On the roof of a three-story building, a beautiful young woman with short ash-blonde hair held an obviously expensive camera, selecting the photos she had taken.
She wore a black headband adorned with two angular teal-and-black horns, giving her a distinctly girlish appearance. She wore a long white dress covered by black armor, along with garter stockings and teal-and-black high heels.
She was none other than Rita Rossweisse, the S-rank Valkyrie dispatched to the Far East under the Archbishop of Schicksal's orders to investigate!
She had first spent several days investigating Nagazora City, her destination, but found nothing. Unexpectedly, she had followed a sudden whim to Okinawa two days ago and encountered her targets instead.
This was probably... fate!
Of course... she also had another helper to thank.
Feeling something brush against her calf, Rita lowered her head... A mechanical hound dressed much like herself was crouching at her feet.
"Well done!"
Rita crouched down and stroked the mechanical hound's head with one hand.
This mechanical hound was an autonomous tracking weapon designated HD-603, scientifically known as the Carbon-Based Hunter. It was an important aid in Rita's searches and pursuit of enemies, as well as one of her powerful combat assets.
The outfit Rita wore now was no ordinary dress, but a Valkyrie armor called Shadow Iron!
As for the Umbral Rose she usually wore, that was merely an ordinary maid uniform, not armor!
Shadow Iron was a biological-target-specialized hunting armor created by Schicksal's Helheim Laboratory. It enhanced its user's combat capabilities by reinforcing their skeleton, while its built-in monitoring system kept constant track of the user's physical condition. During intense combat, it injected enhancement hormones and neurotransmitters, allowing the Valkyrie to gain explosive increases in strength and speed.
Shadow Iron was a Valkyrie armor designed to hunt every living