Ahem, reject infantilized aesthetics—it starts with you and him. (Not really.)
Why was this girl suddenly taking off her socks?
A question mark appeared over Lin Nai's head. "What's wrong with you?"
"Oh, my socks got wet just now, so I'm changing them." Bronya wore a businesslike smile.
This surprised Lin Nai.
Wasn't Bronya supposed to be expressionless?
Bronya only became expressionless after undergoing the experiments. Before that, she could express emotions.
Let's thank the system for the explanation.
Lin Nai didn't pay it much mind and planned to go out onto the balcony to enjoy the view. Staying indoors was getting a little boring.
But just as Lin Nai passed by Bronya—
She suddenly sprang into action!
The wet stocking wrapped around Lin Nai's neck.
Lin Nai: ???
No, he hadn't provoked her either, had he?
Why?
"Urgh... urgh... ah..."
A few minutes later.
"Ah↗ ah↘ ah→ ah."
Bronya, who was strangling Lin Nai with all her strength, sensed that something was wrong. She tilted her head and leaned closer for a look.
Lin Nai's expression remained completely calm, while his cries grew increasingly perfunctory.
It didn't work?
How could that be?!
Bronya was utterly shaken!
A look of surprise flashed across her face.
Huh?
Why was this person still alive?
Lin Nai looked up, Bronya looked down, and the two stared at each other.
One wondered what the other was trying to do, while the other wondered why this person was still alive.
It was at that moment—
The front door was suddenly pushed open.
Kiana, who had eaten her fill, froze on the spot. The food she had brought back for Lin Nai fell to the floor.
Her first reaction: I was here first...
The two looked over.
The three of them stared at each other wide-eyed.
Kiana said, "I... I might have come at a bad time?"
Lin Nai said, "No! You came at exactly the right time!"
Not long after...
Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya formed an exceptionally stable three-way standoff.
A triangle.
The most stable shape.
"Lin Nai, so you have this kind of fetish?" Kiana wore the expression of a cat who had been slapped in the face.
She glanced at the silver-haired girl changing into white stockings.
The white stockings slid smoothly over her fair, delicate little feet.
Like a popsicle... no.
And everyone knew Bronya's butt was a...
Even though she was still small and hadn't become 8＞50000 yet, it was still pretty nice.
Enough of that.
Kiana had even specifically bought some food to bring back for Lin Nai.
Yet the moment she returned, she saw that brain-rattling scene!
Could it be that all men would turn into the way her dad was?
Lin Nai: Don't slander us. What's wrong with men liking women! No, more importantly, this wasn't even the same situation!
"So, what's your name?"
"..."
Bronya didn't say anything. She simply stared at Lin Nai, then looked at Kiana.
"Hmm... not talking, huh..."
Lin Nai stroked his chin.
Kiana also looked over seriously. This girl gave her a very dangerous feeling.
In every sense of the word.
"Why can't Bronya kill you?"
After a long while, the girl before them finally spoke.
Normally, when she killed people with stockings, she never missed.
But today, Lin Nai had been strangled for several minutes and was completely fine.
She couldn't understand it at all.
Afterward, her fate would be either death or becoming a prisoner.
Bronya felt that even if she had to die, she should at least die knowing why, so she spoke up to ask.
She had been careless.
She should have had someone leave a gun in the hotel room.
"Why can't you kill me..." Lin Nai pondered how he should demonstrate it to Bronya.
But the things in the hotel were rather expensive.
The nearby Honkai Beasts had already been cleared out too. It wasn't like he could take Bronya somewhere to watch him fight a Honkai Beast, right?
"Bronya... is your name Bronya?" Kiana asked curiously.
Bronya didn't answer.
"Maybe it's because you don't have enough strength?"
Bronya blinked. If she hadn't left her gun behind, she would have given Kiana a shot right then.
What did she mean, Bronya had no strength?
Did she not know what the Ural Silver Wolf was?!
"Hm? Lin Nai, what are you doing?" Kiana noticed that Lin Nai had somehow produced a whole pile of tools.
"No, I was just wondering whose mouth was harder—hers or that pancake guy next door."
"As I said, a wise man submits to circumstances. I'm sure these tools can pry open Your Excellency's mouth."
Bronya: "..."
Beep beep beep—
An urgent sound suddenly came from outside the door.
Boom!!!!
The front door was blown open.
The sound of shattering glass came from the window.
In just a few minutes, a squad had stormed into the room, their guns aimed at Lin Nai and Kiana.
"Things are really lively..."
Lin Nai leaned back on the sofa and casually swept his gaze over the people surrounding them.
"Kiana, what do you think?"
"I'm watching while sitting down." Kiana yawned. "After all, what haven't we seen before?"
What a pity.
They probably wouldn't be able to stay at this hotel anymore.
Bronya was just about to say something when she was interrupted.
One of the fully armed people glanced at Bronya, who sat off to the side, and raised his gun.
"Those are the orders. Sorry."
Bronya fell silent.
Is that so... because the mission failed.
That was true. Those were the rules.
The person who trained them had been that strict. As long as a mission failed, death was the only outcome.
There wasn't even any chance to admit fault or receive punishment.
"No, no, no, Silver Wolf, you're mistaken."
One of the fully armed people shook his head, denying Bronya's guess.
"We aren't killing you because you failed your mission, but because... you are the sharpest blade under the officer's command."
Those words came out abruptly.
Bronya froze for a moment and looked up in confusion.
The leader pointed his gun at Bronya. "That person has already planned everything out, so now you need to die."
"Sorry... we have no choice. These are all that person's orders."
Bronya lowered her head and remained silent.
She hadn't expected such an absurd reason.
Power?
The young Bronya didn't understand.
She only knew that she was probably done for.
Listening from the side, Lin Nai more or less understood what was going on.
So... this was a power grab?
By the way, who was that person?
Sha Fu Lin?
This was indeed something neither he nor Kiana had ever seen before. The two listened in on the gossip.
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