"Theresa! Hey! Theresa!"

In a forest somewhere in Siberia, a white-haired girl in a coma vaguely heard a familiar voice in her ear. When she opened her eyes, she happened to see Siegfried's big face with some stubble. It was so close that she could even smell a hint of his breath.

Snapped---!

"What are you doing?"

Siegfried flew ten meters away, and when he came back, he touched the red and swollen half of his face, and stared at Theresa with wide eyes, who started beating people for no reason as soon as she woke up.

"Ah... Siegfried? Sorry, I thought it was someone weird..." Theresa apologized immediately, but Siegfried obviously didn't buy it.

"What do you mean by a weird person? We have known each other for such a long time, but my face still belongs to the category of weird in your eyes?"

"Who told you to get so close? And he's still breathing... No, Siegfried, why did I faint just now?" Theresa touched her head, feeling a little pain. She subconsciously reached to the side and felt the familiar cold touch. Judas was still there, and he hadn't been taken away.

"How should I know? After I ran for several hundred meters after the suspicious guy in front of me, I realized that you didn't catch up. When I ran back, I found you lying on the ground. Was it that guy's accomplices who attacked you?" Having said this, Siegfried picked up the double pistols that were temporarily placed on the snow and became alert.

"..."

Shaking her head, Theresa silently carried Judas on her back and said, "Let's go."

"? Leave? Ignore that suspicious guy?" Siegfried looked at Theresa in confusion.

"...I can't feel his sight anymore. Maybe he ran far away?" Theresa didn't know why, but it was as if there was a voice in her mind stopping her from continuing to follow him, subtly influencing her judgment.

"Well, now that you've said so..."

Seeing Theresa's firm attitude, Siegfried said nothing more, but he was still thinking in his heart that the opponent must be very strong to knock Theresa out in such a short time, but he did not take Theresa's life, and he did not even take away the Judas next to her... He didn't know what this strange thing was.

……

Meanwhile, on the other side.

The pink-haired girl and the white-haired girl were heading towards the Babylon Laboratory from another direction.

But halfway through, the pink-haired girl's fox ears moved slightly, and then she unsheathed the knife at her waist without hesitation and threw it in the direction behind her.

The sharp blade cut through the air and hit a tree trunk with a dull sound, but the imagined scene of blood and flesh flying did not appear.

"Sakura, are there enemies?"

The hem of Kallen's skirt, who was wearing a black nun's uniform, was blown by the breeze, revealing the white armor underneath.

"Well, he was very fast... No, he disappeared in an instant. This time he was... over there!"

As Yaesakura looked over there, Kallen drew her gun and shot in that direction without hesitation, firing fifteen rounds in a row. Each powerful bullet was enough to cut a tree in half.

"..."

Large clouds of snow and fog rose and fell, and apart from the fifteen innocent trees that were hit, no living creature was seen.

"Ran away?"

Kallen would not doubt Yaesakura's perception, and replaced the magazine in the gun, ready for the second round of shooting at any time.

"..."

Yaezakura walked silently to her sword, pulled it out of the tree, listened quietly to the sounds around her, and finally shook her head, "I didn't hear anything."

"He ran away, right? I don't know if he was a Honkai beast or a assassin..." Kallen put away her gun and muttered.

"No, he's a human. I heard his heartbeat before, so I was able to identify his location." Yae Sakura didn't quite understand why the human attacked them. Was it related to the incident in Siberia? Or... was he the target she was looking for?

Unfortunately, he escaped.

The more Yaezakura thought about it, the more annoyed she became, and she even punched the tree next to her.

Her eyes moved downward, but the next moment, they suddenly froze.

Because she saw that in a dark thumb-sized "hole" under her feet, a black eye was quietly staring at her.

"Card……"

While Yaesakura was drawing her knife, she also wanted to warn others, but her brain suddenly felt dizzy and she had no strength in her body. She stuck the knife into the ground, barely supporting her body, and looked back, her eyes suddenly widened.

Right in front of Yae Sakura, Kallen with lifeless eyes lowered her hands holding the gun, and behind her, a black-haired boy put a hand into Kallen's head, but his eyes were calmly looking at Yae Sakura who was unable to resist.

"You...are not my brother..."

Yae Sakura finally fell to the ground. In the last second before she fainted, she heard a sentence, "Brother? Who knows... Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. You will wake up soon. You will not lack anything, and you will not remember anything..."

……

"Hmm... This is not good. The second Herrscher of this era has teamed up with the guy who calls himself Ri."

Standing on the top of a snow-covered mountain, a girl wearing a top hat was observing the movements of the entire area through a series of drones.

Anti-entropy, Destiny, Herrscher, and... a mysterious black-haired boy.

Under her observation, the Second Herrscher completed his transformation fifteen hours ago. Using her power to manipulate space, the young man appeared around the Valkyries of Destiny and attacked them, but... no one died.

"Is the target [Memory]?"

While Wei Wei was thinking, a man walked out from behind her and glanced at her, "Hua, if you don't act with Tianming's people, it will arouse suspicion~"

"It's okay. You should know that the current Bishop of Destiny has no time to take care of me." The gray-haired girl was only wearing a brown coat and was not equipped with various weapons like other Valkyries.

"Well, it's just right that you're here. Please cooperate with me. After all, I'm a weak scientist. How can I be without someone to protect me?" Wei Erwei threw a small thing to Fu Hua and asked her to wear it on her ear so that she could see the images of monitoring everyone in Siberia.

"Oh, that boy is really good at running. I can't find where he went. And the Second Herrscher... is he hiding in the space he created?" Wei Liwei muttered to herself while calling up the images from various places.

Fu Hua looked around her and asked, "Are you really the only one here this time? Where are Alicia, Ying and the others?"

She didn't think those people would be absent from this important event concerning Li.

"guess?"

"Vilvi..."

"Okay, okay, they have their own plans. After all, this incident itself is somewhat strange. The Second Herrscher is fine, as we know she is just a poor little girl. As for that boy... we don't know his purpose yet~"