Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

"That means being dragged away by Lady Bianca and lectured for a whole day... until she genuinely admits her mistakes..."

"So, my older sister is the kind of Valkyrie who's good at giving lectures... She seems a lot like the class president."

Kiana seemed to have found a similar person among the people she knew... however, rationally speaking, the two weren't that alike...

"Well, Lady Bianca isn't really good at lecturing... She's different from Lady Fu Hua; she can't spout any grand principles... At headquarters, Lady Bianca is known as a Valkyrie for her straightforwardness, which makes her very easy to fool..."

"She sounds like a very rigid, strict, and serious person," Kiana nodded.

"So, it's actually quite easy to get away from Lady Bianca's lecture..."

Rita gave a somewhat awkward smile...

"It sounds like Miss Rita herself has been lying before..."

"Ahem, excuse me."

The Valkyrie with short, grey-gold hair coughed awkwardly to cover it up.

"Does my sister have any hobbies or goals...? I saw my future sister in the dream Snow showed me... well, how should I put it... she didn't seem to have any worldly desires?"

Kiana scratched her head, somewhat puzzled, waiting for the maid in front of her to provide an explanation...

"No worldly desires...? Well, it's not really a problem for Miss Kiana to say that."

Rita nodded in agreement with the white-haired girl's assessment, and then began to explain.

"—Lady Bianca's hobbies are quite unique... I guess the scenes Lord Snow showed you were mostly of him fighting Lady Bianca, right?"

Kiana nodded, and Rita, having received the answer, continued her explanation.

"Lady Bianca's goal is very simple: to become stronger, to become the true 'strongest,' and she is even willing to pay any price for it... She wants to do her best in everything she does... She is a very strong-willed Valkyrie."

"As for hobbies... Miss Kiana, you like cats, have you ever owned a cat?"

Rita posed a question to the girl.

"Cats? Emmmm....I do like cats, but raising them is really troublesome...Sometimes cats get angry for no reason, they are such difficult little masters to please...I only feed the cats on the street when I see them—hmm, I really don't know why Ningdi is so popular with the cats in the academy."

"Oh, by the way—Rita, you mean your older sister likes cats? And that she used to own one?"

Kiana snapped out of her daze and looked at Rita.

"Yes, Lady Bianca adopted a... uh..."

Rita suddenly stopped speaking; the perfect maid didn't know how to describe her pet cat.

"...a what?"

The girl's curiosity was immediately piqued as she watched Rita suddenly get stuck.

"Hmm... a cat that can transform into a Honkai Beast and understand human speech?"

Rita pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with a suitable adjective. She could only briefly describe the pet's unique characteristics.

"A...cat that can transform into a Honkai Beast? My sister's hobbies are certainly unique..."

Kiana's lips twitched.

"Hmm, Rita thinks Kiana's pet is about the same..."

The maid looked at the white-haired girl in front of her with a mocking smile.

"My pet?"

Kiana looked confused, seemingly not yet realizing what the maid in front of her was referring to, until Bella, who had been sitting to the side for a long time, roared.

"Hey! Human, who are you calling a pet! I am Her Majesty the Queen's most loyal servant!"

The little doll Bella's pale blue eyes blazed with fury as she glared at the maid before her, as if she wanted to devour her alive.

"Bella!"

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty!"

Bella quickly admitted her mistake, while Kiana gave Rita an apologetic look. Rita shook her head, indicating that she didn't care.

Having gained Rita's forgiveness, Kiana turned her attention back to Bella—

"Bella, please don't call me 'Your Majesty' anymore... just behave yourself at the academy."

“But…the Queen is the Queen…” Bella scratched the horns on her head, somewhat confused.

"No buts—"

Chapter 102 Miss Wuni is working overtime

Bella and Kiana's argument ended with Rita's intervention. Bella, who stubbornly addressed Kiana as "Your Majesty," eventually relented under her master's insistence and the gentle persuasion of the maid, then presented the two with another difficult problem—

"Then what should I call Your Majesty from now on?" Bella asked dejectedly, expressing her confusion.

Kiana and Rita looked at each other in bewilderment.

After a long silence, Rita seemed to have thought of something...

"Hmm... Miss Bella considers herself Miss Kiana's servant, right...?"

The maid looked at Bella, who was floating in the air and seemed a little troubled, while the doll girl nodded seriously.

"Well... how about I just call you Lady Kiana, and—come and intern with Rita these next few days..." The maid seemed to have come up with a brilliant idea, and her smile grew even brighter.

"....practice?"

Bella felt increasingly uneasy seeing Rita's radiant smile and seemed about to turn and run away, but Kiana caught her in the act.

"That's right! Come and learn from Rita how to become a qualified maid. It only takes three days!"

Rita offered a suggestion that Bella might not be interested in, but which Kiana found incredibly appealing. The white-haired girl nodded quickly in agreement:

"Then I'll leave it to you, Rita. Bella will be in your care for the next few days! Bella, you have to listen to Rita, okay?"

Kiana ruffled Bella's hair, which made her look a little dejected, and smiled at the gray-blue doll girl, instantly filling Bella with enthusiasm.

"No problem, Your Majesty, leave it to me!" Kiana gazed at Bella with tenderness, as if she had received some great mission, and flew to Rita's side with a death-defying spirit.

"Hmph! Human, I'm not afraid of you! Bring it on!"

Despite her sharp tongue, Bella eventually stayed by Rita's side, facing what might be an incredibly bleak three days for her.

Seeing Bella's resolute expression, Rita's perfectly smiling face twitched slightly.

“Miss Bella, what you need to learn is how to provide the best service to your master as a maid—matching the master's clothes, managing time and affairs, arranging meals and parties, and most importantly, the maid's appearance and demeanor.”

"Although three days is a short time, I think Miss Bella should be able to learn a lot... This way, you can help Miss Kiana with some of the work."

Rita smiled at the doll-like girl who had flown to her side, and Bella nodded after a brief moment of thought.

"Well... since it's for Her Majesty the Queen, we have no choice but to do our duty!"

Bella clenched her fist, gave herself a thumbs-up, and looked at the short, grey-blonde-haired woman in front of her.

"Human...no...Miss Rita, please guide me!"

"You're really motivated." Kiana nodded with satisfaction as she looked at Bella, who had suddenly become so enthusiastic.

The young girl, seemingly unaware of the hardships she would face in the future if Rita were to educate Bella in the same way she served Bianca...

"So... if Miss Kiana has nothing else to do, Rita will take Miss Bella to study?"

Rita glanced at Kiana, who seemed to be about to leave.

"Um... I have one last question, Rita? I'm not sure if it's convenient for you to tell me?"

Kiana gave a curious look.

"Please feel free to ask, and I will answer as appropriate."

"You mean... well, S-rank Valkyries must be pretty free most of the time, right? It seems like you're only deployed for big missions, since you're considered ace-level characters."

Kiana looked on with a hint of curiosity.

"No, that's not true. According to Schicksal's records, the Valkyries of all generations who are rated as S-rank, aside from certain unavoidable factors, actually have a higher attendance rate than the A-rank and B-rank Valkyries of various branches, because the various branches sometimes request support from headquarters."

"And Lady Bianca is also an exceptionally diligent person... She often takes on many missions on her own initiative."

Rita shook her head, denying Kiana's conjecture.

"Actually, the daily routine of an S-rank Valkyrie is pretty much the same as that of an A-rank or B-rank Valkyrie."

"Why does it sound like my sister is perfect for being a corporate slave, the 996 kind..."

Kiana pursed her lips, waved to Rita, and said goodbye.

"Then I have no further questions. Goodbye, Rita!"

"Take care, Miss Kiana."

--

Kiana's affairs were now settled, and a little raven, having flown a long distance, arrived at her destination that night: Schicksal's New Zealand branch.

"Green Seele... let me find Green Seele, ptooey, ptooey, what Green Seele? Where's Wendy..."

Wu Ni shook her little head and began searching the dormitory of the Destiny Branch.

...

The young girl has been tormented by a recurring dream every night, in which a voice whispers seductively at her.

—As long as she accepts the true power of the gem on her thigh and follows her inner desires, she will no longer be a useless person confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. She can once again walk freely on the earth and even fulfill her past dream—to become an S-class Valkyrie.

But the girl knew whose voice it was. It was the corruption of Honkai, which was often mentioned in Valkyrie training. It could manifest directly as the transformation of the body into a dead servant, or it could be this bewitching, mysterious voice.

【Today, I will not yield to your Honkai!】

With that thought in mind, the girl drifted into a deep sleep in her wheelchair, while Wuni, who had been searching outside the window, finally found her target.

A black raven flew into the girl's room, gently landed on the floor, and then transformed into a silver-haired girl with red eyes, wearing a black feathered robe.

...

"Greetings... Miss Wendy."

“I am His second apostle, the sovereign of Memory—Memory, and now... sweet dreams, future fourth apostle—the Unbound Poem.”

The beautiful silver-haired, red-eyed girl bowed slightly to the green-haired Valkyrie sleeping peacefully in her wheelchair, then placed her cool little hand on the furrowed brow of the sleeping girl in front of her.