"My dear student, you wouldn't want Mei to know what you did to me earlier, would you?"
The door closed behind the People's Teacher, Murata Himeko, as if separating the world inside from the one outside.
Murata Himeko channeled the unique talent flowing in the blood of the people of the Far East, issuing a threat to the poor, weak, and helpless little colt.
If he didn't submit to her, she, the People's Teacher from the Far East, would expose everything and destroy her student's family.
Such an exciting future, just thinking about it was thrilling!
Never having imagined that he would encounter such a development, young Brian turned around and frowned at Murata Himeko, who seemed to have secretly drunk some high-proof alcohol. "Teacher Himeko, you seem to have had too much to drink."
It had always been him, the Blondie, threatening others, never the other way around.
Both Bronya and Kiana had already fallen to his great art of threats, with no one spared!
Naturally, as an expert in the field, he didn't want to crash and burn here.
The one being threatened should be Murata Himeko.
Immediately: "Teacher Himeko, you seem to have some misunderstanding about my relationship with Mei. Besides, if those things were to be publicized, the one whose reputation would be ruined would be you, right?"
Two individuals who had both received the true teachings of the Far East began to clash, the result of their struggle determining whether the older woman would take the lead or the younger man would be on top.
Murata Himeko smiled charmingly: "Brian, have you gotten something wrong?"
"If it weren't for the Stigma you all found for me in Chiyou's body, you'd be at my grave right now, stealing my offerings, not here confronting me."
"Stealing offerings is something Kiana would do."
Kiana's reputation took a hit.
"That's not important."
"Anyway, I'm an old woman who's about to die, so I don't care about my reputation at all. At worst, I'll just go travel the world."
"And you..."
The mature red-haired woman approached with a fragrant breeze, flirtatiously lifting the young man's chin.
"If you don't submit to me, then your life with Mei from now on will be less than beautiful."
She didn't have a third leg, but she didn't mind getting in the middle of her student's life.
This woman was thoroughly manipulating her Blondie student; it was a matter of who was more skilled.
Brian said: "Teacher Himeko, you seem to have misunderstood a key point."
"Mei and I have a very harmonious life. Even if you pull out a video to break us up, Mei won't leave me."
Murata Himeko was thick-skinned and fearless, while young Brian was very confident in the techniques he had used on Raiden Mei.
The two were at a stalemate.
Murata Himeko was rather surprised that her student was so righteous and unyielding, insisting on being the one on top.
But since she was his teacher, it was only right and proper that she taught him what it meant to respect one's elders.
She was missing a small leather whip, but that wasn't a big problem.
Her lips were bright red, the vivid color imprinted on her student's cheek.
"Then... what about this?"
Creating something from nothing, fabricating evidence in her hand.
Murata Himeko, using lewd methods, had her student firmly in her grasp.
...
In the room...
"Mei, can I stay with you tonight?"
Her azure eyes blinked and blinked, Kiana's delicate face full of ingratiation.
From the angle of her lap pillow, she could just see a colorful light that had been hung on Raiden Mei's head for the earlier celebration.
Green, very brilliant, a dazzling green!
It gave one an ominous feeling in the depths of their soul.
But Kiana couldn't quite grasp what this feeling was, and also...
"Well..."
Hearing Kiana's request, Raiden Mei was troubled.
She had just made a private deal with her boyfriend, an agreement to have a special transaction in the dead of night.
But unexpectedly, this Kiana character wasn't playing by the rules and didn't want to go back to her kennel.
For some reason, Raiden Mei didn't want Kiana to know about her current relationship with Brian.
So she could only say: "Kiana, you're a big girl now. Why do you still want to sleep with me all the time?"
"Um..."
Scratching her cheek, Kiana's eyes darted around, and she could only find a random excuse. "Mei, I think I'm going to have a nightmare tonight, so I want to sleep with you."
This reason was very good and very strong.
But!
"Kiana, have you forgotten what happened when you slept with me back in Nagazora City?"
Her willow-leaf eyebrows shot up, and Raiden Mei, feigning anger, found an excellent reason.
In Nagazora City, she had let Kiana into her bed for the first time.
Unexpectedly, this white-haired fluffball didn't play by the rules and kicked her right off the bed, nearly leaving her paralyzed.
Kiana immediately switched to another reason: "My blanket accidentally got ripped last night, and the cotton inside spilled all over the floor. Not only do I have nowhere to sleep, but it's also very cold."
"But this morning I saw..."
"I'll go do it now!"
Go do what now? Rip her own blanket, of course.
Raiden Mei fully believed that with Kiana's IQ, she was absolutely capable of doing such a thing.
To sleep with her for one night, she would mercilessly abandon the bond she had cultivated with her blanket and tear it to shreds.
She'd deal with the consequences later; getting what she wanted now was a victory!
Seeing Kiana like this, Raiden Mei knew that this girl wouldn't rest until she got her way.
Plus, she had been picked up and carried around a bit too much these past few nights, and it was starting to feel a bit overwhelming.
The girl smiled dotingly, stroking Kiana's cat-like head and saying: "Alright, alright, you can sleep with me tonight."
As soon as she finished speaking.
The balcony door was suddenly pushed open.
A man supporting Murata Himeko appeared in Raiden Mei's sight: "Mei, Teacher Himeko has been secretly drinking again. I'm taking her out for a bit."
The implication was, *I won't be coming over tonight.*
"Mm, be careful on your way."
The girl felt a little sense of loss, though she wasn't sure if it was because tonight's date was canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
She didn't think too much about Murata Himeko.
The smell of alcohol on her was real, and her physical condition indeed hadn't fully recovered.
As for the crimson flush on her skin... perhaps Murata Himeko had just had too much to drink.
A peaceful night passed.
The green party light flashed above her head.
...
"Phew—!"
"It's been a long time since I've felt this comfortable."
By having the rich help the poor, young Brian successfully helped Murata Himeko achieve common prosperity.
The principle was very simple: Brian just needed to transfer his billions in funds to Murata Himeko's account, and she could achieve common prosperity with the world's richest man.
You get one, I get one; you get a hundred million, I get a hundred million; you get a billion, I get a billion.
Using the funds she had obtained from her student through this common prosperity, Murata Himeko bought a cup of freshly made original-flavor milk to replenish the stamina she had lost during the recent lesson.
"The amount of milk this time is even more than last time."
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North America.
Anti-Entropy, The Ark.
"Everyone, according to my intelligence, the current Third Herrscher is being held by Schicksal at the Far East Branch's St. Freya High School."
A Slavic woman with wavy blonde hair stood high above, to the side of the throne belonging to the Anti-Entropy Sovereign, calmly opening the proposal.
Those present here were all prominent figures in Anti-Entropy.
The two doctors of Anti-Entropy's conservative faction, the leader of the neutral faction, and herself, currently the spokesperson for the radical faction.
The decisions made here, although not able to make half the world tremble like Schicksal's, were important enough to influence the direction of the world situation.
However...
From today onwards, this place would be her one-woman show!
The unrestrained Cocolia revealed an audacious smile, blatantly distorting the facts: "I have reason to suspect that Schicksal, under the will of the Schicksal Overseer, is conducting experiments on the Herrscher."
"To maintain world peace and prevent a tragedy like the Second Honkai Eruption from happening again, we should retrieve the Third Herrscher from Schicksal's hands as quickly as possible!"
The woman's words were filled with righteous passion, as if the light of justice was shining upon her.
Some things couldn't be made public, and there was no conclusive evidence to prove that Otto had orchestrated everything in the Second Honkai Eruption.
But to these higher-ups in Anti-Entropy, what Otto had done was no secret.
However, very few people actually cared about this reason; they weren't even a majority among the Anti-Entropy leadership.
Many people joined Anti-Entropy not to oppose Schicksal, but to oppose the fact that they themselves were not Schicksal.
Just like this woman now!
Below, a girl with what appeared to be red twin-tails couldn't hold back her fiery temper and immediately retorted to Cocolia: "Cocolia, all actions related to Herrschers require the Sovereign's approval. You have no authority to launch an operation against the Far East Branch!"
Cocolia, unhurriedly, gestured to the other Anti-Entropy executives: "The one sitting next to me, isn't he our supreme Sovereign of Anti-Entropy?"
The edge of a black hood obscured the man's face; one could only judge from his exposed skin that he was a young male.
A Herrscher's face never ages, but that alone couldn't prove that this man was the Sovereign of Anti-Entropy.
Tesla and Einstein, who were trying to stop Cocolia, felt a tremor in their hearts as the man's familiar silhouette stirred up painful memories from decades ago.
Welt Joyce, the name that belonged to that face.
But today, it had become a tool for an ambitious woman to dominate Anti-Entropy.
Even knowing they were utterly defeated, Tesla continued to resist actively: "That's only if he's the real Sovereign! Everyone knows the Sovereign has been elusive in recent years, constantly changing his appearance and identity."
"If you think he's the Anti-Entropy Sovereign, you should at least produce concrete evidence!"
As her voice fell, the man sitting on the Sovereign's throne curled his lips into a disdainful smile: "Tesla, are you doubting me?"
The man opened his hand, and black spheres orbited around him like loyal guards.
As he spoke, a powerful gravitational field swept through The Ark, forcing the supposedly high-ranking Anti-Entropy leaders to prostrate themselves under the care of Mother Earth.
"This is the power of the Herrscher of Reason..."
Tesla and Einstein's faces turned ugly, but they had to admit that this person had at least a superficial grasp of the Anti-Entropy Sovereign's abilities.
The Herrscher of Reason's ability is to understand and construct objects, from swords and spears to warships and cannons.
But manipulating gravity was the Anti-Entropy Sovereign's most frequently used and most powerful ability, leading uninformed Anti-Entropy members to believe it was the Herrscher of Reason's true power.
It was even distorted through rumors, misleading upstarts with no real knowledge like Cocolia.
The two of them knew that if they could find Welt Yang, who was still recuperating, they could stop Cocolia's scheme.
But on this matter, both of them tacitly made the same choice—silence!
The incident with the visitor from outer space years ago had left Welt severely injured, forcing him to go into hiding to recuperate. If a mere imposter of the Anti-Entropy Sovereign required him to act, wouldn't it make them, his elders, seem too incompetent?
For now, they could only take it one step at a time.
The powerful figures, once high and mighty, were forced to their knees by the intense gravity. Welt II snapped his fingers, deactivating his ability.
Then he instructed: "Well then, Mistress Cocolia."
"Please continue explaining the operation plan."
The she-wolf from Siberia looked down at the disheveled Anti-Entropy executives, her smile like that of a hunter who had spotted the fattest piece of meat on its prey.
The Herrscher, the Divine Key, the great power of Anti-Entropy...
She wanted it all!
...
Somewhere...
"Gray Serpent, your pawn is about to go rogue again. Aren't you going to pay attention?"
No business for a year, but one big deal feeds you for a year.
Inside a bar filled with an elegant atmosphere, there was only one customer.
As the owner of this place, Natasha Cioara was temporarily playing the role of a bartender, pouring a carefully mixed fine wine for her colleague.
"Raven, you should know that even the latest model of Gray Serpent lacks the function to drink alcohol."
The android, wrapped in a long black robe, pushed away the glass Raven had placed before him, allowing the liquid within to lose its layers under the external interference.
"And how can you be sure that we Gray Serpents are not continuously monitoring Cocolia?"
Though he was in a bar, his confident tone was like that of a master chess player, observing the world's situation from the palm of his hand.
The entry barrier for Anti-Entropy was ridiculously low. As long as you opposed Schicksal and had a certain amount of influence in your region, you could be approved to join.
Cocolia was one of World Serpent's pawns in Anti-Entropy, but not the only one.
It could be said that, apart from the conservative faction's small foundation, all other assets and forces of the current Anti-Entropy had been secretly replaced by World Serpent.
Monitoring Anti-Entropy's actions was, of course, a piece of cake.
Slowly pouring herself a glass of wine, Raven chatted with the Gray Serpent before her as if they were old friends: "Are you just going to continue to let this person run wild? Even condoning her scheme for the power of a Divine Key?"
Scheming for the power of a Divine Key wasn't a big problem. There were many people and factions in the world who wanted to get their hands on a Divine Key; Cocolia was just one more.
The problem was that this person wanted the Key of Corruption, Jizo Mitama, an item that, once obtained, would allow Cocolia to turn the tables on World Serpent.
It could be said that the Divine Key could be in anyone's hands, except Cocolia's!
"Therefore, you have a new mission."
The android's face showed no expression.
Though they were both World Serpent executives, Gray Serpent's existence was half a rank higher than others, making him the undisputed grand steward of World Serpent.
"Alright, alright, I knew you wouldn't come looking for me unless it was bad news."
Knowing she couldn't refuse, Raven threw her hands up in a gesture of helplessness.
Life is like being raped; when you can't resist, you might as well open your legs and enjoy it, then think about what to do during the post-nut clarity.
Working for World Serpent was dangerous, but at least it brought her closer to her dream of a villa on an island.
"Spit it out, what do you want me to do this time?"
"Monitor Cocolia. If necessary, kill her."
Cold and ruthless, disregarding a human life.
Perhaps in Gray Serpent's eyes, Cocolia couldn't even be considered human.
When a chess piece is about to go out of control, dealing with it with lightning-fast methods is naturally the best choice.
Her designs on Jizo Mitama had crossed World Serpent's bottom line.
Raven: "Am I the only insurance policy?"
"You are the final insurance."
These carbon-based lifeforms are the most unreliable part of a system, yet at the same time, they are the most reliable part.
The Key of Corruption, Jizo Mitama, made Cocolia dream of becoming the empress of the world. She intended to bring this powerful weapon under her control.
To this end, Cocolia ordered the development of a containment device for the Divine Key before the operation, seeking to keep this powerful Divine Key in her hands.
Naturally, for the 'safety' of his pawn, Gray Serpent added a little gift as insurance.
Unstable factors needed to be stabilized.
"What if Cocolia is killed by someone else?"
Gray Serpent: "We need a Cocolia."
Whether it's the real Cocolia doesn't matter, as long as it's 'Cocolia'.
Anyway, this woman's behavior pattern is full of chaos; it wouldn't be surprising no matter what she becomes.
Raven: "Alright, looks like I have to infiltrate a Schicksal branch again."
Ahead lies the dragon's den and the tiger's lair, but Raven doesn't know it!
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