Chương 131: Stalker of the Arc
"Kiana has changed so much… I wish she was still the goofy Kiana I knew…" Someone said with nostalgia.
"Grief will give her the motivation to keep going, and suffering is the inevitable price for achieving greatness… Ugh, I can't even cheer myself up."
Bella stared at the screen, her eyes lost. "My Queen, is this how she falls? Will she never return?"
She loved her more than Kiana.
Even though she was the antagonist in the game, she was my queen!
Bella pressed the screen to continue the story.
...
This was Arc City, a high-tech metropolis in China, where people sought refuge after the Great Honkai. It was here that Schicksal would carry out the next stage of their plan.
Otto's voice informed everyone of their mission.
On a night lit by the moon, Rita, clad in dark green armor, reappeared after a long time away.
[Lord Bishop, I have reached Arc City.]
She was still elegant and stylish, even on a mission. She wore black suspenders and black stockings that hugged her curvy legs, a white dress that contrasted with her dark armor, and a black hairpin that held her short hair in place.
Her purple eyes had a faint smile, and her lips were slightly curved, but they also radiated a menacing vibe.
With Otto's permission, Rita took charge of finding Kiana in Arc City.
She tracked down the information broker who had supplied the pictures, Gray Snake, and initiated a deal with him.
He held a black umbrella and had a face like a robot. He was taken aback by this uninvited visitor, and felt Rita's subtle and overt threats.
He scoffed, not interested in such a forceful bargain. He said, You are already under the snake's watch.
Then, the screen faded to black, and the sound of a blade piercing flesh was heard. Rita cleaned the blade with a silk cloth and said quietly, without looking at the corpse behind her.
[Snake? You are right, death… is the start of a new deal.]
...
"Rita? " Durandal stared at Rita in the video in disbelief. She hadn't seen Rita in the video for a long time, and she felt amazed.
"Is this what you do every day?"
Durandal finished her training, wearing a training suit, with a beige towel around her neck, sweat soaking her clothes.
She walked towards Rita, twisting the cap of her water bottle, and took a sip.
Rita watched herself on the big screen, wearing her armor and killing people with grace.
She smiled and said, "Why? Did Rita let Master Durandal down?"
"Even though it's different, Rita is indeed doing that kind of work."
Durandal shook her head. "Some things have to be done by someone. I'm not naive."
"But…" she paused. "Did the company hire a voice actor for Gray Snake? Everyone else sounds fine, but this guy looks shady from the start! "
" Oh? About him, "Rita tapped her finger and remembered, "The boss said: 'He's a robot anyway, so a mechanical voice fits him, right? '"
She laughed. "Besides, Luo Mo couldn't find a good voice for him."
"Lord Durandal, may I offer you a towel to wipe your sweat?" Rita's eyes sparkled slightly, and she spoke politely.
She picked up the towel nearby and approached slowly.
"Huh? " Durandal was caught off guard, but she didn't reject Rita, who came closer. "Sure, if you don't mind."
Rita moved forward confidently and softly wiped her forehead.
"Rita, what do you make of my sister's actions earlier?" Durandal asked, puzzled by Kiana's behavior in the video.
She was always so mischievous and careless, and only recently started to learn seriously.
" Hmm? Are you referring to the video or reality?" Rita dabbed the sweat away with the right amount of pressure, her face flushing with warmth.
"Both of them. " Durandal said in a quiet voice.
"Then, what do you think makes a person grow?" Rita asked, instead of answering.
What makes a person grow? Durandal was silent. She had lived in a world bubble as a child. Without her mother, Cecilia, to protect her, she took on the burden of saving the world.
"Solitude… and duty. "
Rita sighed softly and then gently rubbed Durandal's head with her hands to ease her stress.
...
The scene switched to Saint Freya and her team, who had been searching for Kiana tirelessly for the last three months.
They had also tracked down Schicksal's clues to Arc City, where they hoped to find Kiana before Schicksal did.
The Humanoid Machine, a mechanical device that World Snake used to control all the security cameras in Arc City, was the key to their rivalry.
Rita had obtained the snake eyes after killing the gray snake, and they proved to be very useful.
She had let Mei escape on purpose and planted a tracker on her during their fight.
But when Bronya tried to hack into the system and access the information from the sky, she found out that a crucial biometric verification was needed, and Rita appeared from the shadows.
She was sitting in a light-colored armor in the old Chinese loft, under the moonlight. The sight of the Blue Knight Moon Soul made everyone tense.
She was composed and began to issue orders to the figure below: "Rita Rossweisse, commence the battlefield cleanup."
Under the anxious gaze of everyone, Rita approached them and pulled out an eyeball.
Her voice was icy and merciless, and she said:
[Rita Rossweisse assumes the highest authority]
[I order you, data upload]
[…then format! ]
Facing the threat of the S-class Valkyrie and the fourth-generation God-slayer Armor, Theresa and the others, who were exhausted and battle-worn, could not stop Rita from leaving with ease.
Theresa grabbed the humanoid machine nervously and let out a sigh of relief when she saw that it did not explode.
Bronya regained her focus and muttered, "What she said… was not an explosion, but a format!"
Theresa shouted, "Ah! That woman actually spared us."
"How irritating!"
At this point, the trail to St. Freya's side was officially lost.
In the mission report between Rita and Otto, Otto said:
[It is a pity that the humanoid machine was formatted, but you accomplished the most important task and did well. ]
Rita replied, "I will eliminate any obstacle that stands in the way of Schicksal, as long as the mission demands it."
Rita also responded elegantly to Otto's questions and answers.
At the end of the communication, at the end of the chapter, Rita leaned on the guardrail of the city.
Her tone was calm, and she looked into the distance.
"Man has two hands; one is used to take away, and the other is used to give."
...
"That woman… is so infuriating!" Theresa, in reality, said this as she watched the screen and held her head.
She was too upset to speak more about Rita at the moment.
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