The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

“Two?” Raiden Mei tilted her head in confusion, while Raiden Ryoma looked away and returned his gaze to the Titan mecha group on the other side. There was an indescribable coldness in his words, “If you really want to fight now, I won’t stop you, but at the same time… I can’t just stand aside and watch the woman who bullied my daughter.”

"..." Raiden Mei didn't say anything, but pursed her lips, feeling a little warm in her heart because of her father's anger.

"Well, if that's the case, why don't we have a competition?" Siegfried looked at the interaction between Raiden Ryoma and Raiden Mei, and suddenly showed a somewhat amused smile, "I and Kiana will be one team, and you two will be one team, and we'll see who can destroy more Titan mechas?"

“How bored are you?” Raiden Ryoma was helpless. He glanced at Raiden Mei, but saw the desire to win that was suddenly ignited in his daughter’s eyes. The refusal he wanted to say was stuck. “…Okay, but let me make it clear before the fight. After all, we are different from you, father and daughter. We don’t have such powerful strength. Don’t blame me for borrowing the power of the Titans.”

"Of course there's no problem with that!" Hahaha, Siegfried laughed heartily, and a confident smile appeared on Kiana's face. She looked at Raiden Mei and said, "It's settled. Even if it's my opponent Mei, I won't let her win!"

"I will return the favor!" A smile appeared on Mei Raiden's face that she hadn't shown since she became a self-disciplined person.

Looking at the two pairs of father and daughter who were still talking and laughing in the face of a powerful enemy, Li Shubai opened his mouth, wanting to complain, but suddenly stopped, and an indescribable feeling of loneliness surged in his heart.

Logically, he should be happy at this time. The crisis has been resolved. Kiana and Raiden Mei have also reunited with their father. At this time, he only needs to stand back and wait for the victory that is within his grasp. The mere mecha group can never be their opponent. And Li Shubai also believes that with the kind personalities of Raiden Mei and Kiana, they will definitely not alienate him after this incident.

Even knowing this, it was still painful... He recalled that when he first crossed over, there was no one around him that he knew, his parents stayed at MEI all year round, and were implicated in the financial fraud case of Raiden Ryoma three months later and were imprisoned. The whole world was unfamiliar, his classmates turned against each other, and all he could feel was endless malice around him. Even Mei Raiden, whom he had met several times, was just a stranger with the same appearance and personality as the game character he knew.

Therefore, he even lost the desire to escape from Changkong City, thinking that it would be good if he died like this, but he was overwhelmed by fear and guilt because he witnessed the mass death of humans. After all, he was just an ordinary person. Even if he saw an unknown stranger suddenly fall down on the road, he would release basic kindness and think about calling an ambulance.

Although meeting Kiana reawakened his hope for the future and gave him a goal to strive for, he didn't return to the negative and depressed state he had at the beginning of his journey. But... things that make people feel uncomfortable will make them feel uncomfortable uncontrollably. Even though he told Raiden Mei that he didn't care about other people's gossip, how could he not care at all?

Kiana and the others have already started the battle. There are flashes of fire and swords coexisting, and sharp sparks flying in the air. The Titan mechas are being destroyed and chopped down one after another. Just as Li Shubai expected, it is an overwhelming victory without any confrontation at all.

But looking at the tacit fighting postures of Kiana and Siegfried, Raiden Ryoma and Raiden Mei, an indescribable huge pressure inexplicably weighed on his heart. The huge pressure forced him to retreat step by step, slowly leaving the battlefield, getting farther and farther away from Kiana and the others.

Being in the center of the battlefield, Kiana and the others, who were concentrating on competing for the number of Titan mechas destroyed, did not notice anything unusual about Li Shubai, but the other two did.

One of them is Cocolia, who can see everyone's every move from all directions through the monitor of the Titan mecha.

She stared at the surveillance video with a terribly gloomy face. After seeing Li Shubai's body slowly retreating, an uncontrollable impulse suddenly surged into her heart.

It’s all because of this guy... If it weren’t for this little bastard, the capture of Raiden Mei would have been completed by Gray Snake long ago.

Since the failure of this operation is a foregone conclusion, then at least the obstacle should be made——

A fierce look flashed across Cocolia's eyes. She operated the joystick, locked the Thunder Mecha HUD sight on Li Shubai's body, and then pressed the fire button hard!

——Pay the price you should pay!

The first person to notice the abnormality was Kiana.

When the four lightning mechas shot out a large number of scattered streams of light, she realized that something was wrong almost immediately.

"Not good!" Kiana's face changed drastically and she gave up smashing the mecha she was riding on without saying a word. She jumped up and rushed towards Li Shubai without thinking.

Siegfried, Raiden Ryoma and Raiden Mei also reacted the same second Kiana made the move. Siegfried's pupils shrank slightly. It was too late for him to rush over and snatch Li Shubai from the missile group at this distance. He could only raise his one arm and aim the Holy Judge of Skyfire at the groups of missiles flying in the sky. In less than half a second, he fired forty-five shots in a row at his fastest speed -!

Boom! The loud gunshots that almost merged into one were accompanied by forty-five flashing pillars of fire that rushed away, and forty-five missiles were accurately detonated directly in the air. Fire and flames flickered in the air, and the sound of explosions was endless.

But it was still not enough. More than 200 missiles were scattered in the air. It was impossible for only three Titans and Siegfried, Raiden Ryoma, Kiana and Raiden Mei to completely stop them. After realizing this, Raiden Ryoma and Siegfried's faces suddenly became extremely bad, and anger like a tide surged uncontrollably in their hearts.

Although they didn't say it, as fathers, they were all grateful to Li Shubai. But now they failed to protect the benefactor who had always taken care of their daughter. This was more than just a shame, it made them feel ashamed to the point of being embarrassed.

And at that moment when everyone could only watch Li Shubai turn into a ghost under the missile swarm——

——Another person who had already seen this scene has arrived.

Swoosh! Blue flames gushed out, and the flying figure came to Li Shubai's side with an elegant and calm posture that was more like dancing than fighting. Before Li Shubai came to his senses, she stretched out her arm and grabbed his waist, then used the literal blue flame in her hand to draw several round and sharp arcs around like swinging a sword.

"Being distracted during a battle is not a good habit to promote, Captain."

She lowered her head and looked at Li Shubai's somewhat dazed face in her arms. A beautiful smile appeared on her mature and somewhat cold face.

He looked up, but could only see a vast expanse of white that towered into the sky, filling his entire field of vision. The ravines between the mountains seemed bottomless, yet so close at hand.

Bronya Zajcek - Secondary Silver Wing.

On this ginseng!

Chapter 25: Kiana: It was me first... It was obviously me first...

"Behind Kiana is Siegfried, behind Mei Raiden is Ryoma Raiden, and behind Li Shubai... is the entire Hyperion!"

Under the cloudless sky, flames rose into the sky one after another.

More than two hundred missiles were falling straight towards Li Shubai, and even Siegfried and his men could not stop them.

However, the missiles that were supposed to use a series of bombings to blow Li Shubai's body to pieces were easily shattered by the dark blue sword shadow that wanted to protect Li Shubai.

With the sound of gray-white short boots gently stepping on the ground, Li Shubai's body lightened.

He raised his head and looked at the person who had his arms around him in a daze.

Her silver-gray curly hair, flowing with sunlight, swayed gently. She lowered her face slightly, and a little smile appeared in her calm pupils: "Being distracted during a battle is not a good habit worth promoting, Captain."

The pure white wing-shaped cape fluttered freely in the cold winter wind. In the combat uniform that looked like a dress and perfectly combined elegance and sharp handsomeness, the bottomless black and flawless milky white competed with each other.

Seeing the beautiful woman with silver-gray curly hair suddenly appear and save Li Shubai, everyone present, including the Titan mecha controlled by Cocolia, and all the mechas that were fighting could not help but be stunned.

Kiana's rapid pace came to an abrupt halt.

She stared blankly at the beautiful woman with silver-gray curly hair who perfectly combined an elegant and chic temperament with a beautiful and mature posture in a wonderful form. For some reason, when she saw Li Shubai being held by her slender arms around his waist, Kiana felt an inexplicable sour feeling in her chest.

Unlike Kiana who was feeling uncomfortable, Siegfried couldn't help but whistle after seeing that Li Shubai's crisis was resolved, and he admired her in his heart.

He never expected that this mature beauty, whose combat level even he found quite terrifying, actually came to Changkong City just to protect that boy.

Thinking of this, Siegfried couldn't help but nudge the serious-looking Raiden Ryoma with his elbow and whispered in his ear: "Hey, Ryoma, isn't that boy the son of your subordinate? How could a beautiful woman with such terrifying strength protect him? Your intelligence work is really inadequate."

"...Indeed, I don't deny it." Raiden Ryoma honestly admitted Siegfried's complaint, which was not really a complaint, and his serious eyes revealed a sense of seriousness. "If it weren't for my imprisonment that implicated his parents, I wouldn't even know that the child already had the audit qualification, let alone the woman who appeared now."

Suddenly, Thunder Ryoma glanced at Siegfried calmly and said, "However, in this situation, I think we should worry about something else."

"What's the matter?" Siegfried was stunned and asked back, while Raiden Ryoma pointed his mouth in the direction of Raiden Mei and Kiana and said calmly: "Look at them."

Siegfried followed his instructions and turned his gaze to Mei Raiden and Kiana, who had been in a daze since the beginning, and stopped talking immediately.

Li Shubai stared blankly at the face that was very familiar to him, but in his perception it should not appear at this time, and said: "You..."

Just as he said a word, the arm wrapped in white sleeves was raised. The silver-gray curly-haired beauty who easily destroyed the detonation system of all missiles in that instant stretched out a white finger and gently placed it on Li Shubai's mouth.

"Shh, it's not time to talk yet..." said the beauty, then she raised her head and turned her gaze towards Kiana and Raiden Mei who were in a daze, "I wonder if we can add another group of participants to the two pairs of father and daughter over there in this enemy annihilation competition?"

"Wait... wait!!!" Before Kiana and Mei Raiden, the father and daughter, could speak, a shrill voice suddenly rang out from the Titan system's speakers, "This voice... what is your relationship with Bronya?!!!"

The moment she saw the beautiful woman with silver-gray curly hair, Cocolia stood up from the chair in the control room and looked at the monitor with disbelief in her eyes.

"What are you talking about, Cocolia's mother?" In Cocolia's eyes full of astonishment and shock, the silver-gray curly-haired beauty on the monitor turned her head slightly and looked at Cocolia who was looking at the monitor, "I am Bronya, Bronya Zaycek, Cocolia's mother, don't you even recognize your own daughter?"

In an instant, Bronya's words changed the expressions of Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma.

She is actually from Cocolia?

Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma were not the only ones whose expressions changed. Looking at the elegant and chic adult beauty on the screen, Cocolia almost instinctively wanted to refute, what a joke, how could she not know what Bronya looks like?! If you want to fool people, don't tell such a lie that will be exposed at the slightest provocation!

"But...but..." But for some reason, although it was something she could say with confidence, Kokolia stuttered for a long time and couldn't utter a complete sentence.

As a mother, Cocolia's love for Bronya was indeed real. Just by looking at her, she could fully understand that this mature beauty in front of her was not lying. Although her face and figure were very different, her standing posture, the tone of voice when she called her "Cocolia mom", her subtle movements, and even her voice that was very mature but still very familiar to Cocolia, all of these told her a fact that Cocolia couldn't believe.

This mature beauty with silver-gray curly hair was undoubtedly the Bronya she knew.

Suddenly, Cocolia reacted and took a long, deep breath to calm her restless mood. Then, she spoke in a calm voice: "Since you are Bronya, you should still remember the mission I gave you, right?"

"Of course Bronya remembers." Bronya's voice was as calm as water waves. "The third Herrscher who awakened in Changkong City, Raiden Mei, was captured, right?"

The moment Bronya finished speaking, Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma immediately moved their feet, one in front and one behind to protect the still dazed Raiden Mei.

"Beauty, this joke is not funny at all." Siegfried was sweating on his forehead. As the only person present who had fought Bronya head-on, he was also the one who could best understand how strong Bronya was.

If she was determined to take Raiden Mei away, there would be no way that he and Raiden Ryoma could stop her.

Facing the vigilance of Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma, and feeling Cocolia's gradually expectant gaze, Bronya smiled.

"Don't worry, Mr. Siegfried." She pursed her lips and revealed a faint smile. Her tone was brisk and without any hostility: "I told you before, my mission is to protect the captain's safety, that's all. Whether it's your daughter or Mr. Ryoma's daughter, I have no hostility towards either of them."

"captain?"

"captain?"

"captain?"

Except for the two girls, Kiana and Raiden Mei, everyone present, including Cocolia, couldn't help but ask the same question in unison.

Chapter 26: Separation

Raiden Ryoma and Siegfried looked at each other, looking at each other's confused expressions, and both read the three bright words "I don't understand" from each other's expressions. Cocolia couldn't help but frowned and shouted angrily: "What are you talking about? Bronya, have you forgotten our purpose?"

"Purpose?" Bronya's smile faded. She tilted her head and said faintly, "What is the purpose of capturing the Herrscher?"

Cocolia slapped the keyboard in front of her in frustration: "You know! As long as the research on the Herrscher is successful, we will..."

Bang! Before she could finish her words, the screen of the monitor in front of Cocolia turned into a snowflake.

A trace of sweat appeared on the foreheads of Raiden Ryoma and Siegfried, and their necks began to turn like robots. Finally, they focused their eyes on Bronya who came to the group of mechas in an instant.

It was unbelievable. Even though she was still holding Li Shubai with one arm, Bronya's burst of super speed in that first second made Siegfried and Raiden Ryoma unable to react.

Eleven Titan mechas and four Thunder Mechas collapsed in an instant with a loud bang, raising a cloud of dust on the ground. The cross-section, which was so smooth that it could almost be used as a mirror, was covered with steel debris.

"Ms. Cocolia—" Although Bronya knew that Cocolia could no longer hear, she still spoke in a flat tone, "—your daughter will no longer trust you."

The wing-shaped weapon slowly retracted the blue flame that was as surging as a lightsaber. Bronya glanced at the steel wreckage on the ground and said calmly: "I'm sorry that your game cannot continue."

Suddenly, Bronya felt a warm feeling envelop her head.

She lowered her head and looked at Li Shubai in her arms with an inexplicable expression: "Captain, Bronya is no longer a child."

Although Bronya's tone did not fluctuate much from beginning to end, Li Shubai could still sense that Bronya seemed to be in a low mood. So he subconsciously reached out his hand and gently touched her head wrapped in silver-gray curly hair. As a result, he realized that this behavior was quite impolite after Bronya called him.

"Ah, sorry, sorry--" After being told this by Bronya, Li Shubai withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, and scratched his cheek with embarrassment.

"It's okay, Bronya forgives you." Suddenly, Bronya lowered her head and put her thin lips close to Li Shubai's ear, "But, Bronya is grown up now. It's very rude to treat an adult woman as a child."

Because Bronya lowered her upper body, her elegant face, which was already very close to Li Shubai's face, became even closer. Her warm breath with a faint fragrance stimulated Li Shubai's sense of smell, making his brain a little blank.

...Huh.

So close... This distance is too dangerous, right?

Poor Li Shubai had been single for more than 20 years, so he had never seen such a scene. Before he traveled through time, because of his profession, the people around him were mostly women of the same age as aunts, and the topics they talked about were mostly directly related to money, so there was no romantic atmosphere at all. After traveling through time, he was implicated in his student life because of the imprisonment of Lei Dian Long Ma, and within a few months, all his classmates turned against him.

Before Li Shubai could think carefully, a huge force suddenly hit his arm, almost tearing his arm off. He couldn't help but cry out in pain: "Ouch! It hurts! Kiana?!"

It was the white-haired ball with a black face who pulled Li Shubai out from Bronya's majestic chest. Kiana pouted and subconsciously opened her red lips, but suddenly got stuck.

Wait, what am I doing?

What should I say?

Instead of thinking, Kiana, whose body had completed the action on its own, froze. She maintained the posture of grabbing Li Shubai's arm without moving, and her beautiful blue pupils began to produce circles visibly.

Because of this, she failed to notice the increasingly strange expressions on Siegfried and Raiden Mei's faces.

In fact, at first, Mei Raiden looked at Kiana with approval as she decisively pulled Li Shubai out of the heart of the man they thought they could never compete with. But when she saw Kiana holding Li Shubai and not moving, as if the computer was frozen, Mei Raiden's eyes gradually began to become uneasy.

"Pfft..." In the end, the deadlock was broken by a sudden laugh. Bronya covered her red lips lightly, held her lower chest with her other arm, and showed a very happy smile on her face. "You don't have to be so alert to me. After all, Bronya doesn't have much time to stay here."

While she was speaking words that no one could understand, she raised her head towards the horizon, and after taking a quick glance at the empty sky, she shifted her gaze towards Raiden Ryoma and Siegfried.

"You two, are you still planning to stay here?" Bronya said in a nonchalant tone, slightly mischievously. "According to the time, the people from the Far East Branch of the Mandate should soon realize that a battle has taken place here. In addition, the Third Great Collapse just happened. The airships carrying out the search mission will definitely not be as simple as searching a transport ship."

The expressions of Raiden Ryoma and Siegfried changed. Since the ship coming was neither a search ship nor a transport ship, it must be a battleship.

The floating battleship, plus the commander-in-chief who is likely to go out in person, Theresa Apokalis, who was once given the title of S-class Valkyrie. If they really arrive here, even if Siegfried and Raiden Ryuma want to escape, it will be a fantasy.

According to Anti-Entropy's plan, their ultimate goal is to use the Moonlight Throne to fight and eliminate the Honkai. Before reaching their ultimate goal, the power of Destiny is undoubtedly indispensable. This is also the biggest disagreement between the radicals and conservatives of Anti-Entropy at this stage. The radicals led by Cocolia advocate that they should hold the Moonlight Throne system and the Herrscher core in their own hands, while the conservatives led by Tesla and Einstein advocate seeking opportunities to cooperate with Destiny.

Although Theresa would not kill both of them, it was indeed not the right time for them to come into contact with Destiny at this point in time.

"Damn dad, are you leaving again?!" Kiana has always been a person with sharp intuition. Just by seeing Siegfried's expression, she had already realized what he was thinking.

"Hey, wait, don't pull me..." She dragged Li Shubai, who was jumping and protesting, to Siegfried, lowered her head slightly, and pinched Siegfried's empty sleeves with her other hand, and said in a trembling voice: "Dad, I don't want to be separated from you."

Siegfried pondered for a moment, then he and Thunder Ryoma looked at each other, sighed deeply, then squatted down, stretched out his one arm and touched Kiana's head: "Kiana, Daddy is not going anywhere from now on, I will stay with your Uncle Ryoma forever."

"Then I want to be with my stinky dad too!" Kiana broke free from Siegfried's rough hands and shook her head desperately, her words mixed with tears: "I finally found you! Don't think you can abandon me so easily!"

Chapter 27 Persuasion