Chapter 86: The Legend of the Fastest Defeat, Surpassing Sister Dudu

Chapter 86: The Legend of the Fastest Defeat, Surpassing Sister Dudu

A round moon hung in the sky, its silvery-white brilliance pouring down like mercury. From this height, one could take in the entirety of Nagazora City, with its thousands of lights and neon signs.

At a certain moment, across the city's southeastern, northwestern, and central districts, nodes arranged in a specific pattern experienced large-scale gas leaks simultaneously. Explosions and firelight tore through the night.

This signified that the plan of a certain "dutiful" daughter had officially begun.

"Report, ma'am, stronghold C-31 is under attack!" "Urgent report, emergency situation at the prison, Raiden Ryoma is about to escape!" "C-23 to command center, non-allied Titan-class energy source detected. Our deployment point is surrounded, requesting fire and mech support!"

A continuous stream of communications popped up on the screen, accompanied by the urgent and ear-piercing blare of alarms. The command room was bathed in red light.

The endless stream of bad news etched astonishment and shock onto those amethyst-like eyes. However, the Executor had no time to deal with or command a response to the sudden turn of events.

The unexpected rebellion struck like a bolt from the blue, cutting through the clamor of the alarms and leaving Cocolia's mind momentarily blank.

By the time she came to her senses, her body was already in the steel grip of the mechanical Stand user.

Cocolia was not a Valkyrie, after all. Although her Honkai energy resistance was superior among women, allowing her to remain unharmed even in the middle of a Great Eruption, this did not translate into combat strength. Her reliance had always been on mechs. Without her Titan "daddies," Cocolia was a mad dog with its teeth pulled and claws clipped. Any B-rank Valkyrie could easily toy with her.

Furthermore, the backstab had been launched under the identity of Bronya.

"Bronya! Why?"

Cocolia stared in disbelief at the silver-haired girl before her, but her pupils contracted the moment she saw the smile playing on the girl's lips. She suddenly understood.

"No! You're not Bronya!"

Gripped by Project Bunny, Cocolia instinctively tried to struggle, but it was like being crushed between two steel walls; she couldn't budge an inch.

"Who are you!?"

Suppressing her anger, Cocolia squeezed the words through her teeth, "Where is Bronya now?"

"What are you talking about, Mother Cocolia?"

Staring into those predatory eyes, the silver-haired girl's smile widened.

"I am Bronya. Bronya Zaychik. Mother Cocolia, have you forgotten your own daughter?"

"What kind of joke is this! How could Bronya...!"

Cocolia instinctively refuted, until she saw the smile on the silver-haired girl's face vanish in a single frame, replaced by a vacant, heartless, and emotionless expression.

There was no mistake. That appearance, those unwavering silver-gray eyes, were all telling her a truth Cocolia couldn't believe.

The silver-haired girl before her was, without a doubt, her daughter.

"Why? Bronya!"

Cocolia's brow furrowed tightly, her tone filled with a fury that would have made her subordinates outside weak in the knees. "Why betray me? Don't you want to save Seele anymore?"

"Save Seele?"

The silver-haired girl's face once again broke into a brilliant smile. She tilted her head. "Before you ask me that question, Mother, why don't you first recall why Seele left me in the first place."

"...!" Cocolia's face froze.

That angelic smile and the shift to using "I" as a pronoun both indicated Bronya's abnormality. Cocolia was sure something must have happened to Bronya, but there was no time to investigate now.

"Bronya, I know you resent me for that incident, and I deeply regret letting Seele participate in the experiment. But, Mother is trying to make up for my mistakes now, you..."

Cocolia took a long, deep breath to calm her agitated heart. Then, she spoke in the softest voice she could manage.

"Project Bunny."

The sweet, milky voice came from the silver-haired girl's mouth.

"ORA!"

Accompanied by a bewitching female electronic voice, the mechanical Stand threw a punch several times larger than a clay pot, smashing the control console behind Cocolia to pieces.

With the help of an emblem, the silver-haired girl had slightly altered Project Bunny's voice system. While it couldn't speak freely, issuing specific syllables during combat was no problem.

"Mother, you're being naughty. If you want to atone for your sins against Seele, then you can spend the rest of your life repenting in prison."

While Cocolia was launching her emotional offensive, she was also trying to issue commands to stabilize the situation. Of course, the silver-haired girl wouldn't let her.

"Bronya!"

Cocolia roared in frustration, especially when she heard Bronya say she would send her to prison.

"Lady Cocolia! Miss Bronya..."

The base had been invaded, but they had received no response commands from Lady Cocolia. Some officers, intending to come to the command room to inquire, heard the explosion and rushed in with guards.

They were met with this scene of mother-daughter "piety" and were all stunned.

"Bronya, you forced my hand..."

Cocolia's tone was somewhat chilling. "Valkyrie System, emergency forced control system initiated. Inputting highest authority command."

Held by Project Bunny, Cocolia couldn't move, but she had been called a vixen by Tesla for a reason, a testament to her insidious cunning. She was always pulling ruthless stunts; she wouldn't have survived this long without a few tricks up her sleeve.

To maintain control of the situation at all times, she had a special chip implanted in her brain, connected to the control of important systems, including the program to activate the bio-chip in Bronya's mind.

The next moment, the silver-haired girl's gray eyes turned crimson, and strange, bright red patterns extended across her left cheek.

At the same time, Bronya's plain armor transformed into the black and red Valkyrie armor—Dimension Breaker. This Anti-Entropy-made armor completely sacrificed mobility in favor of numerous armaments suitable for annihilation warfare, its firepower rivaling that of a small armory. It had always been Cocolia's trump card.

"Combat mission: primary objective is to capture the base intruder. If unattainable, kill or repel."

Issuing the command through the chip, this was one of the reasons Cocolia never considered the possibility of Bronya's betrayal.

"Roger."

The expected reply came, and Cocolia let out a sigh of relief. But in the next second, she realized the tone of the voice was a bit too lively.

"Cluster Bombardment!"

A perfect coordination of machine and human. The dark-toned mech's palm cannon charged, and a blast infused with Honkai energy instantly engulfed the mechs and soldiers outside the command room.

"Ooh~ So this is the power of going dark!"

The silver-haired, red-eyed girl examined her new armor with great interest, muttering words Cocolia couldn't understand, "Without the emblem, I might have actually gotten three times the power."

"How is this possible!?" Cocolia's eyes widened in disbelief.

The transformation of Bronya's armor meant the bio-chip had activated successfully, but why had it failed to control Bronya!?

"Want to know?"

The silver-haired girl showed a cute, angelic smile. Getting a response from Cocolia's eyes, her smile became even brighter. "You can think about it slowly in prison, Mother."

Knowing there was a bio-chip in her head, the silver-haired girl was fearless, even deliberately provoking Cocolia to get her to activate this armor.

The reason was simple.

Her own consciousness was mapped onto Bronya's body through the System. A mere bio-chip wanted to compete with a System BUG for control of the body? It was as ridiculous as asking a baby to fight Sukuna.

Cocolia's supposedly foolproof counter-control trump card had now become a buff for the silver-haired girl.

The silver-haired girl chopped Cocolia on the back of the neck with the edge of her hand, knocking her out before she could react and shut down the Dimension Breaker armor.

For Secondary Wings, who lacked Bronya's combat experience, controlling the force to knock someone out was a bit difficult. But for the legendary assassin, the Silver Wolf of the Urals, it was a piece of cake.

This blow came from Bronya.

"Goodbye, Mother. And goodbye to Bronya's cowardice!"

If she had harbored a glimmer of hope before, that the bio-chip was just intelligence Silver Wing brought from a parallel world and might not apply to this one, that last illusion was shattered when her body and armor transformed. Bronya was resolute, determined to follow Silver Wing and be fully "filial" to her mother.

The underground base of ME Corp was very spacious. It was essentially a massive mechanical factory for manufacturing Titan parts and defense robots.

The defensive forces were indeed not weak, but in the face of Bronya, who was buffed by the emblem and Cocolia's own dark power-up, they were no obstacle at all.

Having lost the commands of their Executor, the people of Cocolia's faction in Nagazora City were now like ants on a hot pan, at a complete loss. Hampered by Cocolia's fierce authority, they could only react to a limited extent, not daring to abandon their nodes and retreat.

Thus, they were naturally wiped out by the forces of the conservative faction and Raiden Ryoma.

The plan proceeded very smoothly.

At a certain moment, as if sensing something, the silver-haired girl, who was carrying the unconscious Cocolia out of the underground base, suddenly turned her head. Her crimson eyes shot a sharp gaze in a certain direction.

Project Bunny immediately raised its hand, shielding Cocolia's body in front of the silver-haired girl.

"Come out."

"Alas, the Silver Wolf of the Urals lives up to her name. This method really won't work, huh?"

The opponent was a top-tier professional assassin, her sensitivity to snipers far exceeding that of ordinary people.

"Honestly, I'm on vacation, and they still give me missions. You'd better remember to pay me overtime!"

It was a gray-haired woman with an excellent figure. Her red eyes under the crow-feather hood revealed waves of dissatisfaction as she complained into her communication device.

She was a cadre of World Serpent—codename: [Raven]. This title was also renowned in the assassin world.

"Protect our partner, and your overtime pay won't be short."

Gray Serpent's voice came from the communicator. He hadn't expected things to actually develop to this point. World Serpent's intelligence network in Nagazora City had quickly informed him of what was happening. What surprised Gray Serpent was that he hadn't noticed anything beforehand.

Had someone detected the Serpent's presence?

Gray Serpent was filled with doubt, but there was no time to think too much. If they could recapture Cocolia now, the plan in Nagazora City might still have a chance to continue.

"Raven, what are you doing here?" The silver-haired girl was slightly stunned to see the figure clad in crow feathers, then narrowed her crimson eyes.

"Silver Wolf, for the sake of our profession, can we make a deal? How about you give me back the person in that robot's hands?"

Raven's tone was a bit lazy, the state of someone dragged from vacation to work.

"Sure."

"Really?"

"In exchange for yourself."

"Tsk, I knew it. Then you can just lie down."

Raven put away her fantastical, iridescent purple sniper rifle and pulled out crimson claws from her crow feathers, assuming a combat stance.

The space in the underground base was large only in relative terms. For a sniper, the distance was too close. It was normal for the Silver Wolf of the Urals to have discovered her.

However, even without using the Third Divine Key, Raven's close-quarters combat strength was still not weak. Among Schicksal's S-rank Valkyries at St. Freya, she was on par with Sister Dudu.

"On par with Sister Dudu... that's not exactly a compliment, is it?"

The silver-haired girl's tone was strange, with a hint of profound meaning. "The Legend of Raven's Fastest Defeat, what do you think?"

"What?"

The inexplicable words made Raven feel bewildered.

"The legend of the fastest defeat, surpassing even Sister Dudu."

"?"

What is that?

The confusion had just arisen when Raven felt her vision go black, her consciousness seemingly pulled from her body.

When she regained her senses, all she could see was darkness. Her body felt imprisoned, unable to move at all.

What happened? Where is this place?

She, a high-ranking cadre of World Serpent, the renowned Raven in both the mercenary and assassin worlds... was defeated in an instant?

"Yo, Mr. Gray Serpent, am I right?"

The silver-haired girl took Raven's earpiece and put it in her right ear. The other end was dead silent, seemingly stunned by the completely unexpected turn of events.

"At this time, a Serpent should be hibernating properly. Please refrain from any rash actions from now on."

The silver-haired girl looked down at the unconscious Raven, a smirk on her lips. "After all, Mr. Gray Serpent, you wouldn't want anything to happen to your adopted daughter, would you?"

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