Chapter 38

May 8, 2008

And so it has been 3 weeks since Yae Sakura's reunion with Kallen and Yae Rin. And some things have changed since that day. 

Yae Sakura smiled a lot more after that. Before when she gave a smile it was a bit forced, it was like a mask she wore to hide her loneliness. But now she can give a genuine happy smile more often now.

At least once a day she visits Kallen and Yae Rin who are in the stigmata space of Yae village. 

Kallen started training Ryusuke on how to fight using pistols. She offered to train Ryusuke in the use of pistols, Ryusuke asked her if she doesn't have a problem with this because he knew she would probably end up teaching him about the Kaslana family fighting style. But she replied that there was no problem with that, as the Kaslana family gun kata exists to protect people who are dear to them. And although Kallen knows that Ryusuke will not go around saving people unknown to him, she knows that he would do whatever was possible to protect people who are close to him. And that is why she feels it is okay to teach the Kaslana family gun kata to him.

At least two nights a week when Ryusuke goes to sleep he trains with her, as the Ryusuke stigmata space is a mental place so he can create a training ground in Vila Yae and practice there when he is sleeping. Although Ryusuke only does this training twice a week. After all, he doesn't want to have mental problems because he's overburdening himself. For during the day he trains fencing with Yae Sakura at least 5 days a week. He won't go around training 24 hours a day, if he did that he would go crazy with stress. 

Yae Rin was very curious about Ryusuke's library and she spends a lot of time reading the books there, she was also very close to Morgan.

As for Herrscher of Corruption, she also spends time in the library reading books to avoid boredom. Once in a while the two meet and start the cursing battle between them, but luckily the situation never got out of hand between these two.

About school, it was the same as always. Kyuusyou posing as Chuunibyou and Griseo accompanying Ryusuke and Kyuusyou, so far there has been no abnormal movement on the part of Griseo but Ryusuke never let his guard down near her.

And today something very expected happened for Ryusuke. 

"Hahahaha, finally ... I finally made it..." Ryusuke laughed with satisfaction that he finally managed to accomplish what he was trying to do for three weeks. 

After 3 weeks he managed to infiltrate Schicksal's mainframe. 

Although Ryusuke can only use only a small fraction of the power of Corruption, it is still a very absurd power, the Herrscher of Corruption would only need a minute to invade Schicksal's mainframe without being noticed if it used its full power.

If Einstein and Tesla tried to do the same thing as Ryusuke then they would have spent an entire year to achieve the same result as him.

In these three weeks Ryusuke slowly and gradually invaded Schicksal's system. And he was very lucky that he was not detected. 

"Now let's check what's going on at Schicksal. Where's Serenity Gem at?"

Ryusuke then started browsing Schicksal's files. Of course he explored the files very carefully, in fact, there were some files that he didn't dare to snoop on, such as Kallen-related files. These files are being protected by very strict security if Ryusuke tried to see those files so there would be a 100% chance that it would be discovered by Otto Apocalypse. 

As expected of Otto, he is Kallen's ultimate simp. 

After a few minutes Ryusuke finally found the information about Herrscher Gem, and he was surprised by some things he discovered. 

'It looks like there will be more experience of implementing Serenity Gem in a few days. And the Valkyrie who will be the test subject is that girl who is Dr. Magi's granddaughter, what was her name again?... Ah, I remembered... Her name is Lin.' 

Ryusuke was surprised to see that this girl will be part of this experiment, and soon after he felt sorry for her, because he remembered that in the history of the game this experiment was a failure and she died in a way that left nothing of her body.

Herrscher Gem are a smaller form of Herrscher nuclei that were given to Sirin by the Will of Honkai to help it destroy today's civilization. Each of these Herrscher Gem has a weaker version of the power of other Herrschers from the Previous Age. 

There are four Herrscher Gem, which are:

Haste Gem has the power of the Herrscher of flame.

Conquest Gem has the power of the Herrscher of Thunder.

Desire Gem has the power of the Herrscher of Wind. 

And Serenity Gem has the power of the Herrscher of Death.

Speaking of Serenity Gem, Gem has the powers of the Herrscher of Death. And the power of this Herrscher can be summed up in a simple way, her power is the decomposition and restoration of anything alive. The ability to control life and death. 

During the experiment, Lin was unable to withstand Honkai energy within Serenity Gem and thus Gem's power got out of hand. Serenity Gem began to release the Steam of Serenity that had the power of decomposition, Lin and the other scientists had their bodies completely disintegrated by the power of the decomposition of the Steam of Serenity. 

'This experiment will take place at Schicksal's floating headquarters ... interesting, it looks like another experiment involving Desire Gem will take place on the same day in New Zealand. Oh, and Valkyrie who will be part of this experiment will not be Wendy, although I find this a little strange I am also happy that she is not present...' Ryusuke was perplexed about this event. 

As far as he remembers, Wendy's experiment took place at the same time as Lin's experiment. Unlike Lin she managed to keep the Desire Gem stable inside her body but unfortunately she couldn't use the power of the Herrscher of Wind. In addition to the fact that she was unable to use Gem's power, she also became paraplegic and lost her leg movements. 

Unfortunately Schicksal decided to leave her as she is because she can contain Gem's Honkai energy, if they remove Desire Gem from her body there would be a risk that Gem's Honkai energy will get out of hand and cause a small Honkai eruption in the area. She had to stay at the New Zealand branch base for observation. 

Before, her identity was that of a Valkyrie rank-A with a bright future, but then she lost her leg movements and was considered only as the container of Desire Gem, naturally with such a life she would slowly accumulate many negative feelings but she did not give herself to Honkai, she resisted and did not fall into the temptation to want revenge on the people who did this to her. But unfortunately everyone has their limit. 

When she realized her situation was not going to change so she despaired and it gave the gap that Honkai needed. As she had Desire Gem inside her body she ended up becoming the fourth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Wind. 

Unfortunately she was killed very early and she didn't have time to develop her powers, because of this everyone who played the game considers her to be the weakest Herrscher of the Current Age. 

'Although I'm curious about why Wendy isn't in the New Zealand experiment, I should now focus on Serenity Gem.' Ryusuke thought. 

He started checking all the routines within the Schicksal system. If he was going to infiltrate Schicksal to steal Serenity Gem then he should know the place like the back of his hand.

Ryusuke decided that he would steal Serenity Gem just before the experiment happened, because that way he will be able to take them by surprise. 

Schicksal must have put in place enhanced security to protect the Desire Gem in New Zealand, they would never expect the Serenity Gem being kept in their headquarters to be stolen right under their nose.