Chapter 27: Chapter 27: Goodbye
The purple-haired girl walked between the silent teaching buildings.
She was extremely familiar with this place and this school.
Not long ago, she was studying here as an ordinary person and had never come into contact with something called Honkai.
A disaster changed her life and also changed the lives of these girls lying on the ground.
She could still call out the names of many of the figures lying on the ground.
Not long ago, they were all around her, always paying homage to her, but in the three months after her father went to prison, everyone became afraid of her and kept their distance from her.
It was then that she realized that she actually had no real friends before.
However, after coming to Saint Freya, her situation had changed.
Whether it is Kiana, Fu Hua, and Bronya as classmates, or Himeko and Theresa as elders, they are all sincerely kind to her.
She genuinely loves living there.
Of course, there is Kirataka...
Thinking of that person, the girl's cheeks couldn't help but turn slightly red.
It was he who woke her up on the rooftop, and that kind of thing happened...
As a daughter who has always been well taken care of by her father, she has rarely had the opportunity to come into contact with the opposite sex other than her father since she was a child.
Not to mention after attending the girls' school, Chiba Academy.
Although she had little contact with the opposite sex, she had seen things about this.
Well, those romance novels and comics that are popular among girls.
Every young girl has fantasized about being a princess and being rescued by a knight.
Moreover, Kirataka did, in fact, save her.
So, she still cares about him especially.
His figure was reflected in her eyes.
Mei asked in surprise:
"eh?... Kirataka, why are you here?"
"Mei, I finally found you. I found a girl in the classroom over there. The amount of Honkai energy in her body is already quite high."
Kirataka pointed forward.
Soon, he brought Mei to the corresponding classroom.
There were many lifeless corpses lying all over the classroom, but there was one that was particularly different.
——It was a green-haired girl; she was lying flat on the classroom floor, her face was distorted, and she was obviously immersed in pain.
From the student ID card dropped next to her, they learn that her name is Yuna.
Beside her, there were some vines looming, spreading out from all parts of her body and growing hard, as if helping her absorb the Honkai energy in the surrounding environment.
Although the girl has not woken up yet, it is obvious that if she is given some more time, she will be completely resurrected as a Pseudo-Herrscher.
"She...is she still alive?"
Mei looked at the girl on the ground with some concern.
Kirataka nodded and said:
"Well, I just checked; she does still have some vital signs, but the concentration of Honkai energy in her body is constantly rising."
It seems that when the Honkai outbreak of Nagazora City just broke out, the girl named Yuna must have been attacked by the zombie and the Honkai beasts and was infected by the Honkai energy and fainted.
However, she did not lose everything because she had a good resistance to Honkai energy. After Mei left Nagazora City, the Honkai energy that remained here spontaneously condensed towards her body, trying to give birth to a new Herrscher.
Although they have not yet fully awakened, the vines already have certain self-defense mechanisms.
Kirataka demonstrated it to Mei. He hooked his finger, used electromagnetic force to attract a pen on the table, and controlled it to fly towards the girl lying on the ground.
The pen was only halfway in its flight when it was snapped into two pieces by a vine that suddenly sprouted up.
In addition, obvious signs of erosion can be seen in the broken parts where they come into contact with the vines.
——It's highly poisonous!
"Then...if I report this to Principal Theresa now..."
Mei suggested.
If another Herrscher really was born, even if it was just a pseudo-Herrscher, with the abilities of her, Kirataka, and Bronya, it would probably be dangerous to deal with it.
To be on the safe side, it would be better to report this to Theresa and let her make the arrangements.
"Of course, this is also a solution... Let the more powerful seniors in the academy eliminate her, but we may have other options."
Kirataka looked at the girl named Yuna on the ground and said:
"It will take several hours to get from St. Freya Academy to Nagazora City. Judging from the current concentration of Honkai energy, she will probably have completely transformed into a new Herrscher by that time."
Well, a pseudo-Herrscher is also a lawmaker; there is nothing wrong with that.
By that time, she would be completely hopeless - after all, not everyone is like Mei, who can give birth to a new personality from the stigmata to help herself withstand the erosion of the Honkai will.
Therefore, if things really drag on until Yuna becomes a pseudo-Herrscher, the only way out is to completely destroy her.
"Perhaps we still have a way to save her. Not to let her die as a Herrscher, but... a way to have the best of both worlds."
If you can save people, it is better to save them.
"Well... what should we do?"
Mei asked with some curiosity.
Although she has been studying very hard, she still lacks all kinds of knowledge related to Honkai.
"To accomplish this, I still have to rely on you, Mei."
"...I?"
The girl asked somewhat confusedly.
Afterward, Kirataka told Mei about his plans and ideas.
——She awakens another personality in her body and hands over the control of her body to Sister Lei Lu, so that she can absorb the Honkai energy in Yuna's body as a Herrscher.
"I...I'll give it a try."
Although her tone was weak, Mei still spoke firmly.
She closed her eyes and focused her attention on her own spiritual world.
Ever since she woke up on the rooftop that day, she knew that another personality had appeared in her body.
Perhaps because of fear, or perhaps because of self-blame, she never tried to communicate with her.
Even though Kirataka had proposed it to her before, she still didn't have enough courage to try it.
But now, if it's to save people...
Although Kirataka told her that the disaster in Nagazora City was not entirely her fault, she still felt guilty when she saw the victims scattered across the campus and the city.
So, if there's anything she can do...
In the darkness, the girl caught a glimpse of a figure with a faint purple glow.
The exact same voice as hers came from her mouth, but the tone was completely different from hers:
"Heh, I didn't expect that a coward like you would come to me on your own initiative."
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