Honkai Impact: Grandma Pine Sparrow is still chasing me!

Chapter 99 Researcher Bai Ji?

"Why? Why does she have Kallen's stigmata on her body?!"

Otto clenched his fists tightly, his eyes fixed on the stigmata on Yae Sakura's body. Kallen was long gone, yet now he saw the same stigmata appear on someone else again…

Otto approached slowly, each step heavy with doubt. The surrounding air seemed to freeze, leaving only the sound of his slightly rapid breathing.

"Your Majesty Bishop?"

"Grandpa, don't come any closer! It's impolite to get any closer!"

Theresa finally couldn't hold back and spoke up, saying that if they got any closer, Otto might be labeled a hooligan!

"What? The stigmata on my back is Kallen?"

Yae Sakura's eyes revealed unexpected ecstasy, as if Kallen still loved her and had even helped her suppress the damned Higokumaru... Otto was hard to tell what he was thinking, and the others were even more unaware of the meaning contained in this stigmata.

Otto reached out, wanting to touch the sacred mark, but then withdrew his hand just before making contact. Because, under the watchful eyes of everyone…

"No, this isn't right! It's impossible! It's completely illogical for a pseudo-Herrscher to have a Stigmata!"

After being struck by the Stigmata, Otto muttered to himself, pondering various possibilities, while the others stood uneasily in place, waiting for Otto's next move.

Grandpa, are you alright?

"Ahem, I lost my composure. Alright, Theresa, Grandpa promises you, he won't attack Miss Yae Sakura for now, but..."

Otto pointed to the stigmata between Yae Sakura's waist and back.

"There are some things that are very important to Grandpa, and I hope you can 'keep' them safe until Grandpa finds the answer."

After saying his last words, Otto, who had forgotten to say goodbye, immediately turned and left, leaving only the elegant Rita to bid farewell to everyone.

Yae Sakura can die, but she cannot die with Kallen's Stigmata. For the sake of that Stigmata, Otto can allow Yae Sakura to live a few more days.

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"What, it's fake?"

"Don't be so loud!"

After the Undying Blade duo left, Bai Ji and Qiong told everyone the truth.

"Ahem, ahem—that's right, everyone. The stigma on Miss Yae's body is indeed a fake—ahem, ahem—it was something that I and Sora created using our own talents."

"impossible!"

Theresa couldn't believe it.

"Neither I nor my grandfather could tell it was fake! How could you possibly draw something so realistic in just ten minutes?!"

Anxious Yae Sakura also touched the three stigmata—they haven't faded at all.

"Headmaster, if everyone could see through it, then all my years of hard work would have been for nothing. Of course—cough—the power contained within is real."

Bai Ji held up three fingers.

"But it can only last..."

"Three days?"

"Three hours."

"How did you two get so worn out in just half a day?"

Bai Ji smiled bitterly, "Isn't that because of some gray-haired guy?"

"I originally thought that Qiong would only be able to come up with one Saint Mark, which would only take half a day of effort, but now three is equivalent to us not eating or drinking for a day and a half..."

"and many more."

Himeko suddenly realized what was happening.

"Teacher Bai, does His Holiness the Bishop know about your abilities? If he knew..."

Guided by Himeko, everyone quickly pictured the scene: Bishop Otto returned, this time bringing the entire Undying Blade to capture Yae Sakura alive, and also taking Bai Ji and Qiong away in a prison cart...

"If that's the case, I don't want to involve either of you."

"No need."

Bai Ji waved his hand.

"The bishop didn't know about this, otherwise why would he have agreed to let Bai Ji come to St. Freya to be a school doctor?"

"Then, Teacher Bai, how did you get into Destiny? And why did you come here?"

Upon hearing this, Theresa suddenly realized that Baiji and Otto were not entirely on the same page after all.

"I am actually a researcher."

"I couldn't tell at all."

Kiana's statement received nods of approval from everyone except Bronya. Indeed, it was hard to see how the bookish, sickly Bai Ji resembled a researcher.

"In short, I... have developed a piece of equipment called the 'Star Ring,' but I won't go into details; that's a secret of Schicksal."

"But Teacher Bai, you've already told part of it!"

Bai Ji ignored the criticism and continued speaking.

"His Holiness the Bishop was very interested in this and asked Bai Ji to participate in the subsequent research and development of the 'Ring of the Moon' under his name. However, Bai Ji was frail and sickly and it was only a nominal position, so he asked His Holiness the Bishop to provide him with a comfortable job. His Holiness the Bishop simply said that my precious granddaughter's place was quite good..."

It all made sense now. Although Bai Ji's words were 60% true and 40% false, they still managed to convince everyone.

"But wouldn't we be considered to have deceived Bishop Otto? Teacher Bai, you're really bold!"

Bai Ji shook his head and looked at Qiong, who was still drinking water.

"No, I originally did not intend to help Miss Yae, but it was because of my foolish disciple."

"Qiong?"

Suddenly, everyone looked at Qiong, who was trying to hide in a corner, drinking water and acting like a nobody.

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"Silver Wolf, do you know the way to this Star Train?"

In response to Sam's question, Silver Wolf nodded casually.

"Of course, I've been here countless times!"

Why didn't you take me with you?

"You didn't ask me to bring you! Let's not talk about this now, let's go into his room and take a look, I haven't been in there yet!"

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was in the party car, Silver Wolf and Sam bypassed the beverage robot and "shut up" before entering Sora's room.

"Not bad, there's a refrigerator, a computer, a bathroom, and even a collection room!"

"A-Qiong's body pillow is so cute..."

"Never mind that, check his computer! Maybe we can find what we're looking for on it."

Silver Wolf walked straight to the computer that looked pretty good and started showing off his skills.

"No password? So trusting? Their security awareness needs improvement... No email, no files, just a few games? Boring! Wait, what's this? A super-intelligent virus?"

Who in their right mind would let a virus grow on their computer? And a super-intelligent one at that? Silver Wolf promptly dealt with it for the computer's original owner: antivirus software, activated!

"Alarm! Alarm! Intruder! Intruder!"

"Silver Wolf, what have you done?"

Sam wanted to briefly detach from his armor to touch the pillow containing the character "穹" (Qiong), but before he could remove his armor and transform into a firefly, he was interrupted by a sudden alarm.

"I don't know either! I just scanned for and removed the virus for him!"

Several lines of large text suddenly popped up on the computer screen.

"You dare cause trouble in my retirement home? You've got what's coming to you! Surrender, intruders!"

"Sam, retreat!"

Silver Wolf kicked over "Shut Up," who had come in to check on things, and began calling for his teammates to make a strategic retreat.

"But we're not here to do anything bad. Why don't we just explain it to them in person? They probably want to find Qiong too, right?"

Thinking about it, it seemed to make sense, so Silver Wolf decided to help the old-fashioned beverage robot on the ground up.