"Ugh... so hungry... so sleepy..." Theresa returned, riding on Judah with a miserable look on her face.
Theresa had worked diligently all night, finally finishing the latest episode of Homu Adventure. Then, being too tired this morning, she slept until now. Himeko hadn't brought her any food, and she was about to starve.
"Judah, help me open the door." Theresa was draped over Judah's back, not wanting to move.
Judah gently supported Theresa on its body, then extended a chain to open Himeko's door. Then, as if sensing something, Judah dropped Theresa and ran off.
Theresa, left on the ground by Judah, was completely bewildered. Where did my Judah go?
And in the room, Kallen, who was searching everywhere for food, was knocked over by the Oath of Judah.
Kallen steadied her slightly dizzy head, then looked at the huge object that had flopped into her arms.
"Judah?! Is that you? Old friend, I never thought I'd see you again." Kallen excitedly hugged Judah, shedding tears of joy.
Judah also hugged Kallen back in a very human-like way. *Master, my master~*
(Anyway, Theresa is a clone made from Kallen's genes, so they are quite similar in some ways.)
Seeing her Judah embracing someone else and crying, Theresa suddenly felt her head grow heavy.
Cortana appeared silently beside Theresa and handed her a hat.
"Want one?"
"Mm."
"Kaslana?"
"Yeah..."
Then the two of them sat at the doorway wearing green hats, watching the sunset.
*Wait, why am I wearing this thing?* Cortana took the hat off her own head and placed it on Theresa's as well, then dissipated her form.
Feeling her head get even heavier, Theresa ripped the hats off her head and rushed into the living room to see Judah and Kallen still locked in an embrace.
"You bastard! What did you do to my Judah!" Theresa stepped onto the coffee table, looking Kallen in the eye. "Huh, why do you look so much like a friend of mine?!"
Looking at the cute little white-haired girl before her, Kallen was a bit dazed. *If I had a child with Yae Sakura in the future, she would surely be this cute!*
"What's your name, little one?" Kallen let go of Judah in her arms and tried to ask Theresa's name.
"I'm not some 'little one', I'm the principal here! Just call me Theresa." Theresa placed her hands on her hips and loudly announced her name. "And you? Who are you? I don't remember having someone like you in my academy!"
"Theresa? I like your name a lot! My name is Kallen, Kallen Kaslana," Kallen said to Theresa with a smile.
Kallen's affection for Theresa instantly maxed out. Not only did she look like the child she imagined having in the future, but her name was also one she had once considered for a child!
"Kallen Kaslana!!!" Hearing Kallen's name, Theresa first froze for a moment, then shouted in astonishment.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?!"
Theresa's loud shout startled everyone in their rooms out into the open.
Ryn floated out of his room carrying Kiana, then looked quizzically at Kallen and Theresa.
"Kallen, what trouble did you cause?"
"I don't know! Little Theresa looked so shocked the moment she heard my name..." Kallen looked at Ryn with innocent eyes, then hugged the Judah beside her. In this strange era, only Judah could give her a sliver of comfort.
And Theresa, seeing Kallen hug Judah again, and Judah not resisting, knew that this might really be the Kallen she was thinking of.
"Kallen... Judah... Kallen... Grandpa?!" Theresa spun in circles, thinking. Her little brain, which hadn't been used for a long time, started to turn again. "Grandpa clearly promised me he wouldn't make any more clones... but this Kallen, did Grandpa's plan to resurrect Kallen succeed?"
Hearing Theresa's muttering, Kika reached out and tapped Theresa's head.
"Stop thinking. This Kallen has nothing to do with Schicksal Overseer Otto. She's a piece of virtual data that Ryn and the others rescued from a database. Ryn transcribed her into a real person."
"Yes, I am a virtual personality created by Otto from memories extracted from Kallen's body. Ryn and the others brought me out of the data space, allowing me to truly live..." Kallen nodded, not denying what Kika said.
"Huh?" Theresa looked at everyone in a daze. This was a bit complicated, her little brain couldn't quite process it.
"We'll explain slowly later! Just think of her as a second Kallen Kaslana. Anyway, Otto knows we saved Kallen.
Speaking of Otto, I just remembered. Otto told us to just call her Kallen, not Kallen Kaslana. But I think it's just a name, so I didn't agree. Then Otto said we could do whatever we want, as long as we don't say her full name in front of him," Ryn said with a helpless shrug.
"Hmm... is that so? Then I'll be more careful in the future and just won't say Kaslana. After all, I don't know the real her... although the name Kaslana makes me quite proud."
Kallen regretfully stroked Judah. Although the body Ryn and Cortana had created for her was the same as the real Kallen Kaslana's, and even stronger, she was ultimately just a memory.
"Abababa~" Theresa's little brain crashed. It felt so chaotic, she was about to turn into Teri-teri silly.
"Interested in playing something fun? This is a new ability I discovered last night after evolving a bit in the Sea of Quanta!" Cortana floated on Ryn's shoulder and said to everyone.
"What is it? I want to see." Kiana poked Cortana with her hand, signaling her to hurry up.
"Don't rush me. Ryn, listen to my command and provide some Honkai energy to Judah." Cortana sat on Judah and then plunged her hands into its body.
*It's just a Herrscher core-driven anti-Honkai god-slaying armament, the key to a god's power—a Divine Key. Nothing special.* Cortana thought it was no big deal, watch her hack it with ease.
"Kallen or Theresa, one of you control Judah and tell it not to resist, otherwise it won't be fun if I destroy its consciousness," Cortana shouted to Kallen and Theresa.
"Ryn, come on!! Fill her up, hard!"
Ryn didn't hesitate and immediately began to pour Honkai energy into Judah.
Judah's whole body began to tremble. It was resisting Ryn's Honkai energy, but a Divine Key without its master's control was ultimately just an ordinary Honkai energy-driven device.
With Kallen and Theresa not helping it, it could only submit to the lewd hands of Cortana and Ryn.
Finally, under the massive infusion of Ryn's Honkai energy, Judah emitted a dazzling holy light, blinding everyone present.