I Am a Saintess at Schicksal

"No, not at all. I genuinely want to apologize," Theresa said, her voice filled with sincerity, her teary eyes seeming to plead innocence.

Honestly, this aunt was quite cute.

But she wanted to continue training. She wanted six-pack abs...

However, Theresa's stubbornness was far beyond her imagination.

No, it should be said that Theresa was very good at using her own adorable appearance.

In other words, she could act cute and throw a tantrum without any sense of incongruity.

She really wanted to get angry, but in front of Theresa's round little face, half of her anger dissipated.

"Fine, I'll stop training for today."

K422 sighed, only able to make up for the loss by rubbing Theresa's face.

"Yay! Kiana, play games with Auntie."

"O-okay, but don't do this tomorrow..."

Of course, her early end to training caused a cheer among the Assault Team members, and also brought a look of relief to the Valkyries and reserve students outside the training grounds, who were worried like mothers.

She always felt like these people were against her abs.

Her demands weren't high, just six-pack abs plus a certain 1.6-meter-tall super-powerful combatant.

Of course, she thought she would be able to grow to 1.6 meters.

Afterward, she played games in Theresa's room for the entire morning.

When noon arrived, she naturally ate lunch with Theresa.

However, in the dining hall, she saw a carefully dressed Himeko.

Because they trained together, her relationship with this newcomer to the Assault Team was quite good.

When she saw the youthful and radiant Himeko looking shy next to the dark-haired man, even though she was still a child, she couldn't help but show a gossipy expression.

In fact, the surrounding Valkyries and reserve students were the same.

Theresa also wanted to sit closer to eavesdrop on the gossip.

Unfortunately, the seats around Himeko and the man were already filled with Valkyries.

Honestly, even the CEOs of certain chaebols or important national leaders wouldn't have so many Valkyries around them.

The conversation between the man and Himeko was ordinary, clearly indicating that these two were not in the relationship everyone imagined. Of course, most people could see that Himeko had feelings for the man.

It's just that the man only saw Himeko as a student.

He also hoped Himeko would continue her previous scientific endeavors.

But Himeko clearly wanted to leverage the position of the Schicksal organization; the path of a scientist was no longer suitable for her now.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Himeko, the man felt regret.

At the same time, he politely declined Himeko's invitation to take a walk in St. Fountain that afternoon.

After lunch ended, many people rushed to comfort Himeko.

After all, they could see that the man only had feelings of a teacher-student relationship for Himeko.

Seeing Himeko's dejected look, even though the man gave her the impression of being a powerful figure, she still harbored a bit of hostility.

She thought she wouldn't see this man again today.

But right after she finished her afternoon classes, Theresa ran over to tell her that the man named Joyce wanted to see her.

"...So that's how it is, a lolicon."

After a moment of thought, K422 reached her conclusion.

"???"

Theresa looked completely bewildered.

Even Welt Yang, who had just arrived at the doorway, wore a look of confusion.

"He rejected Sister Himeko's invitation and instead chose to meet privately with a little girl like me. Doesn't that prove something about his orientation? I need to warn Sister Himeko to be careful of such perverts."

"..."

Welt Yang suddenly doubted whether his decision was correct.

He had originally thought that even if she wasn't the target he was looking for, she was still an Experiment Subject made with the Second Herrscher's DNA, hence his desire to meet her.

But now, he had been labeled a lolicon?

And why was this little girl's train of thought so strange?

"Is that so? Mr. Joyce?"

Theresa asked warily.

Because of what happened that morning, she was now doubting her judgment of people.

After thinking about it, she wasn't particularly close to this man named Joyce. He just owed her a favor, not a huge one, but he actually agreed to join this medical research team after she invited him.

She had roughly investigated the man's background. With his level of knowledge, he could have easily joined Schicksal through official channels.

Therefore, Theresa ruled out the possibility that he was trying to curry favor with Schicksal.

Since that wasn't the case, and the favor he owed wasn't that significant, yet he accepted her invitation, and even turned down the advances of a bombshell like Himeko... Just like Kiana said, once you eliminate all the impossibilities, the remaining, however improbable, must be the truth.

He was a lolicon.

And he had set her sights on the world's cutest loli.

Now he was even targeting Kiana.

Thinking of this, Theresa shivered and felt deeply hurt.

She really had a bad judge of character; such a handsome man turned out to be a lolicon!

"Mr. Joyce, if you can't explain why you accepted my invitation, I'm afraid I'll have to have you locked up."

"I wanted to repay the

Theresa immediately adopted a defensive stance.

Although during the Second Eruption, Schicksal and Anti-Entropy had cooperated, and Siegfried had raced across the moon with the leader of Anti-Entropy and fought the Second Herrscher.

Schicksal and Anti-Entropy remained hostile organizations.

"What exactly is your objective?"

Theresa questioned, simultaneously stepping in front of K422.

"I wish to help Siegfried rescue Kiana, it's just..."

Welt Yang's gaze passed over Theresa, landing on K422 behind her.

He hesitated, unsure whether to tell Theresa about the clone, especially in front of the clone herself.

Welt Yang worried that revealing the truth would hurt this clone.

However, Welt Yang was unaware that the little girl before him already knew she was a clone.

She had even pretended to be the real deal when eating cake with Theresa at St. Fountain, secretly revealing Bishop Otto's cloning plan to Theresa.

It was precisely because of this that Theresa had become more cautious and was privately investigating the locations of other clones.

"Rescuing Kiana might be very difficult. Schicksal headquarters is heavily guarded, and once an operation fails, there won't be a second chance. Moreover, Kiana's identity is unusual; perhaps the Bishop has prepared a substitute for her..."

Welt Yang ultimately chose to speak cautiously.

Of course, this statement had no effect in concealing anything from K422.

She was quite surprised that he had discovered she was a clone.

So, Aunt Theresa, who hadn't seen through her, was a little embarrassing.

"The Bishop prepared a substitute for me? I really didn't know that."

K422 continued to feign ignorance.