"Miss Bronie, don't forget our main objective—"
Although speeding was indeed thrilling... Bronya's lips still twitched as she looked at Bronie, who was already completely hyped up.
"Yeah, yeah, Bronya, do you know what I'm thinking—"
Giving a perfunctory reply to Bronya's reminder, Bronie twisted the throttle hard, continuing to accelerate.
The whistling wind, accompanied by the increasing speed, even drowned out the roar of the motorcycle.
"I'm thinking, you can go out and pick up girls with your speeding skills in the future—"
"From your description, that Seele is a very soft-natured and timid girl—"
"With such a girlfriend, speeding down the road, the timid her can only rely on you in the driver's seat."
"Hugging you tightly to give herself a sense of security... this is one of the best ways to heat up a relationship! I, Bronie, strongly recommend it. Go get a bike, Bronya!"
"The most important thing is that these kinds of timid girls aren't very good at expressing their feelings without some external environment and factors to help them."
"Unless they have some weird trait like a second personality or something."
Bronie was enthusiastically preaching the benefits of riding a motorcycle to Bronya, whose previously unmoved expression now showed a hint of hesitation.
"But Bronie, you've said so much. Why don't you take your Seele?"
Bronya ruthlessly pointed out the detail her companion had deliberately omitted from her words.
"Ah... Bronya, do you really think she's a soft-natured girl?"
"That Big Sister Seele would probably just tell Bronie to keep accelerating, then decide it's not thrilling enough, swap places with Bronie, and drive herself..."
"Then Bronie would become the little sister being taken along!"
"Oh, there's another possibility—"
"As for Big Sister, she'd probably just stand on the back seat of the motorcycle and put on some kind of stunt show..."
"Bronie is giving you a friendly reminder: you can't use the same method to hit on every girl. Because sometimes, with one wrong move, you'll be the one who gets hit on."
"You have a point, Bronya can't find any good reason to argue with that right now..."
Just as the two ducks were chatting idly, a massive roar came from behind them: talk of the devil and she appears.
A long-haired Seele was speeding toward them, with a short-haired Seele trembling on the back seat.
"See, Bronya, this Big Sister Seele has given us a perfect example. If you don't learn from her, your Seele will be spirited away by someone else."
Just as Bronie finished speaking, the cool beauty and her kindred little soft girl skidded to a halt right in front of them.
"Hey, hey, hey, you delivery girl, why are you here too? Did you not run into some blond god and get thrown in here?"
After stopping the bike, Veliona took the initiative to greet them.
"And you also found a sister who looks exactly like you, or should I say, a big sister? Does she also not like to talk much?"
"Ah, this... Bronie is starting to get curious about what you two have been through..."
"At least Bronie was thrown into a normal world because of a turbulence in the Sea of Quanta, where I met this lady named Bronya."
"Then we were thrown into the Sea of Quanta again for some strange reasons, and then we fell all the way into this World Bubble."
"I see... Huh? It seems like we met another version of ourselves and we already know each other?"
Just as the two were chatting, the short-haired Seele finally recovered from the high-speed motorcycle ride and looked up to see an equally excited Bronya.
"Big Sister Bronya!"
"Seele."
The two, reunited after a long time, hugged each other directly.
"Ah, the sour smell of love that everyone envies and everyone hates."
Bronie whistled, seemingly expecting the long-lost couple to stir up some sparks.
However, the hacker lady was destined to be disappointed. After all, Bronya still possessed a quality called a soldier's reserve.
"Eating dog food—wait, are we considered single dogs?"
Bronie watched Bronya and Seele start cuddling, then turned to look at the long-haired Seele beside her.
"Just say it directly if you want to hit on a girl, Bronie. Why are you hiding it?!"
"Because the girl Bronie wants to flirt with is you, Seele—"
Bronie decisively threw a straight ball at the long-haired Seele.
"Bronie has absolutely no resistance to cool girls."
"Huh? Chasing me? Then I agree. From now on, you're the person I'm protecting—"
The long-haired Seele, who had been hit by the straight ball, didn't react much. She waved her hand as if recruiting a lackey, indicating that the other person was now under her protection.
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The time for catching up and exchanging feelings flew by, and the four returned to discussing serious matters.
"So, you were likely tricked into coming here by a white-haired middle-aged man, while we were thrown in by a guy claiming to be a god."
"That white-haired man didn't say anything to you?"
Veliona looked at Bronie and Bronya.
"No, we just passed by that man and fell straight into this World Bubble."
"I see. The god who threw us here said that once someone named Bronya clears the trial of this World Bubble, we can return to the normal universe."
Long-haired Seele looked at Bronya, who was lost in thought.
"I think that guy was talking about you."
"If there are no other people named Bronya here."
Bronya nodded and raised her own question.
"Then have you gathered any information about this World Bubble?"
"About this World Bubble? We have some, but it's very little. We haven't seen a single person in this damn city for half a day, and only a few self-service terminals are usable."
"What we know for now is that this city is one of the last few cities humans have left."
"Also, our identities in this world seem to be members of an organization called Fire Moth. This organization has been protecting humanity through some disaster called Honkai."
"Hey, what's wrong with you guys? Why are you making those faces?"
Veliona looked at the others' strange expressions, feeling a bit confused.
"Bronya feels... that we might have come to a World Bubble that records fragments of the Previous Era..."
"Kyuusyou-san told me some stories about the Previous Era, though Bronya never knew where Kyuusyou heard those stories from."
"Fire Moth, is the organization that fought against Honkai in the Previous Era in the universe Bronya is originally from..."
"I think the prototypes of the stories recorded in this World Bubble are likely them, but... what does this World Bubble want to show us...?"