The eldest daughter, Bianka Durandal Kaslana, was established in the story as the strongest S-Rank Valkyrie.
The second daughter, Sirin Kaslana, was established as a six-core Herrscher, a high-profile villain who fought two major human organizations all by herself.
The youngest daughter, Kiana Kaslana, was a B-Rank Valkyrie...
Kiana sulkily curled up in Mei's arms.
Mei comforted her. "Don't be so depressed, Kiana. You're the protagonist."
"But compared to my big sister, this female lead loses completely." Kiana was still depressed.
"Ah!" Little Knowledge suddenly remembered that Yaqing seemed to have promised her a role that could punch the strongest of Schicksal and kick the First Herrscher. She immediately puffed out her not-so-large chest with pride.
Fu Hua looked at Little Knowledge in confusion, unable to understand why she had suddenly become so happy.
The three girls continued pursuing Wendy. The scene returned to the Hyperion, where Himeko and Theresa were communicating. Theresa easily tricked Durandal's location coordinates out of her and leaked them to Anti-Entropy.
"She really was easy to fool. As expected of a Valkyrie famous for being straightforward." Himeko sighed, but she also felt a little guilty. "But is it really okay to expose her location to the enemy? Durandal is at least our ally."
"That nagging little girl isn't an ally! I suffered so much because of her back then." Theresa was full of resentment. She said indifferently, "Besides, we're going to campaign against Anti-Entropy sooner or later, so let's have Durandal lend us a hand~"
Theresa had tremendous confidence in Durandal's strength. Even if her location was exposed to Anti-Entropy, it did not mean Anti-Entropy could hurt her. After all, Durandal was a monster.
Hearing the resentment in Theresa's voice, Himeko nearly laughed. "From the sound of it, you really hold quite a grudge against her."
Inside the cinema owned by Schicksal, Durandal endured the gazes of all the Schicksal employees around her and uneasily shifted in her seat.
The female employee beside Durandal, who had long, slightly curly orange-yellow hair, was even less restrained. The stray lock of hair sticking up from her head was especially eye-catching.
"Captain Durandal, what exactly did you do to Director Theresa?"
"I don't know. Also, Susannah... you're standing too close." Durandal pushed Susannah's pretty face away, her own face slightly red.
The carefree Susannah did not think her actions were particularly intimate.
"Susannah, this is all made-up plot." On Durandal's other side sat a woman with long brown-black hair pinned up by an antique hairpin. Her bangs covered her snowy-white forehead, and her figure was excellent; even a high-collared sweater could not hide her ample chest.
"Captain Sushang, I know. I'm just curious whether characters based on real people would use real-life events." Susannah stuck out her tongue.
"Director Theresa is my elder. I shouldn't have done anything that would make her resent me so deeply." Durandal thought carefully. Back at St. Freya Academy, she had merely dragged Theresa along to train, carry out President Otto's assignments, and supervised Theresa's work.
Durandal did not believe she had done anything excessive enough to upset Theresa.
"Captain Durandal!" Susannah looked at Durandal with admiration.
Even though the president was her elder, the director in charge of the first division was her Aunt, the director in charge of the second division was her father, and the director in charge of the third division was her uncle, she still worked so hard.
Li Sushang thought it over carefully. Durandal was the true young heiress.
The three girls finally found Wendy based on the location coordinates. Wendy was furious at their relentless pursuit. She was clearly the Herrscher who would destroy the world, yet she was being chased by three B-Rank Valkyries.
"I already spared you just now. Have you become so arrogant that you think you can defeat me?"
Wendy floated in the air and stared at them coldly.
Seeing that communication was impossible, Mei could only tell Wendy that Schicksal Headquarters had dispatched an S-Rank Valkyrie and Anti-Entropy forces, hoping that would convince Wendy to return with them.
But Wendy was not afraid at all. She had heard that S-Rank Valkyries possessed power capable of rivaling Herrschers, and she wanted to fight one to see whether her strength had surpassed that of an S-Rank Valkyrie!
"You're even more arrogant than I am. If you've got guts, fight me first." Kiana stepped forward and pointed at Wendy, saying that she had merely been careless earlier. If she got serious, defeating a Herrscher would be easy.
Kiana did not know the gap between a B-Rank Valkyrie and a Herrscher, but Wendy did. She returned to her original appearance. She did not want to fight Kiana, nor did she want to make Bronya sad.
After warning them, Wendy flew away again.
Himeko's communication came through again. In two minutes, the S-Rank Valkyrie Durandal would arrive in New Zealand, and Anti-Entropy's airborne battleship was also nearly there.
"Damn it, is it too late?!"
Kiana's unwilling voice sounded at the same time as a faint explosion.
Theresa suddenly cut into the communication channel. She told Kiana and the others not to worry. She had just broadcast Durandal's location over a public channel, and she believed Anti-Entropy's technology would surely intercept the broadcast.
After obtaining Durandal's location, Anti-Entropy would definitely choose to ambush the S-Rank Valkyrie first.
Inside Otto and Kallen's Love Nest.
Theresa, held in Kallen's arms, felt somewhat embarrassed. Deliberately leaking the location of an ally to the enemy was indeed rather dishonorable.
Otto, however, seemed to have reached the opposite conclusion. He commented, "A very clever move. Using the enemy to buy time for yourself—this trick of diverting disaster eastward is truly excellent. Seeing little Theresa so clever makes me very gratified."
Kallen held Theresa and moved a little farther away from Otto. That was precisely why she would not let Otto teach Theresa.
In the first row, several aunties who had watched Durandal grow up were seated together. Shub asked curiously, "Was little Bianka really this straightforward in real life?"
Rita, who had once served as vice-captain of the Immortal Blades, nodded in agreement and said with a smile, "Lady Bianka is indeed just as straightforward now. I like straightforward people like her."
Patrick sighed. "Honestly, she's worthy of being Director Cecilia's daughter. She perfectly inherited the director's personality."
"Was Senior Cecilia like Lady Bianka?" Rita asked curiously.
Himeko quietly pricked up her ears as well. She was extremely curious about that genius girl who had become a high-ranking executive of the Schicksal Corporation at only twenty.
Even Kiana and the others in the row behind them paused their discussion.
At the mention of this, Shub, Patrick, and Cheng Lixue all struggled to hold back their laughter. Only Salome could still speak. "That brings us to..."
Theresa successfully fooled the S-Rank Valkyrie Durandal and even received Kiana's long-distance kiss. Though they had bought some time, Kiana was still a little disappointed that she would not get to meet an S-Rank Valkyrie.
Theresa, however, felt that if the current Kiana met Durandal, there would only be one outcome: once Durandal learned that Kiana had failed her theory exam, she would force Kiana to study at least twenty-six hours a day.
Kiana shuddered and immediately stopped wanting to meet the S-Rank Valkyrie.
Hearing how well Theresa knew that S-Rank Valkyrie, Kiana could not help becoming curious about their relationship.
"Uh... I wouldn't say we're that familiar. When she had just become an A-Rank Valkyrie, she once accepted my command here."
Kiana did not notice the cold sweat on Theresa's forehead and teasingly asked whether their relationship was the kind between a very close superior and subordinate.
The moment she heard that, Theresa recalled the days when she had worked with Durandal and could not help feeling lingering fear.
To the extremely serious Durandal, a superior ought to be stern and imposing. A superior ought to work day and night handling unfinished business. As a result, whenever Theresa slacked off even a little, Durandal would lecture her for half the day.
Kiana felt a little fortunate. Thankfully, her superior was someone like Himeko, who just muddled through life waiting to die.
Himeko, who had been ignored by everyone until then, suddenly spoke up and reminded them that she was still on the communications channel.
"Muddling through life waiting to die? You don't need to describe me like that." Himeko said helplessly.
"Himeko, I'd agree if you drank a little less." Kiana put her hands on her hips. "But other than teaching, you hide in your dormitory all day and get completely drunk every day. You're practically a useless member of society."
"Hey, hey, hey! Are you the teacher, or am I the teacher?" Unable to refute her, Himeko could only use her status as a teacher to pressure Kiana.
"Alright, Ms. Himeko, you've been a little too much of a homebody lately." Mei stepped in with a fair word.
"But speaking of which, if big sister finds out that I failed my last exam, will she really make me study twenty-six hours a day like in the story?" Kiana imagined the scene and immediately felt that she might as well die.
"Want to try it, little Kiana?" Shigure Kira, always eager to watch trouble unfold, took out her phone, opened Durandal's chat window, and turned to Kiana.
"Big Sister Kira, please don't tell my big sister!" Kiana pressed her hands together.
Big Sister Kira?
Hearing that form of address, Salome, Patrick, and Cheng Lixue all looked at Shigure Kira with disdain. Big sister? More like old auntie. Kiana had still been in elementary school when Shigure Kira had already joined the Schicksal Group.
And she still dared to pretend to be young?!
"Kira, have you considered this? If Kiana calls you big sister, you'll suddenly become a generation younger than Yaqing." Patrick exposed her.
Shigure Kira's smile froze.
While pursuing Wendy, Theresa called again and informed Kiana that Anti-Entropy's forces had already been dealt with by Durandal. However, there was now a new problem: Durandal had only told Theresa her location.
"So, Headmistress, lying is wrong." Mei said.
Theresa was already panicking. If she did not have a reasonable explanation, Durandal might not report her to Headquarters, but she would definitely lecture Theresa for an entire day.
"Mm, anyway, it has nothing to do with me~"
Himeko's attitude of standing aloof while trouble unfolded made Theresa furious.
Mei came up with an excuse: an Anti-Entropy spy within Schicksal must have leaked the location. But Theresa rejected it, because it would cause internal chaos within Schicksal.
Bronya also came up with an excuse. Anti-Entropy was the main cause of this Honkai incident, and its purpose was to snipe the S-Rank Valkyrie, so Durandal had been marked the moment she appeared.
Perhaps Bronya still held a grudge over being controlled last time, because she did not hesitate to dump all the blame on Anti-Entropy.
But Theresa still rejected it. There were too many holes in that excuse. If their mission was to snipe an S-Rank Valkyrie, then this Anti-Entropy unit was seriously underpowered.
Finally, Kiana proposed an excuse, and it was the most outrageous one.
The Anti-Entropy troops had come sightseeing and happened to run into Durandal.
"Even a Brainless Idiot wouldn't believe that excuse!" Himeko mocked.
But Theresa could only treat a dead horse as if it were alive. A few seconds later, Theresa's incomparably astonished voice came through the communication channel. "She actually believed it! Could it be that overly straightforward people are really the same as idiots?"
Kiana was still delighted, but she quickly realized something was wrong.
"Wait, who are you calling an idiot?!"
"As expected of biological sisters." Bronya felt that both her and Mei's excuses had been more normal than Kiana's, yet the headmistress had chosen Kiana's, and Durandal had actually believed it.
"I knew it, big sister and I are connected at heart!" Kiana was delighted.
Bronya glanced at Kiana. The Brainless Idiot had not even realized it yet.
"Looks like I don't know big sister in the story. I never called her Durandal—I always called her the S-Rank Valkyrie." Kiana noticed.
"Although the characters are based on real-life prototypes, their identities do not necessarily directly match reality," Salome explained. "For example, little Bianka isn't a Kaslana in the story. Her name is Bianka Durandal Atagina."
The script in Salome's hands only went as far as the end of Angel Rebuild. Yaqing had not started writing the later script yet.
"Ah, why?"
Faced with Kiana's confusion, Salome merely gestured toward the back with her chin, indicating that she was not the one writing the script—the person behind them was.
Seeing everyone in the front row turn around to look at him, Yaqing gave an awkward but polite smile.
"Why did they all suddenly look at me?" Yaqing asked in confusion.
"Hmph. How do you know they were looking at you?" Mobius said irritably.
Yaqing only smiled after being snapped at. "I don't think anyone else could make all of them turn around at once. Or was it because of His Highness Prince Kevin?"
"Pfft."
Hearing Yaqing bring up Kevin's embarrassing old nickname again, all the women in the same row burst out laughing. Only Kevin's face darkened.
"As long as you don't bring up embarrassing history, we're still friends, Lord Demon King~" Kevin did not take the loss lying down and brought up Yaqing's embarrassing history as well.
"Demon King..." Yet to Kevin's surprise, Yaqing did not feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he smiled. "Even if I am a Demon King, I would be a Demon King of utmost benevolence and kindness. But Kevin, did you never realize something back then?"
"What?" Kevin was still baffled. Yaqing could say something so cringingly melodramatic without any reaction that Kevin did not immediately respond.
"I'm the Demon King, and you're the prince." Yaqing smiled.
Only then did Kevin understand.
Seeing the goosebumps on Yaqing's arms, Mobius understood. So he was not as calm as he appeared.
The three girls caught up with Wendy again on a grassland covered in white flowers.
Faced with the three girls' relentless pestering, Wendy finally lost patience and prepared to teach them a proper lesson.
Even now, gentle Mei was still trying to persuade Wendy, believing that Wendy had merely been corrupted by Honkai energy for the moment and had lost her true nature.
Before the battle began, Bronya stopped Kiana, who was about to attack. She wanted to say a few more words to Wendy.
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