Chapter 401: Just in Time (cont.)

"Stop hiding and get out here! We're evacuating! The faster, the better!"

"Evacuating?" The Valkyries did not understand what Penny meant. "Captain, do you mean we're abandoning this street?"

"Not just this street. We have to abandon the entire surrounding area!"

"Why, Captain?!"

"Yeah, Captain! We were clearly ready to fight those Honkai Beasts to the death!"

Penny gritted her teeth. "Because something big is coming! We don't have Valkyrie armor right now, so we can't fight it, understand?!"

"But even without Valkyrie armor, didn't we save them? Captain, you looked so impressive using your Stigmata just now. Can't you do it again? Here... I still have some small universal Honkai Energy crystals. Take them, Captain!"

At her words, the girls began searching themselves. Before long, they pulled out several dark-purple prismatic crystals—the low-radiation Honkai Energy crystals prepared for Valkyries.

Penny looked on the verge of tears. "I... I don't have time to explain! I wasn't the one who killed those Honkai Beasts just now! If we don't leave now, it'll be too late! Once that Honkai Emperor arrives, we'll all be wiped out, understand?!"

"Huh?"

Just then, a girl with short gray-gold hair suddenly pointed in a certain direction.

She raised her little head, tugged at the sleeve of the middle-aged woman beside her, and looked puzzledly toward the rooftop of a residential building. "Mom... what's that? Superman?"

Hearing this, everyone looked up.

In midair, a man stood silently floating with a greatsword resting on his shoulder.

The middle-aged woman rubbed her eyes in disbelief. After a pause, she asked her daughter, "Rita, what did you see?"

Rita blinked her watery eyes. "I saw... a big brother holding a sword."

On the other side, the Valkyrie squad members were no better off.

One girl took off her glasses, wiped