Chapter 104: The Android Who Learned to Live (From the Witch Who Once Killed Her Kind)
The trigger was pulled slightly, if not for the frosts that coated it.
"Outsider." 991’s pupil swiped towards the Witch’s raised staff, indifferent to her death impeded. "Are you perhaps sympathetic to me? To my struggle? Then it is advised not to interfere."
"I refuse." The Witch glared. "Don’t do anything stupid. Even if you do, we’ll strip that choice away from you."
"But for what reasons? A chance for a reset?" 991’s head hung low. "You should know. In this World, too many variables. Too many unknowns. My sisters entrapped themselves here to avoid the World in the first place."
"I know." The Witch frowned. "I have...rested too many of you, so of course I would know."
In this Kingdom of Alakarians, Androids were treated as walking bomb shells.
Not <Drowned>? People stayed at a distance as if they would go berserk for every step they took. <Drowned>? They were put down and bountied like any adventurer’s monster logs.
That’s why 556 never confessed her identity till Demond exposed her. And yet...
"There was another Android that once asked the same question as yours."
991’s brows twitched. Good, she was listening.
"Yet all that was in her programmed <Core> was to shun her weaknesses, scoff at others who pitied or isolated her, and she took up the mantle as one of the strongest adventurers of all time. Even...stronger than me at that point."