Bronya: =???= stare~
Under Bronya's strange gaze, Mo Wang was already sweating profusely.
He lowered his head, planning to focus on his paperwork.
He thought that by doing so, he could completely ignore Bronya... like hell he could!
"Um, Miss Bronya? What are you doing?"
Mo Wang looked awkwardly at Bronya, who had walked right up to him.
Bronya: ?—?
Bronya just stared at Mo Wang, her eyes completely devoid of emotion.
The feeling was oddly reminiscent of playing a game and having your mom stand right in front of you, giving you the death stare.
She hadn't said a word, but he had a sinking feeling that he was doomed.
"So, Bronya, why did you come to my place to play games? Didn't you usually duo-queue with Kiana?"
Seeing that Bronya wasn't talking, Mo Wang quickly tried to start a conversation.
"Because... The Bronya is a little afraid to be alone with Kiana and Mei right now..."
Bronya finally spoke.
But her reason surprised Mo Wang.
"You're saying... you're afraid to be alone with that girl, Kiana?"
A corner of Mo Wang's mouth twitched up, as if he had just heard something hilarious.
He stared at Bronya as if she were some rare artifact.
"What are you laughing at? I'll hit you!"
Faced with Mo Wang's strange gaze, Bronya raised her small fist and shook it in front of him.
"No, no, I'm just surprised—don't tell me you feel guilty because you accidentally beat up Kiana and Mei when you went berserk?"
Bronya didn't answer, just silently lowered her head.
"Pfft, hahahahaha!" However, taking that as a confirmation, Mo Wang laughed even louder.
"Damn you!" Seeing Mo Wang's undisguised mockery, Bronya immediately used Fury Swipes.
But unfortunately, it wasn't very effective.
"Cough, cough! I never thought you'd feel guilty about hurting someone like Kiana."
Mo Wang wiped a tear from his eye. "Let's not even talk about whether you hurt her or not. Do you really think someone like Kiana would actually care if you hurt her?"
"With her personality, even if you put her in the ICU, she'd probably be fine after you treat her to a good meal. At worst, you might have to do her homework for a couple of days. She might even beg you to hit her again after that."
"You know what she's like. Getting a little injured is nothing to her. She could break a bone and be up and running the next day."
Mo Wang ranted.
And Bronya thought about it. Kiana really was like that. It sounded exactly like something she would do.
"Besides, the injuries she got weren't even as bad as the ones I got when she used to beat me up. You're just making yourself miserable by worrying about her."
Mo Wang said, taking a swig of soda to wet his throat.
"And it's not like you haven't beaten her up like that before. She didn't say anything back then, did she? I think you're just overthinking it."
With Kiana's scatterbrained personality, even if you beat her up today, she'd probably be your friend again the next day.
People like Rita, Durandal, and even Fu Hua—hadn't they all beaten up Kiana? Didn't they all end up as good friends?
Honkai's number one protagonist, you know.
"As for Mei, you don't have to worry about her either. If you're really worried she'll blame you, just go and apologize tomorrow, right?"
Mo Wang couldn't help but add.
"But, The Bronya..."
"No buts. Besides, if we're talking about who hit who the hardest, wasn't Mei's rampage even more extreme? Did you see Kiana blame Mei? Or were you blaming Mei at the time? Were you afraid she would hurt you?"
"No, of course not. Because Mei-neesama wasn't hurting us of her own free will..." Bronya replied immediately.
"Then that's that, right? If you weren't worried about Mei hurting you, do you think Mei would be afraid of you hurting her?"
"At worst, just call it even for last time!"
"And if you have to blame someone, blame that cheap mother of yours. That evil woman is the real culprit."
Mo Wang unhesitatingly shifted the blame directly onto Cocolia.
Anyway, no matter what, when it came to the blame in Honkai Impact 3rd, she took half, and Otto took the other half.
If anything bad happened, blaming one of those two was always the right move.
Besides, this was Cocolia's fault to begin with.
"Pfft~"
"Huh?"
Mo Wang came back to his senses and saw Bronya covering her mouth, her shoulders shaking as she looked at him.
"Did you... just laugh?"
Mo Wang stroked his chin, staring at Bronya with a strange expression.
Heavens above! The kuudere actually laughed!
"The Bronya did not laugh. You heard wrong!"
Bronya frantically shook her head, immediately denying it.
"You totally did!" Mo Wang said, reaching out to pinch Bronya's cheeks.
"Quick, let me see it again! I need to record it with my phone!"
"You will not succeed, Mo Wang!"
And so, the two of them started roughhousing in the captain's office.
Even though the situation looked incredibly strange, both of them seemed to be having a great time.
After their tussle, the gloomy atmosphere around Bronya had finally lifted.
"How's that? Feel better now? I told you, that gloomy feeling doesn't suit you guys at all," Mo Wang said with a smile, looking at the much more relaxed Bronya.
"But The Bronya will not thank the idiot Mo Wang," Bronya said, still a little out of breath after their roughhousing.
"I don't care. It's not like I said all that just to get your thanks," Mo Wang said with a shrug.
"However, The Bronya is very curious. How does Mo Wang know so much about Mother Cocolia? Are you, perhaps, very familiar with her?" Bronya's expression seemed to recall something, and a suspicious look appeared in her eyes.
"Pah, pah, pah! Who's familiar with that woman? Don't you dare say such things! She's the number one psycho in Anti-Entropy. Who would dare get involved with her?"
"And if word got out, people might think I'm some kind of traitor to Schicksal."
Mo Wang said with a horrified expression.
The feeling was oddly reminiscent of an ordinary person in Harry Potter hearing Voldemort's name.
"Is that so?" Bronya stared at Mo Wang suspiciously.
She felt like he was hiding something from her.
"What are you worrying about all this for? Hurry up, are you going to play or not? It's time to show you who the number one Kallen on this server is!"
"I'll play!"
Hearing Mo Wang's invitation to game, Bronya didn't hesitate for a second.
In less than a moment, she had completely forgotten about Cocolia.
It just goes to show, sometimes a gamer's priorities are just that simple