K424 of the Collapse World

"There's nothing wrong with my IQ! After I finish conditioning my body, there won't be any problem even if I start working again right away!"

Claire patted her flat chest, her face full of confidence. In response, Lillian laughed dryly, her eyes full of doubt.

"Are you talking about the job of the Valkyrie instructor? Please, my little Princess Claire, please look at what you are like now. It was hard to get them to obey you in your previous state, let alone now? Do you think that Saint Freya and other Valkyries who are in their rebellious period will be willing to listen to the orders of a twelve-year-old girl?"

"But I'm already 22 years old mentally! What does appearance have to do with it? Miss Theresa looks like a little girl, but she's still doing the work of the school principal, isn't she?"

"That being said..."

(The symbolic mascot school principal and the instructor who actually manages the students are different in some way...)

Lillian shook her head but did not explain further. She looked at the doctor from the research institute who was already walking towards them, then she gently released her left hand that was holding the girl's and stood up.

"Okay, although you haven't explained the whole story clearly, I now understand your thoughts a little bit, Claire."

"Ah? Um..."

"That's it. Let's talk after the physical examination. I'll go back to the dormitory and wait for you. If you still have trouble walking on your own after the examination, feel free to contact me. Okay, go on."

As soon as she finished speaking, she threw a small mechanical structure to Claire, who raised her hand to catch it. After taking a closer look, she found that it was a brand new personal terminal.

"Your original terminal was lost in Tianming, right? I asked Dr. Tesla to make a new one for you, and all the original information was recorded into it."

"Ah...thank you! Lillian."

"No need to thank me. Instead, think about how to explain your situation to everyone. I'm not the only one who has been worried about you in Saint Freya."

"I see......"

———Bang! !

A loud noise that shook the space echoed in the closed metal room. The huge white dragon's tail tore through the atmosphere, leaving a blurred trajectory of compressed air flow, and slashed across the girl's slender arms that were blocking.

Without any pause, the silver-haired figure was swept out with the sound of breaking wind. After being knocked away and rolling uncontrollably for several times, he barely stopped retreating and regained his balance.

"call......"

Kiana supported herself on the ground with one hand and glanced at her red, swollen and bruised arm. There was no worry in her serious eyes. The next moment, under the powerful recovery ability of the Pseudo-Herrscher, these minor injuries began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, the injured arm had recovered as before.

"Bella, what are you doing! Why don't you chase her? The fact that I lost my balance just now is the best time to attack!"

Looking at the purple-haired girl with wings and a dragon tail standing at the other end of the training ground, Kiana spoke with a hint of anger. Although Benares would not refuse the request for sparring, the result was as she expected. This guy really would not fight with her seriously during the sparring...

If Benares is willing to take it seriously, with her powerful Judgment-level Honkai Beast, she will be a perfect sparring partner for Kiana. However, if she is deliberately letting him win, it would be better to find a training robot!

"I'm sorry, little master, but your hand is already injured. If you continue like this..."

"This level of injury is no different from losing a hair for a Honkai creature. What's so great about it?! Besides, didn't we agree not to use dangerous Honkai abilities and only fight in close combat? How could there be any danger under this premise? Hum... or do you think you have won just because you won a few moves just now?"

"I dare not..."

556 The person who should have been with me >>

As she spoke, the girl transformed from a demon dragon half-knelt down, and the wings folded behind her turned into light particles and returned to her body. Seeing the girl's humble attitude, Kiana lost her temper and quickly regained her composure. The competitive spirit that was aroused by the contempt just now finally turned into a helpless sigh.

"Okay, okay, Bella, don't treat me like that. I was wrong for forcing you to do something you didn't want to do... I almost forgot that I look exactly like Sis Shilis, and you are Sis Shilis's follower, so if you fight with me, it would be like fighting with Sis Shilis, your master... This is a situation you don't want to face no matter what, right? I'm so sorry for not considering your feelings."

"Well...I'm sorry, I'm just worried about Lady Kiana's safety..."

"It's okay. There's no need to talk about what happened just now. Bella, I'm sorry to take up your personal time. And thank you for exercising with me until this time."

Kiana casually threw the two gun-shaped wrist blades in her hands to the ground after releasing Kaslana's gun fighting stance, and stretched slightly. Seeing this, Benares also bit his lips lightly, bowed his head, and swallowed back the explanation that was already on the tip of his tongue.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you..."

Since the young master has no intention of continuing, there is no need for me to say anything more...

(Training alone has its limits after all. To fully master combat skills, you need to further hone them through practice. If I had no other choice, why would I look for someone else to practice with me? Sigh, I hate causing trouble for others...)

Kiana scratched her hair and murmured in a low voice. But as time passed, in the principle of not wasting time, she finally took out her terminal and entered the communication interface. However, looking at the full list of contacts in the address book, the girl fell silent.

(Except for the people I don’t know very well, the only friends I can ask for help are…)

(Claire? No... The best sparring partner is someone with similar strength to me, and she hasn't been at the academy recently. Then... Seele? That girl's strength is not much weaker than mine, but she should be in class right now? It still won't work...)

Kiana's frown deepened as she continued to flip through the address book on the terminal.

(Siegfried Kaslana... I remember that he was not a doting father. If I asked him seriously, he would be willing to train with me, but he seems to have a job as a teacher now? Similarly, Ms. Himeko Murata is a Valkyrie instructor and combat commander at the same time, so her work is even busier...)

"In the end... everyone has their own responsibilities. Am I the only one who has nothing to do? I guess I should find something else to do..."

"Um, Lady Kiana."

Hearing the familiar cold voice, Kiana looked up and saw Benares still standing there with puzzled eyes.

The god tilted his head.

"Is there anything else, Bella? Ah... If you also need to use the training room, please use this one. Remember there is an empty training room next door, I'll just go there..."

"No, my little master. I just want to stay by your side. Also... I may need to tell you something. Lady Shilis has returned to the branch."

"Eh? Are you back so soon this time?"

"Yes, I heard he was just going to attend a meeting..."

"Well, I see."

After saying this, the girl's turbulent eyes calmed down and she continued to stare at the terminal screen in deep thought.

"Um... aren't you going to look for her? Remember that every time Lady Shilis came back, you would go to greet her..."

"Eh? Hahaha... stop it, Bella. Sister Shiris isn't going on a long trip like before. We haven't seen each other for just two days. I'm not a child who can't live without her care. How can I stay by her side all the time? Oh~ Although sometimes I really want to do this, my sister also has her own job. How can she waste her precious time on me?"

The girl laughed softly, but hearing that slightly empty laughter, the purple-haired girl revealed a worried look.

"Lady Kiana..."

"Well... like Sis Shirley, I have to find a job of my own. Even if I can't help my sister, I can at least not just be a parasite at Saint Freya Academy, right? Bella, you are the first follower to protect Sis Shirley. Compared to a sister like me who only causes trouble, you can help her more at this time."

"But Lady Silis gave me the order to protect St. Freya Academy, and you..."

"Isn't Sister Silis in St. Freya Academy now? No matter what, you would rather stay by her side, right?"

"...Yes, but your subordinates..."

"If you want to go, then go now. Don't always suppress your feelings. Sister Shilis wouldn't want you to do that. Okay, spend more time with Sister Shilis. Although there are always many people around her, there are only a few of us who can be relied on by her, and you happen to be one of them."

"..."

After that, Kiana said no more, waved goodbye, and turned around, facing the panel light screen of the simulation training room alone. Benares thought for a moment, and his eyes became firm.

"I understand, I'm resigning."

"Well, go ahead..."

557 The reality we are about to face

The monitoring room of the command center manages the monitoring equipment of all the buildings of the branch and even the internal campus. As long as you have enough authority to enter here, you can access the control system and see what is happening in almost all public areas of the Far East Branch.

"..."

Sitting in front of a light screen, the silver-haired girl held up the side of her face and stared at the image of the real-time monitoring device on the light screen.

"Understood. I will take my leave."

"Well, go ahead... I'll leave Sister Silis to you."

The video showed Kiana and Bella saying goodbye to each other. The surveillance screen was located in the academy's training ground. The camera placed in the simulated training ground to prevent accidents had now become a weapon for someone to spy on.

Although there are tens of thousands of cameras throughout the vast Far East Branch, it is not difficult to find the person you want to find using the system's built-in portrait capture search engine.

"Kiana..."

Looking at the silver-haired girl who was sitting alone on the cold ground in a daze after dismissing Benares, Shirley was somewhat moved, and her fingers involuntarily touched the keyboard of the control terminal.

As long as she enters a simple command, she can access the loudspeaker next to the surveillance camera and call the girl's name with her own voice.

However, if I do this, my current peeping behavior will be exposed...

Although according to previous impressions and the knowledge of memories from different worlds, Kiana should not care about such a small matter, Shirley herself was a little embarrassed.

Sure enough, forget about the surprise, the result is too unstable, and it might scare Kiana. It's better to wait until after get off work and meet them at home normally, which is my usual style.

"Ah~ You're spying on your own sister, Shirley."

"Checking the cameras in public places is not voyeurism. I just want to see how much Kiana's strength has improved, Frey."

Shirley turned her head and looked at the red-haired girl who walked into the room without knocking, and responded calmly. She had already noticed the uninvited guest before the other party spoke, but Shirley did not intend to hide her behavior. In the monitoring room, you can view the camera footage of other areas, but this monitoring room itself is also equipped with monitoring equipment.

Tesla will find itself, presumably

He must have locked onto his position by investigating the surveillance equipment. Moreover, with the clarity of the holographic surveillance, the light screen he was browsing must have been exposed...

"By the way, are things on your end so soon? Otto's clone should be a product of the highest level of technology in the Skyward Fate. I don't believe you can finish studying its properties so quickly."

"Hmm~ Indeed, there isn't. The structure of that bastard golden-haired bishop's clone is more complicated than I thought. It is a semi-mechanical creature that possesses both the characteristics of a Honkai creature and the principles of mechanics. It is also mixed with a rare element structure that activates special soul steel energy. It is simply a collection of mechanical creatures with special abilities! To be honest, I have never thought that the combination of the existing resources on Earth and the products of Honkai could create something like this..."

"Eh? In other words, Otto's Soul Steel clone is actually such a precious thing?!"

Hearing this, Shirley was also shocked. Although in her memories of other worlds, she had also experienced a complete break with the Destiny Organization and a full-scale battle with Otto's clone, but Shirley had never known that the seemingly unimportant soul steel clone was actually such a sophisticated and valuable thing...

"It's more than precious. Even though it's only the size of a human figure, the technology and materials contained inside it are more valuable than even a hundred Heavenly Fathers can match! By the way, Shiris, that Bishop of Heaven's Fate actually gave you this thing. There must be a reason for that... What happened between you two?"

"Nothing. Just like what you know from Aiyin, Otto offended me by committing suicide. He paid such a price just to make up for his mistake. However, this is a rare opportunity. With the level of anti-entropy, is it possible that we cannot analyze his clone?"

"Don't underestimate our anti-entropy technology! Although the structure of that guy's clone is complicated, it is not completely impossible to analyze. The trouble we are facing now is the external biological tissue layer. I have handed it over to Darwin to deal with it first. After this step is completed, it will be my and Ain's job."

Tesla seemed very dissatisfied with Shiris's words of disdain for anti-entropy technology. However, after saying these words, her lips trembled and her mood suddenly became depressed.

"But Shirley, you are right... Anti-Entropy's technological level is not as good as that of Destiny. I used to think that Destiny was only better than us in biotechnology, and Anti-Entropy's mechanical technology was far superior to theirs. But now, I find that Destiny's hybrid mechanical technology is also beyond our reach..."

"Don't say that, Frey. The direction of Anti-Entropy's technology is centered around heavy mechas like Gangdamu, right? It's normal for you to be helpless with this kind of biological and mechanical combination and hybrid technology. Moreover, as far as I know, Walter is against human experiments such as Valkyrie transformation, right? Under this premise, even if you scientists have the ability, you don't have the opportunity to come into contact with such technology, right?"

“Eh… is that so?”

Hearing Shirley's comfort, the red-haired girl seemed a little surprised. Ever since the two of them became close, the girl rarely wanted to comfort herself like this. The communication between the two was basically work-related conversations and her unilateral expression of concern. This situation has continued from a few years ago to today, and now, hearing the girl's long-lost gentle comfort, Tesla was moved and suddenly had a strange association that his daughter had finally grown up.

557 The reality we are about to face >>

After all, in a sense, she had indeed watched this girl grow up...

"At least that's what I think. Um...Fleur? What's the problem?"

Looking at the red-haired girl who had not responded for a long time, Shilis could not help but call out to her, with a hint of worry in her eyes.

(Could it be that my use of her lolita rumor to play a meme was exposed?)

The girl thought, carefully observing the red-haired girl's reaction.

"Ah? No... nothing."

Fortunately, after hearing Hillis's voice, Tesla quickly came to his senses and looked normal, which made the girl breathe a sigh of relief and her expression returned to seriousness.

"There's nothing wrong with that statement... However, I always feel that the pure mechanical technology of the Destiny Organization is not inferior to Anti-Entropy. The sub-god machines they manufacture, and those named advanced god machines, are not weaker than Anti-Entropy's top mechas in actual combat capabilities..."

"There's nothing we can do about it, right? With the current comprehensive strength of Tianming, there's no rival in this world. There's no need to compare everything with Tianming. Besides, look, facing such a powerful organization like Tianming, aren't we already in the upper hand in the negotiations?"

"Um......"

"So, since Otto's Soul Steel clone is not impossible to deal with, then we should work hard to analyze it! According to what you said, if the technology contained in the clone is really that powerful, it should be able to further improve the level of anti-entropy technology, right? But then again, analysis should mean decomposing Otto's body, right? Frey, I'm suddenly a little curious about what expression that guy had when he was lying on the operating table..."

The girl changed the subject without leaving a trace. Although Tesla noticed something, he didn't say much and continued to answer Hillary's question.

"That guy was able to control his consciousness and return on his own initiative. Before we performed the operation, he had already given up control of his body. He should have temporarily returned to his original form."

"Is that so... Well, it's a bit regrettable. But he will come back. Try not to destroy the clone's life support system. I plan to give that guy a little surprise..."

Shirley said softly, revealing a sinister smile. As if she suddenly remembered something, she glanced at the video of Kiana's training room still displayed on the screen, and calmly raised her hand to turn off the surveillance video.

"Ahem...that's about it, Fleur."

"...Um."

(Oh? You don’t want me to see your sister’s private life? I didn’t realize you have such a strong possessiveness…)

Tesla thought silently, looking at the girl who was hiding her embarrassment, and smiled to dispel the thoughts in his mind. No matter how many things she has experienced, even if her personality has gradually changed as she grows up, Shirley is still the original Shirley, the unpredictable girl...

Maybe now you can try...

"Well, what exactly are you going to do, Shirley?"

As the girl was about to leave the room, she suddenly heard Tesla's question again.

"What do you mean...?"

"The plan you agreed upon with the Destiny Organization. Even if for some reason you cannot tell us the overall plan, you should at least tell us how to specifically reverse entropy? What is the next strategic approach?"