Once I Become the End, Theresa Will Be My Number-One Lackey! / Bread + Seele? This Is Giving Me a Bad Feeling

Theresa's mind buzzed as countless question marks flashed across it like scrolling bullet comments:

Herrscher of Finality? Mo Wang? Go deal with it? Now?

...Wait, was I hearing things from working overtime for too long?

Or had I accidentally traveled through time? From when they went to World Serpent for "academic exchange" until now, it had clearly only felt like a few months, right? How had the plot suddenly jumped straight to fighting the Finality raid boss?

What happened to all the steps in between? The buildup? The leveling, monster hunting, and equipment collecting?

Who am I? Where am I? How many episodes of crucial plot had I missed???

She felt like her CPU was overloaded and desperately needed a reboot.

After more than ten full seconds, Theresa finally muttered in an incredibly slow, disbelieving, almost sleepwalking tone:

"...Huh? Herrscher... of Finality? Mo Wang? You? Now???"

Her gaze slowly swept over everyone in the communication feed, trying to find any sign on their faces that this was a joke. Instead, she saw only helplessness, seriousness, and that familiar expression of, "That's right, it's me, and I'm about to do something huge."

Theresa, principal of St. Freya Academy, head of Schicksal's Far East Branch, and a warrior who had experienced two Honkai wars, was for the first time deeply questioning whether she was still consciously existing in the world she had thought she knew fairly well.

Once I Become Finality, Theresa Will Be My First Lackey!

Sea of Quanta City had been taken over by Dr. Lobster and the Chicken Coop-haired doctor ever since Cocolia had died beyond all doubt.

However, Shikigami and Honkai Beasts often appeared here, so the two doctors could only assign a small force to guard the place. They had not stationed too many people here.

But