“Mm, quite spirited.”
Facing Vester’s all-out heavy slash, Kallen let out an exclamation.
However, to her, it was far from being a threat.
Under the blonde girl’s gaze, Kallen simply shifted her body slightly and lowered her center of gravity a bit more, easily dodging the attack.
“Hmph, want to run? Taste my God-Slaying Thunderbolt!”
Seeing that she couldn’t even touch the hem of Kallen’s clothes, Vester simply changed her mindset, switching her heavy blows into rapid cuts in an attempt to directly suppress her opponent using the advantage of her weapon.
Unfortunately, this type of attack, which looked like it left no room for dodging but was actually full of flaws and omissions, was completely amateurish to Kallen.
Having practiced swordsmanship for years, she could instantly gauge the length of Vester’s weapon at a glance.
Combined with her rich combat experience, often before the latter even made a move, Kallen had already anticipated the trajectory of the attack in her mind and easily dodged away.
“Vester, you don’t need to hold back your strength.”
“Oh right, Vester hasn’t practiced before, so was that just your full strength?”
Hearing this, Vester’s face instantly flushed red, visibly overheating.
“Hehe, this is the first time I’ve seen Vester looking so serious.”
Kallen actually chuckled.
“I really need to keep you under control!”
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After swinging her sword several times in succession, all of which were dodged by her opponent, Vester pressed forward with big strides and unleashed a horizontal sweep.
It must be said, the blonde girl still had some combat intuition.
Under her positioning, the distance between the two reached a very subtle range; thus, no matter how agile a person was, dodging the subsequent attack again would not be so easy.
However, the opponent she was facing was none other than the most genius Valkyrie of this century, Kallen.
Instead of choosing to evade, Kallen closed in aggressively, choosing to break through from the front.
After testing a few moves, Vester no longer believed she could defeat Kallen in close-quarters hand-to-hand combat.
However, forcibly stopping this attack would inevitably cause her body to lose balance.
At this distance, just a few seconds of stiffness was enough to decide the outcome.
In a flash, her combat intuition triggered once more.
The blonde girl’s eyes flashed, and she forcefully lifted her leg to kick Kallen.
This way, she could force her opponent back to create distance while simultaneously adjusting her own posture.
Seeing this, Kallen actually broke into a smile.
Before Vester could fully raise her leg, Kallen’s sole had already pressed against the former’s knee a step earlier.
Whether in strength or combat intuition, she was far above Vester!
“Wh—”
Feeling a powerful force from her arm, a sensation of weightlessness washed over her.
By the time Vester reacted, she had already been flung into mid-air by Kallen.
Subconsciously closing her eyes, the pain she expected did not arrive as scheduled.
“Do you want to continue?”
The blonde girl opened her eyes, only to realize that she had been caught by Kallen and held tightly in her arms at some point.
“Forget it, there’s no need.”
Vester shook her head helplessly, then struggled to crawl out from the other’s arms.
“Kallen, do you think I have talent?”
“Um, better than most of my peers in the family.”
“Compared to truly capable people, though?”
“Not even on the same level at all.”
“…”
The physical fitness heavily modified by [Resurgent Wrath] in Vester’s eyes was, in the worldview of Honkai Impact 3rd, merely far superior to ordinary people but completely falling short of top-tier combat power, belonging to the category of better than some, worse than many.
After all, physical enhancement was just a secondary additive effect.
This talent’s main feature was actually recovery capabilities, and Vester shouldn’t have held too many expectations for it to begin with.
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“How could that be? Vester, you’re so smart, much more capable than me!”
Facing the blonde girl’s slightly pessimistic attitude, Kallen chose to deny it, naturally giving her a warm hug along the way.
“Ahem!”
Before Vester could react, a voice that belonged to neither of them suddenly rang out from the side.
“Otto, why did you come so early today?”
The blonde girl suddenly felt a sense of incongruity.
It felt like Otto always appeared at strange times…
“Compared to that, what were you two doing?”
“Us? We were just sparring a little bit.”
…Whatever, it was probably just Otto and Kallen sharing a telepathic connection.
“Kallen, when you came to hang out with Vester, why didn’t you call me along?”
Ever since Kallen joined his and Vester’s small circle, the time Vester spent alone with him had decreased drastically.
If it were just that, he wouldn’t have cared so much.
After all, loneliness or whatever wasn’t too hard for him to endure.
He originally intended to accept Kallen, this rash and childish fellow, but the latter’s zero-distance closeness to Vester made him regret it.
‘Why is this white-haired female gorilla getting hands-on with Vester again?!’
Staring fixedly at Kallen’s hand resting on the blonde girl’s waist and the latter’s somewhat reddened ears, Otto only felt as if something was crawling all over him.
“I came specifically to see Vester alone in the first place, why would I specially call you along, Otto?”
What bad intentions could Kallen possibly have?
So she just spoke the plain truth.
“You!”
Even Otto hadn’t expected the other party to be so direct, and his expression instantly turned ugly.
“What’s wrong?”
Kallen scratched her head, looking entirely like she hadn’t figured out the situation.
On the other side, Vester wore an expression with an ambiguous smile.
‘Yo, Otto must be jealous because Kallen came to find me instead of him.’
“Aiya, Kallen, don’t put it that way. Otto actually talks about you quite often. I’m going back to change my clothes, you guys wait here for me a moment.”
Finished speaking, Vester thought she was being very tactful as she quickly left the place, leaving behind two people staring at each other in blank dismay.
“You talk about me often?” Kallen asked.
“Hehe, so people from the Kaslana Family are all this self-absorbed?” Otto replied with a fake smile.
“Are you insulting me?”
“For your pitiful intelligence to still be able to understand this point, it really must have been hard on you.”
After a round of conversation, the scene quieted down.
The fact that the other party actually didn’t understand left Otto somewhat speechless.
On the other side, an incomprehensible expression appeared on Kallen’s face.
She always felt that Otto’s second sentence was insulting her.
“Mm, I am indeed calling you stupid, so what?”
“I haven’t provoked you before, why do you always insult me!”
Never before had anyone called her stupid so directly.
Kallen was overheating!
As an extrovert, she originally intended to make friends with both Vester and Otto.
However, Otto, who in Kallen’s eyes was merely Vester’s little follower, had an extremely cold attitude towards her.
If it were just that, it wouldn’t have mattered.
What truly made it unbearable for her was that this guy named Otto would often insult her like this for no reason at all.
And he always picked times when Vester was away.
How cunning!
“Insulting you? I’m just telling the truth. Vester staying together with a hands-on creep like you is simply dragging down her own IQ.”
If in Kallen’s eyes Otto was an inexplicable, insidious bastard who insulted her for no reason, conversely, Otto only thought of Kallen as a perverted woman who liked to take advantage of Vester.
“You just wait, I’m going to tell Vester everything about you insulting me!” Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
Even with Kallen’s good temper, she wouldn’t swallow down such an unprovoked disaster that she felt she had suffered.
Her capacity for tolerance was also limited!
However, contrary to her expectations, Otto showed no signs of fear at all; instead, he laughed:
“You’ve only known Vester for a few months, whereas I am the one who grew up with her since childhood.”
This was a lie, but Kallen didn’t know that.
With that, Otto wiped his eyes, and actually shed two lines of clear tears directly:
“I, I have never said such things. Why, why are you slandering me like this?”
“Who do you think Vester will believe?”
As his voice fell, he instantly put away his expression, leaving no trace of the tearful look from just moments ago.
His vivid acting shocked Kallen so much that her mouth fell wide open.
“Ahhhhh, you guy, I’m going to beat you up!!!”
“Are you sure? According to Vester’s habits, she should be coming back soon, oh?”
“Wh—”
Hearing this, Kallen turned her head to look towards the end of the corridor, yet she didn’t find the blonde girl’s figure.
“…”
Unfortunately, Otto didn’t calculate that Vester hadn’t actually gone back to change clothes.
She had left precisely to create a “two-person world” for Otto and Kallen, so how could she possibly return so quickly?
“Where are you going?”
Just as Otto was about to slip away, a hand stepped ahead and rested on his shoulder.
“Hic, can we reconcile?”
…
“If I don’t go back now, it’ll be too obvious. I wonder how their chat is going.”
The blonde girl sat idly in the room for about half an hour, then walked back along the same path to the previous corridor.
“Ha, ha, when facing me, don’t think about Vester!”
She won’t come to save you.
“Ha ah, wouldn’t this be bad? What if Vester sees us?”
If she sees you beating me up, you’re going to be done for.
“?”
Bro, are you playing this big?
Standing at the corner, listening to the ambiguous words accompanied by pants from the two, the little Apocalypse girl instantly straightened up.
“Hehehehe, the real deal is coming.”
Kallen grinned maliciously and clenched her fists tightly.
“My body is going to break!”
Otto shrank back in terror.
‘What the hell, still playing like this or what?’
I fucking told you two to be alone together, but I didn’t mean for Kallen to directly pair up with Otto?!
“Hey, what kind of mess are you two stirring up again!”
As soon as Vester walked out of the corner, what she saw was none other than the scene of Kallen reaching out towards Otto, who was pressed tightly against the wall.
“Bang!”
Startled by the blonde girl’s shout, Kallen swerved her hand aside in a fright, slamming it directly against the side of Otto’s face.
It looked just like a kabedon.
“…”
The three of them stared at each other in blank dismay, and in the end, it was Vester who broke the silence.
‘Why is Kallen on top?’
Whether out of some psychology, she whistled.
The atmosphere became even stiffer instead.