Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 138 Part 3

“Forget it, let’s not chat about meaningless things.”

“My Titan forces have already launched an attack on Schicksal’s New Zealand branch. Next, I just need to deploy Honkai energy to New Zealand and trigger a major Honkai eruption, and half of the established plan will be complete.” Cocolia said spiritedly:

“Since you’re almost here — Bronya, my most outstanding daughter, I hope you’ll go to New Zealand’s sanatorium to retrieve the 4th Herrscher.”

The silver-haired girl lowered her eyes, concealing the different color in the depths of her eyes, and made her own request:

“…Okay, but Bronya hopes to see Mama Cocolia before that.”

“Mm? Why is that?”

Hearing this request, Cocolia felt somewhat strange, instinctively sensing something unusual.

But to this, the Bronya on the other end of the communication showed some dissatisfaction:

“Does a daughter wanting to see her mother need to be questioned with ‘why’? Bronya just wants to see her.”

“What, is that not allowed? In that case, Bronya won’t perform the mission properly.”

Lively and spirited, portraying a girl’s emotions so vividly that Cocolia forgot that her daughter shouldn’t possess such rich emotions after that experiment.

“Haha, no problem, of course no problem!”

Not noticing this abnormality, Cocolia was extremely happy.

Ever since the X-10 experiment, her relationship with Bronya had become very strained. Regarding this increasingly distant mother-daughter relationship, Cocolia had always wanted to make amends but could never find a way—she could only hope to find Seele.

In Nagazora City, she had fallen once because of this love and trust for her daughter, and this time, she seemed to be making the same mistake again.

Regarding the ‘Bronya’ who wanted to see her, Cocolia was extremely excited about their reunion.

—Soon, Bronya arrived.

For speed, and also to prevent a certain mother fox from escaping, 【Bronya】 directly adopted the method of racing across the sea with the stroller, finally arriving in New Zealand within 10 minutes and reaching Cocolia’s warship.

“I haven’t seen you for so many days. Let me take a look.”

Cocolia, who had come directly to the ship’s cabin to meet 【Bronya】, approached with extreme anticipation. To repair the broken mother-daughter relationship, she had specially hidden her cold, stern side and embraced the former with the image of a loving mother.

“Have you lost weight?”

Her face full of heartache, at this moment Cocolia was just like a textbook mother who cherished her children.

However, ‘Bronya’ didn’t respond much, just staring coldly at the former with that expressionless little face — as usual.

This instantly reminded Cocolia that her daughter’s emotional nerves were damaged. In her guilt, her desire to trigger the Fourth Eruption in New Zealand became even stronger.

As long as she completed this plan, with World Serpent’s technology, she could definitely help Bronya repair her damaged emotional nerves and legs.

In her thoughts, the now cold Cocolia led ‘Bronya’ back to the warship’s central hub, then said quite seriously:

“Bronya, what I hope you’ll do was already mentioned in the earlier communication.”

“Must we really do this?”

The silver-haired girl sighed.

“…I know this will be very difficult for you to accept, but there’s only one way to save Seele. Think about Seele — right now, she might be suffering somewhere in the Sea of Quanta… look.”

As she spoke, Cocolia displayed a video segment showing a girl with dark blue hair in a bob cut.

— This was a fragment belonging to Seele that Gray Serpent had extracted from the Sea of Quanta.

Although she knew about this, 【Bronya】 still had to pretend to care greatly, losing her voice: “Seele…”

“As long as we complete this plan, we can reunite with Seele. Then we’ll return to the orphanage and restart that happy life from the past.”

Very satisfied with Bronya’s expression, Cocolia supported her waist, her face full of excitement and fantasy about a beautiful future.

When she was young, her dream was to establish an orphanage and take in those children who had lost their homes due to disasters.

And that period was what Cocolia considered the happiest time of her life.

Although conditions were harsh and life wasn’t affluent, watching those lovely daughters’ smiles, Cocolia felt that this was probably what happiness meant.

Later, she wanted to save more children, wanted to make Honkai leave this world, so she joined Anti-Entropy and began experiments, trying to exchange that past happiness for greater happiness.

The result was — the orphanage nearly fell apart.

To recover that past happiness and create a better future, Cocolia began her political career, establishing Russian Heavy Industries and becoming the leader of Anti-Entropy’s radical faction.

But now, while she was incredibly powerful, she felt not a bit of happiness.

So Cocolia understood.

She wanted to reclaim that original happiness, no matter what price she had to pay!

Even after finding Seele, she could use Seele to develop research on the Sea of Quanta, and her influence in Anti-Entropy might advance even further.

What a wonderful future that would be!

“Bronya, you’ll understand me, won’t you?”

“…”

“Mm.”

The silver-haired girl nodded slightly, but those eyes the same color as her hair showed somewhat dark tones.

‘She’ had indeed understood Cocolia.

“Warning! Warning! High Honkai energy reaction detected!”

Just as Cocolia was intoxicated by her beautiful future, the Honkai energy detection radar installed on the warship instantly snapped her out of that wonderful fantasy.

Looking at the Herrscher-level readings on the screen, Cocolia was somewhat surprised, but then delighted.

A Herrscher-level Honkai energy reaction appearing in New Zealand — there was only one possibility!

Although she couldn’t understand why the 4th Herrscher vessel had already awakened before she had even triggered the major Honkai eruption, none of that mattered anymore.

A Herrscher’s awakening would spontaneously trigger a major Honkai eruption. This way, she could even skip the step of spreading the Honkai energy. How wonderful.

It was just somewhat strange that…

This Honkai energy reaction seemed a bit close to the warship.

Well, there was no need to worry about these things.

With her mind already unconsciously flashing through beautiful memories from her life, Cocolia opened her mouth to call Bronya’s name, telling her to go capture the 4th Herrscher vessel.

But—

“Bron…”

Her voice stopped abruptly. Feeling the sharp pain in her chest and looking at the crimson red, Cocolia fell into shock.

She slowly turned her head.

What she saw was the expressionless, completely calm silver-haired girl holding a handgun pointed at her.

The smoke from the gun barrel clearly proved the source of this pain.

“Wh… why?!”

Life was rapidly draining away. Perhaps driven by will, the unwilling Cocolia asked the answer she desperately wanted to know at this moment.

And responding to her were only the girl’s emotionless yet cold words:

“This tragic life should end here, Cocolia… Mama.”