Hey, Old Man, If You Want It, Come Take It Yourself

Rather than believing that Otto intended to step down and make way for someone more capable, Siegfried felt that this was more of a prelude to Otto moving into the shadows to continue causing trouble.

Seeing Siegfried's suspicious look, Theresa sighed slightly and could only continue talking to Siegfried on her own.

"I don't know how to put it, but Grandpa really gives me that feeling now. And judging from the fact that he recruited an outstanding young man to the Apocalypse clan and then directly placed him by my side to be trained by me, he really is showing signs of abdicating."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't usually care about these things."

"Outstanding young people..."

Upon hearing the name, a face suddenly flashed through Siegfried's mind.

"Lin Yu?"

"You... are right. Lin Yu said in his report that he took advantage of the time when you and the Herrscher of Thunder were both exhausted to find an opportunity to unleash the power of the Stigmata and find an opportunity to suppress the Herrscher of Thunder with the HSN potion."

Seeing Siegfried suddenly turn his head to the side, Theresa asked in confusion.

Why did you suddenly look away?

Why are you looking elsewhere? It's because what you said shocked me.

Lin Yu's words seem reasonable at first glance, but when spoken, they are clearly a 'false truth'.

I fought the Herrscher of Thunder to the point of mutual injury, he used his Stigmata to unleash his power, and I found an opportunity to suppress the Herrscher with that potion—these are all true.

The problem is that even though the Herrscher of Thunder and I were both severely injured, she still had a certain level of combat power at the time!

Lin Yu only found an opportunity to save Mei with that potion after he directly defeated the Herrscher of Thunder.

Haha, the guy wasn't telling the truth.

Considering his attitude towards Otto last time... he seems to know everything perfectly well, more than I imagined.

Although Theresa was indeed loved by Otto, it doesn't mean that Otto wouldn't take advantage of her.

If too much information about the young man is leaked here, then all the plans and secrets he's made will have been for nothing.

I have to change the subject—and I already have something to ask Theresa.

"Let's not talk about that, Theresa. You should know a Valkyrie named Bianca, right?"

After forcibly changing the subject, Siegfried suddenly looked at Theresa with a burning gaze.

"What do you think of this Valkyrie?"

"How about that? She's taking it a bit too seriously... to the point that it seems to me she's too serious for me to handle."

"Oh, and she's very strong. She can use the Black Abyss White Flower, and there are even rumors within the organization that the way she looks when she's holding the Black Abyss White Flower is somewhat similar to Cecilia's —wait a minute!"

At this moment, Theresa suddenly looked at Siegfried with a suspicious gaze.

"This child is only fourteen years old. You wouldn't want to harm her, would you?"

"What kind of person do you take me for!"

"That pervert who groped the Valkyrie's butts, that scoundrel who stole Cecilia from me, and that bastard dad who failed to protect Kiana!"

"Let's leave the last two points aside for now. Didn't I already say that the first one was a rumor spread by that little brat Shigure Kira?!"

After angrily uttering those words, Siegfried, upon hearing this news, suddenly felt that the information Welt had helped him find was becoming increasingly accurate.

Bianca... There are very few Valkyrie who can wield the Black Abyss White Flower, and the Black Abyss White Flower, like the Flame-Chaser's Judgment, was like the ancestral holy spear of the Sania clan hundreds of years ago.

She could perfectly manipulate the Black Abyss White Flower at the age of fourteen, and her appearance was indeed...

Kiana, is it really you?

If you didn't die, then you've now lost your memory and your appearance has been altered...

It's all the result of my incompetence.

"Um, Siegfried..."

Seeing the slightly sad look in Siegfried's eyes, Theresa immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing.

"I was just kidding, don't take it to heart."

"No, you're right. I am indeed an incompetent father. So, Theresa ..."

Thinking of his other daughter, Siegfried suddenly patted Theresa on the shoulder and said to Theresa with great affection.

"Kiana lives in your academy, so I'm leaving her in your care."

"Ah, I've been wanting to ask this for a while now, about this child..."

Seeing Siegfried's serious gaze, Theresa immediately tried to ask Siegfried a question.

But before she could speak, Siegfried spoke first.

"Her identity is that of an experimental subject named K423."

"Otto's Siren Project is essentially a plan to revive Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void."

"Kiana in your academy is actually— the Sirin who was resurrected by Otto."

Chapter 111. Old Deng, if you want it, come and get it yourself.

Is the current Kiana, K423, the same as Sirin from back then?

Upon hearing this news, Theresa's first reaction was—Grandpa must have gone mad, actually resurrecting Herrscher?!

Then, the next second, she suddenly felt relieved.

Oh, right, that's something her grandfather would do.

Although this doesn't make sense, considering that Siegfried and Cecilia won the battle, only to be met with fission bombs from headquarters, it seems to make sense.

As for Siegfried, he noticed the slight change in Theresa's expression and sighed softly.

"I know this news may be a little hard for you to accept, but it's the truth."

"After I obtained that intelligence, I originally intended to swallow my anger for Kiana's safety."

"But in the end, Kiana encouraged me instead, which made me think of taking K423 away from Otto."

"But later, some accidents happened, and Kiana also... Anyway, in the end I found that K423 wasn't a bad person at heart, so I gave her the name and identity of Kiana."

Looking at Theresa in front of him, Siegfried thought for a moment and decided not to reveal any information about Bianca.

Siegfried wasn't a smart man, but after being tricked so many times, he would force his brain to work like crazy at crucial moments.

Looking back now, it's quite strange that I knew about the Siren Project back then.

I was able to get my hands on such crucial intelligence. Looking back now, it's 100% because Otto secretly placed the intelligence where I could access it.

Even if Theresa knew about this plan now, it wouldn't matter, because Otto must have considered that Theresa and I had discussed it before daring to release this information to me.

But I can't talk about Bianca's matter; this is information that Welt painstakingly found out for me.

It would certainly not be good for Theresa to know this thing she shouldn't know.

"Hmm, she... she is indeed a good child. But—"

At this moment, Theresa recalled her conversation with Kiana and suddenly turned to Siegfried, asking with great concern.

"Did you choose to leave her because something happened to her?"

"Ah, in the past, the Sirin personality within her hated me for defeating Sirin, and after taking over Kiana's body, she attacked me."

"So after that, I realized that my presence around Kiana would only stimulate her Herrscher Persona, so I took the initiative to leave her and secretly protected her until she entered a safe area."

So...

After reflecting on the situation in her dormitory, Theresa felt a bit of a headache coming on.

"St. Freya Academy currently has three Herrscher. And Sirin..."

"—She was beaten to the brink of death by you once, so she has a blood feud with humans."

In fact, both of them knew very well that, from a safety perspective, killing Kiana directly was the safest course of action.

But now, neither Siegfried nor Theresa can bring themselves to do it.

The reason why Sirin awakened was because the human experiments conducted by Schicksal led to this tragedy.

Later, she did indeed kill tens of millions of humans by throwing meteorites, and from this perspective, Sirin is absolutely an unforgivable demon.

However, now that Sirin has awakened, she has a kind personality within her. To lay a hand on the current 'Sirin' would be tantamount to taking the life of another innocent girl.

It might seem hypocritical and hypocritical to others, but Siegfried and Theresa, looking at Kiana, simply couldn't bring themselves to kill her outright.

"Alright, stop looking so gloomy."

Seeing that his old friend hadn't smiled much since they met, Siegfried patted Theresa's shoulder forcefully and said with a Theresa.

"No matter what, Kiana is my daughter now. In order to prevent her from being harmed by Otto's plan, and to prevent the Herrscher Persona within her from having a chance to cause trouble, I'm entrusting her to you."

"I believe you can guide her onto the path she should be on."

"Ah, you're counting on me...?"

Thinking about the dormitory now filled with problem children, Theresa felt immense pressure.

"Given the current situation, I'm not worried about her doing anything bad."

"The problem is, that little idiot Lin Yu is always on the front line fighting against the Honkai. The others are okay now, but Kiana is being corrupted by him."

"If what you say is true, then Kiana is Sirin..."

"Kiana likes to charge into the battlefield, which increases the probability of her getting into trouble. The higher the probability of her getting into trouble, the higher the probability of Sirin waking up—there's no solution to this."

"There is a way...".

Hearing Theresa's near-collapse screams, Siegfried felt strangely calm despite his own desperate state of mind.

"Kiana's current drive to rush ahead is, frankly, a result of Lin Yu's influence."

"Whether it's Lin Yu, who wants to take revenge on the Honkai, or Kiana, who has a second terrifying personality within her, what they need most is time."

"Given enough time, I believe you can heal Lin Yu's wounds and help Kiana grow, so..."

"So?"

"If we old folks can help the younger generation clear up the big problems, we can buy them enough time."

After calming down, Theresa nodded in agreement as she listened to Siegfried's explanation.

"You're right—when did you become so smart?"

"And you're the old thing! I'm not old at all!"

[Boom!]

Just as Theresa was about to launch another attack, the two suddenly heard a terrifying sound.

Then, the two looked up in surprise at that spot and were astonished to find...

—Somewhere far away, a colossal beast, as large as a small mountain, suddenly emerged from the ground and appeared before the two of them.

"This is— Chiyou, the [Judgment-class Honkai Beast] mentioned in the intelligence?!"

Upon seeing the enormous Honkai Beast, Theresa's expression immediately became extremely tense.

"Why would it awaken at this time when it was already sealed away?!"

"Of course! Schicksal has a good relationship with Shenzhou, they won't cause trouble. As for the Anti-Entropy conservatives, I'm the only one who came, so I'm even less likely to be the murderer..."

At this moment, the two men, whose faces were grim, looked at each other and then simultaneously uttered the same name.

"Cocolia?!"

"She's gone mad," Theresa wanted to curse at the other woman.

But thinking about it carefully, if this person could deliberately cause Honkai in the densely populated Changkong City, then her mind was definitely not normal to begin with.

Now, if Cocolia has the opportunity to break Chiyou's seal, the Valkyrie army of Schicksal will suffer first, and then Shenzhou, which is closely related to Schicksal, will also suffer.