Chapter 61: Anna Schariac
In a corner of the airport, a little girl faced the zombie approaching from all sides, weakly grasping her mother's clothes, crying and shouting:
"Mom...save me..."
She didn't know what was going on and could only instinctively ask for help from her mother behind her.
It is a natural instinct for young children to seek help from their parents, which is true for any living thing.
But her mother had already lost her breath of life at the moment of the eruption, leaving only a cold corpse, and there was no way to provide her with any shelter.
The little girl curled up in the corner and shivered. Seeing the zombie's sharp claws about to touch her skin, a spiritual spear suddenly pierced through its chest. The power attached to the spiritual spear made the zombie quickly lose its life, and it fell powerlessly on the ground.
She only saw a kind-looking older brother behind the zombie.
Kirataka then pointed in a certain direction of the airport and said to her in a gentle tone:
"Little sister, I'll take you over there. It's safe over there."
"Okay, okay...thank you, big brother..."
The crying little girl was picked up by Kirataka. His feet were shining with electricity, and he was taken to the area where the survivors gathered at lightning speed.
"Huh... this is the last one."
Although they are survivors, there are actually not many of them.
Using his ability to go back in time, he has searched the entire airport inside and out and rescued a group of survivors according to the planned route.
However, in this huge airport, after walking around while clearing out the Honkai beasts, he finally found only a dozen survivors, and most of them were teenagers who were forced to awaken some of their stigmata in the high-concentration Honkai energy environment.
——It is not easy for ordinary people to survive the Great eruption. It is a bit extravagant to describe the chance of survival as one in ten thousand.
"You all stay here. It's safe here. No more monsters will come. Um... after a while, a rescue team will come to save you."
After Kirataka comforted the surviving children once again, he left the airport without stopping.
In the face of a disaster, everything must be done against the clock. Every second of delay may result in the loss of countless lives.
He came to a high-rise building near the airport and looked toward the city center from above. It was a tragic scene of hell on earth.
A large number of Honkai beasts are roaming around, and the once prosperous city has turned into ruins.
But thinking back to his escape route in Nagazora, there should still be many survivors now that the eruption has just occurred.
——Because airports are generally built far away from the city center, the impact of the Honkai invasion here is much lighter than that of the city center, which has completely turned into a hell on earth, and the number and level of Honkai beasts are also much smaller.
After clearing out the Honkai beasts in the airport, this airport, which covers a large area, has become a relatively safe shelter.
Although there is a possibility that external Honkai beasts will continue to invade, it is still something that can be prevented.
Therefore, he planned to use this airport as a gathering point for the survivors.
It was unknown when Schicksal's reinforcements would arrive. Right now, Kirataka planned to enter the city center to look for survivors and lead them to the airport for refuge.
The Manila eruption was the largest Honkai disaster to ever occur in Southeast Asia.
Although no new Herrscher was born, the entire city was almost destroyed. The damage it caused was no less than the eruption on Nagazora, affecting more than tens of millions of ordinary people.
Although Kirataka knew that a large-scale eruption would break out in Manila, he was not sure when it would happen. As luck would have it, he happened to witness the scene.
Even if he goes back to before the eruption to give an early warning, it is meaningless. A city with a population of over 10 million cannot be effectively evacuated within a few hours.
Even if he gave a warning to the Schicksal Headquarters, he could not provide effective evidence to prove his "prophecy" and would instead be suspected by the suspicious Bishop of Schicksal.
Moreover, to ordinary people, the existence of [Honkai] is a completely unfamiliar thing — Schicksal and Anti-Entropy have always blocked the information in this regard and prevented ordinary people from being exposed to the concept of Honkai.
With a sigh, Kirataka jumped down from the tall building and ran towards the city center at high speed.
In order to find as many survivors as possible, he had to rely on his time travel.
Countless scenes appeared in Kirataka's eyes. At the same time, he went deep into various parts of the city, looking for the breath of living people.
............
At the same time, under the dark clouds, a chestnut-haired girl was running at full speed.
While running, she kept saying:
"I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'm sorry…"
This was the first time that the young Valkyrie faced the bloody battlefield of Honkai eruption. She muttered to herself while searching for a way out among the ruins.
Not long ago, with the outbreak of the Great Honkai, the Snow Lotus Team she belonged to was attacked by a large number of Honkai beasts. The captain disappeared in the explosion and her whereabouts are unknown. The part of the team members who barely escaped were also torn into pieces and could not contact each other.
From the most pessimistic point of view, they are likely to have already...
The girl shook her head.
Now, she should evacuate to the assembly point immediately, contact the outside world, and seek help.
The communicator has lost its function, and the unchanging noise coming from it has become the only main theme in this scorched earth.
She is very scared.
The fear of being alone on a dangerous battlefield made her speed up her pace.
At this moment, she sensitively heard the sound of pebbles rolling down.
"…"
The girl stopped hesitantly.
She looked around, and finally, her sight fell on a collapsed building.
As a Valkyrie, her physical fitness gave her extraordinary senses, but the psychological burden of facing the battlefield for the first time also made her a little at a loss as to what to do.
The girl stayed there for a few seconds waiting, but the voice did not come again.
She couldn't confirm whether the sound was real or just an illusion caused by her panic.
So she looked away and took a step forward, wanting to escape from here and away from the ruins.
"I'm sorry, I have a more important mission... I have to meet up with the others..."
The girl murmured to herself as if trying to defend herself.
Of course, she knew very well that this was just an excuse.
The Valkyrie who was supposed to protect this city now did not think about saving the people but only thought about how to evacuate to a safe place. This made the chestnut-haired girl silently think of a word —
[deserter].
"No, it's not..."
The girl hesitated and stopped again.
She remembered the oath she had sworn on the day she became a Valkyrie: to not fear hardship, pain, or death.
She also recalled the letter she had written to her friend Bianca not long ago, wanting to catch up with the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal.
As a descendant of the Schariac Family, she has always hoped that she could become the protector of the people and bring hope to the people who are trapped in disaster. She hopes that she can become an excellent Valkyrie like Bianca and Cecilia, her predecessors in the family.
She has been working hard for this and became a Valkyrie for this.
But at this moment, disaster is right in front of her, but she does not have the courage to realize her ideals.
Now, her ideals and the vows she once made seemed to be shattered just like this city.
——She was so weak and lacked courage that she couldn't even save the life that was so close to her.
"No, that's not what I want to do...!"
In the end, the girl chose to turn around and gave up on escaping. She ran towards the ruins trembling, choosing to go back into the ruins to look for any survivors she didn't know if they existed.
On the way to the ruins, there seemed to be a voice in her heart constantly warning her:
If she returns to the ruins now, she might be attacked by a large number of Honkai beasts at any time. She is alone, and there is a high possibility that she will not be able to come back alive!
With such a large-scale eruption, it is very likely that a Herrscher will be born like in Nagazora. However, with the combat capability of an A-rank Valkyrie, it is obviously impossible to deal with a Herrscher-level existence!
Even if she rescued the survivors, how could she lead ordinary people who had no combat ability to avoid a large number of Honkai beasts and reach a safe place — she didn't even know which place was safe.
No matter what, choosing to save people now would be a life-threatening journey.
But the chestnut-haired girl eventually returned to the ruins.
But when she returned to her original location, she found another person unexpectedly appeared in the ruins.
He was a black-haired boy, and judging from his appearance, he should be about the same age as her.
There was a strange blue electric light flowing on his body, and he was breathing slightly, which showed that he had just arrived here.
Anna keenly noticed the communication device on his waist, which was the same as hers.
In other words, he is also a member of Schicksal...
In any case, the fact that she met another person at the disaster scene made her feel a little more at ease.
Just when the girl was about to say something, the other party spoke first:
"...I am Kirataka from the Far East Branch. There are still survivors under the ruins. Come and help."
(TL: If you want to read more chapters early, check out my Patreon for more advanced updates~
link: patreon.com/Elysia_Husband)