Otto clenched his fist and steered one of the missiles in a different direction.
Bai Ge, who had been staring intently at the sky, immediately noticed the missile changing course.
Confused, he looked toward the missile flying into the distance, as though it were heading to attack another target.
"Otto!!!"
Suddenly realizing something, Bai Ge's eyes nearly split with rage. Once again, he disregarded everything and pushed the already overloaded Herrscher of the Void core to its limit, desperately tracking the fission bomb's trajectory.
Bai Ge already understood where the missile was headed.
Block Town.
It was the first town he and Sirin had visited after leaving Babylon Laboratory—and the town where Bronya's mother was living!
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You Should Have Been Treated Gently by This World
Block Town.
"Bronya, my child, you must be born safely and grow up healthy. Hehe~ I've been feeling much better lately. Mommy has to work hard and bring you into this world safely too."
Alexandra Pavlovna Zaychik, a beautiful silver-haired pregnant woman, was taking a stroll along the street. She had heard that walking more was good for the baby.
Alexandra was in a very good mood.
She had met several wonderful children today, and incredibly, ever since meeting them, her health had improved considerably.
All her usual minor ailments had completely vanished, and she felt full of strength no matter what she did.
Though she did not know why, Alexandra thought that perhaps she had been kind to those children, and God had rewarded her for it.
"Bronya, Bronya, Mommy wants to see you soon~" Alexandra murmured the name she had prepared for her baby.
With all her heart, she prayed and blessed her child, hoping she would be born safely, grow up healthy, make wonderful friends in the future, find a career she loved and someone she loved, and live a happy, beautiful life... This mother was certainly thinking far ahead.
However, at that moment—
"Hey, look! What's that?"
Someone on the street suddenly looked up at the sky in terror. The others immediately followed his gaze, and then everyone fell into panic.
"A missile! That's a missile!!"
"Oh God, a missile is flying toward us!"
"No, no! I don't want to die yet!"
"Damn it! Why is this happening?!"
Unreasonable death descended without warning.
Madam Alexandra stared blankly toward the horizon. A missile was flying toward the town, and despair instantly appeared on her face.
Not because she was about to die, but because of her unborn daughter.
Even knowing it was futile, she instinctively wrapped both arms around her stomach.
Even if people could unleash several times their potential in a crisis, allowing a frail woman to lift a heavy car, they could never stop a missile from falling.
The townspeople shouted in despair.
Some gave up and fell to their knees.
Some embraced their families.
Some roared furiously at the missile.
All Alexandra could do at that moment was pray.
God, please, don't do this. I beg You, save my child. I don't care what price I have to pay. As long as my child—as long as Bronya can live, I'm willing to do anything!
As though Heaven had heard her prayer and been moved by her motherly love.
A miracle truly happened!
A black hole with golden edges suddenly appeared in the sky, and the missile flew straight into it before disappearing.
The strange black hole rapidly shrank the next second, then vanished as well.
"..."
The town fell completely silent.
Then, before long, deafening cheers erupted from the crowd.
"We survived! We survived!"
"What on earth just happened?"
"Thank God for His blessing! Thank God for His blessing!"
"That's right, God must have blessed us and saved us!"
The townspeople could think of no other explanation. It truly could only be described as a divine miracle.
Having escaped death, they all fell to their knees.
Everyone repeatedly kowtowed in gratitude toward the direction where the black-hole miracle had vanished.
Alexandra was still completely dazed.
Everything had happened too suddenly. The threat of death had arrived without warning, only to disappear just as suddenly.
Still shaken, she collapsed onto the ground.
Yet for some reason, the image of a young boy surfaced in Alexandra's mind.
"Bai Ge—!!!"
Sirin watched the boy falling from the sky in despair.
The people of Block Town did not know.
The one who had just saved them, the god they worshipped, was actually a young boy. Nor did they know that this boy was now about to fall.
Bai Ge had used the Herrscher of the Void's authority in an overdrafted state, forcibly opening a portal ten thousand meters away to stop the missile.
Even at his peak, doing so would have challenged the limits of a Herrscher's power, let alone when he had already been completely exhausted.
After catching the Honkai Energy Fission Bomb—
Bai Ge no longer had the strength to send it anywhere else. The fission bomb therefore exploded directly within the Imaginary Space under his control, and that... was practically the same as detonating it directly against Bai Ge himself.
Fortunately, it was the last missile.
Schicksal's arsenal could no longer find a second missile to launch at him, but... this final missile had still accomplished Otto's goal.
The Valkyries could only watch as the angel who had saved them was shot down by humanity's arrow.
The boy's blood scattered like rain as he himself fell toward the ground.
"Catch him, Black Abyss White Flower!!"
Cecilia hurled Black Abyss White Flower with all her strength. The next second, green vines burst from the ground and caught Bai Ge.
She immediately rushed over as well, trembling as she activated the God Key in her hand. She continuously poured Honkai Energy into it, trying to use White Flower's power to heal the boy.
But it was already useless.
"How could this happen? This is too cruel. No, no, it can still be in time, it has to be in time! Black Abyss White Flower, I don't care if you use up all my blood and Honkai Energy—save him! You have to save him!"
His breathing was weak, almost inaudible, and his heart had already stopped beating. The accumulated injuries within that body, far too young for such suffering, tore at Cecilia's heart like knives.
"No, this can't be happening. You'll be fine. Please, open your eyes, Bai Ge, Bai Ge! We promised each other. We promised we'd always stay together from now on, that we'd live happy lives, so please, open your eyes. Please, don't leave Sirin behind!"
"Master, how could this happen? Humans, humans, it's all your fault! It's because of all of you that my master... No, no, Master's core has already..."
It was not only Cecilia. Sirin, Bella, and everyone else present gathered around them.
The Valkyries looked at Bai Ge in Cecilia's arms with regret and self-blame, desperately praying that he would open his eyes. They were willing to give everything they had in atonement.
As though he had received their hopes.
Bai Ge actually slowly opened his eyes.
"Sirin, Bella, everyone... are you all alright? You're not hurt, are you?" Those were the first words he spoke.
"!!!" xN
Everyone felt as though their hearts had shattered at that moment, and tears spilled uncontrollably from their eyes.
They did not know what to say, but every one of them wanted to pull this boy into her arms, protect him, heal him, and never let him suffer another injury.
Though they did not know Bai Ge, they were all utterly certain—this boy should never have been treated like this! He deserved all the beauty in the world!
Yet a boy as angelic as him had been forced into becoming a Herrscher. There had to be something wrong with this world for it to have hurt someone like him so deeply!
Guilt filled the Valkyries' hearts. They hated themselves for having opposed Bai Ge before. What shameful, hateful things had they done?
"Idiot, idiot! We're fine. Everyone was protected by you, but... why did you save us? Bai Ge, you could clearly have avoided it yourself! We aren't worth it. We really aren't worth you doing this."
"...It's good that everyone is alright."
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