After Sky left, Himeko disembarked from the Hyperion... and actually found one of the two Herrschers of Thunder. She had been somewhat worried at first. After all, a Herrscher was involved; no amount of caution was excessive.
In the end, she realized she had worried for nothing. The little Herrscher of Thunder had already fallen completely unconscious, beaten down by the other one.
As for the other Herrscher of Thunder, Himeko had no idea where she had gone.
Besides the unconscious Raiden Mei, there was also a white-haired girl with an injury on her back. She looked very similar to the girl who had called her Teacher Himeko before, with the only difference being that she appeared younger. After hesitating for less than a second, Himeko decisively brought both girls aboard the Hyperion, intending to take them back to St. Freya High School.
Besides that... just as she was preparing to return, she suddenly discovered that, at some unknown point, a little twin-tailed girl hugging a Homu doll had appeared at the entrance to the floating battleship. She had curled herself into a ball, like a helpless little animal with nowhere to turn.
After learning that she was friends with the two girls Himeko had brought back, Himeko took her back to St. Freya High School as well.
Meanwhile, information about Kiana and Raiden Mei had reached Theresa yesterday. It was also yesterday... that Theresa learned the white-haired girl was actually Kiana.
She was equally surprised by Raiden Mei's identity. She was the daughter of Raiden Ryoma, the former president of ME Corp. After all, ME Corp was actually under Schicksal's archenemy... Anti-Entropy.
Now that the daughter of one of its key members had become a Herrscher, Anti-Entropy had not sent a single person to retrieve her. That was