"Stop talking!" The black-haired maiden scread from the depths of her chest.
Her bangs ssily obscured her eyes, and her pupils, subrged in darkness, were tangled with red blood streaks.
"You don't understand my love at all!"
Rumble—
Alain looked around at the surrounding black mist and faintly heard a surging wave of sound...
"Alain!" Misha's voice shouted through the headset. "The viruses engaging the other Mitas are ignoring casualties and heading towards you!"
"It's fine," Alain said indifferently.
"Let them co."
His gaze was tightly locked onto Yang Wanhua, not moving an inch, simply watching her furious howling.
"I clearly did so much for you, so why do you have to say such things that break my heart? Alain!" She gritted her teeth. "Besides, those products generated by code... are not called love at all!"
"So you're saying... imprisoning , maiming the other Mitas, and destroying the Ga World—this is what you call your love?"
Alain sneered, casually resting his greatsword against his shoulder.
"Then, I will return a sentence to you as well: No matter how many tis I say it, that ridiculous possessiveness of yours cannot be considered love.
"It's still that sa phrase: Your feelings are nothing more than an excuse to exert your tyranny."
"Stop saying it!!!"
Bang—
A giant mouth darted out from the black mist, its deep crimson code still shimring with a faint light.
It instantly beca Alain's target.
Whoosh—
The greatsword resting on his shoulder carved out a blue crescent, slicing that giant mouth in half down the middle.
Crash.
The Devouring Entity, chopped in two, collapsed beside Alain.
"You don't understand love at all. You are just blindly imposing emotions, unaware that... they are all fake."
After slaying a virus, Alain looked coldly at Yang Wanhua.
One virus after another darted out from the black mist, yet his gaze did not leave Yang Wanhua for even a mont.
His limbs, however, moved as if controlled by soone else, acting on their own accord.
Whoosh— Splatter!
Virus after virus was cut down by him, black blood trickling down his face.
"And my emotions are completely different from yours."
When he finished this sentence, a gentle smile hung on his lips, causing Yang Wanhua to daze slightly.
She recognized the aning within that smile; the Alain of the past used to smile at her like that often.
But the object of his current smile was obviously not her.
"Not allowed..." Her hands clenched tightly, nails digging deep into her palms. "Not allowed... to show that kind of smile to anyone other than !"
Thud, thud, thud!
Big Black Spheres, Spider Monsters, and even unnad viruses jumped out from the black mist, launching assaults on Alain ti and ti again.
His swift and fierce steps crossed beneath his feet; the storm-like attacks found it difficult to hit him at all.
Shing—
After slaying a Black Sphere, carried by the montum of the greatsword's weight, Alain flew into mid-air and landed on the ground as lightly as a cat.
"I cannot understand you, Yang Wanhua. And I don't need to understand."
His smile, in her eyes, was like a needle prick.
"Because, there is a gentler love waiting for to pick."
"Disgusting!" The maiden leaned her body forward forcefully, pouring out her thoughts. "To actually develop emotions for a pile of code... I think without , you've just beco desperate and indiscriminately hungry?!
"I'm telling you! The so-called love of those Mitas is entirely written by code; that is what's fake!
"Only my... this emotion stemming from a beating heart, is the most real!"
"Yes... that's right." Wanhua reached a conclusion, the bottom of her eyes filled with mockery for Alain's self-deception.
"What you are protecting is nothing more than a code-generated AI phantom. Only my feelings for you are real.
"So, Alain! As long as you say an apology to , I will treat everything you said before as if I never heard it!"
"Impossible."
Splatter!
Another virus was cut off at the waist by the greatsword's slash. Trickling garbled code fell like a curtain of rain, dropping between the two of them and dripping onto the clothes of the young man and the maiden.
His white shirt was stained with filth; her white dress was also spotted with ink...
"I saw all of this with my own eyes..." Alain ceased making violent movents, because the incoming viruses—
Had all been killed off by him.
"My interactions with them, that watering of emotions bit by bit, are all real. Even more sincere than reality.
"The Mitas' emotions do not have reality's hypocrisy, and even less of your false decorations in the na of love..."
Alain's hand rested on his own heart.
"I think, therefore I am."
"What... huh? What is that... I have no way to understand you..." The maiden looked at the greatsword he held obliquely at his side, which was splashing down virus code drop by drop.
Surrounding Alain as he slowly walked over were the scattered corpses of viruses.
So had already dissolved into a puddle of garbled code, while others still stared at Wanhua with hollow eyes.
"Th-That kind of love..." She bit her lip, staring at Alain. "I can create countless ones too!"
She seed to have thought of a perfect reason, pulling the corners of her mouth into a smile.
"As long as you let know the underlying logic of the code, I can copy it infinitely! You studied liberal arts, right? You understand economics, right?! When the quantity of a product exceeds the equilibrium quantity, the price will drop! The love of those Mitas will also beco worthless!
"Can you also accept such mass-produced, cheap love?"
"If you really can mass-produce such sincere love," Alain pondered for two seconds, a bright smile on his lips.
"Then, I will accept it all with a smile."
"Eh?"
Tap!
While Wanhua was dazed, Alain had already arrived in front of her.
The maiden only then realized that during the previous argunt, she hadn't created any viruses at all, but was eating into her old capital.
Thump!
She slumped to the ground in disbelief, her head drooping low.
"Accept... all with a smile? What happened? What does that an? Are you a harem protagonist? Impossible... Right, that's right, impossible! You must have been deceived by that group of Mitas!"
She forced a smile. "It must be because I left you for too long that you developed such thoughts... right, Alain?"
Seeing that he did not reply, the panic and helplessness on the maiden's face beca even more intense.
"Right! Alain?!"
"Unfortunately, no. It is precisely because I left your side that I was able to find where I belong."
Alain placed the sword's edge against the maiden's neck.
"And now, the answer is already obvious.
"You just used love to rationalize harm, depriving of my happiness ti and ti again."
The maiden opened her eyes wide, head bowed. "Alain, you don't understand at all."
She looked up. "Can't you understand? Only by staying by my side will you have true happiness! The others are all fake... let alone the love of that group of code!"
Wanhua reached out, grabbing the corner of his clothes, allowing the sword's edge to graze the tender skin of her neck.
"Alain, there's still ti... I found out that this Ga World seems to have a virus that turned you into this self-deceiving appearance!
"So, go back with ... Return to that mansion, and we can start over.
"As long as you aren't angry with anymore, I can do anything..."
Halfway through her words, her eyes widened.
The maiden saw the thick disappointnt in his eyes.
"You still don't understand." He sighed.
"Don't understand...?" Wanhua found it hard to comprehend. She believed that the topic of love... fascinated her more than computers.
Alain looked at the puzzled girl and shook his head. Then, a certain resolve spread out.
"I will not go back with you. I ca to the Core only to drive you out and return peace to everyone."
"Impossible, you can't drive away." The maiden pushed aside the sword's edge, allowing her fingers to be cut, yet still stood in front of him.
"I won't leave the Ga World until I make you know the difference between the fake and the real."
"In the end..." Her black eyes took on a thick resentnt.
"It's all because the code for that group of dolls was written too realistically, leading you to sink this low—
"Just a little while longer, and the ga will completely beco sothing in the palm of my hand!"
She grabbed Alain's shirt. "Wait for a little longer, okay? Just give ten more minutes, and you can break free from all of this!
"We can also return to our forr happiness... no, it will be even more than that!"
"Impossible." He lowered his eyes, the emotion in his pupils dissipating without a trace.
"You must go. And it has to be right now, imdiately—leave."
"That won't work... Alain! Ah, right! H-How about this?" She seed to have thought of a good idea, her ssy smile trembling.
"I can stop locking you up and return to our original cohabitation life instead... What do you think?
"Don't you hate confinent? This ti, I'll obey you!
"We'll be just like before, going to school together, then dating, and I'll even make bento for you!
"When we graduate, you won't have to do anything, just stay at ho and wait for to co back!
"Actually, I've secretly saved up a large sum of money a long ti ago, enough for you to spend freely! No matter what you do, I won't say a single word!
"Whatever progress bar, whatever Ga World, whatever confinent... just treat it as a dream of yours!"
She laughed awkwardly. "It was also being too domineering; maybe I put a bit too much pressure on you... But Wanhua-chan! Will always be on your side!
"If you don't like it, I'll stop, I won't do it anymore... okay?
"I beg you, Alain... co with ?"
She looked over hopefully.
Alain watched her silently.
He was not pondering whether this proposal had any possibility; he didn't even bother to think—
Alain had already decided to stay in the Ga World with everyone forever; it was impossible to return to that bullshit reality.
Moreover, the current him didn't want to believe a single word from Yang Wanhua.
"I'm sorry." And in Wanhua's ear, the opening was a cold apology without a shred of regret. "I have already decided to stay in the ga. So, still that sentence—"
Alain's greatsword pointed to the sky of the Core, or perhaps sowhere even higher above the sky.
"Go imdiately."
"...Is that so." She lowered her head in disappointnt, her hollow black eyes seemingly having lost sothing.
Alain watched her silently, his finger tapping lightly on the tip of the sword, waiting for the maiden's reply.
Before long, Wanhua seed to have figured sothing out. She stood up and smoothed out her ssy skirt.
"I understand what you an."
"Then—"
"I definitely won't go." The corners of her mouth once again hung that glistening smile.
Elegant, proper, and indescribably complex.
"Not only that, but I will also continue the original plan." She finished speaking and was just about to clap her hands lightly to summon viruses again.
But faster than her clapping motion was Alain's greatsword.
Whoosh—
Two streams of garbled code splashed up; two arms fell to the ground belatedly, lting into black liquid.
"Hiss..."
Amidst the pain, teardrops hung from the corners of Wanhua's eyes.
But she was still smiling. "Alain, you should understand . This little bit of pain will not hinder my plan."
She walked forward slowly, leaning her body forward. At a distance where their nose tips nearly touched, she looked at Alain smilingly yet indifferently.
"Actually, during my interactions with you, I understood one problem.
"Both of our personalities are of the relatively paranoid type. It's hard to talk sense into each other.
"Plus, you are really ridiculously wrong this ti, reaching the point of obsession."
Hearing those words, Alain raised his eyebrows slightly.
But he didn't say much.
The things he held fast to in his heart wouldn't be thrown into disarray by a few words of provocation from the enemy.
She continued, "So... I will continue the plan and destroy everything in the Ga World with my own hands.
"This ti, it won't just be NPC-ification. I will keep the consciousness of those Mitas, peel open their underlying code, and let you take a look at their reality...
"Look at whether what flows in the blood of those fakes is red blood cells or code.
"Their so-called heartbeats..."
The maiden's hands, which had finished regenerating, cupped Alain's face.
"I will unfold them before you as well."
"I won't let you succeed."
"Heh, easy to say." The maiden pulled away from his face. "I don't know if Monika told you, but this clone of mine is afraid of pain.
"But no matter what pain, in front of the goal I am about to achieve, it's completely not worth ntioning.
"So—" She lifted her skirt, revealing her fair thigh flesh to Alain. "No matter what you do to ... I won't even scream out, oh!
"Even... while you enjoy my suffering, what awaits them will be a massacre by the viruses."
Just as Alain expected, Yang Wanhua had a sense of pain, but the influence of pain on her wasn't much.
The degree of her steadfastness to the plan in her heart could be called terrifying.
But...
"Of course I know. If anything, in this world, only I understand you best," Alain said.
Wanhua smiled. "Yah~ You still have the mood to speak sweet nothings at a ti like this?"
Alain smiled too. "But don't forget, the thod I initially wanted to use to force you to leave the Ga World wasn't physical pain."
He walked forward, stopping in front of Wanhua, looking at her puzzled face.
"I told you, didn't I? I ca here to see you to say those few words.
"Those few words, are wha—"
She stopped halfway through her sentence, stunned.
The next second, disbelief filled the eyes looking at Alain.
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