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Ryusuke Muryo, Murata Himeko's father.
Xu Yanwu knew about Ryusuke Muryo not because of baseless rumors, but because... Xu Yanwu knew another firsthand witness who knew the truth.
The successor to the First Herrscher, Welt Yang.
The clock turned back to St. Freya Academy, to a night several weeks ago...
At that time, Xu Yanwu had just finished exploring the Second Divine Key and returned to St. Freya Academy.
After his experiences with the Second Divine Key, his contact with Su, and the frightening suspicion he had formed regarding the identity of the Honkai Consciousness...
Xu Yanwu had told Welt Yang some of it.
But Xu Yanwu had never expected that because of this, he would learn about Himeko's father, Ryusuke Muryo, from Welt Yang.
Still less had he expected to learn about... aliens from Welt Yang.
Humanity... had never been the only civilization.
Hearing such a fact from Welt Yang's mouth, Xu Yanwu had no choice but to believe it, even though he had suspected as much.
Other intelligent civilizations, entities similar to Divine Keys, another race...
And the Outworlders.
Xu Yanwu himself had never expected an enemy to emerge from such an inexplicable place... the Outworlders?
According to Welt Yang, at first... they used scout stars to gather intelligence. Once they discovered a suitable target, they transmitted its coordinates back to their home planet.
Then the home planet's forward base dispatched vast forces to harvest the targeted civilization. In the end, that harvested civilization was completely destroyed, its very existence erased from the universe.
That alien civilization had fled to Earth. They had tried to coexist with humanity, but in the end, Ryusuke Muryo betrayed them, while Welt Yang saved them.
Those were some of the things Welt