At this point, Princess could not help adopting a mocking tone before continuing, "Yet what awaited them was... countless young girls, still in the bloom of youth, being sent straight into this laboratory. Here... they were locked away in prison cells and subjected to long, terrifying human experiments."
"One living girl after another, girls who had only just begun to grow up, became medical consumables for Schicksal to test the fusion of Honkai energy and the human body. They were mercilessly used up. When they held onto a sliver of hope, wishing that Schicksal's medical technology could cure their pain, they never imagined... that what awaited them would be containment pods and Honkai energy injection experiments even more painful than their illnesses."
"Do you Valkyries have the right to accept their gratitude?"
Holding several of the girls, Himeko raised her head and looked at the... Theresa before her. Well... that Patrick had been an undercover agent from the start.
"I-I'm sorry, I... I didn't know about this, I..."
Under Himeko's gaze, Theresa did not know how to respond. She truly knew nothing about these matters and had never imagined that Schicksal was doing such things behind the scenes.
Chapter 38: Sirin in the Shadows
"Test subjects... no wonder they were covered in bandages and wounds. But why was there absolutely no mention of them in the mission files...?"
Theresa looked at the girls before her with concern, sympathy, and even a hint of self-reproach. Not for anything else, but for not saving them sooner.
"Every year, Schicksal secretly recruits thousands of test subjects like them. Most of them are orphans. No one cares whether they live or die."
Patrick stood to one side. Unlike Theresa... she knew about most of the things Schicksal did in secret. But this had long