[T/N: Changed Stigmata to Stigma, since Stigmata is plural, and comment if there are any mistakes]
Twenty minutes later, Gao Qi woke up in a spacious room.
Even without activating his MANTIS, Gao Qi is still slightly more resistant to anesthetics than ordinary people. Therefore, after discovering that the "kidnapper" is a very familiar but much younger Cocolia, so he did not hesitate to choose to get a shot.
Gao Qi understood that compared to the Cocolia he knew, she was more kind and upright when she was young.
So Gao QI wasn't worried about Cocolia doing anything horrible—at least to children.
Needless to say, Mei, Gao Qi is also considered a half-child or teen to say, so naturally, there wouldn't be any pressure
The speed at which Gao Qi woke up showed that everything was exactly as he had guessed. Cocolia injected him with a very low dose of anesthesia, probably because she was afraid that the anesthesia would cause problems for those who were hit before.
'Hey, I still prefer her when she's more mature and has more charm, and now this one feels a little stunned, tsk tsk...'
Recalling the turbulent feeling when the "Kid's Mom" put on a swimsuit and sat next to him in the past, Gao Qi couldn't help but smack his lips, come back to his senses, and began to observe the surrounding situation.
Obviously, this is a house that has been prepared in advance, the windows around were sealed with iron bars, and only a few low light lamps illuminate the room.
The small table in the room was filled with all kinds of water and food. Gao Qi looked at the brands of some of the snacks, and sure enough, they were all bought by Cocolia for children.
Afterward, Gao Qi saw Little Mei who was also sleeping beside him, her eyelids were shaking slightly, and was about to wake up.
Gao Qi didn't move, but glanced at the door of the room out of the corner of his eye, saw the back of a mercenary's head, and heard a voice.
"Okay, Raiden Ryoma, hurry up and send your 'Rescue Team', your boss is a good man, he would forgive you for using the Gem of Conquest to 'exchange' your daughter with their kidnapper——you're more selfish and despicable than I thought, but if I were in your shoes, and if my kids were in that situation, I might do the same."
Cocolia's voice echoed outside the door. At this moment, she didn't look like a conspirator or a vixen. She sounded extraordinarily upright and full of energy.
"Okay, we'll get ready to get beaten to shit, and send your people over quickly—after it's done, remember your promise, my orphanage needs supplies, and you have to elect me to be an Anti-Entropy executor."
In just a few words, Gao Qi connected the plot he knew and understood everything.
Raiden Mei awakened a Stigma, but not everyone can bear that Mark, Seele's Stigma was safe because there was another Will to help seal the massive amount of knowledge and power, but the Stigmata of many people will bring more pain and suffering.
After all, the only purpose of Mobius and Mei designing the Stigm is to fight to the death with the Honkai.
They don't have time to let the owners of a Stigma get any experience. It's a pity that Finality didn't even give them the time to train the next generation of Stigma Users.
Therefore, the Stigma plan itself is a cruel experiment, some people will die before awakening one, and some people will not be able to bear the pain after getting one - if the Stigma plan is implemented, Humanity will experience a complete catastrophe.
The young Mei couldn't bear this kind of power that was born to kill the Honkai, and the only way to solve it was to let the Honkai itself contain it and implant the Gem of Conquest into her body.
The way to solve the problem was to fight fire with fire,
Project MEI came into being. After Mei was kidnapped, from 2004 to 2007, this project was carried out during Mei's three years of "rehabilitation due to her kidnapping". The Hyper Railguns were a byproduct of this project
Many people believe that Cocolia led the kidnapping, implanted the Gem of Conquest in Mei, and triggered the "acceptance letter" of the Honkai in 2014.
But if you think about it carefully, in the second Honkai Eruption, Cocolia was still an ordinary officer. It may have taken a while before she joins Anti-Entropy. How could she gain the trust of Welt and Einstein so quickly, and how could she have gotten the Gem
From the beginning to the end, the operation on Mei was led by Raiden Ryoma, and Cocolia probably only played the role of an Executor in this incident.
This is nothing more than a scene played by Raiden Ryoma secretly in front of Anti-Entropy's HQ in order to give the Gem of Conquest to his daughter—this subsequent recuperation is the beginning of every single plan.
'I hope that he won't regret it after being imprisoned by Cocolia in the future because of this weakness.'
"Don't worry, no one was injured, but your old driver may have been a little frightened, and I can't guarantee that your precious daughter won't be scared, so I found a companion for her."
Soon, Cocolia approached the door and glanced at the two people in the room, one big and one small lying on the bed. Gao Qi immediately narrowed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"I'm pretty good at taking care of kids. Do you need me to comfort Little Mei in a gentle way? Believe me, as a parent, I am more competent than you, bastard, no? Then take your daughter away!"
Facing Raiden Ryoma, the Anti-Entropy Executor, and his boss, Cocolia didn't have any respect at all but was full of disgust. Now she hated the plan that this man came up with.
Raiden Ryoma used this method of creating a psychological shadow on Mei by saving her but Cocolia did not approve of it.
She was very good to her daughters, and would never hurt them—certainly not! Absolutely not!
"However, I have to admit that there is a young boy under your command, who is much more powerful than the wine bags and rice bags you hired. He beat down seven or eight elite mercenaries under my command by himself. If he wasn't a boy, I'd thought he was a Valkyrie."
Soon, Cocolia's voice moved to the distance, and Gao Qi also found that Little Mei beside him slowly woke up.
"Well, I'm—ah!"
The strange environment in front of her and the dark room immediately made Little Mei panic, her big purple eyes flickered twice, and immediately filled with tears.
Although she was born with a golden spoon in her mouth, Mei lost her mother when she was a child, and her Father rarely took care of the family. She has always been lacking in companionship and felt extremely insecure.
Looking at the surrounding situation, it took the clever Mei a while to quickly understand her situation, and she couldn't help trembling.
She was kidnapped.
She wanted to cry loudly, but at the same time, she covered her mouth very rationally. Faced with great fear, Mei still maintained her rationality.
This kind of reaction made Gao Qi very envious. If it was Kiana who came here, he was afraid that she would start tearing up the iron gate and go out now. No, it is impossible for her to be imprisoned at all!
And soon, Mei, who was in a panic, saw Gao Qi who was pretending to be sleeping beside her, and after recognizing the Big Brother who had helped her before, she immediately began to gently push his shoulder as if she had found support.
"Big brother, big brother—ah, you're awake! Woo, we've been kidnapped."
As Gao Qi "woke up leisurely", the courage Mei had gathered with great difficulty immediately collapsed, and she immediately began to sob softly.
For a seven-year-old living in a peaceful environment, being kidnapped was too scary.
"Uh... yeah, don't be scared, don't be scared."
Turning over and sitting up, Gao Qi looked at Mei with a smile and reached out to touch her small head.
Gao Qi couldn't explain to Mei that this kidnapping incident was actually a play staged by her Father in order to save her, but this incident Ryoma caused was really unreasonable.
If it were an old Father like Gao Qi, no matter what he wanted to do about his children, he would definitely tell them first—except for his own death.
After all, children are young, but they aren't stupid. They also have the right to know everything, and it's not good to blindly hide it from your kids.
However, he still decided not to tell the truth but stretched out his hand, hugged the little Mei in his arms, and comforted her softly.
"Don't worry, Sister Mei, I will take good care of you, from now on."
Rubbing her little head, Gao Qi picked up a Homu doll, stuffed it into Mei's arms, and promised her with a smile.
After all, the two children in my family, Kiana, and Bronya will be raised by Mei in the future. Mei is not so much a friend as a stepmother of the two. In a sense, the two were even peers and partners.
'In the simulation, I happen to be the father of Kiana and Bronya, so it is understandable to help Mei, as a Senpai to teach her the experience of taking care of children, right?'
"Trust me, I'll get you out right away, okay? Can you trust me, Mei?"
Gao Qi set a calm example for Mei. In the end, the little girl also took a deep breath, stopped crying, and nodded firmly.
"I won't cry, I believe in you, big brother! Let's get out together! No, but, please be careful, I don't want you to get hurt because of me..."
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Two hours later, the Anti-Entropy mecha troop broke through the abandoned factory where the "kidnappers" were stationed.
The mercenaries "fled in a hurry" and did not have time to take away the hostages. In fact, except for the symbolic force left to resist, Cocolia had already fled away ten minutes ago.
"You are already surrounded, give up, and don't make any unnecessary movements! Surrender immediately!"
The formulaic negotiations were going on, but the man behind the mecha troops, with short dark purple hair and wearing a suit, who was somewhat similar to Raiden Mei, remained calm and kept looking at the watch on his wrist.
"It's almost time to break in."
Calmly issuing tasks to his subordinates, as if the one who was kidnapped was not his own daughter, the man named Raiden Ryoma seemed extraordinarily cold.
"President, there seems to be a conflict in the factory, and those kidnappers are asking for help! They seem to have fought with an unknown force!"
But soon, the situation reported by his subordinates made Raiden Ryoma a little flustered—this was different from what was planned!
Could it be the other forces against Anti-Entropy or a Valkyrie of Schicksal!?
After a while, accompanied by shouts and collisions, the dilapidated factory fell into complete deathly silence.
Just when Raiden Ryoma couldn't bear to order an attack, suddenly at the factory gate, a shaky figure came out from the side door.
It was Cocolia's mercenary. Without shaking a few steps, this 1.9-meter-tall muscular man, clutching his crotch, fell to the ground pitifully—although he was ready for a beating, he was hit too much.
That little boy is terrifying!
Behind him, the figure of a young man raised the shutter door of the factory, and behind him, several mercenaries left behind rolled on the ground and howled.
He beckoned back, and a small figure immediately ran behind him from the shadows, closely following him, unwilling to leave.
There weren't many remaining mercenaries. In fact, if Gao Qi was willing to, even if Cocolia didn't, he could have taken everyone out, but he has to do a full set of acting. For the current Cocolia, he is still willing to help.
Soon, amidst the stunned expressions of the Anti-Entropy Members, Gao Qi picked up Little Mei, walked out of the factory, and came in front of Raiden Ryoma.
This kid, who looked far from an adult, alone... cleaned up all the kidnappers!
"Close your eyes, don't look at anything, take it easy, Sister Mei, you're safe now."
Holding Little Mei in his arms, and gently stroking her back, Gao Qi did not let her be frightened by the mechs around him and kept trying to comfort her.
"President Ryoma, please rest assured that Ms. Mei has not been harmed in any way, but I think you should up the security of your company."
Gao Qi came to Raiden Ryoma, looked at the old father quietly, and reminded him.
"Please don't forget that today is Ms. Mei's birthday. If you can, please take a day off and have a birthday party with her just for the two of you."
Just like the heart-to-heart talk with Cocolia last time, although Gao Qi is young now, he is also earnestly urging Raiden Ryoma from the perspective of a parent.
"I know that there are many things in your world that are as important as your family, but please understand that you are the only one in Mei's world, if you don't pay attention to her - then when she grows up, there would be many important things in her world anything, but you."
As soon as these words came out, Raiden Ryoma suddenly had a vision that the boy in front of him who protected his daughter had now turned into a strict and serious adult, a father who was much more competent than him.
"I...you are right, this is my mistake, Mei—"
Gao Qi's irrefutable tone made Ryoma, a man who was extremely strict in the eyes of both employees and Anti-Entropy Subordinates, give in.
He knew that this was an act, but including the young man in front of him, many of his subordinates, and even Mei herself, all thought it was a genuine kidnapping.
"Mei, I..."
Raiden Ryoma wanted to reach out his hand from the arms of the boy in front of him to take his daughter Raiden Mei, but the little girl instinctively shrank back into Gao Qi's arms, causing Raiden Ryoma's hand to freeze in mid-air.
"Look, the first clue."
Gao Qi shrugged. The conflict between the father and daughter was not resolved in the original story, so he could only enlighten it a little.
However, Gao Qi didn't think too much about it. He felt that his achievements in "saving" Mei and the fighting ability he showed during this time were enough for him to be valued by Raiden Ryoma and could truly enter Anti-Entropy.
And Next year, the young Himeko and her Father will also participate in a battle with Aliens in North America.
"Huh... Well, I think, I need some more in Mei's education—Gao Qi, I have checked your information, you grew up in an orphanage, and also have experience in taking care of children."
As for Ryoma, he hesitated for a moment, nodded helplessly, and stretched out his hand to Gao Qi.
"I am thinking of hiring you to be my little girl's bodyguard and take care of her daily life at the same time, the job is easy to say, how about it?"
'Ha? Hey, he basically asked me to invite me to Join Anti-Entropy!'
Hearing Raiden Ryoma's words, Gao Qi's expression almost collapsed.
However, looking at Mei in his arms, who was looking at him expectantly with bright eyes, Gao Qi's heart softened at last.
Nodding, Gao Qi stretched out his hand and held it with Ryoma.
"I accept, President Ryoma, I will always protect Miss Mei."
Gao Qi wondered if his Simulation System could be renamed How To Raise A Daughter System. Now, his combat effectiveness has not improved much, but his child caretaker experience is incomparably sufficient.
Conscience of heaven and earth, Gao realized it, being a Father but he was still a virgin!
【In this way, you became Raiden Mei's bodyguard, not only did you not have the opportunity to contact Anti-Entropy, but like Mei, Raiden Ryoma deliberately concealed the facts about the Organization. 】
【For the next three years, you have been by Mei's side, taking care of her who was "rehabilitated" in the hospital after the kidnapping incident. 】
【Compared to Ryoma, who travels frequently and concentrates on his work and Anti-Entropy, you spend more time with Raiden Mei. 】
【To your surprise, this period of life is extremely peaceful, nothing major happened, and there was no butterfly effect. You have been responsible for taking care of Mei, and at the same time taking care of the children in the orphanage. 】
【In this way, ten years have passed. 】
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Ten years later, in Nagazora, Chiba Academy, dismissal has passed for a long time, and club activities were coming to an end.
A man in a neat suit and sunglasses was leaning against a car, silently waiting for someone to arrive.
Gao Qi, at this moment, is already an adult in his twenties.
And soon, Gao Qi saw a slender figure inside the school gate, with a joyful expression, shaking her long dark purple hair, rushing towards him quickly.
In the next second, Raiden Mei, this slim and tall girl, threw herself into Gao Qi's arms and gave him a big hug.
"Brother Gao Qi, I've been waiting for a long time!"
This time, the last good girl in the protagonist group was finally not raised by him as a daughter!