In Japan, within ME Corp, Cocolia watched Mei and Kiana, who she had captured, on the screen. The corner of her mouth was harder to suppress than the recoil of an AK-47.
ME Corp was once controlled by Mei's father, Raiden Ryoma, and was a large and famous enterprise in all of Japan.
Originally, under Raiden Ryoma's leadership, this enterprise couldn't be said to have its stock price double every day, but it was thriving.
And at that time, Mei was the top young lady in Japan, envied by everyone.
But everything changed after Raiden Ryoma met the number one bastard in Honkai Impact 3rd, Cocolia.
Cocolia, coveting ME Corp's huge funds, directly framed Raiden Ryoma and ruined his reputation.
This ultimately led to Mei, who was once a top young lady, becoming the child of a criminal, despised by everyone.
Of course, old miHoYo hadn't been idle in trying to patch up Cocolia's character.
In order to whitewash Cocolia, they even went so far as to throw all the blame on a certain scapegoat, Gray Serpent, in the Sea of Quanta, including but not limited to opening the seal of the Sea of Quanta and injecting Honkai Beast cells into the twins.
All of this became part of Gray Serpent's plan. (Scapegoat Gray Serpent said he was used to taking the blame.)
And Cocolia's character was changed to that of a good mother and orphanage director who did everything for the good of her children.
But even with such a whitewashing, old miHoYo still found that, holy crap, this character was written too dark and couldn't be whitewashed at all.
After all, this was a ruthless person who could cause a Honkai Eruption in Nagazora City, directly killing hundreds of thousands of people, just to get a complete gem.
In addition to creating the Joyce clones, killing Wendy to get the gem, and planning to start up the giant robot, she also opened the Sea of Quanta, letting loose the final boss of the first part of the Honkai story, and a series of other things.
And, she claimed to be a good mother who did everything for her daughter's good, but have you ever seen a good mother who would put a chip in her own daughter that could be used to control her by force?
And to have her kill her own friends with her own hands, even Otto seemed like a human being compared to her.
After all, at least the Overseer had done a lot of bad things, but at least he wasn't so much of a bastard as to put a chip in his own granddaughter, or to turn Durandal and Amber into his puppets, right?
(Of course, the Overseer was also a bastard in another way, but at least he had a reason for being crazy, and he had done a lot to fight against the Honkai. Cocolia just gave the impression that this madwoman was completely causing trouble for people. She had done nothing good and a lot of bad things. So I put her at the top of the bastard list.)
Of course, later on, old miHoYo didn't give up on their idea of creating an orphanage director character with a tragic color and a cool and heroic temperament, so they simply cut a part of Cocolia and created Raven.
Ahem, I'm getting off track.
At this moment, Cocolia stood in front of the screen, constantly letting out a cold laugh.
"Hmph, what S-rank Valkyrie, what Hyperion captain. Didn't I just use a little trick and get the Third Herrscher in my hands?"
Cocolia looked at Mei, who she had imprisoned, and really wanted to laugh.
It turned out that as early as when she had failed to seize the Selene, Cocolia had already made second and third plans.
After sending a Joyce clone and dozens of Titan mechas to invade St. Freya and failing, Cocolia turned her attention to Wendy in the Oceania Branch.
After finding out that the Gem of Desire was in the Oceania Branch through some unknown means, Cocolia immediately made arrangements and developed an offline in the Oceania Branch.
After using a little trick to turn Wendy into a Herrscher, Cocolia had planned to act directly.
For this, she had even brought three whole Joyce clones and dozens of Titan mechas.
But at that time, after seeing the exaggerated combat power of Mo Wang and Wendy, Cocolia decisively changed her target to Mei.
It had to be said that if you didn't look at the loss of three Herrscher clones and more than a dozen Titan mechas, Cocolia had successfully completed her goal this time.
"Next, I just need to take out the gem in the Third Herrscher's body and put it on the Wotan."
"Ryoma, oh Ryoma, you would never have thought, would you? The daughter you've always protected will eventually fall into my hands."
Thinking of the expression on her old colleague, Raiden Ryoma's face after he found out about this, Cocolia couldn't help but hum.
And at this moment, Cocolia's side, stood there with a dull expression.
And once again, she had become the black demon version of Bronya.
"This time, I'm sure I can open the passage to the Sea of Quanta and save Seele. Don't you think so, Bronya?"
Bronya, who was completely under her control, couldn't even say a word now.
Let alone commenting on Cocolia's actions.
At least in Cocolia's opinion, Bronya's opinion was completely unnecessary.
As long as she could save Seele, Bronya would definitely come back to her.
Everything she did was for the sake of the children.
"Hmm, at this time, St. Freya should be about to make a move."
"Now, it's time for me to prepare to welcome them."
Cocolia was currently estimating what kind of reaction Theresa's side would have after she had captured Mei and Kiana.
Based on her understanding of Schicksal, it would probably be the same old thing, some kind of small team infiltration, preparing for a rescue, and so on.
After all, with Schicksal's military strength, they could only do this.
And for this, Cocolia had already made preparations.
She dared to guarantee that as long as the people from St. Freya dared to play the infiltration game with her, she would make sure they would never return.
However, at this moment, suddenly, the alarm of ME Corp's building went off.
The sudden alarm made Cocolia immediately raise her guard.
"Oh no! Lady Cocolia! Something bad has happened!"
Just then, the Anti-Entropy guard on the communication channel sent a panicked message to Cocolia.
"Don't panic! Did the people from St. Freya infiltrate? If so, proceed according to the plan."
Cocolia said calmly to her subordinates.
"No, Lady Cocolia!"
However, hearing Cocolia's words, the Anti-Entropy employee on the other end of the communication channel became even more panicked.
"No? Then what are you panicking about?"
Cocolia frowned.
"There's... there's a warship outside! It's charging straight at us!"
"What did you say?"
Hearing her subordinate's report, Cocolia thought he was dreaming.
How could a warship be charging towards a building?
But, when Cocolia turned her head to look, holy crap, there really was one!
Outside the window, a white warship was charging towards the ME Corp building where Cocolia was, at a speed faster than sound.