Chapter 14: Theresa's Decision

When Kirataka woke up again, he was already lying on a warm and comfortable bed.

The room was decorated in pure white, and on the cabinet opposite, there were some medicines.

He had no impression of the environment here, but through the scenery outside the window, he could still judge that the outside world was high in the sky.

'This place... could it be Hyperion?'

Judging from the bright sunlight outside the window, it was at least daytime of the next day.

'Did I sleep all night?'

Kirataka stretched slightly and was about to get out of bed to find a living person to ask about the situation, but he found that there were still some problems with his physical condition.

'For the time being, it seems that I still can't get out of bed and move around.'

"But, does this mean we have overcome the crisis of Honkai outbreak?"

Kirataka said to himself.

"Kirataka, you're awake."

Yae Sakura's voice sounded again.

"Ah... I didn't expect you were still here."

Kirataka said with some surprise.

After "defeating" the Herrscher of Thunder, he originally thought that Yae Sakura would leave, but now she is still staying in his body, maintaining the state of possession.

"...After all, you fell into a deep sleep. For safety reasons, I stayed here temporarily."

Yae Sakura explained.

"Okay... can you tell me what happened after that?"

............

The Hyperion hovered over Nagazora.

Although ordinary crew members are not needed for the operation against the Herrscher, the search and rescue operation for civilians will rely on the efforts of the staff from the Far East Branch.

After sending most of the personnel out to search for rescuers, Theresa sat alone in an office.

——She has more important things to deal with.

Himeko was also standing aside. She waved her hand and said to the petite girl in front of her:

"I didn't expect that the mission objective of the Herrscher Crisis would be accomplished without any bloodshed this time, Theresa."

When the three fully-armed Valkyries arrived at the site of the Honkai energy explosion, which was near Chiba, the Herrscher with the terrifying aura they had imagined was not there.

Instead, all they saw were two girls, a sleeping boy, and a dozen Titan mechas that were completely paralyzed due to the shock and excessive electric current.

In short, after Theresa asked them some questions and got a general understanding of the situation, she took the three people back to Hyperion first.

"I think it's a good thing that there was no fighting...but, it's weird, right?"

The white-haired girl said with some distress:

"...According to the results of the Honkai energy detection facility, the Herrscher's Honkai energy signals were detected on both Raiden Mei and Kirataka."

Information about Raiden Mei had been retrieved on the screen in front of her.

The daughter of the president of Massive Electric, a famous multinational electronics manufacturer. At the same time, its original president, Raiden Ryoma, is also one of the executives of Anti-Entropy, a long-time rival of Schicksal.

This level of information is still very easy to find.

With this identity in mind, it is no wonder that she found those tactical mechas that had been destroyed into scrap metal at the scene of Chiba Academy.

Perhaps those guys from Anti-Entropy are also planning to reclaim the Herrscher?

As for the other person named Kirataka, no information about him was found in Schicksal's database.

Apart from knowing his name, there is no other information.

However, judging from the current information from Schicksal, only one Herrscher should be born in a Great eruption.

"So, what are you going to do with these two suspected Herrscher targets?" Himeko asked.

"…I don't plan to hand them over to the headquarters. If I hand them over to Grandpa, I don't know what will happen."

Theresa had her own plan for this.

After confirming that the other party still retained a complete self-awareness and had no desire to attack humans, she had a bold idea.

The St. Freya Academy she manages is a special education academy that aims to train Valkyries who can fight against Honkai.

There, children with various talents will be recruited to develop their combat capabilities.

The existence of Mei and Kirataka, two suspected Herrschers, obviously possess talents in this area, and they are quite outstanding.

Rather, the one who is chosen to become the Herrscher during an eruption must be an individual with extremely high talent.

If such a special individual could be trained to become a warrior against Honkai, wouldn't that be a strategy of gaining one's strength while losing the other?

Thinking of this, Theresa said to Himeko:

"Let them... I mean Mei Raiden and Kirataka, enroll in St. Freya's Academy as students, what do you think, Himeko?"

"Of course, I have no objection, but are we going to recruit a boy into St. Freya? Will the council have any objections?" Himeko asked with a smile.

Although there is no explicit rule, all the children currently studying at St. Freya Academy are female.

The reason for this is that women's average resistance to Honkai is much higher than men's.

Men like Kirataka who have excellent Honkai resistance are quite rare.

"Tsk, that's not a big problem. I'll take care of them. Yeah, it's decided!"

Theresa said firmly.

As the granddaughter of the Bishop of Schicksal, she has complete power in the Far East Branch.

Regardless of one's own strength or status, it is not difficult to deal with the so-called parliament that only hides behind the scenes and makes suggestions.

And, while rare, it's not entirely unprecedented for men to serve as warriors of Schicksal.

Occasionally, men who are able to go to the battlefield in person will also have a special title within Schicksal that is different from the Valkyries - the Schicksal Knight.

Well, the most recent Knight of Schicksal should be Siegfried Kaslana...

Speaking of that annoying white-haired man, Theresa had to start paying attention to the next thing related to him——

"In addition to Kirataka and Raiden Mei, we brought back two other girls from the Chiba Academy. They both look pretty good. Do you want to recruit them into the academy?"

Himeko said, pulling up the information on the other two.

One of them is a silver-haired girl named Bronya Zaychik.

The information about her is also quite scarce, and no useful information can be found.

Is there another one...

Theresa's gaze paused for a moment.

Kiana Kaslana...

"…"

"Theresa, what's wrong with you?"

Himeko noticed the change in her expression and asked curiously.

The white-haired girl shook her head and responded:

"Nothing, well, that's it. Enroll these two children into the academy. Later... I will go and talk to them one by one."

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