Kiana was currently being hung up and whipped by Durandal.
The moment she realized something was wrong, she had intended to open a space gate and run, but she was caught by Durandal and refined in an instant.
Abyss Flower was gone. This was a big deal for Durandal. To get this Divine Key, she had put in an unknown amount of effort just to get the Shaniat family to allow her to use it. Now, on a single mission, Abyss Flower was gone. How was she supposed to explain this to the Shaniat family, and to the Valkyrie she admired most, Cecilia?
I might be the most useless, worthless, and unreliable Valkyrie in the world.
While thinking this, Durandal hung Kiana up and whipped her, demanding to know the whereabouts of Abyss Flower.
Seeing that she was about to be tortured, Kiana repeatedly begged for mercy. "Sis! You really are my sis! We were born from the same root, why are we in such a hurry to fry each other?!"
"Give me back Abyss Flower, and we can talk," Durandal's attitude was clear.
"No can do." Kiana thought, I worked so hard to get this. Why should I give it back just because you say so? You should at least pay some interest, right?
Then she was whipped by the Dumb Goose for a full hour. It wasn't that she was being stubborn; she had passed out after the first punch, slept for a full hour, and was then beaten awake.
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[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: Shoko, can you give Abyss Flower back to me? (bruised and swollen face)
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: This is not my spoil of war alone. It is the collective glory of everyone.
[Talulah]: What happened?
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: I was arrested by my sister. Now I'm being hung up and whipped. She wants me to give back Abyss Flower or tell her your coordinates.
[Talulah]: What about Miss Raiden Mei?
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: She's just standing there watching me get whipped, because my sister thinks you all disappearing must be my doing as the Herrscher of the Void (crying cat face).
[Underworld Head-Spinner]: Cringe.
[Steel 'Lao Da']: Cringe.
[Generalissimo Maple]: Cringe.
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: So does that mean we have to give it back?
[Steel 'Lao Da']: If we surrender, can we just give back half?
If surrendering meant giving back only half, then they could return Abyss directly and keep Flower.
One must know, the strongest part of Abyss Flower was not its combat power, but its creative ability. Its Zeroth Power could even repair a life form from the genetic level, bringing the dying back to life.
In the visual novel Anti-Entropy, Schrodinger used this Divine Key at the cost of her own quantization to cure the withering effect of the Black Abyss on Einstein, Tesla, and Welt, breaking Einstein's and Tesla's lifespan limits to make them ageless, and allowing Welt to master the secrets of creation.
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: We can give back only half if we surrender?
[Steel 'Lao Da']: There's a rule in my hometown called 'surrender and lose half'. Ask her if it's okay to give her Abyss first to let you go, and then consider whether to give her Flower later.
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: Okay, I'll ask.
Two minutes later.
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: My sister said okay, but we have to go back to Schicksal with her and become Valkyries.
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: How can that be? Didn't we work so hard just to prevent you and Raiden Mei from falling into Schicksal's hands?
[Steel 'Lao Da']: No, Shoko. Consciousness changes with the objective world. You should know that Schicksal is not a monolithic entity. As the child of Siegfried and Cecilia, Kiana has the inheritance rights of both the Kaslana and Shaniat families. In other words, of the three great families of Schicksal, she can inherit two, and the head of the other Apokalypse family is her great-aunt.
[Steel 'Lao Da']: After the Second Honkai War, Theresa and Otto were already at odds. If Theresa finds out that you, her niece, are still alive, she will definitely do everything in her power to keep you out of Otto's hands. And Raiden Mei can contact Anti-Entropy. Then we can start preparing for a rebellion. Schicksal is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise! (TN: Slogan from the Yellow Turban Rebellion).
[Steel 'Lao Da']: Kiana, for a better future, become the Schicksal Overseer.
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: Huh? Schicksal Overseer, me?
How am I worthy of being the Schicksal Overseer?
[Steel 'Lao Da']: If Otto can do it, why can't you?
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: I can't handle so much paperwork!
[Steel 'Lao Da']: That's easy. You can be the nominal Overseer, and I'll be the one with the real power. Once we unite Schicksal, defeat the Honkai, and occupy the Earth, I will immediately launch a Great Crusade to collect a Band Disbandment Tax from the whole world, the whole universe, the whole multiverse!
Qian Yi's current goal was to study, get into the University of Tokyo, enter politics, then run for Prime Minister of Japan, enact the Band Disbandment Tax, and then form his own band.
Play the bass into the Budokan, and blow up the Tokyo Tower for the party to hear.
Of course, he wasn't an inflexible person. If there was a faster way to achieve it, why wouldn't he do it?
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: Band Disbandment Tax?
[Steel 'Lao Da']: Anyone in the world who, without the consent of all band members, arbitrarily and willfully tries to disband a band based on a single person's will, will be subject to a tax penalty starting from over a million yen.
[Talulah]: Have taxes in another world reached this level?
[Underworld Head-Spinner]: Agricultural tax, commercial tax, heating tax, mining tax, and all sorts of other taxes are not enough for you, so you're even capable of such blatant robbery as a Band Disbandment Tax?
[Generalissimo Maple]: Unimaginable. Lao Da's faction is this kind of power?
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: No, I think this guy was just happily playing in a band, then found out his band was disbanded by someone else, and is holding a grudge, so he wants to do this.
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: Qian Yi, a man like you, why is your magnanimity so narrow?
Cold sweat broke out on Shoko's forehead. Fortunately, Qian Yi was not in the same world as her. Otherwise, her attempt to disband CRYCHIC would probably have been met with a huge tax penalty before she could even do it, adding frost to the snow of her already not-so-wealthy family.
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: Is this really the time to be talking about this?! I'm still being hung up and whipped by my sister!
[Steel 'Lao Da']: Calm down. I know you're in a hurry, but don't be. If being in a hurry was useful, I would have been in a hurry a long time ago.
[Customer Service Shoko at Your Service]: I have Abyss Flower here. Do you need Gene Reaper too?
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: I don't know. Let's give Abyss back to my sister first, so she stops whipping me. As for the other half, I'll consider whether to give it back depending on whether she whips me again later.
[Underworld Head-Spinner]: So if she doesn't whip you, you'll give it back to her?
[I Wanna Eat Mei-Flavored Instant Noodles]: How can that be! If she's not whipping me anymore, and I still give it back to her, wouldn't I have been beaten for nothing?!
[Steel 'Lao Da']: ....Child, you are invincible.
So we can't be soft on you.
We have to whip you a couple of times before you'll move.
After solving Kiana's problem, Qian Yi put away Jizo Mitama, took off his shoes, and turned to walk down the long corridor. The sakura wood floorboards beneath were spotless from years of cleaning.
He pushed open the door to his room. In the middle of the room was a kotatsu table. To the right was a bed, and in front was a desk. The room was spacious and not heavily decorated, with only three portraits hanging on the wall: Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo, three figures from Japanese mythology.
Amaterasu stood amidst myriad sunbeams, holding the Yasakani no Magatama. Tsukuyomi stood under a dark crescent moon, holding the Yata no Kagami. Susanoo held the ultimate divine sword of Japanese mythology, the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi. And under Susanoo's portrait was a sword rack. Qian Yi placed Jizo Mitama on the rack, looked at the empty room, and decided to buy some things to fill it up tomorrow.
But before that, he needed to find an auntie to clean the house.
Qian Yi lay on the bed, planning what to do tomorrow. Just then, a crisp and pleasant, but to him, utterly detestable ringtone sounded.
He took out his phone. It wasn't a message from someone he knew. It was clearly from someone in the chat group. He opened it and immediately lost his composure.
[Talulah]: You there?
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