"Ha... ha... Seele, are you all right?"
Bronya crouched on the ground, still gripping the hand of the girl beside her.
"Mm, Bronya, Seele is fine. It's just..."
Why did the Honkai Beasts know their location? Hardly anyone knew about the girl they had borrowed, so why had so many Honkai Beasts found them?
Unless...
Someone had told these Honkai Beasts where they were—or ordered them there—and wanted to kill them in secret. If that person had another purpose, they probably also wanted to exploit the situation, make people question the rules governing coexistence between humanity and the Honkai, and sow enough unrest to spark a war.
"Rustle, rustle—"
The diary in Feng Chen's hand began turning its pages again.
The contents recorded inside directly told Feng Chen why this had happened and clearly explained the reason.
"Someone wants to start a war."
If it had involved ordinary people, it might have amounted to nothing more than public opinion. Valkyries, however, were different. Quite a few ordinary people did not even trust the Valkyries and were always thinking about how to drive the Honkai out of their homes. If even the Valkyries on the front lines, who fought and negotiated with the Honkai faction, could not keep it under control, how many people would still choose to trust them?
It would merely put Schicksal under the spotlight once again. In any case, similar incidents had happened many times in Schicksal's past. If Otto was not worried about it, there was no reason for Feng Chen and the others to worry.
To be safe, it was still necessary to report these matters to Otto, lest the Honkai side stab humanity in the back one day while humanity was completely unprepared.
"Well, since no one was hurt, let's continue the mission for