Herrscher met Herrscher

15 minutes later.

With Helios' extremely high speed, it did not take long for them to return to St. Freya academy.

Then, Helios landed at the St. freya academy's private hangar.

After the plane successfully landed, Kouro and Ayame unfastened their seat belts first before getting out, Ayame was seen following behind Kouro.

"Whoa!!!"

Ayame was mesmerized by the view of St. Freya's academy from behind Kouro, especially with the sunlight shining on the large palace-like building they could see from a distance.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" said Kouro.

"Um!" Ayame nodded her head happily.

After a while, Theresa also got off the airplane before walking in front of Ayame with large strides while spreading her arms.

"Welcome to St. Freya Academy!"

After her statement, theresa then informed Ayame of the ground rules and gave her the spare key for the extra room inside Himeko's house.

"For more details, you can ask Himeko-sensei. ah, she's the redhead over there."

After finishing, Theresa rushed to her office to make a report about today and also Ayame's recruitment documents.

Not far from their position, Himeko, Mei, Bronya, and Kiana were waiting for them with Kiana waving her hand at Kouro.

"Kouro! Over here! Over here!"

Realizing this, Kouro led ayame towards them and approached them.

Mei and the others smiled with relief when they saw that Kouro had returned safely.

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1 hour before Kouro and the other two returned.

Inside Himeko's house, in the living room, Mei was sitting listlessly on the sofa, seemingly worrying about something and beside her were Kiana and Bronya who were playing the HOMU fighting game.

"Ahh!!! I lost again." grumbled Kiana while staring at the screen showing that her character lost.

"This is Bronya's 100th win." said Bronya with her usual blank face.

"Let's play one more time! This time, I'm sure I'll win!" said Kiana, clearly not willing to give up.

45 minutes later.

"This is Bronya's 154th win and Kiana's 154th loss. Kiana is really stupid," Bronya said while keeping a straight face.

"Hey! Who are you calling stupid!?"

After saying that, Kiana put down her joystick and leaned back on the sofa, looking up, before suddenly saying, "Ahh... if only Kouro was here..."

Despite saying that, Kiana wasn't too worried about Kouro, as the man from what she had seen was a very strong person.

Bronya only fell silent at Kiana's complaint.

The room became awkward with silence for a while, and just when Bronya opened her mouth.

*Bam!*

The front door suddenly opened with Himeko running inside while panting, Mei also snapped out of her reverie and looked at Himeko with visible confusion on her face, Kiana and Bronya had the same expression.

"Hah... Hah..."

After catching her breath, Himeko immediately said.

"I have news about Kouro and Theresa. A few minutes ago Theresa had informed the academy that she and Kouro had completed their mission safely and were now on their way home."

Hearing that, the confusion on their faces was replaced with happiness and relief and before Kiana and Bronya could ask. Mei quickly stood up and asked Himeko where the 'Apron' where Helios landed was.

(e/d: Apron - an area at an airport where airplanes are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained.)

Himeko was helpless and told her where it was, after which, Mei rushed straight to the location leaving Kiana and Bronya dumbfounded.

They exchanged glances before quickly following Mei.

Himeko observed the three of them with a shake of her head and a sigh before she also followed behind them.

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At this moment.

Mei inspected Kouro up and down anxiously before showing a relieved expression after finding him 'unharmed'.

The only problem was that although Kouro had no visible injuries, his clothes were torn and had several holes from his fight with the herrscher ayame.

"Yo, everyone. Looks like you guys waited for me long enough." Kouro's joke was immediately countered with a punch to the head by Himeko.

"Ouch!" Kouro touched his head where Himeko had hit him.

Seeing his action, Himeko just said flatly, "We were all worried about you, Kouro and you came back safely just to say that?"

"Well, I'm sorry about that." Kouro smiled wryly while scratching the back of his head.

Himeko just sighed, "Well, at least you came back safely."

She could see from the state of Kouro's clothes how badly he was actually injured, it was just that due to his ridiculous regeneration rate that his wounds healed quickly without even leaving a mark.

While listening to their conversation, Kiana noticed Ayame behind Kouro and asked, "By the way, who is that girl, Kouro?"

"Ah... Her? Let me introduce you, she is my childhood friend and also a Pseudo-Herrscher, Akimitsu Ayame."

Ayame then stepped forward a little shyly and introduced herself, "H-hello, my name is Akimitsu Ayame, but you can call me Ayame too, just like Kouro."

Hearing that Ayame was also a Herrscher took them all by surprise, Kiana and the others looked back and forth at Ayame and Mei before turning their gaze to Kouro.

"What?" Kouro felt a little strange being stared at with such a look, so he asked.

Kiana and the other two shook their heads.

Kiana thinks Kouro is great for saving Ayame who also turned into a Herrscher like Mei.

Himeko thinks that Kouro has a special ability that allows him to tame a Herrscher.

Meanwhile, Bronya only thought that Kouro was as expected.

Cocolia, who was watching from afar using Bronya's biochip, increased her impression of Kouro and raised his threat level.

Mei also hears that Ayame is a Herrscher and she feels a little happy that she has finally found a friend in common.

However, she somehow feels a sense of crisis after Ayame is introduced as Kouro's childhood friend.

This feeling came from her Herrscher persona warning that Kouro might be stolen from the two of them by that woman, Mei ignored it and didn't think much of it.

Mei then introduced herself, "Hello, my name is Raiden Mei, you can also call me Mei. Just like you, I'm also a Herrscher."

"Ehh!!! Are you Raiden Mei? That 'Raiden Mei'!?" Ayame exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes... Judging from your reaction and your uniform, are you also a Senba Academy student?"

"Y-yes... I'm from class 1-2." Ayame replied nervously, after all, who wouldn't be nervous when talking to Mei who was so charming and elegant.

"Hahaha... You don't have to be so stiff when talking to her." Kouro reassured Ayame while looking at her.

"Yes, you don't have to be so nervous, Ayame-chan." Mei said softly.

"O-okay." After that, Ayame turned her head and looked at Kiana, Bronya and Himeko before asking.

"And you guys?"

Kiana introduced herself by placing her hands on her waist and raising her chin, "Hm! Hm! My name is Kiana Kaslana. My goal is to become the strongest Valkyrie of all time."

"Huh." Himeko sighed helplessly at Kiana's introduction.

She looked at Ayame and also introduced herself, "My name is Murata Himeko. I will be your teacher in this academy, you can call me Himeko-sensei."

"Bronya Zachik, nice to meet you, Subject Ayame." Bronya introduced herself briefly while keeping a blank face.

After introducing themselves to each other, Himeko then observed Kouro's condition and said, "Kouro, you'd better change your clothes. It would be bad if others saw you dressed like that."

Kouro also observed his clothes which were torn by blood, dirt and other stains.

It was uncomfortable to look at, so hebid them farewell and went to his dormitory to bathe and change.

Himeko and the others stared at Kouro's figure until he disappeared from their sight.

"That Kouro, he always ignores his own situation and doesn't pay attention to his surroundings."

"Ano..." Ayame spoke while looking at Mei.

"Yes?"

Ayame took a deep breath before asking in a curious tone with a slightly jealous tone.

"Are you Kouro's girlfriend?"

Somehow after Ayame said that, the atmosphere around them suddenly became tense.