I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

Gil shrugged and then casually answered the girl's question.

Although, Jill's ultimate goal in this world is to destroy the Honkai.

However, eliminating the Honkai is not something that can be done overnight.

Currently, only three Heralds have appeared in this era.

The Law of Reason—Walter.

Sirin, the Herrscher of the Void.

Herrscher of Thunder - Raiden Mei.

Incidentally, Welt is now considered to be on the human side. Sirin is dead, and Raiden Mei, in order to prevent the power of the Herrscher from harming her friends, voluntarily implanted a bomb in her heart that would explode if the Honkai energy exceeded a certain limit.

Three Herrschers and two traitors, even the Honkai is having a tough time.

“Speaking of which, Fu Hua, we first met three years ago, right?” Jill, who was walking ahead, suddenly spoke up.

“…No, more than two and a half years.” Fu Hua paused for a moment before replying.

"More than two and a half years... Haha, I can't even remember the exact time..." Jill rubbed her head. "Could it be a side effect of working overtime and staying up all night..."

Fu Hua, who was following not far behind Jill, had her pupils contract slightly.

In that instant, Fu Hua seemed to see Jill's blond hair, with part of the top of her head turning white.

Feeling like she was seeing things, Fu Hua rubbed her eyes and took a closer look—

The hair in that area was still blonde.

"what happened?"

Perhaps sensing the unusual look in Fu Hua's eyes, Jill turned around and glanced at Fu Hua.

“…No, maybe I just saw it wrong,” Fu Hua said.

Although it was a bit strange, Fu Hua instinctively felt that it wasn't a bad thing, so she didn't say anything.

"Alright, but Fu Hua, this mission, you'll be leading a squadron. Will that put too much strain on your body?"

Jill's words brought Fu Hua back to her senses and made her pause for a moment.

"It should be fine, after all, as long as it's not a very strong Honkai Beast..." Fu Hua said, "it should be fine."

"That's good." Jill nodded, then, as if she had thought of something, raised her hand and groped around in a golden ripple in front of her, searching for something.

"Ah, I found it." Jill felt around and found a bottle.

"Although this kind of thing is useless to me, it might be able to save you once if it's for you."

Jill handed the bottle to Fu Hua.

Inside was a strangely shaped feather, red and white with a red tip and white overall, which looked quite beautiful.

“On Mount Fajiu, there are many mulberry trees. There is a bird there, which looks like a crow, with a patterned head, a white beak, and red feet. It is called ‘Jingwei.’ Its cry is like a wailing sound.” Jill recited this passage. “It comes from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. This feather is a feather of the Jingwei bird—why are you looking at me like that?”

"...Teacher, this feather..."

“I’m just wondering why you see this feather and it’s like you’re seeing yourself with your hair pulled out…” Jill stroked her chin and replied.

"..." No, this is not an illusion... If I didn't remember that I am not a bird, this thing might really have been plucked from me.

“Jingwei’s Feather is the Noble Phantasm of the Heroic Spirit named Nüwa—” Gilles placed the bottle into the girl’s hand. “It can heal all your injuries and unleash your full power.” Gilles slowly closed the girl’s fingers and gripped the bottle tightly. “Just don’t use this thing lightly until the very end.”

"Teacher Jill?"

"This is just a protective tool that a teacher gives to their students to protect themselves. You're welcome."

"No, Ms. Jill, the chains on your arms are really nice."

"..."

PS: The author will be participating in intensive training from the 21st to the 28th, so updates will be unstable. Updates will resume on the 29th. Thank you for your understanding.

Chapter 104 Give me half of what you're carrying...

“…” Jill fell silent upon hearing Fu Hua’s words.

Then he was instantly wrapped up by the chain and hoisted up.

"Awoooooo! Enkidu, what are you doing!?" Gil asked the owner of the chains.

“You haven’t done anything. Come back with me. You haven’t rested for three days. Are you trying to work yourself to death?!” Enkidu asked, pulling Gil, who was tied up like a caterpillar.

"It's just three days without sleep! I was..."

Just as Gil was about to tell Enkidu about working overtime without sleep for a month, he was given anesthesia (physical) and his face slammed into the floor.

Fu Hua, unaware of what had happened, was currently holding a bottle containing Jingwei's feathers, wearing a blank expression.

"Ah...you must be Fu Hua, I'm Enkidu." Enkidu immediately hoisted Gil onto his shoulder. "I just dragged my silly best friend away to rest—by the way, do you know how many times he's had this experience before?"

"Do you mean working crazy overtime...? There have been about a dozen times in the past year or so?"

Fu Hua responded obediently, maintaining a 0v0 status.

The opponent could knock Jill unconscious in one go; in some ways, the opponent is definitely stronger than Jill...

Ms. Jill can finally get some rest?

Honestly, watching Jill working overtime for so long makes my liver hurt.

Especially a design group drawing from over a year ago, this person was chatting and laughing with these students in class, and then working overtime like crazy to design it after class.

It lasted for a week.

Incidentally, after Jill showed the Hyperion's design to her, she tore up a quarter of the blueprints and fixed a quarter of the flaws herself, improving the Hyperion's performance by about 20%...

In short, the workaholic is terrifying.

“…I understand.” Enkidu’s eye twitched. “I will make sure he gets plenty of rest.”

……

After watching Jill being carried away as if she were a garbage bag, Fu Hua finally turned her attention to the bottle in her hand.

The bottle wasn't glass, but it was transparent, and the white and red feathers inside made Fu Hua feel as if her own feathers had been plucked.

“Jingwei… Zhiyu… Teacher, you already knew…” Fu Hua stroked the bottle in her hand and said in a low voice, “As expected, nothing can be kept from you, Teacher.”

In her memory, although that teacher was a workaholic, Fu Hua only had a nodding acquaintance with him when they met in China two years ago.

"Why would they give me this? Did I give myself away...?" Fu Hua murmured to herself, stroking the bottle in her hand.

However, no one could answer her questions.

……

Enkidu took Jill back to the dormitory and threw Jill onto the bed.

"...Why are you suddenly working so hard?" Enkidu propped his chin up, looking at Gil's sleeping face on the bed. "Those things are much easier to deal with than the things in Uruk."

Clearly... one doesn't have to do everything personally.

Enkidu stood up and saw a peculiar book on Gil's bookshelf.

“…A diary?” Enkidu hesitated for a moment, but still didn’t touch it.

Even though it belongs to Jill, it's still wrong to peek at it.

But if he's willing to work overtime, then let him do what makes him happy.

Anyway, all I need to do is keep an eye on him and make sure he sleeps well.

If they won't sleep well, we'll give them medication! If that doesn't work, we'll use anesthesia (physical)!

But... why is that...?

"Ugh...it hurts so much! Couldn't you have been a little gentler..." Jill suddenly sat up. "It hurts so much!"

Enkidu saw Gil get up and was just about to ask him about his overtime work.

"Jill...you said before that you came to this world to rest, so why do I feel like you're becoming more and more of a workaholic?"

Enkidu, seeing Gilles' somewhat stunned expression, waved his hand in front of him. "Gil?"

“Ah… this.” Gilles paused for a moment. “Enkidu, do you know where these Valkyries came from?”

“Otto once said that,” Enkidu nodded, “that implanting artificial Stigmata would not only increase their resistance to Honkai energy but also grant them some control over it…”

“But the experimental results obtained through blood, tears, and screams will drastically shorten the lifespan of those girls…” Jill’s eyes darkened, and she continued, “Many students here are like that, including my first batch of students.”

“My first batch of students in this world…” Gil pursed his lips, “They were the same batch of children as Sirin. I was unable to save Sirin before she became a Herrscher, so I had to kill her. The remaining children were adopted by St. Freya Academy, which Theresa and I founded.”

“But…” Jill gritted her teeth, “I have a jar of solution, which I exchanged for the template back then… but it’s useless… Honkai energy is different from Gastrea’s factors…”

“I can’t repair the damaged bodies of those children…” Jill gritted her teeth, “and…”

Jill saw a scene from about eight years ago in this world.

……

"Teacher... kill me..."

"No, it's not the last moment yet. I will definitely save you!"

"Teacher...I'm sorry...You clearly said...to cherish life..."

Finally, before Jill could react...

He plunged a tactical saber into his heart...

Blood splattered on Jill's face.

……

“That child… I could have easily stopped that assassin… but she insisted on taking the hit for me—”

Jill gripped her hair tightly, her voice filled with regret and a hint of guilt, "The result... the Honkai energy erosion rate was too high... in her last moments before becoming a suicide soldier..."

"He committed suicide in front of me."

“I could have saved her,” Jill whispered. “I, I could have.”

Gil's words left Enkidu silent for a long time.