"I'm Muryōtō Ryūsuke. And you, miss?"
With a hint of formality, Muryōtō Ryūsuke introduced himself to Himeko.
"What? Muryōtō Ryūsuke?!"
Himeko's eyes flew wide open at his words.
She had never expected the person before her to be Muryōtō Ryūsuke.
Who was Muryōtō Ryūsuke?
He was Himeko's father.
Although he had basically never appeared in Honkai Impact 3rd, Himeko had revealed information about her father.
Muryōtō Himeko's father... Muryōtō Ryūsuke was a senior scientist at the Third Artificial Life Evolution Research Institute, a secret Honkai research institution under the Heavenly Mandate Organization.
At first, Himeko had always admired her father and dreamed of following in his footsteps to become a great scientist. Even when Himeko was nineteen, having just earned her doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, she had come one step closer to following him.
Yet it was at that very time that she lost her father—and everything else—to Honkai once again. Moreover, Muryōtō Himeko had not known then that her mother had died from Honkai, believing it to have been an illness.
Then, without any warning, her father died under mysterious circumstances.
So, in order to investigate the truth behind her father Muryōtō Ryūsuke's mysterious death, Himeko underwent Heavenly Mandate's artificial Stigmata enhancement surgery and joined the Valkyrie forces.
Chapter 6: I Can Sleep with My Daughter
Himeko had never imagined that she would run into "Himeko's" father like this.
So Ai-chan had dropped her near Little Himeko's home. That was why such a coincidence had happened. Looks like Ai-chan was fairly reliable after all.
Now that she had found Muryōtō Ryūsuke, Little Himeko could not be far away. She would soon get to see her fifteen-year-old "self"!
"You know me?"
Seeing Himeko's huge reaction upon hearing his name, Muryōtō Ryūsuke immediately grew curious.
"If I told