The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Yo! Are you finally back? Cocolia is waiting inside. Come in quickly."

When Bronya returned to the stronghold with the orphanage sign alone, Raven had already finished reporting the mission and walked out of Cocolia's office, preparing to go back to rest.

They didn't evacuate together, which was as it should be. When the killer retreats, especially when the mission fails and the scene is evacuated, the killer must leave separately to avoid being killed by the other party. And she even deliberately drove around the city several times, partly to prevent tracking, and partly...

She casually touched the backpack containing the disassembled sniper rifle on her back.

"You guy, you came back so early, you must be lazy again."

She looked at her partner expressionlessly and mocked him mercilessly.

Compared to Raven who was still trapped in the alley at that time, the building she was in was actually closer to the stronghold. Although she went to deal with some personal matters on the way, there was no reason for the other party to be so much faster than her. Unless the other party simply skipped the detour step and took a shortcut back. The two have been partners for many years. This is not the first time Raven has done this. She obviously doesn't take it to heart:

"It doesn't matter. My sense of smell is very sensitive. I didn't feel anyone was following me, so I naturally came back early! Oh, by the way, do you think crows have a more sensitive sense of smell or wolves have a more sensitive sense of smell?"

Bronya glanced at her mouth, not wanting to argue anymore, and there was no need to argue. It is undeniable that she and Raven have worked very well together over the years, but their temperaments are somewhat incompatible. Of course, life and death partners are not incompatible, but it is common for them to choke each other from time to time.

"Forget it, I'm in a hurry to go to bed. You still have to go see Xi'er. Hurry up and go in first!"

Raven waved his hand and finally stopped pestering him. However, when walking past Bronya, she gently put her hand on the other person's backpack:

"Do you want me to take it back for you first?"

"You don't have to worry about my things. If you have such thoughts, why not hide your wine, be careful that Rosalia will find it next time."

"whispering sound!"

When the raven's footsteps gradually faded away, Bronya took two steps forward and gently opened the door in front of her.

"Mother Cocolia."

She shouted softly, but her tone was extremely respectful.

"Bronya..."

Cocolia had long known that she was back, and she even listened with interest to her and Raven bickering outside the door. However, when Bronya actually walked up to her, she still couldn't help but smile. .

"Natasha has already told me the specific details of this mission. However, there are a few issues that need to be confirmed. After all, there were some things that she couldn't see clearly at the time."

"I know."

Without waiting for Cocolia to ask questions, she said consciously:

"The car did move on its own at that time. The possibility of autonomous driving cannot be ruled out. Although it is not impossible for someone to bump the AI ​​module of a combat mech into a car, it is not impossible. But the man did not get in the car afterwards. , Natasha didn't find him in the alley."

Cocolia's fingers lightly touched the table twice. She did not show any surprise, but confirmed again:

"Well, so, he did disappear suddenly, right?"

"I seemed to see him in the driver's seat in the scope, but the car started very fast, so I can't be sure."

"Yeah……"

Cocolia nodded slightly, but did not ask any more questions.

She turned to a tired smile and said softly:

"It's getting late. Bronya must be tired too. You should go back and rest first. Xi'er and Rosalia should have gone to bed. I still have some things to deal with. I promised you a bedtime story today. , I’m afraid I’m going to break my promise.”

Bronya smiled helplessly, but a rare touch of warmth appeared on her face:

"Actually, Cocolia's mother, everyone is quite old. Rosalia is the only one who would bother listening to bedtime stories..."

"After all, it's been a habit for so many years..."

Cocolia sighed, then froze.

"Yes... you are all so old, you are no longer the children you were. So... Bronya, have you ever thought about going to school?"

"Um?"

Bronya frowned, tilted her head, and the two silver drills on her head also moved. She seemed very puzzled:

"go to school?"

Bronya was about to turn around and leave, but when she heard this word, she suddenly froze on the spot.

"Well, normal children, by your age, have already been going to school for several years."

Cocolia held her head up, her tired face full of tenderness and a bit of pride.

"Fortunately, I had the foresight to teach you a lot of things before. If you enter the school directly now, it may be a little difficult, but you won't be completely unable to keep up."

Bronya's face became tangled.

She finally understood that Cocolia's mother was determined to send them to school.

No, that doesn't seem to be a good way to describe it. It sounds like going to school is an intolerable sin, and it also seems to involve some intolerable danger.

Bronya really has no interest in going to school. She yearns for it, but she has no interest. Going to school is naturally what children of this age should do. Whether it is to find a way out for their future livelihood, or just to learn knowledge and improve themselves, children of this age should stay in school.

But she is different. She is still a child at her age, but her heart is no longer a child. She is truly a soldier who learned to shoot before she learned to walk.

She started killing people when she was three years old, and this is her tenth year.

As soon as you close your eyes, all kinds of sounds will come to your ears - the dull sound of Tokarev's pistol, the half scream stuck in the throat, the popping sound of bone fragments and flesh splitting the air , the sound of the viscous mixed liquid exploding. After crawling out of the hell in Siberia, what I think about every day is how not to be killed. Every day I discuss with several uncles how to kill people...

She really wants to go to school and see the life she should have lived, but people who have experienced this, even if they are children of a certain age, no longer have the intention to enjoy campus life.

Speaking of this, I have to thank the raven. She couldn't remember how this sister who was several years older than her got into Uncle Maxim's mercenary group, but she was good at it. After Uncle Maxim's death, the mercenary group was disbanded, so she chose Following the raven, the two men took over the task of assassinating Cocolia’s mother. The reason was very simple——

The commission for this ticket is astonishingly high, enough for them to buy an island and live out the rest of their lives peacefully...

Wait, Natasha is the one who can spend the rest of her life peacefully, so she is not so boring...

Well, it's a bit silly to say this now, these two people never got the money because the operation failed, it completely failed. Cocolia had discovered their whereabouts long ago. Fortunately, she gave them a second chance to choose, and also allowed herself to call her mother...

so……

"I don't want to go to school, but if you order me, I obey. But what about the mission?"

Cocolia smiled slightly:

"It doesn't matter, going to school is not unrelated to the mission - the school you, Xier, Rosalia, Lilia and Xing are going to is Qianyu Academy."

"ah?"

Bronya raised her eyebrows, and some light seemed to dissipate in her eyes.

[That's it...that's fine, just use me as a tool...]

"Where's Natasha?"

Cocolia tilted her head, and her smile suddenly became a little playful:

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I thought you had a bad relationship with her. Well, she can be considered your sister after all..."

"It's not like that."

Bronya interrupted Cocolia coldly:

"It's just that since my purpose of entering Qianyu Academy is to monitor Raiden Mei at close range, then you naturally won't leave Natasha idle, right? But, doesn't she need to enter the school? She's not too old, so she can sneak in Can’t you tell?”

"It doesn't take two people to monitor Raiden Mei. Besides, she may have shown her face in front of the other party today, and her voice may have been remembered. She went to Qianyu Academy, and it would be bad if she was recognized."

"All right."

Bronya said nothing more, turned and left the room.

Cocolia didn't say anything, just stared at the location where Bronya was before.

Her jaw was slightly open, as if she wanted to say something, but since the person she was speaking to had already left, there was no need to say it, right?

She then chuckled twice. She always felt that her heart had become softer and softer in the past two years, as if she was going back to the original one...

No, she would never allow herself to become weak.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and looked down at the photos on the table.

Those were several candid photos of Natasha. Because they were taken during tracking, the pictures were blurry and even topsy-turvy, but the outline of the human body in the photos was generally clear.

Her eyes first fell on Raiden Meiyi, and then she shook her head - she was just a little girl. If it weren't for the Conquest Stone implanted in her body, she wouldn't even bother to pay attention.

Even if she had to deal with the lightning dragon and horse, she had a more reliable way. The reason why she did this was to write the four words "to scare the grass and scare the snake" in reverse.

Let me first leave an impression on Thunderbolt Ryoma, thinking that she, Cocolia, is such a reckless person who will do anything and only use assassination and kidnapping to solve problems.

As for the real killing move, she had already prepared it.

"Conquer the gem..."

She couldn't help but narrow her eyes as she muttered the term.

"The Conquest Gem is easily available, so the issue of the Tranquility Gem will also start to be put on the agenda."

However, when she thought about this, Cocolia became silent.

After a while, she scratched her blond hair and turned her attention to the second person in the photo.

It was a man in a suit. His movements seemed lazy, but in fact, he used his torso to cover the lightning bud clothes without leaving any trace. His eyes were wandering, probably observing the surroundings.

You don't need to think about it to know that this person is the "driver" in Natasha and Bronya's mouth.

Cocolia looked at the blurred face and even rubbed the photo with her index finger. She was actually more excited than when she saw Thunder and Lightning Mei, or the Conquering Gem.

In a sense, this person is indeed worthy of her excitement - he is the person who easily defeated Natasha twice in a row!

Counter-entropy operations rely heavily on mechas and do not follow Destiny's already mature Valkyrie system, although Counter-Entropy, which was born out of Destiny's American branch, has complete artificial stigma technology. However, the artificial stigmata is not actually mature, it is just a fake of the original stigmata.

Natasha is different. She is a true Stigma Awakener and the only Stigma Awakener among the group of children adopted by Cocolia who have good adaptability to Honkai.

Cocolia knows her skills, and head-on confrontation is not her specialty, but among all the A-level Valkyries in Destiny, she is above average, plus she has a lot of skills she has trained in the past ten years as a mercenary. With no bottom line, even an S-class Valkyrie might suffer.

It is precisely because of her existence that Cocolia dares to get involved in the Far East - the Destiny Far East branch has an A-level Valkyrie and a former S-level Valkyrie!

But it was such a "trump card" in her hand that she suffered losses in the hands of this man twice in a row.

It wasn't just an ordinary loss, the battle ended in one or two moves, and the opponent even showed mercy.

Don't say that Natasha still has some tricks to use. Cocolia knows better than anyone else that if you lose, you lose. Being able to kill the opponent on the battlefield is your skill. There is nothing to say. And based on Natasha's mercenary habits, it would be okay to say that she might have been careless the first time, but after suffering a loss once, it is impossible for her to have any "unused means" again.

It could only be that "it was too late to use all the means" and it was defeated.

Moreover, even if nothing else is put aside, Natasha, as a Stigmata Awakener, should have a physique that is far superior to that of an average adult male, but she still falls at a disadvantage in a confrontation. This only proves how strong the man in front of her is. abnormal.

Even... I can't tell... he is a very rare male stigma holder.

Now that she already has Natasha, if she had him again, wouldn't it mean that she would instantly have a combat power comparable to the East Branch of Destiny?

If you include the huge mecha troops, my power in the far east far exceeds Tianming...

When she thought of this, the corners of her mouth could no longer be suppressed.

…………

"Uh... uh..."

There was a lump in his throat, as if he had been crying. Is it because of pain? Every cell in his body was in pain, and all the body temperature was draining from his right wrist, as if he would be lost in this cold night forever.

It still felt a little warm, like being hugged by someone. She wanted to raise her head and look at that person's face. She vaguely felt that it was the face of a very important person, but she couldn't see anything clearly for a while. .

After a while, the voice that seemed to be her own sounded like this:

"Brother Mikael, forget Xi'er..."