The End

I love Mother Bronya the most!

After finishing the last entry in the diary, Seele smiled faintly, but Black Seele frowned.

The diary had been written almost every day, but... why were the entries from the last two days missing?

"Ding-dong..."

The doorbell rang. Seele set down the notebook and went to answer the door.

What she did not notice was that, at some point, the silver-haired girl on the bed had opened her eyes and was listening silently.

"Ah..."

When Seele returned, she was delighted to find that Bronya had already sat up and was flipping through the diary again and again.

"Big Sister Bronya, did you buy this Houmu doll?"

Hearing Seele's words, Bronya fell silent once more. She unwrapped the package, revealing an exquisitely crafted Houmu doll that looked far more special than any ordinary Houmu doll.

"It's a limited edition."

Seele said in surprise.

"Yes... a limited edition..."

Bronya's hand trembled slightly as she held the doll.

The doll's soft, delicate fabric now felt scalding hot, as though Bronya could not hold it at all.

What did a limited-edition Houmu doll arriving months too late mean...

No one understood better than Bronya.

Memories in her mind kept intertwining and echoing...

Until they finally formed a single voice.

"Bronya, this doll is burning your hands, isn't it..."

"Did it burn through your pride too?"

PS: The second clue: the pink-haired girl uses a bow.

Finale

After calming herself down, Bronya asked Seele to call Kiana, Mei, and the others over.

"Bronya, tell us. Where exactly did Rosia go?"

Kiana asked with her arms crossed.

Bronya glanced at Seele. After Seele nodded, she began telling them how it had all started.

"You idiot, Bronya!"

When Kiana heard that Bronya had long known Cocolia was making moves in the Far East and had kept it from them all this time, she stepped forward and grabbed Bronya by the collar.

"You still don't trust us?!"

What angered Kiana was Bronya's habit of making decisions on her own, always thinking she could solve every problem herself.

"I'm sorry..."

At that moment, Bronya could do nothing but apologize.

Her already inconvenient body had been further ravaged by this ordeal and would need a long time to recover. Even moving herself was difficult now.

"Bronya..."

Even Mei, who usually sided with Bronya, was clearly somewhat angry this time.

After everyone had calmed down again, Bronya continued.

"Wait, you're saying Rosia actually has two personalities? No wonder she was always talking to herself..."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, everyone instinctively turned their eyes toward Seele, because Seele and Rosia looked almost exactly alike.

"Well... Seele has one too..."

Seele said weakly.

"Looks like Rosia really did inherit more from Seele. If she inherited more from that big idiot Bronya, she wouldn't be cute at all."

Kiana complained.

"Then, according to what Rosia's other personality said when the experiment ended, the real Rosia's consciousness has already disappeared..."

Hearing this heavy news, everyone present fell silent.

"Then how did Seele come back from the Sea of Quanta?"

Although the news had silenced everyone, there might still be a turning point.

"Um... I met Rosia in the Sea of Quanta... It was just that she looked a little different..."

Seele explained.

The Rosia she had met in the Sea of Quanta looked somewhat different from the one in the photograph, but before Seele could explain clearly, Black Seele took over her body.

"Big Sister, what use are you, exactly?"

Unlike Seele's tolerance toward Bronya, Black Seele was clearly far less patient.

She had struggled in the Sea of Quanta, thinking only of getting out sooner so she could see Rosia...

And now, she had finally gotten out, only to find that Rosia was half gone, while the other half seemed to have gone mad...

Black Seele could not understand what Bronya had been thinking.

That bastard Cocolia's experiment had already caused so many tragedies, and Bronya could still trust her?

"Big Sister, the next time I see Cocolia, I'll chop off her limbs, cut out her tongue, gouge out her eyes, and deliver her helplessly before you..."

"Hehe... I hope that when the time comes, you'll personally..."

"Put her out of her misery."

Black Seele's hatred for Cocolia and fury at Bronya's failure to stand up to her had reached their peak.

If even one of those two had acted normally, this never would have happened.

She had finally gotten a good daughter, and after enduring countless hardships to get out, she had wanted to see her.

Smack! Gone!

Black Seele was so angry her lungs hurt.

Even when Kevin had threatened her in the Sea of Quanta, she had not felt this miserable.

This had crossed her bottom line. She should have cut down that bastard Cocolia long ago!

Listening to Black Seele's increasingly terrifying muttering, Kiana asked Bronya.

"Rosia's second personality isn't also..."

"No..."

Bronya shook her head.

"Really? That's good..."

Before Kiana could breathe a sigh of relief, Bronya added.

"She's much more terrifying than Seele's other personality."

"..."

Kiana was utterly speechless. Could Bronya not pause like that when she talked? It was terrifying.

Because of Seele's words, everyone relaxed slightly. If Seele had seen Rosia in the Sea of Quanta, then Rosia might still be alive.

"Then the one sealed off in the Far Eastern waters now is Rosia's other personality, the one that activated the stigmata?"

Although everyone was dissatisfied with Bronya's series of actions, now was not the time to dwell on them. They had to focus on bringing Rosia back.

"Most likely. The power around her is strange, and something is wrong with her condition."

Even Bronya, who had lost the ability to control her emotional center, could feel that suffocating fear.

It was not fear that ordinary people could resist, but instinctive fear that reached from the flesh to the soul.

Moreover, this power seemed to be beyond "Rosia's" control. Or rather, it was constantly influencing "Rosia," turning her into what she was now.

At the very least, during their brief encounter, Bronya had felt that "Rosia" might not have originally been so extreme.

"R-right, Rosia left something with me. She hoped I could give it to the Rosia outside..."

After Black Seele had vented her emotions, Seele helplessly regained control of her body and remembered.

When she took out the pure-white hair ornament streaked with silver-gray, everyone present felt their hearts calm under its influence, as though a soft whisper was constantly soothing them.

"No matter what, let's first find a way with Headmaster Theresa to save the other Rosia."

Raiden Mei analyzed rationally.

They did not understand Rosia's condition at all, so they could only start with the other Rosia.

From the looks of it, the item Rosia had left with Seele should be just what they needed to help "Rosia."

"Seele, I'm counting on you..."

Bronya looked at Seele. Even her current consciousness was being forcibly maintained. If she went out, she would only drag them down.

Bronya now hugged Rosia's notebook to her chest, wanting only to curl up beneath the covers and escape from everything.

She could do nothing. She was powerless against all of it...

"Ah, this Bronya..."

Only after leaving Bronya's room did Kiana begin to complain.

"She usually looks pretty calm, but she always gets confused when it matters most. Who knows what she's thinking..."

"Um, Seele, can you tell me how you and Bronya ended up having a child?"

Although everyone's feelings were complicated, Kiana still tried to lighten the mood.

"Seele... Seele doesn't know..."

Seele blushed at Kiana's words.

As for Rosia, this child, Seele felt both surprised and happy.

She was happy because Rosia was the child of Big Sister Bronya and herself, and because both Black Seele and Big Sister Bronya liked Rosia very much.

She was surprised because Seele did not know whether she could bear the responsibility of being a mother.

After all, she herself was still a child who needed to be raised...

"All right, stop teasing Seele."

Raiden Mei knocked Kiana on the head and said irritably.

Seeing Seele blush as though she were drunk, Raiden Mei knew Seele was thin-skinned. How could she withstand Kiana's teasing?

Of course, Raiden Mei felt that Kiana was deliberately trying to build a better relationship with Seele.

Did Kiana really think Mei could not see through that little scheme?

Far Eastern Coast

The previously wandering "Rosia" had become restless, and the Valkyries holding the front line were gradually unable to endure.

Even the area-of-effect fallout from one of "Rosia's" casual attacks required an A-rank Valkyrie to block.

"Bishop, Lady Theresa said she has a... well, special Valkyrie there who should be able to ease the current situation."

Amber reported.