{Himeko Transcends: This is the complete Himeko, the complete Herrscher of Erosion... the complete me!}
Theresa teleported with Himeko to an extremely remote area of the Far East. It was filled with cherry trees and was also the ruins of Yae Village.
This was where Yae Sakura had appeared, and where Himeko from the original timeline had been born.
However, Theresa's intervention had altered the timeline, though the overall deviations were not too great.
For example, Yae Sakura had already turned into a Stigmata and attached herself to Academy Head Theresa after she had been poisoned by the Quasi-Herrscher Yuno. Because Theresa had been too content to slack off, the Stigmata had only played a role when fighting Yuno, never appearing again afterward.
Theresa also planned to revive Sakura later and compete with Otto for Kallen~
That's right! Theresa did not merely want to revive Yae Sakura; she wanted Kallen too, turning Otto, this pure-love war god, into an ally of the protagonist group.
As an opponent, Otto was hateful and terrifying. But as an ally, Otto was actually extremely dependable. There was a reason he was called Destiny's workhorse.
{In the years after Academy Head Theresa became the Bishop of Destiny, Destiny's crushing workload gave her psychological trauma. Yet Otto, the ultimate workhorse, had served as Bishop of Destiny for a full five hundred years! All that could be said was that Otto was truly terrifying!}
Carrying Himeko, Theresa walked through the deserted, ruined village. At a glance, she spotted the towering keep in the distance. From the Captain's memories, she knew that Jizo Mitama was there, as well as that weapon—the unfinished Divine Key of Erosion.
Theresa lowered her head to look at the pink flame in her arms. Its former violet-pink color had become pure pink, and