Chapter 113: "Meet Cocolia"

At the Cocolia orphanage...

Standing on the frozen terrace, and looking up at the sky that would soon become night. Cocolia let out a tired breath, and it all turned into white smoke that was blown out by the frigid wind.

"Matushka Cocolia, what are you doing out there? It's cold outside, please take a blanket to warm yourself up."

"... Thanks Bronya. Don't worry about me, I'm still waiting for some of my friends to come here right now."

"Friends... Clients?"

"What are you imagining Bronya. Never mind, please go inside. If you stay any longer here, mother will be angry."

"Hm, Bronya understands. I'll bring some hot coffee for you later."

"You...."

Cocolia sighed once more, and she smiled slightly.

"Do whatever you want. But if you want to make mom a coffee, at least don't use sugar."

"Bronya got it."

Seeing Bronya go back into the house. Cocolia caught a glimpse of the children running down the hall, and a sad smile appeared on her face.

As a former military officer, she already understood the consequences of stepping on three ships at the same time. she probably wouldn't drown, but she would definitely turn upside down one day.

She doesn't really care about her own life. But thinking about what the children from her orphanage will do after she dies makes Cocolia very frustrated.

The children in her orphanage are children who have survived the honkai incidents that have continued to erupt in the Siberian plains. It has another meaning, that all the children in this orphanage have a very high resistance to honkai energy.

Cocolia could imagine that after she died, her children would surely be taken over by black organizations and local gangs, or maybe they could be used as experimental materials by them.

Cocolia somehow suddenly felt very regretful.

"I don't know what the snakes want from me. Do they want to speed up the X-10 experiment, and extract all the value from me?"

"If this really happens, then I can only send the children to Schicksal or Anti-Entropy... At least they won't hurt the children."

"I hope this snake won't open its mouth too wide because it has seen my weak side."

Thinking through all kinds of possibilities, and also devising a backup plan for the children in her orphanage. Cocolia, who noticed an old car driving down a quiet road approaching her place at a moderate speed, immediately knew that this "friend" had arrived.

Cocolia opened the large fence that had guarded Cocolia's orphanage with a gentle nudge.

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"We have arrived."

Hearing the words of the Gray Serpent. Thea and Aurora got out of the car, and they looked curiously at Cocolia's orphanage building.

"Here?"

"Yup, here."

Thea asked, and Aurora answered immediately.

Letting the Gray Serpent talk to Cocolia to get the X-10 experiment going as soon as possible. Thea ignored Cocolia's suspicious gaze, and she just smiled at her without speaking a word.

After all, her existence here was only as a supervisor.

"If there's nothing needed, then I'll leave. To be honest, I don't know why you had to invite me to this place even though you could come alone." Aurora sighed lazily.

If she could choose not to move, then she would not move. That's the principle that Aurora has always believed in these years.

What's the point of bringing me to this place? You already know the direction, then why are you still asking me to go with you?

I'm really very lazy...

"I feel so lonely if it's just me going to this place alone. It really feels so empty... I feel like crying..."

Seeing Thea start acting on the spot shamelessly. Aurora who understood what the core of what she wanted to convey, could only sigh with a long sigh.

"....Alright, I'll accompany you."

Thea clapped her hands with a small smile: "Thank you, my sweet little sister~"

"Eww... you disgusting me!"

Teasing Aurora, and waiting for the Gray Serpent to finish talking with Cocolia. Thea looked at Cocolia who was sweating coldly, and somehow felt a little happy.

According to her, Cocolia is a very contradictory person in the Honkai Impact game story.

She is a woman who deeply loves the children in her orphanage, and treats them all as if they were her own children. But on the other hand, she also didn't hesitate to sacrifice her children to carry out dangerous experiments to fulfill her ambition.

She can be regarded as a good person because she has saved many children who were stranded due to the honkai eruption in Siberia. But on the other hand she can also be regarded as a bad person because of what she has done to children to achieve her goals.

If summarized simply, Cocolia is a woman who has double standards.

"How?" Thea asked curiously.

"Everything is ready Saintess Thea. It's just that Cocolia hasn't seemed to have informed our experimental subject that she will be conducting experiments in a bit. So, we need a little time to talk to her."

Hearing this, Thea nodded her head: "I think this is a little unfair if Selee doesn't know anything that will happen to her later. Alright, give them a little time. Gray Serpent, take me to your underwater lab at sea of okhotsk to do a quick check. I won't let the slightest mistake happen."

The Gray Serpent tilted his head, and he looked at Thea with his bionic red eyes: "It seems Saintess Thea also already knows about our underwater lab. It feels like this lab being built in a hidden place has lost its meaning."

Felt like Thea already knew all the things they had been trying to hide all along. The Gray Serpent who was wearing a mask, could only sigh heavily.

Stigmata omniscience, really really annoying.