Chapter 52 - Winter Is Coming

[Hold on, Bronya! Don't be seduced by Cocolia and the Stellaron!]

[Damn it! How dare she make my wife suffer so much! Once my husband and daughter arrive, it's your funeral!]

[Wait a minute? Isn't your family a little complicated?]

[In any case, you have to make it in time! I don't want to fight Bronya!]

The bullet comments in the stream were flying one after another. On the screen, Sister Guoguo was frantically clicking her mouse, trying to skip this painful cutscene. She had to… she had to pin Cocolia to the ground and beat her up!!!

[Sister Guoguo! Calm down! Calm down! Your mouse and keyboard are going to break!]

[The sound of her mouse and spacebar is turning into the Great Compassion Mantra for Cocolia's funeral.]

[Anxious, anxious, anxious! I know you're anxious! But you need to stop being anxious first! Think about your mouse! It's about to start smoking!]

[Sister Guoguo! Believe in your husband-wife-daughter-father, they'll handle it!]

[Damn, your whole family is coming to fight Cocolia?]

[My seventh great-uncle was so pissed off seeing Cocolia he jumped right out of his sickbed!]

[Calm down! How do you expect me to calm down!]

"Stop resisting! Don't you realize it yet! Seven hundred years! For seven hundred long years! We have tried again and again, fought again and again, but what have we gotten in the end!"

"Cocolia's" voice became hysterical.

"Our living space has been constantly squeezed! Our strength has been constantly weakened! Our voice has grown fainter and fainter! Until it disappears completely from this world!"

"And He has not cast a single glance upon us! Is our [Preservation] so weak in the eyes of a god that it's not even worth a mention!"

"Cast off your cowardice! Bronya! Embrace rebirth! Embrace Them! Go and listen to Their voice! Go!!"

"Ugh…"

Bronya groaned in pain, her will being eroded by the Stellaron. The false world promised by the Stellaron was appearing before her eyes like a hallucination.

No cold… no monsters… Beneath a blue sky lay a vast, azure sea. The trees by the shore swayed in the sea breeze, and the salty scent of the water filled her senses.

She saw the children of Belobog, barefoot, stepping onto the shore, leaving tiny footprints in the sand… The seawater washed over the beach… carrying their footprints away…

[Oh no! Bronya's being mind-controlled by the bad auntie!]

[Wake up! Bronya! Wake up!]

Watching the mumbling Bronya, completely under the Stellaron's control, the bullet comments all flared up.

"Stop! You witch!"

"Swish!"

A phantom-blue figure instantly appeared in front of Bronya, a scythe radiating a cold light swinging viciously down at Cocolia.

"CLANG!!!"

"Cocolia" instantly materialized an ice spear in one hand to block Seele's attack, while her free right hand simultaneously formed another ice spear and stabbed viciously at Seele's abdomen!

"Don't even think about it!"

March's shield arrived just in time. The Six-Phased Ice instantly blocked Cocolia's ice spear, and Wende's lightning needles followed close behind!

"Clang-clang!"

Seeing this, "Cocolia" immediately flung Seele aside, then back-stepped to bat away the incoming lightning needles.

"Bronya!"

Seele, having been thrown aside, quickly rushed to Bronya's side, wrapped an arm around her slender waist, and pulled her back into her embrace.

"Bronya! Wake up!" Serval shouted anxiously, looking at Bronya's vacant eyes.

She didn't want Bronya to end up like Cocolia!

"Don't worry."

Wende materialized a lightning needle and inserted it into Bronya's Baihui acupoint. The moment the needle went in, the emptiness in Bronya's eyes gradually faded.

"What happened… you guys…"

Bronya clutched her forehead, her consciousness still hazy.

"Bronya, are you okay?!" Seele asked anxiously, holding her.

"Seele…"

"Don't worry, she'll be fine after a little rest. As for what's next…"

Wende looked at the "Cocolia" slowly approaching them, dual-wielding spears, his expression turning serious.

"Oh? A few rats who only know how to poison. Have you finally decided to show your faces?" "Cocolia" said, her face a mask of ridicule as she looked at Wende and the others.

[My dad is here! Prepare to die!]

[Dad!!! She's the one who hit me!!!]

[And you! Are a true hero!]

[Bronya and Seele, ahhhhhh! I'm shipping it so hard!]

[Finally, the boss fight! You can talk all you want! If I can't roll you over, I lose!]

[Show your health bar! Let's have a fair one-on-four duel!]

"Ahhhhhh! It's the Seele/Bronya ship!! I'm dying of sweetness!!"

Sister Guoguo let out a blissful wail. The pure love between beautiful girls! It was just too wonderful!

"Bronya, do you remember our promise? If anything happened to you, I would definitely come and save you! Serval, take Bronya and find cover. This is our business now!"

Seele pointed her scythe at "Cocolia" while speaking to Serval and Bronya behind her.

"Oh? You're here too? You annoying pest."

"Cocolia" glanced at Serval, who was supporting Bronya, and raised an eyebrow, her tone sharp and cruel.

"......"

Serval's body stiffened for a moment, but she quickly recovered.

"I'm not here to argue with you, Cocolia. Sometimes, I think you're more like a pitiable wretch. You'd be very angry if you could hear that, wouldn't you? But what a pity… you can no longer hear."

Serval looked at "Cocolia" with derision, then helped Bronya toward a safe place.

"Is this your choice? So that's how it is… Bronya, what a shame…"

"Cocolia" ignored Serval's words, her gaze fixed intently on Bronya.

"You were supposed to become the mother of the new world… A pity you could not break the shackles of your mind… You will not see that brand-new world…"

"Cocolia's" tone was utterly flat, her pupils devoid of any light.

"RUMBLE!!!"

As Cocolia's words fell, the earth began to shake. The ice and snow on Everwinter Hill started to break loose, and countless Fragmentum creatures were swept away by a violent avalanche.

"What's happening! Why is there a sudden earthquake!" March shouted, struggling to keep her footing on the shaking platform.

"Belobog's fate is sealed! Its future will unfold in our hands, and you… will become the cornerstone of the new world…"