According to the weather forecast, the coming days would all be bright and sunny, but before long, this place might be filled with thunder and lightning.
Evacuating an entire city in a short time was impossible. If Schicksal made any major moves and Cocolia noticed, there would be even more variables.
He took a sip of wine and set the glass on the low table beside him, his gaze falling on a pen lying there.
He let out a faint sigh.
There was no helping it. He had once again underestimated the system's lack of standards.
Daily Mission Write on the leg of any Valkyrie. Mission reward: 100 Crystals. Mission status: Incomplete.
Otto and Kiana had only arrived in Changkong City that morning. When Otto woke up on the plane and saw the updated daily mission, his composure nearly shattered.
Could he really farm this mission off Kiana?
When Kiana was asleep, she had been the perfect mission-farming tool, but she was wearing White Comet!
He would have to take off White Comet first, then write on her leg. The difficulty was way too high.
So all day long, Otto had kept staring at Kiana's legs and thinking of ways to do it, but he had never found a chance to make a move.
And now that they were staying at a hotel, Kiana was not even sharing a room with him. He had no way to sneak in at night, since he did not have her room key.
He could have asked the hotel for a master key, but that would have been going too far.
Forget it. He would give up the 100 Crystals.
Otto closed his eyes and considered Raiden Mei. What identity and image should he use to approach her? Raiden Ryoma was a trump card, but if he played it too easily, the results might not be good.
"Ding-dong."
It was the doorbell.
Could little Kiana not bear being alone and have come to sleep with him?
That ridiculous thought flashed through his mind, and Otto rose to his feet before walking toward the door.
Instead of opening it immediately, he checked the situation outside through the peephole.
Otto had always been cautious, because he could not be sure that if he died and revived in one of Otto's other bodies...
Which Otto would it be?
However, his eyes narrowed slightly when he saw an unexpected figure—a girl in a wheelchair.
"Bronya Zaychik."
He directly spoke the girl's name.
Bronya sat in her wheelchair wearing an elegant white dress, delicate crystal-like threads wrapped around it like a beautifully packaged gift.
She wore no shoes. Her slender legs, clad in white stockings, rested atop the wheelchair.
Her waterfall-like light gray hair cascaded down her back in gentle curves. Beneath soft, beaded-curtain-like bangs were light gray eyes matching her hair. Her nose was refined, her lightly pursed cherry lips pink and glossy, and her slightly youthful yet breathtakingly beautiful face needed no makeup to be stunning.
However, her face held no expression, like that of a doll.
Though she no longer wore the spiral twin-tails from his memories, Otto still recognized her at a glance.
Come on, how could a Captain fail to recognize Bronya? His system was still using that cutesy Duck voice pack!
Otto subconsciously opened the door.
No one would guard against a woman they had played with from the very beginning.
But the instant he opened the door, Otto regretted it. In that brief moment, he realized this was not a game.
To him, this was genuine reality.
He was the Bishop of Schicksal, while Bronya should still belong to Anti-Entropy. Otto immediately thought of one reason for her appearance before him.
She was here to... assassinate him!
Otto tried to close the door, but a small hand slipped through the gap and grabbed the edge of it.
Looking at those delicate, jade-white fingers, Otto fell silent for a moment. In the end, he could not bring himself to crush the girl's hand.
Otto released the doorknob, and the door slowly opened. The girl in the wheelchair looked at him with an indifferent expression.
"Sir, do you require any services? It's my first time..."
"My mother passed away. I need... money."
Bronya tried her best to make herself look sorrowful, but her emotional circuits were damaged, making it difficult for her to perform convincingly.
She could only tightly clutch her skirt with both hands, as though hiding all her grief within her heart.
Bronya's performance had begun.
Knowing Bronya's true nature, Otto quietly watched her act. This was a ruthless woman who could strangle someone to death with a single stocking, but his reason for letting her in was simple.
Normal methods could not kill Otto.
Strangulation, poison, assassination, gunfire—none of it could harm his Soul Steel body.
Still, he asked the system in his mind.
"System, does writing on Bronya's leg count as completing the mission?"
Yes.
After receiving that confirmation, Otto looked toward Bronya's little feet in white stockings. Noticing his gaze, Bronya lowered her head as though slightly embarrassed.
Her disabled legs could stir men's pity, but they could also awaken their ugly desires.
However, she could not act right at the door, because someone was staying in the room next door.
Once she entered the room, she could immediately subdue this man and torture him into revealing why he was looking for Raiden Mei.
But she could never have imagined it.
Because of his Soul Steel body, Otto had been forcibly stripped of worldly desires.
Thus, he could view Bronya's seduction with perfect rationality.
"Come in, cute little girl."
Otto said with a smile. He turned and walked into the room, while Bronya stared closely at his back. She could tell that this man was completely unguarded against her.
Perhaps he was still thinking about how to savor the sweet dessert delivered right to his door tonight.
The wheelchair rolled into the room. Once it had fully crossed the threshold, Bronya narrowed her eyes.
Bronya sprang from the wheelchair, and this Ural Silver Wolf pounced at the completely defenseless Otto.
Though both her legs were disabled, she was still agile.
She locked her elbow around the man's neck, preparing to choke him unconscious before interrogating him.
She suddenly exerted force.
Then Bronya's expression froze.
Even years later, whenever she recalled this incident, she would think herself incredibly foolish.
She had actually tried to choke a piece of steel unconscious?
After tightening her arm, Bronya discovered in shock that the man's neck was like steel. She could not choke him at all.
Then, while she was distracted for an instant, a hand viciously punched her in the abdomen.
Her consciousness cut off. Bronya's eyes rolled back, and Otto's iron fist knocked her unconscious in a single blow.
Otto caught her body as it fell backward, then tossed the unconscious Bronya onto the bed.
Then he walked to the door.
And closed it.
The man's movements were gentle and fluid.
After farming the mission with Bronya, Otto took a few photos as souvenirs. He had never expected to encounter Bronya of The Big Three so early.
Changkong City was clearly supposed to be Mei's home turf, yet he had not even caught sight of a single strand of Mei's hair.
After briefly looking through the photos he had taken, Otto found Bronya truly adorable.
Otto smiled and uploaded every photo to the Schicksal database for encryption.
However, Otto noticed that the Friendship Points gained this time were not as numerous as before.
To be honest, he had always suspected that there was something wrong with those green Friendship Points, but he could not say exactly what.
Unfortunately, he had only completed three daily missions so far, leaving him with far too few samples for comparison. As expected, he still needed to persevere in completing missions and become a mission master.
Sitting leisurely in the chair in the room, Otto did not choose to do anything excessive to Bronya.
Although Bronya had intended to harm him.
Since it was her first time, he would forgive Bronya.
Looking at Bronya's adorable sleeping face, Otto could not help but sigh. Only a beauty like this was worthy of him.
Heh-heh, there was a lovely beauty next door and a pretty little girl hidden in his room. Life was becoming more and more promising.
But what should he do once Bronya woke up?
Bronya's weakness was obvious. Seele was the person she cared about most, so as long as he held Seele in his grasp, Bronya would be unable to resist him.
But little Seele was still drifting in the Sea of Quanta.
So he would have to cleverly make use of Seele.
As he pondered, the night deepened, yet Otto felt no sleepiness at all. Ever since becoming Bishop Otto, he felt he had become much calmer and steadier.
Was it this Soul Steel body suppressing him, or was the identity of the Bishop of Schicksal restraining him?
Otto had no answer. Regardless of the past, he was now the Bishop of Schicksal.
He took a stack of blank paper from the cabinet, picked up a pen, hesitated for a moment, and finally began writing.
Time gradually passed. Otto finished drawing what he wanted to show Bronya, then inspected it with innocent eyes and nodded in satisfaction.
Then Otto deliberated for a moment.
On the top sheet of paper, he wrote a title.
Bronya's Wedding
He placed the stack of drawings beside Bronya, then returned to his seat and quietly waited for her to awaken.
After waiting a little while, Otto looked toward Bronya on the bed and saw her body twitch.
Bronya abruptly sat up. She looked around, and in just one second, she had sorted out the situation.
There were no restraints on her body, but without question, her operation had failed and she had been captured.
However, she was not someone who would sit and wait for death.
Although, in order to play an ordinary disabled girl, Bronya had left the exoskeleton armor that assisted her movement downstairs in the hotel, she still had the treasure Seele had given her.
A massive phantom behind her nearly condensed into solid form.
"If you materialize Project Bunny, I will temporarily regard you as my enemy."
Otto's words interrupted Bronya's movement.
Bronya sharply turned toward the only man in the room. Before losing consciousness, she remembered being subdued by this man, who looked like some old pervert.
But why did he know about Project Bunny?!
This was clearly the treasure Seele had given her. Even Cocolia did not know that her tactical mech was called Project Bunny!
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