How to befriend the herrscher in your head

Chapter 3

Saying that she’s busy would be a weak thing to call Kiana’s schedule. Most would thought that with Otto gone and no new herrschers, she’d finally get a day off, but between running around on missions, training and trying to get closer with Sirin with was going terribly even though they interacted only two times, she didn’t get much time for herself, mainly when the new overseer approached her with another task because everyone was currently on a mission in different parts of the world to fight honkai.

“Kiana. Are you listening?” Stoic voice of the Class monitor broke her out of her thoughts.
“Huh? O-of course Fu Hua!”
“Then please summarise what was said in the past fifteen minutes of you drifting off.”
“Our progress in reclaiming parts of the far east block and battle reports from our recent missions, but also the ever so increasing amount of attacks.” She hoped that this answer was satisfying for everyone in the room. It was one of her first meetings, the personnel attending consisted of their overseer known as Theresa Apocalypse, Fu Hua, Durandal and a few more officers that she could only guess to be from the west quarters of Shicksal.
“Very well, please make sure that you’re paying your full attention to the meeting next time and not just absently listening.” Fu hua continued before moving on with the meeting.

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“Kiana Kaslana, Bronya Zaychik and Seele Vollerei will be heading to Siberia. We have obtained reports about increasing honkai levels around the old Babylon tower. It’s a scouting mission, your task is to obtain information about the situation. You’ll be leaving in thirty minutes”
Theresa read from the list of names and what each group had in task together with when they’ll depart.”

“Bronya doesn’t feel good about this mission.”
“It’ll be okay Bronya, you got us to cover your back, right Seele?” Kiana put one hand on her shoulder reassuringly.
“Y-yes! It’s a scouting mission.”
“We did tons of missions like this, it’ll go smoothly. I promise.”

And they were off to their own dorms to pack the most important stuff, next stop was the armoury where only a few words were exchanged as they checked over their gear before they head out towards the airship. Every mission was nerve wracking in its own sense no matter how many times she was on this exact type of mission. And Bronya wasn't the only one who didn’t feel good about this mission.

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Sirin could feel something change, but couldn’t pinpoint what it was or where it was coming from, but something definitely changed.
It wasn’t like when her worm was under attack here or outside.
Feeling restless, she started to walk around like it could help. The feeling only worsened as time went by until it was suffocating.Worry settled in her stomach that her worm could be in danger, but it felt different when she was in danger, Sirin knew after she spent months? In her mind space, locked. It was getting overwhelming, but soon she noticed the familiar figure of her worm.

“Worm!”
Kiana looked over at the Herrscher who was quickly approaching her, discomfort and distress clear as a day on her.
“What are you doing to the body? It feels like you’re about to die.”
“We are on a mission. Nothing serious.”
“Where? Tell me.”
Kiana hesitated a little with her answer, having heard what happened here and that they were currently located near the epicentre of where the second honkai eruption happened.
“Siberia, a few kilometres south from where Babylon tower used to stand, now only in ruins.”
“...” It was a flash of emotions Kiana was met with, void spikes soon appearing everywhere around them and a laugh of madness broke the silence. Eyes shooting back towards Sirin, who took a familiar stance when they first met, same hostility in her eyes.

“Sirin? What-” her sentence was cut short with one of the void spikes barely missing her throat, soon followed by the rest, creating a cage of sorts. But what made her fear rise to a level she didn’t experience in a long time was when she looked around, but didn’t see or feel  the Herrscher anywhere around the mind space.