"You're anxious?" Shun smiled. As expected, Cecilia was the keyword for Theresa. Anything related to Cecilia even returning to Schicksal Headquarters, which she hadn't visited in ages was nothing.
"Who's anxious! I'm not anxious at all!" Theresa hurriedly denied it. Shun hoped Theresa's mouth would be just as stubborn when kissing.
"Whoever is anxious is the one who says it."
"You!..." Theresa really wanted to curse, but thinking about Cecilia's biological niece, she calmed down.
Cecilia's biological niece was her own biological niece. If not for that guy Siegfried, she would still be with Cecilia right now!
"Fine, I won't tease you anymore. After all, I'm here to trouble you. We're currently at Cecilia's house. As someone who claims to be Cecilia's closest confidante, you definitely know where her house is, right?"
"You… you wait right there for me! I'm coming right now!"
Listening to Theresa's somewhat anxious voice, Shun silently hung up the phone. That was that. Once he had tricked Theresa over, he would explain everything face-to-face, and then Ana could transfer to Japan Branch.
Shun could also resolve part of his worries. At the very least, once Ana integrated into St. Freya, even if she underwent Herrscher transformation, no one would want to kill her as long as it was within the next few years.
All he needed to do was make his own strength approach or surpass that of the dumb goose. Though that was easy to say, it was by no means a simple task.
The dumb goose, the goose who defies the heavens even in the final chapter, without considering Fu Hua's fall, she could still sit in the second seat of the protagonist group. In terms of pure strength, Mei probably couldn't beat the dumb goose.
The next day, at 5 a.m., Shun was following Friedrich around the seafood market. Although his complexion wasn't great today, the fishing enthusiast Friedrich was still full of energy, pushing the cart and wandering everywhere.
All the fishing enthusiasts present cast envious and jealous glances at him.
"Du du du du..." Shun's phone suddenly rang. As soon as he answered, he heard Theresa's furious voice.
"Didn't you say you were at Cecilia's house? I just got off the Hyperion! I came to Cecilia's house and didn't see you at all. You're not at Cecilia's house at all. Where the hell are you hiding?"
Listening to Theresa's words, Shun was also rendered speechless for a moment. He coughed and said, "Principal, is it possible that even if Ana is Cecilia's biological niece, she still wouldn't have the key to her house?"
"I meant Cecilia's old home…"
But Theresa had actually arrived so quickly? She probably carried the Hyperion all the way here.
"…I'll be there soon." Theresa, who had stood at Cecilia's doorstep for over half an hour, awkwardly shed a few drops of cold sweat. She picked up Judas and left again.
On her way back earlier, she had already been photographed by good Valkyries. It wouldn't be long before that terrifying woman arrived. She had to find her and leave before that person showed up.
Although Theresa hadn't returned to Schicksal in a long time, she was still ranked fifth on the Schicksal popularity chart. Who wouldn't like a cute and legal loli?
As for who the top four were? Otto, Durandal, Cecilia, Rita.
Theresa rushed to the Schicksal airport at top speed. Her personal-use public ship, the Hyperion, was still docked at Schicksal's fourth airport.
"Lady Theresa, what a coincidence. To see you so early in the morning is truly Rita's fortune."
A voice Theresa least wanted to hear came from behind her.
Actually, Theresa didn't dislike Rita; it was just that she… was a bit too enthusiastic, leaving Theresa somewhat unable to cope.
She was clearly already a mature adult, yet Rita always treated her like a child.
Since Rita had already blocked her, Theresa couldn't pretend she hadn't seen her.
"Rita, what a coincidence." Theresa turned around and gave Rita an awkward but polite smile.
"Speaking of which, Lady Theresa hasn't returned to headquarters in a long time. What brings you back this time?"
Rita maintained an appropriate distance from Theresa and didn't pounce on her like before. This actually surprised Theresa quite a bit.
"Ah, um, I just ran out of pocket money and wanted to ask Grandpa for some more."
This was a lie. Every time Theresa ran out of money, she would directly video-call Otto the old man to explode some gold coins.
"Mm, I see. Lord Bishop has always missed Lady Theresa very much."
At that moment, a Valkyrie wearing Immortal Blades uniform came to Rita's side and said something.
Rita nodded, then turned to Theresa again: "I'm very sorry, Lady Theresa. Immortal Blades has an external mission, so I'm afraid I won't be able to continue accompanying you."
"Mm, then you go ahead and get busy, Rita." No matter what, not having to deal with Rita was really great.
As she returned to the Sleipnir, which was about to set sail, the young Valkyrie who had come to report to Rita curiously asked her.
"Vice Captain Rita, Lady Theresa clearly planned to leave headquarters. Why did you trick her by saying she came to ask Lord Bishop for pocket money?"
Rita pursed her lips and didn't think much of it. "Who knows? We'd better not pry into Lady Theresa's private matters."
The young Valkyrie nodded, seeming to understand something.
At 4:04 p.m. on August 15, Shun used the excuse "Father-in-law, the feng shui of your bait spot isn't good. I'll go find a bait spot by myself" to find an opportunity to slip away alone.
He sat on a white plastic stool from a roadside stall on a mountaintop near Ana's house with a relatively open view.
"Hey, Shun, your days of always speaking in riddles are over. Explain everything to me clearly." Because they had spoken on the phone a few more times afterward, Theresa now knew Shun's name.
"If you want to know, you'll have to come ask me yourself." Shun stood up, turned around, and looked at Theresa. However, because the plastic chair behind him was non-biodegradable, it didn't disappear.
"You've known this rule for a long time."
"I knew you'd say that." Golden light flashed in Theresa's hand. The massive cross "Oath of Judah," originally carried as a bracelet, appeared and slammed heavily onto the ground.
"How many times have we fought?" Shun held Thousand Jun, which he had transformed into the shape of an Enma blade, and said calmly to Theresa.
"Wait, when did we agree to fight? What are you talking about!" Theresa explained that she had shrunk Judas to carry it because it was too big to pass through customs.
She had taken out the Judas she was used to carrying on her back like this. Why was he pulling out a blade?
"Tsk." Shun's tsking sound clearly transmitted into Theresa's ears and through the mountaintop air.
Ciallo～(∠・ω＜ )⌒☆