"I've long heard that Siegfried Kaslana has strong qualities as a warrior, but a bad head. I finally understand it today--this isn't a rumor, it's just a plain statement."
"Because my family members were killed by Honkai, and then I was saved by Schicksal, I chose to join Schicksal."
"But now, you actually want me to abandon Schicksal, which saved me, and join an organization preparing to trigger a Honkai outbreak?"
"Siegfried Kaslana..."
"--Are you out of your mind?"
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Introduction: Okita Kei, a freshman newcomer in Class 1-D at Advanced Nurturing High School, who stands out from childhood because he can perceive others' psychology through narration.
Your offhand, casual whispers make Sakura Airi uneasy. The hamster girl, who always tries to lower her own presence, curls up hard, secretly praying not to be truly selected to enter the kind of talent class you described, while also secretly worrying and struggling over how to hide her private secrets...
Your self-introduction is as slick as ever, but your looks are very attractive to the female classmates; it seems the plan for School Days is about to be put on the agenda, and the most interesting part is that quite a few people in this class harbor secrets.
Just like the girl named Karuizawa Kei who is staring at you intently right now, your self-introduction and face reminded her of her past... and the humiliation brought to her by that painful past.
Your behavior makes Ichinose try to correct your awkward personality; if you don't run away quickly, she will pester you to death!
You successfully attract Kouenji's attention, favorability +1
The endless ringing of the narration makes Okita Kei very interested.
He feels that everything is full of challenges.
Being assigned to the worst class doesn't seem so bad either?
Chapter Thirty-Four. I Am Definitely the Strongest of the Kaslana Clan???
"Siegfried Kaslana..."
"--Are you out of your mind?"
Normally, when an average person is pointed at by a junior and cursed as being out of their mind, they would get angry to some degree.
Someone with a slightly more explosive temper might even generate the thought, 'Motherfucker, I'm going to blow up with you right on the spot.'
Of course, Siegfried is also very angry right now.
But his anger is only in small part due to being cursed by Lin Yu.
When all is said and done, although Siegfried's reputation inside Schicksal is very stinky due to being smeared by his wife's little fangirls, setting aside some details, Siegfried's personality is actually quite good.
And the crucial point is that he is reasonable.
He is very angry that Lin Yu cursed him as being out of his mind, but what makes him even angrier is...
Lin Yu cursing him like this is actually quite reasonable.
As a victim and an insider, Siegfried himself knows that Otto does not do good things.
But Otto not doing good things does not mean that present-day Anti-Entropy is doing the right thing.
Cocolia is a person from Anti-Entropy.
And it is true that she is preparing to trigger a large-scale Honkai outbreak.
Combining these two points--in the eyes of outsiders, isn't Anti-Entropy just a beastly + crazy organization that recklessly triggers large-scale Honkai outbreaks?
Under these circumstances, Lin Yu choosing 'the boss might not be a good person, but Schicksal is the organization that saved him' has zero problems.
The current situation is simply Cocolia holding a knife and stabbing Anti-Entropy one cut after another.
Never mind Lin Yu, a poor little fellow whose life was saved by Schicksal and who naturally has a favorable impression of Schicksal; even a pure passerby seeing Anti-Entropy's actions would probably just shake their head.
Incomprehensible, completely incomprehensible.
During the Third Honkai Outbreak, Otto this schemer didn't even need to do anything; as long as he let Cocolia act smoothly, he could ruin all the reputation Anti-Entropy had accumulated over the years.
Welt, oh Welt, how can you still sit still at a time like this!
Siegfried, who is pissed half to death by Cocolia, is now thoroughly convinced that he cannot talk sense into this kid.
Never mind his poor eloquence, the crucial issue is that Anti-Entropy is simply in the wrong on this matter.
As long as the other party's brain is thinking normally, it is impossible for them to follow him and join Anti-Entropy.
As for Siegfried directly disclosing that incident from fourteen years ago to Lin Yu, telling him, 'Hey bro, back then Otto used a Honkai Energy Fission Bomb to blow me and my wife half to death, and that's how my wife got framed and killed.'
Anyone would need to actually believe those words for them to work.
Afterward, Siegfried and several good friends analyzed this matter, but no matter how they analyzed it, they could completely fail to understand why Otto chose to silence Siegfried and Cecilia after Sirin died.
At that time, Schicksal's three strongest warriors on the surface were the strongest warriors of the three major families holding the Key of Destruction, the Key of Creation, and the Key of Restraint respectively--these three Divine Keys.
For Otto to have nothing better to do and stab the geniuses of the Kaslana and Sania families--who were fiercely loyal to him--in the back with a lethal blow...
Who would believe that if told?
"There's no help for it."
At this moment, Siegfried gazes at the youth before him and lets out a helpless sigh.
"If we can't talk it out, then I can only knock you out."
"Bear with it, kid, I won't deal a fatal blow."
"Oh, well then thanks a lot."
Confirming that the system hasn't popped up with a reward collection report, Lin Yu nods slightly at this.
Sigh, goody-two-shoes of the justice faction are just like this.
Seeing that I alone am no threat, he simply can't be bothered to finish me off--well, that's just great.
"Alright, idle chatter ends here. I also don't wish for someone to keep tailing my daughter, kid..."
At this moment, Siegfried suddenly vanishes right in front of Lin Yu.
And at the same time, Lin Yu directly activates that skill he acquired previously.
Royal Guard, activate!
Depending purely on his own physical stats, Siegfried merely takes a forward step and immediately dashes directly behind Lin Yu.
With a strike where he controls his strength, the youth before him is hit on the back of the neck and directly knocked out by a single blow from him...
--At least, that is what he thinks.
Yet the instant he is about to hit the target, the opponent actually turns around directly and blocks Siegfried's strike with absolute precision.
"Hm...!"
Before exchanging blows, Siegfried had observed.
Although this little fellow seems to have a bit of a foundation in close-quarters hand-to-hand combat, his standard is just about that.
There is no Honkai Energy entwining his body; no matter how you look at it, he is merely an elite among ordinary people.
Facing an ordinary person who does not know how to wield Honkai Energy, Siegfried not only abstains from using Honkai Energy to launch an attack, but he even adjusts his strength down to an unimaginably minuscule state.
After all, Siegfried genuinely has no intention of killing anyone; he only intends to knock the opponent out.
Yet even so... this brat easily blocked my blow, isn't that a bit too exaggerated?
However, Siegfried does not know that this matter is not yet over.
A strike in the blink of an eye results in the two sides fighting to a fifty-fifty stalemate.
Yet Siegfried's physical stats are faster; upon discovering that his attack is ineffective, Siegfried starts getting slightly serious.
Although he still doesn't use Honkai Energy, he stops holding back the monstrous strength of the Kaslana clan.
As a result, what he never expects is that the youth before him can still precisely intercept Siegfried's attack even after he unleashes his monstrous strength.
Wow, this is getting a bit terrifying.
Even if I only have one arm left and my body is half-crippled because of the so-called Power of Salvation, I shouldn't be stalled by a mere kid.
And right now, he can still sense it--there is still no Honkai Energy on the opponent.
It's bizarre; without Honkai Energy, with combat techniques only slightly better than an ordinary person's, and with no stigmata or other equipment whatsoever, how is he blocking this kind of monstrous strength?
Moreover, something is a bit off.
His close-quarters combat level is actually still rising?!
If Lin Yu facing Siegfried at the very beginning can only barely parry his attacks, then less than twenty seconds after the two sides exchange blows, the situation becomes rather abnormal.
No, wait a minute, what is going on here.
Even though I only have one arm left.
Even though I fought a battle with that little girl named Rita today and lost a sliver of strength.
Even though I still haven't used Honkai Energy.
Am I still the strongest of the Kaslana clan no matter what?
So right now, what on earth is this feeling.
This brat is actually in terms of hand-to-hand combat...
--Seems to have suppressed me???
Chapter Thirty-Five. Are Today's Young People All Monsters?
Five seconds later, Siegfried can affirm that this is definitely not an illusion.
Although the opponent is still largely on the defensive side overall, the opponent has grown increasingly skilled at parrying his attacks.
An ordinary Honkai Beast would probably kick the bucket if punched with monstrous strength by Siegfried.
Then this brat... how has he not fallen over after taking so many punches???
No matter how skilled his parrying techniques are, the gap on the strength level cannot simply be erased by parrying techniques alone.
What on earth is going on here?!
My second daughter is already a genius, so why does it feel like compared to this brat, one is in the heavens and the other is in the earth.
Something's wrong, this situation is definitely wrong.
He had thought about holding back earlier, but if he keeps holding back like this and the opponent manages to block his subsequent attacks as well, that would be terrifying.
He hasn't used Honkai Energy yet, and simply relies on special methods and his physical body to block all of my attacks... this already represents a new combat system.
At the thought of this, Siegfried suddenly thinks, why not just leave it at that.
He rebelled against Schicksal because he feels that that scum Otto treats people like dirt and killed his wife; he has no enmity with Schicksal or anyone else in the world.
Siegfried still wants to protect the world, and if Lin Yu possesses a new power system capable of changing the battlefield right now...
To be completely honest, he finds it a bit hard to strike.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Lin Yu--who has guarded against Siegfried airtightly--maintains an expressionless face thanks to the Mirror Mind state, but this does not mean he is having an easy time.
Although the Royal Guard style is a immensely powerful mode in the original work, to put it bluntly, lore and gameplay performance are two different things.
Moreover, the powerhouse Dante who uses this style to fight in the original work is himself an expert with an extremely high combat standard.
Not only is he proficient in various weapon-use techniques, but he can also grasp crucial timings to launch counterattacks.
In addition, because he is himself the offspring of the legendary demon Sparda, his physical stats dictate that he can accommodate more power within his body through Royal Guard.
As for Lin Yu, looking strictly at his physical stats, he is just someone stronger than an average adult.
Siegfried looks at Lin Yu and thinks that he is seemingly blocking all of his attacks steadily and remaining in a calm, unhurried state.
Only Lin Yu himself knows, however.
He feels rather uncomfortable.
Even if Siegfried is only using monstrous strength, it is enough to blow up Honkai Beasts, yet using Royal Guard stores these forces inside Lin Yu's own body...
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