The next moment, the carbon-based hunter, the mechanical dog that had been following Rita quietly, also received Rita's command and rushed towards the sarcophagus in the room without hesitation.
——Bang!
There was a huge noise.
Under the huge force of the carbon-based hunter, the heavy stone cover on the sarcophagus, which seemed to be sealed, was directly knocked away, opening the sarcophagus and exposing its interior to Rita.
"This is?"
Rita was a little surprised to see the inside of the sarcophagus, narrowed her eyes, tightened the sickle she had been holding, walked to the front of the sarcophagus and looked inside.
Rita thought about many things inside the sarcophagus. It might be the body of the so-called Lord Takenami-no-Gosho, a record of what happened, or a sealed Honkai beast that is stronger than those that escaped outside.
But what Rita didn't expect was that there was a girl inside who was wearing a shrine maiden-like outfit, with pink hair and long animal ears on her head.
"Is she the 'Otome Narukami-sama'?"
Looking at the girl who was either sleeping or dead, Rita couldn't help but stretch out her hand and gently touch the girl's animal ears.
"This ear... is a rabbit?"
Thinking of the mural outside, Rita thought for a moment and whispered, "It's a fox... not Lord Gotake Narukami-sama, but a fox priestess?"
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the pink-haired girl with animal ears opened her eyes under Rita's gaze, and the first thing she looked at was Rita who was touching her ears.
After exchanging a glance, Rita, who was a little surprised but not flustered, looked at the pink-haired girl with cold eyes and pondered for a moment, then smiled politely and said, "Good afternoon, Miss Miko."
Chapter 74: Yaezakura Awakens
Looking directly at the animal-eared girl with pale blue eyes in the sarcophagus, Rita hesitated for a moment, then smiled politely and said, "Good afternoon, Miss Miko."
Looking at the hands placed on her ears, the pink-haired girl in the sarcophagus had a sharp look in her eyes.
The next moment, Rita seemed to have realized something. She bent down slightly, exerted force with one foot and took several steps back, dodging the fleeting purple light blade on the sarcophagus.
"This is?"
Feeling her slightly numb gauntlet, Rita moved her arm with a hint of surprise on her face: "Lightning?"
The purple light blade just now was obviously an attack from the pink-haired animal-eared priestess... but it seemed to be just a warning and did not cause any harm to Rita.
However, the other party was clearly not wearing Valkyrie's armor. The clothes on her body looked just like ordinary shrine maiden's clothes that looked a bit weird, but she could actually create lightning with her bare hands.
And it seems that the opponent seems to have strong fighting ability?
"interesting."
"Is she infected with Honkai energy? Or is she a sane death warrior?"
Smiling Rita put down her numb hands and looked at the sarcophagus.
The other intact arm was already clenching her sickle - although her hobby was a maid, Rita, as one of the three S-class Valkyries of Destiny, was never afraid of fighting.
If the pink-haired girl's attack was really just a punishment for her impoliteness just now, it would be fine. But if the other party was planning to do something irrational - Rita would accompany her to the end.
At this moment, the pink-haired girl in the sarcophagus had sat up straight, but she had no intention of continuing to attack Rita. Instead, she frowned and looked at the space.
It was as if he was thinking about something unbelievable.
In this case...it seems like she was also surprised that she woke up?
"She has her own reason, isn't she a dead warrior?"
Rita's eyes flickered when she saw this scene, and then she suddenly had an idea in her mind.
So, at this moment, Rita suddenly smiled and said, "Miss Miko, do you seem surprised to wake up?"
After hearing Rita's words, the pink-haired girl with animal ears glanced around and looked at Rita again. She first frowned and looked at Rita with a cold look, then opened her mouth and said something in a language that Rita could not understand.
Rita blinked as she heard the strange language.
"Oh my, that's true."
Rita, who didn't understand what the other party said at all, shook her head regretfully: "The biggest problem turned out to be the language problem?"
Even Rita had never expected that there would be a language barrier.
However, although I couldn't understand what the other party was saying, at least it seemed that the other party was not a dead soldier, but a rational being who could communicate, and was suspected to be an ancient Honkai energy infected person.
Therefore, at this moment, Rita's hand that was holding the sickle slowed down slightly and she temporarily gave up her plan to attack.
At this moment, hearing Rita's words, the pink-haired girl opposite frowned slightly, stood up and walked out of the sarcophagus.
She first glanced at the mechanical dog Carbon Hunter lying next to the sarcophagus, then looked at Rita again and said, "Who...are you...here?"
"Oh?" Rita, who was originally considering whether to use some tricks, looked up at the pink-haired girl with some surprise.
At this time, although the language spoken by this pink-haired girl was still difficult to understand and many of the words were incomprehensible, from a grammatical point of view, it was not much different from the modern language of District 11.
"So what she said was ancient Japanese?"
Rita, who had some guesses in her mind, now roughly understood what the other party was asking.
"I think you're asking who I am and why I'm here?"
After thinking for a while, Rita looked at the pink-haired girl opposite her, pointed at herself, and said in a deliberately slow tone: "I am a maid."
The pink animal-eared girl opposite thought for a moment, then nodded as if she understood, pointed at herself and said in a cold voice: "I am Yaezakura."
Hearing the words of the pink animal-eared girl, or Yaezakura, Rita's smile rose a little more. She pointed to the ground, then pointed outside, and said softly: "A disaster has occurred here. The door has been opened. Who are you? Why are you lying inside?"
Even though Rita had tried her best to simplify her words by omitting meaningless words, such a long sentence still made Yaezakura on the opposite side show a hint of confusion after listening to Rita's words.
Well, it seems that Yaezakura on the other side didn’t understand what Rita said.
Seeing this scene, Rita became a little distressed.
It seems that only some simple communication can be carried out...but the problem is that the current situation cannot be explained by simple communication.
"This is really a headache..."
Rita sighed softly.
If she could get in touch with the headquarters, Rita could also use the power of the Satori headquarters to decipher Yaezakura's language, or simply find relevant scholars and experts.
But the problem is that the connection between the headquarters and Rita is intermittent because of the Quantum Sea. Basically, it is the headquarters that contacts Rita, and it is difficult for Rita to contact the headquarters even if she takes the initiative.
Before, when Moren met Wuliangta Jizi, Rita tried to contact the headquarters but failed. It was Bishop Otto who contacted Rita herself later.
Therefore, Rita can only rely on herself at this time.
Thinking of this, Rita realized that verbal communication was very difficult and thought for a while. She decided to just let the other party understand the current situation directly. It was not impossible to communicate without words.
So Rita pointed to the exit of the room behind her and said with a smile: "Although you don't understand what I'm saying, I think Miss Miko, you should go take a look outside."
Although Yaezakura, with her pink hair and animal ears, still didn't understand what Rita said, she at least understood Rita's gestures and realized that Rita seemed to be asking her to leave.
Therefore, after thinking for a moment, Yae Sakura didn't say anything else, but just walked outside in the direction Rita pointed.
Under the illumination of the carbon-based hunter's light, Yaezakura frowned as she looked at everything in this underground space.
Especially those rotten and dilapidated wooden shelves and broken porcelain. Occasionally, Yaezakura would stop to look at the broken debris on the ground, sigh with a complicated expression, and whisper in ancient Japanese from time to time.
"Is she lamenting the changes in time?"
Rita, who followed Yaesakura all the way but could only vaguely understand a few words such as time, nodded thoughtfully.
It seems that the other party is indeed the fox priestess in the mural, but it seems that the other party did not expect that there would be a day when she would wake up?
and……
Looking at Yaezakura who was walking out slowly and looking at the people around her with a complicated expression, Rita narrowed her eyes slightly.
It seems that since waking up until now, this fox priestess named Yaesakura has never shown any anxious expression, as if she doesn't care at all about the previously sealed Honkai beasts.
Put yourself in her shoes. If Rita was in charge of guarding a large number of Honkai beasts and they were sealed all the time, the first thing she would do after waking up would definitely not be to lament the passage of time, but to immediately check the sealing status of the Honkai beasts.
"...You don't care? Or do you not know about the existence of Honkai Beast?"
Rita thought silently.
At this moment, Yaezakura finally reached the exit of the gate, but as soon as she approached, the smell of blood made her face change slightly.
Under Rita's gaze, Yae Sakura seemed to have just discovered something. She quickly walked to the exit of the gate, opened her eyes wide and looked at the monster debris on the ground with a shocked expression.
"This...can't...happen!"
Listening to the shocked words from Yaesakura, Rita, who only understood three of the words, showed a look of understanding.
"I see. Doesn't this miko know about the existence of Honkai beasts?"
"It seems that at least before the seal, there should be no Houkai beast inside the seal?"
"But something unexpected happened during the seal..." Rita thought of the snake on the mural and guessed: "...the Honkai beast was born or escaped, and then it was released, and happened to run into Himeko Muliangta?"
At this moment, the shocked Yaezakura came back to her senses and looked at Rita who was thinking: "What happened here...how..."
Listening to Yaezakura's words mixed with a lot of unfamiliar words, Rita came to her senses and put away her smile. She calmly pointed to the underground space behind her, then pointed to the direction of the shrine outside and replied: "Inside, come out."
"I can't stop you. I'm heading to the shrine."
Yae Sakura looked a little confused when listening to Rita's words, but when Rita's finger pointed in the direction of the shrine, Yae Sakura's eyes immediately showed shock and anger!
After all, according to the meaning of the mural, the shrine was rebuilt by Yaezakura later. Combined with Rita's sign language, she obviously understood at least the meaning of the Honkai Beast Escape Shrine.
The next moment, Yae Sakura turned her head suddenly, trampled on the remains of the Honkai beast with a grim expression, and walked towards the purple long sword at the door.
Then, under Rita's interested gaze, purple electric light flashed in Yaesakura's hand, and she grasped the hilt of the long sword, and easily pulled it out of the floor together with the scabbard.
——Crack!
With a crisp sound, Yaezakura pulled the broken sword from the scabbard.
"Is it useless now?" After taking a look at the underground space without any changes, Rita looked at the broken sword in Yaesakura's hand with a trace of regret.
Even if we don't mention that this knife might be related to the seal, she is actually quite interested in this knife.
Rita had originally thought of taking the long sword away later, but now it seems impossible, what a pity.
Yae Sakura ignored Rita's gaze and just stroked the broken sword, muttering to herself in a low voice.
Rita, who tried hard to listen, only understood a few words.
"…Mist Cutting, Awakening, Fighting?"
"This broken sword is called Mist Cutting? And is she planning to chase after those Honkai beasts?"
Rita was not surprised that Yaezakura would chase after Honkaimon.
After all, in the mural, Yae Sakura was the one standing next to General Raiden and fighting against Honkai Beast together, so Rita had already guessed Yae Sakura's choice.
It can even be said that Rita's first plan after she had just awakened Yae Sakura and saw her lightning ability was to let Yae Sakura chase the Honkai beast and help Himeko Inoue.
That's why Rita immediately led Yaesakura here and let her see the remains of these Honkai beasts.
After all, Rita, who was ordered to avoid exposure as much as possible, could not help Himeko Murata fight against Honkai Beast. At the same time, Rita could not watch Himeko Murata kill Honkai Beast and massacre civilians.
Then we can only help Wuliangta Jizi find external assistance.
But, did Yaesakura choose the wrong weapon... This broken sword is fine as an antique, but can it really be used in combat as a weapon?
Looking at the broken and fractured Mist Cutting Machine, Rita showed a suspicious look.
As if she understood the doubts in Rita's heart, Yaesakura's palm, flashing with lightning, slowly stroked the broken blade of Kirigiri.
Then, a large amount of purple Honkai energy that shocked even Rita could be seen condensing on the blade, filling the cracks on the blade, reorganizing the Kirigiri blade, and turning it into a sharp blade again.
In just a moment, a long sword that was flashing with purple electric light and was so sharp that it made Rita feel a slight chill on the back of her neck appeared in Yaesakura's hand.
After doing all this, Yae Ying raised the blade, stroked it with nostalgia, and whispered in a voice that Rita could only partially understand: "You were once... broken, reshaped... with a new name - Mist Cutting Back Light."
Chapter 75: Separation and Confusion
Rita, who saw Yaesakura reshaping her weapon, looked at the Mist Cutting Machine in Yaesakura's hand... the weapon now called the Mist Cutting Machine's Return to Light, and revealed a solemn look. While taking a step back, she couldn't help but hold the long handle of her sickle with both hands.
"This power..."
Feeling the power contained in the Mist Cutting Sword, Rita suddenly regretted waking up Yaezakura.
Rita originally thought that with the crude Honkai energy utilization technology of ancient times, it would be impossible for there to be any strong people. Even the giant snake described in the mural that was powerful enough to destroy the world was at most a stronger Honkai beast. Yae Sakura and the Raiden General were just ordinary A- and B-level Valkyries, so they could just help Himeko Muliangta share the pressure.
But obviously Rita seriously underestimated the danger of Yaezakura!
She is far more dangerous than all the previous Honkai beasts combined!
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