Crossover Anime: Picking up Medea at the Start

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That direction leads to the church where Sister Carmen resides, which is also the core of the divine grace barrier.

Alicia and the others were all over there, and Roland could also sense that Alicia's power was forcefully resisting the divine grace barrier and bursting forth.

So he took a step in that direction, and then his body, with a twist as if there was a bad signal, disappeared from the spot, leaving only the sound that lingered there.

"Alicia and the others have done a great job with their mission, so leave the rest to me."

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139. Not just anyone can be a partner in justice.

Pink, radiant crystals rose from the earth, their flame-like light burning in the air, and intense heat blew everything away in the form of wind.

The church had long been reduced to ruins by this force.

At that moment, the radiant cross, which was even larger than the original symbolic cross placed inside the church, was hanging upside down in mid-air!

With this as the core, a massive divine grace barrier spread out, greatly suppressing all the Honkai energy within it!

Seele and Destobia were completely overwhelmed and unable to fight. Himiko was standing next to Alicia with a huge sword, but the flames on her body were not as active as usual, as if they might go out at any moment.

And in the air in front of them, Carmen, dressed as a nun, floated.

She had long since discarded the nun's headscarf, letting her pale golden hair flutter in the wind and waves.

Her eyes had transformed into those of a Herrscher, but the expression on her face remained unchanged, still gentle, even carrying a hint of a smile.

"As expected, the biggest variable is you, Alicia."

"But before we really started, I still had a sliver of hope, because I thought you were the same kind of person as me, and I thought you could understand me. But now it seems you have disappointed me."

Upon hearing Carmen's words, Alicia picked up her bow. When she looked at Carmen, who had transformed into a Herrscher, her gaze remained gentle, and her expression showed no trace of disgust towards Carmen.

It was as if it were just yesterday, and they were still having a casual chat like friends.

"If we're talking about disappointment, isn't it me who's disappointed?"

“Carmen...you trust me, and I trust you too—but I never expected you to go down this path, and even less did I expect that our first target would be us. This is truly heartbreaking.”

Upon hearing Alicia 320's words, Carmen flew down a little.

As she drew closer, the binding force of the Divine Grace Barrier increased. This time, even Himiko was forced to kneel on the ground, barely supporting her body with her greatsword. Only Alicia remained the same as before.

She herself was unharmed, but the flames burning in the air were extinguished at that moment, along with the crystals that had solidified the church ruins and grew on the earth, which were also pulverized along with the church remains.

The dust they turned into resembled a shimmering snowflake.

Alicia and Carmen stared at each other amidst the swirling snowflakes, seemingly unchanged, yet just like the scattered snow, something seemed to have vanished between them.

Carmen had lost interest in continuing the conversation with Alicia.

Because she had already received the answer from Alicia—they were destined not to be on the same path.

Those who are familiar with Alicia will know that she is extremely serious at this moment.

Because she had already gotten the answer from Carmen—the other woman had already gone far down a different path.

They could take action at any time.

But just before they could make a move, a spatial rift was torn open, and Roland's figure appeared directly beside Alicia.

"Alright, Alicia, you can take them and leave here. Your mission is just to investigate, and you've already accomplished a great deal. Combat isn't your task, so leave the rest to me."

Upon seeing Roland, Carmen instinctively wanted to attack.

But before she could act, she realized that something was holding her down!

She was completely immobilized—she wasn't even allowed to speak! Alicia wasn't surprised by this; she simply let out a long breath.

"You arrived just in time, otherwise we would have been in danger."

"Stop lying... Even if I hadn't come, you would have had a way to deal with her, right? Maybe if I had come any later, you would have killed her."

"Oh dear, it seems you've found out my little secret~"

Alicia didn't deny it, but while saying this, she picked up the other three.

Seele, Desdobia, and Himiko knew they couldn't offer any help to Carmen, so they didn't resist.

After pushing the three of them into the spatial rift, Alicia stopped with her back to Roland.

"Roland...thank you."

"Although I can certainly handle this, I really don't want to fight her if I could."

After leaving behind that sentence, Alicia didn't wait for Roland's reply and simply disappeared into the spatial rift.

Roland sighed helplessly as he closed the spatial rift.

"After all, you're one of us too..."

He muttered to himself, and then, after the spatial rift closed completely, he looked ahead.

Gravity, under his manipulation, was like an invisible hand, pulling Carmen down from mid-air and right in front of him as his gaze moved.

"...Although you probably intended to have Alicia kill you after confirming her strength, I'm sorry, I can't let you freely choose how you die. After all, to me, you are just an enemy, while Alicia is an ally. I don't want to see my ally sad."

As Roland said this, he also loosened some of his control over Carmen, at least allowing her to speak.

Carmen was slightly surprised when she heard Roland say that.

"You must be the one who sent them to investigate me... It really surprises me. I didn't expect them to be right next to me, but they don't seem to know much about my situation. Even Alicia seems to be on a different path from me—and you seem to have seen through me just by looking at the information they reported back."

"It's not that difficult."

Roland shrugged.

Because she was the last of the Herrscher powers Roland wanted to collect, Roland didn't mind talking to her.

"They just haven't seen it enough."

"As far as I am concerned, you are not the first person I have ever met who has his own persistence, strong personal abilities, and is still running towards a dream that is almost impossible to achieve."

“Even those who think they can uphold justice and become partners in justice will gradually realize as they grow up that some things and some dreams are indeed only for children.”

"Such a dream will shatter as a child grows into an adult, becoming the price of adulthood."

"It was at that moment that the child living in paradise came to the hell called reality, which belongs to adults."

“You’re obviously not a child anymore, right?”

As Roland spoke, he was looking at Carmen's curves, which were even more impressive than Alicia's. But Carmen actually knew that Roland's definition of a child and an adult had nothing to do with age or development.

Some people die as children, while others become adults before they've even grown up.

So Carmen just smiled.

"What about Alicia?"

"I can sense that what I want is a beautiful world that doesn't exist... Cute Licia's thoughts don't seem to be much more mature than mine. She wants a world full of things she finds beautiful, and she doesn't think it's impossible to achieve."

When Roland heard Carmen ask that question, he smiled too.

"A child's dream may shatter the moment they grow up, but who says that an adult cannot have a brand new dream, as naive as a child's?"

"This is the choice problem that Alicia was talking about with you."

"She understood everything, but still chose to walk this path, while you, after understanding everything, took a different path... and even your thinking became extreme under the influence of the collapse."

"You should have realized this, which is why you sought death."

"But isn't your behavior another extreme manifestation... You are one of the Herrschers I've met who has maintained rationality the best, yet you are still a Herrscher."

Hearing Roland say this, Carmen understood.

“I see… I understand now, Roland… I remember Alicia addressed you like that just now. As you said, I am now a Herrscher, so now that you have driven Alicia away, the rest is up to you.”

Carmen said this, and Roland nodded in agreement.

Instead of using gravity manipulation to solve the problem directly, he used the power of the Herrscher of Consciousness, using the massive Honkai energy brought by the power of the end to instantly reach the upper limit of the Divine Grace Barrier, destroying it, and then pulling Carmen into a beautiful dream.

Carmen realized this, and instead of resisting, she simply embraced what the dream brought her, and a happy smile spread across her face.

"Ah... Heaven only appears in dreams, I hope this time, no one will wake me up again."

As she said this, Roland shook his head at her as she closed her eyes completely.

"Then you'll be disappointed. I'll wake you up again. Then go and apologize to Alicia properly."

As Roland said this, he watched Carmen close her eyes completely.

The final cataclysm has ended.

Just like when he took the core of the bell, Roland simply opened his hand, and Carmen's core of the Herrscher of Binding appeared in his hand, which he grasped and then completely disappeared.

At this moment, Roland could clearly feel an immense amount of Honkai energy awakening above his head.

The other party is not high in the sky, but beyond the sky, in the starry sky, on the moon!

The adaptive training that the Cocoon of the End provided for civilization has ended.

Now it was time for the trial to truly begin.

Thinking of this, Roland twisted like a phantom and gradually disappeared from the spot.

"Herrscher of the End... I admit you are strong, but I'm sorry, I have already obtained the answer to the question, and your fate of destroying this civilization is destined to be rewritten."