"Mm..."
After hearing what Susanna had said, Susanna's nose twitched as her eyes welled up with tears.
Susanna grabbed Catherine's hand. "Miss Catherine!"
"You have to stay strong!"
"Ahaha..."
Susanna's appearance made Catherine laugh. "You don't need to worry so much. That was all when I was little. I'm fine now."
Perhaps because Susanna seemed somewhat reassuring, Catherine could not help but tell her a little more.
"Still... the history of the world truly is something fascinating."
Catherine looked at the sky, watching the clouds drift in the wind. "For someone like me, it's easy to feel just how small I am."
"Just like looking at the sky now... compared to that sky, whose upper reaches human eyes cannot even see... humanity is so small."
"The past of this world is the same. How long has Earth existed? And... humanity?"
As Catherine said this, "Individuals seem so tiny before the entire world... yet that makes people unable to resist exploring..."
"And truly seeing the reality of this world."
Catherine spoke with a thoughtful look in her eyes.
Susanna, however, seemed not to understand very much. She said to Catherine, "Miss Catherine! Once this mission is over, I'll ask Miss Rita to take you to visit Schicksal's base!"
Susanna continued, "There are so many Valkyries there!"
"Mm." Catherine looked at Susanna meaningfully. "Then it's a promise."
"Cough, cough..."
Xu Yanwu forcefully lifted the cross, sending up a great deal of dust.
Though it suffered some minor damage, there was nothing to be done about that.
After all, Xu Yanwu did not have the patience to spend too much time figuring out how to open the cross.
Rather than waste so much time at the entrance, he might as well force his way in.
Once the cross was moved aside, a