I am a businessman from all over the world, not a profiteer!

"Xing, you've been so obsessed with Cocolia that you can't even calculate the simplest gains and losses. Have you ever thought about what she's given us? And what she's taken from us? This woman has only ever treated us as tools."

"What bullshit gains and losses! I was raised by Mother Cocolia, unlike you, a latecomer! Only a cold-blooded and heartless person like you would calculate the so-called gains and losses! You use a mother's love as a means to win people over!"

Seeing that Xing was totally unwilling to listen, Bronya would definitely take drastic measures to completely shatter her fantasy!

"So is her human experimentation on everyone also a mother's love?"

After hearing Bronya's words, Xing's mouth, which had been constantly swearing, suddenly became silent.

She wanted to refute Bronya, but what she said also caused a hint of doubt in Xing's heart.

Why did Cocolia let everyone do those dangerous experiments?

Why, after the experiment went wrong, Cocolia's mother was so sad that she cried, but still did not stop the experiment?

A crack appeared in Xing's inner image of Cocolia, and her expression became anxious.

"You traitor! You have no right to slander Mother Cocolia!"

"Faced with questions you can't answer, do you choose to escape reality?"

Bronya's pitying gaze hurt Xing's self-esteem. She transformed all her inner anxiety and fear into hostility towards Bronya, and kept cursing Bronya in Russian.

"Xing, as a girl, don't use bad words."

Xingyun flicked Xing's forehead with his finger. She has quite a vocabulary at such a young age...

"Woo!"

Xing looked at Xingyun with some grievance, then stared at Bronya and fell silent. There were too many words accumulated on her lips that she couldn't say, making her face even redder.

"Xing, do you remember how many people there were in the orphanage at the beginning?"

Bronya looked at Xing, as if she saw her past confused self in her.

It was precisely because she saw no other hope that she placed everything on Cocolia.

"63."

"what about now?"

"..."

Xing lowered her head and stopped answering. Including the younger children, there were less than twenty people left in the orphanage.

As for the older children, few of them survived; they were all in experiments or missions...

"I still remember when I was in the orphanage, although everyone could barely eat enough, they rarely had desserts or fruits. Do you know how much a mechanical Titan costs?"

Seeing Bronya suddenly bring up the matter of Titans, Xing had a bad feeling in her heart.

"What do you want to say?"

"The material cost alone is $500,000. How many years of food does that provide for the orphanage? And how many Mecha Titans does Cocolia have?"

"!!!"

The image of the army of hundreds of mechanical Titans subconsciously appeared in Xing's mind. When she saw the Titan army, she only felt how handsome they were and didn't think about money at all.

"Xing, if you were a mother, would you save the money for the next Titan and use it to improve the orphanage?"

"I……"

Xing's eyes wavered. She would undoubtedly choose to use the money to improve the orphanage. After all, compared to everyone's smiles, a mere Titan was nothing.

Then why did Mother Cocolia build so many Titans and air battleships, but everyone in the orphanage could only barely make ends meet?

"Xing, Cocolia, does she really love us?"

"..."

153

Chapter 153 Xing’s Redemption.

"How long are you going to persist in your delusion?"

Bronya looked at Xingmaer in confusion.

She clearly realized that Cocolia's love was a fake, but she was willing to immerse herself in the lies woven by Cocolia and refused to wake up!

"..."

Xing lowered her head with a dim look in her eyes, and she did not refute Bronya again.

She once had a warm family and parents who loved her deeply, until that day, robbers who broke into her home killed her parents.

In her grief and anger, Xing awakened the power of the stigmata and successfully killed the robber. However, when the police arrived, they did not find the robber's body, but only saw her with blood-stained clothes and holding a weapon.

From then on, she was accused of patricide and was regarded as the child of the devil. No one was willing to believe her words...

Until Cocolia, who heard the rumors, found her...

"Those people are really crazy. They mistook such a cute little girl for the child of the devil. What's your name?"

Xing still remembers how gentle those hands were. She watched Cocolia use her fingers to wipe the blood off her face, and a glimmer of hope rekindled in her already desperate heart.

"Xingmaer, I didn't kill my parents..."

'Well, I believe you.'

Cocolia's unreasonable trust saved her when she was on the verge of collapse.

After that, she was adopted by Cocolia and taken to a newly established orphanage.

Although this place is not big, Xing likes it very much and regards it as her new home.

It was Cocolia who saved her from hell and allowed her life, which was as tangled as a ball of yarn, to continue!

Even if this love is made of lies, it is the only meaning for Xing to live!

If she denies this love, Xingmaer will have nothing...

"Bronya, please go out first. Leave her to me."

Xingyun saw Xing lowering her head and remaining silent, and used her eyes to stop Bronya who wanted to continue speaking.

Xing's situation is different from Bronya's, and the weight of Cocolia in her heart is also different from that of Bronya.

The reason why he could easily convince Bronya was because there had already been a rift between Bronya and Cocolia because of Seele's matter.

"Then I'll leave Xing to you..."

Before leaving the room, Bronya looked at Xing deeply.

I hope she can face the reality soon...

Otherwise, in order to prevent her from interfering with the next plan, I will have to let her lie in bed for the time being.

"It's painful, right? You have to choose between your friends and your adoptive mother..."

Xingyun calmly retracted his legs and spoke to Xing with concern in a gentle tone.

"I am not friends with that traitor..."

Although An tried her best to deny her friendship with Bronya, if she really didn't care, she wouldn't be so angry after seeing Bronya's betrayal.

"There's no love or hate without reason in this world. To us, Cocolia is a bastard, but to you, she's the 'mother' who saved your life. It's human nature to not be able to make a choice."

Xing looked up at Xingyun in surprise. She didn't expect that Xingyun would stand on her side and speak for her.

The moment their eyes met, Xingyun activated Tsukuyomi and pulled Xing into the illusion world.

They stood at the dividing line of the sky, looking down at the bustling city below, deciding their future fate.

"here it is?!"

Xing looked around where there was no place to stand. Her face was pale and she grabbed Xingyun's clothes in a bit of a loss, fearing that she would fall from the thousand-meter height.

"Changkong City has a population of three million. If a great collapse were to occur here, how many people do you think would die?"

Xingyun's voice pierced through the whistling wind and rang in Xing's ears. She looked towards the crowd below, and her eyesight became surprisingly good. Even though they were a thousand meters apart, she could clearly see the expressions on the faces of the residents of Changkong City.

"Mother Cocolia said that even without us, the Great Collapse would have befallen this city sooner or later, so..."

Xing looked away guiltily, she didn't want to look at the scenery below anymore.

"I'm asking Xingmaer's opinion."

"I……"

Xing hesitated and was unable to answer. In her heart, she was actually aware of the consequences of doing so, but she chose to ignore it in order not to put too much burden on her heart.

Xingyun looked at the girl who was grabbing her clothes tightly, and as if feeling her inner struggle, Xingyun snapped his fingers.

"Since you have given the right to choose to others, remember not to regret this choice."

A massive collapse erupted with Qianyu Academy as its center, and the originally bustling city instantly turned into a living hell.

The roaring Honkai beasts, the assassins attacking humans, and the civilians wailing for help constantly stimulated Xing's vision and hearing.

"what have you done?!"

Xing looked at Xingyun in panic. She couldn't understand why someone could see this scene and remain calm.

Shouldn't he be the one saving the world?!

"I just want you to know the consequences of this choice."

"!?"

Xing looked at the hellish scene below. She wanted to close her eyes but her eyelids wouldn't close. She covered her ears tightly, but the wailing and screaming could still penetrate her eardrums.

"Dad...Mom..."

Her brain caught the familiar sound, and Xing looked in the direction of the sound. She saw a little girl looking at her parents lying in a pool of blood in despair, while the assassin behind her had raised his sickle.

"do not want!"

Xing activated the Time Barrier almost instinctively, and the wailing and screaming instantly quieted down. She stretched out her hand towards the little girl. She saw her past shadow in the other person, and her body began to fall from the air.

The moment he climbed out of the deep pit, Xing took out his long sword and stabbed at the dead men and Honkai beasts on the roadside.

In this desperate situation, she could only try to save everyone she could, while she was trying her best to move towards the little girl.

As time passed, Xing's body was approaching its limit and she could no longer maintain the time barrier.

"Well……"

Xing looked at those people who seemed like they would die in the next second. She lowered her head and gritted her teeth as she ran past these fleeing people.

Just when she finally saw the little girl, the time barrier had already lost its effect, and the distance between the two was still fifty meters.

"what!"

The assassin's sickle had been swung down, and the head rolled into a pool of blood. Xing stared at the scene blankly, tears flowing uncontrollably.

She watched her younger self die under the sickle, and her spirit suffered an unprecedented shock. The pain and regret almost tore her heart apart.

This is the consequence of her choice...

The robbers destroyed her once happy family. Now is she ready to become a robber to take away other people's happiness?

The wails of humans mixed with the roars of Honkai beasts rang continuously in her ears. Xing tightly grasped the sword in her hand, and tears of blood flowed from the corners of her eyes.

“Stop it!!!”

After an unknown amount of time, Xing killed the last Honkai beast in Changkong City and lifted the time barrier.

She collapsed in the ruins, looking at the gray sky. The city was still burning, and the voices of the survivors became insignificant. Those who had just been rescued by her were still wailing in pain under the erosion of Honkai energy. It was only a matter of time before they became dead.

Deep despair weighed on her, making her breathless. It seemed as if no matter what she did, it would be futile in the face of this disaster...

"Xing, is this the world you desire?"

Xing looked at Xingyun who had appeared beside her at some point, and their eyes met again.

"No... I don't desire such a world at all..."

Xing's cracked lips moved slightly, but her tears had dried up along the way, and now she could only shed blood.

"Even if this is what Cocolia wanted?"

"Even if it means becoming an enemy of Mother Cocolia, I will stop this!"

Xing's answer was no longer hesitant. After seeing this purgatory, she finally realized the consequences of her choice.