Chapter 49: Help Me, Mr. Jiang Qiao!!
Raven picked up the small object that had been left behind in the corner and examined it carefully.
As a prosperous metropolis, it wasn't strange at all for discarded electronic components to be present in Nagazora City. It was very normal.
However, the very professional Raven had her own method of determining if the thing in her hand was related to the objective of her mission.
"About two days ago, huh?"
Carefully rubbing the surface of the object, feeling the texture, and after looking around at the surroundings, Raven quickly made her judgment.
It hadn't rained in Nagazora City for the past two days, and the temperature hadn't fluctuated much either.
The time that this thing had been here was a complete match with the information that Grey Serpent had provided her.
"Some kind of high-precision communicator..."
Raven could easily determine the nature of the object in her hand. She showed a hint of regret. "Too bad, it's already broken."
It seemed that it had been hit hard, which had caused the communicator to break, and from the looks of it, it was probably beyond repair.
Even the manufacturer's logo on the side of the micro-communicator was worn to varying degrees, and she could only vaguely make out some kind of moth.
"An unfamiliar brand."
As a mercenary, and also a World Serpent executive, Raven, who had been carefully trained, could easily recognize most portable communicator brands. After all, she often dealt with such things.
After she directly took apart the broken communicator's interior, there wasn't much useful information she could find, but she could at least determine that this thing was a military-grade product.
"Fire moth."
Normally, Raven, as a World Serpent executive, wouldn't be able to recognize this mark.
But looking at the pattern, for some reason, she suddenly thought of the place that she often went to.
She covered her forehead, frowned as she looked at the blurry moth pattern in her hand, and gradually, this blurred pattern overlapped with an image in her mind that she had casually seen.
"Clatter—"
The parts in Raven's hand fell to the ground without her even realizing it. Her pupils were constricted, as if she had seen a ghost.
Had she encountered a supernatural event?
…
If it wasn't for her sudden appearance, Elysia and the others might have already forgotten about this little one who had been defeated by them and was being kept in the Raiden Residence.
"You little brat, how did you escape?!"
Because of Cocolia, Kiana didn't have any good feelings towards Bronya, who was before her. While feeling angry, she was also a little confused.
Of course, this was also what Elysia and Mei, who had arrived, wanted to say.
How did the Bronya, who had been tied up and even hit with a bat, manage to escape?
"..."
Actually, Bronya didn't know the answer to this either.
Perhaps it was because Elysia was the one who had hit her, so the injuries she had sustained weren't that serious.
She had originally expected to be unconscious for three to five days, but she had woken up before even a day had passed.
And when she woke up, Bronya found that the ropes that bound her were gone.
She wasn't even in the Raiden Residence, but in a somewhat safer place in Nagazora City.
She had originally thought that Elysia and the others were the ones who did it, but judging from their reactions, they clearly weren't.
Of course, these things weren't important.
Just as Kiana was angrily going to beat up Bronya again, the latter silently looked at Elysia and asked with some urgency:
"How did you know about Seele?"
Whether it was being beaten up or something else, although she had been angry at first, what Bronya cared about most right now wasn't about those things, but rather Elysia.
—To be precise, it was the Seele that she had mentioned.
Just like Sin had said, besides Mother Cocolia, Sin, and herself, no one else knew about Seele.
But that name had been mentioned by this man named Jiang Qiao.
This was clearly an anomaly.
Based on his hostile attitude towards Mother Cocolia, he couldn't possibly have learned about it from her. And there was no way that Sin would reveal it. So, as long as Bronya herself wasn't the one who had leaked it, then there was only one answer left!
Jiang Qiao had met Seele!
"Bronya has been to the underground base of the ME Corp building. You were the ones who stopped Mother Cocolia's plan, right?"
Bronya, with her expressionless little face, seemed very cold as she said this, and Kiana, thinking that she had come looking for trouble, bared her teeth and growled unhappily:
"So what if we did? Are you trying to pick a fight for your jerk of a mom? I'll beat you to a pulp!"
"No, Bronya did not come here to look for trouble."
Although she really didn't like the white-haired fluffball, who kept yapping by the side, and if this was any other place, she would have beaten her up for revenge, but Bronya came here for a more important purpose. So, she had to suppress her displeasure and act submissively.
As the three watched in shock, the expressionless girl slowly bent her knees, slammed her head heavily on the ground, and although her words were devoid of emotion, they seemed to contain an incredibly sincere plea:
"Bronya wants to ask you, please tell Bronya about Seele!"
Although unlike Shenzhou, the other regions didn't have the saying that one's knees were worth gold, and in the Far East region, kowtowing and bowing were a custom, but Bronya's sudden action shocked the three of them.
Even Kiana, who had been aggressive, was just standing there holding her baseball bat, not knowing what to say.
As for Elysia, who was Bronya's main target, her mind went blank. Her CPU was overheating!
Uhhh, umm—
The chubby lady, although she had traveled the world, had never experienced such a thing! Especially when the target was herself.
Bronya: If I kneel down fast enough, you'll be at a loss for words!
There was no doubt that this move was very effective on the chubby lady!
If it had been Jiang Qiao, he might have smiled and accepted Bronya as his dog.
But if it was Elysia, she would only—
Help me, Mr. Jiang Qiao!
Chat group, activate!
Elysia: Help! The girl we beat earlier suddenly showed up and started to kneel and kowtow to me! I need some countermeasures! Quick, Mr. Jiang Qiao! Attached a photo.jpg (Bronya kowtowing) @Jiang Qiao @Jiang Qiao @Jiang Qiao
Hu Tao: If you're apologizing, shouldn't you show…
Hu Tao: Ah, no, that's not right. Do you want to try the new Wansheng Funeral Parlor crossover set, dear customer? Maybe you'll have an idea after you have a taste!
Yunyun: Emmmm...
Yunyun: Very shocked (Emoji).JPG
—At that moment, Mr. Jiang Qiao/Miss [Elysia] was feeding his dear Dr. Mobius a cookie.
The atmosphere was very harmonious~