Chapter - 7

"Checkmate " she said as her vectors grabbed Welt from the waist and slammed him against the ground and then against the wall

'An Herrscher...?' welt thought as he slowly rose up again. To the man's shock, Anastasia was no longer there, he started looking around before he found himself staring at the barrel of a gun

"try it anything funny and you're dead" Anastasia said as her vectors grabbed everything that Welt could use as a weapon. "What did you do to Cecilia?"

"nothing...we thought that she was a new weapon of Schicksal but it seemed we were wrong" Welt admitted with a defeated smile

"Cecilia is the strongest Valkyrie in Schicksal, what are you even saying?" Anastasia replied as her hatred could be seen in her eyes

Welt chuckled "She couldn't even beat me and yet you did it" he said calmly

Anastasia clicked her tongue "Any last words?"

"Long live humanity" Welt replied

Anastasia was about to squeeze the trigger when suddenly a communication from Otto popped out in her HUD

"Ana, where are you?" The overseer asked with a serious tone

"Dealing with trash" Anastasia replied

"Return immediately, we are leaving" Otto ordered

Anastasia was shocked "B-But grandpa, I..."

"It's overseer Otto when we are on a mission" The man replied harshly "This is an order, return immediately"

"As you wish" Anastasia said as she closed the communication "Seems luck was on your side this time" she said as she knocked out Welt with the back of her rifle.

The Jäger immediately returned where Otto commanded her too and saw Cecilia giving a lap pillow to a total stranger

"Good you are here" Otto said nodding

"Sir with all respect, I had captured to Anti-Entropy soldiers, Welt Young and Einstein" Anastasia said with a slightly annoyed tone.

Otto facepalmed angry at himself for having told Anastasia to return, he wasn't expecting Welt himself to come. He also made a mental note, he would check that the nanomachines in Anastasia's body are still suppressing her killer instincts, in his opinion, she just sounded like a battle-maniac.

"I'm sorry Ana, but I told you that our top priority was Cecilia" Otto said sighing "You've grown careless Cecilia" he said as he started walking towards the evac point "You are expected to be better than this"

"Lord Overseer...just give me a few more minutes" Cecilia begged Otto as she looked at the unconscious man on her lap

"You will leave now. Your Overseer has spoken" Otto said solemnly as he walked to the Evac point "Anastasia get this man to his home, then I'll reward you"

Cecilia widened her eyes when she heard the name of Anastasia, she looked at her in shock. Anastasia never went on a mission but even so, she defeated the enemies and only retreated because she was told to from Otto. Cecilia turned her gaze away ashamed as Anastasia lifted Sieg with her vectors while accessing the Schicksal's database in order to see where the man lived.

Anastasia raised an eyebrow when she read 'Siegfried Kaslana' but didn't say anything. She left a very sad Cecilia and went to the apartment of the man.

The place was messy as hell, there was a really foul smell in the air and worst of all, the man also didn't smell quite pleasant.- She put Sieg on the bed and covered him with the blanket since she couldn't stand seeing that room so messy she also cleaned up a bit with her vectors.

"Cecilia...don't go..." She heard the man sleeptalk

The Jäger sighed and went to the evac point where Otto and Cecilia were waiting for her

"Everything is done?" Otto asked getting a nod from Anastasia "At least someone was able to do their mission" he muttered as the Schicksal's aircraft landed behind him.

Cecilia remained silent as the aircraft slowly made route towards NY. Cecilia seemed to have noticed that and looked at Otto with a puzzled expression.

"This is not the route to the base" The Valkyrie said as her tone became concerned, she thought that someone just hijacked their aircraft but Otto just shook his head and sighed

"We are going to New York" he replied calmly as grabbed something out of his pocket and handed it to her "These are your medications, they should last long enough for the whole trip and the time to get back home"

"What are we doing there? Is this another mission?" she asked making the man sigh again annoyed

"No, this is Anastasia's gift for her first mission" Otto said as he crossed his arms "She asked for it and since I have no reason to deny her wish I accepted"

"Is this true?" Cecilia asked to Anastasia who had remained silent until now

"Yeah" She replied calmly "I just thought that I wanted to see it for myself since I only saw it in movies"

"How about this?" Otto proposed "After your next mission, I'll take you to another city"

Anastasia's eyes lit up "You really mean it?" she muttered as a big smile appeared on her face, she then realized that she was still on a mission so she cleared and throat and nodded "I-Is that so? I'm really grateful"

Otto patted her head as he threw a look at Cecilia "Of course, after all, you did a good job so far"

Anastasia blushed a lot at that and just nodded as Cecilia looked down at her feet saddened from having left Ziggy behind.

The rest of the journey was quite uneventful, the aircraft took its sweet time to reach NY and it was getting dark again. Otto made sure to give Anastasia a whole attic while he and Cecilia got a suite. The pink-haired girl didn't know where to look, everything so new to her eyes. There was one thing that attracted her more than anything, it was the view, New York lights left her dumbstruck, she didn't know how long she had stared out of the window or what was happening around but she was snapped out of the trance when Prophet placed himself in front of her.

Anastasia blinked a few times before giving an annoyed look at Prophet, who simply pointed his finger at the door.

She noticed that someone was knocking so she got up and opened the door. Cecilia was standing in front of her with a slightly embarrassed expression "Cecilia, what's wrong?"

"Can we...talk?" Cecilia asked as the other girl nodded and let her inside.