Chapter 45 (volume 2)

"Are you serious? Was the Herrscher we were looking for a child?" Tesla asked for surprise, she didn't expect things to work out like that while she was still guiding the Titans units.

Currently Welt, Einstein and Tesla are in a private room in the ME Corp building ( Massive Electric company ) in the city Nagazora. Besides them there was one more person in that room.

That person was a 40-year-old man with long dark purple hair that was tied to a tail that went to the middle of his back. He had dark purple eyes, and he wore a business suit.

This man is Raiden Ryoma, he is the president of ME Corp, he is also one of Welt's few trusted men.

"It's exactly how you heard Tesla" Einstein spoke with his usual monotonous expression.

After Welt and Einstein left Ryusuke's house they went straight to the ME Corp building. When they got there they met Tesla and Ryoma who were already waiting for them. Tesla and Ryoma asked why they took so long and then Einstein started to explain everything that happened.

"But tell me, did this boy really heal his injuries?" Tesla asked. Just as Einstein took care of Welt since he accepted Welt Joyce's legacy, she took care of him since he was a child and she saw him grow up until he became an adult. She has accompanied him for the past 5 decades, and although she has affection for him as someone who has taken care of him since he was a child, she also has certain feelings that she kept in her heart without ever revealing to anyone. Although Einstein who has always been close to her has long since realized Tesla's feelings for Welt.

"Yes, Tesla, I feel great. I had already forgotten what it felt like to breathe and not feel any pain. It's really great." Welt Yang was in a good mood. Since he first accepted to become Welt Joyce's successor as the Herrscher of Reason he has always felt a lot of agonizing pain in his body whenever he used his powers, this was because he was not the Herrscher of the original Reason and the nucleus still rejected him a little. Although Welt Joyce's consciousness still exists within the nucleus, there are also another 300,000 consciousness inside, which makes everything chaotic within the nucleus. Thanks to the 300,000 consciences that exist inside Welt is able to use the Herrscher powers of Reason without being affected by the Will of Honkai, but there are still some side effects.

One of these side effects is that your body always suffers from internal injuries whenever it uses its powers excessively. In the battle against the newly awakened second Herrscher, Welt was clearly at a disadvantage against her, he had little chance of winning, he had to resort to using the Silver Bullet, a nuclear bomb, against Sirin so he can beat her.

Now that he is recovered from his injuries recovered from six injuries he feels he could beat a newly awakened Sirin without having to use a risky plan.

"Sovereign..."

Raiden Ryoma who has remained silent until now spoke.

"Is this child reliable?" Raiden Ryoma asked. He had a calm expression like a businessman. But his eyes showed great interest in knowing about the boy Welt spoke about.

Welt put his hand on his chin with a thoughtful expression.

"As the Anti-Entropy Sovereign I cannot let my guard down from Ryusuke, I have a responsibility to protect humanity. But speaking personally, I believe his words when he spoke at that moment, about him wanting to live a peaceful life."

"Just like Ryusuke said before, trust will come over time, so I think we'll have to wait and see."

Welt spoke his sincere opinion on the matter.

"I understand." Raiden Ryoma nodded. Although Welt's response made Ryoma more interested in Ryusuke.

'That boy is a year younger than Mei and yet he managed to control the powers of a Herrscher without being "supposedly" affected by Honkai. If that is true he could help Mei.' ( Raiden Ryoma )

Raiden Ryoma thought deeply about Ryusuke, he really wanted to ask the boy for help to help with his daughter's problems, Raiden Mei. Like Ryusuke, she has a Herrscher stigma but luckily this stigma was discovered in time and was sealed with the help of Welt. But even so Raiden Ryoma is still very concerned about his daughter's safety, as he knows it just postponed the problem. He is concerned that Raiden Mei will be dominated by the Will of Honkai, so he is very interested in meeting Ryusuke who is almost the same age as her but is not affected by Honkai.

Raiden Ryoma is very loyal to Welt and so he will not approach Ryusuke for now.

*trrrim-trrrim*

A few seconds later Welt's cell phone rang.

"There is? It's Ryusuke. Why is he calling me at this time of night?"

Welt was intrigued by the fact that Ryusuke was calling him at 1 am.

"Hello Ryusuke, why are you calling me at one of these? ... don't worry I wasn't sleeping... Uh, did a Valkyrie break into your house?"

When Welt spoke the last part everyone who was listening was tense. But Welt's surprise ended there.

"There is? Did you contact that bastard? And did you invite him to come to your house tomorrow afternoon? Hey Ryusuke ... damn it he hung up." Welt had a slightly irritated expression.

"Hey what happened?" Tesla asked. She could imagine that it was bad news.

"A Valkyrie broke into Ryusuke's house just now, although he managed to capture her without any problems he found that she had already sent information that I visited Ryusuke's house and that the house could have something to do with the theft from Serenity Gem. Valkyrie tried to sneak into Ryusuke's house a few minutes ago but she was easily defeated. After checking Valkyrie's communications and finding out that he was discovered Ryusuke decided to contact Otto Apocalypse, they had a short conversation in which Otto will visit Ryusuke's house tomorrow afternoon. And Ryusuke asked me to go there to protect him in case anything was going to happen."

Welt said everything he heard on the phone. He let out a tired sigh, he clearly didn't expect things to go that way and anytime soon.

Everyone else was astonished at what they heard. The first to react was...

"But what is that brat thinking!!!" It was Tesla who has already reached the limit of patience.

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At the same time, at Griseo's house.

Griseo's house is located in the same neighborhood as Ryusuke's house, but it is not too close to prevent him from thinking that she is following him.

In one of the rooms of the house was Griseo, which was facing a blank canvas, she was holding the brush on her thin fingers. Although she is facing the painting with a lot of concentration she has not yet painted anything on the board. She's been like this for over two hours.

She knows what she wants to paint but she doesn't know where to start painting.

As for the fact that she hasn't gone to sleep yet, that's why she can't. All MANTIS suffer from Honkai's nightmares. The MANTIS underwent surgery to implant Honkai beasts genes in their bodies so that they get stronger to face Honkai, unfortunately that power came with several side effects. Most side effects vary between individuals but there is a side effect that exists between all MANTIS. Honkai's nightmares.

All MANTIS have the natural instinct to activate their Honkai beasts form from their genes and turn into complete Honkai beasts, they must constantly fight against that instinct or else they will turn into unreasonable monsters that destroy everything around them.

Because of this, MANTIS cannot sleep in peace and even if they sleep they will still have nightmares involving Honkai.

Griseo rarely sleeps and when she sleeps she dreams that she is a Honkai beast that kills people. She even forgot what it's like to have a good dream.

"Griseo."

At that moment someone called her name. She turned around and saw a familiar figure in the room.

"Did something happen? Melantha?" Griseo asked, she still had her usual calm expression ever.

"Griseo, Otto Apocalypse is already mobilizing to come to this city."

Who spoke was a girl who appears to be about 15 years old. She has long dark violet hair and light pink eyes. She has a medium and modest stature, but there are two things that stand out in her.

The first is that she has a pair of cat ears over her head. The other is that it has a cat's tail behind the waist.

Like Griseo, she is one of the surviving MANTIS of the Previous Age.

"I understand." Griseo spoke with his typical calm expression of little emotion.

Melantha took a sigh when she heard that answer. She was used to that kind of response since she has known Griseo for a long time.

"The Valkyrie who just entered this city at the behest of Otto Apocalypse was HUA. In fact, she just entered Aikawa Ryusuke's house." Melantha spoke.

Griseo widened his eyes briefly with the news. They had lost contact with her for more than five hundred years, and although they knew she was at Schicksal they could not approach her without Otto knowing it.

"There is no need to worry, Ryu-chan will do nothing bad with HUA." Griseo spoke.

"Griseo you know that after today Aikawa Ryusuke's existence can no longer be hidden and that Mobius will soon know about him, right?" Melantha asked she wanted to see what Griseo's reaction was.

In the past three years, both Melantha and Griseo have hidden the Herrscher energy tracks that Ryusuke left when he hacked corrupt politicians. Fortunately, there were only a few insignificant politicians who had nothing to do with the World Serpent so even Gray Serpent did not notice anything unusual.

"Yes I know. But tomorrow Ryu-chan will have the protection of both Anti-Entropy and Schicksal, so it will be difficult even for Aunt Mobius to act against him. So there is no need to worry." Griseo spoke expressionlessly.

"Okay then. But before I go I have a question for you." Melantha spoke, she narrowed her pink eyes to the expressionless girl.

"Does the current situation still remain true to the data that Su sent you?" Melantha asked with interest.

"Yes, so far everything is in line with Su's data. Although..." Griseo interrupted his own words.

"Although what? Could you talk?" Melantha asked a little anxious.

"Kyuusyou's arrival was a surprise. She should only appear in these cities two years from now in this city." Griseo spoke.

"I see, do you think her early arrival can disrupt our plans?" Melantha asked a little worried.

"I don't think so, in fact I think she can speed things up for the better with her arrival." Griseo replied.

"I understand. Now I need to get back to base. But before I go I want to ask you just one more thing." ( Melantha )

"Are you having fun at your time at school?" Melantha asked, she wanted to know if Griseo was okay.

"Yes, I like to spend time with Ryu-chan and Kyuusyou." Griseo replied. Although she still remains expressionless to feel that she was happy to spend time at school.

"I understand, then bye. We see each other the other day." Melantha then left but she had a relieved smile on her face.

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At the same time, in Kyuusyou's room.

She was sleeping peacefully in her bed.

"Hehe... Ryusuke... let's save the world..." She spoke in her sleep while drooling a little.  She had a goofy smile as she slept.

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At the same time in each of Ryusuke.

Ryusuke was now staring at a woman with bluish gray hair who was unconscious on the floor of his room. In his hand was a hair clip. This hair clip was the Fenghuang Down, the eighth Divine Key that was created from the core of the eighth Herrscher of the Previous Age, the Herrscher of Sentience.

"Really, and I think I could relax for a few days and now I'm going to have to deal with a nutcase tomorrow." Ryusuke took a sigh. He was a little discouraged but he needed to act on Otto Apocalypse as soon as possible. He couldn't have a passive position against that guy.

Ryusuke then took the unconscious Fu Hua and took her to the couch.

"Well, I'll leave the problems for tomorrow. Now I'm going to sleep." Ryusuke said while he is walking to his room. Without him noticing a small glow from Fenghuang Down Ryusuke's body entered. But he was too sleepy to notice.

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( Author's note: hi guys how are you? As you can see I added an original character in this chapter, it was Melantha, I know that some of you have already realized that Melantha is an arknights character.

I decided to use add Melantha as a MANTIS from the Previous Era. After all, the tragedy of the connection did not happen in the previous era, which will allow me to add some original MANTIS to the story.

I intend to put some arknights characters in my fanfic but even if they look the same and name they will have a slightly different personality, I will also put a story of different origin for them.

I started playing arknights last week after I finished watching the anime, and I must say that I loved the game.

I decided to add Melantha because she was the 3 star that has helped me the most so far.

As you may have seen, things will start to heat up in history.

Write in the comments what you think of this chapter.