The developments that followed were exactly as Raiden Mei had guessed. Although the "her" in the memory fragment had successfully escaped, Rita had secretly planted a tracker on her, letting the line run to catch the bigger fish.
When Raiden Mei returned to Theresa and the others, they were questioning the cyber girl, trying to build a rapport with her.
However, the cyber girl proved utterly impervious to persuasion, leaving them quite helpless.
Moreover, they learned through the conversation that Gray Serpent had more than one cyber girl under his command—there were many of them.
These girls did not resent Gray Serpent for transforming them into what they were. On the contrary, they were grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts.
Before their modifications, the girls had all been afflicted with severe Honkai disease. Each had been doomed to die, and all of them were orphans who had lost their parents and loved ones.
The gray mechanical modifications had, in truth, given these cyber girls a second life. Repaying Gray Serpent and the organization behind him with their own strength was a shared choice among the girls.
The cruel truth and heartbreaking reality left Theresa and the others speechless.
Such a tragic fate was stiflingly painful, to the point where they did not even know what they should say.
Especially when they learned from the girl that the misfortune they had suffered was caused by the great Honkai eruptions triggered by the awakening of the Herrscher of the Void and the Herrscher of Thunder, Raiden Mei felt as though even breathing was somehow wrong.
Then, under such circumstances, Rita, who had been waiting in the wings, appeared.
This S-rank Valkyrie had somehow obtained Gray Serpent's red electronic eye without anyone else knowing, and with Destiny's technology, she had