I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

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Ren and Yae Sakura both realized what was happening. Ren raised her hand, grabbed the two Valkyries, and jumped onto a nearby building.

A figure suddenly appeared and took the two girls from Lian's hands.

"Eh? Master?"

Gilles, clad in crimson dragon armor, nodded, and a voice came from beneath his visor, "Go and deal with that pseudo-Herrscher who uses vines. Your mission is now over—I'll handle the negotiations with Yae Sakura later."

"Okay... I understand!" Lian nodded vigorously to show that she understood.

……

"Bang!" A muffled gunshot rang out as the Water Sprite II bullet struck a Honkai Beast, penetrating directly into the body of a Knight-class Honkai Beast, causing it to let out a painful howl.

At that moment, a figure, like a ghost, passed through the Honkai Beast's body in an instant. A thin line suddenly appeared on the Honkai Beast's body, and then the Honkai Beast's body shattered into two pieces without warning!

"Kusanagi-kun is really amazing," Annie exclaimed. "That speed is terrifying."

"It's alright." Kusanagi kicked aside the corpse of a Charge-class Honkai Beast. "Our mission is almost complete... Wait... what's that?"

Kusanagi pointed in a certain direction.

Anne and Lucia looked over and saw a large, dark blue, iron lump that didn't look like a natural creation hovering there.

“…Anti-Entropy’s mechs…” Annie murmured the name of the huge thing, “…it’s a model of the Titan mechs…”

"Oh? Anti-entropy..." Kusanagi nodded, and at the same time, he took out a small notebook from somewhere and wrote down the name of this thing.

"Hey? Look, that mech has turned its head around," Lucia suddenly said.

"Thump thump thump thump thump thump thump—" Accompanied by the earth-shaking noise, the Titan mechs launched a direct charge.

"—It's charging at me! Aaaaaaah!" Annie's face instantly contorted in horror. "Emergency evasive maneuver!"

"It's alright, that thing might be friendly..." Kusanagi waved his hand, and then at that moment, the Titan mech carried Kusanagi and crashed into the wall with a "boom!"

Chapter 112 Kusanagi Gakuen, the Target

"..." Annie and Lucia looked in the direction of Kusanagi, who had been smashed into the wall by the Titan's terrifying impact, and both panicked.

"Kusanagi-kun, don't you know... Anti-Entropy and our Destiny have always been mortal enemies?" Annie looked at the Titan mech slowly retreating, somewhat bewildered.

Anti-Entropy is one of the world's organizations fighting against the "Honkai." It was established in 1955 and was formerly known as the North American branch of Schicksal.

In 1955, Otto Apocalypse, the Archbishop of Schicksal, launched a Honkai Fission Missile at New York. While injured, Welt Joyce activated the Herrscher Core, which existed in the form of his DNA, and forcibly used the principle of "Star of Eden" to create a Honkai energy shield strong enough to protect the entire city. Because the output power exceeded his limit, the wounds caused by the mimic Judas worsened, and he ultimately sacrificed himself.

Welt Joyce's sacrifice also led to a formal break between the North American branch and headquarters. After that, Planck, Einstein, Tesla and others established the Anti-Honkai Organization based on Welt Joyce's sacrifice, with Welt as its symbol. Welt Yang (Joachim Nokian Vitanen), who inherited the power of the First Herrscher, disguised himself as Welt Joyce and served as the leader of the organization.

During the Second Honkai Impact, Gil also briefly teamed up with Welt Yang, and he is currently teaching at St. Freya Academy.

Looking at it this closely, this Far East branch is really something else.

The headmaster is an android made from the genes of Honkai Beasts and Kallen, along with the first and third Herrschers, the Saintess of Anti-Entropy, and a certain teacher who can end a Honkai event single-handedly...

It's a veritable den of iniquity; anyone who tries to invade will likely end up standing up...

Whether or not they can get out depends entirely on the mood of these big shots inside, okay?

“Maybe… Teacher Jill hasn’t told him yet?” Lucia held up the Water Sprite II. “Watch out, that Titan mech is coming!”

"Damn it..."

A deep, angry voice rang out.

Kusanagi emerged from the massive hole created by the Titan, his eyes filled with a violent killing intent.

His Demon Eye Kill was shattered.

In that instant, his eyes turned a deathly, icy blue, and his world, which had been a complete entity, became a fragmented one, stitched together by countless lines.

"You actually ruined the gift the king gave me... Unforgivable... Die!"

In an instant, Kusanagi drew the short sword hidden in his sleeve, unleashing the "Soul Flash - Ten Lives".

"boom!!"

Using the technique of "Magic Release," Kusanagi transformed into a shooting star, directly confronting the Titan mech head-on. Then, to Lucia and Annie's utter shock, countless flashes of blade light appeared.

"Click..." With the sound of the short sword and Mikazuki Munechika simultaneously returning to their sheaths, the Titan mech finally changed.

zizi...

Those were electrical sparks, caused by a leak of electricity due to the wiring inside the mech's joints being severed.

Click... Tap...

It was a small part that had come out of its proper place.

Then, it was as if the earth had collapsed and split open.

The Titan armor is like a mountain, with its parts and iron blocks like stones, covered in countless marks.

Then, amidst Kusanagi's nonchalant demeanor and the horrified gazes of the other two observers on the sidelines, the Titan mech shattered into countless fragments and fell to the ground.

"Phew, I feel much better... Uh, why are you guys so far away from me?" Kusanagi's icy blue eyes disappeared. Although the Mystic Eyes Kill was damaged, Kusanagi's control over the Mystic Eyes had improved a lot after training, so he wouldn't lose control like before.

The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are incredibly powerful, though they also have limitations—or rather, there is nothing perfect in this world, whether it's magic, sorcery, mystery, or physics, nothing is perfect.

“No, just to confirm, this is only the second time we’ve seen something that can defeat a Titan mech on its own…” Lucia hid behind Annie.

"...The first one?" Kusanagi asked, somewhat intrigued.

"It's the class monitor."

Fu Hua... Although she has several rather obvious dead lines, Kusanagi can see that Fu Hua has very few "dead lines" at the level of "concept" - or rather, almost none.

In other words, Kusanagi is not yet a match for his opponent.

Even though the opponent was extremely weak, according to what their king said—

That was the guardian deity of China, who single-handedly defeated the expeditionary force of Destiny, including the saintess of Destiny, Kallen Kaslana, five hundred years ago!

If the opponent were at their peak, Kusanagi would probably be defeated in just a few rounds.

Because, after all, it is the guardian deity of China.

"Ah, what is this..." Kusanagi suddenly noticed something strange inside the pile of Titan mechs that had been chopped into parts.

It was a peculiar three-dimensional cube that emitted a purple light.

“…Honkai energy fragments…” Kusanagi picked up the fragments, put them in a container, and then Annie revealed what they were.

That was a part that decomposed from the Honkai core after the high concentration of Honkai energy condensed.

"Oh, okay, then take it with you." Kusanagi nodded.

At that moment, Kusanagi suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble.

It seems that Kusanagi wasn't the only one who felt such a noticeable tremor; Anne and Lucia also noticed the movement at the same time.

Kusanagi frowned, and then the three of them noticed at the same time—

They were surrounded by the entropy-reversing mechs.

"Tch, so you've got your eye on me." Kusanagi slowly drew his short sword. "Annie, Lucia, if anything happens—run! Go find W... the teacher, he'll be here soon."

"Are you kidding me? We're classmates, you know!" Annie immediately turned around, her back to Kusanagi.

"Complete the mission while preserving your life—that's exactly what the teacher said, you know?"

Lucia and Annie stood back to back, looking around at the mechs.

"..." Kusanagi was a little touched. He raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Then I will not let you down."

"One strike... wipe them all out, right...?"

Kusanagi's eyes turned cold. "Although I remember my teacher saying that the leader of Anti-Entropy had a relationship with him, this isn't the time to use that relationship."

Even if you have a relationship with them, it doesn't mean you can just lay a hand on St. Freya's students...

Moreover, the interior of reverse entropy is not a monolithic entity.

"Soul Flash - Annihilation of All Directions"

With the swordsman's whisper, the slaughter began.

Chapter 113 is only this level; don't overestimate yourself.

"Crack—" With that sound, a bright green vine was severed by the black magic sword.

“These vines…and there’s a strange energy source…” Lian frowned, looking at the source of the vines.

That appears to be an academy.

"..." Ren glanced around, but Yae Sakura was nowhere to be seen, and he didn't know where she had gone.

Jill returned to the Hyperion with the two Valkyries, needing to provide them with emergency treatment immediately.

"Hmph, shall I just go in alone..." Lian stared at the academy for a while, and finally took a step forward.

As if the lotus's movement had triggered some switch, the vines suddenly rushed towards the lotus like madmen.

“…Ah, it’s really obvious.” Lian gripped the demonic sword that pierced through reality tightly in her left hand. “Isn’t it just blatantly telling me that the guy who controls the vines is inside?”

"Bang!" The ground shattered instantly, and Lian's figure rushed towards the academy gate like a storm!

What level of opponent is it?

Are they mutated Honkai Beasts or suicide soldiers?

It's impossible for a Herrscher... but considering another possibility...

The possibility is not low!

That possibility is—

"A pseudo-Herrscher!?"

Under Jill's relentless onslaught of knowledge, Lian Du, who was only half a generation old, was already able to rank in the top 30 in the grade-level exams, so it was impossible for her not to know about the existence of pseudo-Herrschers.

They are beings of higher status than the Herrschers, and are also humans who have been modified by Honkai energy and endowed with powerful abilities.