Chapter 155: The Search and The Fallen

At a random bubble universe where Su and Kevin fled. There was a titanic battle going on, as Elysia, Aponia, and Vill-v were hunting them down. And Kevin was trying his hardest to repel them while Su gave support. But they were in a dire situation. As Aponia could utilize Ein's memories of combat to the maximum. She has total control of the battlefield, and it doesn't help that Elysia and Vill-v were hellbent on defeating them either.

Kevin and Su dodged nigh omni directional lasers with the help of Su's abilities to have limited precognition. "What the hell!? You could've blown off my head with that!" Kevin shouted, a laser of Elysia narrowly missing his head along with Vill's.

"Kukuku~ that's the plan!" Vill-v laughed maniacally and Aponia started to get serious. "Arms of the great one. Vishnu Baju! Hecatoncheire!" A myriad of weapons appeared behind Aponia and 100 arms equipped them all. From swords, spears, bows, chakrams, maces, etc. All kinds of weapons were now held by her ethereal arms.

"I am not done yet Kevin, Su. Revolving Sword that Adjudicates Reoccurring Destruction, come to your master. Dazzling spear of selection. You... Will experience the grace of Ein-sama." A sword with a blue blade and a spear that glowed golden appeared. Mahapralaya and the lost belt Longinus.

Kevin and Su gulped, looking at the intimidating Aponia with hundreds of weapons on her. And on her main hands, was an anti world noble phantasm and an EX rank one.

"Ohhh, Aponia is getting serious. Well, I haven't gone serious on you ever since, Kevin. And things are different now." Elysia said without her usual playful tone and she raised her hands in the air. "The time of birth hath come. I am the remedy of eternity. Now, meekly become a woman, Kevin, Su. Ars Almadel Salomonis." A congregation of violent energy appeared high above and Elysia's crystals got supercharged with it. They then scattered everywhere and aimed at the victims. An omnidirectional attack that promised total annihilation.

"Kukuku~ You're on borrowed time Kevin..." Vill-v summoned something, and it was a gigantic robotic head. The chief machine god Zeus of lostbelt. "Give it up! And don't let the inevitable wait." The gigantic head started to charge up its noble phantasm, World Discipline Keraunos. An anti star system, anti concept, anti planet, anti dimension, anti space-time np.

"We're not done yet! Two can play at that game!" Kevin defied them till the end and he used null energy to alter reality writing on the air with his finger as he concentrated and chanted.

"Everything began with water. Everything will return to water. Therefore water is life and death. The birthing mother and the swallowing snake. Everything flows. Not even time itself can escape. Like a boat at the mercy of a mighty river, all are swallowed in the end. Oh, heartless nature of transience. Yet I will love that heartlessness and transience deeply. I have long forgotten my mother's face. My body will become a snake with its mouth wide open, and level everything. Insatiable, endless emptiness. Endless pleasure, never stagnating. All things must flow, back into my stomach. Ouroboros!"

He smacked the ground and after a split second, torrential waters erupted from all over the planet. Destroying every land mass as everything and anything got swallowed up by the water. It then moved according to his will and serpents of water thousands of kilometers long appeared behind him. Some of them then turned into ice and trillions upon trillions of shards floated.

"I won't let you! I might not use my junk! But I sure as hell won't let you turn me into a woman! We will not lose, Everdistant Utopia! Avalon!" Su was a support, and he was given the sheath of Excalibur to heal or protect everyone. He went in front and used Avalon's property to be a mobile vanguard. And the first one who hit them, was Vill-v.

Unfortunately for Su, Vill-v's noble phantasm can breach space time and concepts. As Su gritted his teeth and tanked the shot with all his might. The bubble universe they were in shaked violently, it then popped like a balloon as the chaotic energies clashed. Annihilating everything in it.

The attacks offset each other, as Vill-v of course didn't really want to kill Su. Kevin then saw him fall down to the abyss, unconscious from defending. "Su! Damnit! I can't let his sacrifice go to waste!" Elysia's omnidirectional beams then started. As Kevin's shards of ice tried to defend. He was kept pretty busy as the lasers pelted him from all sides. Requiring immense focus to even just defend.

And he unfortunately lost focus on Aponia, who can predict where every single one of the laser will be going. As she appeared right behind Kevin and smacked him right on the noggin with the body of Longinus.

Kevin was sent flying and he crashed through multiple bubble universes. Aponia's spear then glowed brightly, combining with her lightning and the spear's energy. She then stabbed it at Kevin's location, releasing a golden light that vaporized almost anything on its way. The serpents he created blocked the attack and went on the offensive. Their titanic bodies coming in hot.

"Futile... You shall be disciplined, accept your fate." Aponia's sword increased in size and the blue blade vibrated violently with energy. She gestured for it to move and the sword swiped horizontally, slicing apart Kevin's efforts and wiped out the surrounding bubble universes like balloons.

"I-impossible... Will we really lose here?" Kevin's eyes dilated as he saw Elysia and Vill-v's shit eating grins on their faces.

"Do not worry, accept it and you will be blessed." Aponia whispered behind him and was knocked unconscious by being hit with the pommel of her sword. Overloading his brain with energy instantly. "S-Su... Forgive me." Kevin uttered his last words as he fell unconscious as well. Elysia already had Su on her shoulders and Aponia lifted up Kevin like they were sacks of potatoes.

"Aponia, start with the treatment. I'll try to convince Ein... No! I need to convince him, and I know how. Through democracy." Elysia gave a wide smile and Vill-v gave her a pat on the back. "Kukuku, a fantastic idea. Let's return, Ein still has to work his magic on them." They then returned back to the base.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the sea of Quanta. Another version of the Cosmic Juggernaut was sailing and the person driving it noticed a spike of energy. She then looked there using her powers of clairvoyance. "Ohhh? He is there huh? My counterpart, fufufu~ I might be successful this time no?" It was another version of Su that he found when he was looking for parallel dimensions under project Veluka.

And he found a female version of him that put the world under an illusion so they would live happy, but fake lives. Just like the infinite tsukuyomi, using Fenghuang down and her powers as a psychic MANTIS. As Aponia in that world has given up and agreed to her plans.

She tried taking over Su's body. But he was able to escape, his doppelganger is now trying to hunt him down using the 2nd key as Su has information about the 14th herrscher.

"I'm coming for you, this should be a piece of cake for you no?" She asked a white haired woman with blue eyes. "Are you asking if I can defeat you?" A female version of Kevin raised a brow and the Su.s just smiled. "That's what I thought. This might give us answers on how to defeat the honkai, make haste." Female Kevin's eyes glowed as her desire to defeat the honkai burned brightly.

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Susannah finally arrived at London. And the young valkyrie has a small problem, she was lost and she doesn't know where the mission was at all.

"I... I'm definitely lost aren't I?" Susannah roamed around and around, getting more anxious by the minute. In her occupied state, she mistakenly bumped into someone and it was Ein who escaped from HQ as they were hounding him to turn Kevin and Su into a girl.

He caught her immediately and Susannah opened her eyes to see a gorgeous, silver haired man with green eyes. "Woah, are you okay miss?" He asked and Susannah just stared at him blankly

Ein raised a brow at her and Susannah was still speechless, he didn't know that through Susannah's eyes, Ein looked like a shoujo manga protag.

"Kyaaa! You're the imperator! Ein-sama! I didn't know you were the one picking me up! I can't believe it!" Susannah and Ein had a misunderstanding and he didn't want to break her heart so he gave a smile.

"I'm valkyrie Susannah from the west asia branch! Thank you for taking the time to pick me up sir!" She hugged him out of joy and her massive tits squished onto his chest. Making him give a wry smile. "Ahhh, there's no problem about that Susannah. So you're an aspiring valkyrie huh? Can you tell me where's your designation? So I can drop you off to your mission?" He didn't know what she's even doing there. So he assumed she was in a mission at London.

"Ahhh, yes! I was lost sir, please look at this address. I just couldn't find it you see?" Susannah gave him the coordinates and he was about to drop her off to kill some time. But Bianka and Rita appeared, surprising them greatly.

"Ein-nii? Why are you here?" Bianka and Rita were going to pick up the valkyrie, but they saw Ein there with Susannah.

"Greetings, goshujin-sama. I am pleasantly surprised to meet you here in London." Rita, with immense speed. Changed to her maid outfit as Ein was there and a maid should serve her master at any time. (pic)

"Ahhh, I'm just picking up Susannah here with you guys. I was earlier, that's all." He reasoned and they didn't ask anything further.

"W-wow... The Golden Paragon and The Absolute Maid are picking me up too!? This is the best day ever! And I also saw Rita-san in her legendary maid uniform that only a few people has ever seen." Susannah is a young valkyrie that of course would idolize those who are more successful than her. So she could not believe that the 3 of them are escorting a measly B-rank valkyrie.

"Let's go?" Ein thought it was a pleasant surprise so he would go with them to find the 2nd key. Letting Elysia and the others cool off before he returns, wishing for Kevin and Su's safety.

Meanwhile, at Aesir. Kevin and Su were of course already brainwashed to the maximum by Elysia and Aponia. While MEI and Mobius supervised the procedure. The former feeling complicated and excited, as she once had the indecent thought of Su and Kevin going yaoi. Though she never thought of Ein like that, MEI couldn't imagine it.

"Hey MEI. Are you really okay with this? Kevin is your lover you know?" Eden asked with a raised brow. She wouldn't mind if Ein turned into a girl or something, but MEI was a different ball game.

"My curiosity is killing me Eden. This is for the name of science." MEI answered with a straight face as she has already thought about the scenarios for millions of times.

"MEI is correct Eden. You are an artist, no offense. But as women of science, this will certainly be a project worth the trouble." Mobius was curious as all hell too, the excitement palpable on her eyes.

"I... I'm a woman, trapped in a man's body." Kevin finally broke and Elysia clapped excitedly. "Aponia, keep on doing it to Su! Call Hua if you need to rearrange his memories with Fenghuang down!"

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At some posh hotel somewhere the 4 people who were in charge of finding the divine key were having a nice little afternoon tea time.

"This is the latest scanner Rita-san, this should be a big help in our search for the 2nd key. The overseer also said that they've searched the entirety of England for 500 years but didn't find anything, so we have to dig deeper." Susannah presented a device that could lock onto the honkai energy inside Soulium.

"Oh, failure is also not an option." Susannah then held onto Rita's hands with fervor. "I came from a family of mineral and jewel prospectors Rita-san! I am the perfect girl for this job, even the overseer said so!" Susannah's bubbly personality made Rita unable to say anything as she gave a strained smile.

"Now, now Susannah. Calm down girl, do you even have any idea where to look? Even minerals and jewels have hotspots remember?" Ein reigned down her enthusiasm as he patted her head and she blushed heavily. Not thinking about that before trying to excavate the key.

"I am very touched by your enthusiasm Susannah. Goshujin-sama is correct, we start with our first dig. With this humble stack of leads on the target, yes?" Rita showed Susannah the leads that Catherine gave her.

"Kyaa! Really??? That many? I... I'm bad at digging through notes, can I dig something else?" Susannah was terrified and was sure that she would die inside if she had to check all of the notes.

"Don't worry Susannah, we have an expert to help us with data mining." Bianka opened the door when somebody knocked and Catherine entered the premises.

"Allow me to introduce you director Catherine. This is Susannah, she's been tasked by Schicksal to help me excavate our target. And this, is my partner Bianka Ataegina." Rita was about to introduce Ein too but he raised a hand, he sipped some tea and looked at Catherine.

"How do you do? My name is Einheri Aesir, you are the director of the museum? Great job at finding these many leads." Ein browsed through the notes and he was impressed that she had so much detailed information about the 2nd key.

"W-what? The chairman of Aesir corp? N-nice to meet you sir." Catherine shook his hand nervously as even toddlers knew the company. And the masses do not know, but they already own the entire world.

"Don't mind me and Bianka here, we're just here to sightsee. Isn't that right Bianka?" Ein looked at the blonde and she nodded while eating skewers that he gave her voraciously.

"I... I see, then we should get started at once!" Catherine decided to not mind and opened up her laptop, looking at places where they could find the relic.

"Ohhh. It seems there are many places we have to go huh?" Susannah was buried in books and paper as she looked at the prospective spots to excavate.

"That's right, there are many places in England where the Arthurian legends are connected, but if I would have to pick. It would be Glastonbury, in the legends Merlin gave the divine sword to Arthur that was created by the fae. And Glastonbury is rumored to be Avalon too. The sword is linked to Avalon after all." Catherine concluded and everybody agreed.

The group traveled to Glastonbury Tor and Susannah jumped up and down a hill as she admired the view. "Wowwwie! This place is simply beautiful!"

"Yes, it is. But do not forget about our mission." Rita smiled as she was amused by Susannah's happy go lucky personality.

"You worry too much Rita-san, don't worry! I'll show you what I can do." The bubbly valkyrie started working and tried to locate any traces of the 2nd key with her new tech.

"It's pretty nice here, Rita. Contact the governments of England, tell them I'll buy it." Ein wanted to preserve the history of the place and what better way than to own it and not let idiots ruin it.

"Yes, I will contact them immediately." Rita sent messages to all of the ruling bodies of England and of course. They handed it over, or be ruined by Phyllis' machinations and then Aesir will just take the country.

"D-did he just say he'll buy England?" Susannah asked with a shaky voice as Bianka nodded. "He buys them when they have some pretty nice historical places like this." She shrugged and Susannah thought they were crazy. As he just bought a country like it was a purchase at a store.

And when they arrived Leila that was watching them received a message that the valkyries were now gathered.

"The Schicksal valkyries have arrived at the location. We can now proceed with the plan..." Leila said, but she didn't get to see Ein as he was invisible to every kind of surveillance whenever he was outside due to Venom.

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Thanks for reading everyone, Evil Su will be arriving a bit later with her version of keBin. While of course Su and Kevin turning into women is still undecided. It's pretty hard to pull off, needing an entire arc for themselves to really turn lmao. Anyways, ciao.