The door opened, and the figure revealed behind it exceeded Bronya's expectations.
When that pink-haired, twin-tailed girl appeared behind the door—holding a black cat in her arms and wearing a lace dress like an elegant little noble—Bronya's expression drastically changed!
"Seele, hide behind me!"
She almost instinctively shielded Seele behind her. Facing the figure entering the room, the shock in her heart was beyond measure!
Why would Sin come to their bedroom now?
This was a variable that had never occurred in any of the previous reincarnations. Especially since this girl named Sin Mal had just killed her in the previous loop.
Had another new change occurred?
Bronya thought with a somewhat ugly expression, but the movements of her hands were not the least bit sloppy.
Quietly pulling out a dagger from under her pillow and hiding it in her sleeve, she vigilantly watched the girl gently stroking the black cat in her arms. If the other party dared to do anything detrimental, she would risk her life to stop her from hurting Seele.
"...What a meaningless little gesture."
"Brother, the Bronya from the other world is truly both stupid and weak. Sin can't even muster the interest to kill her another time."
Bronya's actions naturally fell entirely into Sin Mal's eyes. She narrowed her eyes and shook her head as if looking at an idiot.
"W-What do you mean?!"
Being mocked to her face by Sin like this, Bronya's eyes widened.
But before she could hiss at Sin, she suddenly realized something wrong with Sin's words—
What did she mean by "kill her another time"?
The Siberian Silver Wolf, who originally wanted to bare her fangs, experienced a drastic change in expression, instantly quieting down like a husky.
With disbelief and intense horror in her eyes, she just stared at Sin Mal. That gaze seemed to say, "Why can the Boss also load a save file?"
This was different from the games she usually played!
"Are you already scared, Bronya?"
"I remember in the past, your soul was pure and flawless. But now, it seems to be completely filled with something called 'desire'..."
"'Video games', 'slacking off at work', 'becoming the company president'... It's superficial to an unbelievable degree."
The light in Sin's golden eyes flickered, as if she could directly pierce through a person's soul.
"If everything is exactly as Brother said, then I must have really lost my mind to be fascinated by a good-for-nothing like you."
"W-What exactly are you trying to say, Sin..."
Bronya broke out in a cold sweat. She felt that, at this very moment, it was as if she were being spawn-camped by the Boss.
It was completely unfair. Why could Sin mobilize Honkai energy, but she couldn't?
How exactly did the game designers arrange this? It was bad enough they didn't give her the stats, but now even the mechanics had been cracked by the Boss!
"I'm just sighing in emotion, Bronya. Marveling at just how lucky you are."
Sin's gaze shifted away from Bronya and landed on Seele behind her.
Her gray eye turned scarlet. This Eye of Sin, capable of looking directly into the desires of the human heart, seemed as though it wanted to pierce through the soul of the girl named Seele Vollerei.
However, what Bronya failed to notice was that during the process of meeting Sin Mal's gaze, the eyes of the girl behind her were also changing from blue to red.
"Now that things have reached this point, are you still going to keep acting?"
"You imposter who took over someone else's identity..."
Sin's words left her mouth, but before they could fully land, the world before her eyes underwent a sudden change!
She felt her surroundings abruptly darken. What she was stepping on was no longer the floor of the bedroom, but a staircase stretching into the darkness with no visible end!
An intense sense of loneliness and confusion instantly enveloped Sin Mal.
If she had still been holding the black cat in her arms, Suke—who was the consciousness of the black cat—would have definitely been able to instantly recognize where she was—
Psychological trauma: Spiral Staircase.
This was the plot from Azure Waters where Sin had her nails smashed to pieces one by one by Veliona, as revenge for Bronya's broken legs, thereby making her never dare to bully Seele and Bronya again.
Thud.
Inside Seele and Bronya's bedroom, the light in the eyes of the standing Sin Mal suddenly dissipated, and she slumped onto the floor with a thud.
"Meow?"
The black cat in her arms bristled slightly, an unusual glint flashing across its feline eyes. It tried patting Sin's cheek with its paw, but only stopped its actions after finding that her pupils remained lifeless, as if her soul had left her body.
"Sin?"
"Seele, what happened to her..."
This sudden turn of events filled Bronya with astonishment. She looked at Seele, only to find that Seele's eyes were glowing with a red light.
Wait, since when did Seele...
"Sister Bronya, don't be afraid. Seele won't hurt you."
Seele reached out and gently stroked Bronya's face. The girl named Bronya instantly felt a wave of drowsiness wash over her mind.
Closing her eyes, she fell into a deep sleep.
Her movements did not stop there.
Seele, whose pupils had turned red, paid no mind to Sin. Instead, her gaze shifted to the black cat in Sin's arms, locking eyes with it—
The very moment her gaze landed on it, the black cat's body violently contorted!
Its originally sleek and glossy fur instantly shriveled up, taking its vibrant appearance along with it.
Waves of deathly aura continuously emanated from its body, as if trying to devour the consciousness attached to the black cat.
"How troublesome, another troublemaker has arrived."
"Counting them, this seems to be the third troublemaker to come along. Why must you come and ruin what has been arranged?"
Seele crouched down, looking at the mummified cat on the floor.
She looked at it with a puzzled gaze, as if questioning why it had to destroy the beautiful peace in her heart.
"Meow..."
The cat couldn't answer her; it merely looked at her just like that.
"Don't look at Seele with that self-righteous gaze."
As if seeing through the questioning look in the black cat's eyes, the red-eyed Seele chuckled softly.
"Everything Seele does is necessary. Seele merely wants to protect her own world and 'Seele', that's all."
"If only one of the two Seeles can exist, then Seele definitely wants the one Seele is more familiar with to survive. As for the other one..."
"Perhaps this is destiny. Because the meaning of Seele's world's existence is higher than the meaning of that Seele's world's existence."
But that is not a reason for you to invite a wolf into the house and use others.
"Invite a wolf into the house? Hehe... Seele is simply adopting a better method to prevent everything Seele has from vanishing into thin air... Sister Bronya, 'me', Kiana, and Sister Mei are the people Seele cherishes the most. Seele cannot abandon them and choose to save another entirely unfamiliar Seele instead."
"Besides, the competition is also very fair. Seele is in charge of helping Seele, and Sin is in charge of helping the unfamiliar Seele. If you want to blame someone, blame your own incompetence. You couldn't even protect your own world."
The red-eyed Seele murmured to herself. She stared at the black cat, the Authority of Death overflowing from her body, as if wanting to send the black cat back to that space constructed of death where absolutely no one would disturb it.
In this Mind Image Reincarnation, other than Seele who made the choice herself, "Seele" and Sin Mal were the only ones capable of utilizing great power.
—Because they were constantly under the watchful eyes of the one experiencing the reincarnation, their power was possessed because it was acknowledged by them.
And Bronya was merely a smokescreen and warning device set up by "Seele" to prevent anyone from causing trouble.
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