Alicia: I can't believe my big sister Hayate is like this! ( ) / Serafulu: You're cheating! ( )

Before Ais could react, Signum had already appeared right in front of her.

... ... ...

"So fast!" Ais's expression immediately turned grave.

She could not keep up with that speed at all.

"Purple Lightning - Flash!"

As Signum's words fell, the surging flames coiling around the Flame Demon Sword instantly transformed into a crimson dragon, roaring as it charged toward Ais. Its momentum seemed intent on utterly devouring the opponent before it.

However—Signum had held back. They would not kill anyone in front of Hayate!

This strike had merely been aimed at severing the sword in her opponent's hand.

What slightly surprised Signum was that the blade in her opponent's hand had actually withstood the attack.

Ais herself, however, was sent flying.

"Ais!" Loki and the others were instantly startled.

Everyone hurried forward to catch Ais. Loki especially charged to the front like a starving tiger pouncing on its prey, then leaped into the air, intending to catch Ais in her arms, but—

Ais suddenly twisted in midair, stabilizing her balance, and then—

Loki pounced at empty air and crashed to the ground, while Ais landed steadily on her feet.

"So strong..." The expressionless Ais looked at Signum before her, a faint gleam flickering in her eyes.

"So incredible. Even Ais was no match for her!" After seeing that Ais was fine, Tiona and Tione both breathed sighs of relief before they could not help looking toward Hayate's group.

"Which Familia are you from, anyway? Anyone who can defeat Ais must at least be Level 4, and you made it look so easy. Don't tell me you're another Level 5..." Loki did not mind having missed her pounce. She quickly got up from the ground and scrutinized Hayate and the others with narrowed eyes.

"Familia? What's that..." Hayate tilted her head, looking at Loki and the others with a face full of curiosity.

"Eh!"

In an instant, everyone in the Loki Familia froze.

Alicia: My Sister Hayate Is Actually Like This!()

At this moment, Chu Chen himself was not in any world, but outside the worlds.

Chu Chen could come here whenever he wished, since this was where he had stayed from the very beginning.

Chu Chen could freely enter any world where he had deployed a system. Now, that even included worlds the agents had visited.

As mentioned before, Chu Chen was interested in powerful worlds. He basically would not visit low-level worlds.

At most, if Saeko and the others needed help, Chu Chen would choose to go over and lend a hand himself.

So unless someone asked him for help, Chu Chen would not take the initiative to visit those low-level worlds.

Right now, Chu Chen was observing the worlds Illya and the others had gone to from outside the worlds, deciding which world to visit and help with.

Three teams: Illya, Miyu, Ai, Saeko, and Illyasviel von Einbern in one team; Hayate, the Four Knights of the Wind and Clouds, and Alicia in another; Nanoha, Fate, Yuno, and Arf in the third. This was the most reliable team arrangement in Chu Chen's opinion.

First, Ai was an intelligence-type person, so she had to be paired with several fighters. They also could not be the sort to negatively affect Ai, because Ai herself had experienced darkness. She did not reject using certain dark methods.

Thus, Chu Chen assigned Saeko and Illyasviel von Einbern to Ai. Saeko aside, someone who had experienced the apocalypse was certainly mentally resilient. As for Illyasviel von Einbern, there was even less to say—she herself was a product of the darkness beneath the Einzbern family...

As for why he paired Illya and Miyu with Ai? Naturally, it was to add powerful combat strength to the team! Chu Chen also wanted Illya to properly experience some storms...

As for why he had not assigned Nanoha to them, it was mainly because their combat power would be too overwhelming. He was afraid they would simply steamroll everything, leaving Ai's brain with no use... Well, Chu Chen just did not want Ai to become dead weight.

Then Nanoha and Fate definitely had to be together. With Yuno and Arf added to the mix, they could easily form a complete team.

No matter what, Nanoha and Fate's combat strength was extremely formidable. Among everyone, they ranked only below Hayate.

Yeah! If Nanoha and Fate fought Vita and the other Four Knights now, it would still be somewhat uncertain.

Nanoha and Fate might not be able to adapt to Guberkal's fighting style.

Although Raising Heart and Lightning Axe had both been enhanced, it still depended on the actual circumstances.

Then there were Hayate and Alicia. The main reason Hayate and Alicia were on the same team was because they were close.

Actually, if Hayate had not obtained the character template of her future self, Chu Chen might have only divided them into two teams.

But now that Hayate had inherited her future self's power, there was absolutely no problem with having her lead a team.

Do not underestimate the commander of the future Mobile Unit 6. The Big Three of the TSAB were no joke.

In terms of overall strength rating, Hayate's combat power was even above Nanoha's, all right? Of course, that was partly thanks to the Book of Night Sky. But ratings were ratings—if they truly fought, Hayate genuinely could not defeat Nanoha and Fate.

That was because Hayate's magic was mostly wide-area, long-range magic. Her strength rating was only so high due to the Book of Night Sky. In reality, most of her magic required charging. In an actual one-on-one fight, she might not even beat some juniors. Without someone partnering with her, it was difficult for her combat power to be fully unleashed.

So this time, Chu Chen had the Four Knights follow Hayate. Thanks to Chu Chen's magical power, the Four Knights were far stronger than in the original story.

With them around, Chu Chen did not need to worry at all about Hayate and Alicia running into trouble. It was just that...

"How did Alicia persuade her mother to let her and Fate go to another world without worry?"

Chu Chen truly could not understand that. Precia, that daughter-obsessed mother, had actually felt at ease letting Alicia leave?

Administrator: "Is everyone more or less here? If you are, make a sound... @All Members!"

Haibara Ai: "I've been here for ages... Administrator, you're unbelievably slow at sending messages..."

Ilyasviel: "Playing with the kids ING!"

Miyu: "Playing with the kids ING!"

Busujima Saeko: "Teaching the kids how to kill ING!"

Ilyasviel: "!!!"

Miyu: "!!!"

Busujima Saeko: "Ahem... Just kidding... Playing with the kids ING!"

Takamachi Nanoha: "Fate and I are currently fighting our way out. We somehow fell into someone's house, and now we're being attacked by a group calling themselves devils. There's even one calling herself Satan Leviathan. Her ice magic is so powerful!"

Fate Testarossa: "I feel like that Satan Leviathan is merely interested in us."

Yagami Hayate: "So you fell into someone else's house too..."

Takamachi Nanoha: "Eh! Hayate, did you fall into someone else's house too?"

Alicia Testarossa: "Yeah. If Brother Zafira and Sister Signum had not been so amazing, we probably would have been captured by them..."

Administrator: "Alicia, have you forgotten that you actually have combat power too..."

Alicia Testarossa: "Eh... Right! I forgot!￣□￣｜｜"

Administrator: "Tell me about it. Which worlds are you in? Then I'll see whose world I should go visit and have some fun in!"

Haibara Ai: "Mine is a standard apocalyptic setting, with monsters called Gastrea and such. It's similar to Saeko's world. The only major difference is that there are children called Cursed Children here. They were infected with this virus at birth, giving them superhuman combat power... Hmm, there's nothing supernatural in this world. It's a low-level world, so Administrator, you probably won't be interested..."

Black Bullet... The moment he heard Gastrea, Chu Chen thought of that light novel that some old bastard author had dropped after making a fortune from stocks... Chu Chen could not help raising an eyebrow slightly. Saeko, Ai, and apocalyptic worlds really had fate with one another!

But this also touched on Ai's strengths... Silently, Chu Chen ruled this world out...

Takamachi Nanoha: "This seems to be a world of gods and devils. We're currently fighting these devils in devil territory. The one calling herself Satan Leviathan is named Serafleur Leviathan. It seems we accidentally arrived in the territory of a devil family called the Sidi Family... That's all we know!"

Administrator: "Nanoha, that Serafleur probably bears you no ill will. She's obsessed with Magical Girls, so she likely became extremely interested in you after seeing your transformed appearances. I'll head over shortly. You can explain the situation to Serafleur. As long as you make it clear that you accidentally arrived there, she won't make things difficult for you."

Serafleur Leviathan and the Sidi Family... DXD? Chu Chen more or less understood Nanoha's situation.

The Four Great Satans of DXD's Underworld were relatively open-minded. Nanoha and Fate were powerful, and they were humans. As long as they explained the situation, those devils would not make things difficult for them. On the contrary, Serafleur would probably shamelessly cling to Nanoha and Fate, asking the two of them to become her Familia Members... From the perspective of someone obsessed with Magical Girls, that was.

Administrator: "What about Hayate's side? How are things there?"

Yagami Hayate: "We arrived in a city called Orario and fell into the base of a group called the Loki Familia. This seems to be a world where gods and humans coexist. The gods descended to the lower world out of boredom, then set rules forbidding the use of Divine Power. They must live just like the lower world's residents, in a state no different from ordinary people. They grant humans blessings and establish their own Familia, allowing them to gain the power to defeat monsters, while the gods experience everything in the lower world... Hmm, this so-called blessing feels a little like playing a game... But I actually have a pretty favorable impression of this Loki..."

Alicia Testarossa: "Sister Hayate, are you sure you like Loki not because the two of you are exactly alike? Right after clearing up the misunderstanding with them, you used 'I need to check your nutritional condition' as an excuse to feel up every woman in the Loki Familia, even solemnly explaining that they were malnourished or something! And you did not even spare Loki's flat chest! Afterward, the two of you somehow acted like kindred spirits. What the hell was that?! Don't find common ground in such bizarre places!"

Administrator: "(ω｀ll)!"

Alicia felt like tearing her hair out. How did I never realize Sister Hayate was this kind of person?!

As expected of you! The Night Sky Breast-Grab King! You actually accomplished so easily what I could never accomplish!

Serafleur: You're Cheating!()

"Divine Buster!"

"Thunder Smasher!"

Pink and golden blasts shot toward Serafleur, making her even more excited!

At first, based on Serafleur's observations, Nanoha and Fate were only at the level of high-class devils, roughly comparable to Rias and her own Sana-chan. They might even have been much stronger than Rias and Sana-chan.

However, their magical power could not reach the level of ultimate-class devils. As someone with Demon Lord class combat power, Serafleur was fully qualified to make such an assessment. But—after actually fighting them, Serafleur was shocked.

When these two children joined forces, they could actually contend with her. Even if she got serious, she could not immediately defeat the pair. Their combat instincts were even more outrageous than she had imagined.

Furthermore, the staffs in their hands seemed to possess some special mechanism. After loading what seemed like bullets, the power of the magic they released increased drastically. This blast from the two of them had even reached the attack level of an ultimate-class devil.

"Magical Girls really are amazing. Their strength can jump so dramatically!"

From high-class devil to ultimate-class devil level, and together they could even hold back a Demon Lord class opponent... That was Serafleur's evaluation of the two. However, it was not enough to give Serafleur a headache.

Because Serafleur's thoughts were exactly as Chu Chen had expected: she did not want to hurt these two children.

Though devils did not sound like good people, the current Underworld was actually a civilized, harmonious, and beautiful world striving to build a new Underworld countryside and eradicate poverty within a hundred years! Would you believe it if someone told you that among the Four Great Satans of the Underworld, two were sister-con maniacs, one was a research fanatic, and one was an incredibly lazy slacker? They had trampled all over the dignity of Demon Lords. It was simply beyond words!

So from the very beginning, Serafleur had intended to take these two children in as her Familia Members.

Incidentally, Sana-chan had actually entertained the same thought. But since Serafleur had spoken first, she did not intend to say anything. Since her sister liked the two children so much, she would not compete with her sister.

Watching the twin blasts approaching her, Serafleur suddenly swung the staff in her hand. Massive ice dragons formed one after another, enduring the twin blasts as they roared toward Nanoha and Fate.

Nanoha and Fate's expressions changed, and they loaded another two Magic Bullets into their staffs.

The power of the blasts abruptly surged, and cracks began appearing across the enormous bodies of the ice dragons.

"So amazing. Magical Girls truly are the strongest! Then I'll get a little more serious!"

Serafleur's face was full of smiles, but Sana-chan below could tell that her sister had gotten serious.

The next moment, with a wave of her staff, tens of thousands of Magic Circles instantly formed, leaving Nanoha and Fate staring in disbelief.

Yuno and Arf beside them also turned exceptionally grave. The opponent before them... was far too strong!

"Nanoha!" "Fate!" The two looked toward Nanoha and Fate, wanting to hear their decision.

Nanoha turned her gaze toward Fate, seeming to ask something.

Fate nodded heavily, then swung Lightning Axe in her hand. Then—

Lightning Axe instantly shifted form, transforming into Blade Form.

"Nanoha, I'll buy time! Then I'll create an opening for you..."

"Mm! I'm counting on you, Fate! Yuno, Arf, I'm counting on you two as well!"

Yuno & Arf: "Mm!"

Seeing their actions, Serafleur could not help becoming curious. What were they planning to do?

Gradually, enormous ice spheres with radii of up to a hundred meters, wrapped in immense ice magic, began falling from the tens of thousands of Magic Circles and hurtling toward Nanoha and Fate.

Not only that, countless ice spears shot out from many of the Magic Circles.

Following the ice spheres and ice spears was a frigid current capable of completely freezing someone solid.

Serafleur wanted to know just what extent the two girls before her could reach.

At first, she had merely been probing them. But now, even Serafleur had become curious.

If Nanoha and Fate could withstand this wave of attacks, Serafleur would have to admit that the two girls possessed the potential to reach Demon Lord class. In that case, she could make up her mind to devote great effort to training them.

After all, Serafleur intended to take these two girls under her wing.

Then, beneath Serafleur's delighted gaze and Sana-chan's shocked one, Fate alone displayed astonishing combat power.

Dark clouds began gathering in the sky as wild lightning surged, shattering every spear that came close to her.

Then Fate fiercely swung the Blade Form in her hand. As she did, the magical blade of Blade Form began to extend.

"Sonic Form!"