Bronya Without a Goal

Oh, Gray Snake seemed unable to beat that kid. Then there was nothing to worry about.

Just thinking about the kid's bizarre skills from who knew where made Raven afraid.

Powerful strength was secondary.

The most important thing was the fighting style.

Calling him a berserker would not have been an exaggeration.

Hmm...

People like that were generally called reckless brutes.

"Kid? Hmm... kid. Raven, you'll understand later."

Gray Snake gave the person behind him an indifferent glance.

"Huh?"

Raven did not understand what Gray Snake meant at all and froze for a moment.

"You can ask the people there."

"There... then forget it."

A green figure flashed through Raven's mind, and she could not help but shudder.

Leaving that green one aside for now.

The others were terrifying to Raven as well.

Only Griseo's family, Klein, and her Armed Doll were somewhat normal...

"Raven, investigate it."

"Investigate... investigate what?" Raven did not react for a moment.

Gray Snake pointed at the room where the explosion had occurred not long ago. "The mastermind."

"The mastermind... understood."

Raven nodded. It looked like today's mission was to clean up another mess.

"What do you need me to do? Kill all of their people?"

"...No, leave one alive. Have Jackal make contact with him afterward. Jackal has an experiment that needs a test subject and a location."

"I understand."

Bronya Without a Goal

Bzzzz—

The jeep sped down the road.

Lin Nai sat in the driver's seat. Although he did not have a license, his driving skills had grown increasingly proficient.

There was no helping it.

During the time he had spent with Kiana, he had always been the one driving.

His driving, car repair, and similar skills were practically maxed out already.

Today marked roughly one month since they had taken Bronya in, and the Trio Squad had begun their journey.

They had already handed out all the missing-person notices in that city, and the place truly had been rather large.

After putting up the notices, Lin Nai had also taken the other two around to see the entire city.

Bronya was different from the two of them.

Lin Nai wanted to travel and see beautiful sights.

Kiana wanted to find her old father, who had run off to who knew where.

But... Bronya had no goal.

She even felt numb toward life itself.

Fortunately, Bronya had not stayed in that place for very long. It was only because she had talent.

Because Bronya was a genius.

She learned very quickly.

According to Bronya, that camp had not done much brainwashing.

As long as someone was a useful blade in their hands, they did not care.

But Bronya had nearly become a killing machine from childhood. She had never seen beautiful things, so naturally, she felt nothing toward life.

Lin Nai had also been trying to guide Bronya.

But unfortunately.

His passive had not triggered, and his own eloquence was hard to describe...

He was not some male protagonist who could convince someone to look forward to the future just by moving his lips.

So Lin Nai could only wear away at it slowly.

He chose to use time to help Bronya recover.

One month had passed.

There had been some effect, but not much.

Rather, getting her to talk at all was already difficult enough. Bronya's composure was quite impressive.

Lin Nai sat in the driver's seat and watched Bronya, who sat motionless in the backseat, through the rearview mirror.

"Bronya, is there anything you want to eat later?"

"..."

"Bronya?"

"Hm? Lin Nai, what is it? Bronya was lost in thought." The silver-gray-haired girl came back to herself.

Lin Nai asked the question again.

"Cabbage soup."

"Okay, got it."

Bronya then turned her gaze back outside the window, watching the scenery pass by.

It felt like Bronya had been spacing out a lot lately.

Kiana, sitting in the passenger seat, noticed that Lin Nai had no intention of asking her and pouted.

"Hey, Lin Nai, why didn't you ask what I want to eat?"

"Huh? Don't you eat everything?"

Lin Nai was surprised.

Since when had Kiana ever been picky about food?

Didn't she like anything tasty?

"Ugh!"

Kiana puffed out her cheeks and punched Lin Nai in dissatisfaction.

This guy really... did not understand a girl's heart at all!

Lin Nai gave Kiana a puzzled look, somewhat curious.

He had never seen Kiana make an expression like that before.

Why was that?

Lin Nai could not figure it out, nor could he be bothered to think that much about it.

Before long, the three arrived at a new town.

They rented two rooms and settled in.

"Phew, there actually weren't any unexpected incidents this time."

Lin Nai walked down the street with Kiana and Bronya.

Kiana stretched. Even if she had not walked, a long journey by car still left her tired.

"Not every town has thugs."

"That's true, but then our source of income is completely gone. After daily expenses and our future plans, we won't even have money left to print missing-person notices."

Kiana sighed helplessly. "There's nothing we can do about it. It would be nice if someone came looking for trouble right now."

Bronya followed behind Lin Nai without speaking or joining their conversation.

The last time those two talked about money had been the previous time.

It was the next day, when they went to print missing-person notices and discovered that they were nearly broke.

Bronya did not understand. Money was indeed important, but was it really that difficult to earn?

The silver-gray-haired girl tilted her head.

After all, due to her special circumstances, she did not have many demands for food or money.

Others would provide mission funds.

If she were in the wilderness, Bronya possessed extremely strong survival skills.

She could even eat snow raw.

But snow~... wrong channel.

Later, however, Lin Nai had taken her and the one called Kiana around to rob people committing crimes in the streets.

Quite a few thugs had been robbed down to their underwear.

As she thought...

Bronya's steps halted, and her pupils contracted.

She felt as if something had flashed at her. Without drawing attention to herself, she reached for the gun behind her.

"Bronya, what's wrong?"

Sensing the disturbance, Lin Nai stopped talking with Kiana and looked over with the person beside him.

Bronya was vigilantly scanning her surroundings like a small beast without a sense of security.

Lin Nai walked over and took a look. "Don't be nervous. It's just a piece of reflective glass."

Bronya followed Lin Nai's gaze.

She discovered that it really was a piece of glass.

That made the already silent Bronya even more unable to speak.

She had thought that glint looked more like the reflection from a sniper scope, since it had flashed by in an instant.

Maybe...

She simply had not adjusted yet.

Bronya lowered her hand. "Bronya may have seen it wrong..."

"It's fine. Let's go eat, cabbage soup."

"Mm."

Lin Nai took Bronya's hand, lacking any sense of security, and headed toward a nearby restaurant.

Bronya's little hand was icy cold. Someone who did not know better might have thought he was holding a frozen popsicle.