Starting from the Collapse World, I became the behind-the-scenes boss

Every quiet night, Wendy couldn't help but shed tears when she thought of the boy who had repeatedly rescued her from dire straits.

Having witnessed the boy's brilliance and radiance, she thought he would be her sun, but she never imagined that he would just pass through her life like a shooting star.

Now that she finally has a chance to make up for her past regrets, you're saying the boy might be dead again!?

How could she possibly accept something like this?!

With a pair of eyes glaring fiercely at Peggy and Anne, Wendy exuded a terrifying aura like that of a raging lion.

"..."

Facing Wendy's overwhelming pressure, Peggy remained silent, her pretty face as gloomy as if it could seep water.

Logically speaking, of the two people who should be in this room, one is her mother, and the other is a mutual friend of hers and Bronya. She should naturally be feeling extremely grief-stricken and worried.

However, as the second-in-command of the Cocolia faction, Peggy was still responsible for managing the situation and could only suppress all her emotions deep inside.

While Peggy managed to remain calm, Annie on the other side completely panicked.

"Mother!!"

She couldn't help but shout loudly, as if that would make a certain blonde woman reappear before her. Anzu's face was filled with panic, and she struggled to rush into the room. "No way! Mom will be alright!"

"Xing! Calm down!"

Peggy pressed down on Xing's hand with even more force and shouted loudly.

"Calm down? How can you expect me to calm down!?"

"It's Mom who's in trouble now!!"

She shouted back in a frenzied manner, and the Honkai energy within Annie's body also erupted, knocking away Peggy who was trying to stop her. The terrifying force caused the blonde girl's body to slam heavily against the wall with a thud.

"Hi~"

Feeling the intense pain that felt like her body was falling apart, Peggy frowned and let out a muffled groan, but her expression remained calm. "But if you rush in now, it will only stigmatize Mom forever!"

If the crime scene in the reception room is destroyed, leading to the burying of the truth, then Cocolia will undoubtedly become the most suitable scapegoat.

"But……"

Sensing the suppressed rage emanating from Peggy, Xing shrank back to calm herself down, her face still filled with resentment.

"Trust Bronya, she will find the truth."

While rubbing her shoulder to relieve the pain, Peggy gave a forced, gentle smile, her gaze towards Anne filled with sisterly tolerance.

Even though they are of similar actual age, Peggy has lived a life of constant displacement since childhood, and has been to several orphanages. Therefore, she is indeed more mature than other children on a psychological level.

Hearing this, and seeing Bronya's incredibly skilled reconnaissance movements inside the house, Xing's expression softened slightly as she nodded.

Nearby, Theresa and Einstein, who also sensed a certain sincerity in Peggy's words, exchanged a glance and chose to wait quietly, while Wendy forcibly suppressed her restless emotions.

Even though she was extremely anxious, the trials and tribulations that her Valkyrie career had brought Wendy helped her maintain basic rationality.

Without keeping the people outside the room waiting for long, Bronya quickly came out of the living room, holding a black object the size of a button in her hand.

"This is... a recorder?"

Upon seeing what Bronya was holding, Peggy let out a small gasp of surprise.

"Yes, the truth should be inside."

Bronya nodded and looked at Theresa and Einstein for their opinions.

“Play it, Bronya.”

Letting out a long breath, Theresa said in a slightly trembling voice, her gaze then falling on the blonde girl beside her, "What do you think, Miss Peggy?"

With Cocolia missing, Peggy is now one of the people in charge of Abyss City, and Theresa has to give her some respect.

"I also hope to know the truth as soon as possible."

She let out a breath and said, Peggy's delicate body trembling slightly, her small hands tightly gripping the hem of her clothes, revealing the girl's equally nervous mood.

Upon hearing their answers, Bronya didn't hesitate to fiddle with the recorder a few times and quickly set it to play.

"A recorder? What a boring little thing."

The first sound to be heard was a hoarse and deep voice.

This is the voice of Walter White.

Upon hearing this familiar voice, everyone except Einstein and Bronya changed their expressions.

With such a top-tier boss-level figure appearing in Haiyuan City, what will happen next is already predictable.

"Ha! You dared to murder Mr. Walter and seize the position of leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance, are you afraid of a mere recording device!?"

The boy's cold laugh and questioning voice followed.

"It's just the struggle of an ant."

[Walter White] said it softly.

"..."

After a slight pause, as if in silence, the boy immediately questioned, "Then why are you, a person of importance, here?!"

"Are you trying to trick me?"

Having pointed out the boy's intention, Walter White simply chuckled softly, "Don't be nervous. I don't care what you learn from this, since you're destined to be nothing anyway."

No matter how much an ant struggles, it will always be an ant; it can never topple an elephant.

Then came a brief silence.

"If you want to meet the Venerable One, you must bring a suitable gift."

To summon the ancient gods, one must also prepare suitable offerings.

With a casual and relaxed tone, [Walter White] said, "Presumably, a Herrscher with two cores should be enough to lure that guy out, right?"

"what you up to!?"

The boy's voice revealed a suppressed anger.

"I want to see someone, but I'm missing a bait, so I can only borrow your Herrscher core."

While I'm also very much looking forward to seeing how far you can cultivate the powers of the Herrscher of Reason and the Herrscher of Death, after careful consideration, I've realized that that guy's matter is indeed more important.

Walter White explained with a light laugh.

"you……"

As if he could no longer contain his emotions, the boy's voice was full of anger.

crunch--

There was the sound of a door opening.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, Shihen, I had something to take care of..."

Cocolia's voice rang out, then abruptly stopped, followed by a scream, "[Walter White]!"

There was a brief silence.

"Lord Alliance Leader!"

As if she had been threatened, Cocolia's tone quickly became respectful.

"I want to take this child with me, is that alright?"

Walter White chuckled and asked.

Of course!

Cocolia spoke slowly and deliberately, her voice filled with resentment.

"Ms. Cocolia! You really were in cahoots with this imposter!"

The boy questioned in a voice filled with anger.

"I……"

Cocolia's voice revealed a sense of helplessness, as if she were unable to defend herself.

"Hehe, you've misunderstood Lord Cocolia, little fellow."

Walter White explained with a smile, his tone full of condescending arrogance, "Lady Cocolia is nothing more than a pawn of mine; she is not worthy to collude with me."

"【Walter White】!"

Upon hearing this, Cocolia seemed unable to contain herself and let out a low growl.

"Lord Cocolia, why are you so agitated? Is there something you dislike about me?"

Walter White asked with a smile.

"...This subordinate dares not."

Upon hearing this, Cocolia immediately became submissive.

"Actually, I don't mind if you rebel against me."

To this, Walter White simply sighed in disappointment, "Whether you oppose me or obey me, I don't care at all."

When the final outcome arrives, all your struggles will be less noticeable than the evaporation of a single drop of morning dew.

"..."

Cocolia responded with a brief silence.

"But, Lord Cocolia, you must remember this."

I hate it when people pin baseless accusations on me.

As the leader of the Anti-Entropy Alliance, only I can make others take the blame.

He spoke softly, then sneered, "So, repent properly, Lord Cocolia."

“Walter White! You…”

Cocolia's panicked voice stopped abruptly, followed by a series of crackling sounds as ice formed.

"Ms. Cocolia!"

The boy couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

But soon, with a soft "bang" of breaking, the sound of footsteps quickly faded into the distance, and the recorder immediately went completely silent.

Outside the recording device, the crowd who had heard the whole story remained deathly silent.

After a long silence, Theresa asked with an incredulous expression, "Cocolia, she's just dead?"

She simply couldn't believe that Cocolia, who had once seized the greatest power over anti-entropy and was even regarded by them as the biggest obstacle on this trip, had died at the hands of [Walter White] before they even actually met.

"Mother!!"

Unable to contain her grief any longer, Xing rushed into the house and hugged the pile of pink shaved ice, bursting into tears.

By this point, how could she not understand that this pile of ice was the remains of Cocolia after she was killed by [Walter White]?

"Xing, Mom..."

Kneeling beside Xing, Xi'er's face was completely filled with sorrow.

"..."

Standing silently behind Xing, Bronya placed a hand on the girl's shoulder and stared at the pile of shaved ice in front of her without saying a word for a long time.

Before arriving in Abyss City, she had imagined many scenarios of reuniting with Cocolia, but most of them ended in unpleasantness.

No matter how grateful she was for the care Cocolia had given her in the orphanage, Bronya could not forgive Cocolia for everything she had done to Mei, nor could she forgive the fact that Cocolia had installed a backdoor program on her biochip.

But with Cocolia's tragic death, the girl felt that all the differences and conflicts between them vanished in an instant, leaving only the gentle face of the blonde woman when she brought her back from the snowfield.

“Cocolia…Mom…”

As she murmured softly, Bronya's eyes welled up with tears.

Unlike Bronya and the others who lost their composure, Peggy simply wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, took several deep breaths, and then explained with reddened eyes: "After discovering the mark near the Eye of the Abyss a few days ago, Mother has been searching for a way to awaken him."

Oh, by the way, when we found Hen, his body was completely filled with the power of the Tranquility Gem, and his consciousness had fallen into silence as a result.

The mother tried many methods without success, and finally decided to risk transplanting the core of the Herrscher of Reason into the Scar, hoping that the consciousness of the previous leader within could help him.

"Yang's consciousness still exists within the core!?"