Chapter 16

(Rei pov)

Hearing Kiana's words, I couldn't help but laugh.

Even though I felt sorry for Siegfried, who loved cooking but was cursed never to make delicious food that anyone could enjoy, I was happy he found someone who would appreciate his efforts.

Aunt Cecelia is a beautiful woman that every man wants to have. She is a loving mother and does everything to understand her child. She even tries to understand me—what I want to do, what I find funny, and what could make us happy.

Then there is Kiana, a lonely little girl who doesn't have anyone her age to play with. I know that feeling very well because I don't have many friends. My parents died, and I was taken in by my grandparents. Their child is too busy to visit, but they try their best not to feel lonely.

That's the main reason I travel a 3-hour road trip to go to college and return to our old village. I can't just leave them and rent an apartment.

I'm not alone in this, my girlfriend accompanies me.

Her caretaker retired in our village, and her parents don't care about her. They only take care of her until she turns eighteen and then plan to discard her, despite her being beautiful, intelligent, and responsible. If your parents don't want you, they don't want you.

Her parents didn't marry out of love but due to family circumstances. When they got drunk, they conceived my girlfriend, whom they see as a mistake. But their trash is my treasure, and I will do everything to make her happy. Now that I think about it, I already miss her. I just need to wait another two years and hope everything goes well for everyone.

Are you surprised that I have a girlfriend? I'm not a loner and I know how to talk to people. I could even scam random passersby if I wanted to.

I looked at Sirin, a girl with a tragic past that makes mine look insignificant, though everyone's experiences are different.

It felt as if we were tested by fate itself, pushing us to grow stronger for the future.

I don't have a specific dream, but I often wonder about what the future holds. It may seem meaningless to others, but it's important to me.

Now, Sirin was smiling and laughing happily. This showed how competent Aunt Cecelia is. She's a woman I truly admire.

Wait, is it possible for my dream to be seeing everyone important to me smile? Now that I've found my dream, what should I do next?

Of course, to train my body, I've already created a training regimen suitable for a kid like me, and it's fun.

With the Honkai beasts and Herrscher emerging from the past era, I doubt that remaining weak is a good idea.

Despite having a perfect body, I still need to train for battle experience, which I need the most. With Aunt Cecelia, the strongest Valkyrie, teaching me, my future looks bright.

But my main focus right now is creating Dota.

What do I know about Dota? I didn't play it when I was younger. In fact, I have no idea about the game, so I quickly discarded the idea of creating it.

My second choice is League of Legends. I want to see some trash talking anyway.

I want to see some violence. I'm bored with the games in this world; they're full of cute bunny dolls. Too much cuteness isn't good for me.

Hmm, how about I add some characters from the Fate series to League of Legends? I could also add characters from legends.

Hehehe, now I can imagine players going on a rampage while others troll.

I'll slowly bring games from my world into this one. There's not even a popular app like Facebook or a site like YouTube.

It's boring when I've already read everything I want and need to learn. Heck, I could even get my license as a doctor and engineer at this age.

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(Theresa pov)

"This is the place where the Oath of Judah leads us," I said to Siegfried and Welt, who followed me here.

In front of us was a giant ball made from the remains of Honkai Beasts, with dense Honkai energy surrounding it.

"What is this thing? Will we find the purple-haired little girl here?" I wondered, looking at the giant egg made from Honkai and reaching out to touch it.

"Don't touch that! That giant egg emits a massive burst of Honkai energy," Welt warned.

"I understand," I replied, turning away from the egg. But then I felt a hand on my shoulder, pulling me inside the giant egg. "What?"

"Theresa!" Siegfried shouted, sprinting toward me, but it was too late. As I passed through the egg, I felt like I was floating in the sea and heard an unknown voice.

"Your parents have died from a disease."

"It's called Honkai Corruption, but you don't need to be scared. Schicksal will take care of you from now on. Furthermore, you girls are very lucky. Schicksal has a vaccine for Honkai, but we need to experiment on you first."

"Stop!" I immediately tried to stop the scientist from experimenting on the kids. They were only young children who hadn't even seen the beauty of the world, and yet they planned to experiment on them. I had to stop them.

"IT HURTS! UWAHH!"

Hearing the cry from behind, I turned around and saw the purple-haired girl writhing in pain and crying.

"This test subject is expiring too? What a useless bunch," the scientist said with disdain for the kids.

I looked at the scientist and made sure to engrave his name in my memory. I'm going to make sure he gets a taste of my fist once I finish this mission.

"Aurora, Bella, Agata... Rest well, everyone," the little girl crouching in the snow said as she looked at the graves of three people with sadness in her eyes.

I felt saddened by this scene. She doesn't deserve treatment-none of them do.

"Hey, are you done burying those failures?" the scientist asked with disdain, looking at the purple-haired girl in annoyance. "Hurry up, we need to continue the experiment. I don't want to waste any more time on these."

I clenched my fist in anger, swearing to myself that I would do everything in my power to make this doctor pay, no matter what.

I hugged the purple-haired girl from behind. "I'm sorry for everything," I said, feeling pity for not coming here sooner. If only I knew this place existed, if only I knew what was happening to these kids.

"Hehehe," the purple-haired girl laughed. "Do you think this is a false apology?" she said with a crazed laugh. "Too bad! I want revenge! I'll kill everyone in Schicksal!"

She announced as everything

crumbled, and now we were in her domain where there was nothing but a void.

"I'll destroy everyone in Schicksal! However, I can let you go; you look the same age as me," she said arrogantly as her dress fluttered in the air. "Also, there is the scent of Honkai on you. Do you want to join me? How about it?"

"This way, I'll let you live until the world's destruction."

Just how burdensome this little girl is. I can't let her continue. If Schicksal is gone, no one will fight against the Honkai, and we can't trust Anti-Entropy that much.

And her killing a lot of innocent people isn't something I can ignore. I need to stop her before she goes too far. She doesn't even understand what she's saying anymore.

"I have to refuse your invitation. Please give up your hatred." I looked at the little girl. I couldn't help but feel sad for her. "Otherwise, I have to stop you."

Raising Oath of Judah, I planned to neutralize her.

She looked at me with a bored gaze. "What a shame, I even shared my experience with you."

"I thought you'd be able to understand me. Whatever." She flicked her finger, and those invisible hands once again tried to immobilize me and even successfully took the Oath of Judah from my hands.

I must do something. I can still feel my connection to Judah.

I felt something behind my back and when I looked around, I saw a portal opening.

*SPLASH*

I was thrown underwater. If I were a normal human, I might get chills from the cold, but I have the blood of Kaslana within me, so this is nothing.

I need Oath of Judah to sense me and track me down to this place.

Just like Dr. Einstein said, Oath of Judah can sense Honkai energy, so using that ability, I'll release my Honkai energy for it to track me down.

*Clink! Clink!*

Seeing the familiar golden chain, I grabbed it. As expected of my Judah, you found me.

Getting back to the familiar domain, I saw the purple-haired girl alerted by my presence.

"You can't get rid of me that easily. I can use my Judah to link us together." I grabbed hold of Judah. "Stop now, I don't want to fight you."

"You wasted my good intention," the purple-haired girl glared at me and brought a giant spear out of nowhere. "I only need a second to defeat you!"

I used Judah in front of me to act as a shield, but the spear passed through it.

Judah didn't block it?

Then something shocking happened. The spear passed through me. Is this a hologram?

*Snap*

The holographic spear suddenly turned into a real object, but it was too late to realize it now as it pierced my stomach.

"This spear is real?" I wanted to know the answer.

My vision slowly turned dark, but before I lost consciousness, I saw Welt opening the barrier within her domain.