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This instantly reminded Cocolia of her daughter's damaged emotional nerves, and in her guilt, the idea of triggering the fourth Great Collapse in New Zealand became even stronger.
Once this plan is completed, World Serpent's technology will surely be able to help Bronya repair her damaged emotional nerves and legs.
Lost in thought, Cocolia, regaining her composure, returned to the warship's central control center with 'Bronya', and then said rather seriously:
"Bronya, what I want you to do has already been explained in the previous communication."
"Is it really necessary to do this?"
The silver-haired girl sighed.
"...I know this will be hard for you to accept, but this is the only way to save Seele. Think about Seele, she might be suffering somewhere in the Sea of Quanta right now...you see."
As she spoke, Cocolia played a video clip featuring a girl with navy blue hair and a bob haircut.
—That was a fragment belonging to Seele that the Grey Serpent had plucked from the Sea of Quanta.
Although she knew about this, Bronya still had to feign concern, exclaiming, "Seele..."
"Once this plan is completed, we will be able to reunite with Seele. Then, we can return to the orphanage and start our happy life again."
Satisfied with Bronya's expression, Cocolia rested her hands on her hips, her face full of excitement and fantasies about a bright future.
In her youth, her dream was to establish an orphanage to take in children who had become homeless due to disasters.
Those were the happiest days of Cocolia's life.
Although conditions were harsh and life was not affluent, looking at the smiling faces of her lovely daughters, Cocolia felt that this was probably what happiness was all about.
Later, wanting to save more children and remove the Honkai from this world, she joined Anti-Entropy and began experiments, attempting to exchange her past happiness for greater happiness.
The result was that the orphanage almost fell apart.
In an effort to redeem himself from the past and create a better future, Cocolia embarked on a political career, founding Russian Heavy Industries and becoming the leader of the anti-entropy radical faction.
But now she wields immense power, yet she feels no happiness whatsoever.
So, Cocolia figured it out.
She wants to reclaim that initial happiness, no matter the cost!
Furthermore, after finding Seele, she could use Seele to conduct research on the Sea of Quanta, and perhaps even advance her influence within Anti-Entropy.
What a wonderful future that would be!
"Bronya, you must understand me, right?"
"..."
"Ah."
The silver-haired girl nodded slightly, but a hint of darkness appeared in her eyes, which were the same color as her hair.
She has indeed come to understand Cocolia.
"Warning! Warning! High Honkai energy reaction detected!"
As Cocolia reveled in her bright future, the Honkai energy detection radar installed on the warship instantly brought her back to reality.
Cocolia was somewhat surprised to see the Herrscher-level reading on the screen, but then she was overjoyed.
There's only one possibility for the Herrscher-level Honkai energy reaction to occur in New Zealand, isn't there?
Although I don't understand why the Fourth Herrscher's body has already awakened before I even triggered the Great Collapse, none of that matters anymore.
The awakening of a Herrscher will spontaneously trigger a Great Collapse, thus saving the trouble of spreading the Great Collapse yourself, which is really great.
It's just a little strange...
The Honkai energy reaction seems to be quite close to the warship.
Yeah, we don't need to worry about that.
Cocolia, whose mind was already filled with beautiful memories of her life, immediately called out Bronya's name, asking her to capture the Fourth Herrscher's physical form.
but--
"cloth..."
The sound stopped abruptly. Feeling the sharp pain in her chest and staring at the blood-red expanse, Cocolia was stunned.
She slowly turned her head away.
The silver-haired girl before him held a pistol with an expressionless, utterly calm demeanor, pointing it at him.
The blue smoke rising from the gun barrel was clear proof of the source of this pain.
"Why...why?!"
Life was slipping away so quickly, and perhaps driven by her will, the unwilling Cocolia asked the question that she desperately wanted to know at that moment.
The only response she received was the girl's indifferent yet cold words:
"This tragic life should end here, Cocolia...Mom."
Chapter 139 I am the Herrscher of Wind! (Edited, please refresh to read)
“I’m going to kill Cocolia, Bronya.”
The silver-haired girl looked up at Jiang Qiao, who was a head taller than her, her seemingly indifferent, baby-powder-scented words tinged with a hint of calm.
"..."
As expected, Bronya showed a complicated expression upon hearing this.
Indeed, because of Seele's situation, she harbored hatred towards Cocolia's mother.
But there is no doubt that no matter how many bad things that person did, Cocolia did provide them with a difficult but beautiful childhood... even though it was Cocolia who personally destroyed that beauty.
Seeing the struggle in her eyes, Jiang Qiao said softly:
"If you feel guilty about Bronya killing Cocolia, we can switch back, but that won't change my decision to deal with that woman."
Given Cocolia's crimes, dying at the hands of her adopted daughter when she was at the height of her success would undoubtedly be a form of torture for her.
But Jiang Qiao was not interested in this kind of psychological torment.
After all, he and Cocolia didn't actually have any real grudges.
Although Jiang Qiao did dislike this half-baked woman for personal reasons, she wouldn't do anything more extreme because of that dislike.
He had only one reason for wanting to kill Cocolia—she was in his way.
Letting this woman run wild might only create more unnecessary trouble.
As for whether or not to use Bronya's body to do this, perhaps it was precisely because of consideration for her personal feelings that Jiang Qiao deliberately asked for her opinion.
"..."
After a long silence, Bronya spoke:
"No need, just use Bronya's body to do it... Bronya wants you to use Bronya's identity to complete this task."
She knew that Cocolia's mother was really going too far.
Although she did have feelings for that woman, it was precisely because she had been by Cocolia's side for so many years that Bronya understood better what kind of changes her mother was going through.
Bronya felt a deep sadness as she witnessed Cocolia's transformation from a kind foster mother to a ruthless politician who would stop at nothing for profit, constantly losing, losing, and losing more and more things in the process of losing them.
"Is it alright?"
“It’s alright. Bronya doesn’t want to see Cocolia’s mother continue making these mistakes, and Seele and everyone at the orphanage don’t want to see the Cocolia’s mother become like this.”
"Let her, let that gentle Cocolia mother live on in everyone's memories."
In Bronya's view, ending her adoptive mother's crazy and tragic life as an adopted daughter was the only and most correct thing she could do.
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be done by Bronya, but by her actual adopted daughter.
but--
...missed.
The silver-haired girl looked thoughtfully at her slightly trembling hands.
Although Jiang Qiao herself did not show any mercy to Cocolia, she went straight for the vital points and killed her with one blow.
But he seemed to have overlooked the part of Bronya's body that contained feelings for her adoptive mother.
Although small, it still managed to deflect the bullet off its original trajectory at a crucial moment.
If it were Bronya herself, she probably wouldn't even be able to pull the trigger.
"Let's finish with another shot."
Ignoring the unexpected turn of events, Bronya once again pointed her gun at Cocolia.
The emotions remaining in this body are not enough to make Jiang Qiao deviate from the second time.
However, before she could fire again, the other Anti-Entropy members in the warship's core reacted—they were all Cocolia's subordinates, and naturally they would not stand idly by while Cocolia was attacked.
Although she couldn't understand why Bronya, as an adopted daughter, would put on this kind of motherly love and filial piety act, she still immediately pulled out her portable weapon and aimed it at the silver-haired girl standing next to Cocolia.
"In the name of Walter, leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance, lay down your weapons."