Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

"Mei-nee, is it confirmed that the gem in your body was implanted by your father?"

"Even if it wasn't implanted by my father, he must be involved. And your Anti-Entropy... is not trustworthy at all. Don't you have a chip in your head?"

"That..."

Raiden Mei and Bronya were whispering to each other in the night.

Their whispering didn't avoid Cocolia's ears, and it was clear that the three of them had been successfully 'tamed'.

Bronya was helpless about the chip in her brain. Of course, the chip in her brain was implanted by Cocolia.

This pair of mother and daughter really hadn't done anything good.

"Mei-nee, aren't you planning to escape?"

"Escape? Escape to where? To find my father? To that school without any friends? To a home with no one? To ME Corp where there are people everywhere who are eyeing you with bad intentions? At least here... aside from turning into a pony, there doesn't seem to be anything bad."

Raiden Mei had already given up. There was no way she could escape.

She realized one thing: even people like Bronya and Cocolia couldn't escape, and even that man with the big sword, Siegfried, who seemed so cool, couldn't win.

'I'm just an ordinary girl? How am I supposed to escape?' Raiden Mei just smiled bitterly.

Bronya was shocked. She never expected that Twilight Sparkle... oh, Raiden Mei, the pony she was taking care of, had already given up.

'But I still have to find Seele. I don't want to stay here.'

Bronya knew that she couldn't count on Cocolia. That woman wouldn't be able to escape even if she wanted to.

But now they all knew Noldrei's next plan, which was to use the Honkai energy brought by the gems to attract more people to attack this small place.

This place would soon become a very dangerous battlefield.

If people from Schicksal and Anti-Entropy came to attack, Bronya thought that would be the best time to escape.

But Bronya herself didn't think she had a chance to escape.

"But if we keep staying here, what if we turn into something like goo one day? Wouldn't that be terrible?"

Bronya thought that was too terrible. She definitely didn't want to become like Kiana.

"That's the ultimate form of humans 130,000 years in the future. Don't think I can't hear what you're saying. I can hear the vibrations of mosquito wings within a radius of ten miles... You still want to become like that?! You're dreaming. It's not like free lunch falls from the sky like that."

After saying that, the tentacle with one eye and one mouth disappeared on the spot. Before leaving, he even mocked the primitives here for being toads trying to eat swan meat.

Bronya's already pale face turned even paler.

'Don't suddenly appear and speak! Isn't it perverted to eavesdrop on so many people at night?!'

"See, it's like that... He doesn't like us, so don't worry. At worst, you'll just turn into a pony. See, you've already turned back, haven't you?"

Raiden Mei's comfort made Bronya speechless.

"Then what do we do in the future? We can't escape from such a powerful guy. Are we just going to sit here and wait for death?"

Bronya couldn't hide the despair in her voice. She still had to go back...

"Why not join him?"

Cocolia, as expected of Bronya's good mother, had an excellent dialectical moral bottom line.

"......?" Bronya turned around and looked at Cocolia, who was also lying on the other side.

"Joining him, I don't think it's unacceptable. Since he can capture Siegfried, he must have a considerable level of combat power. And from the way he looks, he doesn't seem to be the kind of person who doesn't treat human lives as human lives. Even if we join him, at worst, we'll just become playthings for a while."

Cocolia stared at the dark ceiling and said, "If that's the case, why don't you think about how you should get help from him? So-called friendship is just you giving me some material benefits, and I giving you some material benefits."

"Friendship isn't like that!" Raiden Mei refuted this idea. She couldn't let this woman corrupt the little girl.

Who knew that Cocolia would turn over, support her head with her arm, and actually stack herself into a big hamburger in Bronya's shocked eyes.

"Little girl, you're right. There are also spiritual benefits, emotional needs, life insurance, and all sorts of other things. I didn't say enough."

"You?! You're an unreasonable woman!"

Raiden Mei was choked, but she still retorted, "You deserve to never get true feelings and the devotion of others."

"Heh, if emotions were really useful, then the one who defeated the Honkai would definitely be the one with the most emotions." (I mean yes..)

Cocolia didn't give an inch.

Bronya shrank her head and carefully hid herself under the blanket.

'What's going on? I just wanted to ask everyone if they wanted to escape...'

'It seems like I can't count on them.'

Seeing that the two were about to start arguing.

"Can you guys stop arguing? I want to sleep! Wouldn't it be better to have a fight tomorrow to decide the winner?!"

Another tentacle with eyes and a mouth came down to issue a document notification to them.

Bronya poked her head out and looked at the tentacle speechlessly.

"I'm so sorry!" *2

After receiving two sincere apologies, Kiana also retracted her tentacle.

She could hear the sounds that Noldrei could hear, but she didn't expect that these three would be so noisy after they were no longer ponies.

"Mei-nee, does she really need to sleep in that form?"

Bronya thought it was too outrageous. No matter how you looked at Kiana, she didn't look like she needed to sleep.

Raiden Mei hesitated for a moment and said, "Maybe, they really are human?"

Bronya pointed at the ceiling and said, "Didn't you hear them say that humans in 130,000 years are in space? In that place, there's no such thing as 24 hours a day or 365 days a year. That means that humans in that era must have mastered an unusual way of resting. Think about it, she definitely doesn't need to rest."

Raiden Mei's eyes lit up and she praised, "What you said makes a lot of sense. That's true."

Cocolia also became much more honest and skillfully changed the topic, saying, "What you said makes sense. In that case, she should be able to control her body to keep herself in the same mental state as during the day."

Kiana opened her eyes in the darkness, her eyes shining brightly.

A pair of searchlights were shining on the ceiling.

She hesitated for a long time, and finally gave up on going down to cause trouble for those three.

"So you're just not planning to let me sleep, are you?"

Kiana just did a little experiment to see if she could restore her energy like Cocolia said.

And guess what? It was like she had taken drugs, it was so effective!