Chapter 103
Unfortunately, K423 himself seems to dislike Siegfried quite a bit, and K422 and True Kiana only know that the other seems to have joined some kind of Anti-Entropy Walker.
If I had to name the executor within the Anti-Entropy organization that I know best, it would undoubtedly be Tesla.
K423 is quite close to the other party.
Almost every other sentence he talked about Sister Tesla, constantly repeating that Sister Tesla, which made K422 and True Kiana a little jealous. In the consciousness space, they pinned K423 down and kept stroking her hair...
He seemed determined to ruffle the hair off this smug little girl until she was bald.
"Cocolia is Anti-Entropy person, so Siegfried and the others came last night, perhaps just to rescue Cocolia. Of course, given Cocolia's personality, she would never betray Schicksal in order to protect her children... at least not before she has the ability to rebel against Schicksal."
K422 was suddenly stunned, realizing that his current position was exactly the same as Otto's.
She didn't need to do anything proactively; the threat posed by her status alone was enough to force Cocolia to submit.
Just as she lacked the ability to directly kill Otto and destroy the Schicksal, she ultimately had no choice but to submit to Otto's situation.
"Siegfried is the executor of Anti-Entropy... he might still be nearby."
K422's voice grew softer and softer until it became a completely incomprehensible buzzing sound.
"By the way, the goals of suppressing the Russian battlefield and investing in the Cocolia Orphanage have been achieved. I can go to the Asian Branch now. No, wait, Theresa is looking for me. It would be too impolite to communicate via radio. I'll go back to headquarters in person!"
Suddenly, K422 slammed his hands on the table and shouted.
The dramatic shift in attitude caught Lewis and her team off guard.
"I'll take the Floating Battleship to headquarters right away. Anyway, it only takes an afternoon to get back to headquarters from Russia, or even just a few hours if things go smoothly."
Lewis was puzzled as to why the other person was so agitated and so eager to leave immediately, just as if they had inexplicably run back from the Cocolia Orphanage the night before.
After Lewis reunited with her team, she was also quite bewildered after hearing their report.
In addition, to be honest, the bandages on her body were wrapped too tightly, and she was in a lot of discomfort, especially since they were wrapped around her neck several times, making her feel like she could hardly breathe.
However, it's a good thing for her that the other party decided to leave.
Lewis's team's mission is to protect the other party. It is possible that someone from Anti-Entropy is lurking nearby. For the other party's safety, Lewis naturally hopes that she can evacuate quickly.
However, she acted swiftly, immediately summoning Floating Battleship. She then boarded the Floating Battleship with Black Abyss White Flower, Rita, and the belated maid, heading back towards Schicksal Headquarters.
Lewis's team remained at their Russian base to cover K422's departure.
They waited for quite a while but the Anti-Entropy organization hiding nearby did not take any action.
"It seems we were being too cautious, but it's good to be cautious. It wouldn't be good if Kiana were attacked by the Anti-Entropy organization."
When Cecilia was young, she and her Snow Wolf Squad were attacked by the Anti-Entropy organization.
"Report!"
"Speak, what is it?"
Lewis asked when a team member suddenly ran out of the bunker.
"It seems that Kiana forgot to take this Dawn Glory with her."
"I see. Perhaps Kiana forgot to bring it. It's alright, we can take it with us when we leave." Lewis nodded.
She was worried that something uncontrollable had happened, but it turned out to be just a minor incident.
"Let's prepare to evacuate as well and rejoin the Assault Team."
"Yes, ma'am."
Lewis's squad, which was defending the base, began to disperse and regroup with the nearby Assault Team.
Meanwhile, Laguna, the captain of the Assault Team, met with the members of Anti-Entropy again and learned of K422's hasty departure.
Welt looked frustrated again, his gaze fixed on Siegfried.
Einstein even sent this message to another member of the Father's Sorrow Alliance, yes, it was Raiden Ryoma.
So Raiden Ryoma, who had originally developed a relationship with Siegfried that involved drinking and smoking together, immediately started mocking Siegfried through the communicator.
So how did it become his fault again?
Siegfried watched the Floating Battleship, now a tiny black dot, disappear into the distance, utterly bewildered.
110. Maybe there's someone even dumber than you?
K422's maid and Rita neither understood why she was in such a hurry to return.
They even urged the Floating Battleship to go full speed ahead, but considering that in peacetime, even if the Floating Battleship uses nuclear power, it will still accelerate the consumption of other resources. At the same time, going full speed ahead will also cause some damage to the hull. In the future, it will have to stop at the airport for maintenance. Naturally, the captain did not accept such overstepping of authority.
To this captain, the Floating Battleship was like a daughter; how could she allow her daughter to work too hard and be overworked!
Reject!
NO!
No discussion!
This is how the other party responded.
If it weren't for the fact that the captain was a middle-aged woman, K422 would have already beaten her up.
Screw your "everything can be Mom fan" nonsense.
When they leisurely returned to the Schicksal Headquarters, it was already dusk. As soon as the Floating Battleship docked, K422 disembarked, placed the Black Abyss White Flower on the shelf in her room, and then went to the Grand Bishop's office.
At this moment, Theresa, dressed in the formal attire of Grand Bishop's Aide, was sleeping on her desk.
"Theresa, you were looking for me?"
"Huh? Huh? Kiana, you're back?"
Awakened by K422, Theresa wiped the drool from the corner of her mouth, and at the same time, a bitter melon smell wafted from her. K422 subconsciously took more than ten steps back.
"???"
Even a small step back can cause such great damage.
Theresa immediately wanted to know how much damage it would take to retreat more than ten steps.
"It tastes so bitter, Theresa drank bitter melon juice again..."
To be honest, after learning that Theresa liked bitter melon juice, K422 couldn't look Theresa's lips the same way anymore, considering how many times Theresa had kissed his face with those lips before.
Of course, this refers to the time when she still called Theresa her aunt.
Ever since she started calling her "Theresa," Theresa always looks conflicted whenever she sees her.
"So, what exactly do you want with me? I'm on serious business. The Schicksal has gone to great lengths to promote the Saintess's trip..."
Before K422 departed, it was already aware that the footage being filmed would likely be made public.
In other words, she truly came into the view of various countries.
"Kiana, you should know that you are now the Acting Grand Bishop, right?"
"What? Hasn't His Excellency the Bishop revoked his authority yet?"
"No... that bastard grandpa ran away." Theresa's face darkened instantly, and she said angrily.
"???"
K422 didn't even know what to be surprised about.
Is it surprising that Theresa was still very close to Otto despite their ideological differences, would use the word 'bastard' to describe Otto, or is it surprising that this bastard Otto ran away?
They ran away?
"How is that possible!"
As she spoke, K422 ran to the bookshelf behind Theresa's chair, pushed a book back, and then the bookshelf began to move to the sides, revealing a secret passage in front of her.
Theresa, still sitting in her chair, slowly opened her mouth wide.
"Wait, wait... wait a minute!!! Why is there a secret passage here! How do you know about this secret passage!!"
"You didn't know? Uh..."
K422 discovered that Theresa, the first in line to the Grand Bishop, was truly a disgrace.
"In my search for True Kiana, um, the real Kiana, I used the Black Abyss White Flower to clear a path and accidentally stumbled into this secret passage. That's where I was captured by Bishop Otto and had no choice but to surrender to him—"
After K422 completely revealed how much she valued True Kiana, she knew that Otto would definitely scheme against her.
In reality, Otto's scheme was far more sophisticated than she had imagined.
Otto would never be foolish enough to threaten True Kiana's safety by saying that True Kiana's life would be in danger if she didn't do as he was told. Such a method of coercion is simply too stupid.
Otto smiled and told her how ugly the outside world was... and neither she nor Siegfried had the power to protect True Kiana.
True Kiana is still alive, but only because he is 'protecting' her.
Yes, he admitted that he did conduct many experiments on True Kiana, but mainly to study the power of the Kaslana Family. His subsequent experimental subjects were all clones.
So apart from being imprisoned, True Kiana did not suffer much pain.
Of course, this is only physical pain.
The closed room, with no means of communication with the outside world, and the nights spent alone, brought immense mental anguish to True Kiana.
K422 initially didn't believe a word Otto said, but as Otto repeatedly gave her freedom, even allowing her to meet with True Kiana, and loosened his restrictions on her as if to please her, she gradually changed her mind.
Just when she was beginning to waver, Otto played his most crucial card: the authority of an Acting Grand Bishop, which made her fully realize that the ugliness Otto spoke of was real.
The weak True Kiana, and the still weak Zhenqi, simply could not live in such a world.
Honkai is humanity's enemy.
At the same time, humans may also be their enemies.
Otto's database contains records of many organizations secretly capturing Valkyrie and using them for various experiments.
Such experiments included forced mating, various tolerance tests, and various experiments conducted on Valkyrie. After the Valkyrie died from the experiments, they were sliced up and preserved for further research.
In fact, it wasn't just other organizations that did this; even some of Schicksal's own agencies targeted the Valkyrie in order to find the best test subjects.
Most of the missing Valkyrie disappeared on their way to the end of their missions.
Valkyrie possess strong resistance to Honkai Energy and have a certain degree of resistance to various energies, but they cannot withstand human guns and cannons.
After all, the Valkyrie was designed to fight against the Honkai.
K422 finds it hard to imagine that humans outside the world, or even some of Schicksal own research institutions, would do such a thing.
Without Schicksal, neither she nor True Kiana could live easily in this world.
But this world is not simply filled with ugliness.
Theresa showed her what beauty is.
Even after learning that she was a clone, Theresa still treated her as Kiana. Despite having met the real Kiana, she still called her Kiana affectionately instead of K422.
Her smile was a little silly, and a little blank.
But K422 felt that she really liked this aunt... oh, now she's a big sister.
Otto took her thoughts and feelings into account without missing a single detail.
Of course, K422 never expected that Otto would run away.
The Acting Grand Bishop has actually come true.
Even if it could be proven that he was lying at this point, K422 would not be so swayed.
"After surrendering to him, that bastard bishop and I came out from here. He talked to me several times afterward, always choosing this place."
The secret passage leads to that secret room.
"I didn't know! I had no idea there was a secret passage in Grandpa's office!"
Theresa began to feel ashamed, ignorant, and, well, with low authority.
Otto ran away, and her authority is still not at the level of A-rank Valkyrie.
Seeing K422 walk directly into the secret passage, Theresa, disregarding her own self-loathing, followed him in.
She was now wearing a specially made formal gown for Grand Bishop's Aide. Because it was so elaborate and heavy, Theresa took very small steps. Although she looked quite dignified, K422, who was walking in front, kept frowning.
"Theresa, you're walking too slowly."
"There's no way around it, it's really hard to walk in clothes like this, you have to figure out your balance. Don't get cocky, you're part of it too, we have custom-made formal wear, ceremonial wear, evening wear and casual wear."