"Sakura can't remember right now!"
Her memories had been cut away and hidden.
Unless those memories were found, Yae Sakura would never be able to remember them.
The Overlord made that judgment.
"..."
The shrine maiden did not know what to say.
The little child before her was saying very strange things.
He had known her before, and they had even gone to the so-called Nagazora City and St. Freya Academy.
"Then Zerg will come back with me first."
Changing the subject, Yae Sakura patted Zerg's head.
"Okay!"
The little child nodded.
Amon could not be found for now, so he might as well stay by Sakura's consciousness.
Even if Amon tried anything, the Overlord could protect Sakura's consciousness.
Then, an unusual disturbance arose within the forest—
Yae Sakura turned to look.
She saw a creature—
It was a ferocious, terrifying insect.
Purple-and-white armor covered its body.
The wings on its back seemed to have been formed from armor as well.
"Is that... the monster the villagers mentioned?"
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The monster before her had armor that looked extremely hard at a glance.
It was completely different from the demons she had slain in the past—
Yae Sakura did not know whether the spirit blade she carried could break through its defenses.
"Thief!"
At that moment, the little child spoke.
He sounded rather angry.
Zerg really was angry.
This was a new Zerg strain that the Hive in Nagazora City had been trying to mutate—
A Zergling evolutionary branch suited for fighting in environments with high concentrations of Honkai energy.
The armor on its body was condensed from Honkai energy. This meant that when fighting in environments with high concentrations of Honkai energy, it could absorb the Honkai energy dissipating through the air to