Omen

Of course, doubts were just doubts. Anna was not foolish enough to run over and ask Cecilia such a confidential question.

Besides, ever since she had let something slip yesterday, Anna had already been feeling uneasy.

During the time Theresa had been specially training her at St. Freya Academy, Anna had lived in the academy dorms and chatted quite a bit with the other Valkyries.

And when she had spoken with Kiana Kaslana about the girl's past, she had inadvertently learned something.

Back then, Kiana Kaslana had received that name from Siegfried.

Although Kiana's expression at the time had probably been thirty percent pride and seventy percent guilt, Anna's fists had nearly clenched upon hearing those words.

It was not as though Anna did not know how much Kiana Schariac had suffered, from being taken by Schicksal as a child for human experimentation until now.

And the main culprit behind that suffering... was naturally Otto Apocalypse. But the man was dead, so there was no need to continue holding him accountable.

After Otto Apocalypse died, the next person down the chain of responsibility was unquestionably Siegfried Kaslana.

Back then, when forced to choose between two, he had chosen the test subject girl and left his own daughter behind.

After that, without even rescuing his daughter, he had given the name of his still-living daughter to the then-amnesiac Kiana Kaslana.

Fortunately, Kiana had later changed her name to Kiana Schariac. Otherwise, every time Anna heard that test subject's name, her blood pressure, which had finally gone down, would probably shoot straight to 180 on the spot.

Perhaps because of her momentary anger, or perhaps for some other reason, Anna had failed to control herself while chatting with Cecilia and blurted it out.

Then Cecilia, who had already somewhat forgiven Siegfried at