"What the hell? There's even a TV program interview right after coming out? That's scary." Although Shun had anticipated that his and Ana's wedding would be explosive news for the Schicksal Valkyries who were eagerly waiting to get married, he never expected that the Valkyries would actually block the entrance to his house.
Ana pondered for a moment, then suddenly understood and said, "Ah, I remember now. Those so-called people from Schicksal Television are actually just individual UP hosts. As for the Valkyries behind them, they were probably just following along to join in the fun."
"I didn't expect that I used to watch their programs to go with my meals and have fun with my friends, but now I've become the protagonist of the program." Ana recalled the happy times in the past when she sat with her friends watching these programs, and a complex emotion welled up in her heart.
Because the members of Schicksal Television were all Valkyries from the logistics department, they were able to travel freely between branches around the world. The content they filmed involved news about Schicksal Valkyries, allowing viewers to keep up with the latest developments of their comrades around the world. Therefore, their programs enjoyed extremely high popularity among Valkyries.
"It's fine. They actually have a sense of propriety and generally won't expose any too-private secrets," Ana explained.
"Oh? Really?" Shun entered Schicksal's internal website and clicked on the homepage of the UP host Schicksal Television. Although they only had a little over 700,000 followers, considering that the number of Schicksal organization members was only around one million, this number was already quite exaggerated.
Shun clicked to sort by playback volume. The title of the number one video was "Shocking! Cecilia-sama's husband Siegfried once touched the butts of all the Valkyries at headquarters. Snow Wolf Squad member Shigure Kira speaks from personal experience".
This video had over 50 million views, far exceeding the second place's 19 million-plus. There was a reason for this number.
Looking at the name Shigure Kira on the title, Shun couldn't help but be stunned. He had watched Shigure Kira being taken away by the Shoggoth clan inside Nicholas. He wondered how the other party was doing now?
However, thinking about the later plot where the other party was alive and well, and even became a real idol for a period of time relying on the gem's ability in the visual novel Durandal, and was also doing well in the later side chapters.
Ana glanced at the video title with the highest playback volume that Shun showed her. After browsing it, a trace of embarrassment couldn't help but appear on her face.
"Probably…" Her voice carried some uncertainty.
However, Shun didn't really mind. After all, Ana wasn't Cecilia. The fact that he married Ana meant everyone was offering blessings, unlike with Siegfried where they wished he would go out the next day and get hit by a car and die.
After resting for a while, the two left the pavilion in this park and discovered that there were many more Schicksal Valkyries on the streets of the academy city.
"Is this the rhythm of some collective tour group?" As the current focus of heated discussion, Shun and Ana naturally couldn't swagger around without any scruples.
Ana quickly took out her phone and browsed for a moment, then turned the screen toward Shun. "Yes, it looks like a tour group organized by the Bishop at his own expense. It's said to be to give all Valkyries a New Year's gift."
Shun stared at the text on the phone screen and couldn't help but read it out softly: "In order to express my gratitude to all the Schicksal Valkyries who made great sacrifices for humanity in the past year, I have decided to personally fund a five-day, four-night trip to the Far East branch for all Valkyries willing to attend the wedding of Schicksal Valkyrie Ana Schariac."
Good grief, so the problem was here. Shun's wedding happened to be scheduled during the New Year period. Logically speaking, the Valkyries should also be celebrating the holiday separately and wouldn't all come running to the Far East branch to join in the fun. But after all, this was a free travel opportunity.
Moreover, among the Valkyries, not many had families. Their family was each other, so they all swarmed over.
Special thanks must also be given to a selflessly dedicated S-rank Valkyrie — Bianca Durandal Ataegina. After celebrating Kiana's birthday on December 7th, she learned that Shun and Ana were about to get married. In order to give the Valkyries time to attend the wedding, she went without rest for more than half a month straight, single-handedly exterminating Honkai across the globe. She single-handedly eliminated hundreds of thousands of Honkai beasts, causing the global Honkai energy index to drop significantly.
"Since that's the case, it's inconvenient for us to go out. Ana, why don't I take you to meet one of my elders? I think you probably don't know her true identity yet?" Shun suggested, his tone carrying a trace of mystery.
"Your elder?" Ana's curiosity was piqued. Shun had never mentioned this kind of information before.
"Willing to go?" Shun extended his hand.
"Of course." Ana took Shun's extended hand, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
"So… this is the reason you two newlyweds aren't being lovey-dovey together and came here to accompany this old person for tea?" Fu Hua handed two cups of brewed tea to Shun and Ana sitting across from her and said.
"After all, once a teacher, always a father. No matter what, Teacher, you are now my only elder in this world besides my father-in-law and mother-in-law."
"I didn't expect it to actually be Fu Hua." Ana was extremely shocked. She hadn't expected that Shun's teacher would turn out to be the class monitor of the preparatory class she taught.
The guardian deity who had protected Shenzhou for five thousand years, the Red Kite Immortal. Ana was certainly not unfamiliar with this title. Moreover, the other party was also a figure recorded in Schicksal's history books.
She hadn't expected Shun's teacher to be such a person. Although history books recorded that the Red Kite Immortal had already ascended to immortality in the great fire at Taixu Mountain five hundred years ago.
But she believed her husband wouldn't lie about this kind of thing. Although she was very shocked, she still accepted this information.
"Ana, I don't have anything good." After saying that, she also glared at this disciple who had stolen her pension money. Shun felt guilty and shrank his neck, not making a sound.
"This is one of the Tenth Divine Keys — Key of Domination that I have collected. Its power should be much stronger than the Gods' Throne series weapons you currently hold. I'll give it to you."
Fu Hua gently pulled open a drawer and took out a carefully prepared gift box. It looked like she had prepared it long ago and handed it to Ana.
Ana had wanted to politely decline this generous gift, but she heard Shun whisper in her ear: "When an elder bestows a gift, one cannot refuse. My teacher still has many Tenth Divine Keys. Just accept it."
Hearing Shun's words, Ana no longer declined. She took the gift box and solemnly expressed her gratitude to Fu Hua.
"The ability of this Divine Key is to control ice and snow. Its power is very strong. I hope you can make good use of this weapon."
Both Ana and Fu Hua were very happy. Only Shun was somewhat stunned upon hearing the name of this Divine Key.
"The power to control ice and snow? Is this fate's arrangement?" Recalling that Ana seemed destined to become the Herrscher of Ice, he couldn't help but tightly embrace the lover beside him.
"I will protect you…"
"Mm, I believe you." Ana responded gently.
Fu Hua glanced at the two showing off their affection and planned to fill the teacups, signaling that they should leave.
"Teacher, why haven't I seen Seele?" Shun suddenly asked. Hearing this sentence, Fu Hua's hand involuntarily trembled. The originally steady tea-pouring motion also went wrong because of it, and tea slightly overflowed.
"Why are you still here?"