I'm Going on a Killing Spree!

People were dying.

Wherever that white figure approached, people would frantically grab anything nearby that could end their lives and commit suicide. If there were no tools, they would even strangle themselves to death.

And those who saw this terrifying scene would run frantically to other places, relaying this horrifying scene to others, and so terror spread like a plague among the crowd.

Some people wanted to escape the city, but all the roads that could lead out of here had already been locked. This fortress, built for the survival of civilization, had now become an inescapable slaughterhouse.

"Everyone, [Die]."

Lee closed her eyes and walked on the road. On both sides of the road were countless corpses with terrified expressions. And every time she spoke, more people would suddenly fall.

What a merciless and terrifying scene. Even Lee, who was doing the killing, couldn't bear to look directly at this cruel sight. After all, no matter how much she argued, what Lee was doing now was undoubtedly slaughter.

Even though Lee knew that she would collect their consciousness into the core, these ordinary people didn't know, and couldn't know – so what they faced was the most real despair.

Now she was the head-taker king. Even if the main body, Lihua, and Shoko were added together, the chickens they had eaten were not as many as the people she had killed.

But besides these ordinary people, who would be the first to come and stop her?

Looking at the figure falling heavily from the sky, landing like a superhero, Lee narrowed her eyes slightly.

An American superhero landing didn't seem to suit a person wearing a Japanese tokusatsu hero mask.

Kalpas, who slowly stood up in the smoke, silently stared at the person in front of him. Even with the Ultraman mask as a cover, Lee could feel the complex emotions that were difficult to express in his gaze.

"What's wrong, Kalpas? Why aren't you talking?"

Lee smiled and opened her eyes, her pupils shining like molten gold under the dim sky.

".....Herrscher?"

After a long time, Kalpas seemed to squeeze these two words out from between his teeth with all his strength.

"Hmm? Does that matter~" Lee tilted her head and said easily, "Whether I'm a Herrscher or not, you'll help me, Kalpas, right? It's just that I'm a little tired of killing them all by myself. If you—"

Whoosh!!!

The compressed air blew Lee's hair wildly like a storm. Even Lee almost couldn't catch Kalpas's movements. In his almost-irrational rage, he surpassed the limits of his power!

Lee could responsibly say that even if Kevin came, he wouldn't be able to easily deal with the current Kalpas in a few moves – but unfortunately, when facing her, Kalpas had no ability to fight back.

".....You're really angry." Lee said softly.

Kalpas had transformed into the MANTIS FORM form in that instant. His whole body was burning with flames, and his skin was like rolling lava, emitting high temperature.

But even so, his fist, burning with anger, could only stop helplessly in front of Lee, unable to move.

"I told you to go to Aponia to impose a precept like Kevin's to prevent mental attacks, but you were in a bad mood and didn't want to go to her....."

As if recalling the past, a smile appeared on the corner of Lee's mouth. "After Aponia's precept is imposed, even she herself has no way to control it, but the protection I set has no effect when facing myself – I told you about this back then, didn't I?"

"Shut up—!"

Kalpas almost gritted his teeth, but at this moment, no matter how angry he was, no matter how much power he gathered, he still couldn't break free from this damn mental control.

"Herrscher..... You deserve to die!!!"

"Why are you so agitated, Kalpas." Lee shook her head silently. "Courage in the face of an unwinnable enemy becomes recklessness. Pointless sacrifice is a meaningless thing, just like facing the Herrscher of Finality, your courage can only shorten your life."

"Humans in reality are not heroes in storybooks, who can continuously create miracles and break through all difficulties."

Seven Thunders of Retribution slowly appeared in Lee's hand. She lowered her eyes slightly and calmly walked towards Kalpas.

".....Kalpas, if you were really the tokusatsu hero on the mask who could defeat all difficulties, how great would that be?"

"—"

At this moment of approaching death, a trace of doubt flashed in Kalpas's eyes.

But he no longer had time to think about this question.

But it didn't matter, because he would have a very, very long time to think next.

Lee's movements were always clean and efficient. Just as she passed by Kalpas, the burning head had already been extinguished and rolled to the ground, leaving only the headless body standing in place.

What a tough guy, is he cosplaying Little Tian?

But the current situation would no longer leave Lee time to joke around, so she just pushed the corpse contemptuously, letting it fall into the dust.

"Everyone arrived so early. If Kalpas had been with you, maybe he could have lived a little longer~"

Lee spoke in a frivolous tone, looking at the MANTIS Soldiers who had arrived in front of her, but the only response she received was silence – and the constantly increasing energy points.

"Eden, Su, Kosma..... Don't you want to say something?" Lee put her hand on her chin, seemingly trying hard to think. "Or do you need me to help you find some topics? No matter what, it's not good to remain silent when human civilization is coming to an end~"

"Miss Lee..... This, what exactly is—?!"

In the end, the first to lose his composure was still the youngest, Kosma.

The green-haired boy looked at everything around him in disbelief. The corpses on the roadside, Kalpas's body split in two..... All the facts pointed to the same culprit, but he couldn't believe such a conclusion.

Yes, if Miss Lee had become a Herrscher, it would be natural for her to do such a thing.

But, how could Miss Lee become a Herrscher?

She clearly hated the Honkai the most. How could someone as gentle and strong as her lose to the Herrscher's consciousness?!

"You must be joking again, right? I told you that your bad jokes are easy to scare people—"

"Kosma, there's no need to say more." Su interrupted Kosma's words with a blank expression, but his fingernails had already embedded themselves in his palm.

"She is already..... not Lee(-senpai)."

".....Hmm, isn't this pretty good too?"

Smiling lightly, Lee raised her sword.