Counterfeit Hero

This Nia, since rescuing her again, seems to have developed a tendency towards being abusive.

To divert Nia's attention from the soft flesh around his waist that was about to break, Fatty racked his brains. In the end, with no other way out, Fatty had to grab Nia's hand, fondling it in a sleazy manner while asking, "Now can you tell me how you got captured and brought here?"

Nia's hand was grabbed by Fatty. Seeing him touch her sleazily, she couldn't help but blush, rolling her eyes at him. But she didn't pull her hand away, letting him hold it, and said, "Me and Meiduo were originally taking a medium-sized transport ship back to New Rome, you know that. To get to New Rome, the transport ship had to pass through the enemy's controlled area. When we were re-entering the atmosphere, we were targeted by enemy fighters. The escort fighters, being outnumbered, were eventually shot down one by one, but they bought some time. Out of the three transport ships traveling with us, two managed to escape. The one we were on had its antigravity system damaged and couldn't leave the atmosphere. We had no choice but to make an emergency landing. After being captured by the enemy's ground troops, we were taken to that prisoner of war camp."

Fatty didn't expect Nia to let him hold her hand and take advantage without any resistance, and for a moment, he was dazed. It felt like holding a burning hot potato in his palm, unable to neither throw it away nor keep holding it.

Nia seemed to recall the suffering she endured in the prisoner of war camp and suddenly became quiet. After a while, she softly said, "Every day in the camp, someone would be taken for experiments. Some of the experiments were conducted right in front of us. If they died, they were just tossed aside. Nobody knew who would be next or when their turn would come. At first, we all discussed escaping, but several attempts failed, costing many lives. Later, the enemy tightened their guard, and everyone lost hope, just living day by day, wondering if they could see the sun the next day."

Such painful memories finally became unbearable for Nia, and tears quietly flowed out, one after another, dropping onto the iron floor of the carriage with a splashing sound.

"Every time we had a meal, I would savor the food bit by bit, thinking it might be my last meal. When I had nothing to do, I would touch the ground, the barbed wire, my clothes, my hair, my body..." When she mentioned her body, Nia's face turned slightly red, and she bit her lip as she turned her face away secretly, not letting Fatty see.

"I liked that feeling. The tactile sensation on my fingers let me know I was still alive. I wanted to remember every sensation before I died. I thought, after death, I wouldn't be able to see, hear, or touch anything anymore." Nia's silent tears finally turned into sobs, and Meiduo, who had already been crying uncontrollably, buried her head in Fatty's chest along with Nia.

"I don't want to die. I'm so afraid of becoming an ugly corpse, piled up with others, with those bugs flying over my body. I'm so scared. Just thinking about it makes me wish I could turn into a wisp of smoke and disappear from this world at least that way, no one would see me in an unpretty state."