Woof, Woof~!

"Waaah..."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Li Sushang had no idea what was going on.

"Miss Rita, why are you scaring Lisa?"

"Lisa..."

Rita raised an eyebrow. "Is this lady really named Lisa?"

"Ah... this..."

Li Sushang and Rita locked eyes for a few seconds before Li Sushang gave in and silently looked away.

She is not good at lying at all.

Seeing Li Sushang's guilty look, Rita was immediately in a bind.

Then, several terrifying guesses instantly popped into my mind—guess what?!

These days, the only person who looks so much like Theresa is probably the one next to the bishop!

"... Secretary Amber?"

Rita spoke with an uncertain expression, then silently moved a few feet away from the woman beside her.

"Ugh... Miss Rita, this..."

Upon hearing Lisa's words—that is, Amber's — Ragna quickly distanced himself from her, looking visibly alarmed.

Although the other party is a secretary, she is just a figurehead... The person behind her cannot be underestimated in the slightest.

Only Bianka remained, standing beside Mrs. Sabres with a blank expression.

"Hey, what are you guys doing standing here?" Shibao also arrived at the door at this moment.

Feeling guilty, Li Sushang was startled when she saw Shibao: "Hey! What are you doing here, old woman?"

"--ha?"

Chapter 290 Woof woof!

"Who said I'm an old woman?"

Shibao raised a fierce look and swept his eyes around before finally fixing his gaze on Li Sushang.

"Hmm..."

His fierce gaze quickly turned into confusion and contemplation.

"Who are you again... um... Susang?"

"What do you mean by 'that guy again'?"

Li Sushang was very unhappy with her own grandmaster.

"Are you suffering from Alzheimer's again?"

Li Sushang looked at Shibao with affection.

When Li Sushang was a child, she didn't have a good relationship with Fu Hua. After all, in her eyes at that time, this guy was the culprit who made her aunt and stepmother unhappy.

Later, when she reached Schicksal and grew up, her aunt told her some stories from the past, and she realized that the things her elders had done were a mess, and it was really hard to tell right from wrong.

So although Li Sushang doesn't speak very politely, she still acknowledges Fu Hua as her grandmaster.

"What do you mean by 'getting dementia again'?"

Shibao rubbed his temples. "I just didn't remember for a moment... Um, you..."

Shibao looked at "Sabreth" next to him. "... Kallen, right? Your transformation is really too great to be recognized."

"Well, after all, I didn't go with Otto to pick up Su Mei and the others back then."

"Wait, wait, wait!"

Rita, standing next to her, was no longer calm.

"Um... Miss Fu Hua, the Kallen you're talking about is..."

"Your strongest Valkyrie Schicksal 500 years ago, Kallen Kaslana."

Shibao pointed at Kallen as if it were a matter of course, and then pointed at Amber.

"Don't these two look alike?"

"... They do look quite similar."

Rita looked the two of them over and nodded with great difficulty.

"But that's not right! Wasn't it supposed to be Saintess Kallen..."

"History is nothing more than a little girl who can be dressed up however one pleases." Rita heard Miss Vera, who had been silent until now, speak up. "Schicksal can even alter the process of the Anti-Entropy Rebellion fifty or sixty years ago, let alone the history of five hundred years ago."

"Dress it up however you like..."

Rita repeated the sentence while looking somewhat stiffly at the blonde girl named "Vera" beside her.

Lisa is Amber.

Sabreis is Kallen Kaslana.

And this Miss Vera...

Rita suddenly remembered something.

Yesterday—or more accurately, early this morning.

Liu Bai asked himself a question out of the blue, "Rita, what if one day someone told you that Bishop Otto was a woman...?"

What was my answer back then?

Oh right, "a private room in the mental hospital".

But now it seems...

Rita stared somewhat stiffly at Ms. Vera in front of her. Ragna, who was standing next to her, seemed to have noticed something and began to move closer to Rita.

"... Mr. Bishop?"

Good afternoon, Rita.

Upon hearing Rita's tentative question, Otto nodded with a smile.

Upon hearing this reply, Ragna immediately turned his head and covered his face, while Rita closed her eyes and gently pinched the bridge of her nose, looking completely bewildered.

... Should we kill him to silence him?

A very dangerous thought suddenly occurred to Rita.

This body is definitely not a soul steel body; it's a real physical body, and one that's completely powerless, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to deceive her.

If we just swung the sickle down right now and ended it all...

It doesn't seem like it's impossible?

"Rita, I feel like you're having some dangerous thoughts."

"How could that be, Your Excellency?"

When she realized her thoughts had been exposed, Rita flashed her signature smile.

Hmm... it's the kind of fake smile that Shiora described as "the more you look at it, the more disgusted you become."

"... So you were planning to make a move just now, weren't you?"

How could that be?

"..."

Otto's lips twitched as he looked at his S-Rank Valkyrie, who was giving him a fake smile.

Love truly makes people blind; has it reached the point where they're ready to destroy themselves?

Otto felt utterly pissed off, and Rita felt the same way.

Our own bishop is a woman? And she looks like a delicate blonde beauty?

Is she crazy, or is the world crazy?

And think again, what exactly did I say to her bishop just now?

... Sure enough, we should hurry up and notify Anti-Entropy. Whether it's a male or female bishop, a dead bishop is the most reassuring.

"Don't worry, although I think it's not appropriate for you to resign at this critical juncture, I actually support your decision."

Otto sensed the growing murderous aura around him and quickly spoke up.

If he didn't speak up, he might really be killed.

At this distance, even with Kallen and Li Sushang behind him, it might not be enough for an S-class Valkyrie to suddenly kill an ordinary person.

Moreover, she and Rita were face to face, while the two of them were behind her. The difference in their physical abilities was too obvious. With her average physical strength, she would have been dead if Rita had punched her.

"...ah?"

Rita's somewhat bewildered voice immediately eased the atmosphere around them.

"Ahem, after all, I was once your age too."

"... There is absolutely no credibility in what you are saying."

Rita looked at the female bishop, who was adopting an elder-like demeanor, with suspicion.

"Please do not use the male bishop you know—that is, the AI I created—to judge my credibility."

Otto said righteously and sternly.

The mess AI left behind...

Back when I was causing trouble, I gained both fame and fortune, remaining pure and innocent. But AI's actions have led to this mess.

... Perhaps it's a difference in thinking between men and women?

"I don't think the person who can design that kind of AI is a good person..."

Rita blurted out a comment without thinking.

"However... I never expected you to be a woman."

Rita spoke while glancing at Shibao.

What's wrong with your brain? Why didn't you mention such important news?

Shibao looked completely bewildered by Rita's sharp gaze.

"You guys... didn't anyone ask me? And you all know I wasn't thinking straight before, isn't this... recovering from a serious illness?"

Nobody believes that reason!

"I suppose this is what a surprise means."

Otto glanced at the Shibao with surprise, then smiled at Rita.

Hmm... Rita always felt a little uneasy when she saw her bishop's smile.

He really is a bishop.

"Rita, you should learn from Bianka. Although you are better than Bianka in terms of quick wit, you are much inferior to Bianka in other aspects."

"I think Lady Bianka might not have realized what's happening yet..."

"No, I'm just not surprised," Bianka said, studying Otto. "I had a vague feeling about this before, so I'm not really surprised now."

"Well... it's a foul intuition."

Otto chuckled helplessly at this, "And you over there, stop covering your face, where can you hide?"

"Good afternoon, Bishop Otto."

Ragna gave Otto a somewhat stiff smile.

Even though the oppressive feeling lessened considerably because of becoming a woman, the name Otto...

Moreover, Ragna agrees with what Rita just said—what kind of good thing could a creature capable of designing that kind of AI be?