"I can tell. Some people really don't follow your orders."
"After all, some people think my ideals are too outdated and detrimental to Anti-Entropy's development."
As the Alliance Leader, Welt had never really interfered with the organization's development. This was also related to Anti-Entropy's Executor system.
Just as Siegfried knew.
Anti-Entropy's Executors possessed considerable authority, and since each Executor acted independently, they generally did not interfere with one another's methods.
Welt's role was to supervise and keep things under control. But in order to protect this world, he had no choice but to search everywhere for solutions, recruit talent, and excavate ancient relics...
The division in Anti-Entropy's ideals was partly his responsibility as well.
After all, aside from the founding members, many Executors who joined Anti-Entropy held deep grudges against Bishop Otto. Most of them were scientists or soldiers who had suffered persecution from Schicksal.
Sometimes, compared to fighting against Honkai, they wanted even more to take revenge on Bishop Otto.
Most of Anti-Entropy's founding members were researchers. Even Emma Planck, the nominal head of Schicksal's North American Branch, was more of a scientist than an administrator.
After all, she had originally been a scientist under Schicksal.
Almost no one had experience managing an organization, much less the founding members, whose abilities were better suited to working independently.
The Executor system gave them enormous freedom, but it also became the cause of their internal ideological differences.
Welt could not claim that he was absolutely right either, so when the Radicals and Conservatives clashed, he could not favor the Conservatives.
That was also what Tesla and Einstein wanted.
Fortunately, the Conservatives currently held the upper hand.
Welt briefly explained Anti-Entropy's situation to Siegfried.
"So that's how it is. Still, the Conservatives' ideals are interesting. Eliminate Honkai without harming people themselves."
To Siegfried, the Radicals' ideas were rather similar to Otto's style of running Schicksal.
In fact, Otto's methods of managing Schicksal were very effective.
Even though many people, including Siegfried, could not stand them, they still could not deny that Otto had come up with useful solutions.
It was not as though no one had objected to Otto's methods, but Otto's answer was simple: come up with something better than Valkyries and artificial Stigmata.
If they really had objections, they could take a Honkai Energy weapon and fight Honkai Beasts themselves.
Faced with Otto's "if you can do it, then do it" argument, the opposition fell silent.
Whether they advocated human rights or morality, it was always Schicksal's Valkyries who remained active on the Honkai battlefield.
And Schicksal also had a complete compensation system.
Many Valkyries who retired from the battlefield and could no longer fight were assigned to Schicksal's welfare institutions, where they could still receive generous pensions.
"So what am I supposed to do?"
"Naturally, provide combat experience against Honkai Beasts. Anti-Entropy is far inferior to Schicksal in that regard."
Welt smiled bitterly.
It was not as though Anti-Entropy did not want to join the Honkai battlefield.
But the major Honkai battlefields were all fought by Schicksal's Valkyries.
The moment Anti-Entropy personnel appeared, the Valkyries would turn around after killing the Honkai Beasts and start attacking Anti-Entropy.
To this day, Anti-Entropy had only tested its mech forces on small battlefields in minor regions.
Moreover, Anti-Entropy did not possess the kind of black technology Schicksal had.
Welt had been greatly enlightened when he infiltrated Schicksal Headquarters. He had never expected that it could create tangible projections, or even perfectly reproduce a Honkai Beast's power.
That was why Schicksal's Valkyries had such abundant practical experience fighting Honkai Beasts.
"Oh, I get that. When I ran away from home before, I even beat Honkai Beasts with a baseball bat."
"..."
Hearing Siegfried's answer, Welt had the urge to cover his face.
He suddenly doubted whether recruiting Siegfried into Anti-Entropy had been the right choice.
"I mean Honkai Beasts' weaknesses."
"...Don't Honkai Beasts just die if you hit them a few times?"
"Mr. Siegfried, the Alliance Leader means that you should provide experience on how ordinary Valkyries fight Honkai Beasts. You once cleared Honkai Beasts alongside Schicksal's Valkyries, so you should know something about that. What we want is not the Kaslana Family's 'brute strength.'"
The man who spoke emphasized the words "brute strength."
"Raiden Ryoma, the Kaslana Family isn't just strong. We are warriors born to fight against Honkai."
"That's exactly why I'm saying the times have changed. You're now an Anti-Entropy Executor and a member of the Conservatives. The Conservatives do not advocate using people to fight Honkai Beasts. We use mechs, mechs. Have you forgotten the one you and Welt rode during the Second Eruption War?"
Raiden Ryoma said irritably.
He did not know why, but he simply found the man before him extremely unpleasant.
"Ryoma..."
"Alliance Leader, now that Mr. Siegfried is one of us, the Conservatives should decide for themselves how to cooperate with him."
Raiden Ryoma did not want to make things difficult for Welt either.
After all, recruiting Siegfried really was a good thing for Anti-Entropy.
Although Schicksal took all the credit for the Second Eruption War, everyone in Anti-Entropy knew that Siegfried had played a crucial role in that war.
Anti-Entropy had tried to recruit Siegfried after the Second Eruption War ended.
It had just failed at the time.
"Mechs... Alahato?!"
Siegfried suddenly became excited.
When he was a child, it was the robot anime funded by Anti-Entropy that had given him the courage to run away from home.
During the Second Eruption War, he and Welt had merely ridden that humanoid weapon to the moon, then ridden it back.
They had never used that humanoid weapon to fight Honkai Beasts or Herrschers.
Of course, with its performance at the time, it would probably have been blasted to pieces the instant it faced a Judgment-class Honkai Beast or the Second Herrscher.
"Can that thing fight Honkai Beasts now?"
Siegfried looked rather happy.
What man would dislike robots?
Especially gigantic humanoid robots with cockpits.
"...It's not impossible, but its output is still insufficient. Anti-Entropy's main mechs are currently standard Titan Mechs, along with the Humo Mechs used in this operation."
The so-called Humo Mechs were the Humo self-destruct robots that had emerged from another transport ship while Welt and Siegfried were retreating.
They looked exactly like the Humo mascot costume Siegfried had already taken off.
Honestly, they were quite useful.
Many Valkyries had been fooled by the appearance of the Humo self-destruct robots.
"The Titan Mechs have cockpits too."
Only men could understand other men's preferences.
Siegfried's eyes lit up, and he could hardly wait to pilot a Titan Mech and fight Honkai Beasts.
Tesla and Einstein also offered their opinions at this point. They hoped Siegfried would cooperate with their mech experiments, and after the experiments, they could let him pilot a Titan Mech around the base.
Naturally, Siegfried did not refuse.
"By the way, Siegfried, what do you plan to name the vessel containing the Second Herrscher's power?"
"Hm? You mean that child? Wouldn't Kiana Kaslana work?"
As soon as Siegfried finished speaking, the room fell silent.
Raiden Ryoma glared fiercely at Siegfried, while Tesla and Einstein could not help sighing.
"Siegfried, are you really going to call that child Kiana? Then what about your own daughter?"
"..."
Siegfried froze for a moment.
After all, his daughter did not seem to be dead.
She was simply still missing. What he had brought back from Schicksal Headquarters was a clone, and the little princess puppet Otto had put forward was also a clone.
Although Theresa had repeatedly insisted that his daughter was not dead, Siegfried still had not seen his daughter.
He did not know how to face the clone, nor had he ever considered what the clone should be called.
"How about calling her Sirin?"
Welt suggested.
This time, Siegfried raised an eyebrow.
"Even if she's a clone, she's still my daughter. Since when is it your place to decide my daughter's name? It's just a new name. It's not like I can't come up with one..."
Raiden Ryoma's and Tesla's reactions truly made Siegfried feel that giving the clone the name Kiana was inappropriate.
Regardless of whether his daughter was truly dead.
He should not give the clone the name Kiana either.
"I think Mei would be good." Raiden Ryoma felt it was time to show off his naming skills.
"Mei? Mei Kaslana? What kind of terrible name is that?"
Siegfried immediately rejected it.
Raiden Ryoma was angered by Siegfried's attitude and said unhappily, "Are you planning to let her run around outside with the Kaslana surname? Of course you need to give her a completely different name. Something like Raiden Mei, Raiden Miyuki, or Raiden Chihwa."
The Kaslana surname was rare. Raiden Ryoma had no idea what Siegfried meant by letting her openly run around with the Kaslana name.
"But I just think it sounds awful!"
Siegfried had objections too. What was this? Did they look down on his naming ability? He had not even started coming up with a new name yet.
"How about Frey Nicola?" Tesla joined in the fun as well.
Einstein, whose expression barely changed, tilted her head and joined this naming convention too. "I think Lise would be suitable."
Siegfried immediately glared at them.
Should Reconsider It
The small meeting Welt had convened at the dinner table turned into a naming convention.
Since they could not reach a consensus on the name, they still had not decided what to call the vessel containing the Second Herrscher's power.
After being opposed by everyone, Siegfried finally stalked away.
Well, he was just going to the bathroom.
And while there, he reflected on life for a while.
"...Come to think of it, are my naming skills really that bad?"
He had come up with more than a dozen new names, only for that bastard Raiden Ryoma to mock them all and for Tesla and Einstein to reject them.
Still, Raiden Ryoma had a point.
He was currently wanted, and Kaslana was not a common surname. If he let this clone daughter use the Kaslana surname, Schicksal would probably discover her very quickly.
But having his clone daughter take that bastard Raiden Ryoma's surname made Siegfried extremely unhappy. It felt as though some brat from the other man's family had gotten his hands on his daughter.
Of course, Siegfried did not know that Raiden Ryoma had only one daughter.
And because she had been kidnapped by a terrorist group three years ago, then suffered psychological trauma after being rescued, she was still recuperating at a private ME Company facility.
Raiden Ryoma did want to find a companion for his daughter. Perhaps it could help her regain her formerly cheerful personality.
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