56 Himeko's House
St. Freya's Academy is a school founded by Theresa after she resigned from Schicksal due to their cold-blooded act of launching a nuke at Cecilia who was fighting the 2nd Herrscher ordered by Otto.
Theresa's original intention was to fulfill Cecilia's last wish, to create a special school for the Valkyries where they could find their own purpose.
At first she tried to adopt children abandoned due to the Honkai Eruption.
Then, she trained them to become capable Valkyries or become other related staff to fight against Honkai.
Of course, it didn't matter if the child didn't want to face Honkai when they grew up, so they could choose to leave St. Freya Academy to live and work as ordinary people.
The Academy would not hinder them in any way.
Even after Theresa rebelled against Schicksal and created her own organization, Otto did not object in the slightest.
He did not revoke Theresa's Authority over the Schicksal Database and even often provided assistance to her academy.
That was why St. Freya Academy did not lack resources.
St. Freya Academy began to flourish under Schicksal and Theresa's patronage, but what she didn't expect was the number of abandoned children caused by the Honkai Eruption.
That was because, with advanced technology capable of making the small-scale Honkai Eruption harmless, every city was equipped with early warning systems and adequate defense facilities, resulting in a relatively small number of casualties.
As for large-scale Honkai Eruptions...
This Third Eruption, compared to the previous large-scale eruption (Second Eruption), the number of casualties was not very large.
In addition, children's resistance to Honkai Energy is slightly weaker than that of adults in general.
In short, St. Freya Academy was short of students.
Theresa actually did not mind this. If one day, St. Freya Academy no longer accepted students, there were only two possibilities.
Either humans had been wiped out by Honkai or Honkai had been wiped out by humans.
If it was the former, Theresa would also be eliminated.
If the latter, then that would be better.
Theresa herself would gladly announce the closure of St. Freya Academy if that was the case.
There are currently just under 300 students at St. Freya Academy and they are subdivided into classes.
They were of similar age and aptitude with most of them having mediocre abilities.
In that case, other than the class rep (Fu Hua), no other student could be an A-ranked Valkyrie who could actually fight the Honkai Beast alone.
But now, with the entry of Kouro, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya into St. Freya Academy, Theresa naturally had to prepare some arrangements.
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One day after Kouro woke up from his coma.
Theresa asked the logistics department to provide Kouro's background information. Staring at the virtual screen containing Kouro's information.
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[Name: Hanagami Kouro]
[Gender: M]
[Age: 16 years old]
Height: 183 cm (6 feet)
[Weight: 75 kg (166 lbs)]
[Date of birth: 1998, May 12]
[Place of birth: Nagazora City, Tokyo, Japan]
[Father: Hanagami Sagaki (deceased)]
[Mother: Evelina Lunnaya (Deceased) ]
[2000 : Kouro's parents died in the Second Eruption disguised as an accident].
[2005: Ran away from home, has not returned until now.]
[2008 : Once kidnapped by a perverted woman, fortunately escaped. The downside is that Kouro suffers from mild Gynophobia. ]
Details: [November 18, 2005: Kouro was declared missing. The family who raised him frantically searched for him for 3 consecutive years, but failed to find any trace of him].
[Kouro only left a letter stating that he left home to attend training with his grandfather. He studied as an ordinary student at Tachikawa Academy].
[He interned at a branch company in ME. He had many academic and athletic achievements.]
[Further investigation is underway>>>].
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Reading the information on the virtual screen, Theresa felt that the logistics staff under her were incompetent.
Other than Kouro's rather tragic personal information, there was no other important information.
This made Kouro seem like an ordinary high school student.
But Theresa knows that Kouro can fight giant Honkai Beasts, thousands of Zombies damaged by Honkai Eruptions and destroy Anti-Entropy Titan Mecha single-handedly.
He was also quite knowledgeable about Honkai, yet they labeled him as an ordinary student!? If everyone in the world--- No, as long as the students of Tachikawa Academy are 'ordinary' like Kouro, then humanity can gain a great advantage in the battle against Honkai.
Due to Kouro's responsibility and overwhelming importance in this process, Theresa did not plan to pry too much from Kouro for now.
She chose to trust him, just as Kouro had trusted her before.
And regarding Kiana's identity, Theresa of course already knew it and didn't need to do any additional investigation.
As for the remaining two, Mei is the daughter of Raiden Ryoma, the founder and former president of the ME company, and Bronya is the daughter of the current ME company president, Cocolia.
Behind the ME Company was the Anti-Entropy organization, an enemy of Schicksal, and not an ally of St. Freya's Academy.
Is this a conspiracy from Anti-Entropy?
Because Raiden Mei turned into the 3rd Herrscher, Theresa decided to temporarily think like Anti-Entropy's mindset, which was to 'pull Herrscher to the side of Humanity' and lower her excessive vigilance.
Only, Mei's residence could not be shared with the ordinary students of St. Theresa's Academy.
To avoid becoming a pariah, Theresa immediately made the decision to let Kiana, Mei, and Bronya stay at Himeko's house.
Himeko's house still had some empty rooms and with Himeko's abilities, even if something happened to Mei, she would be able to handle it until help arrived.
And under Theresa's lead, they entered Himeko's house.
As they opened the door, their movements halted by the astonishing sight before them, Kiana paused before saying.
"...Is this house a garbage dump?"
Hearing the usually cheerful Kiana say such a thing showed just how astonishing the scene inside the room was.
There were books and shoes scattered on the floor, some clothes thrown on the sofa, empty beer bottles stacked beside the corner, there was shampoo, expired bread, etc.
All kinds of daily necessities and food were scattered around with a musty odor mixed with an unbearable smell of alcohol.
Observing all these things, sweat dripped down Theresa's forehead.
"Still as messy as ever, perhaps this is the world of old single women."
"Hey! Don't make fun of me like that, okay?"
Walking out from inside the room, Himeko appeared wearing an anti-radiation mask with a feather duster in her hand, refuting Theresa's claims.
Seeing Himeko's appearance like that, she seemed to be doing some cleaning before everyone arrived.
'After just a short cleaning, the room is still messy like this, then what was the appearance of this house before?'
Kiana, Mei, and Bronya thought while speechless.
While Kouro pitied Himeko while thinking, 'Are you in so much pain Himeko-san that you don't have time to clean up. '
Himeko became a little worried about her own impression at the moment because of Theresa's statement so she noticed everyone's expressions.
Kiana and the others' expressions were predictable, but what about Kouro's?
Why was this person looking at her with such a sympathetic expression?
But Himeko put it on the back of her head and wanted to say something, but considering the current situation she gave up.
"So principal Theresa, you don't expect everyone to stay with me, right? The others are fine, but what about Kouro? He's a man, you know?"
