binnovel Chapter 380 What does the rice cake have to do with her?
Chapter 380 What does the rice cake have to do with her?
"Waaaaah, my life is so miserable! I just want to live, how did I end up in the prison of destiny? I'm going to starve to death, I'm going to die of thirst... Will I be tortured to death by that maid?"
Hearing the sounds coming from the solitary confinement cell, Himeko Murata, who had been brought in by Rita and Theresa to guard the cell, couldn't help but pick at her ears.
I can't stand it, she cries and screams so much! Don't you get tired?!
"Hey, Miss Captive! We, Destiny, are not devils and have always treated our captives well. Although the food isn't the best, it's hardly considered abuse. You don't need to scream so pitifully, do you?"
Himeko looked annoyed. St. Freya's solitary confinement cell was actually quite decent, with wooden plank beds for resting, tables for reading (and interrogation), and of course, Valkyries who would deliver meals regularly...
With such humane conditions, why is this mercenary inside screaming and howling? Is it because Miss Rita interrogated him?
bang bang bang-
Himeko, who had already been forced to work overtime, could no longer bear it. She knocked on the iron door of the solitary confinement cell with her Iron Sand Palm, making a dull sound.
"Hey, Miss Captive, that's enough! You've only been here half a day!"
But it was no use; the woman seemed completely tireless and continued to wail and scream...
Himeko sighed, starting to seriously consider whether she should ask Theresa to switch shifts and demand compensation for emotional distress—she'd rather spend time with those energetic brats than listen to a mercenary yelling here…
Speaking of which, their practical exam is coming up soon, right? I wonder what kind of results my students will get...
Thinking of this, Himeko waved to two Valkyries passing by not far away.
"Major Himeko, is there something you need?"
"Are you two free? Go to the cafeteria for lunch today and get two servings of curry pork chop rice, it's on me. Also, I need to check on the kids..."
The two Valkyries understood immediately; after all, Himeko was a teacher, so they were sensible. They nodded in agreement.
"No problem, Major Himeko, you go ahead! We'll guard this place; we'll make sure not even a mosquito can get out!"
The relieved Himeko patted the two wronged souls on the shoulder, turned and quickly left.
After an unknown amount of time, the two Valkyries yawned in boredom—they couldn't help it, guarding this place was indeed very boring, and there was a prisoner screaming in their ears the whole time…
"So boring, so noisy..."
The other Valkyrie nodded in agreement. No wonder Himeko didn't want to stay. Listen to that scream—wait, where's the scream?
One of the Valkyries instantly snapped back to reality; the sound had stopped sometime earlier! Her suspicions were piqued, and she rushed to the door of the confinement cell—but perhaps she was just being paranoid; maybe the person had simply fallen asleep from exhaustion after crying and shouting so much.
But peeking through the crack in the door, she saw that the cell was empty; the prisoner was nowhere to be seen! Her heart pounded, and cold sweat instantly soaked her back.
Where are they? Where are they?! This is a serious dereliction of duty!
"Hey, stop spacing out, he's gone!"
"what?!"
Upon hearing this, the other Valkyrie panicked as well. The two hurriedly opened the door to the solitary confinement cell and stared at each other at the neatly made bed behind the door and the small iron window that had been cut off by an unknown feather.
"She... ran out the window?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! The opening is too small, there's no way she could get out! This doesn't make sense!"
"Of course, how could I possibly escape on my own?"
Just after the two Valkyries opened the door and entered the confinement room, a mercenary's voice came from the ceiling.
Almost at the same moment the two rushed into the room, the figure that had been waiting on the ceiling swooped down like a cheetah, delivering a precise chop to the back of one of the men's necks.
"what?!"
Another Valkyrie was not chosen by Raven to ambush her, and she was shocked. She immediately prepared to subdue Raven - as a qualified Valkyrie, she was not to be trifled with!
But that doesn't mean she can block the flying "feathers".
……
After gently laying the two unconscious Valkyries down, Raven tore off the nameplate from one of their Valkyries' armor (it was hard to take off the bodysuit). She then turned the change of clothes provided by some scumbag maid into rags and deliberately hung a few strands at the broken iron bars of the damaged window. After doing all this, she nodded in satisfaction—this should mislead them, right?
To be honest, the Valkyries of Destiny are still too careless. If they had chosen not to open the gate to protect the scene and instead went to find a more powerful Valkyrie, she wouldn't have been able to get out at all without proper equipment! But now…
Having escaped by sheer luck, the raven dared not linger. She pulled up her hood, lowered the brim, and quickly walked out of the confinement cell, gently closing the door behind her.
I need to hurry back, or Gray Serpent will dock a huge amount of her salary! But today seems to be St. Freya's practical exam day; theoretically, there shouldn't be many people outside the exam hall…
Raven hurried through the empty corridor, not wanting to appear flustered and arouse suspicion even if no one was watching her—but she wasn't afraid of being suspected anyway; she could simply show off the nameplate she'd stolen and claim she was a Valkyrie on an emergency mission…
No, isn't that too easy?
A hint of doubt flashed through Raven's mind. Even if the majority of the staff at St. Freya Academy, the Far East branch of Schicksal, were teachers rather than pure combat personnel, their alert level shouldn't be this low. How could they have walked this far without noticing a single teacher? Just as Raven was pondering this, footsteps suddenly came from around the corner ahead. She immediately stopped, pretending to be very interested in the street signs.
"Walter, how many points do you think the kids would get in actual combat? If you ask me, my Kiana would definitely get a perfect score!"
The footsteps drew closer, and the cheerful male voice continued.
"Sigh, if only her academic skills were as good as her practical skills!"
Raven pulled her hat down low again, tracing the scratches on the doorplate with her fingertips, trying to make the two men ignore her. Besides the cheerful male voice, there was another, gentler male voice.
"Kiana's grades have improved quite a bit, but there's still a long way to go before she's qualified... Siegfried, let's take it one step at a time. Her grades are much better than I expected. I believe that one day Kiana will become a Valkyrie who excels in both academics and martial arts... Speaking of which, is there anything wrong with your body? I mean, the day Mei went berserk."
Welt's voice carried a barely perceptible gravity. After all, Siegfried's genes had a chance to activate when he got close to a Herrscher and destroy it at all costs—meaning he had intercepted the Deathly Herrscher Gem. Now Kiana wouldn't be affected by the Herrscher of the Void; otherwise, who knew if a tragedy of father and daughter killing each other would have occurred at such close range? And Mei...
"I'm fine. So many days have passed, and I'm perfectly alright, haha!"
Raven subtly moved half a step towards the wall, listening to the topic the two clearly couldn't discuss in public—listen as much as you can, and sell it to Gray Snake later!
"Miss."
Raven felt a poke in its back.
Raven: ...
Damn!
Raven cursed under his breath. What secrets were these two grown men talking about in broad daylight? Couldn't they have talked in private? Did they expect him to shut up just because he overheard them?
"Oh, is there something you need?"
Raven wasn't stupid enough to pretend she hadn't heard anything. She quickly turned around, holding up the name tag pinned to her chest. Even if the other party was Siegfried, the most wanted criminal from Schicksal, they couldn't possibly silence her, the "Valkyrie," just because she had a big mouth, right? As long as she could play dumb convincingly, or find an excuse to slip away, that would work.
However, the bespectacled teacher chilled her heart.
"Raven? Natasha Siola?! Siegfried, watch out!"
Confused, Siegfried chose to trust Old Yang and almost instantly went into battle mode. One second he was laughing and joking, the other he had the handle of the Heavenly Judgment spear in his hand. Looking at the two men poised to attack, Raven realized he had been exposed again…
However, she still managed a professional fake smile.
"Gentlemen, are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else? I'm just a Valkyrie passing by..."
"An S-rank Valkyrie-level mercenary?"
Mr. Walter took a step forward, and a cane appeared in his hand. An invisible gravity then enveloped the entire corridor.
"You are the Herald of Reason?!"
Unexpectedly, his mission objective appeared right before his eyes, and his mission was already complete? But the raven felt no joy at the moment of completing his mission…
Having lost most of her attack methods, can she escape the attacks of these two men?
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[Hey! The exam is about to begin! Valkyries and examiners, please get ready! Valkyries and examiners, please get ready!]
On the podium, the seemingly dignified Principal Theresa, with a sour expression, announced to all the students that the exam was about to begin. It seemed like a perfect pre-exam announcement; Theresa couldn't possibly mess it up—as long as no one saw her standing on a small stool.
However, at this moment, she was flanked by two protectors. To her left was Yae Sakura, a pink-haired fox secretary holding various documents and two copies of the Houmu manga; to her right was Rita Losweiser, the cunning maid S-rank Valkyrie sent by Destiny to be the examiner!
These two people on either side are said to be protectors, but for Theresa, they are a psychological burden because of her nervousness (mainly Rita's). Her left hand, hidden behind the podium, is tightly gripping her clothes.
[This assessment will use a three-on-three singles round-robin format! Valkyries, please note that victory or defeat is not the only criterion for judgment—]
Theresa's voice suddenly faltered. She blinked sharply, trying to focus on the densely packed small print on her speech.
Damn it, why did Yae Sakura print the font so small? She knows perfectly well that the headmistress's brain is already...
"Yae Sakura!"
Upon receiving the instruction, Yae Sakura quickly and stealthily pulled a bitter melon candy from her skirt pocket and, with a speed that would make even a zombie like Himeko say "that was fast," stuff it into the headmistress's mouth. The moment the bitter melon candy melted on her tongue, Theresa finally felt her brain start working again.
"Is this the headmaster of the school?"
With nothing to do, Xing sat in the spectator seats with Qiong, who had received a bye in the previous rounds—after all, Qiong was a Valkyrie who could "slightly gain an advantage" against Rita, and it would be too unfair to compare him with those Valkyries who had not yet become official Valkyries.
Combat skills, teamwork, and adaptability are all equally important!
Theresa, with a bitter melon candy in her mouth, spoke slightly unclearly, but managed to read out the key points smoothly. Below the stage, the prospective Valkyries held their breath, while only Starry Sky and Fu Hua, sitting in the spectator seats, seemed out of place.
"if not?"
Qiong leaned back lazily in her chair, ignoring Fu Hua's gaze as she looked around at Kiana.
It's not his fault. He was quite happy to have received Baiji's guarantee to repair Raven and to have gone to see Old Yang to get Dream Heart. He was even more happy after Xing took the initiative to hand over his baseball bat, and he almost had insomnia (or maybe he couldn't sleep because he was sleeping with Siegfried). He was planning to find an opportunity to give Mei the knife to show his loyalty today... and then, he had a dream.
In his dream, he not only dreamed that Rita fed him the terrible food made by Durandal, but also said that she would work with Durandal to cook for him every day from now on.