"...All right, it was just a wordplay joke. When Bronya is rendered in the writing of a certain region on this planet, it can be pronounced as Bangya. Change the tone slightly, and it becomes 'ban ya'... hmm, a cute duck."
"So that's how it is... That really is an interesting saying."
Bronya nodded, fully believing it, but for some reason, images of Silver Wolf and the little Bronya here suddenly surfaced in her mind.
At once, Bronya felt that something was strange, yet she could not quite process it.
"Um... I came this time because I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of Lord Liu Bai's interpersonal relationships."
Bronya spoke to Cocoilia.
"Lately, I've felt like... I can't quite keep up with Lord Liu Bai and the others."
"It would be strange if you could keep up..."
Pela muttered under her breath, but no one paid her any attention. Cocoilia put on a serious expression.
"That's a long story... Although I already explained this family to you once before, if you want to understand it..."
Cocoilia began.
At that moment, Bronya's thoughts returned to the duck soup Pela had mentioned.
It was rather concerning. More importantly, it did not sound like anything nice.
Compared to praise, insults were more likely to stick in one's mind.
(Wait... duck? Bronya?)
Although she did not want to make the connection, Pela was clearly implying something.
(Duck soup... does that have something to do with the other two mes...? Thinking about it carefully, the other two mes seem to have very peculiar relationships with Lord Liu Bai.)
Bronya was not an idiot who could be fooled by one or two remarks. She quickly grasped Pela's possible hidden meaning.
(*In other words, the normal interpretation of "being taken away to make duck soup" should