[The bound Tesla is trembling with rage, telling Himeko how Rita "humiliated" her.
Himeko struggles to hold back her laughter. After untying Tesla, she briefly tells her about the laboratory Fu Hua had just mentioned.
The two hit it off immediately and decide to head to the lab, while also looking for a way to contact the Hyperion.
After a grueling battle, the two finally reach their destination.
Due to the prolonged fighting, Himeko's physical functions are severely strained, and she gasps for breath.
And this laboratory, it looks more like a factory.
After entering, Tesla immediately begins to study the lab's main control system, while Himeko can take this time to rest a little.]
One second they were laughing their heads off at Tesla's appearance, the next they were worried about the battered and bruised Himeko who was still forcing herself to fight.
"Himeko..."
"Himeko's life has been so eventful. To think she's been a Valkyrie for ten years," Kiana said in surprise, watching Himeko on screen recount the enemies she had defeated in the past.
Zombies, special forces soldiers, test subjects, Emperor-class Honkai Beasts...
"And the price of all that fighting is that Himeko's body is probably already riddled with injuries," Bronya said.
[As Himeko is resting, a familiar voice suddenly sounds in her ear.
"You're covered in wounds."
Himeko says, "Hehe, you've finally appeared..."
Himeko communicates with Fu Hua.
Fu Hua tells Himeko to proceed to the lower level, but suddenly notices a symbol on an instrument. She retracts her previous statement, saying that the things on this level are also very important to Himeko and the others.
"Explore it well. You must find it."
"Hey!"
Tesla's shout distracts Himeko. When she turns back, Fu Hua has already disappeared.
An excited Tesla asks Himeko to come over. She's found something incredible.
What Tesla found is a series of system logs.
The reason it's incredible is because it's Otto's personal record. Otto used Cecilia's blood as a base, plus a serum designed by Dr. Magi, to create a "Herrscher Killer" that could eliminate Honkai energy.
Otto calls it humanity's God-Slaying Spear.
"Everything is ready. K-423 has enrolled in St. Freya Academy as planned, and the informant has been arranged."
"Then next—is the time of harvest."]
"The God-Slaying Spear... as expected, Otto had a backup plan. But that's no reason for him to kill Hua!" Sakura said indignantly.
"Is Hua... really dead?" Based on Su's understanding of Ya Qing and his predictions for the story's future, he didn't think Fu Hua would go down so easily. Firstly, there were too many places to plant a tragic plot twist with Fu Hua's character; Ya Qing would definitely not give up on her so easily. Secondly, as the only confirmed survivor of the Previous Era, she definitely had to bear the responsibility of guiding the advancement of the Previous Era's plot.
"Dr. Magi?" Shigure Kira felt the name was a bit familiar, but she just couldn't remember who it was.
"It's normal that you don't know him," Ya Qing said. "Dr. Magi was the one who defined the research directions for all of Schicksal's researchers, and he was the first director of the Schicksal Research Institute."
"Then why..."
"Dr. Magi resigned twenty years ago. He should be retired in Singapore now. He was my father's teacher. I visit him often. He's in good spirits."
[After looking at the experimental data, Tesla hesitates, looking at Himeko as if she wants to say something, but swallows it back down.
"Can you make it... the God-Slaying Spear..." Himeko takes out the vial of HSN-b46 serum.
"You... you'd better not get your hopes up." Tesla looks at Himeko, silent for a long time.
But an alarm sounds at an inopportune moment. Himeko shoves the vial into Tesla's hand and turns her back.
Tesla looks at Himeko's back and, in the end, doesn't say the words. But she also knows that even if she did, it wouldn't change anything.
"I'll do it! I'll show you!"]
"That vial of serum isn't that simple. I'm afraid the Class Monitor intentionally left behind a medicine that could cure Himeko. Now that she's handed over the serum, it's like giving away her own life-saving medicine," Vill-V shook her head.
"A respectable but not recommended act," Su said. He disliked people who gave up on life, but for Himeko's act of giving up a chance to save herself to save her students, he felt a solemn respect.
"It is because of people like them that the light of humanity shines even brighter," Sakura said, rubbing Rin's head. If one day, it came down to a choice between Rin's life and her own, she would also give up her own life without hesitation.
"Please, don't think like that," Aponia's words startled Sakura.
"Hmph, a fine woman," Kalpas also spoke. That was his highest praise.
Rin looked at the three of them, talking eloquently, feeling a bit out of place. But she didn't know what to say, so she could only repeat, "Big sister is right!"
[After eliminating the attacking Honkai Beasts, Himeko can't help but be curious about the lowest level Fu Hua had mentioned.
After tossing Himeko some spare parts for the Valkyrie battlesuit, Tesla suggests they split up.
Although Himeko is worried about Tesla's safety alone upstairs, under Tesla's firm insistence, she heads to the lower level.
The reason Tesla deliberately sent Himeko away was that she didn't want anyone else present for the upcoming experiment. With a gloved hand, she picks up a syringe filled with a purple liquid.
Tesla is preparing to use her own body as a test subject to complete the final experiment.
Although the process is a bit risky, the result is a success. She hasn't turned into a zombie; she's still human.
Tesla collapses to the ground, panting heavily, cold sweat on her forehead, but her face is filled with an unconcealable excitement. She waves her intact right hand excitedly.
"Did you see that, chicken-head! I'm a genius!"]
"That's something Tesla would do," Einstein had no doubt that, under those circumstances, Tesla would make the same choice as the Tesla in the movie.
"The result was good," Joyce said.
...
"That scared me to death. I really thought Dr. Tesla was going to turn into a zombie," Kiana said, patting her chest in relief.
Unlike in Honkai Impact 3rd, Ya Qing had adopted a realistic style, specially modeling the zombified arm. It looked extremely realistic, enough to scare children to tears. He had also created Tesla's fantasy.
"As expected of Dr. Tesla. Under the pressure of death, she can still think of Anti-Entropy's famous Homu series," Bronya said in surprise. Under those circumstances, shouldn't one be thinking of friends and family?
"That scared me," Pardofelis was shivering. Those few scenes were like something out of a horror movie. "Honestly, Ya Qing-bro made these scenes, isn't he afraid of scaring the children!"
A real child, Griseo, was watching the screen with great interest, not even blinking.
A real child, Rin, was eating Sirin's chips and drinking Sirin's soda, and didn't seem to be scared by the movie's scenes at all.
A fake twenty-three-year-old adult cat, Pardofelis, was shivering in fear.
[Meanwhile, on the lowest level of the laboratory.
Himeko follows the continuously descending stairs and finally reaches the end. There, like a solemn grand hall, are five armor pods on each side, some empty, some storing armor.
They are: Argent Knight: Artemis, Knight Moonbeam, Umbral Rose, Shadow Knight: Moonlight, Striker Fulminata, Blood Rose, Midnight Absinthe, and Bright Knight: Excelsis.
Meanwhile, the data for the remaining two armor pods is completely sealed.]
"So Auntie's Valkyrie battlesuit is called Blood Rose. What a cool name!" Kiana's eyes lit up as she looked at the Valkyrie battlesuit on the screen, muttering, "I want one too."
"Each battlesuit represents a Valkyrie. The sealed armor pods, could it be that the Valkyrie has already been sacrificed?" Bronya guessed.
"Bronya, are you saying that Mom's Valkyrie battlesuit might be in the empty armor pod?" Kiana said excitedly.
"No, I don't think the Cecilia-oneechan in the first movie was wearing a Valkyrie battlesuit. A battlesuit should be like the Class Monitor's, more like a combat uniform," Bronya refuted Kiana's guess.
"Why is every battlesuit named something Knight + Moon something? Does the researcher have some kind of OCD?" Theresa complained.
[Himeko walks towards the end of the corridor, where a crimson battlesuit is imprisoned.
"Is this what you wanted me to find... Fu Hua!"
"You've finally... arrived."
Fu Hua tells Himeko that this Valkyrie battlesuit is another of Otto's trump cards, a weapon for a direct confrontation with a Herrscher—the Godsbane Battlesuit prototype, Vermilion Knight: Eclipse.
"The Herrscher has awakened. This battlesuit is our only means to fight her." Fu Hua introduces the origin of the Vermilion Knight: "It is not a product of this era, but a legacy left behind by the Previous Era."
It was only after obtaining the Vermilion Knight that Schicksal developed the modern Valkyrie battlesuits based on it.
And after the successful development of the Valkyrie battlesuits, Otto was not satisfied. He came up with an even crazier plan.
That was to connect the Gem of Haste to this battlesuit, to create a weapon that could perfectly reproduce the power of the Herrscher of Flame.
And before the K-423 experiment began, Otto had ordered all S-rank Valkyries to use this battlesuit as the final means to fight the Herrscher if the experiment failed.
"But now I can't use it." Fu Hua's eyes were a little sad, but she quickly pulled herself together. "You are the only person I can ask for help right now."
"But the final choice is still yours," Fu Hua added at the end.]
"This is foreshadowing, right? This must be foreshadowing!" Kiana said excitedly.
"After Big Niece becomes the Herrscher of the Void, Mei becomes the Herrscher of Thunder, and Bronya possibly becomes the Herrscher of Reason, Himeko might also become the Herrscher of Flame?" Theresa's mouth twitched.
If she remembered correctly, the herself in the movie seemed to be running a Valkyrie academy, training Valkyrie warriors to fight the Honkai. But adding up the teachers and students, there were already four apostles of the Honkai.
"Old fossil, according to what you said in the movie, if that guy Otto hadn't killed you, you were planning to personally wear this battlesuit to fight Sirin?" Senti said with a malicious look.
"What do you mean?" Fu Hua became vigilant. From Senti's expression, she felt it wasn't anything good, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
"I mean, if Himeko can wear it, you, old fossil, your figure might not be able to fit. If you can wear it, then Himeko definitely can't squeeze in," Senti deliberately glanced at Fu Hua's barren chest, then looked at her own slightly more developed chest, and proudly puffed it out.
Fu Hua subconsciously followed her gaze and looked down, and then...
Fu Hua clenched her fists.
Beside her, a lump had already grown on Senti's head, and she was on the verge of tears.
"Pfft," Himeko couldn't help but laugh out loud watching the two sisters interact.
["Heh, don't say that," Himeko said with a light laugh. "The choice, I made it long ago."
"Then I will help you put it on."
Fu Hua walked straight to the battlesuit, reached out her hand, and used her authority (Confident) to open the pod door, switching it to donning mode.
Before donning it, Fu Hua reminded, "When you wear this battlesuit, the Herrscher's gem will begin to corrupt your mind. I will do my best to stop its erosion, but what's more important is yourself."
Himeko took a deep breath and asked the question that had been buried in her heart.
"Fu Hua, who are you?"
"I am just like you, a person who hopes to change the status quo," Fu Hua replied.
Himeko stepped into the armor pod. A light shone on her body, and the world in her eyes gradually turned into a sheet of white, like the dawn, holy and ethereal.
The camera cuts to Himeko's inner world, but it is a world made of stacked squares, with only black and white.
Himeko is fighting against herself, and the BGM also becomes tragic.]
"Teacher Himeko..." Listening to the BGM, Kiana put herself in the scene. Thinking of Himeko's act of disregarding her own life to save her, she wanted to cry.
"Himeko..."
[Theresa and the main trio appear behind Himeko, helping her defeat her inner demons.
"As a human, you have temporarily mastered the power of a Herrscher. With this, my mission here is also over," Fu Hua's voice sounds.
"To have been able to help you at the end... that was truly wonderful..."
Himeko opens her eyes to find Fu Hua standing beside her, bowing with clasped hands. It is a gesture of courtesy from Shenzhou, and a Shenzhou-style BGM also sounds at the same time, but it is a tragic parting.
"Major Himeko, I am grateful for your teachings. If fate allows... we will meet again in the future."
"Thank you, Fu Hua."
Himeko, already wearing Vermilion Knight: Eclipse, walks out of the armor pod.]
"Class Monitor..."
"It's a little sad, but I'm really curious about the Class Monitor's past," Raiden Mei said.
"It will be produced later. It might be a web series, or it might be Fu Hua's solo movie," Ya Qing suddenly said.
"Really?"
The main trio became excited.
"Huh?" Fu Hua was stunned. She had thought she was a supporting character, but she didn't expect to have a solo movie.
"Ah!" Senti was jealous.
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