Otto's Conspiracy, the Rampaging First Herrscher

London, themed café.

AM: 1:23 p.m.

"Miss Ji, please stay here a little longer. I don't want to hurt you."

The young agent had been dispatched by [Jalanna] to monitor and protect Joyce's group. She frowned silently at the enemy who had approached her at some unknown point.

She was a beautiful woman with golden hair and emerald eyes. Her long blond hair was tied into a ponytail, and she wore a white Victorian-era gown, a decorative corset, and a black outer coat. It was impossible to guess from her appearance that she was the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal.

—Reanna Brigantia.

She sat opposite the seat with the best lighting in the café. A slender hand covered in silk rested gently on the black knight sword lying on the table.

Wisps of purple matter resembling mist poured out from it, winding around the fair neck of the girl sitting opposite. Combined with the words she had spoken moments ago, the gesture was an obvious threat.

The authority of [annihilation].

If Reanna wished it, the mist-like matter would contract inward like a circular chainsaw. Ignoring the Honkai Energy barrier that Ji Qing had no time to deploy, it would destroy the fragile vitality within her body.

Perhaps, just as the other woman had said, she truly did not want to hurt Ji Qing. That was why she had chosen this method, taking control of her life from the very first meeting and conducting an unequal negotiation to prevent irreversible accidents during a proper fight.

But since the other woman had appeared here and rendered Joyce's bodyguard unable to act, Schicksal clearly had some plan or conspiracy that would be obstructed by her presence.

In other words, surrendering without resistance was the worst possible choice.

On the other hand, the moment she