Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

Wendy could only glean this one meaning from the silver-haired girl's eyes.

"The little guy's grown up... Sigh, birds are hard to raise these days..."

The golden-haired god shook his head and looked at Wendy.

"Whatever your thoughts... those are just your thoughts... sometimes you can't refuse the gifts the gods bestow..."

The god before them grinned wickedly and pointed a finger at the green-haired Valkyrie's forehead.

"Hey! Wait a minute, this is practically forcing you to buy!"

The green-haired Valkyrie protested loudly...

"Heh... I respect your choice, but I will still give you this gift. However—whether to open it, when to open it, and why to open it will be up to you..."

The blonde girl looked on with a smile.

"Those are wings—wings that allow you to fly like a bird to the highest heavens...that is freedom from the constraints of the mortal world."

"Ah, there's one more thing—I'm not a Honkai consciousness. My fellow seatmate wouldn't chatter with his apostle or mortal for so long. He's a riddle person."

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"Then let's leave it at that..."

Snow paused, as if remembering something, and stopped his actions of sending Wendy away.

"I don't know why Wuni is angry with you... but remember to apologize to her after you leave—"

"Hmm... what if I don't apologize...?"

The green-haired girl asked tentatively, seemingly wanting to spread her wings like a roc on the verge of disaster.

"She's right next to you right now... ah, I mean your real body... um, it looks like she's drawing a turtle on your face with an oil-based marker... and while she's also frantically eating your snacks?"

"Uh, hurry up and get me out of here..."

Wendy got a little anxious when she heard a silver-haired bird scribbling all over her face and wanted to rush out and fight her to the death.

"...You still can't beat her even if you go back, can you? Just because you can jump around in my divine kingdom doesn't mean you can jump around in the main world..."

The golden-haired god glanced at the Valkyrie before him with amusement, as if hinting at something.

"You're really trying to tempt me to accept the power of Honkai, and then use that to trigger the Great Honkai!"

Wendy had a look on her face that said, "I've seen through your trick."

"You think too much, little guy. Only the birth of a Honkai Apostle will trigger the Great Honkai..."

"And you're not far from that point... No matter how much you fight against that voice and will in your head, the fact remains that the Honkai energy concentration in New Zealand is gradually increasing..."

"And the Honkai energy reserves in a region have a threshold... You know this better than I do. When those reserves reach the threshold, it's not a matter of whether you want to become a Herrscher or not... You'll be forced into the Herrscher's robes, whether you want to or not—"

"And the threshold for New Zealand is about to hit rock bottom..."

The blonde girl revealed a truth that Wendy found unacceptable.

"Why me?! I just want to save more lives and protect more people! Why me of all people?! I don't want to be an enemy of civilization, and I don't want to fight against the people I once protected!"

The young green-haired girl had endured eternal pain in the past because of her duty as a Valkyrie to save more people with her own life, but she also developed a hatred for fate. After three years of fermentation, the pent-up emotions were finally released when Snow told the girl the irreversible reality.

"Oh..."

Snow shook his head, sighed, and looked at the girl in front of him whose emotions were beginning to break down.

"If you accept the power of the Herrscher in a semi-passive way... or involuntarily accept the power of the Herrscher—a Herrscher personality will also be born, which will gradually replace your original personality and become a true enemy that destroys civilization."

"...Is this why you brought me here? You want me to willingly accept the power of a Herrscher?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? From the very beginning of this era, there has only been one Herrscher who actively accepted the power of the Herrscher—the Second Herrscher, Sirin. This only means one thing: this personality itself already hates civilization and humanity to the extreme, so naturally it doesn't need a new personality to fight for control of the body."

Snow gave the Valkyrie in front of him a strange look, as if to say, "What are you thinking?"

"and you....?"

Wendy, whose emotions had been fluctuating after being rebuffed by the golden-haired god, calmed down and looked at the god in front of her again.

Snow merely grunted a few times—

"You should be glad that this is my divine kingdom, and not some other place. Otherwise, given your brief emotional breakdown just now, the collapse could have erupted."

The blonde girl looked at Wendy with an expression that said, "You'd better thank me soon."

"Uh...aren't you a Honkai consciousness? Shouldn't a Honkai outbreak be a good thing for you...?"

Wendy paused, then looked at the blond god in front of her.

"...Do you really think that a god who represents the sieve mechanism of the tree of imaginary numbers, the final trial of civilization, would be as easy to talk to as me?"

"Hmph, if your consciousness really wants to whine in front of him, he'll just erase you right here and let the Herrscher personality born from the Honkai condensation completely take over your body. That would be so much easier..."

"Do you really think Herrschers are some kind of high and mighty existence? Most of them are just useful tools to the Honkai consciousness. As for whether these tools break down, die, or even betray us, it has nothing to do with Him. It's enough to have used them, or it doesn't matter if we've never used them at all. No matter how handy a tool is, it's just handy."

"Would you go out of your way to repair a screwdriver?"

"I won't, anyway. It's much easier to just throw it away and find a new one."

The blonde girl curled her lip in disdain.

"Herrschers are merely tools to be used and discarded; the Honkai is simply a testing mechanism for a civilization..."

Wendy felt that her worldview had been refreshed once again today. The words casually uttered by the blond god in front of her kept challenging the knowledge that Wendy had learned in the Academy of Destiny.

"Then... what exactly is your gift, Miss Deity?"

Listening to the explanation from the golden-haired deity in front of her, Wendy's confusion deepened, and she looked curiously at the deity known as Othinus.

"...Not all gods are like the Honkai, treating their apostles as disposable tools."

"Like you?"

Wendy looked at the goddess in front of her, who looked about the same age as her, with suspicion.

"Oh yes, like me—"

Snow wore a relaxed expression, lazily looking at the Valkyrie in front of him.

“I can use a trick to make you take over the position and authority of the Fourth Herrscher as my proxy. Of course, the Honkai energy that has lost its original target will not dissipate and will still erupt. But compared to the birth of a Herrscher, this all sounds much better, doesn’t it?

"My apostle?"

"Uh, doesn't this sound a bit like it's been officially appointed? This 'Odin'?"

"...Isn't this unfair?"

The green-haired Valkyrie looked at the god sitting on the throne before her with a strange expression.

[The higher-ups have already decided that you'll be taking over the position of the Fourth Herrscher, and you'll be doing all the work for free—it feels so strange...]

"I am justice, I am morality—my apostle, how could I be unfair...?"

The figure seated on the throne raised an eyebrow and revealed a playful smile.

"Hmm... if I become your proxy... then I'll be no longer connected to destiny, right..."

"It's still somewhat related...and it's a place you're very familiar with."

Snow shook his head, denying Wendy's conjecture.

"A place I know very well...? Wait...you mean St. Freya?!"

"Yes, yes, yes."

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“I am different from the Honkai consciousness. While intangible and formless gods can perfectly wield their authority, they cannot personally interfere too much in the present world.”

"Most of the time, he can only indirectly interfere in the world through his apostles... while I am a god with a physical form in the mortal realm..."

"Although I can't unleash 100% of my power like the Honkai Consciousness due to physical limitations and certain personality limitations, the advantage is that I can directly interfere with the present world. For example, right now... I've poached a certain tool that the Honkai Consciousness had reserved."

The golden-haired god looked at the apostle before him and gave a gentle smile.

"So what do you want me to do at St. Freya...?"

Wendy looked at the blonde girl's smile and shuddered uncomfortably.

"As mentioned before... I have a physical body in this world, and naturally I have some interesting friends and people worth paying attention to. No... to be precise, I am more inclined towards the concept of humans than gods."

"And, it's not that I'm asking you to go to St. Freya... it's that your juniors will come to find you in St. Freya. Of course, you can choose to go back together then."

"A junior came to see me...?"

"What do you want with me, the crippled Valkyrie from the Destiny Records...? Are you here to offer flowers and condolences?"

Wendy mentioned fate, and her expression turned somewhat indignant.

"Have you forgotten what's on your leg... my proxy?"

Leaning back on the throne, the girl propped her cheek with her right arm and looked at the indignant Wendy with great interest.

"They're here to find the Gem of Desire?!"

"Of course... to be precise, it's about retrieving the Desire Gem."

Snow nodded, acknowledging Wendy's conjecture.

"Why do they suddenly want to collect the Desire Gem...? This thing has been on me ever since the experiment arranged by the Destiny Headquarters failed last time."

"Has Destiny found another way to utilize this gem?"

The green-haired girl's tone and eyes were filled with curiosity, which then turned into anger—

"Wait a minute... has Fate found another victim to experiment on?"

"That experiment was stopped by Schicksal headquarters after you... Schicksal lost interest in the Gem of Desire after finding a certain artifact... The Valkyrie of the Far East branch was only looking for clues because of information from a suspected Anti-Entropy warship that was captured a few months ago. The ship mentioned the Gem of Desire on your leg."

The blonde girl gave the unlucky girl a look, scrutinizing the green-haired Valkyrie in front of her.

"So, I just happened to catch the last train of the experiment...?"

"It's still the last train of the Gem of Desire that the Archbishop of Destiny is least interested in... Back then, the Archbishop was always most concerned with the implantation experiments of the Gem of Tranquility; the Gem of Desire was just a side effect..."

The blonde girl shrugged.