My name is Yuno… I'm an ordinary high school student at Senba Academy. Maybe because I don't like to talk much, I'm quite lonely in class and don't have many friends…
I come from a single-parent family and have lived with my mom since I was little. Mom is very strict with me because she wants me to be successful, to have a good future, find a good husband, and build a wonderful family, unlike her, who could only give her child a broken home.
But… when I woke up again that day, the world… had changed.
Vines grew out of my own body and crawled all over the classroom. They wriggled like disgusting worms, devouring everything they touched. The messy classroom was filled with classmates lying on the floor…
A cold current flowed into my body from the vines. I could feel my body craving these cold currents, but as they increased, my body became more and more painful.
But thanks to the help of these cold currents, I was finally able to open my eyes. But even though my consciousness was very clear, I couldn't even move a finger… It felt like I was having a nightmare… Am I having a nightmare?
My body hurts so much… Why am I here again? I stared blankly ahead, lost in thought.
I don't know how much time passed, but I seemed to remember something. I overslept this morning and got scolded by my mom…
Then I rushed to school. The first class was math. When I took out my textbook… the white-haired transfer student sitting by the window was dozing off again. Hmm, I remember she's also very famous… her name is… 'Kiana'? I can't believe her. If you don't study hard, you won't have a future.
Then what happened… oh, I remember… I heard screams coming from the hallway outside… The class president suddenly stood up… She rushed to the podium…
And bit the teacher's neck…
What on earth happened… I… I seem to have forgotten who I am again… I started spacing out again. My body hurts so much, it makes it hard for me to think about anything.
…Until suddenly, it was as if something had exploded with a huge roar. I suddenly woke up as if from a dream. I looked ahead… there was a little girl standing there. She was wearing a somewhat retro nun's habit, and behind her was a huge golden cross. For some reason, the cross made me feel a bit cold…
Then I saw the little girl, who also had beautiful white hair like the transfer student, take off her hood, revealing a delicate face that I envied… She's so beautiful.
That white-haired girl was looking at me, but her eyes made me a little scared… It was as if she was pitying me, yet also cold… She suddenly pointed a weapon that looked like a long spear at me and said.
"I've kept you waiting. I'm here to end your suffering."
I finally understood what her gaze meant… It was just like the gaze I once saw in the countryside when my grandmother was slaughtering livestock… She wants to kill me! I don't want to die… I haven't made any good friends yet, I haven't celebrated my mom's upcoming birthday with her…
As I was panicking, someone suddenly whispered in my ear, "Close your eyes and go to sleep… relax your mind and give your body to me… and we won't die…"
So… I did as that 'person' said…
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The sunlight shone down from the hole in the ceiling, illuminating the dim classroom. The Principal of St. Freya High School, Theresa Apocalypse, held a golden spear, its dark obsidian tip aimed at the Pseudo-Herrscher before her.
"…" *I'm sorry…* Theresa said silently in her heart, then thrust the spear of light in her hand towards the Herrscher in front of her.
"Pfft!" Blood splattered… Crimson flowers bloomed like roses on the dusty floor. The spear of light in Theresa's hand was entangled and blocked by green vines tinged with blood. A vine covered in sharp thorns pierced through her abdomen, leaving a sizable wound.
"…" Theresa gritted her teeth. The sharp spear of light in her hand instantly severed the vines in front of her. She clutched her wound and quickly retreated…
"How could this be…" *I was careless…* Theresa endured the pain and looked up at the Pseudo-Herrscher not far away… Crimson blood flowed from the wound her palm was covering, but thanks to her powerful physique, the wound had already begun to heal continuously. However, Theresa was still pale from the blood loss.
"Foolish creature! I knew you were coming to eliminate me!" The girl slowly opened her eyes. The spirit in them, or rather, the rationality belonging to a human, had disappeared. All that remained was destruction… Countless thorny vines coiled around the girl's body like servants, as docile as kittens.
"Why is it always me who's unlucky? Mom has always hated me, scolding me for every little mistake."
"My classmates in class have also always alienated and bullied me…"
"But…" the girl said like a wild beast, her pupils turning into the vertical slits of a beast. She revealed a ferocious smile and continued. "…Those annoying people are all dead, and I've obtained power that surpasses everyone else's."
"I am the chosen one!"
"So her mind was already controlled by the Honkai?!" Theresa, with dark circles under her eyes, muttered to herself. She clutched her wound with her right hand and supported herself on 'Judah's Oath' with her left, gazing unwillingly at the Pseudo-Herrscher before her. If she had known that the person's residual consciousness had already been devoured by Honkai energy, she wouldn't have been so careless…
"Die!" the Pseudo-Herrscher roared, and several vines, hardened like steel, shot towards Theresa like long spears.
"Don't underestimate me!" Theresa forcefully lifted the golden cross to block in front of her. The vines collided with 'Judah's Oath', making 'clang! clang!..' sounds. 'Judah's Oath', made of precious, indestructible Soul Steel, was a shield of absolute defense.
"Ugh!…" Theresa, who had blocked all the attacks, suddenly let out a painful groan, gritting her teeth and bending over to press on the wound in her abdomen. A trace of dark red blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.
"How could this be… I suddenly don't have any strength. Could it be that the vines are poisonous?!" Theresa bit her lip in frustration. She didn't expect this Pseudo-Herrscher to be so difficult to deal with…
'I can't fight her for now…' Theresa was starting to feel her body grow heavier and her consciousness begin to fade… "I have to leave here first… and find a way to detoxify…" Realizing she was poisoned, Theresa spoke with her last remaining sliver of lucidity.
"Bang!" Several vines attacked again. Theresa, holding 'Judah's Oath', crashed through the classroom's glass window and rushed out. In the instant she fell, she began to lose consciousness.
In a daze, she felt as if she was caught by someone…
"A little loli fell from the sky…" someone seemed to say rudely by her ear.
'I'm not a loli!' she thought with some anger. The next moment, her consciousness plunged into darkness again…
(End of this chapter)