I Refuse to Be a Valkyrie!

"W-What?"

"She has the strength to contend with a God Slayer?"

Hearing Phoenix's words, Erica and Liliana looked at the young girl beside them, who looked no different from an ordinary little girl and was constantly eating chocolate.

She actually had the strength to contend with a God Slayer?

It felt like Phoenix was joking. Both of them wore expressions of utter disbelief.

"As for God Slayers, other than Sister Chiling, I haven't seen any, so I don't know. But I'm not Sister Chiling's opponent." Hiyoumaru opened another box of chocolate and, seeing the astonished expressions on Liliana and Erica's faces, gave an adorably innocent reply.

Hearing Hiyoumaru's words, Liliana and Erica immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed she was still inferior to a God Slayer—but Hiyoumaru's next sentence shocked them all over again.

"But the Heretic Gods you mentioned—for example, that angel Sister Chiling killed last time—I should be able to deal with him too." In an extremely casual tone, Hiyoumaru said something that Erica and Liliana almost failed to process.

She could deal with Michael? She could defeat a Heretic God?

Ordinary people and magicians had absolutely no ability to resist before Heretic Gods and God Slayers. That had been proven through bloody lessons.

And now, a little girl was telling them that she possessed the strength to defeat a Heretic God?

"Hiyoumaru isn't human. She's a Herrscher. You can think of her as a different kind of deity... Hmm, perhaps it would be more accurate to call her a demon god. She possesses divine-like authorities and power. However... she is not a Heretic God."

Seeing the disbelief on the faces of the two young knight girls, Phoenix offered an explanation.

Herrschers and Heretic Gods did share some similarities.

These Heretic Gods were also a manifestation