Beautiful dream

Inside a wooden house on a snowy plain, in the living room, there was a woman sitting on a sofa in front of a burning fireplace with her hand holding a picture frame.

"What are you looking at, dear?"

A pair of male hands hugged Kiana's neck from behind while asking affectionately.

"I'm looking at a picture of the celebration when we got married, Kouro."

Kiana rubbed the frame of the photo, revealing herself in a white wedding dress smiling happily as she hugged the arm of her future husband, whose face happened to be invisible as Kiana's thumbs covered his face.

"It's been twenty years since we got married... Remembering that day. Makes me feel nostalgic." Kiana murmured while smiling softly and leaned her head then closed her eyes into Kouro's hand whose face was not shown.

"Hahaha, I also still remember when on our honeymoon, you said you wanted to have enough children to make a soccer team." Kouro's mature and melodious voice sounded in her ears.

"Mou~ How many years has it been? And you still remember that?" Kiana said with a slight blush and pinched Kouro's hand.

"Hahaha~ No matter how much time has passed you're still cute, Kiana... This is what makes my love for you never fade."

Kouro's face, which was only the lower part, looked close to Kiana's face.

"Honey..." Kiana's eyes looked affectionate and closed her eyes to let Kouro's kiss her.

Unfortunately that was not possible.

Because this was just a beautiful dream.

...

*Beep-Beep-! *

Kiana immediately opened her eyes wide and unblinkingly stared at the ceiling.

Her body temporarily stiffened without caring about the annoying alarm clock.

Her brain was only focused on playing the flashback of that beautiful dream.

About 15 minutes later, Kiana immediately got up from her bed and rubbed her sleep-deprived face, this could be seen from the dark eye bags under her eyes and her messy hair.

"Why... Sweet dreams always stop at the fun part?" Kiana muttered in a slightly hoarse voice.

It had been more than 20 times that she had woken up and it was always the moment Kouro did something intimate to her.

It was really annoying!

It was similar to when you were ma*turbating but suddenly the 'material' you were watching suddenly 'Buffered' or your parents suddenly appeared behind you.

She didn't know that this was Sirin's ploy to get her addicted to the sweet dream of allowing her to show strong emotions of affection towards Kouro. So that Sirin can use these emotions to strengthen herself in controlling Kiana's body even though Sirin basically prefers negative emotions.

But that was okay, because Sirin found that conquering Kiana's consciousness was easier using beautiful dreams than nightmares.

Well... After all, people prefer good dreams in the long run to nightmares.

Sirin noted this in her heart. After all, unlike in the original plot, due to Kouro's interference, Sirin's main goal now was to make Kouro crazy about her or rather make Kouro her slave.

By the way, destroying the world and mankind is a secondary goal for her.

Basically Sirin is more concerned with Kouro than humanity and the world.

Kiana who finished rubbing her face then put on a pensive expression remembering last night while having dinner together.

Long story short, after Kouro and Mei started dating each other, the girls such as Ayame, Himeko, Bronya and herself then played a paper rock scissors game to determine the order of who would be Kouro's next girlfriend.

Naturally, Kouro said that he would focus on dating Mei for a maximum of 1 month before dating anyone else because he didn't want to do something like 'Bite off more than you can chew'.

Kouro wanted to slowly increase his relationship focus on one girl because he doesn't want to hurt the heart of the girl he was currently dating.

For your information, she came in last, Bronya second after Mei, Ayame third, and Himeko fourth.

Really if she knew like this, Kiana wanted to practice her rock paper scissors skills even better.

Unfortunately, rice has become porridged, so she could only be satisfied with the current situation.

Especially since they would all be staying at the academy for a few days, anyway as long as there were no missions, they would be staying at the academy for a while. Because if she remembered correctly, Kouro wanted to meet another Herrscher and wanted to help her.

What was her name... Euh... Welly? Wanda? Wendy... Right! Wendy!

Kouro wanted to meet the Herrscher today.

He also invited her and others like Himeko, Kallen and others but only Mei, Theresa, Ayame, Bronya and herself came.

Kiana then turned to the alarm clock because she wanted to turn it off before her body suddenly stopped when she saw what time it was.

[08:45]

"I'M LATE!!!"

Kiana's shout rang through the sky.

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A few minutes later.

Inside the Helios flying ship, Kouro and the others looked at Kiana.

"Although I knew that you often wake up late, I didn't expect it to be this late... Were you too sound asleep from being so full?" Kouro asked with a raised eyebrow.

Kiana didn't know what to say and could only laugh embarrassedly while scratching her head because she couldn't say the reason she woke up late was because the dream she had was too beautiful.

*Growl~*

"..."

Kiana held her ringing stomach with a flushed expression, she had previously been in too much of a hurry to eat anything.

"... Kiana, what do you want to eat?" Kouro asked with a smile.

Kiana tapped her forehead and almost forgot that Kouro could make unlimited food.

"I want to eat Pizza Toast!"

Kouro quickly materialized it using his [Death and Life] authority before giving it to Kiana.

Really, if Otto was here he would probably cry because Herrscher's extraordinary abilities, especially the Herrscher of Death was being used as a tool to make any food instantly.

"*Nom... *Nom... By the way, Kouro, how are you going to help, Wendy?" asked Kiana curiously while eating Pizza Toast.

Mei and the others' attention was also focused on Kouro.

Kouro was seen rubbing his chin while glancing up before saying, "I honestly haven't decided how I'm going to help her. But at the very least, I want to show her that she's not alone."

"Oh, right! Theresa-san, have you contacted Wendy yet?" Asked Kouro to the pilot room.

Quickly Theresa who was piloting the Helios replied, "Just now! But I didn't tell her that you are a Herrscher, Kouro."

"That's okay, that's even better because it means we can give her a nice surprise. "

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On the other side.

On a green plain near a small town, there was a young girl with short black hair and green eyes sitting in a wheelchair and looking up at the sky with an unknown expression.

She was Wendy, the future Herrscher of Wind because of the 'Gem of Desire' embedded in her leg that left her paralyzed.

"Miss Theresa... She said that someone wants to see me?"

From Theresa's voice she could tell that it was someone very important, was it Overseer Schicksal?

Wendy didn't know, but she hoped it wasn't the Overseer because she... would probably kill Otto as soon as she saw his face.

It was that person who dumped her here and made her a 'vessel' for the Gem of Desire without seeing her as a human.

The power of the Herrscher of Wind flowing inside her body merged with her hatred towards Schicksal.

The greater the emotion of hatred, the greater the power of Herrscher she could exhibit.

Therefore, she hoped that the person who wanted to visit her is not someone she hated.

...

A few hours later.

Helios quickly reached the destination and they all got off the flying ship while looking at the cityscape of New Zealand.

"Is she around?" Kiana asked while eating a donut and looking around curiously.

The city was strangely quiet with no residents, this made Bronya immediately activate the Honkai energy detection device from Bunny 19C.

"Bronya found that the Honkai energy in this place is higher and it is not recommended to stay here for a long time because of the fear of contracting Honkai disease and the emergence of threats such as Honkai Beasts and Zombies."

"This place has higher levels of Honkai energy... Is it not used to stabilize the energy of the 'Gem of Desire'?" Theresa muttered.

This is truly inhumane, these Oceania researchers completely isolated Wendy from human settlements...

But if you think about it logically this must be done as a safety measure for the civilians.

Kouro looked in a certain direction before saying, "I think I know where Wendy is. Follow me."

Using his enhanced intuition, Kouro walked with his hands in his pockets followed by Mei and the others.

Kouro glanced around with strange eyes because with his intuition he discovered that Honkai Beasts or Zombies upon discovering his aura immediately ran away from him.

What the hell... If they kept running away like that, Kouro wouldn't get any 'Exp' to raise his level.

Well... Maybe this was the reason why he was given a ' Sanctuary Key'? So that he could level up elsewhere easier and… more efficiently?

Kouro quickly dispelled this thought as he found Wendy whose back was to them and was under a tree for shelter.

"Miss Wendy?" Kouro said while calling her in a friendly tone.

"She is Wendy? I originally thought she was very strong, but... It turns out she looks weak..." Said Kiana who was immediately hit by Kouro.

"It's not good to criticize someone's appearance, Kiana."

"Ouch! Sorry."

Hearing someone call out to her, Wendy then turned around slowly before being surprised to find that the people visiting her were a group of teenagers several years younger than her.

"Yes. You are?" she said softly.

Wendy had a gentle personality and tended to be shy as not many people communicated with her.

"Hello, I'm the one who wants to see you, you can call me Kouro. This fool is Kiana, please forgive her for what she said earlier. This is Mei, she is my girlfriend. Then this little one is Bronya, and this is Ayame."

"Who are you calling stupid?"

"Bronya is not small!"

Bronya and Kiana yelled at Kouro for his introduction.

"... It's okay, I don't mind. By the way, why did you want to see me?"

"Ah? Before that, let Miss Theresa say something to you first." Kouro said while inviting Theresa to approach Wendy.

"Theresa-sama..." said Wendy while looking at Theresa who approached her with a complicated expression.

"Wendy... I'm sorry. Because of me... You became like this..." Theresa said sincerely.

Wendy blinked before finally smiling, "It's okay, Theresa-sama... This was my choice from the beginning, you don't need to feel sorry, it's not your fault."

It had been almost two years since Wendy became the 'vessel' for the Gem of Desire and almost no one came to her and chatted like this, most who came to her were researchers who wanted to see the state of the Gem of Desire.

Seeing Theresa apologize to her... Wendy felt a bit of resentment in her heart disappear, replaced by relief.

Wendy felt her mood become good and then turned to look at Kouro, "You... What's your reason for seeing me?"

Kouro took a step closer to Wendy before saying with one hand on his chest.

"Let me introduce myself seriously. I am Kouro, the Herrscher of Death. Next to me, Mei, she is a Herrscher of Thunder while Ayame is a Pseudo-Herrscher of Nature. Greetings."

Wendy blinked a few times with a surprised expression, she was truly shocked at Kouro's words to the point of disbelief.

After all, Herrschers were a very rare and dangerous existence so it would certainly be under constant surveillance.

As if sensing Wendy's disbelief. Kouro, Mei and Ayame then demonstrated their Herrscher abilities.

Kouro created a living animal, a dove, out of thin air before releasing it and letting it fly.

Mei created a ball of lightning in her hand before throwing it creating a huge explosion.

Meanwhile, Ayame grew various types of flowers under their feet and controlled them to dance like living creatures.

"Wow..." Wendy was completely dumbfounded.

After showing all that, Kouro then extended his hand towards Wendy with a serious expression before asking.

"Will you join us in destroying Schicksal?"

This time it was Theresa and the others' expressions that were dumbfounded.