Codename: Yexiao

Although Anna genuinely felt fear toward the Stigmata in Gu Yu's hands, she would not cry out in alarm because of it.

She was, after all, a Valkyrie long trained by the Schariac family. How could she let out such a cry over a mere suspicion?

As for running away out of guilt after seeing a photograph, that was even more impossible... Strange, why did she have such a nonsensical thought?

Forget it. There was no need to worry about something so trivial.

"Hmm... Fu Hua and Wendy have already cleared out most of the enemies? Okay, then I'm clocking out."

After confirming that the remaining Oni-corrupted monsters basically posed no threat, Gu Yu's face beneath the mask finally relaxed completely.

"Ha... The most troublesome Corrosion Herrscher has been smashed to pieces. Now..."

Ah, why do my eyelids feel a little heavy?

I remember getting plenty of sleep lately. The whole sleep-deprivation thing should have been behind me by now.

But somehow, right now, I really...

--want to sleep.

[Thud]

Yuno, who had woven a vine chair for Gu Yu to rest in for a while, abruptly turned toward him when she heard the muffled sound.

"Mr. Gu Yu... Forget it, I'd better not wake him."

After helping Gu Yu into the vine chair, Yuno looked at him, now returned to his normal form, and did not know what to say.

Everyone had grown too tired to keep urging him to rest. If persuasion worked, they would gladly spend eight hours every day telling Gu Yu not to move around.

Then make him stay obediently in the dorm for the remaining sixteen hours and get some proper rest.

Recently, the companions in the dorm with greater control over Honkai Energy and Herrscher Cores had all noticed, more or less, that