Destruction

"Gu Yu! What happened?!"

After the bomb inside Rita exploded, there was no way Theodora, who was in the living room, could have missed the commotion in the kitchen.

As Theodora hurried over to Gu Yu's side, she suddenly sensed that something was wrong as well.

As a survivor of the Second Honkai War, Theodora found manipulating Honkai Energy far easier than other Honkai Energy warriors.

Yet now, the Honkai Energy within her body seemed to have frozen solid, completely unable to circulate through her body.

"Ghh... damn it..."

Clutching her body, which was becoming difficult to move, Theodora looked at the woman lying in a pool of blood and Gu Yu, whose armor was beginning to destabilize, and immediately understood the situation.

Someone had set Gu Yu up.

No, more accurately, someone from Schicksal had set Gu Yu up.

To ambush Gu Yu, that person had even been willing to sacrifice Rita Roosevelt, Schicksal's immensely valuable combat asset and an S-rank Valkyrie.

"Rita, Pillar!"

Grabbing the card that had ejected from his card case, Gu Yu flung it into his Driver.

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But this time, after he swiped the card, he discovered something disheartening.

The armor on his body had been sealed again, just as it had been when he faced the Herrscher of Constraint.

"Mr. Gu Yu... don't waste your strength..."

Rita's pupils had begun to lose focus, but after the bomb inside her body exploded, she finally recalled the memories Otto had concealed using Feather Dust.

"Otto... had long developed this kind of bomb to deal with you, using data obtained from World Serpent..."

"This bomb can spread a Honkai Energy Suppression Field over a very small area. No matter how you look at it... it was a special weapon