Chapter 215
Heaven has forsaken me; it is not my fault in battle.
Theresa did offer some resistance, but her resistance was ineffective.
Although Theresa wanted to negotiate with these people as the victor and then have them line up to watch the advertisements to help her resurrect Cecilia, she was unsuccessful and had no choice but to accept it.
"Wait, what do you need Himeko for?"
"Play."
"What? You despicable lecher, come at me if you dare!" Kiana suddenly flashed and stood in front of Himeko.
Who is this?
"Kiana, your eldest niece." Z Siegfried, who was watching the advertisement, couldn't look away, so he identified her by her voice.
"Good, as expected of my niece! King of the Honkai Beast, if you have any skills, come at me! Don't hurt Kiana and Himeko!" Theresa said emotionally.
"Shorty, go play somewhere else." Kiana turned and glared at Theresa.
"???"
"Oh, it's not Kiana anymore, it's the Herrscher Persona of the Herrscher of the Void now." Z Siegfried said after watching the advertisement and noticing that Kiana's eyes had turned gold.
"What?!!"
"Alright, stop fooling around. I just wanted to do something good. Feed this Senzu Bean to Himeko. I'm curious Honkai energy's erosion of the human body counts as a disease, and whether it can be cured by a Senzu Bean?" Chen Li said, tossing a Senzu Bean to Kiana.
"Boring." The Spring Spirit blinked, its pupils turning an almost excessively clear blue.
"I'll do it! I'll do it!" Kiana exclaimed excitedly.
Kiana removed the gag from Himeko's mouth and, before Himeko could speak, stuffed Senzu Bean into her mouth.
"Hmm!" Himeko's voice became strange.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Himeko coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Himeko, are you alright?" Theresa, bound to the Oath of Judah, asked with concern.
"I feel much better physically, but... I can still feel the Honkai energy eroding my body." Himeko was stronger Theresa, and she quickly grasped the general situation, so she readily shared her experience.
"I think I understand. The Senzu Bean still can't cure the disease, but it healed your body damaged by the Honkai. However, your Honkai energy resistance hasn't increased. In other words, if you want to continue being Valkyrie, you'll eventually have your body drained by the Honkai energy." Chen Li nodded, understanding the Senzu Bean's effect on healing Honkai energy.
The Senzu Bean is like that; it cannot cure diseases.
Otherwise, Goku in Dragon Ball wouldn't have been killed by a heart attack.
However, the fact that the protagonist, who could casually destroy stars, would die from a heart attack did indeed give Chen Li a slight shock back then.
"Is there any treatment?" Theresa then asked.
"It's simple, just wait for her to die and then revive her, right?"
"... Is there any way to avoid dying?" Theresa asked tactfully.
"Yes, we do have some, but we'll have to wait a while," Chen Li nodded.
Once Chen Li modifies the Cocoon of Eternity and gives a free Stigmata to everyone in the world to increase the Honkai energy resistance of all inhabitants, Himeko's problem will be solved.
"That's good. Although I still don't quite believe you returned from 50,000 years ago, since you have the upper hand, you can take the Oath of Judah. Sigh, I don't know how to explain this to Grandpa now." Theresa sighed.
Theresa felt like a failure because she lost the God Key that her grandfather had personally entrusted to her.
"If you're worried about this, then don't worry," Chen Li, seemingly trying to reassure Theresa.
"What? You're going to return Judah to me?" Theresa exclaimed with delight.
"No. What I mean is that the First God Key in your grandfather's possession will also be taken away. And instead of worrying about how to explain this to your grandfather, you should worry about whether you'll even have a grandfather in a little while."
"???"
"The real Herrscher of the Void, Sirin, went to Schicksal to seek revenge on Otto."
"What?!"
"Theresa, don't worry or be sad. You may have lost your grandfather, but you still have me. I can completely take over Honkai and fight against the Schicksal in your grandfather's place. You can also think of me as your grandfather. I don't mind having another granddaughter in her fifties." Chen Li, wearing the Golden Honkai-Moe King suit, patted Theresa's head.
"???" Theresa was almost red-faced with anger at this remark.
"Oh, my dear Second Herrscher, join Schicksal. No one wanted the tragedy of the Second Honkai to happen, but now your resurrection gives me the opportunity to make amends to you. Join Schicksal, and you can get everything you want. Let the past be the past." Otto said to Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void, who was flying in the air, with a smile that made people want to punch him.
Otto's confidence stemmed from the presence of two S-class Valkyrie from Schicksal behind him.
Durandal and Rita.
Of course, in Otto's view, Durandal was the only main force against the Herrscher of the Void.
Rita? She's just a minor character.
"See? Your grandpa really deserves a beating," Chen Li said to Theresa, who was bound to the Oath of Judah.
After obtaining Sirin's permission, Chen Li turned on the Friends Circle Terminal.
Meanwhile, the scene of Sirin's incursion into the Destiny Headquarters was being broadcast live.
"..." Although Theresa didn't really want to admit it, what Chen Li said to her was similar to what her grandfather had said to Sirin.
"Otto ...right?" To everyone's surprise, Sirin was not angry at Otto's almost provocative declaration.
In fact, Otto was genuinely trying to declare his desire to cooperate with Sirin, but Otto had a common flaw among scientists: his emotional intelligence wasn't very high.
He always manages to say things that sound sarcastic or ironic, even if they come from the heart, which makes people feel awkward or embarrassed.
Just like now.
For example, he once really wanted the first Herrscher of Reason to be his successor... However, after the two were honest with each other in the bath, they resolutely broke up.
"This is a letter, a letter from your future self to your present self. Please sign for it." Sirin handed the letter Chen Li had given her before she left directly to Otto.
When Otto from the future wrote this letter, Sirin was also present, and since Sirin's Remembrance were not erased, Sirin knew roughly what was written on it.
Therefore, Sirin was completely unconcerned about Otto's provocation. Instead, she couldn't wait to see what kind of expression Otto would make after reading the letter.
That's something to look forward to!
The letter that Sirin threw at Otto, making a sharp, piercing sound, was intercepted by Durandal.
"Me in the future? That sounds interesting." Otto declined to comment on Sirin's words.
After all, it sounds like nonsense.
However, out of respect for Sirin —at least to show Sirin that he respected her—in order to achieve further cooperation, Otto took the letter from Durandal and opened it.
Even if there was some poison hidden in the letter, Otto wasn't afraid, because Otto now possessed Soul Steel Body.
Otto smiled broadly.
Otto looked serious.
Otto grew increasingly angry.
Otto's face contorted in a ferocious expression.
"It seems you should have told me everything from the future, right? And this is the Judgment of All Things, the scissors that cut through the river of history." Sirin took out the Judgment of All Things and showed it to Otto.
"Durandal, kill the Herrscher of the Void!" Otto was beyond furious.
Durandal did not refuse Otto's order. After Durandal did not know whether the Herrscher in front of her was good or evil, and the Herrscher was the Second Herrscher caused great damage to the world during the Second Honkai. Under these circumstances, it was only right to punish him.
Holding the Sixth God Key, the Black Orchid White Flower, Durandal exerted force with her feet, instantly disappearing from her original spot and reappearing beside the Herrscher of the Void.
Seeing the Black Orchid White Flower attacking her, Sirin's eyes filled with nostalgia.
The Spear of the Void blocked the Black Orchid White Flower, but Sirin still had a smile on her face.
"Durandal, do you know? I once met Cecilia, the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, and she attacked me with this God Key. You are very much like her now."
Having undergone the grueling training at the Great Herta, Sirin, having fully mastered the Herrscher of the Void Authority and the use of the Herrscher of Death core within her, faced Durandal's attacks with ease.
While the Herrscher of the Void Authority may not be the strongest in combat, she is unmatched in evasion.
"Honestly, I don't understand why Otto is so angry at all," Sirin said loudly while dodging Durandal's attacks.
Durandal attacked Sirin without saying a word.
"I only unintentionally ruined his plans, preventing his Saintess from being resurrected, yet he sees me as an enemy, a sworn enemy. Although Otto lost Saintess Kallen, I can certainly help him fight against the Honkai, can't I?"
Sirin's figure suddenly disappeared from Durandal's side and appeared in front of Otto.
A scythe gleaming with cold light slashed towards Sirin, and Otto, who was unusually calm, also raised the Divine Fire Sacred Judgment, which was a mimicry of the Void Archive, and aimed it at Sirin.
"Speaking of which, the anniversary of the Saintess's martyrdom is just around the corner. I'm so sorry that Otto can't have a pleasant time. Let me think about how to express my apologies..."
"If Otto wants, I can go to Kolosten and put on a show of weeping and wailing in front of the Saintess's gallows, how about that?"
Rita's scythe was easily blocked by the Spear of the Void, and the bullet fired by the Void Archive seemed to have successfully hit Sirin's forehead, but a barely perceptible spatial Teleportation Gate appeared in front of the bullet's trajectory.
"Bang!" Otto fell to the ground.
The bullet was teleported behind Sirin and successfully struck Otto in the chest.
Otto, kneeling on one knee, looked at Sirin with an extremely cold gaze.
Otto was in Soul Steel body at this moment, so a mere fatal wound had no effect on him.
"I've been wanting to see this expression on your face... this look of resentment towards me! This is just too good!" Seeing Otto's expression up close, Sirin felt incredibly excited.
"I have severed the river of time. It is impossible for you to go back in time and change Kallen's fate through the Imaginary Tree, because you can only travel to the end of the Second Honkai at most. And if you do travel to that time, what awaits you is the Honkai fission bomb that you yourself will launch!"
"Oh, is your heart dead? Don't give up so quickly. You're not entirely without a chance. See these scissors? Take them, cut through the river of history once more, and then piece it back together. That might save all the tragedies." Sirin handed the scissors to Otto, then abruptly pulled her hand back just as Otto was about to touch them, staring at Otto with a mocking expression.
Sirin didn't understand how deep Otto's obsession with saving Kallen really was. All Sirin knew was that because of that idiot Otto, she had been tortured in the Babylon Tower for countless years!
My happiness was ruined because of that idiot Otto, so why should I try to put myself in Otto's shoes?
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not kidding, cheer up. Otto, actually, I can cooperate with you to fight the Honkai. Really."
"Hey, why are you being so fierce?" Seeing Otto stand up again, Sirin, who had transformed the Void Archive into Greatsword of the Heavenly Fire and was swinging it at her, disappeared and reappeared high in the sky, beyond Otto's reach.
The Herrscher of the Void should make good use of their mobility to toy with, tease, and torment their enemies.
"Durandal, kill her! Take that pair of scissors," Otto commanded coldly once more.
Yes, that's right, I haven't lost yet!
From a rational perspective, if the Second Herrscher fully cooperates, it would indeed be a trump card for the Current Civilization in its fight against the Honkai.
But for Otto, Kallen is gone, so what's the point of saving the world of Goba?
Damn it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to explode!
"Tsk tsk tsk." Sirin shook her head as she watched Durandal relentlessly attack her.
Even Sirin had to admit that Durandal was indeed very strong.
Sirin even suspected that if she were to actually be punched in the face by Durandal, Chen Li would have to watch an ad and revive her before he could get close to her again.
Is this Durandal Valkyrie for Schicksal, the pinnacle of talent and hard work?
That's terrifying.
But so what?
Even with the Valkyrie armor granting her the ability to fly, Durandal still couldn't even touch Sirin's clothes.
I know you have high attack power, but you can't even touch me, so how can you hurt me?
"Durandal, you're really annoying flying around all the time. Go stay in the World Bubble for a while." As Durandal flew back towards Sirin snapped her fingers and used the principle of spacetime oscillation to make Durandal instantly enter the deceleration zone. Then, she picked up the World Bubble and hurled it at Durandal.
It was a World Bubble filled with Honkai energy. If an ordinary person went in, they would become Honkai zombie in less than 10 seconds. But Durandal could stay in for a whole day without any effect.
This is the first talent monster in Honkai 3rd – Durandal.
A figure appeared behind Sirin.
"Boom!" A huge burst of fire exploded in front of Sirin, and through the endless flames, Sirin could see Otto's ferocious expression.
Otto once again charged at Sirin with the Void Archive Treasury mimicking the Greatsword of the Heavenly Fire, but under the protection of multiple Imaginary Barrier, Sirin only suffered a minor stain on the hem of her clothes.
Great Herta says this is called multiple spellcasting in the Magical Girl world, but Sirin thinks Great Herta doesn't count as Magical Girl at all.
The power of the God Key, which is a mimicry of the Void Archive, is not comparable to the original God Key, so defending against it is not difficult.
"Now!"
"Snip!" The crisp sound of scissors closing rang out.