"Lady Durandal?"
Rita moved closer to Durandal and placed both hands on her arm. Her manner was intimate, like that of close girlfriends, or perhaps... sisters...
"Oh, oh, it's nothing."
Coming back to herself, Durandal hurriedly turned away, not daring to look at Rita. Yet the blush on her face was impossible to hide...
Rita had flirted with her again. Even though Rita was also herself, all she could say was that Rita was just too good at it. She did not need to deliberately do anything; every smile and glance made her seem like a fairy who could steal one's soul.
In her previous life, she must have been a thousand-year-old fox spirit.
"Oh, oh!"
Rita was very considerate and naturally did not press the subject. After all, they were both herself, so it did not really matter.
Changing the subject, Rita placed her right hand over her chest...
"Lady Durandal, this new outfit... seems to have come from your power, the power of Star Armor."
Rita's new armor was called Spina Astera...
It was no longer a Valkyrie armor from Schicksal, but power that had originally belonged to Durandal. It was exactly like Durandal's Dea Anchora form, both deriving their power from a "bubble universe."
After becoming Spina Astera, Rita had gained a new set of memories.
Those memories were connected to the main storyline of the Honkai world. Since Durandal was going to the church to "PK" Otto Apocalypse, she had temporarily entrusted this power to Rita.
Rita had thus used that power to manifest a brand-new Valkyrie armor for herself: Spina Astera!
Rita was quite familiar with this power. Or rather... she shared Durandal's feelings for that world.
Back then, as the companion of the young Bianka, Rita had traveled with her through that world in