Time in a collapsing world

On the night of the destiny, the city was silent, but some people who had fallen into deep sleep heard the sound of "tat tat tat" coming from the rooftops.

"Let her go! Stop right there!"

Following Kallen's loud shout, the two people running on the ground with Sasha completely ignored her and instead quickened their pace.

"hateful……"

Kallen was jumping quickly on the roof and looked behind her. Yaezaki had disappeared and it seemed that she was not catching up with her. But at this moment, she had no time to think too much. She just wanted to catch up with the two people in front and save Sasha.

The three of them chased one and the other two and soon ran to a familiar street. The two men in black robes saw that they could not get rid of Kallen behind them, so they had to give up and turn into a mansion and disappeared.

"Wait, the house they entered was..."

Karen paused briefly at the door, looking at the familiar layout of the mansion in front of her, feeling a little uneasy. This was Victor's house, the hateful priest who bullied the mother and daughter of the flower shop, and these two black-robed men who kidnapped girls... I always had a bad feeling.

Karin was worried about the girl's safety, so she rushed in without hesitation. Unlike her previous cautiousness, this time she violently pushed open the doors one by one, searching for the black-robed man and the girl.

The mansion was very quiet, but the silence was soon broken by Kallen's shouting and kicking on the door, from the first floor to the top floor, and then from the top floor back to the first floor.

Karin looked anxious. She searched the entire mansion, only to find that the two men in black robes seemed to have evaporated into thin air, and even the girl was gone without a trace.

"……basement?"

Karin murmured softly. She had easily found the location where the gold coins were stored when she came here before, so she did not conduct a careful search here.

Otto's intelligence did not mention that this mansion had a basement or secret room, but the two men in black robes could not have disappeared out of thin air. There must be a secret space that he had not discovered.

With this thought in mind, Karin started looking from the first floor again. This time she touched all the walls and floors, and even checked all the decorations.

Soon, as a piece of floor was stepped on, Kallen found that the fireplace in front of her slowly moved away, revealing a deep tunnel behind it. The stairs leading down seemed to lead to a dark hell.

A place I've never been to...

Kallen bravely went down, lowering her footsteps and entering the thick darkness, as if she was being swallowed by a giant beast with its mouth open.

Those two people must have escaped to this basement with Sasha!

As Kallen walked further and further, the darkness in front of her eyes slowly dissipated, and the light of fire appeared on the wall of the passage in front of her. She finally didn't have to move forward tentatively step by step. She quickened her pace and finally reached the bottom.

Below was a flat ground with an iron door at the end. There seemed to be light coming out from the gap.

Without giving it much thought, Karin rushed over and tried to force the door open. However, she had no idea what the door was made of, and even she, who had extraordinary powers, couldn't break it.

"who is it?!"

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind Kallen.

Victor, who was holding an oil lamp, was startled when he saw the familiar figure in front of the iron gate.

Why did this girl come back again? Isn't there anything good to steal in his house? Last time, he let her go because of Master Otto's protection. Why did she come back this time? And she even found the most secret basement in the whole mansion?

Victor wanted to call for help, but Kallen was faster and quickly came behind him. She grabbed the back of his neck with one hand and put the other hand on his back, pretending to be vicious and said, "Open the door if you don't want to die!"

"...!"

Obviously the other party had no weapons, but Victor believed that as long as this powerful woman wanted, his head would move immediately in the next moment, so he had to reluctantly press the hidden mechanism and open the iron door, revealing the strange scene inside.

Behind the door was an open hexagonal space. On each corner stood a cross with various girls tied to it. There were commoners and possibly nobles among them, but they were all dressed in the same shabby clothes, so it was impossible to tell at first glance.

There was also a cross in the center of the hexagon, where Sasha, who had been kidnapped earlier, was tied. Perhaps because of the rush of time, the two men in black robes just tied her hands with chains and made her lower body kneel on the ground.

On the ground in front of Sasha was a cup of purple unknown liquid with a strange smell. It was Yaegiri's blood, but Otto had used some method to extract the purest Houkai energy from it. The large cup of blood was reduced by half in an instant. If it wasn't Yaegiri's blood, the amount would probably be even less.

“What’s going on here…?”

Karen was stunned for a moment as she looked at the sacrificial scene in front of her. Then she looked at the tied girls anxiously and worriedly, "Why are they locked up here? Let them go!"

Kallen tightened her grip on Victor's neck, but this priest who seemed to only know how to bully the weak suddenly became inexplicably tough. "No, you can't let go! This is the order of the bishop!"

"Damn it... Let them go, or I'll break your hands!"

In the end, Kallen couldn't bring herself to kill Victor, so she could only use this method to threaten Victor.

"No, this research is very important. It can help us cure the Black Death!"

"Nonsense! The Black Death can be cured with medicine!" Kallen didn't believe Victor's nonsense at all and grabbed his hand and slowly broke it.

Victor was sweating from the pain, but he still tried his best to speak: "I'm not kidding you, if this research makes progress, we might be able to find a way to completely defeat Honkai!"

"what?"

Kallen was stunned. [Defeat Honkai], these four words were so tempting. Just within the scope of the destiny that she knew, Honkai had brought countless casualties. It would be a good thing if she could find a way to completely defeat it, but she really couldn't bear to watch these girls sacrifice themselves for it!

Kallen looked over and saw a faint purple gas floating towards Sasha above the cup in front of her. As the distance between the two gradually closed, a strange pattern on Sasha's arm emitted a faint red light.

Kallen's instinct told her not to let Sasha be touched by the [purple], but just when she was about to knock Victor out and do it herself, a voice came from behind her.

"Captain Kallen!"

"!!!"

Kallen turned around subconsciously, then reacted and turned back covering her mouth.

This turn completely exposed her identity.