Chapter 58: Could She be a Double Agent?!

Clang!

After easily knocking the weapon from Raiden Mei's hand, Rita approached while saying, "When your strength doesn't match your promises, struggling will only bring tragedy."

At this critical moment, Theresa's voice came through Raiden Mei's communicator, telling her to retreat.

Sss~

Taking advantage of the smoke bomb's explosion, Raiden Mei's figure disappeared from the scene.

In the alley, Raiden Mei looked at Rita's departing back with lingering fear.

'As expected of an S-rank Valkyrie of Schicksal, her strength is overwhelming. I have to work even harder!'

However, just as Raiden Mei was relieved at having escaped Rita's pursuit, she didn't notice that a tracker had already been placed on her leg ring by Rita.

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[I give up, why is the Goofy Squad still getting beat down even at this point?]

[Does the writer have issues? Who's actually the joke here, St. Freya or Schicksal?]

[If they keep bullying the Goofy Squad like this, I'm seriously dropping this!]

[Same old story. Without our Emperor Van, the squad just feels so immature.]

———

At the same time, on the other side.

While Theresa was still struggling with how to make the humanoid unit speak, a group of mechs suddenly launched an attack on them.

Just barely managing to handle the mechs, they received more bad news from Raiden Mei.

"Mei, you said the one who killed Grey Serpent was… Rita?" Theresa said in surprise, "This really is the worst timing to be targeted by the worst possible person."

After exchanging information, Theresa initially wanted Raiden Mei to return to the team, but Bronya stopped her.

"Principal, please wait. Bronya detected that Sister Mei's Valkyrie armor is emitting two different frequency signals. It must be that during the fight with Rita, a tracker was installed. So, please have Sister Mei stay away for now and mislead Rita."

Raiden Mei, "Understood."

———

[Not easy at all. It really feels like everyone at St. Freya Academy has grown a lot since the Herrscher of the Void battle.]

[Where's the guy who said the Goofy Squad was immature just now? Step forward!]

[Immature? This is called character arc. Know what you're talking about.]

[But thinking about how everyone's growth came at the cost of Van's life… I'm crushed.]

[Forgive me, Kiana, but this is the last time.]

[Where did that dumb ghost come from? Scram already!]

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After reporting to Otto, Rita also noticed the unusual path Raiden Mei was taking.

'Interesting. Looks like this little girl has already seen through the tracking trick.'

Thinking back to the intel she had just received from Otto's special unit, about the 'mech riot in Sky Dome City', the sharp Rita seemed to have realized something.

After a brief thought, Rita decided to give up on chasing Raiden Mei and instead headed toward the location of the mech riot.

After following for a distance, sure enough, Rita discovered traces of Theresa and the others.

Seeing Theresa and her group struggling against the wave of mechs, Rita decided to strike from behind like a sneaky predator.

"Bronya, is it ready yet!" Theresa, wearing the Blood Knight: Moon Cradle, panted, "I can't hold on much longer!"

"Just a little more…"

Hearing Theresa's voice in her earpiece, Bronya was also extremely anxious, "Wait… to take over highest permissions, we still need one more biological authentication…"

Seeing the words "Permission Error" flashing on the hacking screen, Bronya suddenly remembered the other biological key that Grey Serpent had, which was taken by Rita.

Just as Bronya was at a loss for what to do, Rita's voice rang out from above.

"Sorry to interrupt you kidnappers. This child needs to be cared for by a maid like me~"

Seeing Theresa and the others on high alert, Rita elegantly performed a maid's curtsy, and then vanished instantly.

Only her last words lingered in the air, "Rita Rossweisse, commencing battlefield cleanup."

As the words fell, a metallic clang exploded in the ruins. The sparks that flew illuminated the faint smile at the corner of Rita's lips.

It was only then that Theresa realized her Blood Knight: Moon Cradle had been marked by this maid at some unknown time.

Bronya's bunny weapon had just raised its cannon to provide support, but found that Rita had once again disappeared.

"Be careful, Principal!"

Raiden Mei slashed apart two mechs attacking Theresa, only to find Rita circling the outskirts of the battlefield.

"That wicked maid!" Theresa shouted angrily. "She's deliberately stalling for time, trying to trap us in a mech encirclement!"

At that moment, the scythe in Rita's hand burst into a blue light, followed by an intense cold hard to resist.

"Mei, Bronya, watch out!"

Feeling the temperature around them plummet rapidly, Theresa shouted, "This is the special effect of Argent Knight: Artemis, don't let her hit you!"

The two quickly retreated, but didn't expect what seemed like a powerful attack to actually be a feint.

"Now's the time~"

Rita lightly tapped the ground with her heel and reached the humanoid unit's side. In her hand, a glass test tube glimmered crimson under the moonlight, it was the extracted eye tissue of Grey Serpent.

When she aligned the eye with the humanoid unit's recognition scanner, Theresa's chains were still barely catching up.

The mechanical voice saying "Verification passed" made Bronya's pupils contract sharply.

"Rita Rossweisse, taking over highest permission. I order you: data upload, then self-destruct."

The humanoid's electronic eyes suddenly went dark, this meant all data was being rapidly wiped.

"Ah! Stop it!" Even though Theresa shouted at the top of her lungs, she could only watch helplessly as the humanoid fell into dormancy.

"Thanks to everyone at St. Freya for helping distract the mech swarm."

Rita turned with a graceful spin, her scythe dragging sparks in a semi-circle across the ground.

"This child is now just a pile of scrap metal. I'll leave it as a souvenir for you."

As Theresa's chains shattered the cement floor, Rita's beautiful figure had already vanished into the night.

Raiden Mei knelt in front of the now lifeless humanoid unit, its metal shell reflecting her pale face, "Humanoid… how could this happen… Then what about Kiana…"

Just when everyone thought all was lost, the humanoid unexpectedly rebooted.

Cradling the unit in her arms, Theresa muttered, "So it wasn't self-destruction… it was a reformat?"

Thinking about how she had once again been played by that wicked maid, Theresa was filled with rage.

"This debt… I'll settle it with that maid sooner or later!"

[Scene shift.]

Under the night sky, Rita leaned elegantly against the handrail of a pier, humming an unknown tune.

"♪Humans have two hands, one is used to take, the other to give...♪"

"Master, the task you entrusted to me, Rita has completed it~"

———

[As expected of a wicked woman. She completely played me like a fiddle.]

[Explain fiddle and palm.]

[Insane!]

[Am I the only one curious who this 'Master' Rita mentioned is? That clearly wasn't Otto, right?]

[Judging by Rita's actions… could she be a double agent?]

[Oh snap, spy within a spy, huh?]

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