Shun was riding on Shigure Kira's back, rushing nonstop toward Siberia. After all, the entire country of Poland had been wiped out without a trace, and no transportation could be found within its borders.
Even if they had a car, its speed would probably not match the current Shigure Kira.
The current Schicksal Valkyries were somewhat different from those of more than a decade later. In the era before Valkyrie armor had been developed, everyone fought against Honkai with nothing but their mortal flesh.
Therefore, the average quality of Valkyries now was much stronger than those in later generations who relied on Valkyrie armor to be elevated.
"Born evil Second Herrscher, I will personally…" Having just heard Sirin's declaration of war, Shigure Kira still had a fire burning in her heart. She wished she could rush to Babylon Tower right now and smash Sirin's head.
Just as Otto had said, driven by hatred and anger, Shigure Kira had unleashed her potential. Only now did Shun realize that Shigure Kira was also a Stigmata wielder.
(Regarding Kira having Stigmata, I remember it was a fairly old setting. I can't recall if it was from early Honkai Impact 3rd or Honkai Impact 2nd.)
I never expected that you, Shigure Kira, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also have a cheat! Although Shigure Kira's Stigmata was not fully awakened yet, preventing her from becoming a true cheat character.
But at least she had activated her cheat. Shigure Kira and ordinary people like Tazi Sister were now separated by a pitifully thick barrier.
However, why was the ability of this Stigmata awakening sound-note attacks? Shun could clearly see the helpless expression on Shigure Kira's face when she realized her ability required singing to produce sound-note attacks.
One must know that natural Stigmata holders were all cheat characters. Li Sushang and the dummy goose could run from the Moon to Earth in Imaginary Space 24 hours a day at an average speed of Mach 13. Although Shigure Kira had not fully awakened yet, running at supersonic speed was still very easy for her.
It was just that the cold wind kept slapping randomly against his face, making Shun feel a bit disheveled. The Honkai beasts they encountered along the way were all defeated by the sound notes produced by Shigure Kira's loud shouts, so it didn't delay their progress.
However, Shun could see that every time she used this ability, Shigure Kira's emotions became a little more irritable. Was it because this truly proved that her singing voice could kill people?
Herrscher of Death — the title was well-deserved.
"Kira Sister, are you sure we haven't taken the wrong path?" Although the two had already run out of the scorched-earth Poland and the scenery along the way did indeed look somewhat like Siberia.
But due to the nuclear winter phenomenon caused by the dust raised by the meteorite impact, it was difficult to determine direction without being able to see the sun.
Hearing Shun's question, Shigure Kira appropriately stopped and replied, "Electronic devices aren't working right now, and I can't contact headquarters either."
"I see. Then we can only head in the direction with the strongest Honkai energy reaction." Humans cannot determine direction by themselves. Shigure Kira's method of traveling was essentially to head toward wherever the Honkai energy reaction was strongest. Whether they could find Sirin's location was still a mystery.
At the same time, in a certain conference room at Schicksal Headquarters. A banner reading "First Schicksal Anti-Entropy Cooperation" was posted on the wall by a blond man.
After finishing this, he returned to the main seat. On his left was the Schicksal camp headed by Cecilia, and on his right were Einstein and Tesla. Compared to Schicksal's abundance of talent, Anti-Entropy indeed had little to show.
"I really didn't expect that our reunion would be in such a scene. And my old friend, the Herrscher of Reason — I went through so much trouble but couldn't kill him, yet he ended up dying at the hands of the Second Herrscher. If the current situation didn't forbid it, I would really like to perform what is called 'weeping bitterly'."
Tesla slammed her hand on the table. "Otto, we came here to discuss cooperation with Schicksal, not to listen to your solo performance!"
"Grandpa, can you accumulate some virtue with your mouth!" Under the premise of targeting Otto to stop him from causing trouble, both sides fully reached an agreement.
"As expected, Grandpa is getting old. Even his obedient granddaughter dislikes him now. Sigh…" Otto covered his face and cried. It was truly unknown whether he had appeared here with the intention of causing trouble.
"Grandpa!" Theresa summoned Judah. A golden chain appeared, binding Otto together with his mouth to the chair.
Ignoring Otto's spring-and-autumn lament, Einstein took out a document and distributed the information inside to everyone at the conference table.
"Before discussing the battle plan, I would like everyone to first understand the intelligence on the Second Herrscher."
"Sirin, female, this year… this part can be skipped. Let's talk about the important things. She has a mother at home who was taken away by Schicksal half a year ago…"
At the appropriate moment, Otto pulled off Judah's chain and answered, "She's dead."
"Alright, continuing. She also has a younger brother who was… killed half a year ago because of Schicksal. Assuming that becoming a Herrscher requires a large amount of negative emotions, then this should be the main reason that induced her to become a Herrscher."
"Given that she has remained within the range of Babylon Tower the whole time and killed those researchers to vent her anger, can I assume that the Second Herrscher was single-handedly fostered by Schicksal?"
Seeing everyone's gazes converge on him, Otto smiled and knocked on the table. Under everyone's expectant eyes, he answered, "I don't know."
"My friends, are you thinking of me as too omnipotent? I am just an ordinary Schicksal Archbishop. I am not an omniscient and omnipotent god. How could I possibly know everything?"
Otto took the document about Sirin from in front of Theresa and looked at the part about Sirin's younger brother, revealing a faint smile.
"Eh? Isn't this little Shun?" At this moment, Cecilia also saw the part about Shun in Sirin's information.
"Cecilia? You know him?" Theresa leaned toward Cecilia and asked in confusion.
"Mm. Theresa, do you remember the child I rescued at Red Square not long ago?" Cecilia overlapped the photo of Shun in the document with the Shun in her memory and found that except for having two more legs, they were almost identical.
"It's him? I remember I was grounded by Grandpa at the time, and in the end you still had Kira take care of him. But now…"
Neither of them continued speaking, because the place where Shigure Kira had been at that time was the exact center of the meteorite impact. Even if little Shun was Sirin's younger brother and had actually faked his death back then, he was probably now dead as a doornail.
"Lady Cecilia, did you discover something?" Einstein noticed the discussion between Cecilia and Theresa and asked.
Cecilia told everyone her discovery, bringing both good news and bad news.
Good news: They had found Sirin's family. Perhaps they could use this to negotiate with Sirin.
Bad news: The person was dead.