Chapter 22: Did You Betray Me, Bronya?!
If Elysia knew what the white-haired ball of fluff was thinking, she would definitely cry foul.
With her personality, how could she possibly want to harm an innocent girl?
She had only done what she had to do. To prevent Bronya from retaliating, the safest way was to make that girl lose consciousness, but they didn't have any help right now. Even if they asked the chat group members, that wouldn't be an option.
Everyone was a law-abiding person. It would be fine if you asked for healing potions, but if you asked for sleeping pills, what did they take them for?
In the circumstances, with limited resources, they could only use physical hypnosis on Bronya.
But, someone had to do it, right?
Raiden Mei wasn't willing to do it, and she was also inexperienced. She couldn't control her strength.
After all, a sword and a bat were completely different things, and even her Iaijutsu wouldn't work.
Then, there was Kiana.
That one was even more reckless.
As a Kaslana, the white-haired ball of fluff was incredibly strong and only knew how to beat others up. What was that, you said "be gentle"? Sorry, she might not be able to control herself.
Jiang Qiao was one of the victims.
And when the subject of physical hypnosis was Bronya, then things were even more terrifying.
Having heard about Cocolia's plans from Elysia, Kiana was very angry at that person she hadn't even met.
Hate the crow and you hate its blackness. She didn't like Bronya either, who was cooperating with Cocolia.
On top of that, the white-haired ball of fluff and Bronya had a natural, potential enemy dynamic.
Who would dare let a Kaslana, who was in a state of blood rage, do such a thing?
That would definitely be a death wish.
One hit, and even if they didn't explode Bronya's head, they would probably turn her into an idiot.
Under these circumstances, Elysia could only take on the hypnosis task herself.
With her, who was very skilled in controlling her strength, Bronya had barely gotten away with only minor brain damage.
But, this also meant that there was no way they could get any information from Bronya, who had been knocked into a shutdown state.
"If only my father was here."
Raiden Mei sighed.
If you asked who was most familiar with ME Corp, who could be more familiar with it than the president of ME Corp, Raiden Ryoma?
However, if Raiden Ryoma was still there, that fox, Cocolia, wouldn't have been able to come to Nagazora City and make a mess.
"Can't we go ask him?"
Kiana's thought process was very straightforward.
If Jiang Qiao was here, then her answer would definitely be:
"Impossible! Absolutely not!"
Not to mention that after capturing Bronya, Elysia and them were now on an extremely tight schedule and wouldn't have any time to look for Raiden Ryoma.
Even before that, trying to find Raiden Ryoma was also very dangerous.
Cocolia had only just found a chance to send Raiden Ryoma to jail. You think that fox would leave Raiden Ryoma alone?
Jiang Qiao was certain that Raiden Ryoma was under constant surveillance by Cocolia, and he was probably no longer in Nagazora City.
Trying to seek his help was just digging a pit. The unlucky Ryoma could barely protect himself.
Jiang Qiao estimated that if Cocolia hadn't wanted to avoid drawing the attention of the Anti-Entropy moderates, with that woman's ruthlessness, Raiden Ryoma would have probably been shot several times in the back soon after being imprisoned, with his death being made to look like a suicide out of fear of punishment.
Being a member of Anti-Entropy wouldn't allow her to protect herself in front of Cocolia.
Lol, she could even sell out her own daughters, what did she care about her organization partners?
Elysia sighed:
"There's no choice. We can only do a head-on attack. Kiana, you go and attract their firepower. We'll split up and look for the passage to the underground base."
"Keep in contact and let's start the operation!"
—Bang!
Using the explosives she had gotten from her group members, in the darkness of the night, with the flames and a loud bang, the front door of the ME Corp building was blown open.
Needless to say, this naturally caught the attention of the underground base.
"Cocolia, enemies have infiltrated the upper level!"
A subordinate, who was in charge of security, came to Cocolia's side. And Cocolia, the blonde beauty in a green military uniform leaning on her chair, slowly opened her eyes, her purple eyes showing a hint of coldness.
"Who is it?"
This question was quickly answered when the footage from the central surveillance camera was shown on the big screen.
The white-haired, blue-eyed Kaslana—Kiana Kaslana.
The unknown suspicious man that Bronya had talked about—Elysia, using Jiang Qiao's appearance.
And her plan's core, the Third Herrscher vessel—Raiden Mei.
Those three were moving around under the surveillance camera, but soon, the surveillance feed turned to static.
—They were consciously destroying the cameras!
"The enemies seem to be looking for something on the upper level."
The subordinate's report made Cocolia frown. Her purple eyes were full of suspicion and disbelief.
"Are they… targeting me?"
No, it wasn't probably, it was definitely.
Elysia and them's actions were undoubtedly headed towards the underground base.
But, how was that possible?
The cunning head of the Anti-Entropy radicals was currently in a state of bewilderment and confusion.
"How could I have been discovered?"
Cocolia muttered to herself, unable to understand what was going on.
She was confident that she had been hiding things well. And besides, her plan was only halfway done. There was no way she could have been exposed, right?
Unless, there was a traitor!
A thought flashed in her mind, and Cocolia immediately recalled her adopted daughter, who had been in conflict with Kiana. She quickly asked loudly:
"Bronya, Bronya! Where is Bronya!"
"This…"
Seeing the difficult expression on the subordinate's face, Cocolia immediately became furious:
"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to watch Bronya?!"
"Cocolia, you were the one who said that Miss Bronya deserved some privacy, and that we shouldn't keep watching Miss Bronya."
The subordinate felt wronged. You were the one who said that we had to keep watching her, you were the one who said that we didn't need to watch her, and now you were getting angry? Serving such a capricious person was really too difficult.
Cocolia realized her mistake and felt a little embarrassed, but after recalling the current situation, she asked urgently:
"Where is she now?!"
She was now very suspicious that Bronya had betrayed her.
Otherwise, how would the experiment vessel have been able to come to ME Corp headquarters?
"Miss Bronya's current location seems to be in the vessel's home. Judging from her condition, she's unconscious."
"At her home?"
Cocolia didn't pay attention to the last half of the sentence and only focused on the "at home" part.
Could it be that you betrayed me?! My dear daughter!
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Bronya: In a coma, working hard.