Seeing this, Shun turned off the speakerphone himself and stepped in as the mediator.
"Alright, alright. You two old friends haven't contacted each other for so long. If you're not going to catch up, at least don't start arguing." After a while, Shun turned the speakerphone back on.
Theresa, who had just been "muted" by Shun, had also calmed down a little. Although she had scolded Siegfried out of emotion earlier, in reality, she knew about Bianca's matter and no longer held such strong resentment toward him.
After all, the one who suffered the most from that incident was Siegfried himself.
"Heh, I didn't expect you were really on Theresa's side." Siegfried smiled bitterly. From this moment on, he truly treated Shun as one of his own.
"Didn't I say so from the beginning? Siegfried, I did not lie."
"You should stop talking in that Otto-like tone." Siegfried now had PTSD toward Otto. Although he wanted to kill him every day, just thinking about him still made him uncomfortable.
"Then as you wish, my friend." Hearing Shun's words, Siegfried shivered again.
"Alright, alright. Since Kiana is in your hands, I can rest assured. Remember to take good care of her for me."
After saying that, Siegfried prepared to leave. He had one hundred percent trust in Theresa.
He couldn't stay by Kiana's side, because that would awaken the Herrscher consciousness within her. Even tailing her during travels carried the risk of exposure. Now that he had connected with Theresa, he could finally feel at ease.
Although Theresa was unreliable, this kid seemed quite reliable, and his Kaslana intuition also told him that Shun was trustworthy.
"Wait, Siegfried." Just as Siegfried was about to go, Shun stopped him.
"What now, kid? Do you still have business with me?" Siegfried, with his one arm, cloak, and handgun, actually looked a bit like a western cowboy.
"You've said what you came to say to me. Now it's my turn to talk to you. No objections, right?"
"Che, go ahead." Shun had taken care of Kiana, so Siegfried already owed him a favor.
"Siegfried, don't go to Anti-Entropy. Come to me instead. What else can you do at Anti-Entropy besides passionately clashing with Raiden Ryoma every day?"
"Tsk, did Theresa tell you I was at Anti-Entropy? Also, Ryoma and I are just friends. I have a wife!"
"Don't ask me, I didn't say anything." Theresa, who was observing from the sidelines, immediately cleared herself when she saw the situation.
"But going to Anti-Entropy is still a waste of time." To be honest, Siegfried would have been better off going to World Serpent than to Anti-Entropy. After staying at Anti-Entropy for so long, besides getting a mechanical arm, what else had Siegfried gained?
"Then wouldn't it be even more of a waste if I went to St. Freya? That current strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal what was her name again? Durandal the goose? Didn't she say so herself?"
"It's Durandal!" Theresa seemed anxious and quickly corrected Siegfried.
"Then who told you I was from St. Freya? Theresa and I are only in a cooperative relationship."
"Not from Schicksal or Anti-Entropy? You're not from some unknown small organization, are you? Then wouldn't it be even more useless if I joined?" Siegfried was a little confused.
"Yeah, Shun, which organization are you from?" Theresa had also been curious for a long time about which organization could nurture someone like Shun.
But she had never dared to ask, since it was someone else's privacy. Shun didn't say anything, so she didn't ask either. Now that Shun was recruiting Siegfried and Siegfried had asked, she could finally ask too.
"Mm… let me think." Shun felt there was no harm in revealing World Serpent to these two. After all, it would be exposed sooner or later.
World Serpent had been lurking until now in order to wait for Kevin's return. But now that he had Cosmic Juggernaut, he could also go to the Sea of Quanta to retrieve people if needed. Before Su died, Kevin wouldn't be willing to come out anyway.
Mm, as the acting Sovereign of World Serpent, he believed he could make at least this much of a decision.
So Shun paused for a moment and said, "Do you two know about… World Serpent?"
"What?"
"What serpent?"
Sure enough, neither Siegfried nor Theresa had heard of World Serpent. That was understandable. Right now, World Serpent might only be noticed by Otto, who had sensed the shadow of the serpent, and by Cocolia, who was colluding with the tiger.
"Don't be impatient. Speaking of World Serpent, it actually has quite a connection with you, Siegfried."
"Me? What does it have to do with me?" Siegfried was puzzled. He had never heard of any World Serpent in his life.
"It doesn't have anything to do with you directly, but… it has something to do with the Kaslana family. Siegfried, you definitely know about the Kaslana ancestor Kevin, right?"
"…How do you know?" Even Einstein didn't know much about Kevin. How did this guy…?
"Guess who the Sovereign of World Serpent is?" Shun's words woke Siegfried like a thunderclap. Only then did Siegfried react. If that was the case, it wasn't surprising that Shun would invite him to join World Serpent.
"Hey, what riddle are you two talking about? Kaslana ancestor? Isn't that a person from thousands of years ago?" Theresa was the only one present who didn't know, so she was completely lost.
"Shun, please hang up Theresa's call. Let's talk between the two of us." Siegfried's attitude did a complete 180-degree turn.
"Siegfried! You…" Theresa was about to start scolding again, but Shun had already predicted it and hung up.
"Then I'll be direct. Siegfried, do you want to cure the uncontrollable Honkai beast genes inside your body?"
Of course he wanted to. Siegfried naturally wanted to say that, but…
"Then, what is the price?" There was no such thing as a free lunch. Although Shun and Theresa might have a good relationship, what did that have to do with him?
On this matter, Siegfried still had a clear mind. It couldn't be that Shun was suddenly showing great mercy and wanted to save him for no reason.
"Didn't I make it clear? Join World Serpent and follow my orders."
"Then, what do you want to do?" For Siegfried, as long as it didn't violate his principles, working for Shun wasn't unacceptable. Besides, Shun had taken care of Kiana for him.
"My goal? How should I put it? To fight for all the beauty in the world?" Shun thought for a moment and said.
"Too grand and empty, bro. Say something practical." Siegfried naturally didn't believe such words. Shun didn't look like an idealist at all.
"Then, to defeat Honkai."
"Wrong." Before Siegfried could refute, Shun himself rejected this statement.
"In the end, it's still… to turn this imperfect world into the one I hope for. That was the promise."
That was also the answer he had given when he achieved Sword God.
"That's more like it. You've got quite the ambition. In that case, I'll join. But let me say this upfront, I'll only listen to you. I don't know what the other people in World Serpent are like."
"It's fine. That's enough." After Siegfried solved the Honkai beast gene rampage, when he went all out he could even go head-to-head against six-core Sirin. He could be considered the strongest combat power in the world right now…