The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"..." Feeling that she was being looked down upon, Fu Hua did not say anything, but secretly smacked her lips in her heart.

How much does this guy know about me? Why do I feel like I am completely naked in the eyes of Xilin, who has changed her appearance? I have no privacy or secrets to talk about?

"No." Suddenly, Xilin raised her head as if she remembered something, "Aren't you a soul controller? Can't you see it?"

"You're kidding. Although Rita has the power to command souls, her understanding of consciousness and souls is still incomparable to that of the Herrscher of Consciousness." Rita shook her head and said a word that made Fu Hua and Ji Zi's faces change again. "But, from my point of view, the current Captain Li Shubai's soul does not seem to be flawed."

"Hmph, even if there are flaws, it's his own fault." Xilin glanced coldly at the innocent-looking Li Shubai, completely forgetting how furious she was just a dozen minutes ago.

Seeing Xilin's arrogant look, Rita smiled and shook her head helplessly, saying, "Since you have come to this parallel world, can you send a world beacon to Miss Kiana to convey the captain's current location?"

Then Rita heard the definitive answer: "No!"

Rita's expression froze after being rejected by Xilin. She raised her eyes and looked at Xilin, who looked very confident. The corners of her mouth twitched: "Well, can you tell me why you don't want to?"

"Because I no longer trust them." Xilin said coldly, "I will not allow anyone to harm my servants. Since they can't make a decision, let me make the decision for them."

"You..." Rita understood immediately, "...do you want to monopolize the captain?"

In the eyes of Fu Hua and Ji Zi whose worldviews collapsed, Xilin's beautiful face, which had been cold from beginning to end, suddenly turned a faint red. However, she did not deny Rita's words, but glared at Rita: "Don't think I can't see it. Didn't you leave us alone with this intention?"

Rita looked away guiltily and coughed.

"..." Ji Zi and Fu Hua, who felt they were full from eating so much melon, were already tired.

Now they just want to go back to Saint Freya to have a good sleep, and then join Theresa to interrogate Li Shubai the next day.

"But if I'm not mistaken, you are now in the same state of consciousness mapping as the previous captains." Rita hesitated for a moment, "Except for the captain, no one else should be able to maintain this state for a long time."

"This is easy." Xilin smiled indifferently. She let go of Li Shubai's body and used the power of the void to make his body float in the air like the other six people, then she snapped her fingers lightly.

With a crisp snap of fingers, a body that looked exactly like the current Xilin appeared out of thin air, with eyes closed.

At the same time, on the Hyperion in the Quantum Sea, the Herrscher of Consciousness and Aponia, who were unable to react for a moment, stared blankly at Sirin's body that had suddenly disappeared, and looked at each other in confusion.

Is there such a thing? Rita was stunned. Yes, as the Herrscher of the Void, she could indeed transfer her body here without any hindrance.

"In this way, the problem is solved." Xilin stretched out her hand and pulled her body forward. "As for this container, let's return it to that idiot for now."

Then, she gently closed her eyes, and in a dazzling flash, the Herrscher's gorgeous clothes shattered into pieces, and the monotonous diving suit returned to Kiana's body.

At the same time, the body with closed eyes slowly opened its eyes.

"Hmm..." Then he covered his forehead, feeling dizzy due to the reaction force when the consciousness mapping was released.

After Sirin regained control of her body, Kiana also opened her eyes, her azure pupils filled with mist, as if she had not yet woken up.

"Okay." Rita spread her hands. "Since you are willing to stay in this world with the captain for a while, I... have nothing to say."

In fact, not only Xilin, but Rita herself was also quite dissatisfied with the choice made by Guanxing.

She chose to leave the Hyperion, not only because she wanted to find Li Shubai's trace, but also because she found that she was incompatible with the concept of stargazing.

Compared to the Hyperion... or rather, compared to those people Li Shubai once wanted to save, Rita cares more about Li Shubai himself.

So, unless necessary, the Hyperion... just let her go.

At the same time, another little plan was slowly taking shape in Rita's mind.

Compared to competing with everyone on the Hyperion... competing with Xilin is obviously a much easier task.

This girl, who has always been raised like a child by the captain, does not even have a complete concept of love between men and women. Her feelings, protectiveness and possessiveness towards the captain are very pure, but this also makes her view of love very different from that of ordinary people.

So... Rita is very confident that she can snatch love from Xilin.

Therefore, she couldn't hinder Xilin here. Instead, she needed to give her some insignificant help to a certain extent... Thinking of this, Rita's face reappeared a calm smile. She looked at Xilin with a calm face and spoke in a gentle voice: "However, since you have chosen to stay in this world with the captain, then I think you should also need a place to stay, right?"

Xilin raised her eyebrows: "What do you want to say?"

Rita smiled meaningfully, and in the face of Jizi's stiff expression, she turned her gaze to her: "Lady Jizi, may I ask, is there any place available for people to stay at St. Freya's College now?"

"..." Can she shake her head? Ji Zi, who could tell what Rita was up to at a glance, kept twitching her eyes. She looked at Rita's smiling face, and suddenly threw her hands in self-abandonment, her face full of annoyance: "Yes, yes, yes, as an S-level Valkyrie of the Sky Mandate Headquarters, how could you not know the current situation of the Far East Branch? Why bother asking so much?"

A Herrscher, an S-class Valkyrie, told her that she wanted to find a place to stay, so how could she be called Muliangta Jizi? She was just a weak, pitiful and helpless A-class Valkyrie.

At this moment, Jizi suddenly realized the beauty of playing badly. When she thought of Theresa's stunned expression after she knew about this, Jizi wanted to laugh. In fact, she did laugh out loud.

Seeing the weird smile on Himeko's face, Mei Raiden secretly leaned close to Bronya's ear and whispered, "What's wrong with Teacher Himeko?"

Bronya thought for a moment: "Maybe I thought of something happy."

Listening to the whispers between Raiden Mei and Bronya, Fu Hua supported her forehead and sighed, unable to bear to watch.

So, just like that, two hours later.

Far Eastern Time, 7pm.

On a quiet night, the lights in the dean's office of St. Freya's College were on, and two clear figures could be seen through the drawn curtains.

"Wait, did I hear you right?" Theresa looked at Ji Zi with an innocent expression and felt like the world was collapsing. "You said you would bring back a Herrscher too?"

"Yes, wait..." Ji Zi's brows twitched as she was about to nod, "You said... also?"

"What's going on?" Jizi and Theresa said at the same time.

"Uh...you speak first!" said Theresa.

"Okay, then I'll talk first." Ji Zi nodded, and then told her everything that happened this afternoon in detail.

"You found a key of God?"

"What?! Kiana's body is taken over by the Herrscher?!"

"Ah? The Herrscher who occupied Kiana's body had no hostility towards you? He didn't hurt anyone either, but instead brought Li Shubai out with Fu Hua?"

"Rita's hair has grown longer? What does that have to do with me?"

"The Herrscher teleported a body here, and then returned control of the body to Kiana?"

The more Theresa listened to Ji Zi's calm narration, the more confused and blank her expression became.

When Ji Zi finished telling everything, she couldn't help but look suspicious: "You are kidding me! The affairs of the Herrscher are not to be joked about."

"You still want to teach me something like this? If you don't believe me, go to Li Shubai's dormitory and see for yourself." Ji Zi laughed in anger, "Also, who is that student named Li Shubai? Didn't you investigate before recruiting him into Saint Freya?"

"Of course I have investigated!" Theresa cried out in injustice, then opened the drawer of her desk and pulled out her personal terminal. She clicked a few times and pulled up Li Shubai's file, then handed it to Ji Zi, "This is his information! Everything from birth to the present is recorded!"

Jizi took the information and glanced at it: "The child of a senior employee of ME Company. Before the third collapse, he was an ordinary person who had nothing to do with the collapse."

After reading the information, Ji Zi's face suddenly darkened: "You call someone who has a close relationship with the S-class Valkyrie and the Herrscher an ordinary person?"

“I…” Theresa was speechless for a moment. Knowing that she was in the wrong, she scratched her silver hair in a self-deprecating manner: “Ahhh! I don’t care! I’m going to find him tonight and find out what’s going on!!”

She rushed out of the dean's office with her short legs and slammed the door.

Three seconds later, the door that had just been closed opened with a click. Theresa poked her head out from the door frame and glared at Ji Zi with a murderous look on her face: "Hurry up and catch up! You brought the person back! You can't leave everything to me!"

Chapter 4: Encounter at the Dormitory Door (k)

January 2014, 1, 7: PM Far Eastern Time.

Immersed in the night, the dormitory area of ​​St. Freya College is brightly lit.

For the Valkyries who are resistant to Honkai and can also use Honkai energy, their underlying physiological mechanisms as creatures are already very different from those of humans. This difference is manifested in the fact that the Valkyries' daily routines are completely different from those of ordinary humans.

Therefore, for these students of St. Freya, eight o'clock in the evening is just the beginning of their nightlife.

Today is the day for the release of the entrance exam results of St. Freya Academy. Strictly speaking, it is also the first day of school for the students of this academy. After going through the tense entrance exam, most of the students who completed the first day of classes chose to gather with familiar friends in twos and threes, or go to the commercial street in the new district of the city, or stay in someone's dormitory... In short, although most of the buildings in the dormitory area are brightly lit, there are few people on the street. The street lights illuminate the sparsely populated streets, and also illuminate the small figures running fast on the street.

Theresa, who had run all the way from the teaching area of ​​St. Freya's College to the west dormitory area, was just about to push open the door of the third dormitory building in the west area, but just before her hand was about to grasp the door handle -

——Bang! ! Along with the sound of the door cracking, a figure that Teresa was very familiar with suddenly broke out of the door, brushed past her body and flew out, and finally hit the lamp post with a bang.

The lamp pole made of high-strength alloy was deformed by the flying object. Half of the lamp pole fell to the ground with the street light with a loud bang, raising a cloud of fine dust.

Jizi, who had been following Theresa but arrived here a step slower, was startled by the sudden collapse of the street lamp: "What...what's going on? The Honkai Beasts have invaded Saint Freya's dormitory?"

"..." Theresa did not respond to Ji Zi's words. Her neck turned like a rusty doll and she turned her gaze to the figure that flew out of the dormitory.

no, I can not.

I must have seen it wrong.

After all, how could Otto, the noble Bishop of Heaven's Fate, appear in a student's dormitory? And he was beaten and thrown out! Theresa tried her best to hypnotize herself, trying to escape the reality in front of her, but in the end, the sound made by the man who stood up from the ground in a rather embarrassed manner dealt the final blow to Theresa's sanity.

"Cough, cough, cough." The handsome blond man stood up from the ground while coughing. He patted his purple robe that was covered with dust and metal debris, raised his head, and when he saw Theresa, he was immediately delighted: "Hey, my lovely little Theresa, are you surprised? Your grandpa is here to see you!"

"My Lord... Bishop?" Ji Zi, who had met Otto several times before, couldn't help but feel nervous when she saw Otto. "My Lord Bishop, why are you here?"

"Don't be nervous." Otto could still easily see through other people's emotions as always. He smiled and waved at Ji Zi, showing an indifferent expression, "The person standing in front of you now is not your bishop, but just an elder who came to visit his granddaughter."

At this moment, with a click and the sound of crisp footsteps, a stern and tall figure appeared in front of the dormitory door.

"Since you have seen Senior Theresa." Yulandel walked out of the dormitory to the door with her back to the lights in the dormitory. Her golden bangs were mixed with a sharp silver-white. Her tall and neat figure was not wearing her usual combat uniform, but a blue dress and a slim leather jacket. "Then can you leave here for the time being? This place does not welcome you."

Hearing Yulandel's frosty tone, Theresa turned around and saw the black abyss and white flower held in Yulandel's hand. The corners of her eyes twitched: "Wait, wait, Grandpa flew backwards just now, could it be..."

“Hmm…” Seeing Theresa, Yulandel’s gaze softened. She hesitated for a moment, then nodded, “Yes, I was the one who knocked Bishop Otto away just now.”

"Ahaha, it's okay, little Theresa, don't worry." Before Theresa could further understand and digest this shocking fact [the loyal Yulandel ruthlessly beat Bishop Otto away], Otto hurriedly laughed.

He raised his white-gloved hand and wanted to touch Theresa's head, but suddenly found that the gloves were dirty because he had just been beaten and sent flying. His outstretched arm froze slightly, and he stretched it towards his head. He looked innocent and scratched his blond hair that was a little messy because of the wind, and said in a gentle tone: "I just had some friendly exchanges with Yulandel just now, don't take it too seriously."

"I don't think there was anything friendly about the exchange just now." When talking to Otto, Yulandel's voice suddenly turned cold. "Bishop Otto, I reiterate again that you are not welcome here. Please return to where you belong. You have left your post without permission. I'm sure Amber must be having a headache now."

"Ah, Yulandel, don't be so ruthless." Otto laughed awkwardly, "I have already allowed you and Rita to leave the Destiny Headquarters. From now on, you are completely free. But as your former direct superior, you should at least satisfy my tiny curiosity and let me meet your new boss."

Before Yulandel could reply to Bishop Otto's words, Theresa was the first to exclaim: "What?! Yulandel and Rita left the Destiny Headquarters? You...Grandpa, did you agree?!"

Not only Theresa, but even Ji Zi was stunned.

Yulandel and Rita are two of the three S-class Valkyries currently in service in Sky's Destiny. They are also the captain and vice-captain of Sky's strongest Valkyrie team, the Undying Blade.

In the entire Destiny, Yulandel and Rita, who are second to none in popularity and strength, actually left the Destiny headquarters? Theresa looked at Otto with a dull face, then glanced at Yulandel, and couldn't help but asked in a questioning tone: "You...you guys are not teaming up to trick me! I tell you! I...I'm not that easily fooled!"

“…Senior Theresa.” When talking to Theresa, Yulandel’s voice was no longer as cold as before, but became a little warmer. She said in a serious tone that Theresa was quite familiar with: “…I’m sorry, although it’s very sudden, but as Bishop Otto said, I am no longer the Valkyrie of Destiny.”

If there was still a possibility that Otto was playing tricks on her, based on Theresa's understanding of Yulandel's character, it was hard to imagine that when the latter spoke seriously with such a serious expression, she was deceiving others.

"Why?" Even so, Theresa still found it hard to believe. "You have become the strongest Valkyrie in the world, why are you suddenly with Rita...?"

Wait, Grandpa just said that he wanted to meet with Yulandel and Rita’s new boss?

"Did you change jobs?" Theresa finally came to her senses. She was stunned. "Besides Destiny, is there any anti-Honkai organization in this world that can accept Valkyries?"

Could it be... reverse entropy? Theresa murmured in her heart.

"Hey!" At this moment, a girl in a pure white T-shirt came out. She had a beautiful face like Kiana, soft and flowing silver hair, and golden pupils full of laziness. "It's just a body made of soul steel. Why did you waste so much time? Can this be considered the strongest Valkyrie of destiny?"

"Qi..." Theresa stared blankly at the lazy woman with silver hair and golden eyes. Her brain was a little confused for a moment, "...Yana?"

"Huh? Who called me?" Just as Theresa finished her words, Kiana poked her head out from the shoulder of the silver-haired, golden-eyed woman. She was holding a bowl full of food in her hand, and a grain of rice could be seen at the corner of her mouth.

"..." Looking at the identical faces of Kiana and Silin, Theresa opened her mouth and couldn't help rubbing her eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw two identical faces... Theresa began to seriously consider the possibility that she was dreaming. Otherwise, she could not explain why things that should not happen in reality had been happening since just now!

Yes! I must be dreaming!

Ji Zi looked at Theresa's expression as if she had just woken up from a dream, and immediately showed a trace of empathy.

Yes! That’s the expression! The expression that makes you wonder if you’re dreaming!

After seeing Theresa, Kiana's face lit up immediately. She stretched out her hand holding a pair of chopsticks and waved, her tone full of undisguised joy: "It's Aunt and Teacher Himeko, come in, come in! We're having a party."

"Open..." After her name was called, Theresa looked up with a strange expression as if she had seen a ghost. She stared at Kiana and scratched her ears, wondering if she had heard it wrongly: "Open what? Open a party?"

"Yes! Today is the first day we officially become roommates, so of course we have to hold a welcome party to welcome new friends!" Kiana smiled brightly, then turned her head towards Yulandel and blurted out a word that made Theresa stunned: "Aren't you right? Sister!"

Hearing Kiana's intimate and passionate call, Yulandel's face suddenly showed an unnatural expression, but she did not deny it, but showed a helpless and doting smile. Then, she reached out and touched Kiana's silver hair: "Yes, yes, go back and eat yours first. I will come right over after I finish dealing with Bishop Otto's matter."

It seemed that because it was the first time she did such a thing and she didn't know how to control the posture and strength, Yulandel's movements were not gentle.

Her rough technique was more like grabbing Kiana's head and turning it around rather than stroking her head.

But Kiana didn't show any disgust or discomfort. Instead, she looked like a cat that was scratched on the chin, enjoying it.

Xilin glanced at Theresa and Jizi indifferently, and then glanced at Otto as if he was looking at garbage. In the end, she ignored them and said calmly to Yulandel: "Come in as soon as you have finished your work. Don't let me doubt your efficiency."