At the same time, my wife is myself.

Qianyuan gently pushed Rita away. Rita was now small, fragrant, and soft.

Unlike Kiana, who possessed superhuman strength from a young age and could easily defeat ordinary adults even after shrinking, Rita was just an ordinary human child when she was young, with nothing special about her except that she was cuter.

Although the implanted artificial stigmata are still inside her, the shrinking of her body still has an immeasurable impact on her.

This manifested as Qian Yuan giving her a light push, causing her to fall on her bottom and sit on the ground with a blank expression.

"No wonder you like lolis so much, Rita. They're so delicate and easy to push over."

Qianyuan picked her up again and nuzzled her face: "Rita is so cute."

Rita hadn't felt so powerless in a long time, but she also breathed a sigh of relief.

Since Qianyuan turned her into a child, it means she didn't really intend to force-feed her cream puffs. Rita was genuinely panicked when she was forcibly given the shrinking drug, but fortunately, it didn't lead to the worst possible outcome.

This at least shows that Qian Yuan had no ill intentions towards her.

She composed herself and asked, "Lord Qianyuan, what exactly is your purpose?"

Even after shrinking to a smaller size, Rita's elegance remained undiminished, and she even possessed a touch of allure in her eyes. Despite being a child, she was more womanly than Fu Hua, who was 55,000 years old.

"If I remember correctly, Durandal is Schicksal's strongest Valkyrie, right?"

Qianyuan said, "I've always had a slight doubt about whether she's stronger than me, so I called her over."

He showed Rita the message he had sent to Durandal.

Rita's pupils trembled:

"What have you been sending to Lady Durandal?!"

She felt her heart die, because Durandal had already seen the message.

The message "The other party is typing" kept appearing at the top of the chat box, but after several minutes the message still hadn't been sent. Even through the screen, Rita could feel Durandal's inner turmoil.

This person is extremely stubborn and a typical serious idiot; she'll take your jokes seriously!

Rita reached out to snatch the communicator, but Qianyuan simply stretched out her arm, making it out of reach. Rita could only lie on Qianyuan's body and wriggle around.

She grew anxious: "You want to compete with Lady Durandal? There's no need for this! You must have other motives!"

Having been fooled once, Rita no longer believed Qianyuan's lies. Even if he really invited Lady Durandal over, there must be some other conspiracy!

Chiyuki made a phone call and summoned Raiden Mei and Kiana over.

With just a hug, Raiden Mei understood Chiyori's intentions.

They had originally planned to bring Siegfried over, as Durandal's biological father, to keep her in check. However, they decided against it because he wasn't ready.

More importantly, Kiana wasn't ready yet, so she had to give up.

Rita narrowed her eyes. Could it be that Qianyuan was planning to gang up on Lady Durandal? But then she shouldn't have brought the shrunken Kiana along.

Instead of answering her questions, Qianyuan said to Kiana, "This is Rita Losweisse, an S-rank Valkyrie of Destiny. Kiana, if I remember correctly, you're only a B-rank, right? You're no match for her at all."

"But now that you've both shrunk, you actually have an advantage. If she acts recklessly, are you confident you can suppress her?"

"Leave it to me!"

Kiana immediately became spirited, "Even if it's an S-rank Valkyrie, I won't lose!"

Rita sensed something was wrong. How could she, so young, possibly defeat Kaslana, who possessed brute strength?

"Where are you going?"

Rita said, "So you summoned Lady Durandal here, only to run away yourself? Aren't you afraid Lady Durandal will overturn the World Serpent?"

"I'm just going to the restroom."

After a brief struggle with Rita, he had already seen Durandal board a plane and head this way through the Key of Corruption.

"After all, I am facing the strongest in the world. I need to get myself into the best condition to find a chance of victory."

He handed the communicator back to Rita: "If Durandal asks you questions, you should know what to do, right?"

He flashed a bright smile: "There is an antidote to the shrinking drug. If you misbehave, I will turn you back to your original size, lock you up in a place where no one can find you, and make you give birth to 108 children for me."

"Durandal is indeed very strong in combat, but the Earth is so big, are you confident that she can find you?"

Rita was shocked that Chiyori would say such a thing in front of Raiden Mei, and what shocked her even more was that Raiden Mei didn't react at all.

Will she actually help hold her hands and feet down then?

Now we can only wait for the invincible Lady Durandal to arrive, and then she can suppress all these people!

…………

Durandal, who had just returned to Schicksal after completing her mission, panicked immediately upon seeing the message from Rita.

Rita had a baby? When did that happen? The baby is so big already!

Looking back, Durandal was ashamed to find that she couldn't even tell when her best friend had gotten pregnant.

What made her feel even more guilty was that she discovered that Rita was almost always around her during her free time, which meant she probably spent little time with her husband and daughter.

I need to go there and apologize to them properly.

Durandal pondered for a long time, wondering what gift would be best to prepare for the past. She thought about asking someone for advice, and suddenly realized that Rita had always helped her solve problems in the past.

Is it inappropriate to ask the person you're giving a gift if you're asking them?

Durandal wanted to ask the other members of the team, but her intelligence suddenly kicked in, and she checked all of Schicksal's group chats and public posts, but there was no discussion about Rita getting married and having children.

She realized that Rita probably didn't want anyone else to know about this.

After much difficult thought and repeatedly refining her words in the chat box, Durandal replied with a message:

"I'll be there soon."

Little girls probably prefer dolls and flowers, right?

Durandal purchased items based on online search results, then hurriedly boarded a plane and headed to Sky City.

After she boarded the plane and left the headquarters of Destiny, Qianyuan also boarded the fastest private plane in the world and headed straight for the headquarters of Destiny.

"Strange, why did Durandal leave?"

As the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny, Otto was paying attention to her movements. He checked Durandal's route and found that she was heading to Tianqiong City in Shenzhou.

“I remember Rita was on a covert mission there, and she reported information today. She didn’t ask me to transfer Durandal.”

He reviewed their chat history.

Chapter 43 Otto's End

"Interesting, so much fun."

Seeing Rita holding hands with Chiyuki, and hugging a miniature version of her, Otto laughed. He hadn't expected that his spur-of-the-moment idea would lead him to witness this scene.

"After Kiana comes Rita. What is your purpose?"

"No, Siegfried has already gone there. Calling Durandal over now, are they perhaps planning to let the father and daughter recognize each other?"

Otto's smile vanished. Durandal was now the undisputed strongest. Even if his Soul Steel Body was tuned to the strength of the first Welt, it was hard to say whether he could defeat Durandal.

If she were to reunite with Siegfried and his daughter and learn about her past and her parents' experiences, the best outcome would be for her to betray Destiny, which would be a huge loss for Destiny.

He sent Durandal an urgent mission, transferring her to another location and instructing the pilot to change course, but the message went unanswered. Durandal did not respond, and the plane's route remained unchanged.

He planned to send others to intercept the plane, but found that his orders couldn't even leave the office.

The next moment, Otto sensed that he had been disconnected from the internet. Not only could he not contact anyone else, but even his 357 Soul Steel bodies had lost contact with him.

According to the pre-set plan, once this body is disconnected from the internet, it will be considered dead. The next numbered Soul Steel body will wake up, load its backed-up consciousness and memories, and reappear as Otto.

"But can my other bodies really wake up?"

Otto stared at his computer screen. "You're looking at me, aren't you, Chiyuki?"

"Congratulations on answering correctly, but there is no reward."

The door was pushed open, and another "Otto" walked in. Clearly, this was one of his backup bodies, but the memories and consciousness inside had been formatted, leaving only his physical form.

After entering, he transformed back into his original form and sat opposite Otto.

Otto poured himself and Qianyuan a glass of red wine: "I knew from that photo that your electronic information technology was far beyond my imagination, but I still didn't expect it to be this advanced."

"Completely crushing the development of Destiny over the years, was the information technology of the previous civilization really that powerful? Or is this some kind of Herrscher's ability, such as the Divine Key?"

He seemed very calm: "Although the Void Archives is completely disobedient, I have not wasted these five hundred years. According to the information recorded above, there were thirteen Herrschers before the End, but it can only simulate ten of the Divine Keys. Including itself, there are a total of eleven Divine Keys."

"Is it one of the remaining two Divine Keys?"

Qianyuan was somewhat surprised: "Although there are some errors in the details, it is indeed the twelfth Divine Key."

"Judging from this power, it really showed complete restraint towards me."

Otto was completely helpless. "If I weren't made of Soul Steel, I could at least put up a fight."

He did not attempt to resist with force. The fact that they could seize all his soul steel body so quickly left him no time to arrange for someone to rescue him. Erasing his remaining consciousness would not have been any more difficult than formatting other soul steel.

So don't humiliate yourself; save some dignity for yourself.

"It seems you are very hostile towards me."

Otto was very curious, "Where did I offend you? Or have my past actions affected you or your relatives and friends?"

He never considered himself a good person, and he was aware of all the bad things he had done.

"No, none of that. The only possible event was avoided before it even happened."

Qianyuan said, "I have no hostility towards you. I just intend to control this world to increase production capacity, and for this I need to eliminate unstable factors."

"this world?"

Otto suddenly realized, "So you're from another world, a celestial being?"

“Even further away than them.”

"No wonder, I didn't lose unjustly."

Otto smiled and said, "Should I feel honored to be seen as a threat and eliminated by someone like you who has descended upon us?"

"There's no need for that, I don't care."

Qianyuan's true form is still on her way by plane, so she doesn't mind chatting with Otto.

Otto asked, "There's something I'm concerned about. This world is facing an impending crisis. Since you consider this place a production base, do you have any plans to help us overcome this crisis?"

Qianyuan nodded. Of course, he had to get through it. If he could, he would like to slap the Cocoon of the End a few times, kill it, and then seize its power, rather than coexist with it.

The source of all the tragedies in the entire Honkai Impact 3rd world comes from it.

Forget about hugs, I just want to beat them up.

"Finally, I have a small wish."

Otto took out the game cartridge of "Kallen Fantasy" and said, "If possible, could you revive this saint who died five hundred years ago? She is different from me. She was a good person through and through, and she died to protect the people."

Qianyuan didn't mind this: "When I have the ability, I will rescue her."

"grateful."

Otto smiled and formatted his consciousness, leaving only the memories he thought might be helpful to Qianyuan.

On the plane, Qianyuan was still on his way, but he had already cleaned the area inside and out with the Key of Corrosion several times to confirm that there was no trace of Otto.

He would then have Vervie and Mebius check him several times to make sure he was truly dead.

When the plane finally landed, with the help of the Key of Corruption, he entered Otto's office without any obstacles and obtained the First Key of God, the Void Treasury.

This thing was created for the continuation of human civilization; it can analyze things and depict and reproduce them. Previous civilizations used it to record the advanced science and technology of that era. The Void Archives can also construct simulated Divine Keys, but only possess some of the abilities of the original.

It possesses self-awareness and claims to be an avatar of the pre-civilization supercomputer "Prometheus".

Although it attempted to permanently banish the Honkai, considering that Old Yang disliked it, and that in the subsequent Honkai Iron storyline, its personality was so awful that it was kicked out of the Star Train by Pam, it is speculated that it was not a good thing.

Qianyuan was too lazy to scheme against it, so she simply put it away and waited for Wilvi and Mebius to come over so she could fix it thoroughly before using it again.

Lying on the comfortable sofa, Qianyuan checked on Durandal's situation through the Key of Erosion. She had already gotten off the plane and was preparing to meet Rita.

Qianyuan sent her a message in Otto's name:

"Schicken has reached a cooperation agreement with World Serpent to jointly develop the heritage of the pre-civilization. Soon, members of World Serpent will be invited to Schicken for exchanges. When you go there, take this opportunity to show Schicken a friendly attitude and do not initiate any conflict."

happy New Year!