Chapter 45 : Falling in Love Is Complicated, as I Expected

Looking at the hand in front of her, the Herrscher's will begin to waver. She wants to trust the whitehead in front of her. She wanted to trust her yet she was afraid of getting betrayed by her friends again. That was not her memory yet she was afraid of it.

She reached out her hand but hesitated and put her hand on her heart. The Herrscher who wanted to destroy humanity is afraid of reaching out to a hand trying to save her. But she knew it was not the time to accept the offer.

"Not yet," Herrscher replied after taking back her hand. She still needs to do her job. She still needs to fulfill her host's wish. For that, she can't accept it yet.

"What?" Kiana's smile fell.

"Not that I don't want to be saved. I really wanted to," the Herrscher stated. "But," she turned around. "I still have some work to do," she added. "I advise you not to stop me," she warned while looking over the ruined Nagazora.

The whitehead tried to talk sense into her by mentioning the boy her host fell in love with. But she is not her host. She doesn't feel the same way for that boy. But for the sake of her host, she hesitated a little. She will at least find that boy for her host. But him being alive or dead does not concern her.

Kiana gritted her teeth. She was so close to saving the girl. "I will still stop you no matter what!" She dismissed the warning with determination.

"I really don't want to do this," the Herrscher sighed. She turned around to face Kiana with a sad smile on her face.

Thunders are starting to form near her and before long, the Herrscher is protected by a sphere made of Thunder.

Although Herrscher might not say it, she was weakened by the act of Kiana grabbing her and absorbing the Honkai Energy she stored in her body. That's why she had created the sphere to protect her body.

"This will get harder than before," Kiana thought after seeing the protective sphere appear around the Herrscher.

"Please turn around, Kiana. I don't want to hurt you," the Herrscher warned as she is low on Honkai Energy and doesn't want Kiana to know that.

Kiana prepared her pistols and shouted, "Never!" She rushed toward the Herrscher, dodging the lightning bolts thrown toward her. "I won't give up!"

Just like that, another fight broke out between the Herrscher who wanted to be saved but couldn't because of her promise, and a girl who wanted to save another girl but was too weak to do so.

While fighting the girl, the Herrscher heard her host telling her to stop and it is okay for her to be saved. But the stubborn Herrscher refused it. She was to fulfill what her host wished. She needs to. Or else the Honkai will send someone like her to this world. If that happens, she won't be able to keep the whitehead in front of her alive. For the first time since she was manifested inside her host's mind, she wanted to save someone.

The two girls are fighting for their own beliefs. One wants to save the other no matter what and the other one is trying to destroy humanity to save the girl in front of her. They wanted to save each other and none of them wanted to give up.

"Tsk," Kiana clicked her tongue. Her ammo is almost out and she couldn't penetrate the sphere of the Herrscher. As for the Herrscher, she was being careful because her reserve on Honkai Energy is getting lower. She never thought that the whitehead's family bloodline would be this troublesome.

Seeing her bullets have no effect on the sphere, Kiana thought of another way to get through it. After thinking a while dodging the lightning bolts sent toward her, she got an idea. "That's it!" she muttered. "The sphere opened for a while when she fired the lightning bolts at me," she thought.

Kiana paid extra attention to the Herrscher's movements. "Now!" She shoots toward the Herrscher as soon as she notices a gap formed on the sphere. But it didn't work as the bullet was reduced into ashes.

"Tsk!" she clicked her tongue again. Even when she was able to get the bullet near the Herrscher's body, it didn't hit her. But she didn't give up. She picked up her unusable bat from the ground and pushed forward toward the Herrscher.

Kiana leaped toward the Herrscher and smashed the sphere with the bat in her hand. The bat was made out of metal, so it conducted electricity and Kiana was electrocuted. She screamed in pain but even then, she didn't let go of her hand and pushed the Herrscher.

*Creak* *Creak*

The floor below them couldn't handle anymore and started to give out. Noticing that the floor is breaking apart, the Herrscher knew both of them would die if they fell down from up here. The whitehead is just a human and she is already at her limit.

The Herrscher made the lightning sphere disappear and pushed Kiana away so that she won't fall together with her. Why she did that, even she herself didn't know. But she wanted to protect the girl.

"Eh?" Kiana was confused. She didn't realize why the Herrscher pushed her away instead of blasting her with lightning.

The Herrscher gave her a sad smile as she started to fall. The longhaired girl had used up all of her powers. So, she can't even fly using her thunder wing.

"Is this the end?" she muttered. She still hasn't fulfilled her host's wish.

『I am sorry』 The Herrscher apologized to her host.

「Don't be」 Inside her, the host of the body she was occupying replied.

Raiden Mei, that is her name. As the host of the body, she can see what is happening outside as the Herrscher didn't erase her. Seeing the people around her, she came to the conclusion that the boy she loves won't be able to survive the outbreak. So, even if she is alive, she will be all alone again.

As both of them had finally accepted their death, one of their hands was grabbed tightly. Their eyes widened and looked at the girl holding their hand.

"What?! Release me!" Herrscher screamed as she was in control of the body.

"No!" the whitehead yelled back.

"I'm better off dying! That way, I won't be able to do any damage to the world!" Herrscher chided the girl.

"Hold on! I won't let you die!" Kiana reassured her despite her arms hurting like hell.

"What are you doing?! I am a Herrscher! I am the enemy of humanity! I am better off dying!" the longhaired girl argued.

"Shut up and give me your other hand," Kiana scolded the Herrscher. She is not taking no for the answer. "I will pull you up first and we'll talk about it later," she added.

"Wha…?" the Herrscher was dumbfounded. She has never thought that there will be someone who will scold her, a Herrscher.

"Look, it was hard to talk sense into you, so I won't leave you alone like this," Kiana sighed. "I'll be angry with myself forever if you get yourself killed," she continued with a smile on her face. But the Herrscher can see that she is just faking her smile to reassure her. She noticed that the girl was in pain.

"Ah…," she was at a loss for words. A Herrscher was being talked sense into by a human.

"Em… let's get going if you understand what I'm saying," Kiana said with an awkward smile on her face.

For the first time since her birth, the Herrscher felt something. It was something she had never felt before. But she knew what that feeling was. She knew it from her host. It was the same feeling her host felt toward the boy. Yes, it was love.

Looking at the whitehead's smile, her hotheadedness, and purity, she felt something stirring inside her. The girl refused to give up on saving her, someone who tried to destroy humanity. She reached out a helping hand toward her, the enemy with whom she just fought life and death.

Yes, this is love. She had finally fallen in love. She had fallen for a human. If something happened to her, she was sure the Honkai would send out someone like her.

『I would like to make a request』 The Herrscher told her host. She is getting weaker and weaker. If this goes on, she will remain dormant inside her host's mind for who knows how long.

「Un」 Mei is still dumbfounded by the sheer determination of the whitehead girl. But nonetheless, she agreed.

『Please take care of her for me』 Her voice is getting fade. It seems as if she doesn't have much time.

「I will」 Mei replied. She will take care of the girl even if her Herrscher personality didn't tell her to. She had already made a promise to Urien after all.

『Thank you』And she was gone. The Third Herrscher of the current era had fallen in love with a girl and is now laying dormant after being saved by her.

After pulling up the girl, Kiana and Mei took a rest for a while and both decided to go to the house of Mei's friend since the longhaired girl wanted to check up on her friend.

On their way to his house, the two meet another survivor named Bronya Zaychik, and together, the three of them finally arrive at their destination.

"How are we going to get in, Mei-senpai?" Kiana asked her crush. After the fight, Kiana had fallen in love with Mei. She fell in love even more after interacting with the real Mei instead of her Herrscher persona.

"If Mei-nee-sama wishes, the Bronya can destroy the front door," the little girl of the group, Bronya suggested.

"Please don't Bronya-chan. I have the key here," Mei, the big sister of the group, quickly interfered with whatever Bronya was trying to do.

"Humph! How come Mei-senpai already has the house key? Don't tell me...," And… just like that, Kiana started sulking again.

Just before Mei inserts the key, the door suddenly opens and reveals Urien in his sleepwear. "Yawn… Why is it so noisy out here," he opened the door while yawning.

Looking at Mei whose face is full of tears, indifferent Bronya, and sulking Kiana, Urien has only one thing in his mind. "What are you guys doing here instead of going to school?"