Let's pull before entering the stage. Watch me do a ten-pull-You again!? / Pull for Welt and get 2,000 resonance? Not bad.

As the health bar hit bottom, the monster was instantly killed...

The game then brought up the story dialogue.

This time, the conversation was between Wendy and Kiana.

Miss Kiana.

Wendy!

I don't have much time left. I have one last thing to tell you. Please remember it carefully.

While speaking with Kiana, Wendy confessed that she did not have much time left.

That meant she was leaving Kiana her final words...

A few days ago, the Honkai energy inside the Gem of Desire let me walk again. I thought, if that Honkai energy could help Bronya regain... If... if you ever get the chance to obtain the Gem of Desire... please...

Wendy! Wendy! The connection has been lost...

The abruptly cut-off communication seemed to foreshadow that Wendy had already met with disaster.

However, Beichen, who had read the script, knew very well that this... was actually a recording made before Wendy was killed.

The real Wendy had long since been killed by Cocolia...

At that moment, a blue comment drifted across the screen.

"Miss Wendy... She'll be all right, won't she?" After seeing how much Wendy cared about Bronya, Seele had practically come to regard Wendy as one of her companions.

Although Wendy was with Schicksal, Seele still hoped that Mother Cocolia would not hurt her...

Beichen could tell, but having read the script, he merely sighed with regret.

He then selected Stage 4-6, preparing to begin the final battle against Father.

The moment the screen loaded, Cocolia's voice could be heard.

Hi~ Did you like the gift I just gave you?

Upon hearing that, Mei was the first to react.

The gift you mean... was Miss Wendy's transmission?

That's right. Shouldn't you thank me for my generosity? I brought Wendy's final words to the Bronya she loved most.

Final words??

Only then did Kiana react as well.

Oh my, didn't I mention it? I've already killed the Fourth Herrscher.

W-What?!

How could this be?!

Amid Kiana and Mei's shocked cries, Cocolia cruelly and mercilessly described the atrocities she had committed.

I've already extracted the Honkai energy crystal from inside her body—the Gem of Desire~

At that, Theresa immediately retorted, "Even if you extracted it, you wouldn't be able to use it!"

Hmph, that only means Schicksal's technology isn't good enough.

"Ha ha... cough, sorry. That joke was too funny." A green comment suddenly streaked across the screen, adding a touch of dark humor to this tragic final battle...

Beichen could not help but laugh when he saw Otto's comment.

How should he put it... To Otto, that probably meant: What does Schicksal's technological capability have to do with me, the Schicksal Archbishop?

Before Clearing the Stage, Let's Pull Some Cards—Watch Me Get It in One Ten-Pull... Why Is It You Again!?

Just after the Bishop's contemptuous comment drifted by, Cocolia spoke again.

I developed the technology to use the Gem of Desire in machinery long ago. Still, being able to obtain it so easily was all thanks to you people at Schicksal~

You lunatic! You killed an innocent person just for an energy source!

Upon hearing Cocolia's admission, Kiana could no longer suppress her rage and sharply condemned her utterly deranged actions.

It was hard to imagine that Kiana, who usually greeted everyone with a silly grin, could become this furious.

That alone was enough to prove just how despicable Cocolia's actions were.

"Miss Wendy... She really didn't make it... Sob, sob!"

A blue comment drifted across the screen, expressing Seele's overwhelming grief.

She had never imagined that Wendy really would die at Mother Cocolia's hands. And the foster mother she had thought so loving... had murdered a young girl merely to obtain a gemstone...

"There's really nothing surprising about it. I guessed it the moment that girl sent the transmission."

After Seele's comment drifted past, Otto offered his own opinion.

Although this Cocolia person is nothing more than an insignificant nobody, anyone who knows even a little could have guessed it. Wendy was absolutely beyond saving.

What else could that earlier transmission have been, if not her final words?

"I... also find it somewhat hard to accept. I just hope she did not suffer too much when she died."

Durandal's response showed the resilience of a warrior. Although she deeply sympathized with another's suffering, she was not excessively sorrowful or despondent.

However, not long after her neatly typed comment drifted past... Cocolia began making excuses.

Oh my~ Taking revenge on Schicksal was her wish to begin with. I merely helped fulfill it. What's more, I even let her say a few words to dear Bronya at the end—too bad those words apparently won't reach her.

You're lying!

"Shut up!"

Cocolia's excuses enraged Kiana beyond measure.

One was Kiana in the game, while the other was Kiana in the Live Stream.

At that moment, Mei suddenly appeared on the screen to warn them:

Kiana, be careful!

Unbelievable. She actually managed to activate such a huge robot.

The robot Theresa referred to was the enormous machine in the game scene.

Goodbye. Keep my new creation company and have some fun for a while. Oh, and its name is MSR-7 Father.

I hope you can help me gather enough experimental data. Well then, I'm counting on you~

As Cocolia's voice faded, the game's story dialogue ended.

This time, however, the game did not directly enter gameplay. Instead, it played Father's boss activation animation.

In the previous stages, Father had basically served as nothing more than background scenery. Only now, in the final stage of the story, did he get the chance to clench his fists and pound them against the bridges in the mech factory one after another, unleashing a beast-like roar...

The roar carried its own rippling force, sounding nothing like something a mech should be capable of producing...

Only after the animation ended did the game enter the gameplay screen.

Compared to Father, the Herrscher of Reason floating above the bridge was as tiny as a pinky finger...

Yet the reality was... the gap in strength between them was enormous.

Beichen merely controlled the Herrscher of Reason to unleash her weapon skill at one of Father's fists, causing his health to plummet and sending him into a paralyzed state. He then picked up the energy pack on the ground, waited for the energy gauge to fill, and smashed down with a motorcycle.

Father was successfully killed...

As the gigantic mech slowly collapsed, a green comment drifted across the Live Stream screen...

"...This is the new creation she was so proud of? The result of analyzing the Gem of Desire? Heh heh, how disappointing. It seems she knows nothing about this gem."

Bishop Otto's mockery was a response to what Cocolia had said earlier.

And with his comment drifting past, Chapter Four of the game finally came to an end.

The screen then showed a story cutscene of Father collapsing amid flames.

The narration introduced what happened next.

After a grueling battle, Anti-Entropy's giant robot, Father, was defeated. Kiana and the others took the opportunity to escape from ME Corp headquarters.

The camera shifted to the emergency room at St. Freya Academy. Bronya lay unconscious on a hospital bed with a respirator over her face, while two medical staff in white coats examined her condition.

Kiana and Mei leaned against the window, observing their friend's condition.

Although they had successfully rescued Mei, they had lost Wendy. Bronya remained unconscious, and even St. Freya Academy's technology could not cure her. In order to save Bronya, Theresa decided to head to St. Freya Academy's central church.

After the narration ended, the camera switched again to the church Theresa had gone to.

Three family crests glowing red appeared on the screen. They were the Apocalypse Crest, representing the Bishop; the Kaslana Crest, representing the knights; and the Schariac Crest, representing the saintesses.

Beneath that church was hidden Schicksal's most advanced biotechnology. Even the Academy Principal of St. Freya Academy was kept in the dark about it.

As the narration ended, the game screen brought up the results page.

"All right, Chapter Four of the main story is finished. I have plenty of time today, so I'll stream Chapter Five next."

Beichen exited the stage and began interacting with the viewers in the Live Stream.

Upon hearing that, Seele was the first to send a comment.

"Chapter Five? Um, is Chapter Five where the Academy Principal finds a way to save Bronya? I want to see it! I want to see it!"

Beichen smiled faintly at Seele's enthusiastic reaction.

Sorry, but the protagonist of Chapter Five is Kiana! As for DuckDuck, she gets saved by the Class Monitor.

While Beichen was silent, Bishop Otto suddenly spoke.

"But you haven't chosen to begin Chapter Five yet. You need to make some preparations first, correct?"

"More or less. Before that, I want to pull for cards and complete Welt's set."

Beichen looked at his considerable number of Crystals, and his confidence immediately soared.

With this many Crystals, pulling a Welt would be easy, wouldn't it?

"For you, gathering the final piece should not take much time, should it?"

"Of course! Just watch me get possessed by the gacha gods!"

With that, Beichen opened the Precision Supply screen and did a ten-pull, then frantically tapped the screen to skip the draw animation.

As the rapid supply sounds ended, the final item lying on the Live Stream's gacha results screen was a fairly useless Stigmata...

Otto Apocalypse (M)

The Live Stream immediately fell silent...

Watching his 2,800 Crystals go down the drain, Beichen beat his chest in anguish before saying to Otto:

"Viewer, could you please stop talking for a while?"

Pulling for Welt Gave Me Two Thousand Resonance? Not Bad.

"?"

Hearing the streamer dare to speak to him like that, Otto could not help but type a question mark.

Was there something wrong with the Stigmata named after him?

"Ahem! Don't misunderstand. I'm just worried that I'll pull another Otto set next, since I already have one."

The Otto Apocalypse set was the exclusive set for Oath, Theresa's A-rank battlesuit.

It looked awkward on every other character, so pulling it again would basically mean Stigmata Resonance +1000...

Damn it! 2,800 Crystals went down the drain just like that. The more Beichen thought about it, the angrier he became!

To vent his dissatisfaction, Beichen immediately opened the equipment screen and dismantled the freshly acquired Otto Apocalypse (M)...

In an instant, Stigmata Resonance +1000...