"During the Second Honkai War... was your first contact with Anti-Entropy real or fake?"
Cocolia asked.
Back then, Cocolia had still been a Russian soldier and had not yet joined Anti-Entropy.
She had also lived through that disaster.
She was one of the few survivors. It had been her first encounter with the Honkai, and from then on, Cocolia's connection to the Honkai had never been severed.
She remembered what had happened then.
Meteorites fell, and tsunamis descended...
It was precisely because of those events that Russia had become plagued by disasters.
She knew that Anti-Entropy had once been involved in the Second Honkai War, but Cocolia had not known that Xu Yanwu had also taken part in matters related to the Second Honkai War.
"I don't want to ask what you did during the Second Honkai War, but I do want to ask something... Since you had already been in contact with Anti-Entropy back then, what exactly had you been plotting when you came to my orphanage?"
Cocolia's question left Xu Yanwu unsure how to answer for a moment.
Was Xu Yanwu supposed to say that he knew what would happen in the future, so he had gone to Cocolia's orphanage because of Bronya and the others?
"How could I possibly have had some ulterior motive back then? Look at what I did at the orphanage. Didn't I raise those children nice and healthy? And did I ever do anything that harmed you or them?"
Xu Yanwu's words made Cocolia recall those days for a while.
But no matter how Cocolia thought back on it, all she remembered was Xu Yanwu working tirelessly in the orphanage.
"...Then, that child you brought back then... was Kiana Kaslana, wasn't she?" Cocolia continued, "What did you do with her?"
"...That is a