I Am a Saintess in Schicksal

K422, however, was still unable to change the darkness of this place.

"Speaking of games, I remember when I was 2 years old... Mom often held me while playing a game called Kallen Fantasy."

"Kallen Fantasy? Come to think of it, the game I played is called Kallen Fighting... there's even a hidden character of Bishop Otto in it. Does this imply anything?"

The three little ones huddled together but couldn't figure anything out.

Oh, K423 was just there to cause trouble and make up the numbers.

"I remember that the game Aunt Theresa brought had Kallen Fantasy in it."

Because she preferred Kallen Fighting, she had overlooked this game.

Since her mother used to play this game, K422 naturally had the urge to challenge it.

"In that case, I won't be able to train seriously tomorrow either."

She thought about it carefully and sighed, "Forget it. Himeko isn't here, and the instructors of the Assault Team aren't in the mood to jog with me. I'll just take it as a vacation for myself."

Laguna and Theresa would not agree to her self-directed training.

This made her quite depressed.

And recently, Bishop Otto hadn't been very present, making her feel like he was plotting something again.

"True Kiana, quickly tell me about the Kallen Fantasy that Mom played."

"This time, it's the two of you listening to me."

Seeing K422 and K423 strike a listening pose, True Kiana couldn't help but feel a little smug.

Then she began to tell them about her experience playing games with her mother when she was 2 years old. Of course, she didn't understand how to play games back then; it was mainly her mother playing the game with her.

34. Damn Otto, despicable and shameless.

In the consciousness space, True Kiana's story was told vividly.

Both she and K423 listened with great satisfaction.

The next day, after K422 completed her basic training and thrashed Theresa and Laguna, she began to challenge Kallen Fantasy.

Since it was her first time playing, K422 couldn't clear it.

But after a few tries, she achieved a rather high score.

This was quite a blow to Theresa and Laguna.

When she saw that the player ranked second on the game's leaderboard was named Otto, with a score of 88888, she immediately put all her effort into surpassing the opponent's rank.

Otto Apocalypse's name was spelled Otto_Apocalypse.

This meant that the second-ranked player was Bishop Otto.

As for the first place, it was naturally her mother, Cecilia.

After that, K422 became completely engrossed in the game.

After all, Himeko's health had not been good, and as long as Himeko wasn't better, the members of the Assault Team would always be uneasy. Of course, this was not an excuse for Laguna losing ten games in a row.

Because Theresa and Laguna kept losing, and were so thoroughly defeated that they doubted their lives and were unwilling to play with her anymore, yet they wouldn't allow her to train on her own, K422 had no choice but to focus her attention on the game.

It turned out that this rather difficult game had indeed ignited her fighting spirit.

However, the score was particularly hard to improve. It took her a week to reach seventy thousand points.

At this time, Bishop Otto even sent a communication to inquire about her recent progress in her studies and training.

While encouraging her to explore her interests more and not to get too addicted to games, he also expressed his hope that she could skillfully use the lance and said that he would have the director of Research Institute 1504 specially order a lance for her.

K422 was deeply moved.

Then, that evening, her score in Kallen Fantasy surpassed eighty thousand points.

Otto, who was in a secret laboratory in the Far East: "..."

At this moment, K422 was perhaps only a tactical adjustment, a character power adjustment, or a few more games of practice away from surpassing Bishop Otto's score.

As a result, her game account was banned the next day.

K422: "???"

The good news was that Himeko's condition had improved, and she could leave the infirmary today and sleep in the same room as the Assault Team members tonight.

The bad news was that after her account was banned, her appeal was rejected, and creating a new account was also ineffective. She had completely lost the chance to surpass Bishop Otto. It wasn't that she couldn't continue playing, but her score couldn't be uploaded, and she couldn't push Bishop Otto down the rankings.

The reason for the ban was the detection of third-party plugins.

But the problem was... why would she use third-party plugins? Did she need such a thing? She, K422, Kiana, Kaslana, Schariac, could reach 80,000 points through her own ability, and she could reach 90,000 points through her own ability!

"Damn Otto, despicable and shameless, resorting to such tactics!"

It was also because of this incident that K422 realized she suddenly didn't understand Bishop Otto.

In her eyes before, Bishop Otto was just a cold, ruthless, and bloodless final boss.

K422 never expected Bishop Otto to have such a childish side.

He banned her account just to prevent her score from surpassing his. This was completely unlike something a great villain who performed cruel experiments on young girls would do.

This also led K422 to seriously research the game.

The game's core story seemed to be about a Valkyrie named Kallen defeating an Eastern demon fox, culminating in a happy fantasy ending.

K422 studied it for a long time but couldn't figure anything out.

After all, she didn't know the Eastern demon fox was named Yae Sakura, didn't know the Valkyrie named Kallen was Bishop Otto's fiancée, and certainly didn't know Kallen had declared her love for Yae Sakura when she was put on trial.

Her game account was banned, Himeko was revived, Theresa returned to the Far East, and the Assault Team's condition was restored. This series of events caused K422 to throw herself back into rigorous training.

Her serious training demeanor made Laguna, as well as the departing Theresa, anxious again.

Then, the next day, Bishop Otto brought her a large pile of games and manga from the Far East, clearly wanting her to stop obsessing over Kallen Fantasy.

Of course, K422 had no proof that Bishop Otto had banned her account.

However, it was the only reason she could think of for her account being banned.

"Kiana, your exclusive lance will be ready in about a week."

"Bishop, is it appropriate for the director of Research Institute 1504 to forge a weapon against Honkai for an 8-year-old child?"

Even though she knew Bishop Otto was deliberately changing the subject, K422 was still very happy to have a top-tier black technology research institution like Research Institute 1504 make custom equipment for her.

After all, she might very well use the black technology lance made by Research Institute 1504 to poke a few holes in Bishop Otto.

"After all, you will inherit your mother Cecilia's Black Abyss White Flower in the future. Learning how to use a lance from a young age will also help you use the Black Abyss White Flower later on," Bishop Otto said earnestly.

In short, he wanted to skirt around the issue of unbanning her account.

He also refused to admit that the ban had anything to do with him.

What if she guessed correctly? He would never admit it anyway.

"Thank you, Bishop."

Since she was getting a benefit, K422 didn't mind sounding a little sweeter at this moment.

Almost only A-rank Valkyries could obtain exclusive custom equipment from Research Institute 1504, and in most cases, the director of Research Institute 1504 would only provide the design and have other research institutes forge it.

She never expected Bishop Otto to be so generous just to change the subject.

Laguna, standing nearby, was so envious upon hearing that she would receive a custom lance forged by Research Institute 1504 in a week that she almost cried.

"Oh, right, Kiana, if you want to learn how to use a lance, I suggest you use the special training room, the [Memory Room]. That training room records information on numerous Valkyries, and you can simulate corresponding characters using Schicksal's technology."

"???"

K422 looked utterly bewildered.

This thing sounded like black technology just by hearing about it.

"Bishop, is it appropriate for Kiana to access the special training room so early?"

"Don't worry, the Memory Room has a teaching mode. I'm not so cruel as to make Kiana fight Valkyries now. Even the weakest B-rank Valkyrie is a hundred times stronger than Kiana." Bishop Otto answered Laguna's question.

This made K422 a little depressed, feeling that Bishop Otto underestimated her.

Then... she recalled Laguna bringing her to watch Valkyries spar during this time, and she felt that the multiplier of a hundred might be too small. She felt it should be a thousand times or more.

She didn't doubt for a second that a B-rank Valkyrie could take on a thousand of her.

"So there's a teaching mode?"

Laguna was surprised that the Memory Room had such a mode.

But upon careful consideration, Valkyries who could use the Memory Room required A-rank clearance. For A-rank Valkyries, using the Memory Room almost involved the training room reading their brainwaves, and the training room would search their memories for powerful enemies, then simulate the remembered opponents using memory fragments and Schicksal's technology.

Laguna herself had once simulated A-rank Valkyrie Cheng Lixue in the Memory Room and was once again thoroughly defeated.

"Of course, only the teaching mode can extract information from numerous Valkyries. Normally, it only searches for powerful enemies in one's memory and simulates them," Bishop Otto explained patiently.

Frankly speaking, to make her stop focusing on Kallen Fantasy, even throwing out black technology like the Memory Room, K422 didn't know what to say.

In the following days, K422 reduced her daily physical training and used a borrowed training lance to receive instruction from a simulated Cecilia in the Memory Room.

Every night, True Kiana and K423 would enviously "bite" at her.

It was a pity that the simulated Cecilia in teaching mode was just a teaching AI, like an emotionless robot. It couldn't hear the words K422 said to it.

Under the guidance of this teaching AI, which simulated Cecilia's appearance and voice, K422 quickly learned several basic ways to use a lance.

After all, she was very diligent and talented.

Because she had the talent for effort, she could become stronger through hard work. This could also be said to be the Bloodline Power of the Kaslana Family.

Even Laguna was amazed by her speed of improvement.

In addition to arranging for team members to spar with her daily, Laguna would occasionally step in himself to "abuse" her.

Of course, she and the new Valkyrie Himeko were evenly matched.

Although she hadn't undergone Valkyrie modification surgery yet, she had awakened the monstrous strength of the Kaslana Family, while Himeko herself lacked combat experience and hadn't had time to adapt to her suddenly surging physical abilities after just becoming a Valkyrie.

Because she had lost to her a few times, Himeko was often teased by Laguna and the others about it. So, the next day, Himeko would always come to provoke her, demanding another match...

Honestly, seeing Himeko bicker with an 8-year-old child like herself made her feel embarrassed for Himeko.

And so time flowed, and half a year passed in a flash.

Just as the new year of 2007 arrived, Bishop Otto arranged the time for her Valkyrie modification surgery. The news that Cecilia's daughter was about to become a Valkyrie naturally caused a stir.

The Schariac family was also sharpening their knives.

After all, once she became a Valkyrie, a battle for the Black Abyss White Flower would ensue between her and the Schariac family.

This event had already been spread among many Valkyries and candidates as the 'Imperial Battle'.

After all, she and Maria Schariac would have a competition under Bishop Otto's supervision to see who was more suited for the Black Abyss White Flower. It was indeed fitting to liken it to an Imperial Battle.

Meanwhile, Laguna's Assault Team, after completing their guidance mission, was dispatched by Bishop Otto to Britain to suppress the Honkai incidents there.

Also, because the Assault Team did not return to the Far East, the frequent Honkai incidents in the Far East forced Theresa to focus on suppression, preventing her from applying to return to headquarters at this time.

After the Assault Team left, K422 was officially incorporated into the new batch of trainees. The medical research team Theresa had found ultimately only had a few members remaining at Schicksal headquarters; the other medical researchers left with the Assault Team.

Among them, the leader of the Anti-Entropy organization was mixed in with the departing team. During his half-year stay at Schicksal headquarters, he had only managed to locate K423.

Although he hadn't found True Kiana's location, he deduced that True Kiana was also at Schicksal headquarters.

The new year, with her becoming a Valkyrie as the catalyst, set many undercurrents in motion.

35. No normal person would choose the latter as their father.

2007.1.3

At this moment, in a private room of a tavern in the Far East, Theresa, who had arrived in secret, was in a bad mood and plopped down on a chair.

She glanced at the man who had been drinking since morning and said irritably, "Siegfried, the time for Kiana's Valkyrie modification surgery has been set, but do you call this behavior appropriate?"