A Special Way of Communicating with Bronya (4k)

At this moment, no one was watching her, tiny as a speck of dust.

Special Way of Communicating with Bronya (4k)

In a ramen shop in Changkong City.

Kiana heartily finished a large bowl of noodles, then called out loudly to the waiter, "Boss, another bowl!"

Raiden Mei and Wendy stared in horror at Kiana, who had already eaten three extra-large bowls of tonkotsu ramen.

The white-haired girl still had oil stains at the corner of her mouth as she remarked with lingering satisfaction, "It's been so long since I've eaten this much."

She looked at Chen Ran sitting beside her and smiled. "Thanks for the meal."

Chen Ran spread his hands. "The funds provided by Schicksal would go to waste if we didn't use them. Besides, it's being spent on you, so Headquarters won't have any objections."

Kiana blinked. "Am I that special?"

Chen Ran remarked, "Why do you think you were admitted to Chiyou Academy?"

"Wasn't it because someone discovered that this young lady was extraordinarily talented?"

"I hope you'll be this confident during the exams too."

The two of them spoke like a comedy duo, with both the straight man and the funny man present.

Sitting beside Wendy and across from Kiana, Raiden Mei asked, "But I really am curious. The ME Company matter should have nothing to do with Kiana, so why..."

It would not be good to say outright that Kiana was useless.

But Kiana really was of no use right now.

Chen Ran casually asked, "Kiana, what's your surname?"

"Kaslana. Why?"

Wendy, who was dealing with her noodles, suddenly understood. "Oh, I get it."

A look of just as I thought appeared in the girl's eyes as she said, "Kaslana is Schicksal's knightly family. Every member of the Kaslana family is a born warrior against the Honkai."

However, those words instead made Kiana somewhat suspicious. "I've heard that from that stinky old man before, but I always thought he was just fooling me."

She asked Wendy, "Then do you know where my father is? His name is Siegfried."

Wendy shook her head. "I don't pay attention to that, but if you want to know, you can come to the Far East Branch. I'll introduce you to Teacher Theresa. She's in her forties this year, so she should know a lot."

Kiana immediately perked up. "Sure!"

Chen Ran sighed from the side.

He finally understood why the Far East Branch had sent someone over.

So this was within your expectations too, Otto?

Still, from his own standpoint, he had no urge to expose the entire Sirin Plan right away.

After all, he had seen the plot and understood that some things were "necessary sacrifices."

In the end, if he defeated the Finality, none of this would happen.

Of course, that was merely wishful thinking.

Kiana said impatiently, "Then... once we settle things in Changkong City, I'll go with you to that... Far East Branch, and then meet your Teacher Theresa."

Raiden Mei seemed to want to say something, but stopped herself.

Chen Ran saw through her thoughts and said, "You're special. Schicksal will make arrangements for you."

He paused, then said, "But that isn't something I can decide."

There were far too many things Chen Ran could not decide.

Still, given the current situation, Raiden Mei should not become a Herrscher again, right?

After all, the previous Raiden Mei had been saved by Kiana when she was in despair. Things were different now; she had not even felt despair.

Of course, the Honkai was unpredictable.

Until the system notified him that the stage had been cleared, he could not let down his guard.

At that moment, his communicator chimed with a message notification.

An email had arrived on his phone.

"Wendy, Mei, I'll be leaving for a moment."

He had to admit that the computer knowledge provided by the system was extremely useful.

Although he had left the ME Company early, he had planted his own Trojan horse within the company's internal network.

Raiden Ryoma had only been imprisoned recently, and Cocolia had not yet fully taken control of the place. Chen Ran believed Cocolia would still have use for the ME Company.

This was Anti-Entropy's source of free funding. Would Cocolia simply let it go?

Even if Cocolia truly did let it go, Chen Ran did not believe there were no secrets whatsoever within the ME Company's network.

That notification just now had come from data transferred by the Trojan horse, information regarding the ME Company.

It had to be acknowledged that the ME Company's internal firewall was genuinely formidable. Even without Raiden Ryoma, with the security department in a passive standby state, it had still taken Chen Ran's Trojan horse a long time to transfer the data out.

His eyes scanned through the information at a glance, skipping past the ME Company's production records as he searched for the most important thing.

The location of the Honkai Energy reactor.

One fact was obvious: if Cocolia wanted to orchestrate the Changkong City Honkai outbreak, it could not have been a spur-of-the-moment decision. She would have prepared everything beforehand, then begun the plan only afterward.

Otherwise, putting aside everything else, after Raiden Ryoma's sudden downfall, could Cocolia guarantee that Schicksal would not intervene...

It seemed that she actually could.

As Chen Ran reviewed the files, he muttered thoughtfully, "It seems that aside from when I reported Anti-Entropy's activities to Headquarters, Headquarters has not provided any information at all."

"Does Headquarters not take Anti-Entropy seriously?"

That was worth considering.

But after giving it only a brief thought, Chen Ran gave up.

He had no interest in investigating the truth behind Changkong City. He only wanted to end the simulation scenario as soon as possible and return.

As he had expected, the information transferred by the Trojan horse included some data on the Honkai Energy reactor.

But what made Chen Ran frown was that the Honkai Energy reactor had already been moved into Changkong City before Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned.

"Tch."

His gaze sank into thought. "If the Sirin Plan is centered around Kiana, then the Divine Right Plan is a supplement to the Sirin Plan."

"Changkong City really is plagued by disasters. It really ought to be renamed."

A trace of contemplation appeared in his eyes when his communicator suddenly sent out an alarm.

"Damn it, the Trojan was discovered."

The instant the alarm blared, a warning flashed through his mind.

A bullet shot toward Chen Ran.

Chen Ran reacted quickly enough to instinctively shift aside, only to discover that the bullet landed on a target more than ten meters to his left.

In other words, even if he had not dodged, the bullet would not have hit him.

He looked up and saw Bronya standing atop a high-rise building across from him.

Clearly, this was "communication."

Without hesitation, Chen Ran immediately gave chase.

Ignoring the astonished looks of the people around him, he leaped high from the open ground, then used the wind to vault onto the building.

There was no doubt this would stir up public controversy, but to Chen Ran, this was merely a simulation scenario.

What did future public controversy have to do with him now?

That was what Chen Ran thought, and that was what he did.

Bronya was not about to be outdone either. She jumped from the high-rise she stood on toward another direction.

More precisely, she did not jump. Heavy Onslaught Rabbit carried her down.

This special machine Seele had given her allowed Bronya to move freely anywhere, because Heavy Onslaught Rabbit could fly.

The machine behind the girl was like a knight, protecting Bronya from being caught by Chen Ran.

Chen Ran clicked his tongue. "I'm not playing a racing game with you."

"But if you want to play a game, I'll indulge you."

Although he had not grown wings, his mastery over fluids allowed him to move even faster.

Using his authority would accelerate the consumption of his consciousness capacity, but that did not matter. His consciousness capacity could slowly recover anyway.

From this perspective, Chen Ran had no worries holding him back.

Seeing Chen Ran draw ever closer, Bronya frowned.

"According to the intelligence gathered by Anti-Entropy, the Chiyou Academy teacher named Chen Ran is a special intelligence operative for Schicksal. For some unknown reason, he has become involved in this matter."

Cocolia spoke into her ear. "According to the agreement, Schicksal should not have interfered in Changkong City's affairs. There are now two possibilities: Schicksal's Bishop has gone back on his word, or Chen Ran acted on his own initiative. Bronya, your mission is to determine his background. We have no need to provoke unnecessary trouble."

"Bronya understands."

"What are you doing? Why is there noise coming from your communicator?"

"It's the wind." Bronya replied expressionlessly. "Bronya just fired a shot and is currently fleeing."

She paused, then added, "This is the fastest way to communicate with someone."

Cocolia: "..."

She somehow felt that this child had a rather strange misunderstanding of communication.

Chen Ran was fast, but Bronya was not slow either.

After he leaped onto one building and then down from it, he saw that Bronya had already started speeding away on Heavy Onslaught Rabbit, which had transformed into a motorcycle.

"Tch, did I awaken her competitive spirit?"

He frowned and chose to continue chasing her.

As he chased her, he shouted, "You'd better run faster. Otherwise, once I catch you, I'll give your ass a good spanking."

Bronya remained expressionless.

Chen Ran could use his physiological advantage to make threats, but naturally, she could not retaliate in that regard.

Besides, making threats was not her style.

Taking potshots was.

Chen Ran suddenly sensed danger. A bullet had been fired at some point, and it was about to pierce his shoulder.

His eyes narrowed slightly. A vortex of wind directly deflected its trajectory, but even so, the bullet nearly struck his body.

"Tch, that counts as you provoking me first. Since that's the case..."

"I won't hold back either."

The power to control fluids was actually far more terrifying than one might imagine.

Naturally, Chen Ran was not using the ability of ideal fluids right now. Ideal fluids did not exist in the real world, so he could not create something nonexistent out of thin air.

But he could control other fluids.

And besides accelerating himself, fluids could also interfere with others.

"You'd better be careful now."

"Wind and rain, heed my command!"