Hina stepped aside and tentatively suggested.

"Okay, follow me!"

After speaking, Maki pulled out a chair and strode out the door.

For a moment, Hina vaguely saw the vitality of youth in this weathered old man.

It’s not easy! Finally, he was fooled!

Hina breathed a sigh of relief. After Maki walked out of the room, she pressed her hand on the computer and destroyed the device that could replay the surveillance in a simple and crude manner.

Then, she slowly followed Maki toward the storage point of the Gem of Serenity.

In front of the metal door on the first floor of the basement, Maki, exhausted from his old body, leaned against the wall, breathing heavily. He looked at the password input device in front of him nervously, praying in his heart as he entered the password he knew.

8 0 8 8!

'Ding--The password is correct!'

Seeing the closed metal door open before him, Maki finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was still early, and everything could be remedied.

But for some reason, he felt something was off. Since the vixen Cocolia didn’t trust him, why hadn’t she even changed the password of the safe room...

Just as he was thinking, several soldiers wearing special Honkai protective suits emerged from the secret room.

Each of them carried a weapon. They were busy at first, but when they saw the closed door of the secret room open from the outside, they stood in front of it with their guns drawn, ready to see what was going on.

The leader walked out of the secret room and looked at Maki in confusion: "Dr. Maki, what are you doing here?"

Even facing several black gun muzzles, Maki remained fearless. He looked at the anti-entropy soldiers with his chest puffed out and questioned them neither servilely nor arrogantly: "What I want to ask is, what are you doing? Do you know you’re artificially creating a disaster?"

"We only know to obey orders, regardless of other matters!" The anti-entropy soldier waved his hand nonchalantly, pushing Maki back: "If you have any complaints, you can contact my superior, Cocolia."

"What nonsense is this! This is the lives of a city of people! Don’t you have the most basic humanity?" Maki saw the number on the collapse strength detector next to the gem container through the gap between the anti-entropy soldiers. He rushed toward the wide-open metal door desperately, wanting to do something.

"Old man, if you want to die, just say so. Don’t interfere with our work!" The anti-entropy soldier knocked Maki to the ground with the butt of his rifle, then kicked him in the abdomen and urged his companions in the secret room impatiently: "Are you guys done? It won’t be long before this place is unsuitable for human survival. Let’s finish quickly and get out of this damn place."

"Damn it! Whether it’s Otto... or Cocolia... do those big shots not value the lives of others?" Maki lay on the ground, covering his chest and abdomen, staring blankly at the ceiling.

The blow from the rifle wasn’t light. He could clearly feel that two of his ribs were broken, and the shattered bones had even pierced his internal organs. The massive bleeding from the internal organs quickly drained Maki's already limited vitality.

He felt his eyelids growing heavier and his consciousness becoming more blurred. In the haze, he appears to see his granddaughter standing beside him, looking at him quietly.

"That girl didn’t come, which means someone has been called to deal with this matter. I’ve done everything I could. Lin, Grandpa is here to see you..."

Mumbling to himself, Maki slowly closed his eyes. A line of murky tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes, passing by his ears, through his hair, and finally falling to the ground, condensing into a gorgeous ice flower.

"Ah! What the hell is that!!"

The sharp screams and hurried footsteps jolted Maki’s scattered consciousness back to reality. He opened his eyes in confusion. Before death arrived, he saw a scene that completely shattered his understanding.

The anti-entropy soldiers who had just been bossing him around in front of the secret room were frozen into ice sculptures during their escape, while he lay on the ground unharmed.

The young girl he regarded as a Valkyrie of Schicksal stood in front of the secret room door, munching a pile of high-concentration Honkai energy crystals as snacks.

Snap, snap...

Hina just swallowed a high-concentration Honkai crystal and reached for another, putting it in her mouth.

The intensity of her exercise had been high, and she needed to replenish some energy to support her next action.

"Who... who... are you..." Maki raised his right hand with difficulty, pointing at Hina and stuttering a few words.

"Me?" Hina put the Honkai energy crystal in her mouth while organizing her words, preparing to answer the last question in the life of the old man who helped her find the Gem of Serenity.

"Didn't I tell you? The Gem will catalyze a qualified person.

Guess who the gem-qualified person is?"

"..."

Maki didn't answer, just stared at the Honkai energy crystal in Hina's arms.

Seeing no one to praise her, Hina had to warm up herself: "Yes, that's right, it's me Hina..."

"In order to thank you for leading me, I will allow you to witness the birth of the apostle of God at the last moment of your life!" Hina took out the blue-purple gem from the small metal box in her pocket and held it tightly. It fits tightly on the chest.

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Chapter 6: Welt(clone): No Need to Ask, It Was Definitely Done by the Valkyrie!

“!”

In Maki's shocked eyes, Hina suddenly opened her eyes again. She stuffed the gem back into her pocket, squatted beside Maki with a sly smile, and whispered, “Hahaha, I lied to you! I'm afraid I must be crazy to do such a stupid thing in this place where enemies may appear everywhere.”

“But to be honest, I am still very grateful to you. After all, I can't find this place without you.”

“To thank you, I can fulfill one of your wishes within my ability. So, don’t die first~ Think about it carefully, and you can tell me when you have thought it through!”

“Wish...” Maki chewed on the word. After thinking for several minutes, he struggled to take out a few test tubes from his pocket. “I implore you to send the little girl in my room to a safe place and destroy the Honkai reactor in it by the way.”

“Hey, hey, hey, a little greedy~, saving people plus blowing up the reactor? Those are two wishes!” Hina turned around, looked at the reactor that was constantly producing Honkai energy, and subconsciously licked her lips.

“I know. This is the Honkai energy antibody drug I developed. Just take it as a reward.” Maki nodded and handed the test tube in his hand to Hina. “This is my masterpiece. You take it; it will probably be useful in the future.”

“Tsk, it sounds troublesome, but... considering that you are dying, I will reluctantly agree to it!” Hina took the test tube handed to her by Maki and looked at it in the light. Seeing that she couldn't figure out anything about it, Hina pursed her lips, stood up, and walked toward the secret room with a high concentration of Honkai energy.

After absorbing the Honkai energy that escaped from the surroundings one last time, Hina punched the red self-destruct button and walked toward the exit.

“Hey, I promised you, I...”

Suddenly, Hina swallowed back the words she had said halfway. Looking at Maki, who had passed away peacefully on the ground, Hina was silent for a long time.

After a while, she sighed leisurely and turned to walk toward the elevator. Now, she only had one last thing to do—send the stupid girl named Kiana upstairs to a safe place.

Then, she could completely give up her past and enjoy her life.

On the other side, Welt(clone), who had just been found from the explosion area, was lying on the sofa and receiving treatment from the anti-entropy medical staff.

“Damn Valkyrie! How dare she cut off my tongue? The next time we meet, I will make her pay back tenfold!” Welt(clone) became a human telegraph machine as soon as he put on the support collar sounder. His mouth never stopped, and the anti-entropy staff standing nearby could not help but twitch their eyelids.

Beep beep! Beep beep!

“Hello? Cocolia, what's wrong? Let me tell you, I'm in a bad mood now. It's better something important!” Welt(clone) pushed away the nurse next to him and sat up from the sofa.

“I have lost contact with the team that installed the reactor for the [Gem], and I can't contact Maki either. I feel that our plan may...”

As he was speaking, another violent explosion came from below. The technicians of Anti-Entropy looked at the explosion area through the window, and their faces turned ugly in an instant.

“What's wrong? Why is it so difficult every day?” Welt(clone) maintained communication with Cocolia and walked to the window. He casually pushed the person in front of him aside and witnessed the wonderful scene of the secondary explosion caused by the explosion of the Honkai reactor!

“Damn it, it must be the work of those Valkyries! Oh, where is that old man Maki?”

Welt(clone) gritted his teeth and looked at the underground floor where the column of black smoke kept rising. He turned his head and rushed out of the room.

Bang!

“Old man! Why don't you reply to my message? Do you look down on me?” Kicking open the door of Maki's room, Welt(clone) rushed in aggressively, intending to beat up the old man Maki who only knew how to cause trouble for himself.

Who would have thought that after all his efforts, he could not say he gained nothing, but rather, he gained nothing at all?

Not to mention Maki, who was a living person; even the computer on Maki's desk was deliberately damaged and could not be repaired.

The exploded basement, the missing action team, the damaged electronic equipment, losing contact with Maki, and the clues reported by his subordinates all made Welt(clone) more certain of his previous judgment—it must have been done by those annoying female soldiers of Schicksal!

No! Did I miss something just now?

As soon as he walked to the corridor at the door, Welt(clone), who was always straightforward, returned to Maki's room in a hurry as if he had thought of something important. He picked up a few long white hairs from the messy bed and suddenly thought of the two girls he had met when he went downstairs just now.

He had been in a hurry at the time and hadn’t taken one of the girls seriously because she was wearing the clothes of the hotel staff, but... the girl supported by the staff had real white hair.

“Quick! Go find the girl with white hair from just now. Even if you have to turn this hotel upside down, you must find her for me!” Welt(clone) threw the long white hair to one side and rushed out of the room aggressively.

Maybe Hina didn't intend to cover her whereabouts at all. She quickly found the number of Kiana's room at the hotel front desk while wearing the staff clothes.

After asking the cleaning staff on this floor to borrow the universal card to swipe the door of Kiana's room, Hina threw the unconscious Kiana onto the bed and found a relatively soft sofa for herself, intending to rest there for a while before leaving.

"I'm so tired after walking such a long distance. I think I need to exercise more in the future." Hina looked at Kiana, who was sleeping soundly on the bed with resentment, and rubbed her sore waist with her hands.

Da da da

Well, someone is coming? Is it to find me or the sleeping beauty?

Hina, who was lying on the sofa with her eyes closed, opened her eyes as a warning and looked curiously in the direction of the door.

After a while, a chaotic and dull sound of footsteps came from outside the closed door.

“Quick! Quick! Quick! Right here...”

With a bang, the closed hotel room door was rudely destroyed, and a group of people led by Welt(clone) broke in directly.

“...,” Welt(clone) turned his head and looked around the room. His obscene and violent eyes passed directly over Hina, who was dressed as a staff member, and fell on Kiana. “You guys go out first; I'm enough here.”

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