Chapter 77: Touching the Far East's Most Filial Daughter
Sitting on the chair, the silver-haired girl smiled playfully, watching Raiden Mei at her leisure.
Her bare feet, wrapped in pure white silk, were gently lifted, stepping onto Raiden Mei's absolute territory. The sensation was as soft and springy as treading on a milk fruit, her small hand gently caressing Mei's fair cheek.
Her demeanor was like a combination of a mischievous brat and a blonde-haired delinquent.
"Bronya, you...!"
The car, which was about to speed off on the highway, suddenly made a 180-degree turn, heading in another direction, its speed undiminished.
The unexpected reversal, along with the information in Bronya's words, filled Raiden Mei's face with astonishment.
"Who... who are you?"
Kiana quickly reacted.
This is bad!
The one who entered the house wasn't a fallen girl, but a silver-haired—no, a blonde-haired delinquent trying to steal her away!
She pulled out her weapon from her luggage—the Kaslana family's ancestral baseball bat—and stood ready.
"Hmm? Kiana, are you going to attack me while I'm holding Big Sis Mei?"
Her composed posture showed she completely disregarded the physical threat.
The silver-haired girl leaned closer to Mei's face, her arm wrapping around Mei's pale neck, the corner of her mouth curving into a mischievous arc as she glanced sideways at Kiana.
"I... I... If you dare hurt Mei, I'll definitely not let you off!"
Realizing Mei's situation, Kiana's expression changed, but she didn't dare act rashly, afraid the silver-haired girl would turn from lust to murder if provoked.
"Bronya... what happened to my father?" Compared to herself, Mei was more concerned about the father Bronya had mentioned.
"Raiden Ryoma is doing fine in prison for now, but, if I give the order, I can have someone chop off his hands and feet, you know!"
The girlish, black-society-heiress-like voice, laced with the scent of powdered milk, delivered the words with an angelic smile.
This wasn't an empty threat; with 'Bronya's' identity, she could indeed do it if she wanted to.
"No! Don't!"
Hearing about chopping off her old father's hands and feet, Mei's face instantly turned deathly pale, fear welling up in her clear blue pupils. She practically begged:
"I'll do anything you ask, please don't hurt my father!"
Kiana's expression changed drastically upon hearing this. She stretched out an 'Erkang hand' to stop the impending adult-rated scenario, stepping forward righteously and solemnly:
"Wait! Don't touch Mei! If there's anything, come at me!"
"Isn't it just sleeping with you? Fine! I'll do it!"
Before meeting Mei, Kiana had always had a super good impression of all types of cute, beautiful, charming, and pure older sisters and little lolis.
Although, based on Bronya's current behavior, she was undoubtedly a cunning, sinister villain who enjoyed toying with people's hearts, one had to admit, she looked really cute when she smiled!
Her petite body looked like a doll; hugging her would definitely be very comfortable.
No matter what happened, she wouldn't lose out at all, and what's more, she could save Mei!
Looking at the righteous-looking white-haired furball, the silver-haired girl keenly noticed her subtle act of swallowing.
A dead ringer, a pure yuri-colored dog.
The silver-haired girl's expression became strange.
What's wrong with this tuna?
Is it because she hasn't been raised by Mei for long enough?
She had learned from Bronya that Kiana had been by Mei's side for less than a month.
"As expected of someone from the Kaslana family, I'm moved by your knightly spirit. Well then, how about you two come together."
"Eh...?"
Why does it feel like I'm throwing my life away again?
Having spent some time in the Far East, Kiana had inevitably sampled some Far Eastern specialties.
In fact, just a while ago, Kiana had found a booklet at school that overturned her concepts and even somewhat shocked her morals. The content roughly described a sadistic female protagonist who used various means to manipulate and toy with the cute women she targeted.
The methods weren't just despicable; they were enough to make one's jaw drop three thousand feet!
Naturally, the lewdness and disgusting nature of this work made Kiana carefully store it away after viewing it, to prevent it from circulating and harming the female students of Senba Academy.
"Anyway, you won't lay a hand on Mei until I'm down!"
Looking at Kiana's eyes, which showed a mix of timidity in encountering new things, an attempt to try, and the radiance of justice, the silver-haired girl suddenly wanted to know what on earth Kiana was fantasizing about.
Her outstretched fingers gently caressed Mei's cheek. The silver-haired girl smiled faintly: "Very well, I'll give you a task. If you can complete it, I won't lay a hand on Big Sis Mei. Conversely, if you can't complete it~"
"What task?" Kiana trembled slightly as she swallowed.
Here it comes, the exact same development as in the booklet!
The sadistic female protagonist would threaten the cute women with their weaknesses, forcing them to complete various shameful tasks.
"Listen carefully, your task is, in Senba Academy's next exam, to score 100 in math and physics!"
"I promise you!"
With no room for choice, Kiana blurted it out, only for her eyes to glaze over in confusion a few seconds later.
"...Huh?"
Wasn't the next part of the plot supposed to be her running on a treadmill with a toy inserted for the master's amusement?
What the heck is scoring 100 on an exam?
And it's in math and physics, those two difficult science subjects.
If the former could be forcibly achieved with the sadistic female protagonist's special abilities from the booklet, then this task, even if you killed her, steamed her tuna brain, she still couldn't do it!
Mei was equally dumbfounded.
"It's a pity, it seems you don't have the determination to complete the task."
The silver-haired girl shook her head with a regretful expression. "It seems the knight defending the princess has retreated in the face of difficulty, Big Sis Mei."
"Next is your task. If you don't want anything to happen to your dear father?"
"You say it..." Raiden Mei's heart was originally filled with despair, until she heard Kiana's task.
The silver-haired girl nodded in satisfaction, her small face turning serious: "Your task is, listen carefully, and understand what I'm about to say."
Honkai, Herrschers, the struggle between Anti-Entropy factions, Cocolia's plan, the reason for Raiden Ryoma's imprisonment...
The silver-haired girl explained the dark side of the world, and the reasons for the series of events happening around her, to Raiden Mei, who knew nothing of the inner world, in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
Mei initially held her breath and listened attentively because of the task's requirement, but as Bronya spoke, she gradually became bewildered.
Father was framed and plotted against.
The world suddenly became so unfamiliar. It was actually as she had imagined when she was little; there really was an inner world, monsters that destroyed the world, and mysterious organizations and heroes who secretly eliminated the monsters.
The only difference was, she wasn't playing the hero, but the demon king who destroyed the world.
When she learned that her existence might lead to the deaths of millions, Raiden Mei's heart sank directly into the abyss, and thoughts of death arose.
If she died, the danger to Nagazora City could be completely eliminated.
The person who framed her father was aiming to force her hand. If she died, their plans would come to nothing, right?
That could also be considered a form of revenge, albeit an incredibly weak one.
If she were in a normal state, that flicker of suicidal intent in Raiden Mei's heart would have immediately grown from a seedling into a towering tree. But, as fate would have it, the silver-haired girl informed her of the truth in such a... peculiar way.
The shame, fear, and various colorful conjectures she had faced earlier due to the Far Eastern-style verbal threats now intertwined to form a net enchanted with a sense of unreality, catching her heart as it plummeted into the abyss.
For a criminal, the same sentence, whether pronounced by a judge or spoken by a master comedian, has a vastly different impact.
"Do you understand?"
"...Yes." Enveloped in deep bewilderment, nodding mechanically, Raiden Mei didn't know what expression she should show.
The silver-haired girl raised a second slender finger: "Very good. Next, listen to your next task: maintain a cheerful mood, and don't let negative emotions pile up."
If the Third Honkai Eruption was a super bomb tied to Nagazora City, then this super bomb had two wires.
The first wire was Honkai energy.
The second wire was Raiden Mei's negative emotions.
What Caelus was doing at this moment was cutting the second wire. With that objective achieved, a quarter of the bomb disposal progress would be made.
"Of course, if Big Sis Mei can't do it, I can provide help free of charge, to keep you in a happy mood from a physical aspect, you know~"
The deliberately suggestive tone made Kiana immediately think of the little props the sadistic female protagonist in the booklet always had, like the "fairy floating stick" , but she immediately pushed these useless thoughts back into the recesses of her mind.
Having acted alone since she was 8, although her academic performance wasn't ideal, Kiana's sense of smell and intuition were extremely sharp.
This was also why Kiana's thoughts had run wild earlier; she hadn't sensed any danger from Bronya from beginning to end.
Now, she was even more certain that Bronya harbored no ill will towards Mei and her. Kiana had long since put away the baseball bat.
"...Thank you for telling me this, Bronya."
The heavy atmosphere was made somewhat strange by the silver-haired girl. A sense of uncanniness and a dream-like daze became Mei's protective coloration. After a long silence, she was the first to express her gratitude.
"So..." Kiana scratched her head, looking at the silver-haired girl sitting on the chair, her slender, jade-like legs wrapped in white silk, dangling and swaying slightly.
"Bronya, are you some kind of heaven-defying conservative faction member, Uncle Raiden Ryoma's subordinate, protecting Mei from that Cocolia person on his behalf?"
Hearing this, Raiden Mei also woke up as if from a dream, casting a questioning gaze filled with gratitude towards Bronya.
"It's Anti-Entropy."
The silver-haired girl tapped Kiana's absolute territory with the tip of her foot: "A good guess, very close to the truth."
Stepping on someone with your foot is undoubtedly impolite behavior, but if it's the popsicle-white stockings of a little loli, then one can only say the more the merrier!
"The person who framed Mei's father is from Anti-Entropy's radical faction. Her name is Cocolia."
The silver-haired girl's hand rested on her chest, which only had a budding curve: "And I, Bronya Zaychik, am Cocolia's daughter, sent by her to execute the mission of making you turn to the dark side, to ensure that after the Honkai energy concentration reaches the standard, it will catalyze the birth of the Third Herrscher."
"..."
"???"
"!!!"
"Huh?"
Kiana's face changed like a slideshow. Wasn't this a complete misjudgment!?
She thought it was a hidden teammate, but it turned out to be a mini-boss next to the main BOSS!
Raiden Mei was stunned on the spot.
"Th-Then why did you tell us these things?"
Although she was the daughter of the mastermind behind her father's imprisonment, Raiden Mei found it hard to use a hateful tone, not understanding why Bronya would do this.
"Why?" The silver-haired girl's tone was light.
"Very simple. Because I need your assistance. Next, I will arrest my dear mother and send her to jail to pedal a sewing machine for the rest of her life."
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Two bewildered faces, Kiana and Raiden Mei, looked at the silver-haired girl who had an "as-it-should-be" expression, as if they were looking at the most "filial" daughter in the Far East, one who had touched the heavens with her filial piety (said sarcastically).
________________________________________
If you want more chapters, please consider supporting my page on Patreon. with 30 advanced chapters available on Patreon
patreon.com/Leanzin