Chapter 29: Other Ways

The girl had a dream.

A painful and powerless dream.

In her dream, she was scolded by her mother for oversleeping in the morning.

She still remembered that the first class after arriving at school was math class... the white-haired transfer student who had just transferred in was dozing off again.

Then...

Then there were screams coming from the corridor. Just like the zombies in the movies, they rushed in and bit the necks of teachers and students...

What follows is endless pain and an immobile body.

'What exactly happened?'

'Why do I have to suffer such torture?'

'Why is she always the unfortunate one?'

'My mother always hated me, and I would be scolded if I made even the smallest mistake.'

'My classmates have also been distancing themselves from me and bullying me.'

'I hate it, I hate it. This world is better off being destroyed...'

There seemed to be a voice telling her something in the dark.

Obey its will and bring destruction to this world...

She felt she was about to step into an indescribable abyss.

——Then, the dream came to an abrupt end here.

"...!"

The girl suddenly opened her eyes and sat up from the bed.

She couldn't help but gasp, and two drops of cold sweat appeared on her cheeks.

"Is this... the school's infirmary?"

The girl recognized where this place was.

But why is she here?

She rubbed her forehead, trying to remember why she was here. However, she had just woken up and her thoughts were still in a mess, unable to sort out.

Then, two figures came into her sight.

A man and a woman. She didn't know the man, but she knew the other one.

Yuna said in surprise:

"You, you are...Mei-senpai?"

Mei Raiden's fame is widely known in all senses within Chiba Academy.

"Yes, Yuna-san, it's me."

Mei nodded and spoke in a gentle tone.

Kirataka saw this and told Mei:

"Mei, I'll leave her affairs to you. I'm going to go outside for a while."

The purple-haired girl nodded, sat down beside the bed, and explained softly to the girl on the bed:

"A disaster has occurred in Nagazora City. Chiba Academy and the entire city have been destroyed. Next, we will send you to a place..."

As soon as the Herrscher of Thunder made a move, she easily plundered all the Honkai energy that had originally gathered on Yuna, interrupting her process of becoming a pseudo-Herrscher.

Without Honkai energy, this girl cannot be transformed into a Pseudo-Herrscher.

After that, Mei and Kirataka found a relatively intact medical room and let the sleeping girl rest there temporarily.

While Yuna was sleeping, Kirataka and Mei reported the information here to Theresa, and the principal made the decision.

——Of course, just like she recruited Kirataka and the other four before, Yuna will be recruited as a student into St. Freya Academy.

After all, she is a girl who is qualified to be chosen by Honkai to become a Pseudo-Herrscher. In other words, she is a chosen one who possesses good resistance to Honkai.

In this case, St. Freya Academy will naturally not reject such talents.

Anyway, that's roughly how Yuna handled it.

Kirataka left the infirmary and closed the door gently.

The silver-haired girl was seen leaning against a nearby wall while holding the Homu doll.

Although she was silent as usual, Kirataka, who knew what she had just experienced in the academy, understood that her mood at the moment was probably not as calm as she appeared.

Closing his eyes, Kirataka asked the Miko who possessed him:

"Ms. Sakura, how was your conversation with Bronya?"

"I told her everything you taught me. She didn't agree to the deal right away, but she didn't show any refusal either."

Yae Sakura's voice echoed in my mind.

The content of the transaction was naturally very simple. On one hand, it was to find a way to get Seele back, and on the other hand, it was to ask Bronya to betray Cocolia.

"I told her at the end that I would go back to her after a while to confirm her thoughts."

"That's enough. I didn't expect to succeed in one try."

After all, with the many years of upbringing behind her, it is not realistic for Bronya to betray Cocolia immediately.

Moreover, from another perspective, he also needs time to find a way to get Seele back.

——All things are difficult at the beginning. The first point is how to enter the quantum sea.

The door to the sea is not so easy to open.

According to the original timeline, Bronya opened the passage to the Quantum Sea through the remains of the previous civilization [Sea Abyss City] controlled by Anti-Entropy, and with the help of the previous civilization's surveying facility [eye of the deep], she began her journey to find Seele.

However, if Kirataka planned to find Seele in advance to persuade Bronya to rebel, he would definitely not be able to take this route.

The ruins on the bottom of the sea belonged to Anti-Entropy and were heavily guarded. As a member of the Schicksal Organization, he had no way of getting close to that place.

For now, he plans to try another route:

——The Schicksal must also have a way to enter the Quantum Sea. After all, when Durandal was still an A-level Valkyrie, she once went to the World Bubble with Rita to carry out a mission.

Of course, if one wants to follow the path of Schicksal, this cannot be accomplished with the power and resources of the Far East Branch alone.

This would inevitably require him to come into contact with the headquarters of the Schicksal, and naturally, he would come into contact with the shrewd Bishop of the Schicksal.

For Kirataka, who chose to enter St. Freya Academy and join the protagonist group, this was something that he would encounter sooner or later and could not be avoided, so he had no resistance to it.

Since we will encounter it anyway, it doesn't matter if it happens earlier or later.

But at least at this stage, he did not think that his actions would conflict with the Bishop of Schicksal who was determined to resurrect Kallen.

Of course, it would be nice to have more cards in hand before the inevitable contact.

Well, anyway, let's put this matter aside for now.

Yuna's work, or the task assigned by Theresa, has basically been completed.

However, when he came to Nagazora City, he also had another thing to do.

Thinking of this, he said to the silver-haired girl beside him:

"By the way, Bronya, Mei will stay here to take care of Yuna, but I have to go somewhere else before leaving Nagazora City. Do you want to come with me?"

"...?"

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