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Volume 1: Chapter 38: If Two Herrschers Awaken at the Same Time...

In a dark corner, Rita Rossweisse, who hadn't even put on the Valkyrie armor at this moment, looked at the Anti-Entropy members lying on the ground and put away the bloody sickle in her hand.

Then, Rita took out the communicator and contacted her boss on the other end of the communicator.

"Lord Otto, the enemies near K423 have been cleared. Do I need to continue tracking K423?"

【On this point, you can retreat, Rita.】

Otto, who was at the Scheme headquarters, looked at the images sent back by other surveillance systems and a meaningful smile appeared on his face.

Afterwards, Rita, who was still there, heard Otto's slightly disturbing instructions before he cut off the communication.

[Remember to be safe. If you encounter an enemy you cannot defeat, just retreat. There is no need to confront them head-on.]

"You are my important subordinate, and I don't want you to suffer any unnecessary harm because of some unnecessary obsession with victory or defeat."

Listening to the words Otto left before he interrupted the communication, Rita walked out of the alley with an unchanged expression.

In fact, judging from the current situation, both sides are still relatively restrained.

Although Otto has given up his plan to continue watching the fire from the other side of the river because of the change in the current situation, even so, his current actions can be considered very gentle.

As for Cocolia, Rita now felt that it was unusually quiet.

According to the intelligence reports from the Mandate of Heaven surveillance department and the intelligence department, after Yuan Yan was taken to the Me Society by the Anti-Entropy members, he appeared in other places after a while.

During this time, some members of Anti-Entropy rushed to the apartment where the daughter of the former president of Me Company, Raiden Ryoma, currently lived.

Later, Yuan Yan also rushed to that place and took away Raiden Ryoma's daughter Raiden Mei.

Combining all the things that have happened, Rita feels that the central figure of the third collapse should be the girl named Raiden Mei.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the two sides of Anti-Entropy, who had already started an internal conflict, would suddenly focus their attention on the daughter of an executor.

When you think about it this way, a lot of things actually make sense.

Yuan Yan's personal information obtained by Tianming showed that after transferring to Qianyu Academy, he acted as a "classmate of Raiden Mei".

In addition, the apartment he lives in is actually in the same building as the apartment where Mei Raiden lives, so before Yuan Yan rebelled against Cocolia, it can be basically confirmed that he was a member of Anti-Entropy responsible for monitoring Mei Raiden.

Alas, perhaps it was because Mr. Yuan Yan was too close to the mission target and realized some truths that he was originally unaware of that he wrote that letter full of despair.

But now, if all my speculations are true, the problem will be even more serious.

Lord Otto has clearly regarded Yuan Yan as a sacrifice to cultivate K423's feelings.

However, Lord Otto did not give us any orders to stop Yuan Yan from taking Raiden Mei away.

If Mei Raiden is the body this time as I guessed, doesn't it mean that once K423 joins up with her, Yuan Yan will have two Herrschers working with him at the same time?

When Rita thought of this, she walked out of the alley and felt that her clothes were soaked with cold sweat no matter how hard she forced herself to stay calm.

Fourteen years ago, during the second Honkai Impact, there was only one Herrscher of the Void, and humanity was nearly driven to extinction.

Fourteen years later, during the third collapse, if two Herrschers awaken at the same time...

Then this is not a "small problem" that can be solved by the death of millions of people at once.

"Hey, this beautiful lady."

Just as Rita was about to return to headquarters and think about how to stop all this within her ability, a frivolous voice suddenly appeared in her ears.

when......!

Rita, who was completely unaware of the other party's existence, turned around slightly and saw a one-armed man in a raincoat who appeared in a place where he could attack her at any time.

As a member of the Destiny Group with dual identities as a warrior and an assassin, Rita actually has very sophisticated skills in human combat.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible for him to approach Rita quietly.

Ordinary people who don't know how to control their pace and breathing will be noticed by Rita the moment they take action.

But this man...

"Ahh, don't be so nervous."

Looking at the girl in front of him, the man's half face under the raincoat showed a very kind smile.

"I'm just here to catch up with an acquaintance. I don't intend to do anything rude to you."

"Well, provided you don't show your weapons without knowing what's good for you."

Siegfried Kaslana...

Rita, who knew the man's identity from the beginning, now felt that she had been targeted by him.

If she really intended to do something, the moment she took action, the other party would draw out the Heavenly Fire Judgment from his waist and directly pierce her body with energy bullets.

He is worthy of being the father of Lord Yulandel, the legendary strongest warrior of destiny.

Even if he lost an arm, I am sure I am no match for him.

Moreover, unlike the brave and reckless fighter in the legend, Mr. Siegfried now seemed like a dormant tiger, so calm that it made people shudder.

Lord Otto's previous instructions were because of him.

Lord Otto was right. When facing an enemy with no chance of victory, I did suffer some unnecessary harm due to some unnecessary obsession with victory or defeat.

"Nice to meet you, Master Siegfried."

Facing the old senior in front of her, Rita bowed slightly to Siegfried politely, smiled and looked at the man in front of her and spoke.

"Excuse me, is there anything I can do for you? Since you once saved this world, I will do my best to help you without harming the interests of Destiny."

"Wow, so easy to talk to."

Listening to the other party's polite words, Siegfried grinned in an extremely exaggerated manner.

"That's a good feeling. I don't want to be like I have been doing in the past half day, stretching my muscles with my juniors who are ignorant but have done nothing wrong."

"You can contact Otto, right? No, Otto must be watching here right now."

"Let him come out and have a good chat with me—if he doesn't want me to completely ruin his plans, then he'd better not refuse this offer."

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PS: The fifth update.

Volume 1: Chapter 39. I am kind-hearted and cannot bear to see you suffer

Siegfried Kaslana is a brave...and reckless man.

Today, Rita feels that there is actually nothing wrong with this misconception.

Admittedly, compared to the Siegfried of the past, he has indeed grown a lot.

But it is difficult to change one's nature. Once a Kaslana, always a Kaslana.

As a natural Kaslana, the hot-blooded Siegfried could never become a scheming conspirator no matter how much he thought about it.

The reason why he now gave Rita a different feeling than she had in her memory was mainly because...

——He was just pretending.

Now that Walter is missing, he thought for a moment and felt that no matter how he schemed, he could not outsmart Otto, so he might as well jump out and see what that old bitch would say.

Regardless of whether what he said was true or false, Siegfried would get some information from Otto's words... Well, even if he couldn't figure it out, Longma, Tesla, and Einstein, who were not in Changkong City now, could analyze it and get some information.

Regardless of whether this information was what Otto intended to give them, it was still much better than being completely in the dark now.

[Wow, it's rare for someone to take the initiative to contact me like this.]

At this moment, when Otto's voice, which made Siegfried feel extremely angry, came out from Rita's communicator, Siegfried almost couldn't hold back his inner anger.

【Yeah, not bad.】

After releasing the light curtain, Otto looked at Siegfried who was clenching his fists, and couldn't help but applaud.

[He just clenched his fists and didn't vent his emotions too much.]

"Compared to your past self, you've definitely grown a lot, Siegfried."

"Stop lecturing me like an elder!"

At this moment, Siegfried stared at the man in the picture, whom he wished he could kill with a single blow, and asked Otto with gritted teeth.

"You actually put Kiana in such a dangerous situation—what on earth are you planning?!"

Ah, about this matter...

After a moment's thought, Otto asked curiously.

"You are a traitor to destiny. Why would I tell you such a secret plan?"

Rita, who was acting as a human communicator at the scene, could feel the air at the scene suddenly drop several degrees...

——No, the temperature around here is really dropping! ! ! !

Seeing the cold air emanating from Siegfried's body, Rita felt a little uncomfortable.

As a Valkyrie, Rita is naturally not afraid of pain and sacrifice.

But because of her boss's bad taste in teasing her senior, she was affected... Honestly, this is the only thing that should be forgotten.

But now Otto obviously has no intention of ending the provocation.

He seemed to have suddenly thought of something and raised his right index finger.

[Eh, could it be that—you've finally figured it out and are planning to return to your destiny and help me obediently?]

After saying this, Otto, with his right fist clenched, gently hammered the palm of his left hand with his right hand and smiled kindly.

[You should have said it earlier. If you really think so, then everything will be easy to deal with.]

“You fucking…!”

[Okay, okay, I won’t joke with you anymore.]

Looking at Siegfried, whose fever was so intense that he was almost out of control, Otto sighed helplessly.

[Look, I just praised you a few words, and you started getting anxious.]

If you really want to achieve great things, you should try to change your impatience a little.

Listening to Otto's speech, Rita roughly understood why Otto did this.

In fact, from a third-party perspective, what Otto just said was, to put it bluntly, to provoke the other party's emotions before the negotiation, so that the other party would lose their rationality and be unable to calm down and think, making it easier for them to fall into the verbal trap set by Otto.

This is a very simple method, but when a specific person uses specific words on a specific opponent, it will produce very outstanding results.

Ultimately, trash talk before a match is a useful exploratory tactic in many ways.

The entire Destiny knew that Otto and Siegfried had a conflict, otherwise Siegfried would not have given up his position as the head of the [Knight] clan and chosen to leave Destiny and join forces with Anti-Entropy.

And now...

Alas, no matter how hard Siegfried tries, he can never surpass Lord Otto in this regard.

[Okay, let's get down to business. You asked me what I was planning to do...]

After a moment's thought, Otto put on a compassionate expression.

[K423 is the life I created after all. Seeing how hard she's been living out there with you, what's wrong with me not being able to bear to give her some money?]

"...Is it necessary to say such boring nonsense?"

Oh, okay, okay.

After raising his hands in surrender, Otto said with a helpless smile.

That accident led to a tragedy. To ensure the continuation of the bloodline of the Kaslana clan's strongest warriors, I think...

[K423 is already old enough, it's time for him to experience the world of love.]

[After all, if you, as her father, don't love her, then someone else has to love her.]

[She's already so pitiful, you wouldn't jump out and try to break up the couple, would you?]

Sure enough, it was just as Dr. Einstein and others had speculated.

After I stayed away from Kiana because of my Herrscher of the Sky personality, Otto had to find someone who could replace me and serve as the 'fuse' to stimulate Kiana.

Now it can be confirmed that Yuan Yan is the one he chose.