Chapter 406 Reluctant

"Sister Bronya, won't you go back with us?"

At the gate of Qianyu Academy, Xier was carrying two schoolbags one after the other and looked at Bronya helplessly.

It was approaching four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky in the west became dim again. Bronya took a deep breath, and a cold current poured into her lungs instantly, which also made her somewhat groggy consciousness clear after a day of class.

"Well, Xi'er, please go back first, I..."

"I know, sister Bronya has a mission!"

Xi'er smiled lightly, how could she not understand? I just wanted to get an answer from Bronya. She is very sensible, and of course she will not hinder Sister Bronya from carrying out the tasks assigned by Cocolia's mother just because of her reluctance.

"Um……"

Bronya snorted softly, stretched out her hand to rub Xi'er's head, and whispered:

"You don't need to wait for me to eat dinner with you, and you don't need to go to bed. Don't be stupid like the previous times. Do you understand?"

"Um."

Xi'er nodded.

"Then...huh?"

Bronya took Xi'er's hand and took two steps forward. Just as she was about to leave, she caught a glimpse of the driver named Mikael standing on the road three or four steps away with his back to the car, with a smile on his lips. Looking at them.

"Ahem! Xi'er, did you say you were going to run out of pencils at noon today? I'll buy you two."

"Huh? I..."

Xi'er was a little confused. When did she say she was running out of pencils? But seeing Bronya's serious look, she reacted immediately and quickly cooperated:

"Ah... then, please, Sister Bronya."

"You should go with Xing and the others first. I'll buy pencils and catch up right away."

Bronya patted Xier's schoolbag gently and gave her another reassuring smile. Then, she turned around and ran to the stationery store on the other side of the school gate in front of Mikael.

It was just after school time now, and the stationery store was noisy and crowded with students. Most of them were in lower grades, but with Bronya's height, there was nothing unusual about being among them. The owner of the stationery store didn't notice her at all. people.

"one two three……"

She counted silently in her mind, and half a minute later, she squeezed to the door of the stationery store. She didn't completely walk out, but only exposed half of her face and glanced at the black car carefully with her peripheral vision.

Mikael was still leaning against the car body, as if he had to rely on the support of the car body to stand. However, he no longer paid attention to anything else. He was holding a mobile phone and didn't know what he was looking at.

"The stationery store is a good cover. Isn't that guy feeling something? No, it should be just a coincidence. Although he is powerful, how could he guess my actions unless he mastered mind reading? But this This guy is too lax. If he were in Siberia, he wouldn't be able to survive even a day. But why would Raiden Ryoma find such a guy to take care of his daughter? "

Raiden Mei and Kiana hadn't appeared yet, so she still had enough time to do some trivial fantasies, of course, mainly complaining about Mikael. She has seen many mercenaries, and not all of them are like her. No matter whether there is a mission or not, even in daily life, they always remain serious.

People who work in this field are actually more like Natasha. Once a task is performed, they are extremely serious. Once the task is completed, it is not surprising that they are so lazy.

However, this is just an appearance. A person like Raven, even if he passes out drunk, still has to keep one eye open to be alert to the surroundings. How about someone like Mikael, who is still technically on a mission? Have you started playing with your mobile phone laxly?

Bronya couldn't explain why she had such a big objection to Mikael. Perhaps it was because he was very similar to her in terms of hair color, eye color, and facial features, except for height and gender, so she let her She had this complicated sense - she was a little afraid of him, but she also couldn't see him slacking off, as if she was the one slacking off.

Then, Bronya unconsciously began to fantasize about another possibility: What if she had met not Cocolia but the Thunder Dragon Horse?

Could it be that the person sitting on the edge of the car doing nothing at this moment became Natasha, and she was protecting Raiden Mei?

Um? Then Mikael may have become Cocolia's subordinate, and that's also...

"How could I think so."

Bronya tapped her head lightly.

"If this were the case, I would never have met Xi'er... Ah, so it turns out that the deepest bond between me and there is because of Xi'er?"

Bronya thought about it, and it seemed that it would not be unacceptable if Xi'er could "change the family" with her. But why do I have such thoughts?

Maybe it's because he is a mercenary who only recognizes money but not people - no, that's not what Uncle Maxim taught him at the beginning. This is Natasha's style, never Bronya's, then... …

There was only one other possibility - she actually couldn't accept some of Cocolia's mother's actions from the bottom of her heart, so much so that she even thought, "If the roles were reversed, it wouldn't be unreasonable to be an enemy of Cocolia." " idea.

Of course, she was grateful to Cocolia. If she had succeeded in killing Cocolia at that time, what would happen now? Probably she would still be killing with Natasha in Siberia for survival - no, she might have died in a sudden exchange of fire.

It was Cocolia who gave her a more stable environment, no worries about food and clothing, and only needed to complete tasks occasionally. Not to mention that Cocolia also took them away from the hell-like Siberia and came to the more prosperous and peaceful Far East.

It was precisely because of this gratitude, or it should not be said so noblely - it was to take these as prepaid rewards, that Bronya willingly obeyed Cocolia's drive.

But gratitude, obedience, or even understanding, these do not mean recognition.

She knew that Raiden Ryoma was framed, although in Cocolia's own words: She just asked Mr. Raiden Ryoma to go to another place to rest for a while, and it would not hurt anyone, let alone anyone's life. Moreover, activating the Conquest Gem and the Serenity Gem was something she had to do for some reason, and the existence of Raiden Ryoma would only be an obstacle.

But is it really so? Bronya at least saw that Raiden Mei, an innocent girl, was isolated and humiliated in school because of this, and endured the malice that she should not endure at this age.

There is also the issue of the Conquest Gem and the Serenity Gem... What are these two "gems", Cocolia has been hiding from her. Natasha seems to know something about the inside story, but she refuses to tell her anything. Only through the conversations of the scientific researchers in white coats can we get a glimpse of it - this is an experiment with a very high sample mortality rate.

It doesn't matter if she is one of the samples of the X-10 experiment, but what about Raiden Mei? Is she going to add another "victim" identity to the identity of "victim"? She had done nothing wrong, but she lost her father first, and it was very likely that she would even lose her own life... This was too pitiful.

It was strange to say that Bronya had killed countless people with her own hands and witnessed their various expressions when facing death, whether they were resolute, numb, or humble and ugly struggles and begging for mercy. At that time, she had never been soft-hearted, and she had never felt a trace of "pity".

Maybe at that time, if she didn't kill, she couldn't survive, and there was no room for thinking about anything else. Or maybe, everyone she killed at that time, no matter for what reason, had their hands stained with the blood of others, and a sentence of killing for life could erase all mercy.

In short...

"No! How could I think about these things at this time!"

She hugged her head and shook it hard, and just then she felt a little more awake. Looking around, the figures in the stationery store had become sparse. After all, most of the people who came here to buy stationery were lower grade students who got out of school earlier, and the upper grade classes got out of school later, so few people would come here.

With fewer people around, her figure seemed a little abrupt, because her hair color, hairstyle and appearance were too recognizable in the Far East. However, there were many students standing at the door of the stationery store waiting for their parents to pick them up in the past, so although it was abrupt, it did not attract any excessive attention. For most people, it is enough to live their daily lives. Even if they see some eye-catching people and things, they just look at them more or laugh it off.

Bronya quietly poked half of her head out. Fortunately, fortunately, Mikael was still there, which meant that Raiden Mei and Kiana had not come out yet.

She waited for another two minutes, until she glanced sideways for too long and her eye muscles began to twitch, and then the purple and white appeared in her sight together.

"What if Kiana followed Raiden Mei back to the villa directly?"

She had thought about this question before, and she could not rule out this possibility. If this possibility came true, she would not have any countermeasures.

But it doesn't matter. Even if it is true, she will not lose anything, just wasting some time. Although the book says to cherish every minute and every second, the fact is that life is both short and long, and every minute and every second is a step towards death, but even if you waste a few minutes, hours, or even a few days, it will not have any big impact.

Her luck today seems to be particularly good. The possibility she was worried about did not happen after all. Kiana waved her hand to send Meiyi to the car. She could feel her smile from a distance, but she just stood on the side of the road until the car door was closed, watching the car slowly start under the control of Mikael.

"It's bad!"

The car was driving in the direction. If Mikael had a keener observation, he might have seen her, so Bronya quickly hid her body back in the stationery store until a black shadow flashed in front of the door, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

A moment later, Kiana walked past the door of the stationery store humming an unknown tune. Bronya was about to follow her, but unexpectedly Kiana took two steps back and stared blankly at the stationery store, not knowing what she was looking at.

Bronya was startled by her sudden action, but fortunately she didn't stay at the door of the stationery store for too long, and didn't notice Bronya, and then left on her own.

"Boss, a triangle ruler!"

In order not to arouse other people's suspicion, Bronya took a palm-sized triangle ruler from the counter and silently counted the time in her heart. When she finished paying and walked out of the stationery store, the distance between her and Kiana was about ten meters, which was neither too far nor too close.

She just stepped on the footprints left by Kiana openly, and the dazzling sunset came from behind, and the road ahead was illuminated for a while.

"It's perfect!" She gave herself a victory sign in her mind, "This way even if she turns around, she won't be able to see my face clearly."

But such a thing did not happen. Kiana's rental house was very close to Qianyu Academy. Bronya had not followed her for more than two hundred steps when she saw Kiana walking into an apartment building.

Bronya waited deliberately before following in. The first floor of the apartment was very simple, almost an elevator room. Bronya looked at the number on the elevator screen and stopped at the seventeenth floor, and then pressed the elevator button. call button.

I have to say that her luck today was so incredible. After entering the elevator, she discovered that she needed to swipe her card to press the floor button. She was about to take the stairs instead, when a woman with shopping bags hurried away. Come in.

The woman pressed the floor button without thinking, then turned her head and glanced at Bronya after finding no response.

But she was not free enough to ask questions, and Bronya was not conscious enough to explain herself. The woman took out a set of keys and unlocked the elevator with the small card hanging on the key ring. After pressing the button for the eighth floor, she softly asked Bronya:

"To which floor?"

Bronya did not answer, but took a step forward and pressed the button on the seventeenth floor. The woman naturally had no objection.

Perhaps in the eyes of some people, asking others to press the floor button can reduce the risk of fingerprint leakage, but so what? This matter would never have been such a big deal that the Police Department would need to conduct a fingerprint search, and everything would be resolved privately.

If it really comes to that, the monitoring along the way will not be simple. How can we get fingerprints?

The elevator slowly stopped on the eighth floor, and the woman walked out of the elevator without even looking at Bronya.

Half a minute later, the elevator stopped at the seventeenth floor. Bronya stepped out of the elevator and saw three doors that were not much different.

"It's really troublesome, but it's to be expected."

She took out a device that looked like a miniature telescope from her pocket, and then naturally selected the door in the middle. She placed the device at the cat's eye, and when her eyes met, she immediately had a clear view of the room.

"I...go..."

Bronya was once again favored by the goddess of luck. Through the peephole, she could see Kiana pacing back and forth in the house - and she guessed right again!

And her good luck didn't end there, because after pacing around twice briefly, Kiana suddenly messed up her hair and got into the toilet.

"Good opportunity!"

She took out another small device and injected the plasticine-like medium into the keyhole. Soon, white smoke mixed with a soft "sizzling" sound and the smell of metal corrosion came out.

She waited another two or three seconds before the door lock popped open, and there was no room for maneuver anymore.

Although very reluctant, I finally got to this point.