Chapter 48: "The war is over, but what the cost?"

In the stigma room...

After finishing helping Cecilia, and leaving Welt Yang to fight Sirin alone. K-423 began to stretch her muscles in preparation for the next.

Her invisible battle was about to begin.

A few minutes later, Einstein comes to the top of the Babylon Tower, and she manages to attack Sirin's real body with Selene.

Using Sirin's state where she can no longer feel the Herrscher's core inside her body due to Selene's machine attack. Einstein uses this opportunity to rip the conquest gem from Sirin's body, and she immediately sends it to their agreed secret location using an arm-rocket.

"One gem is missing..."

Seeing Sirin who suddenly realized that one of her herrscher core had been stolen by someone. K-423 saw the herrscher of Thunder's stigma disappear from Sirin's body, and she squinted her eyes seriously.

"It seems to maintain the true stigma status without herrscher core, requires a large supply of honkai energy. Although the honkai energy I've been saving so far is quite a lot, I don't have time to maintain a useless true stigmata."

K-423 lets the herrscher of Thunder's true stigmata disappear from Sirin's body.

She didn't need the gem of conquest power in her plan.

"Then next is this pufferfish will take out the herrscher of Reason core, and destroy it in front of Einstein. That's a very stupid step of revenge, Sirin."

K-423 scoffs briefly, before she gets to work again.

As Sirin took out the herrscher of Reason's core from her body. K-423, who disguised herself as the herrscher of Void's stigma, could feel the herrscher of Reason's stigma disappearing rapidly, and she immediately supplied immense honkai energy to maintain it.

"Ugh, it's heavy, but I can hold it."

Continuously tuning the channel of the honkai's energy supply connected to Herrscher of Reason's stigmata allowed those stigmata to persist, and not disappear. Herrscher of Reason's pale colored stigmata finally stabilized.

K-423 breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, the story plot is starting to get closer to the end.

In reality...

After her gem of conquest was stolen by Einstein, and she herself destroyed the herrscher of Reason's core which had the consciousness of Welt Yang hiding in it. Before Sirin had time to kill the helpless Einstein, a golden spear shot towards her, and Sirin immediately dodged.

"You again?"

Seeing Theresa trying to block her. Sirin clicked her tongue, before she dodged once again.

This time it wasn't the golden spear that attacked her. But a very hot fire bullet.

"What the hell is this plant?!"

Managed to dodge the attacks of the golden spears, and the fire bullets. For the third attack, the vines growing on the ground, Sirin didn't manage to dodge at all.

These vines grew too fast, and were also very thick. In a matter of seconds, her entire body had been entangled by it.

"Ce... cecilia, why are you here?"

Sirin looked at her in disbelief.

In front of her at this moment, there were three people from the Three Houses, as well as wielders of divine keys, who had come to block her way.

Siegfried Kaslana, holder of the 7th divine key, Judgment of Shamash.

Cecilia Schariac, holder of the 6th divine key, Abyss Flower.

Theresa Apocalipse, holder of the 11th divine key, Oath of Judah.

The three of them came here, to stop Sirin, the evil Herrscher of Void from destroying the world.

"You are just like the rest of them..."

Sirin's voice was full of an extremely gloomy tone. Her heart continued to plunge into the pitch-black darkness.

"Sirin..."

"You LIAR! YOU EVIL LIAR!"

"I thought you loved me, but now you want to KILL ME?!"

"YOU WILL NEVER LIE TO ME AGAIN!!!"

Uses the power of the Gem of Haste, and creates a giant fireball to attack them. Siegfried and Cecilia tried to take cover, but they were suddenly caught in a trap.

A portal had appeared where they landed, and sucked the two of them in.

They were caught in Sirin's trap.

When Theresa opened her eyes again. Both Siegfried, and Cecilia had disappeared from her sight.

"Cecilia? Siegfried? they're gone! What have you done to them?!"

Sirin answered Theresa's question arrogantly: "I locked them in my little prison. I plan to kill them last, they can enjoy a sense of helpless despair."

"Your mangled corpse will be the first thing they see when they return."

Theresa gripped the gold chain connected to the Oath of Judah tightly.

"I will not be your stupid corpse, Sirin!"

"Judah! it's time to show her what we've got!"

Theresa immediately used her ultimate move.

A body of gold, an oath eternal.

Cast down the foe into the dark infernal.

This is the hour to defend our honor.

Unchain and unleash Dour Zeroth Power.

"Zeroth Power Oath of Judah, ELIPSON PEDION!"

Unleashing the Zeroth Power Oath of Judah. An extremely large anti-energy field opened, and Sirin, who entered this field, immediately fell to the ground.

"What are you trying to do?"

"What have you done, my powers are fading!"

"It's gone! I've lost my powers!"

"Kyaaaaa!!!"

The situation on the battlefield was reversed once again.

The puffer fish, which was swollen, finally deflated again.

Falling from the sky because the power of the Herrscher of Void was sealed by the power of the zeroth Oath of Judah. Sirin panicked, and K-423, who became the stigmata on Sirin's body, almost vomited blood on the spot.

Herrscher of Reason's stigma had nearly disappeared due to the release of the anti-energy field created by the Oath of Judah. Coupled with this anti-energy field still continuing, the honkai energy she had stored within her stigmata was dwindling rapidly.

K-423 is unable to going cursing.

Theresa Apocalipse, I hate you!

"Huff... Huff..."

Gasping for breath, and couldn't put in enough energy to pay attention to someone who was cursing her secretly. Theresa leaned on the golden spear, trying to keep her body stand it.

"It worked... It's finally worked."

Theresa was getting more and more difficult to breathe.

Every time she breathed, Theresa felt every cell in her body scream in pain.

"But it hurts… It felt as though my body's breaking apart…"

"Hngh... I can hardly stay on my feet... I need to end this quickly..."

Being affected into the anti-energy field she made, and felt that every part of her limbs was getting weaker. Theresa gritted her teeth to lift the golden spear in her hand, and she immediately threw the spear at Sirin without hesitation!

Theresa used all her strength to throw this spear!

Theresa: "Hyaaa!!!"

Sirin: "!!!!"

Realizing that the golden spear would soon stab her heart so viciously. Sirin created a small barrier using Herrscher of Void's remaining power, and the spear managed to change direction.

The golden spear directly stabbed deeply into her stomach!

"Kyaaaaaa!!!!"

Sirin screamed in pain.

"It hurts! Why is this pain coming back again!!!!"

Felt an excruciating pain coming from her stomach. Sirin has PTSD, and she reminisces about things the scientist did to her when she was the subject of the experiments in the Tower of Babylon.

Sirin, felt like she had returned to the cold operating table.

She could feel the many gazes of scientists looking at her with cold gazes, in all around her.

"Please! Stop this pain! I will do anything! I promise to be a good girl!"

"Please don't inject me with that again! Please, I BEG YOU!!!"

I don't want to die!

Save me!

Save me!!

Save me!!!

Anyone please save me!!!

Please stop this pain!!!

I BEG YOU!!!!!

....

"Huff..."

Walking step by step towards Sirin who was lying on the floor. Theresa raised the golden spear in her hand high.

"I'm.. I'm so sorry..."

Sirin lowered her head and said in a somber tone.

"Drop your pretense, hypocrite. Go ahead, and do it."

Gripping the golden spear in her hand tightly. Theresa took a deep breath, and she immediately used all her strength to stab Sirin in the heart!

"BANG!!!"

The anti-energy field created by the Oath of Judah instantly collapsed.

Kneeling on the ground very exhausted. Theresa lowered her head, and her body also started to fall to the ground from running out of energy.

"Hngh... I think I've used up all my power..."

Theresa looked back at Sirin's corpse lying on the ground with a blank look.

"But it's over..."

"The war has finally ended..."

"...I'm sorry Sirin..."

"I'm so sorry..."

Theresa lay on the floor very weak.

The war is over.

But for some reason, her heart was currently filled with regret.

A tear fell from Theresa's face.