"Everything you have done..."
"Is it really to fight the Honkai and save Seele?"
Hearing Bronya's words, although Cocolia felt a bit uncomfortable, having prepared herself mentally beforehand, she naturally wouldn't let her expression change just because of this sentence.
In fact, considering her daughter was only thirteen years old, precisely the age easily hoodwinked by others, Cocolia had considered the possibility of her daughter being bewitched when she received the intel that 'Miss Bronya appeared in London'.
"Bronya, why do you have doubts about this matter?"
After sighing slightly, Cocolia spoke earnestly.
"I have already told you the plan. It was to fight the Honkai and for Seele that I made such a difficult choice—you should know this better than anyone."
"What exactly did they say to you to make you start doubting my intentions?"
"...Master, Sister Kiana, and Sister Mei didn't say much to Bronya. But Mother, when Bronya realized that your actions led to the deaths of millions, and that you intend to continue doing such things, Bronya realized..."
"How many unnecessary casualties your past actions have caused. And now, you intend to continue manufacturing more of these terrible casualties."
"Mother, are the lives of these millions of people just numbers to you?"
Hearing Bronya's question, Cocolia spoke very decisively.
"Of course not. If it weren't out of necessity, I certainly wouldn't choose such brutal atrocities. But obedient daughter, you must understand one thing."
"Humanity has no time left. If we continue to treat the Honkai with this lukewarm attitude, we will only be completely swallowed by the Honkai."
"...Master once said that sentence too."
Heh, sure enough, I'm not the only person with lofty ideals.
That person who abducted Bronya, it seems, shares my thoughts.
In that case, then...
Before Cocolia could conceive her next plan, she heard Bronya speak a very decisive sentence.
"But Master will think of ways to save the lives that might die in front of him—this is the reason he stands on the opposite side of you, Mother Cocolia."
At this moment, after shouting this sentence aloud, a look of sadness finally emerged on Bronya's face.
And Mei, knowing that Bronya's emotional circuits were long broken, completely understood in this moment just how uncomfortable Bronya felt inside.
Bronya, whose emotional circuits were partially damaged, usually maintained that expressionless posture whether happy or sad.
Only when her emotions fluctuated immensely would she reveal a trace of genuine feeling.
When you see her showing an emotion of [1], the sadness in her heart, calculated numerically, has likely already surpassed [100].
"Master says Sister Mei's power cannot save Seele; Bronya cannot confirm this point yet. But Bronya can be certain that actions which take the lives of others while speaking high-sounding words are undoubtedly wrong!"
"...You guys don't think that what happened in Singapore last time was correct, do you?"
At this moment, Cocolia could finally no longer keep up the act.
"If you had let the Herrscher of Death be born that day, I only needed to take the Herrscher of Death away, and I could use its power to contend with Schicksal!"
"And after contending with Schicksal, only then can our Anti-Entropy better save the world from the hands of the Honkai!"
"Incomprehensible. To kill a large number of innocent people before saving the world—Bronya simply cannot understand such a thing."
"Mother, you are still the mother I respect. But... Bronya will not return to your side for the time being."
After exhaling slightly, Bronya took a deep look at Cocolia.
"This behavior of yours is undoubtedly wrong. And until your thoughts change... Bronya will work with Master to find a way to stop your atrocities!"
"Ah, is that so."
This brat...!
Hearing that Bronya meant what she said, Cocolia's expression gradually became incomparably cold.
"Because of a few bewitching words from outsiders, you chose to betray me and your companions at the orphanage—can I understand your current behavior this way?"
"If Bronya discovers she is wrong, Bronya will actively return to accept punishment."
"Ha, punishment... Fine, then you just go act with them."
Cocolia, who had intended to explode right there, took a deep look at her adopted daughter before a smile once again emerged on her face.
"Let it be. We are all fighting the Honkai; there's no need to fight to the death."
"Since you chose a path different from mine, then continue walking the path you want to walk."
After saying this sentence, Cocolia immediately made the image vanish before the two.
And accompanied by Cocolia activating the self-destruct sequence on her end, the drone directly exploded from the inside in front of the two, blasting into countless fragments.
"Bronya..."
Glancing at the very sad Bronya, Raiden Mei spoke softly.
"Is this really okay?"
"...Sister Mei, Bronya is fine. Compared to continuing to help Mother Cocolia do bad things, Bronya feels that stopping her before she does more irreparable things is what Bronya, as a daughter, should do for Mother Cocolia."
"Let's go, Master and Sister Kiana are still waiting for us. We..."
"Can't let them keep waiting."
Looking at the girl actively walking ahead of her, Raiden Mei suddenly saw a touch of loneliness in the girl's back.
She was just a thirteen-year-old girl, yet due to her adoptive mother's actions, she shouldered pressure that was unnecessary for her.
And... that final expression of Cocolia's was really unnatural.
On the surface, she didn't intend to do anything.
But in reality...
[Don't think about it, that woman will definitely pull something.]
[That kind of acting, I can see through it at a glance. This woman lacks great wisdom, but she definitely has petty cleverness and a belly full of bad water.]
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