In Honkai, I Only Love Valkyries — Chapter 50

"When the time comes, you'd better come home with me like a good girl. Don't let anyone else whisk you away."

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Hearing Otto say that, Kiana let out a sigh of relief.

She... hadn't been abandoned again.

"I can actually stay and help you," Kiana said seriously.

But Otto shook his head.

He cupped Kiana's pretty face and gave it a rub.

"You're my treasure."

"If you stay here, you'll become my only weakness."

Otto refused without hesitation.

What a joke.

If you stayed here, I'd be the one getting hurt.

Was the Herrscher of the Void with the Will of Honkai fighting for her something a normal person could possibly face head-on!?

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Chapter 6+4: There Really Is a Crown Prince in His Forties

"Bong-bong Judas!"

"Captain supplies always hit pity, Captain stages drop nothing~"

"Traveler always hits hard pity, Traveler stats are all Defense~"

"Brother Captain, buy little Theresa another hundred 648 packs."

The first ray of morning sunlight fell upon the white-haired nun mumbling in her sleep. Her muttering abruptly stopped, and a pair of azure eyes slowly opened.

"Mm."

The head of the Apocalypse family, director of the Far East Branch, principal of St. Freya Academy, retired S-rank Valkyrie, Bishop Otto's granddaughter, candidate for Bishop of Schicksal, and the most legally loli girl in the Honkai World—Theresa—rubbed her eyes.

Then she groggily looked around.

Oh, this was her room.

She set the red-and-blue game console resting on her stomach onto the floor, then glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

Oh, it was ten o'clock.

It was time for this principal to go to work.

"Work!"

Theresa stood up and put her hands on her hips.

"Get off work in style!"

Then she lay back down, pulled the blanket beside her over her stomach, picked up her game console again, and resumed her journey across Hyrule.

Hehe, a wonderful day like this was perfect for curling up at home and playing games.

"Theresa!?"

Before she could start playing, however, the door to her room was rudely shoved open.

"Ah!"

Theresa jumped in fright and lost her grip on the game console. It smacked her squarely in the face.

"Mm! That hurts!?"

She clutched her tender face and rolled around on the floor.

"Captain Himeko... no, Major Himeko, what are you doing? I'm only taking a short break. I'll go to work later."

Theresa rubbed her reddened nose and pouted in complaint.

There was no need to look. The only person who would dare barge into her room so rudely was her close friend—Murata Himeko.

When she looked up, sure enough—

A woman with beautiful long red hair and a fiery figure stood in the doorway, watching her work-shirking friend with a helpless expression.

This principal was good at everything except doing proper work.

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Looking at the glimmering tears in Theresa's eyes, Himeko let out a helpless sigh.

"Theresa, I just checked your inbox. Bishop Otto sent you a message last night."

"Grandpa? What does he want with me?"

Theresa tilted her head in confusion.

She had been holed up here playing games all night. How could she have seen the message Grandpa sent her?

"What did Grandpa want with me? Don't tell me it was just more small talk again?"

But she did not think much of it. Otto usually only came to her over trivial matters anyway.

"No. Bishop Otto is in Changkong City right now. He's waiting for you there to pick someone up."

Theresa frowned.

What was Grandpa doing in Changkong City when he usually loved staying holed up at headquarters?

Seriously, Grandpa had come to Changkong City without even telling her.

Wait!

Could Grandpa be here for a surprise inspection?

Theresa immediately became alert. If Grandpa cut the Far East Branch's budget, she would have no choice but to act cute and plead with him again.

She fished her communications terminal out from beneath the sofa and, sure enough, saw that Otto had sent her a message last night.

After reading the email, Theresa's brows furrowed deeply.

"Siegfried's... daughter?"

Theresa looked at the person Otto had told her to pick up in the email.

Her eyes widened, her heart pounding rapidly within her petite frame.

Siegfried's daughter!?

Then that meant—

Theresa abruptly shot to her feet and said to Himeko, "Himeko, I'm taking your Hyperion! We're going to Changkong City right now!"

"Oh." Himeko answered indifferently. She looked curiously at the excited Theresa. After knowing her for so long, this was the first time she had ever seen Theresa so worked up.

"But if we take the Hyperion there, won't Bishop Otto think we're planning to rebel?"

Himeko voiced her concern.

The Hyperion was Himeko's personal aerial warship, and after Captain Himeko's modifications, it was now a genuine battleship.

Still, she looked at the tiny Theresa. She knew Theresa had no ambition and no interest in the position of Bishop of Schicksal.

There really was a forty-something-year-old crown prince in this world.

But whether Bishop Otto saw it that way was another matter.

After all, throughout history, quite a few emperors had been wary of their heirs.

Himeko was unfamiliar with Otto, so she had to consider that possibility.

"Grandpa won't care about something that minor."

Theresa puffed out her Schicksal-flat chest, every bit as flat as a Shenzhou washboard.

"Is that so..."

Since Theresa had said so, Himeko did not press the matter further. The two boarded the Hyperion aerial warship and headed for Changkong City.

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Slender fingers toyed with silvery-white hair, radiant as moonlight.

"Actually, I think you'd look better with your hair down, like Asakura Miyuki and Mei."

Kiana sat in a chair in the reception hall while Otto stood behind her, fiddling with her twin braids.

"Or you could try a single ponytail."

Every change in hairstyle had once marked Kiana's growth, as well as the pain she had suffered.

But with Kiana in Otto's hands, her fate had already gone astray. Perhaps she would never have to go through those sad things again.

In a few more days, Otto could arrange her in whatever pose he wanted.

"Hmm..."

Kiana pondered it. She had worn this hairstyle since a very, very long time ago and had never changed it.

Because it was convenient for moving around.

"Who are we waiting for here?"

Still, Kiana asked. After Otto had brought her to Schicksal's base in Changkong City, the two of them had been waiting here all this time.

Waiting for the person Otto intended to entrust Kiana to.

And then they waited for a full two hours.

Even Otto could not help wondering whether Theresa was going to stand him up.

Was the Far East Branch's nickname really Hedgehog Cat?

In truth, Kiana did not want to leave, because she worried that once she left, she would never see Otto again.

Because she had so little, the girl was always afraid of losing it.

And because something that might affect her was going to happen in Changkong City, Otto had told her to leave.

Wouldn't that make her a deserter?

She would be safe, but what about you, Otto?

But Otto's insistence left her no way to stay.

Honestly, saying she was his treasure, that she would become his only weakness.

He was always saying things like that.

What if she really believed him?

"Are you worried? It's fine. The person coming to pick you up later isn't a bad person."

Otto smiled as he stroked Kiana's head.

"If we go by seniority, she's your Aunt."

Although the Kiana before him was actually K423, created by Otto, Otto knew Theresa would not reject her.

Because if Theresa rejected K423, it would mean she was rejecting herself.

"Aunt?"

Kiana frowned. When she was little, she had always lived with Dad and had never heard that she had an aunt.

She did not even know whether she had any family besides Siegfried.

"Did Siegfried never tell you the name Theresa Apocalypse?"

Kiana shook her head, but then she noticed a blind spot.

"Apocalypse?"