Schicksal HQ.
Otto looked at the various red alerts on the screen, tapping on the desk with a grim expression.
"Welt, oh Welt... You stay at St. Freya High School without even a disguise. Do you really take me for a fool?"
Otto had always held a great deal of admiration for those who dedicated themselves to fighting the Honkai. That's why he had been very tolerant of these clowns from Anti-Entropy. But he never expected them to be so bold as to invade St. Freya High School.
Most of the members of Anti-Entropy were defectors from Schicksal. The defenses in the restricted area would surely not stop them. If Theresa saw those things, what would she do?
Otto knew Theresa's personality. She would never tell Kiana and Ryn about this. She couldn't bear to let Kiana know that everything was a lie, but she would definitely come storming Schicksal HQ to cause a scene with him.
There was already a red glint in Otto's eyes. He didn't care what Theresa did; even if she wanted to throw a tantrum, Otto would coax her. But these people from Anti-Entropy... Otto had no intention of letting them off easily.
Schicksal had begun conducting censuses and research on every individual decades ago. Schicksal's database recorded the genetic data of every newborn.
Otto walked into the laboratory and pulled up some obscure, hidden data from the database.
Displayed on the monitor, in the end, was the genetic data of Cocolia and her deceased daughter, Natasha.
"I clearly promised Theresa I wouldn't conduct any more cloning experiments, yet I keep breaking that promise."
"But none of that matters. After all, I'm a villain..."
After a series of operations, Otto fused the genes of Cocolia's daughter, Natasha, with many other things, creating cloned embryos through laboratory catalysis.
But cloning wasn't always successful. Out of hundreds of test subjects, only one developed self-awareness. Otto stood before the only individual that had gained consciousness, looking at his masterpiece with satisfaction.
"This little one... let's call her Ninti Apocalypse."
"Cocolia's people hurt my granddaughter, so I'll have Cocolia's own daughter deal with her. This is truly going to be a good show to look forward to!"
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Back at St. Freya High School, Einstein finished discussing the terms of the deal with Theresa and left, leaving Theresa sitting paralyzed on the floor next to the Faux Judah.
Raiden Mei was Cocolia's target. Letting Theresa see the truth of the Sirin Project was Einstein's goal. Now that her objective was complete, Einstein was off to attend to some of her own little plans.
Following a tracker left on Welt, Einstein was easily hoisted into the air by Ryn.
Seeing this blue-haired girl who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and whom he had never seen before, Ryn immediately knew she was one of the Anti-Entropy intruders.
Before Einstein could even speak, Ryn launched her into the sky.
Ryn moved so fast that Welt didn't even have time to react to someone approaching; all he saw was a streak of blue light shooting into the air.
"Heh, she came all the way here to find you. And you still say you're innocent and uninformed, Welt!" Ryn immediately sent several gravity waves attacking Welt.
"No... I really don't know! Who was that? I didn't even see anyone!!"
Welt created shields out of thin air to resist Ryn's attacks, but they were shattered as soon as they were made, over and over again. Helpless, Welt directly created a giant mecha—Arahato—to tank Ryn's attacks. But instantly creating a giant mecha dozens of meters tall placed a huge burden on Welt, whose life was already nearing its end.
"Pfft... Ryn, you have to believe me!"
Welt coughed up large mouthfuls of blood while counter-attacking Ryn.
"You dare to hit me today, you'll dare to hit Theresa tomorrow, and the day after you'll be overthrowing Schicksal!"
Ryn swatted away Arahato's arm as it came striking towards him, but it was instantly reconstructed by Welt and continued its attack.
"I'm done playing with you. With a body that big, let's see how you'll escape."
Ryn leaped and landed on Arahato's chest, punching straight through its defenses and placing a pseudo-black hole inside.
With Arahato's chest as its center, the black hole instantly caused the entire mecha to collapse and disappear.
The moment Ryn jumped on, Welt knew what he was planning to do; after all, Welt had trained Ryn for a while. He immediately converted the cockpit into a high-speed launcher, ejecting himself out of the black hole's gravitational range.
Flying in the air, Welt once again constructed dozens of floating cannons, continuously firing at Ryn on the ground.
After Ryn said, "You dare to hit him today, you'll dare to hit Theresa tomorrow, and the day after you'll be overthrowing Schicksal," Welt understood. That bastard Ryn just wanted to have a fight with him. He would have to subdue him first before he could reason with him.
But unfortunately for Welt, his physical-level beam attacks were all deflected by Ryn's gravity field, flying past Ryn and hitting the ground.
The earth rumbled as countless broken stones were kicked up by Welt's attacks. Seeing the rubble begin to float around Ryn, Welt cursed inwardly and immediately prepared to flee.
"Go."
With Ryn's command, the stones were accelerated by a thousand times and shot towards Welt. Welt frantically fled while defending with his shields.
Ryn communicated with the scurrying Welt using Honkai energy.
"Surrender obediently! I will spare your life."
The stones couldn't withstand the thousand-fold gravitational acceleration and disappeared after creating several sonic booms.
So, the merciful Ryn began to attack Welt by flicking air bullets.
The incessant sonic booms were deafening to Welt. Watching his constantly reconstructed defenses being shattered, Welt didn't believe Ryn's words for a second. If his shield reconstruction speed were even a fraction slower, he would have been pierced through immediately.
Both of them were holding back, as neither wanted to destroy St. Freya High School or harm any of the other students here.
As Welt continued to accelerate upwards into the sky to escape Ryn's attacks, he saw a blue-haired figure hovering not far from him.
"Ein!!"
Welt immediately flew over to catch Einstein, then constructed a flying vehicle and placed her inside. So that was the streak of blue light he had seen earlier... It was Einstein...
After seeing Einstein, Welt lost the mood to continue fighting Ryn. He had almost coughed up all his blood; if they continued, Welt himself would die from the erosion of his Herrscher Core first.
"Stop! I surrender!" Welt raised his hands and flew straight down.
But halfway down, Welt's vision went black, and he lost control of his body, plummeting straight from the sky.
Ryn immediately caught Welt and Einstein, who was beside him.
"Tsk, I wouldn't have known if we hadn't fought. Welt, you're not even connected to the Imaginary Space. You're relying entirely on your own stored Honkai energy!"
"Cough cough... It can't be helped..." Welt coughed up another mouthful of blood, then passed out.