"It's okay, I don't mind."
Evan expressed his view with a righteous face, earning complex looks from Raiden Mei and Kiana, as well as an eye-roll from Himeko Murata.
"I mind!"
So the boy who gave everything on the battlefield is like this in daily life.
This was the thought of Theresa and Himeko Murata.
In the eyes of Kiana and Raiden Mei, however, the current Evan was exactly the one they were most familiar with—sometimes serious, sometimes earnest, but mostly gentle and joking. When linked with his responsibility in times of crisis, he felt very reliable.
Reliable to the point where Raiden Mei and Kiana couldn't tolerate their own weakness, couldn't sit by and watch Evan silently give so much.
Right now, the girls weren't paying too much attention to Evan's housing issue. In fact, for them, it would be best if Evan didn't live with other girls; that way, they wouldn't be discovered if they sneaked over to see him... cough.
Theresa dragged Evan away from Himeko Murata's residence, while Raiden Mei and Kiana looked at Himeko Murata with burning eyes.
"An A-rank Valkyrie seems to be a very powerful existence?"
"That's right. Even counting both St. Freya Academy and Schicksal, the number of S-rank Valkyries above A-rank can be counted on one hand. So, it's completely fine for you to consider me a powerful senior."
Hearing Kiana's question, Himeko Murata smiled and answered. There was no arrogance in her words because she knew exactly how much she had paid to get where she was today.
In fact, after learning from Theresa that Kiana and the others would be arranged to live in her residence, besides cleaning up the room, Himeko Murata had also hidden various painkillers. Those were her only choice when she couldn't fall asleep for a long time due to the pain caused by the artificial Stigmata. Besides that, a large part of the reason Himeko Murata liked drinking was also hoping to numb the body's pain with alcohol.
In this world, after all, the mediocre were the majority. Himeko Murata didn't possess outstanding aptitude, and she became a Valkyrie somewhat late. The artificial Stigmata she used was more powerful than the average level, but the side effects were far greater.
Himeko Murata had far more life force devoured by the Stigmata than other Valkyries. Sometimes, she worried that one day she would fall asleep and never wake up again.
Currently, neither St. Freya Academy nor Schicksal possessed the technology to improve Himeko Murata's condition, so she had never asked for help, only silently endured, longing for hope to appear.
Even Theresa wasn't quite clear about Himeko Murata's physical condition.
Kiana and Raiden Mei naturally didn't know Himeko Murata's worries either. Now having a rough idea of the power of an A-rank Valkyrie, they pleaded with Himeko.
"Please teach us how to become stronger."
Himeko Murata looked at the two girls in front of her, feeling inexplicably bitter.
"Raiden Mei, you are a Herrscher. If you fully master your power as a Herrscher, you can reach a level beyond just an A-rank Valkyrie. And Kiana, as a human, you are already strong enough. At your age, I was just an ordinary person with no power."
Kiana was indeed not the type with the patience to listen to long speeches. Finding that Himeko Murata didn't answer her request directly, she said something full of doubt.
"So, Himeko, you don't have any way, do you?"
"Tsk, please call me Teacher Himeko in the future, Student Kiana, and Student Mei."
As her words fell, Himeko Murata suddenly noticed that Bronya, who had come in with Kiana and Raiden Mei, seemed not to have spoken for a long time. Looking around, she found her silently cleaning the room and couldn't help being somewhat moved.
"Bronya, leave the cleaning to me."
"Judging from Miss Himeko's behavior, the cleaning work started much earlier. Bronya has roughly calculated the work efficiency and the remaining workload and compared them. If the cleaning work is completely left to Miss Himeko, who only cares about chatting, there is a 99% chance that the work will not be completed before rest time. So Bronya rejects this proposal."
Is this implicitly criticizing me?
The emotion in Himeko Murata's heart vanished instantly.
"I got it, I got it. Let's clean together then. Also, you should call me Teacher Himeko in the future too."
"Bronya believes that the knowledge imparted by Miss Himeko, who uses a greatsword, cannot benefit Project Bunny, so I decided to keep the original form of address, Miss Himeko."
"Tsk."
Himeko Murata discovered that these three girls—one with a dual personality, one white-haired idiot, and one kuudere girl—her future life might become very interesting?
...
Under Theresa's lead, Evan arrived next door to Himeko Murata's residence.
This was the teacher's dormitory of St. Freya Academy. However, because the school extremely lacked students, there naturally weren't many teachers either, so there were plenty of vacant residences. The one right next door happened to be empty, and there wouldn't be much problem moving in after a little cleaning.
For Evan, although living with beautiful girls was something to fantasize about, the existence of the supply system meant that Evan also needed some private space, so he naturally wouldn't raise any objections to such an arrangement.
"By the way, Theresa, where is my greatsword? You didn't keep it for yourself, did you?"
"How is that possible!"
Theresa was extremely annoyed by the distrust revealed in Evan's words.
"Your greatsword was slightly damaged due to continuous battles and is currently being repaired by the research department of our St. Freya Academy."
"Repaired, huh... By the way, Theresa, do you have a way to make it stronger? For example, every time I swing the greatsword, sword light shoots out, or give it special effects, like a certain probability of slowing down the enemy's movement speed or even freezing them directly or something."
"You have quite an imagination."
Theresa glanced at Evan sideways and then sighed.
"What you said might be achievable at Schicksal Headquarters, but St. Freya Academy doesn't have the equipment to realize these technologies. Sorry."
"I was just saying."
Evan was just saying it casually, but Theresa took it to heart.
The losses of the Third Honkai Eruption were minimized because of Evan. As a meritorious person, he deserved a reward. Theresa planned to mobilize the power of St. Freya Academy to see if she could discover any ancient ruins not yet excavated by Schicksal and find a more powerful weapon for Evan.
Uses a greatsword-type weapon, huh? Noted.
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