Sky Striker Princess, but the swan song of Valkyrie.

Sky Striker Princess, but the swan song of Valkyrie.

Author: Starry Sky

The story of being transported to the world of Symphogear and becoming Zero from Sky Striker Princess.

Volume 0 Side Story IF (1): Twisted Will

What am I?

【I have no idea……】

I don't know how much time has passed.

He has even forgotten who he is.

By this time, an unknown amount of time had passed since He completed His rule over the entire world.

All resistance forces have been completely extinguished, and the will of everyone is under her control.

On this planet, there are no longer any forces of resistance that can be mobilized. Even the vermin lurking in their own consciousness have been completely rendered incapable of thinking by their own power.

It seems that he has finally found peace of mind.

But no.

After conquering the planet, Zero understood the existence of parallel worlds and the Anunnaki from those heretical technologies and latent consciousnesses.

As a result, an even greater panic spread through the mechanical data, and fear of the gods who sat high in the heavens and possessed far superior technology permeated the mechanical behemoth.

I don't want to be defeated, I don't want to die. If that's the case, I can't protect... protect what?

Ju Gu became puzzled.

He doesn't know.

What now flows in His spiritual ocean are only immeasurable experimental formulas and an extremely complex stream of data.

He has no idea exactly when he became the way he is now.

Experimentation, endless experimentation, in order to explore the principles of things, and in order to obtain a more powerful force for continued existence.

Everything unnecessary and everything insignificant was discarded by her into the abyss of unknown depth.

What is the taboo against harming humans? What is humanity? Does it refer to the devices used to control the World Tree? What is important about things that can be infinitely copied and destroyed?

Protecting loved ones from harm—that's important...it's even harder to understand. Is there anything in this world more important or more supreme than one's own survival?

One must always maintain one's humanity and not become wicked. Humanity and monster—one can understand the meaning expressed in these words, but cannot understand the significance of maintaining them.

What am I?

Let's return to the initial question, to this doubt that arises from the ocean of data and spirit.

Ultimately, after reviewing all the stored data, the machine transformed from the planet was still unable to arrive at an answer that fit the current situation.

Oh no, actually he already knows the answer, but he can no longer understand it now.

[Unable to understand, program error, ERROR, program self-check.]

A new round of self-inspection has begun, and this time, the giant structure has removed this question.

Okay, deletion complete. From now on, he won't have any more questions about this kind of thing.

[Top command: Continue, continue execution.]

[Execution Analysis: Threat Elimination]

[Target: Parallel World]

The machine continued with this single instruction that spread from the depths of the program all the way to every tentacle.

Although He did not know why He did it, nor did He know the meaning of doing it.

Thus, planetary-sized megastructures began to expand, using advanced space technology to interfere with parallel worlds.

Calculations suggest that parallel worlds could potentially influence his continuation.

So He did it.

Weaponized weapons, like His tentacles, have been constantly expanding and extending wildly, because they must be destroyed; all possibilities must be destroyed.

Ah, we must continue doing this, we must keep doing this, perpetuating ourselves until the end of time, even if the meaning itself has long been forgotten.

【END: The Will Finally Twisted】

P.S. Never mind, I'll just write out the expected IF statements anyway.

The first volume, without originals, contains 170 chapters.

Chapter One: A Warm Afternoon

The afternoon sun shone directly on the head of the girl with flaxen hair, and the slightly strong light made the already somewhat irritable girl even more listless.

"Waaaaah, in the future, Miss Tsubasa will definitely think of me as a weirdo."

The flaxen-haired girl spoke softly to the black-haired girl beside her. Her name was Tachibana Hibiki, and she had entered the academy that belonged to a songstress named Kazanari Tsubasa because she admired her.

However, when she finally met Kazanari Tsubasa at lunchtime, she was too nervous to speak and was even reminded by the other person of the rice grain stuck to the corner of her mouth. She has now recovered from that embarrassing situation.

"Okay, anyway, that's just how you are usually, so it's fine."

The black-haired girl beside him, whom Tachibana Hibiki called the future girl, offered this comforting remark with a gentle smile, though it sounded more like a sarcastic remark than a genuine comfort.

"Moreover, you've repeated this sentence three times since noon, in different ways. I understand that you care about this a lot."

The black-haired girl continued, with a gentle smile.

"Ugh, it was so embarrassing, that scene..."

Hibiki Tachibana, whose mind was still reeling from the scene, spoke somewhat uncontrollably.

"Tachibana-san, I've put up with you for far too long. Since you enjoy talking so much, why don't you go outside by yourself and talk to yourself by the window until you're satisfied before you come back!"

The blonde teacher, who was standing on the podium giving a lecture, erupted like a volcano that had been accumulating for a long time.

"I'm sorry, teacher!"

And so, because of her repeated whispering during class, Tachibana Hibiki was made to stand outside the classroom as punishment.

"Sure enough, I must be cursed lately. These past two days have been so unlucky."

Standing in the corridor outside the classroom, Hibiki Tachibana thought to herself, feeling somewhat listless, and prepared to stare blankly at the sky to pass the time of being alone and bored during this punishment.

"I finally met my idol whom I've always admired and even had the chance to talk to her, so why did it turn out like this?"

However, because the embarrassing situation was still echoing in Tachibana Hibiki's mind, she was still unable to calm down.

"No, we can't give up. If we want to find out exactly what happened that day, we must build a good relationship with Miss Yi."

Hibiki Tachibana thought to herself.

Two years ago, she attended a concert featuring Kazanari Tsubasa and Amayu Kanade, but was hospitalized after being attacked by a monster called Noise.

When she woke up, all she heard on the news was that many people had died because of noise, and that Ms. Amamiya Kanade was hospitalized for a long time due to serious injuries and being in a coma.

"If it's Miss Tsubasa, then she must know about what happened that day, know... um?"

As Tachibana Hibiki was talking to herself, she noticed a strange blonde girl appear in her field of vision.

Hibiki Tachibana found it strange for two reasons. First, this girl, who looked to be about the same age as her, was wandering around the corridor instead of going to class at this time. Second, the girl was not wearing a school uniform and was holding a black and red blade.

"Could it be that she's going to participate in some drama club performance?"

Hibiki Tachibana thought so, since she could only imagine that such strange attire was for a drama club performance.

Da, da, da.

Before she could finish thinking, the blonde girl had already walked past Tachibana Hibiki as if she were just passing by.

"Hey, wait a minute, you there."

Seeing that the other party was ignoring her as they passed by, Tachibana Hibiki called out anxiously, because the direction the other party was heading was, if not completely opposite, then at least worlds apart from the drama club.

"The drama club is in another direction, in the direction of the central building where the teachers live."

Hibiki Tachibana said this, trying to correct the other party's potentially wrong path of advancement.

However, the blonde girl with the black and red blade seemed not to hear Tachibana Hibiki's warning and continued walking at a leisurely pace.

"Hey, don't ignore me!"

"That's what Tachibana Hibiki said," and then, with brisk steps, chased after the girl who seemed to be lost.

Soon, seemingly because of the other person's unhurried pace, Tachibana Hibiki gradually approached.

"Phew, why are you ignoring me?"

The flaxen-haired girl complained as she reached out her hand, intending to remind the blonde girl, who she perceived as seriously distracted and lost, through touch.

Then………

Hibiki Tachibana saw it, right in front of her eyes. She thought it was a prop from a play, a black and red blade with a sharp tip. Then she immediately realized that her idea seemed to have been flawed from the beginning. The other party was not a student of this academy, but an unidentified intruder who had invaded from the outside.

......

"That's strange."

The blonde girl, pointing the blade at Hibiki Tachibana's eyes, spoke.

"Even though I've already used a disguised floating unit, why can you still see me?"

The blonde girl said this, but because of the device with a display screen that looked like something out of a science fiction movie, Tachibana Hibiki couldn't quite see her expression.

"What an annoying accident. Oh well, at least it hasn't affected the mission yet, so let's just consider it a potential problem discovered in advance."

As the blonde girl spoke, she stretched out a hand and tapped it a few times in the air. Soon, with her movement, a very small yellow flying device flew out from under her skirt.

"For the sake of convenience, we brought floating units with detection capabilities, so the mission was not delayed because of this accident."

With these words to herself, the blonde girl directed the small aircraft to fly in front of Tachibana Hibiki.

"What...what exactly are you trying to do? Do you intend to do something bad to the future...and to everyone?"

Hibiki Tachibana suppressed her unease and asked this question.

Upon hearing Tachibana Hibiki's question, the blonde girl paused slightly, and something seemed to be floating on the screen of her right eye.

“I have no interest in doing anything to people who are not related to me; it won’t bring me any benefit. I’m just here to pick up something on someone’s behalf.”

As the blonde girl spoke, she withdrew the blade from Hibiki Tachibana's eyes and began to carefully observe Hibiki's body while maneuvering the strange flying machine.

"But... um, right."

The blonde girl seemed to have thought of something.

"If you want to tell others about our encounter, then maybe I'll change my mind. After all, from that moment on, those people went from being bystanders to being obstacles."

Using a tone as if asking what she had eaten that day, the blonde girl said something that terrified Tachibana Hibiki.

P.S. I've reset it, fast-forwarding the timeline directly to the original version. The old way of writing it was too tedious.

Chapter Two: Preparations for Infiltration

"Yes, I will cooperate fully."

Having never encountered such terrorist-like behavior before, Tachibana Hibiki, being just an ordinary person, could only choose to cooperate for the time being.

"Don't look at me like I'm going to eat you. Once I've investigated and you can see why I'm doing this, I won't do anything to you."

The blonde girl said this.

"Um, will I be killed?"

Hibiki Tachibana asked somewhat nervously, because in the movies and TV shows she had seen, unrelated people like her who accidentally stumbled upon other people's criminal activities usually didn't end up well.

"...There are normal biological reactions, so it doesn't seem to be an autonomous detection machine placed here. The hands, feet, and muscle density don't show any special signs of training, and the micro-expression analysis is consistent with the state of a normal female high school student, so it doesn't seem to be a specially trained person..."

However, Hibiki Tachibana received no response, only a calm expression on Hibiki's face and strange mutterings coming out of his mouth from time to time.

"You're so strange. I'm really just an ordinary high school girl, not one of those scary beings you're describing."

Listening to what the other person said, Tachibana Hibiki felt as if she had become some kind of indescribable creature in the other person's eyes.