Chapter 1073

The young girl's brain was trembling.

"Speaking of which, Pardo, why do you swipe everything you see?"

"Hehehe, did Boss Bai Ge catch me?"

Watching the item Pardo had curled her tail around, Bai Ge couldn't help but twitch the corner of his eye and retort.

"Fetish cat ears? What's the point of you taking this? Pardo, have you forgotten that you're a cat yourself?"

"I can sell them to Elysia and the others later."

"Fine, but remember to pay for things yourself next time. We don't mind you taking things, but you can't do that when we're out."

"Mm! Thank you, Boss Bai Ge!"

Pardo affectionately rubbed her now-fluffy little face against Bai Ge's cheek. She had just seen Bai Ge leave a large bill behind even though he hadn't bought anything.

It was clearly him paying for her.

"And Cecilia too. Anyway, you should just eat an ice cream and calm down for now."

"Th-thank you, it's so sweet and cold."

Cecilia was in a state of intense curiosity, so for her, distraction was the best method.

The girl who had left home, tasting such a cold and sweet delicacy for the first time, soon cast the previous matter to the back of her mind.

"As expected, it's really great to have you here, Bai Ge. If it were just me alone, even if I had come to the outside world, I would definitely be lost and afraid, not knowing where to go."

Cecilia savored the ice cream earnestly, then revealed a happy smile as she spoke.

This world was vast, wonderful, and bustling; it was far too unfamiliar to Cecilia. If she were alone, even after arriving in the outside world, she feared she wouldn't know which way to take a step.

Perhaps just a traffic light at an intersection would make her hesitate for a long time, unable to move forward.

But fortunately, Bai Ge was by her side.

Whenever Cecilia felt lost, the white-haired youth would point out the direction for her, just like a lighthouse.

"I feel like as long as you're by my side, I can go anywhere," Cecilia said with a blushing smile.

"Heh, that sounds like a confession. And since that's the case, why not just join our World Serpent? How about I give you the treatment of a cadre, Cecilia?"

"I'll pass on that; I'm still a Valkyrie, after all."

Cecilia shook her head with a wry smile.

"Aw~ Boss Cecilia, just join us! Saving the world is saving the world no matter where you are. Plus, I can guarantee you that no one understands saving the world better than our Boss Bai Ge. He's a professional savior!"

Pardo licked the ice cream in Bai Ge's hand as she spoke, so Bai Ge simply gave the whole thing to her.

The cat-girl's tail was very nimble, easily curling around the chocolate cone of the ice cream and holding it like a hand.

"A savior? So that's what kind of remarkable person you are, Bai Ge. But it feels a bit unfair; you know me so well, as if you know everything about me, yet I don't know anything about you yet."

"What does that matter? As long as you want to, Cecilia, there will be plenty of time in the future to get to know me. I'll tell you first: my secrets are more numerous than the stars in the sky."

"That is truly a pity..."

Cecilia revealed a bitter smile.

Of course she wanted to have plenty of time to get to know Bai Ge.

But wanting didn't mean she could; she didn't have that much leeway.

Schicksal was her 【home】. Although this home wasn't very warm or wonderful, it was still the place where Cecilia had lived since she was a child. With her personality, she couldn't bring herself to betray them and jump ship.

Unless this 【home】 betrayed Cecilia first.

And how did that saying go?

Once a Valkyrie, always a Valkyrie.

Thinking of this, Cecilia gripped the ice cream with a bit too much force, accidentally crushing the chocolate cone. Suddenly, the white ice cream smeared over the girl's hands like thick cream.

"Ah!"

The cold sensation gave Cecilia a start.

She didn't want to waste the ice cream Bai Ge had bought, so she hurriedly began to lick it up.

Bai Mouren raised an eyebrow. Watching the incredibly pure Cecilia earnestly licking the white ice cream off her hands, he found it super erotic. For such an innocent and serious beautiful girl to make such a gesture, the contrast in every aspect was truly quite large.

"Cecilia, mind your image a little."

"Hm?"

Cecilia tilted her head, as if she didn't understand what he was saying. Seeing the white ice cream still smeared on her cheek, Bai Ge couldn't help but be stunned once again.

"Never mind, pretend I didn't say anything. You're cute anyway."

As Bai Ge said this, he hooked Cecilia's chin and then scraped the ice cream off her cheeks, putting it into his own mouth.

Instantly, the girl's cheeks turned even redder, and those wavering blue eyes were now unable to look directly at the white-haired youth.

Beside them, Pardo saw this scene and decisively shoved her entire cat face into the ice cream. Her face instantly turned into that of a white cat, and she looked at Bai Ge with expectation.

"I'm not licking that off; go wash yourself clean."

"Boss Bai Ge?!"

"Even if you act cute, Pardo, it won't work this time. After all, I don't want a mouth full of cat fur."

Bai Ge rolled his eyes, simultaneously unable to help but recall a certain Valentine's Day in the previous civilization, when a certain girl had covered herself in chocolate, tied herself up with ribbons, and sent herself over in a gift box.

One could only say it was truly very creative.

And it was also delicious!

Afterward, the three of them came to a park to borrow some water to wash their hands and faces, but just as they intended to continue on their way:

"Boss Bai Ge."

"Mm, you've finally arrived, have you?"

"Eh? Did something happen?"

Cecilia looked blankly at Bai Ge and Pardo, whose temperaments had suddenly changed and become serious. After another moment, as a quasi-S-rank, she finally noticed... they had been surrounded.

She saw beautiful figures emerging from all around; each one was a B-rank Valkyrie, and there were even two A-rank Valkyries, all of them holding Honkai energy weapons.

There was no doubt that Schicksal had come. But more than that, what surprised her even more was...

"Cecilia, it's time for you to come back."

"My lord Bishop."

She saw a 'Dog-to' walk out. This guy had actually appeared in person to find Cecilia, which showed just how much he truly valued the Schariac holy blood flowing through the girl's body.

Otto stared at Cecilia for a few seconds, and after confirming she was unharmed, his gaze shifted to Bai Ge.

"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Otto Apocalypse, the current Bishop of the Schicksal organization... May I ask who you are, where you come from, and what your purpose is?"

"I have no obligation to answer your questions, Dog-to Apocalypse."

Bai Ge directly raised an international friendly gesture, while inwardly sighing that no matter when or where he saw this prick, he had an instinctive urge to crush his soul-steel face.

"............"

Otto's eyes narrowed slightly. During this period, he had discovered that he had been played by someone. The intelligence units he sent out had been deliberately misled by a mysterious organization, bringing back only false information.

They had even once splashed dirty water onto Anti-Entropy, and Otto had truly fallen for it, having a very friendly spar with Welt and even scrapping one of his soul-steel bodies.

However, it wasn't that his intelligence had dropped; it was just that on the night Cecilia went missing and the Schicksal transport vehicle was attacked, the attacker was indeed Welt from Anti-Entropy.

Other than that, the only other suspect was the Kaslana who had appeared nearby at the time.

Now Siegfried was already under his surveillance, and no clues regarding Cecilia had been found around him. As for hiding people... Otto didn't believe the straightforward idiots of the Kaslana family were capable of such an operation.

But since he had accidentally found the person, Otto intended to take this opportunity to recover Siegfried.

(Siegfried: Damn it!)

And with Anti-Entropy being the only remaining suspect, he had unceremoniously sent people to attack them.

Only after fighting for a whole day did he discover that Anti-Entropy seemed to be searching for Cecilia's trail as well, and at that moment, Otto realized that Schicksal had been played by someone.

It wasn't until yesterday, when a photo of Bai Ge and Cecilia on their date was accidentally taken and circulated on the internet, that the Schicksal organization discovered their trail.

A third-party force he had never expected!

"With that tone, it seems you are yet another person who dislikes me. Why don't you remove your mask and let me recall what I've done to wrong you? That way, I could make amends, couldn't I?"

"Make amends? Then I'll teach you the simplest method: delete your consciousness data, destroy all your soul-steel clones, and die. That might repay one-thousandth of the crimes you, Dog-to, have committed in the past."

"............"

Otto's eye twitched. He thought that besides the person before him loathing him and having no small amount of knowledge about him, he couldn't find any useful information.

Plus, an organization capable of deceiving Schicksal had to be at least on the level of Anti-Entropy.

Otto wanted to remove Bai Ge's mask more and more.

But before that...

"Cecilia, what are you still standing there for?"

"My lord Bishop, I..."