A Saintess at Schicksal

Everyone even wished for the Floating Battleships patrolling Schicksal Headquarters to leave.

Who would have thought that the real Kiana wandered through the skies above Schicksal Headquarters every day? Even she had spotted the patrolling Floating Battleships several times.

"Bishop, now that you've told me such a secret, have you decided to silence me?"

K422 asked calmly.

Yet Otto's answer was beyond her expectations.

"Silence you? How could I, my adorable little princess? The more you know, the deeper you'll be drawn in. If it were you... you wouldn't just stand by and ignore K423, would you?"

"..."

"As long as the real Kiana remains in my hands, you'll choose to compromise. How could I reject a Honkai Killer who can obey me?"

That was why Otto had not chosen to destroy her immediately, even though he could not control her through brainwashing or bombs.

The more human an individual was, the easier they were to manipulate.

"In truth, the range of your mental link is only five hundred kilometers. But I specifically built a satellite network for you. As long as you spend the night in a specially made room, you can still detect the signal you emit even if K423 is on the other side of the Earth."

K422 was not surprised that Bishop Otto had discovered the range.

She merely sighed at her own weakness.

Wasn't she also trapped inside a sealed cage? Every struggle and act of resistance was nothing more than a dance in Otto's palm.

"What does the Bishop want me to do?"

Since she had chosen to surrender, K422 could only honestly accept Bishop Otto's judgment.

Seeing K422 make her position clear, Otto smiled.

"Of course, things will continue as usual, my adorable little princess. Don't forget to win the Sixth Divine Key: Black Abyss White Flower for me. Naturally, you must keep this room a secret. In exchange, I can let you see Kiana."

"Then... I'll do as the Bishop says."

K422 lowered her proud head and completely submitted to Bishop Otto.

There was no way she could kill him at this moment.

"How adorable. I like how sensible you are. Keep being my doll princess. Whether it's clothes you like or games you enjoy, I can buy them all for you."

Without question, Otto had laid out his demands.

As the victor, he had that right.

"Will I continue using the name Kiana Kaslana?"

"I was thinking that name might not suit you. Perhaps you should have the name Kiana Apocalypse instead."

Otto took a step closer as he spoke, but quickly withdrew his foot and turned away to discuss the matter.

To be honest, she preferred the name Kiana Schariac.

"Fine."

She simply had no right to refuse.

This felt truly suffocating.

All she could say was that she had only just become a Valkyrie and had yet to fully adapt to her current body.

Otherwise, even if she had to surrender, she would have fought first.

If they had been evenly matched when she surrendered, then even as the loser, her treatment certainly would not have been this terrible.

"I'll have Amber negotiate it. If it passes, you'll be my granddaughter."

"...Are you really that obsessed with being someone's grandfather?"

Otto was visibly stunned for a moment by her irritated reply.

"What, are you refusing?"

"No, how could I refuse? With the Bishop backing me, what does it matter if I become a doll princess?"

For K422, those terms were not a bad thing.

Perhaps one day, once Otto was finished, Aunt Theresa and she would both have the right to inherit the position of Grand Bishop.

Of course, she could only count as the second in line.

With such irresistible terms, her status as the loser, and True Kiana in Bishop Otto's grasp, she naturally could not accept her defeat wholeheartedly.

She would get this humiliation back someday.

When that time came, she would take Otto's position as Grand Bishop, live in his house, play his games, sleep in his bed, and seduce his women... well, if he had any women.

"Since that is settled, then your rebellion ends here."

"Okay, Grandpa. Got it, Grandpa."

K422 shrugged. She was still holding both hands up in surrender anyway.

Otto probably had not expected her to be so straightforward. He even felt as though he could ask for a few more conditions.

"You should know that, from now on, my orders..."

"Absolute obedience. If you tell me to murder and set fires, I definitely won't go easy and save anyone. If you tell me to sneak around and steal chickens, I definitely won't climb walls to steal people!"

"..."

Hearing K422's response, Otto rubbed his head helplessly.

He clearly knew that K422 was deliberately being difficult.

For the precocious, proud K422, this defeat had certainly left her extremely unhappy.

Of course, K422 truly was unhappy.

But she was not only cursing Otto in her heart. She was also cursing Welt Yang fiercely.

After all, it was that man who had said True Kiana was hidden on the Floating Island by Bishop Otto.

Hidden, my ass!

Even if she turned the entire Floating Island upside down, she would never find her.

"Then, Grandpa, can I see Kiana?"

"Of course. That is what I promised. Before that, you need to return Black Abyss White Flower."

K422 then picked up Black Abyss White Flower and handed it to Otto.

But she also noticed that he was unwilling to come near her.

This was clearly a new ability she had gained after becoming a Valkyrie.

K422 also recalled how she had defeated Amber. Perhaps it was precisely because of this ability that she had beaten Amber so easily.

"I know you're curious. This is the anti-Honkai wave emitted by the Schariac Holy Blood within you. It will not affect your special constitution or the Honkai Energy you possess, but it can reduce the intensity of Honkai Energy within a ten-meter radius. In other words... enemies who possess Honkai Energy will lose at least more than half their combat strength before you."

What an absurdly biased anti-Honkai wave.

A perfect example of the principle that she was allowed to do it, but others were not.

Mm, she liked it.

At that thought, her eyes sparkled.

"My adorable little princess, anti-Honkai waves alone are not enough for you to defeat me, much less rescue the real Kiana from a Floating Battleship. You should know that most of the Valkyrie squads aboard are equipped with gunpowder weapons. Your ability only affects Honkai Energy."

"..."

So even if she charged onto the Floating Battleship, she would not have much chance of winning.

Tch.

"Your Holy Blood is currently in a continuously active state. I'll teach you how to control it and suppress the anti-Honkai wave."

After obtaining the new version of Holy Blood, how could Otto possibly not research it?

Unfortunately, the anti-Honkai wave was too powerful. It had even dispelled the Mimic Feather of Dust he used himself. Otherwise, he could have approached the First Herrscher and tested this secret weapon capable of killing Herrschers on him.

Of course, there would be opportunities in the future.

Like a Pufferfish, the More Inflated the Better

She was talented and learned quickly. Combined with Otto's research into Holy Blood, she soon mastered the method of calming her Holy Blood.

Afterward, Otto took her aboard that enormous Floating Battleship.

At the same time, the pursuit of Anti-Entropy's Floating Battleship had already begun.

However, due to the stubborn resistance of Anti-Entropy's Alliance Leader and Siegfried, they had failed to inflict much damage on Anti-Entropy's Floating Battleship.

She followed behind Otto and arrived at that laboratory.

Then she entered the circular corridor through another entrance to the laboratory.

Then she stopped in front of that sealed room.

She glanced at Otto. At this moment, his attention was clearly focused on the pursuit.

As for the remnants on the Floating Island, they had been almost completely wiped out by the Valkyrie squads. At the same time, the Valkyrie squads airdropped to the ground had begun destroying the enemy's tank units.

Before Valkyrie squads equipped with artificial Stigmata and Honkai Energy weapons,

the tanks' heavy armor had become nothing more than decoration.

The enemy fought back desperately, causing quite a few casualties as well.

Although the results of this operation were fairly good and several objectives he had initially set had been successfully achieved,

unfortunately, Anti-Entropy's Alliance Leader was too good at running, while World Serpent was too good at hiding.

But even if Anti-Entropy managed to escape this time, it would certainly suffer severe losses.

Thinking of this, Otto glanced at K422. Everything was within his plan.

Seeing that Otto had no intention of stopping her from meeting True Kiana, K422 understood clearly that once she saw True Kiana, she would have no choice but to submit to Otto in the future because True Kiana was in his hands.

Of course, even if she did not see True Kiana, Otto still had other ways to make her submit.

So she might as well see her.

She opened the door.

By now, Otto had already unlocked it.

The sealed room was furnished very ordinarily. Though it could not exactly be called girlish, it had all the furniture it should have.

Like most Valkyrie rooms, this room had its own bathroom, restroom, and changing room.

Even when she had confirmed the room's layout with True Kiana through their consciousness space, she had found no flaw in it at all.

K422 also understood why Otto had changed the layout of her room so many times.

On the surface, it was to prevent Aunt Theresa and the others from determining her location. In reality, it was to implant an impression of the room's layout into her mind.

True Kiana had always believed she was at Schicksal Headquarters.

But in reality, apart from the sealed space where she was being held, the circular corridor outside and the laboratory serving as the entrance and exit had all been arranged by Otto in the style of Schicksal Headquarters.

The moment K422 entered the room, she saw True Kiana curled up in the corner, hugging her legs and burying her face between her knees.

Small, helpless, lonely...

She truly wanted to rescue True Kiana from here.

But she could not rely on Siegfried or Welt.

On the way here, Otto had not concealed Anti-Entropy's current situation.

After all, this time he had deliberately released a delicious piece of bait: a clone with the Second Herrscher's core implanted in her body.

Welt would not abandon such a clone, and Siegfried would be even less willing to abandon a clone of his daughter.

And before Anti-Entropy discovered the signal device implanted in K423's body, Anti-Entropy's Floating Battleship, whose performance was far inferior to Schicksal's, had to bear the cost of attacking Schicksal.

Schicksal's counterattack had only just begun.

After learning of Otto's subsequent plans, K422 had no intention of spoiling his fun.

Even if he truly killed Siegfried and Welt, he would not actually kill K423, so she took it in stride.