Xingtetsu: You are not included in Elio's script!

"I found this, take it." Seele took something off the box and handed it to Bronya.

Bronya also took it and said, "What is this...brooch?"

"Natasha often teaches us handicrafts. This must be a child's masterpiece." Xier explained.

"Why are you giving me this?" Bronya looked at the brooch in her hand.

"Didn't you give Eric that medal? It's not that valuable, but it's a replacement."

"But this was made by someone else with great effort, right? If we just take it away like this..." Bronya hesitated.

"You are so rigid. You just accept it when I tell you to."

"Okay..." Bronya put on the brooch.

...

"Finally this is the only place left. I hope I remembered the direction correctly." Xier whispered to herself, her eyes full of anticipation and nervousness.

"This is...ah, I found it!" She suddenly shouted excitedly, "Great, these supplies are almost intact! Natasha will be surprised to see that these things she stored a few years ago can still be preserved so well."

"Huh? What is this?" Xier accidentally found a special object while sorting things.

"This is..." Bronya's eyes were instantly drawn to it, and she carefully identified the object. "This is something I had when I was a child."

"When you were a child?" Xier and Xing beside her both showed surprised expressions.

"Yes, I'm sure." Bronya's tone was a little excited, "I used to live here. This was my home before the City Builders took me away and Lady Cocolia adopted me. I am from the Lower District."

"Are you from the lower district? Or are you the adopted daughter of the Great Guardian?" Xier's voice was full of disbelief.

"Yes." Bronya nodded, "I am the heir designated by the City Builder. In the future, I will become the guardian who leads Beloberg."

"This..." Xing and Xier were so shocked by the news that they were speechless.

"Why do I remember this now?" Bronya was a little confused. "My childhood memories are very vague, but I remember the city builders said that the selection of guardians would be carried out throughout Beloberg, and the process might take several years."

"During this period, every child in the upper and lower districts will be tested, and only one child will be selected in the end." Bronya continued to recall, "I seem to have been selected here, and then taken away from here."

The four of them were silent for a while, and the atmosphere seemed a little heavy.

"We didn't expect that you, Bronya, would be the future Great Guardian." Seele sighed, "Does Natasha know? Will she also be kept in the dark?"

"No, I don't think she knows." Bronya shook her head. "The selection of the Guardian's successor is a secret among secrets. The chosen child must completely say goodbye to the past."

"That's why I became the daughter of Lady Cocolia. I have no other identity except being the next guardian." Bronya's voice was filled with helplessness, "But I... I feel that I am still far from this identity."

"I see Iron Guards sacrificing their lives in the Rift every day, but I can't make up my mind to change my mother's mind. I know that people in the lower districts are suffering, but I can't do anything." Bronya's voice was filled with pain and self-blame.

"Hey, are you going to stop crying like this?" Seele suddenly interrupted Bronya, "You are the Great Guardian who has to protect everyone, how can you be so weak?"

"I..." Bronya was speechless after what Seele said and could only lower her head in grievance.

"Don't cry, Bronya." Seele walked up to her and patted her shoulder gently. "You have too much burden in your heart. Why do you push yourself to this point?"

"That's why I became Lady Cocolia's daughter... I have no other identity except the next guardian, but I, I am so far from it... I witness the Iron Guards sacrificing themselves in the Rift every day, but I can't make up my mind to change my mother's mind. I know that the lower districts are suffering, but I can't help... My former home has become like this, but I was kept in the dark... In the end, I can't protect anything. Why was I chosen? How can I be competent..." Bronya said painfully.

"Hey..have you said enough?"

"Ah..?" Bronya turned around and looked at Seele.

"You're crying and making so much noise."

"I..." Bronya lowered her head in grievance.

"What? You're just saying a few words to move yourself. Do you think I will sympathize with you? You can hide in the palace and daydream about whatever you want. You don't have to risk your life to go to the front line, but what about the people in the lower class? They can only eat one meal a day, and it's good enough to be alive!"

"[Even if you are only a glimmer of light, you must illuminate others] This is what you said, right? Don't you want to protect everyone? Don't you have more important things to do than crying here?!"

Lin Yu looked at Bronya and felt that Seele was wrong. Bronya was not sad. She was just confused.

"Indeed, self-pity can't solve any problems. Thank you, Xier. Usually when I am trapped in negative thoughts, there is always a soothing voice beside me. No one has ever dared to wake me up directly like you did."

"Humph, I can't comfort you. I can wake you up as many times as I want. I can tell from one glance that you have too much baggage in your heart. Why do you push yourself to that point?"

"As the future guardian of Beloberg, I must always examine my actions and thoughts." Bronya put her hands on her chest, holding the brooch and the one with the cheese snow leopard that Seele had just given her...

"Yes, yes, Miss. Humph, the future Great Guardian actually came from the same orphanage as me... What a bad fate. Hey... do you want me to take you around the orphanage? I'm different from you. I remember everything about my childhood very clearly."

"Well, I'll just mind wander with you for a little while then." Bronya nodded.

"It seems like I shouldn't have come... Let's leave those two alone for a while." Xing said, then looked at Lin Yu.

“It’s okay, let’s go over there and see if there’s anything interesting.” After Lin Yu glanced at the two people over there, he also touched Xing’s head and then walked towards the box over there.

"Ding~ Complete the mission, help Xi'er, mission reward: Xi'er's favorability +10, 1000 Dome Coins."

Ok?

After hearing the system's prompt, Lin Yu looked back at Xier with some confusion.

"What's wrong, Lin Yu?" Xing, who was rummaging through things, saw Lin Yu suddenly turn around and asked him.

"It's okay.. I just feel a little cold..."

After finishing speaking, Lin Yu fell into deep thought.

Is this considered helping Seele? In this situation...isn't this helping Bronya?

And..the penalty for mission failure..is there a core inside the rift?

Why would I be killed by the core after the mission failed?

I can't understand..

Or...if we don't follow Xier, will the plot change?

I can't understand..

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