"Hm? What's wrong, little sister Bronya?" Shun looked at Bronya, who had fallen into shock, with amusement, his fingers tapping irregularly on the wheelchair's armrest.
"Shh, be careful. Don't move the Project Bunny that Seele gave you in public. It would be bad if ordinary people discovered it, or if I accidentally broke it…"
Shun's voice, like that of a demon, suppressed Bronya's restless heart.
Right now, in Bronya's eyes, Shun was no longer a clear-eyed, foolish university student. He was simply more Otto than Otto!
"You… how do you know Seele's name?" Seele was an inverse scale for Bronya, but the intelligence about Cocolia's orphanage should have been very well hidden. How did this guy know?
"Mm-hmm, let's talk somewhere else. There are too many eyes and ears here." Shun pushed the wheelchair and slowly walked toward a deserted area.
"Mm, this place should be about right…" After pushing into a deserted alley with Japanese characteristics, Shun stopped.
"You… who exactly are you? Are you from Schicksal… or from the Anti-Entropy conservatives?" Now that they were in a deserted place, Bronya stopped pretending to be disabled. She left the wheelchair and floated in the air with the help of Project Bunny.
Facing the barrel of Project Bunny, which had already begun charging energy, Shun didn't panic much.
"Bronya will ask one more time… who exactly are you?" Bronya wore an expression of "the law of victory has already been determined," as if the advantage was hers.
Perhaps it was because he was male that Bronya unconsciously let down her guard. She felt that with Project Bunny in hand, she had nothing to worry about.
"Really going to shoot? Then I bet your gun has no bullets." Project Bunny's charging was almost complete, but just as Shun said, there was thunder but no rain.
The orange light at the barrel extinguished again. With a complicated expression, Bronya had Project Bunny lower its weapon.
"Your life is already in Bronya's hands. Confess and we'll be lenient; resist and we'll be strict. Hand over honestly everything Bronya wants to know."
It seemed Bronya still hadn't figured out the situation. Clearly he was the one threatening her, yet now she was threatening him instead.
Shun held his forehead and sighed. Immediately after, a fierce wind rose in the deserted alley. Two heavy objects hit the ground.
Bronya looked back and saw that the two arms of Project Bunny which had been holding a pile of heavy weapons had been violently severed and fallen to the ground, while Shun was still standing in the same spot as before.
If that strike had been aimed at her… she would have died. Bronya immediately analyzed the situation on the field. A wise person submits to circumstances…
"Bronya… surrenders." Bronya gave a French military salute, slowly walked back to the wheelchair with the help of her exoskeleton armor, and completely exposed the back of her head to Shun.
"I was originally thinking that since Project Bunny was a gift from Seele to you, I wouldn't dismantle it. But look at you… Let Project Bunny return to quantum form and repair itself." Shun spoke earnestly, as if Bronya were really his misbehaving little sister.
"You… really know Seele?" The origin of Project Bunny was a secret known to only a very small number of people. Neither she nor Cocolia would casually leak it, but Seele…
"Bronya, I didn't lie." Shun knocked lightly on Bronya's small head and said.
"What do you… want Bronya to do?" If it meant she could see Seele, even if Shun asked her to kill Cocolia, Bronya might actually do it.
"Sigh, making such a scene. If anyone saw, they'd think I was the bad guy!" Shun put on an act and sighed, saying with great difficulty.
Aren't you? The expression on Bronya's face said it all. Although her emotion module had been burned, she swore that today was definitely the day her emotions had gone most out of control.
"There's no listening device on you, right? I mean… Cocolia can't hear us, right?" Shun didn't want to expose himself to Cocolia so soon. Otherwise, if the plan changed and Raiden Ryoma didn't fall, what then?
Did he really want Raiden Ryoma to take the plasma shadow and go slash at the Herrscher? There was no bond on Mei's side yet, so the probability of defeating the Herrscher of Thunder wasn't very high. Although the Herrscher of Thunder's consciousness doted on her, she didn't have any goodwill toward humans.
"Bronya came out alone for a walk today. Mom… Cocolia didn't have the chance to do anything to me."
"Mm, that's good. Then I'll be honest. Bronya, go be my mole and monitor Cocolia's actions for me."
How would he know the exact time when Cocolia would launch the Third Honkai Impact? The plot only mentioned it was in March, and with the butterfly effect, the plan might have changed. But with Bronya as a mole, it would be different.
Cocolia was basically defenseless toward Bronya and would tell her the entire plan. With Bronya as a mole, Shun definitely wouldn't make any mistakes.
"Why?" Or rather, on what basis? Cocolia was still her mother after all. Asking her to betray Cocolia?
"One private photo of Seele." Shun calmly stated the condition.
"…" Bronya felt she was still very rational. Her life was in Shun's hands this was not something she could refuse.
Moreover, if he really had a private photo of Seele, didn't that mean Seele had truly been rescued by him?
If Seele had been rescued, then why should she listen to Cocolia? After all, it was Cocolia who had sent Seele into the Sea of Quanta.
In any case, it couldn't be something as shallow as wanting to see Seele's private photo.
Turn to the light, Bronya. Seeing Bronya take the bait, Shun silently handed her a photo he had casually taken of Seele just after waking up, still yawning.
Mm, no Photoshop traces. As a computer expert, Bronya could tell at a glance this was an original, untouched photo.
Seele seemed to have grown a little… Looking at the familiar girl in the photo, Bronya didn't know why, but a few tears suddenly fell.
Although the process had been tortuous, at least she now knew that Seele had been rescued and was safe. That was enough.
"Then, Bronya, what is your answer?" Shun handed Bronya a black cane.
"Crack!" The black cane was snapped by Bronya. "That means offering my loyalty to you!"
Heh, who was Cocolia? Now that Seele had returned, why should she still care about Cocolia?
"A wise choice." Shun satisfiedly patted Bronya's shoulder.
To be honest, after grasping information about Seele, obtaining Bronya's loyalty wasn't difficult at all. See, it was done just like that.
Of the Three Families, only Raiden Mei wasn't in his hands yet…