"Schrödinger is fine, but that damned girl, Mei, is too arrogant to play such a prank on me..."
Tesla followed Durandal, clenching her fists sadly... and spoke as if she were a real fighter.
"By the way, do you know where they are?"
"Yes, they are having dinner at the Skydome Hotel,"
Bianka replied, putting down the communicator in her hand.
"You're quite well-informed, aren't you?"
"No, it's not me who's psychic, but Mr. Grey Snake,"
Bianka answered with complete sincerity.
Without mentioning the world, in Sky City alone, if you have any problems, you can always go to Grey Serpent.
"That information trafficker without any professional ethics?"
Tesla was quite annoyed when Grey Serpent was mentioned.
"That guy doesn't even offer after-sales service for the products he sells. What kind of service company is that?! By the way, that guy went bankrupt because of that Rita!"
"Hmm... Are information brokers also considered a service industry?"
Bianka put her hand to her chin and thought deeply.
"I'd rather you pay attention to the second half, where I talk about Rita."
Tesla put her hand to her forehead.
It was confirmed that this seemingly serious Valkyrie had some minor issues with her brain.
Although Theresa had told her about this before, she didn't believe it; after all, no one would believe something like that without experiencing it personally, right?
"And by the way, you also broke my drone, didn't you?"
"Ah... I apologize for the drone incident. I will compensate you."
"Tsk, I feel like I heard something similar more than sixty years ago,"
Tesla said with a strange expression.
"By the way, are you carrying the Black Abyss White Flower?"
"I am carrying it."
"Take it out and let me see it."
Although a little confused by Tesla's sudden seriousness, Bianka honestly took out the Black Abyss White Flower.
"She's a little taller than you, but... well, although her personality and appearance are completely different, her temper is indeed very similar."
Tesla looked at the blonde Valkyrie in front of her who was holding a spear, touched her chin, and nodded.
"Forget it, that's why I won't bother you about destroying my drone."
"?"
Bianka looked confused.
"Why?"
"Reanna Brigantina, do you know that name? I guess you don't."
Tesla inexplicably sneered.
"After all, Reanna was excommunicated by Schicksal more than sixty years ago; that Bishop is a master at suppressing information and excluding dissidents. After so long, I'm afraid Schicksal can no longer find any written records of Reanna, right?"
"Reanna... I seem to have heard of her, but I also seem not to have heard of her... Who is she?"
Bianka frowned.
Seeing this, Tesla didn't keep Bianka in suspense and explained directly.
"More than sixty years ago, the most powerful Schicksal Valkyrie (she held that title for more than a hundred years) was Schicksal's last card back then."
"Sixty years ago, because she couldn't stand Otto, she joined us to found Anti-Entropy; by the way, she was the previous wielder of the Black Abyss White Flower... or, more precisely, the previous wielder of the title, it was her."
"The previous one?"
"Yes, the last time, during the Second Honkai Impact, Reanna brought the Black Abyss White Flower to Siberia to participate in the war, but she was deceived by your Bishop, so she had no choice but to temporarily lend it to Cecilia of the Schariac clan, the strongest Schicksal of the previous generation. After that... it was very simple, Cecilia died, and that Otto guy recovered the Black Abyss White Flower."
"Then she..."
"She's still alive."
Tesla rolled her eyes at Bianka.
"She simply doesn't move much anymore; after all, the Bishop is dying to get rid of her. But of course, fate is a coincidence, so this spear is the most powerful inheritance of three generations of Schicksal."
"Really? If there's a chance, I'd love to meet that senior."
Bianka stroked the spear in surprise.
"We'll talk about it later... but, of course, who knows how turbulent the previous battle would be. Both the impact and the intensity exceeded our original expectations, otherwise, you should have been able to meet Reanna at that time."
Tesla still didn't forget to complain at this moment.
"If Welt and Reanna had been there at that time, things wouldn't have turned out like this... Of course, that Bishop might have made things worse, forget it, let's not talk about those old things. The important thing is to live in the present!"
"Live in the present?"
Bianka asked with confusion in her eyes.
"That's what I'm saying! Take me to find that Tian Shi right now!"
Tesla looked at Bianka with disappointment.
"Can you get a little nervous? Don't even bother walking! Call a car! Don't tell me you don't have money!"
...
"I never thought that one day I would spend other people's money here."
Sitting in the hotel's magnificent lobby, Raven said with emotion.
"I thought Miss Ciora would say: 'I never thought the day would come when I would spend money here that wasn't from public funds'," Rita laughed.
"You really underestimate me."
Raven looked at Rita sadly.
"I'm not like you, a person who only knows how to negotiate with a scythe; I've been in charge of quite a few important negotiations and deals, and my success rate is as good as Jackal's. That's why I used to come to hotels like this frequently."
"You really know what to say."
"Although it might be a bit boastful, I think I'm quite good at things like management."
"Do you like your bar?"
Rita seemed to have learned a lot about Raven thanks to Grey Serpent.
"It's not that I manage the bar poorly."
Raven pursed her lips.
"In fact, at first I wanted to open a coffee shop, but as you know, I don't have very good cooking skills. Besides coffee, a coffee shop needs pancakes and other things; the culinary industry isn't going well, so I opened a relatively simple bar."
"And then?"
"And then? And then, of course, it was a resounding success, but, unfortunately, not the one I had imagined."
Raven sounded a little melancholic when she talked about this.
"I run a legal bar, but somehow it became the preferred spot for gangsters and information brokers. That's why I collected a large sum of... agency fees? But it's very boring."
"If you really want to rely on those gangsters and information brokers to live, you'd better go back to World Serpent and continue working there; although I can't handle an S-rank Valkyrie like you, World Serpent pays quite well, so I left the bar to Grey Serpent to manage; it's completely different from the bankruptcy you imagined."
"So, Ciora, are you a talented secretary?"
Tian Shi joked from the side.
"Having one maid is not enough, does Mr. Tian Shi want to find a secretary?"
Rita looked at Tian Shi with a smile.
"Is our leader's private life a little chaotic?"
"Didn't you say before that you were a 'free maid' without a master?"
"That's right, maybe I could try to get double the salary, as a maid and a secretary?"
Rita chuckled.
"After all, I'm good at secretarial work."
"After all, Rita, you are that kind of perfect, capable, and intelligent maid."
Tian Shi nodded.
Tsk, this guy didn't react.
Rita felt a little disappointed when she saw Tian Shi praising her so seriously.
"I was clearly hinting that as long as Tian Shi agreed, I could become his maid..."
"Did I say it too cryptically?"
Rita had some self-doubt.
"Actually, I doubt that the 'secretarial work' Rita mentioned is actual work."
Mei whispered softly to MEI.
"Rita is just a cunning slut, are you really a serious secretary? According to the book's plot, if someone like Rita were a maid, she would definitely be the type who would hide under the desk during work hours, right? Shameless!"
Mei's question caused MEI to look up and glance at her, as if she had recognized the younger "self" in front of her again.
"I thought you were that kind of person... Yamato Nadeshiko? That's what you're called, right? I thought you were that kind of person."
MEI adjusted her glasses.
This question is quite intense.
"…"
This question... is really difficult to answer.
"Worrying about my brother's health is what a Yamato Nadeshiko should do."
Mei replied without changing her expression.
"I hope it's just normal and serious concern."
MEI pushed up her glasses indifferently and said with meaningful undertones.
"Probably as serious as Miss Rita?" MEI said.
Mei quickly changed the subject.
"By the way, what have you been thinking about since a moment ago?"
"Me? I'm thinking about an experiment."
Specifically, it was an experiment on how to bring Tian Shi over without leaving any trace, MEI added in her heart.
After all, under the current circumstances, it is obviously difficult to succeed using conventional methods, and none of the people present here are easy to deal with.
So, instead of having an honest "fair fight," it is better to find a way to create an environment that is beneficial to yourself and where no one can interfere.
"Is it necessary to think about this? The most advantageous place for me is obviously the laboratory."
However, for now, there is no specific solution.
After all, I have always been considered very capable in the eyes of others, so I obviously don't need help with small experiments.
A big experiment... How can we have time to talk about love during a big experiment?
Besides, Tian Shi is also a member of the circle, and he is even her teacher.
It's impossible to trick him with words.
(Does this mean I should ask the professor for some guidance after a long absence?)
The doubts MEI had about the "secretarial work" no longer serve as a reminder.
It seems that the situation Mei described also applies here?
But that method is a bit bold.
"I always feel like MEI is up to something sinister."
Senti looked at her "little sister" inexplicably, then turned to look at Rita and Raven.
"Rita is bothering Master Tian again... damn it."
"He's quite popular."
Kiana looked at Mei and then at Tian Shi, with a rather depressed expression.
"It's because of this guy that Mei has become indifferent towards me."
"I think Mei always treated you like her little sister."
Senti's mind suddenly lit up at that moment.
"It's even possible that she finds you quite annoying."
"Class monitor, what are you talking about?"
Kiana's expression became gloomy.
"When I was next to her, Mei always smiled at me!"
"Will you put a sad face on a Husky?"
Senti said seriously.
"Anyway, you'll at least smile a little, right?"
"Mmm."
"Look at her carefully, Mei's smile hasn't disappeared, it's just that she's showing it to someone else, you can observe her all you want."
Although Senti's words were logical, her emotional intelligence had not improved at all.
She successfully paralyzed Kiana.
"Squad leader, why don't you wait for the waiter to serve the food?"
If you can't talk, don't talk! No, it hurts to hear that!
Mei, my Mei...
(I think this is easy to understand. After all, hormones are a very strange thing. Besides, Master Tian has always been very popular.)
(Squad leader in my head, please stop talking!)
...
"Two, two Meis? No, that's not right. The other one is..."
Tesla, who was watching intently, immediately noticed that something was wrong.
"The other one is Dr. MEI, a great scientist from the previous civilization."
"Why does this name sound familiar?"
Tesla pursed her lips, then used the binoculars Bianka had given her to look at Mei, who was beside him.
"You actually went to a restaurant without telling me... and you didn't even want to order takeout! I loved you so much in vain!"
"Do you want to go in?"
Bianka didn't pay attention to Tesla's complaints and asked calmly and seriously.
"Go in, go in... Rita isn't suddenly going to tie me up, is she?"
Although she spoke harshly, when that moment actually arrived, Tesla was still a little hesitant.
"Probably not, I think Rita will be more reserved when she's with Tian."
"That's good."
She didn't want to experience the terrible ordeal of being tied up again.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that the Fu Hua next to them is not the real Fu Hua, but a Herrscher who believes she is Fu Hua."
Seeing Tesla sigh in relief, Bianka couldn't help but remind her.
"It's okay, she's just a Herrscher, I've seen many Herrschers."
"There is nothing else in Anti-Entropy but Herrschers! Only Herrschers!"
"Anyway, maintain the momentum and overwhelm them... wait."
Tesla, who was about to step forward, retracted her foot as if remembering something.
"What's wrong, Doctor Tesla?"
"I, I didn't put on makeup before going out today!"
Tesla frantically pulled a small mirror from her body.
"Who knew I would meet Tian Shi today? If I had known, I would have put on makeup before leaving. Besides, this outfit is in poor taste, no, no... How can I go see Tian Shi like this? It's over, it's over..."
"But it's too late to touch up your makeup, right?"
Bianka looked at Tesla, who suddenly panicked, completely confused.
"Come on... I still have time! I have to touch up my makeup! At most, I can skip lunch! It's not like I'm going to die if I skip a meal!"