In the bright corridor of the warship, sunlight unscrupulously shone upon the silver behemoth suspended above the clouds, a vessel rivaling the size of a national warship from Li Xuan's past life: the [Hyperion]...
This warship, meticulously crafted by the Schicksal organization, possessed the capability to strike Honkai Beasts over 100 meters tall. Its modified main cannon could easily tear through the hard, gray shells of Honkai Beasts. Beneath its alloy hull, various weapons were mounted, such as close-in weapon systems and railguns. The warship's energy source was not conventional but a Honkai reactor developed by Schicksal, providing it with Honkai energy.
Furthermore, this warship also served as Schicksal's branch organization in the East, the Far East Branch...
And at this moment... as the second-in-command of the 'Hyperion', Murata Himeko was sitting on a chair in the warship's corridor, quietly staring at the flashing red warning light on the medical bay door, her eyes filled with a mix of melancholy and complexity.
"Sigh~" Himeko sighed helplessly, then looked up again at the still-lit red warning light. It had been almost an hour since Principal Theresa had been sent in, but the examination was still not finished...
"Ding~" Just as Himeko was about to suppress her worries and wait a little longer, the red warning light on the door suddenly turned green.
"Click~" The heavy door opened again. A woman with slightly messy hair pulled open the medical bay door and strode out, her white doctor's coat looking a bit wrinkled.
"How is she? Doctor Yu Qingqing... Principal Theresa..." Himeko stood up and asked the well-endowed woman in the white coat who was rubbing her temples, looking sleep-deprived.
"Ah... she's physically fine..." Yu Qingqing, the 'Hyperion's' physician, had a complicated expression. She waved her hand and said, "Or rather, she's exceptionally well..."
"Anyway, just go in and see for yourself..." Yu Qingqing stepped aside, gesturing for Murata Himeko to enter.
"..." Himeko nodded and followed Yu Qingqing into the medical bay.
"After a CT scan, we found that the red mark that suddenly appeared on the unconscious Principal Theresa's back doesn't seem to be an ordinary mark... but rather..." Yu Qingqing, who was in charge of the health of all crew members on the 'Hyperion', said with a complex look at Murata Himeko.
"...the legendary Natural Stigmata!" She raised her hand, picked up the nearby laptop, opened a certain image, and showed it to Murata Himeko. "I've already sent the scanned data to the science department..."
What entered Murata Himeko's eyes was a bright red mark, a three-magatama red symbol.
"So this is a Stigmata..." Himeko looked at the image on the computer with a complex gaze, her heart feeling a mix of emotions.
If only this Stigmata could be given to me...
"Mmm..." And just then, Theresa, who was lying on the scanning table wearing only her white undergarments, suddenly let out a groan.
Theresa slowly opened her azure eyes. The first thing she saw was a white ceiling, and a faint smell of disinfectant wafted into her nostrils.
"You're awake... you idiot." Before she could scan her surroundings and figure out where she was, Murata Himeko's voice suddenly reached her ears.
"I'm back..." Theresa said softly, feeling an inexplicable sense of relief. Before her were the concerned Himeko and the forever-slovenly, well-endowed physician, Yu Qingqing.
"You! If you weren't absolutely sure, you shouldn't have gone to deal with that new Herrscher alone!" Murata Himeko ignored the fact that Theresa was her superior and gave her a rap on the head.
"Ahhh! That hurts!" Theresa clutched her head, which was throbbing with pain, and crouched down defensively, tears welling up in her eyes...
"Looks like even with a Stigmata, you can still feel pain..." Murata Himeko subconsciously bit her thumbnail and remarked.
"I'm not a Honkai Zombie! Of course I can feel pain! You idiot, Himeko!" Theresa flailed her arms, wanting to pounce on Murata Himeko to get her revenge... but was helplessly held back by Himeko, who simply placed a hand on her head. Her short arms and legs couldn't even touch Himeko's body.
"Alright, alright~" Himeko covered her face in resignation, looking at her unreliable principal. "You should first explain how the Stigmata on your back appeared..."
"Huh? Huh?!" Theresa looked at Murata Himeko with a bewildered expression. "What Stigmata?"
"..." Himeko looked speechlessly at the clueless and moe Principal Theresa, picked up the laptop from before, leaned down, and pointed at the image on the screen. "This one... the Stigmata that appeared on your back."
"You don't know?!"
"Haha~ that..." Theresa laughed awkwardly. "I don't know..." she said bluntly.
"But... Li Xuan should know!" Theresa said, a flash of inspiration hitting her.
"Li Xuan?" Murata Himeko and the yawning Yu Qingqing standing beside her exchanged a look, both at a loss.
"Yeah... the boy who was with me~" Theresa said, puzzled. "By the way, where did Li Xuan-kun go? Why haven't I seen him?"
"Uh... about that..." Murata Himeko laughed awkwardly and looked up at the sky.
The weather is really clear today...
.............
"....." Why am I suffering like this?! Li Xuan lay on the soft bed, his heart filled with complicated feelings. His four limbs were tied to the four posts of the small bed with ropes made of some unknown material, which made him feel inexplicably ashamed.
"Ah, I'm so mad!" Knocked out by a tranquilizer dart from a huge silver warship, he woke up in this godforsaken place. Li Xuan was quite annoyed.
"You think you can trap me like this?" Li Xuan looked at the black ceiling, a slight curve appearing on his lips as he smiled devilishly.
"How naive..."
(End of this chapter)