"Xina, when did you and Mei get back? With two out of three meals being bitter melon, I feel like these miserable days will never end..."
"HAHAHA, Teacher Himeko, hang in there. You're not working and don't have any missions right now, so you must be staying up drinking every night. A little bitter melon to clear out your system isn't a bad thing!"
Hearing Himeko's complaints, Xina laughed mercilessly, practically dripping with schadenfreude.
"Oh? So even you little brat dare to make fun of me now? Just wait until next semester, and see how I—"
Before Himeko could finish, a piercing alarm suddenly rang out through the control room of the New North American Branch.
Xina's smile vanished as well. She quickly pushed off with the wheels beneath her sofa chair and slid over to the instrument flashing with warning lights.
"What happened?" Himeko asked.
"Nothing much. It doesn't affect me," Xina said expressionlessly as she tapped at the instrument and sent the alarm report to her current superior—the Minister of the New North American Branch, Perrine Griffin.
A few minutes later, a group of bleary-eyed Valkyries rushed into their respective stations in the control room, getting dressed as they cursed under their breath.
The air of people being forced to work in the middle of the night made Xina, the true mastermind behind all this, shrink into the corner, too embarrassed to say anything.
"Xina, what's the situation?" Perrine Griffin forcefully gulped down some black coffee to wake herself up, then slammed the cup onto the table with a dull bang.
"The instruments just detected an Emperor-class Honkai Beast energy signature! After secondary confirmation by the detection system, we've confirmed the appearance of the Emperor-class Honkai Beast codenamed Jormungandr!"
Xina made a few simple adjustments on the console