{Thank you, readers, for all your support. As promised, every time it exceeds thirty, there'll be an extra chapter, so there are three updates today! The name of the reader who donated the most is truly hard to put into words, so there was no way to include it in the main text.}
{Also, a reader reminded me that in the spacetime where the protagonist group is located—the Heavenly Keep within the original world—there is still Jizo Mitama. Later, I'll arrange for Himeko to devour it, and I'll also rescue Kallen's best friend, Yae Sakura!}
After Himeko devoured the Herrscher of Erosion's true body attached to Raiden Mei, purple-black flames began burning across Himeko's body as she lay in Theresa's arms.
The flames radiated a terrifying corrosive effect, but Theresa restrained them within her embrace, ensuring that the transforming Himeko would not affect everyone else.
"I'm really sorry for startling everyone. Mei, do you want to know why the Herrscher of Erosion was attached to you?"
Holding the sleeping Himeko as she began her transformation, Theresa raised her head with a smile and looked at the panicked Raiden Mei.
"I don't know... Other than undergoing trials in the Garden of Eternity, I don't remember going anywhere else."
"The only suspicious place could be World Serpent. Could it be... that pure white space I entered after helping Kiana?"
Raiden Mei was intelligent to begin with. After thinking it over, she told everyone that she had given Kiana a little help in the Dominion Theater. Afterward, the genderless Honkai Will had pulled her into that vast, snow-white space.
There, she had confronted the Honkai Will with grave determination. Even when facing that god, she had already thought of her last words.
Yet the other party had merely said some inexplicable things to