coobybook Chapter 412 Raze St. Freya to the ground?
Chapter 412 Raze St. Freya to the ground?
"Alliance Leader, are you and Xing here?"
Yae Sakura stood outside and gently knocked on Old Yang's tightly closed door.
"Please come in."
Walter Young sat at a table piled high with manuscripts, his gaze lifting from the March 7th sketch in his hands behind his glasses. When he recognized Yae Sakura, the smile that had been playing on his lips quickly turned into astonishment—wait a minute, why is Yae Sakura dressed as a maid?
"Yae Sakura, what's going on?"
Yae Sakura lowered her eyes to avoid Old Yang's surprised gaze, looking at her lace-trimmed apron.
"I'm currently learning how to be a maid..."
Walter remained silent for a while, then took off his glasses and rubbed his temples.
"You learned this for Qiong? Rita must have made you learn it, right?"
"It was my own decision."
She took two steps forward, her specially made maid outfit with red sleeves and white ruffles swaying slightly with her movements.
"Alliance Leader, don't you think Qiong needs someone to help him with cleaning and cooking? I know a little about these things..."
Walter's gaze swept over the mountain of drawing papers on the table—wasn't it possible that he, a relatively single man living alone (though not quite alone yet), needed them even more...?
Ahem, that's not the point.
"You know, Yae Sakura."
Walter put his glasses back on, his tone quite gentle.
“He never needed a maid. You are free, Yae Sakura.”
"Freedom also includes the right to choose who cleans the room, don't you think, leader?"
She looked up, and Walter felt a flame burning in her crimson eyes.
"Would the headmaster's family refuse a helper who comes to their door on their own initiative?"
"hehe."
Walter suddenly laughed, a laugh born of anger.
He didn't speak, but simply took out a photo from the drawer—a family portrait of the Starry Sky Train that he had framed after Raiden Mei demolished Himeko's house and he had participated in the salvage work to "recover and repair" the valuables from Bronya's room.
"Yae Sakura, as Sora's elder, I'll advise you one more time: give up... but if you're looking for a star, she's right there."
Walter pointed to the photo and then to the window, where Xing could be seen carrying a baseball bat on his shoulder, seemingly practicing.
"If you need her help 'win over' Qiong, please talk to her outside and tell her to come back before lunch, as she hasn't eaten yet."
Yae Sakura completely ignored the train crew's group photo and looked in the direction Walter pointed, where she saw Hoshi carrying a baseball bat.
"Thank you for informing me, Alliance Leader."
Walter watched Yae Sakura turn to find Hoshino, and smiled faintly.
It's a pity that Yae Sakura is destined to return empty-handed this time. How could Hoshi possibly agree to go out with Yae Sakura to discuss how to take down Sora?
"Uncle Yang, I'm going out with 'Sister Ying' for a bit!"
"what?"
Walter's smile froze on his face. He watched as Xing slung his baseball bat over his shoulder and fled out of the room.
The room fell silent again. Walter maintained his half-raised hand position and remained silent for a full ten seconds.
"Could this girl have been bribed?"
Walter shook his head in frustration. Although he felt something was wrong, he was determined to ignore it and tried to refocus his attention on the sketches of the comic book version of March 7.
The faint sound of two people talking could be heard outside the door.
"Xiaoxing, is it okay if I call you that? Can you tell me about your brother...?"
"You really want to pursue my brother? Okay then, just don't tell anyone I told anyone! Let me tell you, my brother is actually super easy to get—"
Walter: ...
The pen in Old Yang's hand snapped with a "crack," the tip leaving a long mark on March 7's eye.
He stared at the March sketch he had destroyed, remained silent for a moment, and finally crumpled the paper into a ball with a blank expression, accurately throwing it into the trash can in the corner.
"There's nothing I can do; after all, I'm still Ryoma's friend."
After muttering to himself, he stood up, took his coat from the coat rack, put it on steadily, and adjusted his glasses. His gaze behind the lenses was calm and sharp, a stark contrast to the "Uncle Yang" who had been agonizing over his cartoon sketches just moments before.
Now, it's not cartoonist Lao Yang, it's Walter in spy form!
Walter slowly pushed open the door. Xing and Yae Sakura were no longer in the corridor. Following their trail, Agent Yang quickly found them.
As an experienced soldier, tracking two naive young girls (though one of them was five hundred years old) was not difficult. He maintained just the right distance, enough to hear the faint, intermittent conversation ahead, while ensuring he was completely out of the visual blind spot of his surroundings.
Walter considered calling Qiong, but considering that Qiong seemed to have said last night that she was going to see Anna off, and that Xing had not yet made any substantial move to betray her brother, he gave up after thinking for a moment.
"Hmm... so I feel that the key is sincerity, right? My brother is actually very soft-hearted, especially towards Mei-neechan..."
"Is sincerity all that matters? He seems afraid of my sincerity..."
"Have you considered asking your brother to help you rummage through the trash cans?"
Yae Sakura & Welt: ...
She probably wasn't giving serious advice, right?
Walter shook his head, a smile playing on his lips. It seemed unnecessary; he'd overthought things. Xing wasn't here to offer advice, but to tease Yae Sakura…
"Qiong?"
Suddenly, Yae Sakura uttered the name Sora again, but with a hint of uncertainty.
Walter followed Yae Sakura's gaze and suddenly felt a bone-chilling cold—not a physical cold, but a cold that came from the depths of his being…
At the entrance of the academy ahead, a figure he knew all too well stood silently—silver-white hair, icy blue eyes, and a face as cold as a frozen lake… It wasn’t Qiong, it was Kevin Kaslana!
I feel... he seems to be—
"You two, step back!"
"Alliance Leader (Uncle Yang)?"
Welt's voice boomed like thunder behind them, making them realize his presence. Before they could react, Welt swiftly stepped forward, extending his arm to shield Hoshino and Yae Sakura behind him. Then, he gripped several canes in his hands—if several Stars of Eden were detonated simultaneously, even Kevin at his peak would be injured!
Yae Sakura stared in surprise at "Sora" in front of her—her icy blue eyes held no warmth befitting Sora, only a hint of tenderness flickering in them when she saw her…
He did nothing, but simply stood there with his arms crossed, yet he exerted immense pressure on Walter.
"Kevin, what do you want to do?!"
Walter whispered the name that neither Hoshino nor Yae Sakura had ever heard before, his voice carrying a gravity they had never witnessed before. His gaze behind his glasses was sharp as a knife, fixed intently on the other person.
"Rule of Reason, I meant no harm. I simply wanted to make you, the Rulers of modern civilization..."
Whether intentional or due to a miscalculation, a chilling current rapidly swept towards the three of them, centered on Kevin. The alarm at St. Freya Academy, belatedly sounding, blared through the sky.
There's trouble here.
Kevin and Walter were of the same mind on this point.
Only then did Yae Sakura realize that her opponent's intentions were hostile, and she finally gripped the hilt of the sword that had appeared at her waist—the demon sword, Akazome Sakura. If her opponent wasn't Sora, she might have been able to strike. Hoshi also sensed something was wrong and instinctively tightened his grip on his baseball bat.
"Uncle Yang, this... he shouldn't be my brother..."
"He is not Qiong!"
Walter spoke with unwavering resolve; though a true catastrophe was imminent, his voice remained remarkably calm.
"I'll handle this. You all get out of here immediately, to a safe place, and don't look back! Go tell Theresa and Siegfried! If you can see Fu Hua, that's fine too! This isn't a battle you can get involved in!"
"But Uncle Yang, you..."
"obedient."
Walter's tone left no room for argument. At the same time, a dark red halo began to appear around him, and countless black spheres made of gravity appeared out of thin air, slowly rotating and reorganizing near Kevin, forming an impenetrable pseudo-black hole cage—that was the power of the "Star of Eden," which should theoretically be enough to tear apart all enemies.
But that's just in theory. On the other side is the strongest warrior from the previous civilization era, the sovereign of the current civilization "World Serpent," a terrifying being who should not easily appear before the world.
As soon as he finished speaking, Kevin on the other side moved.
Without warning, without gathering power, he simply raised his right hand. In an instant, the extreme chill transformed into tangible ice crystals. These crystals shattered in his hand, suddenly erupting into an ice wave far surpassing the one formed during their quantum sea duel. Before this ice wave, the prison-like structure resembling a black hole seemed a joke. Overwhelmed by sheer numbers, the white ice wave tore through the seemingly insurmountable black hole prison. Even after tearing through the prison, its power remained undiminished, continuing its surge towards the three. Wherever it passed, even the water molecules in the air were frozen…
"go!"
With a low shout, Walter's dark red gravitational field suddenly expanded, forming a semi-circular barrier that forcefully held back the raging ice wave. The ice collided and annihilated with gravity, producing a teeth-grinding cracking sound. The dissipating cold air instantly frosted over the eyelashes of the three of them, and the aftershocks of the impact also made Hoshi and Yae Sakura lose their footing.
Yae Sakura shuddered, and under her urging, foxfire ignited on the demon sword.
Then, she grabbed Xing.
"Xing, trust the Alliance Leader! Our presence here will only distract him!"
Xing glanced at Walter's tall and solemn back, and at the dark red barrier that had just blocked the ice waves and was now flickering in and out of focus. Finally, she nodded heavily, and the two of them quickly retreated.
"As expected of you..."
Alone with Kevin, Walter felt that familiar yet unsettling sense of oppression and muttered to himself.
"Even without being fully recovered, you possess such power. I must say, you truly are worthy of this."
Kevin didn't give chase; his icy blue eyes simply watched the direction the two girls had retreated—or rather, watched Yae Sakura's departing figure. A complex, almost nostalgic emotion flickered deep within his gaze, but it vanished in an instant, freezing back into an eternal, unyielding ice.
Then, his gaze fell back on Walter.
"The Herald of Reason, a First Herald who has not yet ascended to immortality and should be the weakest, has actually achieved this... I have received your determination. But you have not yet responded to my proposal."
"Answer? I think I've answered that countless times in the Sea of Quanta!"
Walter adjusted his glasses, his gaze behind the lenses remaining calm. He casually switched to a different cane, the tip of which emitted an even stronger dark red light.
"Besides, arriving in this kind of 'greeting' shows you don't have the sincerity to have a proper conversation! Kevin, this is a school, a place to train Valkyries, a place to protect the world, not a battlefield!"
"battlefield?"
Kevin slowly lowered his arms, a simple gesture that made Walter tense—Kevin was actually quite speechless, because he saw his attack as a response to Walter's meaningless "preventative black hole cage"...
"Herrscher of Reason, you seem to have misunderstood. I hold the warriors of modern civilization in high regard, and the World Serpent has no intention of destroying this place. It's just that the Stigmata Project must proceed; necessary sacrifices are required to overcome the end—"