But even so, she still remembered the scene when Xier disappeared before her eyes - in a strange space that did not belong to the normal dimension, full of quantum things that could not be observed by ordinary people, the timid but determined girl cried and begged for help in despair, and when she saw herself who had also entered that strange space, she showed relief and trust.
But when she decided to stay with that person, she still resolutely rejected that kind of secure feeling and chose to return to the real world.
——In Seele’s heart, Sister Bronya is the bravest and most powerful!
The girl who resolutely participated in the experiment on his behalf, and ended up with her body disappearing from the real world, shouted in front of him.
——Sister Bronya is Seele’s hope!
——But you gave up hope and chose to escape!
——Seele...I don’t want to see Sister Bronya like this.
The girl who had always obeyed the wishes of others and was extremely gentle and generous, showed resistance in front of him for the first time.
Facing the child's resistance, I made this promise when I was about to leave:
——Then it’s a deal.
——No matter how slim the hope is, Bronya will find a way to rescue Seele.
——Until she finds that method, Bronya will never give up!
——After all, Bronya... is Seele's sister [Hope].
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2013, Changkong City.
At the entrance of Hyperion Café, Bronya stood expressionlessly in front of the door.
Before coming to the space where the target Herrscher body, Raiden Mei, disappeared, she had already checked the surveillance records and satellite images nearby. There was no trace of this cafe in either the satellite aerial photos or the surveillance records. Even when she observed with her naked eyes, the space where this cafe was located was a void with nothing in it.
However, Bronya still confirmed the existence of this cafe through something that did not belong to her.
She slightly closed her grey eyes, and used the power of reconstruction [Rebuid] left by the quantum girl who disappeared in the material world to materialize a huge floating robot - Heavy Bunny 19C. Then, this girl, who had become an "embedded universal girl's decisive weapon" during her training and transformation in Cocolia, immersed her perception into this quantum robot suspended in mid-air.
Through the surveillance [vision] of Heavy-Armored Bunny 19C, the two-story building that was difficult to be captured by the naked eye and electronic surveillance equipment in normal dimensions appeared clearly in Bronya's field of vision.
-Miraculously, when Bronya saw the building through the monitor of the Heavy Usagi, a faint feeling of excitement suddenly emerged from the depths of her emotionless mind.
But Bronya knew exactly why she felt this agitated.
Heavy-duty bunny 19C is the power given to her by Seele.
After studying the principle of the Heavy Armor Bunny 19C, Cocolia has put the quantization shift of the Titan mecha on the agenda. However, despite this, in today's anti-entropy, this Heavy Armor Bunny 19C, which belongs only to Bronya, is still a unique quantum machine.
It cannot be captured by surveillance and naked eyes in the normal dimension, but it can be observed by Heavy-Armored Bunny 19C, a machine transformed from quantum - even if she is not a researcher, Bronya can vaguely sense what this fact means.
In terms of material composition, this cafe should be a "quantum ghost" that has left the real world, just like Seele, whose physical body has disappeared from the real world.
In fact, it was no coincidence that Bronya chose to use the monitoring system of the Heavy Bunny 19C to observe this space.
Although Bronya's physical body did not enter the quantum state like Seele, after participating in the X-10 experiment, she had the experience of entering the quantum sea in the form of a conscious body.
Bronya and the Quantum Sea are not parallel lines that have never intersected. In her previous life, she had already established connections with this abnormal dimension, the Quantum Sea.
Thanks to that experience, Bronya also has an intuition similar to the sixth sense about things in quantum states, so after arriving in this space, she summoned Heavy Armor Bunny 19C without much hesitation to observe this seemingly empty space, and the final result was indeed not beyond her expectations.
There was a "Open" sign hanging on the door of the cafe, and the frosted glass windows let in the faint light from the hall. Bronya closed her eyes tightly, walked to the door of the cafe, took a deep breath, and according to the vision empathized with Heavy-Armored Bunny 19C, she put her hand towards the door handle.
The moment her palm touched the door handle, Bronya was suddenly stunned.
To be honest, because she had roughly guessed that this cafe was actually a kind of "quantum ghost", she had actually prepared herself mentally for not being able to touch this cafe with her physical body. But when Bronya grasped the door handle, she felt a very obvious touch of solid wood in the palm of her hand.
The touch was no different from the solid wood in the real world, and Bronya subconsciously opened her eyes.
...For some reason, when she actually touched the cafe with her own body, the cafe that was originally invisible to the naked eye appeared in her field of vision without any warning at that moment.
A myriad of complicated thoughts flashed through Bronya's emotionless brain like lightning. Half a second later, Bronya turned the doorknob and walked into the lobby of the cafe.
The moment Bronya opened the door, three figures, two short and one tall, came into her sight. The three were jogging towards her, as if they were about to leave the cafe. They were stunned when they saw the door open, but they did not stop because of her entry. They just nodded and passed by her standing at the door.
Bronya was stunned for a moment, then suddenly turned her head back.
Among the three people who left the cafe, she clearly saw a girl who looked very similar to herself... no, almost exactly the same as herself. That person was wearing a cyber-style hoodie and had an expression of "Oh my god, this is going to be a good show" on her face.
The man didn't seem surprised to see her, and had no intention of stopping. When Bronya reacted and turned around, she could no longer see the three men.
Before Bronya could come back to her senses from her dazed and confused feeling, a clear voice suddenly sounded.
"Huh? Bronya? Why are you in this cafe?"
Bronya subconsciously turned her head back when her name was called, and then she was stunned again. She saw a silver-haired girl she had never seen before and her target of this trip - the body of the Third Herrscher sitting at the edge of a dining table. Opposite the two girls was one of the thorns in the eyes of her mother Cocolia, Dr. Tesla, an executor of the anti-entropy conservative faction.
Bronya had not forgotten the mission given by Cocolia, so after seeing the body of the Third Herrscher, she subconsciously raised her arms and prepared to fight, wanting to recycle the body of the Third Herrscher.
But at this moment, a cold gaze from behind the bar made Bronya shiver on her back.
——The S-rank Valkyrie of destiny, Rita Rossweisse.
Why is the S-class Valkyrie of destiny here? When this obvious question arose in Bronya's mind, Raiden Mei and Kiana, who were sitting opposite Dr. Tesla, also keenly caught the hostility from Bronya at the same time.
"Bronya?" Raiden Mei frowned slightly, "What's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly——?"
"Wait, Mei, she doesn't seem to be the Bronya we know." Kiana stood up, took a step forward, and vaguely protected Raiden Mei behind her.
"Not the Bronya we know...?"
Mei Raiden also noticed something was wrong. To be honest, because the Bronya in front of her had the same expressionless face as the Bronya they knew, Mei Raiden could hardly tell the difference between the two just from their appearance.
But the three of them have been together for three years after all. As the "big sister" who has been reconciling the conflicts between Kiana and Bronya, Raiden Mei still noticed the subtle differences between the two with the help of Kiana.
The Bronya they knew, although it was difficult for her to show much expression because the emotional module in her brain was burned, both Kiana and Raiden Mei knew that Bronya herself was not an emotional person. On the contrary, she actually attached great importance to the relationship between the three of them.
Kiana was particularly clear about this. Although there were constant frictions between her and Bronya, ever since she joined St. Freya's Academy, Bronya had never shown her "battle weapon" side in the eyes of either of them.
She was even willing to burn the biochip in her brain to protect them.
Out of trust in her companions, Kiana was unwilling to take the initiative to attack Bronya. But because she knew the special nature of this cafe and knew that she might be just a stranger in the eyes of Bronya, Kiana was also mentally prepared to deal with the other party's attack.
... Fortunately, although the Bronya in front of them did not look like the companion they knew, no matter which Bronya it was, she seemed to have extraordinary vision. So after taking a look at the personnel configuration in the hall, she quickly put away her fleeting hostility and raised her hands at the same time, surrendering on the spot.
"The battle power comparison is over. Our chance of winning is , our chance of escaping is , and our chance of capturing the Third Herrscher is . All of these are lower than the estimated values. The plan has changed. Bronya has chosen to give up resistance and surrender unconditionally. She also requests reasonable treatment for prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Convention."
"..."
Bronya's French style made it difficult for Mei Raiden and Kiana to deal with it. No matter what, since the other party had chosen to give up resistance, Kiana and Mei Raiden, who originally did not want to be hostile to Bronya, certainly had no intention of continuing to intensify the conflict.
The two looked at each other and nodded. Mei Raiden waved to Bronya who was standing at the door and said, "Anyway, come in first. Everyone who comes to this cafe is a customer. Bronya, what do you want to drink? I'll make it for you."
Bronya walked in very unassumingly. As a former Boy Scout and assassin, she was not the type of person who cared much about her reputation. She was much thicker-skinned than many people imagined. So after realizing that she had no chance of winning, she did not feel any psychological burden at all to use her young appearance to beg for sympathy from the other party.
At this moment, the door of the shop in the hall was suddenly pushed open again. Everyone's eyes subconsciously looked towards the door, only to see several girls who were dressed very gorgeously and full of childlike fun gathered at the door, led by a silver-haired girl in a pink and white dress.
“Is this the cafe where Xilin works?”
Behind the silver-haired girl, a girl with grey Roman curly hair in a black dress poked her head out and looked at the scene in the hall. Her grey eyes, which were exactly the same as Bronya's, were filled with surprise.
"The decoration style looks pretty good. Why didn't you invite everyone here before, Trili."
"I just found out about this not long ago, eh?" The silver-haired girl in the lead looked at the dazed Bronya with a look of surprise, "Look, Bronya, this kid looks exactly like you! Is this the us in the different world that Celine mentioned?"
Chapter 4: Stupid Qibao, self-explodes online (k)
Even though Bronya had lost more than 80% of her emotions now, when she saw the little girls walking into the hall in an orderly manner, she still felt as if her CPU had completely crashed.
The silver-haired girl in the lead didn't seem to realize how confused Bronya's mind was. As a magical girl who had always protected the people, the silver-haired girl naturally maintained an optimistic and kind attitude. So when she met a girl who looked exactly like an acquaintance of hers, the cheerful Miss Trili naturally went up to her.
She walked up to Bronya, held the paralyzed girl's hands, and a bright smile appeared on her young face: "Hello, I'm Trili, an ordinary magical girl. Um... According to the knowledge that Celine helped me to cram, you should be a child from another world, right?"
"You scared her, Trili."
Perhaps because they were the same body, although Bronya's expression remained expressionless, the girl in black behind Trili could vaguely sense the uneasiness in her heart. She came to Trili's side, and her usually calm face showed a hint of tenderness: "Hello, it's our first meeting. I'm Bronya, and like Trili, I'm a magical girl from the Crescent String District. What's your name?"
Bronya was silent for a moment, then honestly gave her name: "...Bronya."
"This child seems to be much more introverted than you." Trilili showed a surprised expression. "By the way, why don't I see Xilin?"
Kiana raised her hand to signal, then pointed to the stairs on the second floor: "Xilin seems to be doing something in the room on the second floor."
Looking at the two girls in front of her who came from the same world as Xilin, Kiana couldn't help but reveal a somewhat strange expression.
Of course she knew what a magical girl was. Although her lovely aunt had been trying to destroy the dark history that was enough to drive her crazy, "Magical Girl Teriri" was, after all, a virtual image that set off a trend in an era, and its derivative products could be said to be spread across every field from comics to animation to games.
During the period when she was still a lazy dog who ate and slept all the time at St. Freya's College, Kiana, who was keen on various forms of entertainment, certainly would not miss such an interesting thing.
But even so, she would never have thought that one day she would see this virtual character with Theresa as the main image appear alive in reality.
And...she brought that Bronya... no, the magical girl Bronya with her.
Kiana thought about it, and suddenly took out her communicator and took a photo of the two magical girls standing in front of Bronya.
"What are you doing?" Raiden Mei was a little confused.
"I'm just a little curious about how Bronya and Auntie will react when they see them." As she spoke, Kiana seemed to suddenly think of something interesting and burst out laughing.
Bronya looked at Kiana, who was full of joy, and suddenly said, "...If the Bronya you know is the same person as Bronya, Bronya doesn't think she would have any strange reactions. Please don't have any unnecessary expectations."
Trilili and Buluo looked at each other, and a big question mark appeared above their heads.
Trili couldn't help but ask, "Magic girl, is there anything strange?"
"No, no, no, you misunderstood." Kiana waved her hands, smiling, and put the communicator away again. "It's just that in our world, magical girls are not real things, but virtual images processed by art. That's why many children admire magical girls. Just think of me as simply being vain... What I thought was just a fantasy actually appeared in front of me. I don't know if my aunt will envy me to death after seeing the photos I sent her."
"You contacted the dean?" Raiden Mei raised her eyebrows and showed a somewhat surprised expression.
"Hmm, something's wrong—"
Halfway through her speech, Kiana's expression suddenly froze, as if her entire body had suddenly turned into stone, with only her lonely heart beating wildly.
Shit! I forgot I was still on the run! After realizing what it meant to send a message to Theresa, Kiana, who was in cardiac arrest, hurriedly took out the communicator again.
Kiana: [Image: Magical Girl Trili, Bronya, Magical Girl Brollo.]
Theresa： ?????
Theresa: Are you Kiana?
Theresa: You still know you want to contact me? ? Huh? ?
Theresa: Where are you? What does this photo mean?
Theresa: Wait, when did I ever take a photo like this with Bronya? Why do you have this photo? Why does Bronya have two?
Theresa: Answer!
Theresa poked you.
Theresa poked you.
Theresa poked you.
Theresa poked you.
Theresa has initiated a video chat with you.
Theresa has initiated a video chat with you.
Theresa has initiated a video chat with you.
Theresa: Pick up the phone quickly! Where are you?! Mei is going crazy looking for you, don't you know?
"..."
Looking at Theresa's continuous replies and communication requests, Kiana seemed to have her own aunt's crazy angry expression in front of her, and her whole face turned liver color in fear and panic.
At the same time, Mei Raiden's communicator suddenly rang.
The corner of her mouth curled up slightly, and she calmly took out her communicator under Kiana's horrified gaze.
Theresa has initiated a video chat with you.
Accept/Reject.
"Oh my god! Mei! Don't--!!!"
Kiana pounced towards Raiden Mei, but the latter was prepared and easily dodged her.
Ding. Along with the sound of the communication being connected, a virtual screen unfolded in mid-air, and Theresa's young face filled with anger appeared on the screen.
The moment the visual communication was connected, Theresa spoke impatiently at a very fast speed: "Mei! I have great news! Kiana just suddenly sent me a photo! I will immediately ask Dr. Einstein to track her current location. You and Dr. Tesla——!"
The hurried words came to an abrupt halt after seeing the scene shown by Raiden Mei.
What followed was an extremely violent roar.
