The Angry Dunyan

Setting aside Otto, who was trying to resurrect a Herrscher, most of the others were fighting to counter the Honkai.

Faced with these unfortunate souls tricked by Otto into throwing their lives away, Siegfried naturally would not kill them without necessity.

Only now, it could no longer be considered without necessity.

Apart from checking on how well his daughter was doing, Siegfried had another matter to handle on this trip to Changkong City.

He knew the actual situation regarding how his old friend Raiden Ryoma had been framed and imprisoned by Cocolia.

He also knew that Raiden Ryoma had implanted the Gem of Conquest into Raiden Mei's body in order to save his daughter.

Now that Cocolia was acting utterly devoid of human decency and trying to instigate the Third Honkai Outbreak in Changkong City, how could Siegfried and the two remaining founding executors of Anti-Entropy just watch it happen.

Doctors Einstein and Tesla had already begun secretly using their authority within the organization to obstruct Cocolia's operations.

As currently the most formidable fighter in the Anti-Entropy faction, Siegfried had naturally arrived in Changkong City prepared for the worst.

Having lost one arm and with his body far inferior to the past due to the overuse of the Hyper-Evolution Factor, the head of the Kaslana clan certainly wasn't about to lose to this group of Valkyries before him.

Yet if he were to fight an awakened Herrscher... to be honest, it was a battle of nine deaths and one life.

Sigh, ladies, honestly, there's really no need for us to start a fight here.

At that moment, looking at the Valkyries who had finished donning their armor, Siegfried said with utter helplessness.

Although I am a wanted criminal of Schicksal, Cocolia and I are not on the same side.

Now that she's stirring up trouble, I intend to stop her. Under these circumstances--aren't we on the same side?

At that moment, Rita, who had already donned her Argent Knight: Artemis armor, looked at Siegfried with a smile and spoke.

Theoretically speaking, your statement is indeed correct.

Sigh, if we can talk this through, that would be wonderful--

However, Lord Otto said he does not wish for unstable factors to disrupt his plans.

And to him, you are undoubtedly one of the greatest unstable factors in Changkong City.

Good grief, that fellow Otto really ******* thinks highly of me.

Then there's no help for it. I'm going to commit a minor sin.

Watching Siegfried draw the Flame-Chaser's Judgment and point its barrels at her, the smile on Rita's face vanished entirely.

Yet facing Siegfried at that moment, Rita was already sounding alarm bells in her heart.

The other Valkyries with her could not sense how powerful the enemy was and had yet to realize the gravity of the situation.

The problem, however, was that Rita, as an S-rank Valkyrie, was no ordinary Valkyrie.

She might be far inferior to powerhouse S-rank Valkyries holding Divine Keys like Bianca and Theresa, but she was still among Schicksal's strongest elites.

Precisely because she was strong, she realized why this Schicksal traitor, who had been hunted by Schicksal for so long, had been able to operate safely until now.

There was no other reason.

Even with a missing arm and strength far below his past, Siegfried Kaslana was not someone ordinary Honkai-energy soldiers could trifle with.

Her surrounding companions failed to sense it because Siegfried had already reined in his killing intent, concentrating it entirely on Rita as the strongest among them.

The directive Otto gave Rita was to test Siegfried's current strength and stall him to the best of her ability.

Yet right now, Rita couldn't help feeling...

Had she somehow offended Overseer Otto recently?

Otherwise...

--Why would he assign her such a near-suicidal mission.

Changkong City. Other side of the Commercial Street

Kiana, who had completely forgotten to ask Lin Yu about various details, was still caught up in a mumbling rant: That stinky old dad didn't follow me at all, and Punching him a few times next time we meet isn't enough; shouldn't I just give him a proper beating?

Meanwhile, Lin Yu, trailing along beside her, couldn't be bothered to comfort the upset girl at this moment.

Heh heh heh, you're getting more and more practiced at this aspect.

After all, you deeply know that for a little girl whose mother kicked the bucket and whose dad is unreliable, there are simply far too many opportunities to take advantage of her vulnerability.

You can entirely wait for a while, and when she's in a bad mood, use your silver tongue and this stunning appearance to make her instantly fall for you.

Coupled with Raiden Mei, whom you've already mostly conquered, you'll surely be able to throw them both onto a bed before long and then heh heh heh...

Ah, I've really had enough.

She's obviously fuming right now; saying anything at a time like this will probably just backfire.

There's no question of being practiced or not; it's simply a matter of not yapping when other people are in a bad mood.

Sometimes I really wonder whether you're deliberately manufacturing comedic effect, or if the coder who wrote your program was a hopeless shut-in, causing you to think with the mindset of someone who has never dated in their life.

No matter what you're thinking inside, you've already determined the basic strategy for conquest at this moment.

I most certainly haven't, hey.

Yet watching a figure flash past before your eyes, you noticed something.

The Kiana before your eyes suddenly froze, and then...

Kiana, standing before Lin Yu, looked as though she had seen something, freezing instantly just as the narrator described.

Subsequently, watching that figure, she suddenly started moving and hurried straight after it.

Chapter 18. The Angry Dunyan

At that moment, a sullen Kiana felt that her wishful thinking earlier had made her look like a complete fool.

Uttering various words to vent her emotions, she felt truly disappointed inside.

Granted, this was her arbitrarily assuming that Siegfried was following her, arbitrarily weaving fantasies, and then arbitrarily getting her feelings hurt.

From start to finish, Siegfried had never appeared, so theoretically speaking, Kiana's bad mood had very little to do with Siegfried...

Like hell it did!

What on earth is that stinky old dad thinking!

Leaving without a word back then was one thing, but he hadn't contacted her at all over all these years.

He dumped her in Europe, and after she drifted around for so long and finally settled down into a stable life, she still couldn't find any trace of him.

Hmph, even if he had to evade Schicksal's pursuit, he shouldn't have kept completely silent for so many years.

Even Senior Lin Yu, a friend she had only known for a short time, cared about her so much, yet her stinky old dad...

At that moment, Kiana felt herself growing angrier the more she thought about it; if she kept thinking like this, she was going to start losing it right on the street.

Then, just as she prepared to suppress the grievance in her heart, she suddenly spotted a figure.

It was a woman with long blonde hair.

In general terms, Kiana didn't recognize this beautiful, exceptionally well-figured woman with long blonde hair at all.

Yet the instant she saw the other person, Kiana felt something was off with her.

Miss Grasshopper could definitely affirm that she hadn't instantly fallen in love after seeing a pretty girl.

This sensation caused her heart to suddenly start pounding wildly.

Moreover, this feeling was something she had once sensed in someone else.

Stinky old dad?

No!

This feeling of blood connection, I've only ever felt it from stinky old dad.

Why would a pretty blonde big sister give me this feeling... Wait, could it be!

At that moment, Kiana suddenly recalled something.

In the past, right after Siegfried had told Kiana her name, he had once drunk some alcohol and taught Kiana some knowledge.

Normally, a father teaching his daughter some knowledge was a very normal thing.

The problem was--the knowledge Siegfried had taught Kiana while drinking was 'how to flirt with men'.

Anyway, ever since then, Kiana had known that although her old dad was an outstanding warrior, at his core he was just a deeply unserious stinky uncle.

And if such an unserious stinky uncle had one or two illegitimate daughters... it didn't seem entirely impossible either.

Although Kiana's train of thought leaped wildly, for some reason, at that moment she jumped straight to this conclusion.

She never once considered how untenable her reasoning was.

She never once thought about what question she should ask the blonde woman after catching up to her.

As a member of the Kaslana clan, whose body acted before her brain, Kiana Kaslana sprinted out at maximum speed in that instant.

"Hey! Wait!"

Seeing Kiana vanish with a whoosh, Lin Yu, who gave chase, realized that the gap in physical fitness between him and her was simply too massive.

Whether the meme of beating a Herrscher with a baseball bat was true or not, Lin Yu didn't know, but considering that the real Kiana could fall from a high altitude and suffer severe head trauma without dying, it was nothing strange for K423's physical fitness to be much higher than an ordinary person's.

"Tch, missing at a time like this."

Pulling out his phone, Lin Yu began looking around while frantically sending a message to Rita stating that K423 has gone missing near the Commercial Street.

Only this time, he failed to find K423's trace.

Oh, parting without a word—what a poignant development.

Yet you firmly believe that such a development will inevitably usher in a Happy Ending belonging solely to you!

Happy your big fat head.

Never mind failing to find this troublesome kid; if anything happened to her, he might as well wait to be killed by Otto.

Inside the alley, accompanied by a strike from Siegfried, Rita was sent heavily flying against the wall.

Even though the Herrscher of the Void had deprived him of one arm, and his body was difficult to control due to the Hyper-Evolution Factor, Siegfried remained one of the strongest beings in the world.

Through his precise control of force, a man who could easily tear apart this street managed to accurately restrict his power to knocking down the enemy without destroying the surrounding environment, defeating the pursuer before him.

As for killing her... Siegfried felt there was no necessity for that.

Almost nobody in Schicksal knew Otto's true face; these compatriots, when all was said and done, were just like Siegfried in the past—merely being used by Otto.

"Ha, beautiful ladies, today's 'date' ends here."

Picking up the phone Rita had dropped on the ground, Siegfried feigned a relaxed demeanor as he spoke to the group.

"Otto... Heh, he isn't as wonderful as you imagine--What!"

Yet at that moment, upon seeing the message displayed on Rita's phone, the relaxed expression on Siegfried's face abruptly vanished.

Seeing this expression on Siegfried, Rita instantly realized that he must have seen some information.

Information related to K423.

Because Lin Yu had sent a text message, a sentence popped up on Rita's phone screen even though it was locked.

Normally, with Rita's skills, she wouldn't need to worry about information leaks.

In this world, including the missing Anti-Entropy Alliance Leader, Rita figured there weren't even ten people on the surface who could snatch a phone from her hands.

Yet today, she happened to encounter Siegfried, who could fight even better than her.

To make matters worse, she was being forced by Otto to stall Siegfried.

Although another S-rank Valkyrie, Bianca, had previously agreed to meet Rita nearby, repelling Siegfried with her skills wasn't actually a difficult task, but the problem was...

Rita had no desire for the two of them to run into each other so hastily.

Several years ago, Otto had informed Rita that Bianca's true identity was the real Kiana Kaslana.