Help Me, Senior!

"If I were the enemy, I would definitely attack Theresa if I was confident. After all, if Theresa is captured, none of the rest of us would dare to make any rash moves."

"When the time comes, whether they ask us to hand over hostages or the Divine Key, we will have no choice but to comply."

"I see, I understand now. I'll go to the headmaster's side now."

Watching Fu Hua's departing figure, Himeko leaned against the wall and closed her eyes slightly.

Based on Himeko's speculation, the enemy sent by the opposing organization this time should not be such an inconspicuous opponent as the Titan Mech.

If the other party is going to carry out a rescue operation, they certainly can't make such a big fuss.

However, this does not mean that the enemy that the Far East Branch members will face this time will be easy to deal with.

What's even more troublesome is that Himeko doesn't know who else she can trust within the St. Freya Academy besides her core group.

Just a month and a half ago, a teacher from the St. Freya Academy suddenly disappeared, and despite the Schicksal intelligence department's investigation, they still couldn't find out her whereabouts or true identity.

It was precisely for this reason that Himeko dared not let too many people know the information that St. Freya Academy was about to be attacked.

After all, making this information public will only cause panic in advance, and if there is a mole insider fanning the flames at this time, it will only make the situation worse.

This is a real headache. Lin Yu should be back as soon as possible after receiving my message.

Even so, I still felt vaguely uneasy.

The most terrifying opponent is not a powerful one, but an unknown one.

Intelligence... Ghost has been lurking in Cocolia for so long, why hasn't he returned to headquarters to hand over the intelligence yet?

I have a feeling that since she left the intelligence department, the intelligence support capabilities of the department have become significantly inferior to what they used to be.

Almost simultaneously. St. Freya Academy. Training ground.

Inside the training ground, after Kiana used her pistol to shatter the plants in front of her, she suddenly realized that her feet were already entangled by her opponent's vines.

Before Kiana, Yuno saw the fleeting disappointment in her companion's eyes and helplessly put away the vines she had created.

"Kiana, you're too impatient."

"After you know my fighting style, you should use the White Comet's dash ability to get close to me, and then try to suppress me with the characteristics of gun-fu."

"But..."

Kiana said dejectedly after feeling the binding sensation on her feet disappear.

"Yuno, you can already guess what plans are in my favor. If I take that action, I'll still lose, right?"

"That's true, but if you rush in, you'll likely lose. If you fight me at mid-range, you're basically guaranteed to lose. Do you think it's better to take a gamble with the likely loss option, or to let me easily wear you down?"

"... The one in front is better, isn't it?"

"Yes, that's right."

Seeing Kiana's expression, Yuno walked to Kiana's side, grabbed Kiana's shoulders, and looked into her eyes.

"Your greatest advantage in battle was the monstrous strength and physical attributes of the Kaslana clan."

"Because your reflexes are faster than others, you can often act on your instincts and defeat your enemies before they can react."

"But now you're becoming more and more hesitant. This may seem like a sign that you're thinking things through, but in reality—what are you running away from?"

"If you don't understand the problem in your mind right now, even if I practice with you a hundred or a thousand times, you still won't change anything."

After saying that, Yuno released Kiana's shoulder and didn't say anything more.

Yuno used to study with Kiana at the Chiba Academy, couldn't believe that the once incredibly optimistic, open-minded, and somewhat reckless Kiana had become so 'fragile'.

Conversely, Yuno had always been incredibly timid, is now the one lecturing others.

This was enough for Yuno to see just how serious Kiana's psychological problems were.

Alas, Kiana yearned to follow in her predecessors' footsteps, but after discovering that their progress was ridiculously fast, her mindset became increasingly skewed.

Fortunately, Mei doesn't exhibit this excessive thirst for power coupled with a lack of understanding of what to do with it. Otherwise, we would all be worried that Mei might become controlled by the power of the Herrscher due to her excessive desire for power.

"Thinking about it carefully, Yuno, you're right."

After standing there in thought for a few seconds, Kiana clenched her little fists and began to mutter to herself.

"This is not my style at all—it's all my senior's fault, I must have been influenced by him!"

"And yet he's still having a party at the Schicksal Headquarters, leaving us stuck here at the branch... Thinking about it, it's really annoying."

Yuno sighed helplessly as she watched Kiana walk toward the door, muttering to herself.

If Kiana can figure out what she should do, that would be a good thing.

The problem is, Yuno always feels that even if Kiana wakes up now, she'll probably forget her realization again right away.

This guy, once he gets caught up in an obsession, will firmly maintain that obsession-driven behavior pattern for a short period of time.

She has actually made great progress, but because of this strange habit, she can no longer see the path she should take.

If she could get rid of this bad habit... wait!

Suddenly sensing danger, Yuno's expression changed drastically, and she created vines to pull Kiana back to her side.

"Yuno—— "

At that moment, as Yuno pulled Kiana, she pulled out the dual pistols she had just put away from her waist.

"Are there enemies?!"

After Kiana finished speaking, the doorway where she had just stood collapsed instantly, as if it had been crushed by something.

Before the two women, a mysterious hooded figure slowly walked into the training ground through the broken gate and looked indifferently at the two Valkyrie.

"Kiana, back off..."

At this moment, Yuno stared at the enemy in front of her, and a cold sweat instantly seeped out from her back.

"Oh my, you little brat, you can actually sense my power?"

The man in front of Yuno, after seeing Yuno's attitude, took off his hood and revealed a mocking sneer.

"It seems my intuition was correct, you..."

"—So it does have a core after all."

"It also has a core?!"

Kiana, who had already retreated to the back, cried out in shock after hearing the man's words.

"You, are you Herrscher too?!"

"Ah, Herrscher..."

Upon hearing this term, the man concentrated his power in his right palm and spoke to the two of them.

"Unlike this trashy pirate, I am the genuine First Herrscher."

"Now, tell me the locations of Raiden Mei and Anne Mar, that way..."

"Maybe I'll be in a better mood and leave you two with intact corpses."

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Chapter 126. Help me, senior!

Kiana, who was facing the man directly, did not feel any sense of pressure from him.

To be honest, compared to Rita who was wielding the Xuanyuan Sword earlier, the man in front of her clearly lacked the murderous aura that only a warrior would possess.

The problem is, while his aura isn't intimidating, it's...

—The intensity of Honkai Energy doesn't lie.

Kiana sensed that the opponent's Honkai Energy had far exceeded the limit of Honkai Energy intensity that she could currently use.

No, it's not just her. Even Yuno, who was previously Honkai by the Honkai in Changkong City, might not be able to beat him in terms of strength.

"The First Herrscher —you are Welt, the Alliance Leader of Anti -Welt Anti-Entropy???"

At this moment, Kiana looked at the blue-haired man in front of her and suddenly said to him angrily.

"Didn't Dad say that the Alliance Leader of Anti-Entropy wasn't a bad guy? You look like a big villain to me!"

"Huh? Dad?"

The blue-haired man who appeared before the two of them looked puzzled, completely unable to understand what Kiana meant.

"I have no idea who your father is, and don't even think about using this kind of talk to build a relationship, little girl."

Something's not right.

After hearing what the other person said, Kiana immediately felt that there was definitely something fishy about the man in front of her.

Although she wasn't present during the final battle with Chiyou, Bronya and Mei didn't hide the fact that Siegfried had been there from Kiana when they returned to the Hyperion.

So from Kiana's current perspective, her stinky old man Siegfried is in a rude state of "Oh, I'm busy working for Anti-Entropy and saving the world, Kiana, you take good care of yourself."

But now, this man who calls himself the First Herrscher is saying that he doesn't know his old man?

Was it that idiot Dad who got tricked?

Or is this guy an imposter?

Feeling the Honkai Energy fluctuations emanating from her opponent, Yuno truly felt that the situation was very bad.

Kiana could only sense that her opponent's Honkai Energy very strong, but Yuno was stronger than Kiana, could clearly perceive that her opponent's strength was definitely above her own.

Yuno is currently suppressing her Herrscher Persona to prevent it from causing trouble, which also prevents her from freely operating the Herrscher Core and allowing her Honkai Energy to reach its peak intensity.

That's why she forced herself to undergo combat training, relying on those novel ways of using powers to make up for her current shortcomings.

The enemy is very strong. If Kiana were still by her side, she wouldn't be confident that she could protect Kiana while successfully defeating the enemy.

Kiana's role in this battle...

Although it's unfair to say this to Kiana, it's really impossible for Kiana to deal much effective damage to the enemy with her dual pistols of Light and Shadow.

The Light and Shadow Dual Guns work by squeezing two types of repulsive Honkai Energy particles together with a strong electromagnetic field, thereby drawing away the surrounding heat energy—in short, they're used to create freezing effects.

The problem is that when the enemy's Honkai Energy is too strong, Kiana's bullets can't even freeze the opponent's body, let alone break through some of the Imaginary Shield held by Herrscher.

Leaving Kiana here would not only make things more difficult for Yuno, but also could cause Kiana's already fragile mental state to collapse further once she realizes that she 'can't do anything'.

We need to find a reason to make her leave.

"Kiana, you go somewhere else first. The enemy is attacking. We two are probably the first students in the entire St. Freya Academy to know that the enemy is attacking."