The soldiers around the ME Corp compound clearly did not take our invasion kindly. Shouts filled the area as men and women(for Honkai reason? I don't know) came out to try and stop us.
"Attackers!"
"Take them down!"
Pretty much the same thing I've heard so many times at this point.
Kiana and Bronya immediately sprung into action when they saw this.
Project Bunny took the hits while Kiana tore through the soldiers like they were nothing.
After that, she took their guns and ammo with the intent to go crazy with them.
And that she did.
She was like a shadow as she easily took down many other soldiers with her kit now, not even needing Bronya's shielding anymore.
Seeing this, Bronya's Project Bunny 19C swapped its lance…
For some sort of particle cannon?
Since when does Bunny have DLC?
With a quick charge, she went blasting.
All in all, the two of them seemed to have made a lot of progress since the time we first met.
At least Kiana did I guess. I have no idea if Bronya had this in her back pocket the entire time already.
At the side, Mei was not completely sure of what to do as she held her unsheathed katana in hand.
She didn't seem very comfortable with so many lives being taken in front of her and she didn't seem to have much of a role to slot into in this scenario.
Thus, I teleported beside her with Blue.
"We're running out of people for you to take your vengeance out on y'know?"
"Eep!"
Mei squeaked out in surprise as she turned to look at me.
"You surprised me!"
"It's a battlefield. You should be ready for anything." I said calmly.
"I… understand. I'm just having some jitters…"
"Understandable. But since you chose to come…" I paused briefly. "Then you should be ready to take a life."
I knew that it wasn't the best thing to tell a probably traumatised girl right now, but I just had to do it.
Hesitation kills.
Even the strongest can die if they pause at the wrong mom-
Wait…
Wasn't that exactly what happened to…
No no no.
I need to get back to topic.
"What are you doing then?" Mei asked. "You seem to be standing there too?"
"I'm aura farming."
"Aura what?"
"You wouldn't understand. C'mon now. You can just beat them up if you don't want to kill yet."
She looked at me for a moment, before taking a deep breath. Her eyes became steely before a hint of lightning appeared around her.
Without speaking another word, she attacked as well.
But when I watched her fight, I blinked.
She… err…
A little bit brutal, yeah?
She was basically juggling some of those guys with her blade and Honkai energy…
Well…
It seems that I don't need to worry about her.
It was at this moment that a very brave soldier suddenly charged at us with some sort of high tech blade in hand.
"DIE!!!"
The blade just stopped in front of me.
And the man's shout immediately dropped into an unsure whisper.
"Die?"
I just smiled at him with amusement.
"Dismantle."
—----------------------------
"That was pretty good." I said as we walked into the no longer defended entrance.
I had been watching the girls fight the entire time I was aura farming. It wouldn't be good if I had to take care of everything for them all the time.
They had to learn how to take care of themselves.
I wasn't too worried about Kiana and Bronya, but Mei could have been an issue.
In the end, she turned out to be a natural.
It was a surprise, but a welcome one at that.
"You didn't even do any of the fighting!" Kiana accused me.
"I took the aura farming role." I said seriously. "You don't understand the importance of looking cool."
It was just like how some people say.
Looking cool is a lifelong commitment, strength is just a temporary state.
It didn't make much sense to me but I'm just going to do it anyways.
"Subject Gojo is probably just lazy."
"Agreed." Kiana nodded.
I sneered. "Bah. You mere mortals cannot comprehend my superior intellect. I took care of the traps on the way anyways!"
To be fair though, the traps were pretty useless against the combo of Infinity and Epitaph.
"Subject Gojo is trying to talk like Sister Mei's Herrscher persona."
"Why am I getting dragged into this?" Mei asked indignantly.
"Apologies. The Bronya could not control her mouth."
"We're here." I suddenly interrupted with a deeper tone. "The control room of ME Corp is in front."
The reason why we chose to look for the control room was that it was linked to the whole building.
Then, we could seize control of the place along with all its traps. After that, we would find out how to traverse this giant building as well.
After that, we would be the modern day Robin Hoods and take all the dangerous weapons from the hands of the insidious Cocolia!
Take from the rich and take some more!
The rich in question did not include me of course.
Hypocritical? Yes. But I am a very… flexible person.
I can change my philosophies on a whim.
As we entered the control room, we were met with a row of monitors linked to the CCTVs throughout the entirety of the building.
There were computers as well that were connected to the traps, but the seats for them were empty.
There was nobody defending this room…
"What's up with this? It's undefended?" Kiana said, speaking out about my concerns. "Don't tell me that they all ran away?"
"Probability of such a scenario occurring is 80%. Perhaps reinforcements are being called at the moment"
"Then we should go quickly, shouldn't we?"
With a deadpan, I grabbed onto her before she could make a move.
"What are you doing? We need to hurry up right?"
"You're going to run headfirst into a trap or something. At least let me scout it out first.""Psshhh? It's fine! Kiana Kaslana can deal with anythi-"
A loud siren suddenly filled our ears as the lighting of the room shifted to crimson. A metal door immediately shut behind us as the monitors in the room turned to static.
"You and your mouth Kiana…"
"Oops?" Kiana scratched the back of her head awkwardly.
I sighed. However, I didn't seriously blame her in my heart.
I knew that a scenario like this was likely to happen at some point. It was just a matter of when.
"Stay close to me. Don't get split up if anything happens." I warned them.
The worst thing that could happen now was if this room split into some sort of weird maze and then they tried to take us out one by one.
A weird scenario, but not something that was impossible to happen given the technology in this world.
The girls gave a nod in response to me.
Charging up Honkai energy in my hand, I prepared to break the metal door before the static of the screen cleared up.
And in its place, was a blonde woman with twin drills, not too different from the stand user next to me.
I glanced briefly at her. That was all it took to see the complicated emotions in Bronya's eyes
That gave me the confirmation of who I was speaking to right now.
"Gojo Satoru." The woman greeted me.
A sneer reached my lips.
"Cocolia…"
(A/N: How was the chapter? Please give powerstones and comment if you liked it. Please review as well if possible
Here is the invitation to the discord. Remove the space between dis and cord. It's a bit of a work in progress so bear with me here.
https://dis cord.gg/cqQG4rmhXN )