Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

Page 242

"So how long did they observe me before this? How well did they know me?"

"If the other party can impersonate me, then Archbishop Otto might notice something amiss, but he probably won't make a fuss, and Theresa and the others will likely be used..."

"Well, we still don't know what the other party's purpose is. In this situation, although I'm not worried about fate, I am worried about my friends."

Upon hearing Cecilia's words, Ryougi Shiki fell silent.

It was at this moment that Roland spoke up.

"Since you're worried about these things, let's see what the other side has done before we go there."

"Huh!? Is it really possible to do something like that?"

Cecilia was somewhat surprised, while Roland simply shrugged.

“Yes, when we went to the parallel world to experiment before, Rin observed the situation of the parallel world in advance before we arrived. In her words, observing the parallel world is a simpler technique than interfering with it, and it can be considered the introductory project of the magic she uses.”

"That's really amazing, magic."

Cecilia has been a member of the gods for a while now.

She could even use some magic herself, and had heard of magic before.

However, this was the first time she had directly experienced just how amazing magic really was.

"Okay."

As Roland spoke, he took out the Mystic Code that Rin Tohsaka had prepared for him from the coffee table in the center of the three of them and activated it.

As a long, narrow stream of light appeared, Roland, Cecilia, and Ryougi Shiki all turned their gazes toward it.

Then the development of the parallel world, which Roland defined as the original Honkai world, was fully revealed to the three of them, as well as to Rin Tohsaka and White Demon who were watching from the sidelines.

....

206. Is there really no one in the world she cares about?

Roland had a general understanding of Cecilia's original story.

That is, after Cecilia is seriously injured, she will meet Siegfried, and during the time Siegfried helps her hide, the two will fall in love, and the pursuit by Anti-Entropy will accelerate this process.

In the end, Cecilia will return to Schicksal, and Siegfried will begin to work hard.

Cecilia will later marry Siegfried, who has returned to the Kaslana family, have children, and die from the Honkai Fission Bomb during the Second Great Honkai Impact.

If the guy who took Cecilia's identity is going to play Cecilia, then aside from the part where she falls in love with Siegfried and the part where she dies in the Second Great Collapse, the rest of the story should remain largely unchanged.

but

Roland recalled what Shiro Yaksha had said: this method did indeed seem somewhat like something the remnants of the Little Garden would do.

Then the problem is coming.

The miniature garden... if he remembers correctly, has quite a few fun people there!

The other party took Cecilia's identity to move freely and to use some of their power even under the world's suppression, so as not to be directly suppressed into an ordinary person. But after achieving this goal, will the other party really play the role of Cecilia?

As Roland pondered, his chin resting on his hand, the scene had already appeared in the flowing light.

Ryougi Shiki and Cecilia's gazes fell on these images, the initial content of which was Cecilia sitting up straight from a small alley while unconscious.

"I lost consciousness here, and when I woke up again, I saw Mei."

Cecilia sighed, while Ryougi Shiki watched Cecilia move her fingers in the screen, seemingly getting used to something, and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"In that case, let's switch people now—the other person has taken your identity, but judging from their actions, they seem to still need to adjust to some things, and..."

At this point, Ryougi Shiki's gaze fell on Roland.

“Roland, when we look at the screen here, can we see the other person’s original appearance directly, or is what we see from this perspective just an illusion created by Cecilia’s identity as seen by ordinary people in that world?”

"Of course it's an illusion."

Roland was also pulled back to reality by Ryougi Shiki's question.

“We are using the method of observing parallel worlds to view a timeline—and timelines are, of course, recorded in the world itself. If what is recorded in the world itself can tell that the other party is not Cecilia, then how can the other party use this identity to deceive the world?”

"Too."

Ryougi Shiki nodded, and then she continued watching with Cecilia and Roland, lost in thought.

After Cecilia adjusted to her new body, she got up and immediately put on an elegant but somewhat arrogant expression... well, what was that word again?

Correct!

A wicked and arrogant laugh!

Seeing the other person's expression, Cecilia almost couldn't hold back anymore.

Even Roland and Ryougi Shiki had a moment of strange expression.

After all, Cecilia is someone whose gentleness is practically ingrained in her very bones.

The smile she always wears is very gentle, so seeing her with that kind of smile feels quite incongruous!

Then Cecilia walked out of the alley with that smile on her face.

Encountering Siegfried? Hiding and fleeing?

None!

She made no attempt to hide after she went out and was quickly discovered by the people from Anti-Entropy.

Logically, this should have been the Anti-Entropy forces hunting down the injured Cecilia, with even Welt Yang and Einstein arriving, because their purpose was to investigate whether Cecilia, the Herrscher assassin trained by Otto, was a weapon specifically designed to target Welt.

But the result...

Cecilia didn't use the Black Abyss White Flower, nor did she employ any Holy Marks, and there was no trace of Valkyrie combat techniques.

She walked among the anti-entropy troops, and anyone who came near her was instantly destroyed by a stream of light!

Her steps were light and graceful, like a queen walking along the palace corridors, surveying the gardens outside the window. Her smile remained unchanged, and her gaze never lingered on these so-called troops.

Just like how humans don't pay attention to whether the ants on the roadside are dead or alive when they walk!

Seeing Cecilia like this, Walter Young and Einstein, who were secretly observing, became extremely serious!

She truly deserves to be called the strongest Valkyrie of Destiny! And then there's her elegance—she's just so elegant!

They said it like that, praising her with a hint of amusement, but they weren't stupid. Just by looking at Cecilia's expression and her way of doing things, they knew that this kind of person could never be Otto's weapon!

So they didn't even show their faces and just turned around and left.

When the rescue team arrived, they saw countless scrapped Anti-Entropy mechanical units, and Cecilia elegantly drinking afternoon tea atop the wreckage.

Those Valkyries will probably remember this scene forever...

For the Valkyrie squad, who were incredibly ruthless and traded their lifespan for combat power, after witnessing this scene, even those who might have previously thought Cecilia was too gentle were now completely convinced!

The strongest Valkyrie of Destiny should be like this!

They were fanatical about Cecilia, while Cecilia, sitting opposite Roland and Ryougi Shiki, was covering her slightly flushed face, her body tense, and her toes digging into the ground.

Before she saw the screen, she worried that the other person was impersonating her to carry out some kind of conspiracy, and that the other person would hurt her friends... but she never thought that the other person had no intention of acting at all!

Not only that, the enemy was even having afternoon tea on the battlefield!

This... isn't this the Valkyrie from those fantasy stories written by authors who have unwarranted romanticized notions about Valkyries?

How could anyone actually do that?!

The key point is that she's still maintaining her identity!

what--!

For a moment, Cecilia didn't want to go back!

The guy who's playing himself might have no one in the world who cares about him anymore, but she does!

Seeing Cecilia like this, Roland and Ryougi Shiki exchanged a glance and remained silent in tacit agreement.

Because they both knew very well... this was just the beginning!

What happened next was exactly as they had predicted.

Cecilia, now back in Destiny, not only wore that smile but also went straight to Otto.

Otto was waiting for Cecilia to give him a report when he noticed that Cecilia had been staring at him for a while and then suddenly burst out laughing!

"Funny, really fun—I thought so before, but you're a really great clown!"

Otto: The tent?

Cecilia, who was watching the screen, could clearly see that Archbishop Otto, who was usually very shrewd, was completely stunned for a moment!

And Roland also discovered it.

He even felt that adding a subtitle to Otto, like "Holy crap," would feel perfectly natural!

Then Cecilia on the screen walked up to Otto and sat on his desk, startling Otto so much that he moved back a little.

Cecilia, with her wicked and arrogant smile on her face, looked down at Otto and spoke.

"Destiny, not a bad toy. It's mine now, you don't mind, right?"

....