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"...Yes, that's what you said."

Bronya nodded immediately, and her words sounded very independent: "I will evaluate your losses and contributions. As long as it is within the acceptable range for Beloberg... If it exceeds, I'm sorry, I will not compensate on behalf of Bay City."

……broken.

Kong You and Natasha had similar troubles in educating their children.

Banya seemed to have thought about it carefully, but in fact he had no intention of bypassing Kong's suggestion and coming up with an alternative plan.

This was just a matter of shifting the object of obedience from Cocolia to him...

"...Bronya, if none of the Nameless Visitors go out today and just sit in orbit to watch the show, and you lead the team down but still can't summon Swarovski, what will you do?"

He thought that Bronya here should not need his guidance at this age, but he did not skip any steps that should be skipped, which made him depressed.

“…Maybe I’ll retreat.”

Bronya was stunned for a moment, and answered seriously: "We don't have the evidence to force Swarovski to change his data conclusions, nor do we have enough force..."

She paused and thought of a less humane but potentially useful method: "Or, I will discuss with Miss Natasha and gather the townspeople to attack the robot cordon, and use public opinion to force Swarlow to abandon his overly mechanical concept of preservation."

"That is indeed a solution, and it is also the solution that most politicians would take to save trouble."

At this moment, Sora seemed to be standing in front of the blackboard, tapping with a pointer, giving Karin and Asuna an endless sense of déjà vu.

"Think about it again."

"...By the way, Mr. Sambo, I heard from Sir Jeppard that he seems to have a secret passage in the mechanical settlement, and we can send our people through the secret passage to meet with Swarlow..."

"..."

Although it's a crooked trick, it's a good start...

The corner of Sora's mouth twitched, but he still didn't tell Bronya that Sambo was the Masked Fool.

He just wanted Bronya to come to a conclusion - there was not only one solution. As the commander, she could command Beloberg to take charge of the overall situation and establish a new "orthodoxy". She didn't have to get the standard answer from an outsider like him... That would be too boring.

But this small class, which might have gone astray due to the girl's excessive stubbornness and stubbornness, was interrupted by Xier.

"How can we do so much? Compared to the power of the Earth Fire before, we are now more numerous and more powerful, and we are also more skilled. Isn't it easy to beat a few of Svarro's broken copper and iron?"

She snorted, then looked uphill—

"Your people are here, don't let them see you being so fussy."

"Your Excellency, Commander, please give me your next instructions."

But when she saw the adjutant saluted her respectfully, and with Seele's complaints, Bronya was suddenly shocked. She seemed to understand the purpose of Sora's painstaking efforts to guide her away from his advice.

She could seek guidance and advice when she had time, but what about her lieutenant? What about Jeppard, who trusted her?

These people had to die for her suggestion that came from someone else - she could consider Kong's suggestion, but at least she had to add content that she thought would be beneficial to herself and her subordinates and "invade" it.

Kong picked it for a long time just to make her not act like a vassal of the "Starry Sky Train Follower". The same goes for the negotiations with Dihuo. He did not participate because he wanted to tell her that she had to stand up for herself.

"...Thank you, Sora, and Seele, I figured it out—"

After her thoughts came to light, Bronya's gaze towards Sora became much clearer, and she became a little more friendly towards Seele.

Then she blushed slowly, recalling how she had frequently asked for advice from Sora over the past two days, acting like a little follower, and even secretly eavesdropping on their public channel conversations - she quickly shook off those strange thoughts that made her so embarrassed that she exploded.

"Ah? Why did you take me with you? Isn't fighting wrong? Do you have any other choice now?"

Xier was full of question marks.

She knew that it was a good thing that there were changes underground after the introduction of foreign aid, but whether it was Nata, the leader of the iron guard, or Sergei, they all seemed to have drunk fake wine and kept saying incoherent and maddening things to her.

"No, there is no other choice. After all, we have brought the 'Black Ship', and Swarovski has no choice but to open the door."

All the robots present seemed to have turned into golden rewards in Kong's eyes.

After counting the number of Earth Fires who had arrived, Natasha walked towards the beetle-shaped robot that had not shown any interest in them. Her tone was still gentle, but with a hint of impermissibility. She stood side by side with Bronya and issued an ultimatum to the robot using the words they had agreed on.

"Swarovski of the Mechanical Settlement, I am Natasha, the leader of the Earthfire."

"I am the leader of the Silver Mane Guards, acting Grand Guardian Bronya Rand."

“We ask you to lift the blockade of the large mining area and the occupation of public resources in the lower areas.”

"Otherwise, my troops will join forces to attack your mechas."

213.What shoes does Clara wear?

No one expected Swarovski's mechas to make an official response. The atmosphere had already reached this point. There were more than 600 people, including armed miners, piled up on the slope of the inner circle. If Swarovski gave in easily, the first unity of the upper and lower levels in more than a decade would be wasted.

"Ah, he still refuses to show up despite all the drama? Is it true that only the collapse of the upper area can make him move a little?"

As soon as March's crow's mouth opened, Dan Heng suddenly raised his head and looked at the earth marrow cluster above the large mining area, fearing that there would be any signs of peeling on it.

"…What are you doing, Dan Heng! Don't bother my little heart—!"

"…Something did glance over here from above just now."

But Kong confirmed that Danheng's vigilance was correct.

However, this gaze was not hostile and could not hurt him.

The faint green dot on the small map stood in the center of the mine. It might be this green dot that had just observed them with independent consciousness.

"Not a person - probably some kind of surveillance agency, Natasha - has Swarlow installed a comprehensive surveillance network underground?"

"It's very likely that he has this many mechas under his command, and he relies on more than one node."

Natasha also looked up at the Earth Marrow Cluster: "Placing surveillance cameras and transfer stations at high altitudes... It is indeed feasible."

"No more waiting, Natasha, let's attack." Bronya confirmed the time... 11:58.

No matter how Swarovski manipulated these robots and how complex the control systems and monitors were, they had already made all the most reasonable and justifiable announcements within human cognition.

"……Um."

Natasha turned around and looked at Oleg. They, a group of old men, were better at directing fights.

"Go, brothers!" Following Natasha's eyes, Oleg swung the axe in his hand, and his movements were almost identical to those of Bronya's guards.

"Oh oh oh!"

With shouts similar to those of the sailors in One Piece, the ground firemen and miners carrying shovels, pickaxes, water pipes, hammers, and a few thermal weapons broke into the robots' cordon.

"Warning, warning—forbidden—"

The beetle-type machines on the periphery were knocked over by the influx of fighters. The loudspeaker was still chanting fixed lines, but soon, all the mechas on the first and second lines of defense began to retreat. The way their short legs moved repeatedly was very funny, and they did not engage in a head-on confrontation with the coalition forces.

"...These things don't resist? So what are they blocking?"

Xier thought she could do a great job, but she found that those robots were very slippery and they all retreated to the second line of defense in a flash. It would be better to say that these things were summoned and drilled into a circle in the mine for their lives rather than retreating and reorganizing.

"Wait, when did a little girl run into the inner circle?"

Eula activated the elemental vision to see what was in the center of the strange circle that looked like a mechanical trance, but a white human figure appeared in the image.

"Little girl?"

Upon hearing this, Kong realized that the green dot that was vaguely visible on the map just now was now floating in the center of the robot cluster.

"What's going on with these idiots? Hmm? Red? White?"

Seeing the girl who seemed a little at a loss, Kong roughly understood why the green dot was looming.

The girl had been hiding among the sea of ​​yellow labels. When they approached and saw that they were all humans entering the mining area, her labels slowly turned green.

But that strange outfit...

I know it's a bit hot in the lower area, but isn't it too much for you to walk barefoot on the ground? Aren't you afraid of getting your soles scratched by the slag?

The girl, who was wearing a red coat but a white dress underneath, with her legs exposed, and who didn't know whether she was cold or hot, was lifted up by a beetle-shaped mecha. Her legs couldn't help but stretch upwards and she let out a small cry of surprise. The Iron Guards and the Earth Fires who noticed this change quickly stopped their cries of war, as if their hearts were all on the girl.

It was a very cute child who did not look threatening at all. He was being carried out from the center by the robot like sausages on a rolling conveyor belt. The fighters who were willing to fight for the mine were mostly people with relatively high moral character. They did not want to cause the child, who seemed to be held "hostage" by the machine, to be buried in the pile of metal.

Everyone was afraid that the girl in red would be stained with blood and crushed by the mechanical limbs in the next second.

But as everyone waited in a state of paralysis, the girl in red clothes and white hair was pushed closer and closer to the crowd by the rolling robots. It was not until the nearest beetle put her down that she trembled and checked the tension of the ground with her fragile little feet. She timidly tried to speak to the sea of ​​​​savage soldiers in front of her -

"I, I will persuade Mr. Swarovski to reopen the mine! Please, please wait a moment, just a moment! I beg you!"

There was silence on the field.

Even Sora didn't know how to react at this moment.

He was a little dazed. His cheat was about to be credited to his account, but how come a little girl who looked and sounded so stupid, including the way she appeared, suddenly showed up and ruined his good fortune -

Some miners who had lived in the mechanical settlement recognized the little girl who was talking big:

"What... to persuade Swarovski to stop? This little girl can't be the one in the rumors..."

"Oh, it's Clara. I thought she had been locked up by that mechanical brain..."

"Damn it, he actually raised the little girl as a pet. I am irreconcilable with that Swarovski—!"

"Why do I feel that the version of the rumor you heard is completely different from what I heard..."

Amid the doubts and discussions, Asuna, who had good hearing, suddenly remembered the little girl in red clothes that Shiluwa and the cadres had discussed from afar when they first arrived at the lower level. She took the initiative to ask Shiluwa on the public channel: "Senior Shiluwa, was the child who gave you the parts before called Clara?"

"That's her name, but it's quite common in Bay City. So, did you meet her?"

"Well, it seems that she stopped a group of robots from defending the lower district."

"Oh...Huh? Is that possible? Could it be that she is actually a more professional mechanical expert than me?"

Shiluwa let out a strange cry, causing Lingke, who was eavesdropping on the channel, and Jeppard, who was counting the equipment, to roll their eyes.

Originally it was a big scene, with both of them fantasizing that the combined forces of the upper and lower districts were going to crush that group of mechas, but their elder sister's shout shattered all their fantasies.

"Don't be surprised. Clara and Swarovski have a good relationship. It should be said that Swarovski is Clara's guardian."

Natasha also let out some of her pent-up resentment - it was impossible for her not to have any resentment towards Swarovski after being troubled by him for so many years. Occasionally, when she looked at the patients transferred from the mechanical settlement, she would have the "dark idea" of forcibly performing a skull transplant on Swarovski.

But every time she mentioned Clara or saw Clara, some of her resentment would quickly dissipate...

Xier also had similar symptoms. Her sharp eyebrows actually relaxed a lot after seeing the little girl having to be tough and force herself to stand firm while speaking in front of so many people.

"Clara...it's been so long, don't you understand? Swarovski has a role in restricting the development of the lower classes—" Seer's voice didn't sound particularly impatient when she spoke—

Oleg, who was standing next to Natasha, explained to the confused train crew while Xier was negotiating: "The child is Swarovski's adopted daughter... Although we won't say it to her face, everyone has a consensus that her adoptive father is a complete bastard, but she didn't grow up disabled and took in a lot of poor people."

"……Oh."