Thirty minutes had passed since the Fourth Herrscher awakened. About a quarter of New Zealand had been destroyed, and the affected area continued to expand.
"Ha... ha..."
"Miss Wendy!"
Kiana and Yae found Wendy first, and Bronya arrived shortly afterward.
Unlike when they had first encountered Wendy, her entire body was now dyed blue-green by Honkai Energy.
"Stop destroying everything, Wendy."
But she couldn't understand. Wendy had thought Bronya would be able to understand her because they shared something similar—their paralyzed legs. After all, unlike Bronya, Wendy had no Heavy-duty Rabbit to support her movement. She was completely unable to use her own legs.
As a result, her dream of becoming an S-rank Valkyrie had been shattered.
The culprit behind all of this was Schicksal, which treated human experimentation as an everyday occurrence.
Destruction was the instinct born from becoming a Herrscher.
Revenge was the resentment that Wendy, as a human, held toward Schicksal.
Die.
"Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die!"
Boom!
The powerful wind pressure turned all the surrounding earth into rubble and chunks of dirt, not to mention the flowers and trees that were simply shredded by the wind. Wendy disappeared from everyone's sight once again.
In the end, she had still chosen to leave.
She didn't want to hurt Bronya. That was the last bit of tenderness remaining in Wendy after becoming a Herrscher.
She would rather be hurt herself and bear any blame than harm the person she never wanted to hurt.
She really was so much like that girl...
"Kiana, Yae, Bronya! Thank goodness, I haven't been able to reach you since earlier."
Her voice sounded slightly mechanical, but that was precisely her defining trait.
She appeared as a green, cabbage-haired girl. The white uniform she wore was completely different from