Meanwhile, in another area.
After parting ways with Kiana, Bronya took out a Rider Brace and wore it on her wrist.
Previously, after Aaron seized the transformation devices of several Riders, he gave one of them to Bronya.
According to Aaron's description, although these mechanical insects were very willful, they should be usable normally after his adjustments.
If possible, Bronya certainly didn't wish to take up arms against her adoptive mother.
But now, after witnessing another side of Cocolia, the not-so-naive Bronya naturally couldn't believe that when she met Cocolia, everyone could sit down properly like in the past and have a conversation in a state of maternal benevolence and filial piety.
After the last exchange, Bronya had a vague feeling.
She and Cocolia could no longer return to the past.
Especially after gaining the Whispered ability this time, she learned about the Valkyrie System Cocolia had created inside the brain chip.
No matter how much she respected and loved Cocolia, she couldn't completely forget this matter.
And Cocolia was the same. From her perspective, Bronya, an adopted daughter who withheld information and even chose to leave Anti-Entropy, had undoubtedly betrayed her.
As the leader of the radical faction, Cocolia had never been soft-handed when dealing with traitors.
Then... what exactly was she seeking by bringing Seele back to this dangerous place?
After this doubt surfaced in her mind, Bronya suddenly stopped walking.
And Seele, sensing Bronya was thinking about something, immediately stood obediently by Bronya's side, daring not to make any sound that might disturb her.
Thinking carefully, Bronya actually already had rough, and likely very reasonable, conjectures about many things.
But conjectures were ultimately conjectures.
Bronya wanted an answer.
An answer that could only be derived from Cocolia's words and deeds.
Hah, because her heart was too chaotic just now, Bronya had forgotten about this.
The current Bronya could use the Whispered power to connect to the Perfect Domain.
And after connecting to the Perfect Domain, Bronya could manipulate surrounding mechanical items for her own use.
After silently closing her eyes, Bronya connected to the Perfect Domain through the Whispered power.
Subsequently, after manipulating the entire surveillance system of the Anti-Entropy base through the Perfect Domain, she discovered two things.
Within the Anti-Entropy surveillance system, she couldn't see the figures of the other legendary executors.
At this moment, in the entire Anti-Entropy HQ surveillance system, the only executor visible was her adoptive mother, Cocolia.
Of course, this was the first thing.
The second thing was that this surveillance system was actually connected to another fake surveillance system.
In that fake surveillance system, Bronya actually saw two young women with red hair and blue hair—the two veteran executor doctors of Anti-Entropy.
In other words, the other overseers of Anti-Entropy might have known about Cocolia's plan long ago and had secretly modified the surveillance system.
At this moment, Cocolia might still be looking at those fake images, thinking the two senior executors were being kept in the dark by her.
However, in reality, the two seniors had long discovered her conspiracy and even had Yuno, who joined the conservatives, contact outside help...
In an instant, Bronya began to feel her adoptive mother was incredibly pitiable.
The outside help she sent had been almost beaten to a pulp on the spot by Kiana.
And the turtles in the jar, as she saw them, had long discovered her plan.
What was more awkward was that Bronya thought she would encounter some obstruction along the way, but Cocolia, probably to facilitate the outsiders' actions, had withdrawn her own defense personnel as well.
Now, beside her, there was only the figure of Sin Mal, that nasty companion of Bronya and Seele from the orphanage.
"Seele, let's go. Although this path should be very safe, we still cannot relax our vigilance."
"Mn, I understand, Big Sister Bronya."
After knowing the route forward, Bronya spent only a few minutes bringing Seele outside Cocolia's office.
After using the Whispered power to manipulate the door to open automatically, she saw Cocolia, who looked composed, and Sin Mal, whose face was already filled with rage.
"Bronya! And Seele! You two traitors!"
At this moment, Sin had already seen the process of the two arriving here through Cocolia's surveillance system.
"You actually dare to betray Mother!"
"Sin, don't rush."
Sensing that Sin intended to use her awakened Stigmata power, Cocolia immediately stopped Sin's behavior.
Subsequently, she looked smilingly at Bronya and Seele, who had complex expressions, and spoke.
"Bronya and Seele, how could they betray me?"
"Although I don't know how you rescued Seele, Bronya, now that both you and Seele are in front of me, it's perfect for coming home with us."
"Everyone at the orphanage has missed you lately."
"Bronya misses everyone too. But..."
"But?"
"Bronya will no longer return to help a tyrant do evil, Mother!"
"Ah, last time in front of outsiders, I saved you some face in front of your friends and didn't say much. So you thought you were actually in the right?"
Hearing Bronya's words, the smile on Cocolia's face gradually disappeared.
"Since when did the Silver Wolf of the Urals become such a naive brat? Our cause is justice! To fight against the Honkai, we must obtain sufficient power at the fastest speed to save the world before the Honkai descends!"
"Bronya, Seele. Even if you have gone astray, I still regard you as my daughters. So, I will give you one last chance."
"Leave those guys and return to my side. I can forgive everything in the past... Hah, that's what I intended to say."
Seeing the disappointed looks in Bronya and Seele's eyes, the last shred of patience in Cocolia's heart completely vanished.
"Forget it, saying more is just nonsense. It doesn't matter if you don't recognize me as a mother."
"From today on, you can go back to being a tool, Silver Wolf of the Urals."
Snapping her fingers lightly, Cocolia directly activated that program.
This program, which she had buried inside Bronya's brain chip, would directly seize Bronya's self-consciousness upon activation and force her into [Valkyrie Mode], becoming the most obedient puppet in Cocolia's hands.
As for Seele... hmph, her power back then was indeed terrifying.
But with Bronya in my hands, she wouldn't dare to act rashly.
If possible, by researching her body, I might be able to make the X-10 Experiment data even more perfect.
Besides, with Sin's power present, even if she wanted to make a move, she would be taken down by Sin first.
Then she was dumbfounded.
After she activated that program, Bronya indeed clutched her head for an instant, seeming to reveal a very painful expression.
But in the time that followed, Bronya surprisingly did not enter Valkyrie Mode, nor was the control of her body seized by Cocolia.
Incomprehensible...
This girl, she already discovered the problem with the brain chip and even solved it?!
When exactly did she notice, and when did she fix this trouble?!
On the other side, Bronya felt genuine pain at this moment.
Not just because of the pain from the brain chip nearly manipulating her brain.
At this moment, Bronya felt as if her heart had been completely torn apart, erupting with incomparably intense agony.
Even before coming here, she had tried to find excuses for Cocolia's act of installing this program.
'Mother Cocolia might be worried about me encountering danger when falling into enemy hands,' 'Mother is just worried I can't control this power well, so she added this system'...
The facts told her that none of these were the real reasons.
Fake, it was all fake.
Cocolia had never fully trusted her from the start, but treated her as a tool.
Did affection exist between the two?
Bronya really regarded her as her mother.
And Cocolia... one couldn't say she had absolutely no affection for Bronya and Seele.
But Cocolia's behavior at this moment clearly stated that her affection for the two was obviously mixed with some unpleasant things.
"Seele, step back."
Bronya, suppressing the pain in her heart, immediately said to Seele.
"Here... is not safe..."
"...I understand, Big Sister Bronya."
Seele, who immediately stepped back two paces, also took out her scythe, ready to support Bronya at any time.
Only, the moment she took out the scythe, she saw a drop of water suddenly fall by Bronya's feet.
Is this... a tear?
Is Big Sister Bronya crying?
In the eyes of Sin and Cocolia, tears that shouldn't exist were overflowing from Bronya's eyes at this moment.
After her emotional circuits were mostly damaged, Bronya shouldn't have been able to cry.
But at this moment, because of excessive sorrow, her emotional circuits miraculously functioned a little bit.
"Bronya! You idiot!"
Sin Mal, who had no idea what Cocolia just did or what Bronya had experienced, saw the tearful Bronya and felt a wave of inexplicable irritation in her heart.
"Clearly you were the one who betrayed Mother, yet you still have the face to say such things!"
"You wouldn't understand, Sin. In the past, Bronya was too weak, that's why I obeyed Mother's obviously problematic orders."
"But now, Bronya doesn't want to continue being wrong like this."
Watching Sin raising her weapon, Bronya muttered to herself.
"Goodbye, Mother, and... my weakness."
"Henshin! Cast Off!"
[Henshin! Cast Off! Change Wasp!]
At this moment, as Bronya took out the TheBee Zecter and placed it on her bracelet, mechanical heavy armor instantly paved over the girl's body.
Unlike the Rider in the original work, the armor had obviously self-adjusted its size before equipping onto Bronya.
When the armor perfectly equipped onto the girl's body, the heavy armor on her suddenly flew outwards.
Controlled by Bronya, these armor pieces didn't hurt the three people around her.
After shedding the heavy armor, Bronya, having completed the transformation, revealed her post-transformation form.
The light armor on her body was a mix of yellow and black, and on the wasp-like mask on the girl's head, two pitch-black tear streaks formed just beneath the eye sockets.
Clearly, the metal mask full of mechanical texture had almost no connection to the girl's soft and beautiful face, yet when these two pitch-black tear streaks covered the girl's original features, it gave Sin a feeling of incomparable sorrow.
"Lady Cocolia, today, right here, you have lost two adopted daughters."
"However, perhaps from the very beginning, you never regarded us as your daughters. This is fine too... This... is fine too."
"In this way, Bronya... can also completely say goodbye to her past!"
"I won't allow you to hurt Mother!"
Sensing the trace of coldness in Bronya's words, Sin gathered Honkai energy onto her Stigmata without any hesitation.
After using the power of the Stigmata, Sin Mal could release a reality-distorting field based on her inner world and briefly pause time.
It was precisely because she had such terrifying Stigmata power that Cocolia kept her by her side as a guard.
However, no matter how heaven-defying Sin's Stigmata power was, it required activation time.
Her control over this ability wasn't strong enough, so the activation time hadn't reached its limit.
On the other side, Bronya, transformed into Kamen Rider TheBee, had obtained another ability besides Clock Up.
When an enemy activated the Clock Up ability, ZECT Riders could discover the enemy by observing the timeline.
Bronya, who had already perceived the timeline, naturally wouldn't let the opponent continue acting after knowing Sin's move.
"Clock Up!"
[Clock Up!]
In the next instant after the girl indifferently spat out these words...
Bronya, transformed into Kamen Rider TheBee, had already taken the lead to knock Sin unconscious on the ground.
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