Cecilia looked toward the kitchen doorway and nodded.
"Mm, that's true too—"
"Kiana, I probably won't have time to go to the amusement park tomorrow. Sorry—Mei."
Just after class, Kiana heard her phone notification and opened it, only to find a message from Senpai Mei.
Mei was a second-year student, while Kiana was a first-year, so their classes and classrooms were different.
Seeing Senpai Mei's message, Kiana could not help feeling dejected. She had been looking forward to it all night and had even gotten scolded by Theresa.
The day before yesterday, Theresa, carrying the original Oath of Judah, had finally arrived at the place Kiana was currently renting.
Theresa had originally been full of excitement, intending to give that hateful Herrscher a piece of her mind the moment she arrived!
But Kiana stopped her.
"Auntie, don't get so worked up... I only suspect it. I haven't confirmed whether Senpai Mei really is a Herrscher vessel."
Fine, there was no way to be certain, but relying on her intuition, Kiana had still concluded that Senpai Mei was a Herrscher vessel. With her naturally extraordinary resistance to and sensitivity toward Honkai Energy, when she deliberately investigated, she could occasionally sense intense Honkai fluctuations from Senpai Mei.
She simply wanted to believe in Mei, to believe that she could overcome the Honkai.
On the other hand, she did not want Mei to be taken away. Though St. Freya Academy was run by her family and could absolutely be trusted, above St. Freya Academy loomed the nominal Schicksal Headquarters!
After Cecilia's hellish training since childhood, the Kiana of this world was extremely clever when it came to matters that were important to her or those she cared about!
If possible, Kiana did not even want Senpai Mei to be exposed before powerful