NieR: Whirlpool

Chapter 290 Repentance

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Severe pains came from all over my body, as if my bones were broken, and my limbs had no strength at all.

I didn't even have the strength to open my eyelids.

There seemed to be a noisy sound in my ears.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"Yorha Unit 9S, all systems have been repaired and are now activated."

[Hmm... This is the voice of Pod 153.]

9S, lying in the huge ruins of a building, twitched his eyelids slightly.

He opened his eyes, his blue eyes staring at the sky, and was reluctant to get up for a long time.

"YorHa Unit 9S?"

Assist 153 spoke.

He slowly turned his head and looked to the side.

"Oh, it's 153... and 042."

He supported himself with his hands and slowly got up from the ground.

Shake off the dirt on your body.

There was a slight stinging pain in the wrist, the cut had already been sutured.

Bare.

He was recalling what had happened previously, as if he had had a very long nightmare.

Now, the dream is finally over.

"Where's A2..."

He asked softly, as if asking about the whereabouts of an acquaintance.

There was a moment of silence,

Pod 042 glanced at Pod 153.

The latter remained silent, and 042 could not help but shook his head:

"Report: A2's black box signal cannot be detected. Confirmed: YoRHa unit A2 is dead."

"Oh... like this?"

He was in a complicated mood. He suddenly turned around and looked into the distance.

The direction where the giant white tower once stood.

A pile of broken walls and white building ruins as high as a hill.

"Report: The enemy's machine life network has been completely disintegrated. Confirmed: Machine life conceptual personality N2 has died."

Pod 042 continued to report:

"Report: According to the information obtained from auxiliary machines in various places, before N2 died, he detonated all quantum servers that were invaded by mechanical life forms.

These include the quantum server in the Mariana Trench, the quantum server of the human conference on the surface of the moon, and the human military headquarters in the "Kingdom of Night", the quantum servers under its control were also destroyed.

In addition, all the networks of mechanical life forms were destroyed by N2 himself..."

"Report: Received data on quantum server architecture and algorithm concepts sent by N2. Confirmed: This concept is beyond the scope of human military understanding and has been implanted into 9S's body."

"Report: It has been confirmed that YoRHa 9S's data capabilities are among the best in the world."

After hearing Assist 042's description, he looked up at the sky.

The sun is so dazzling, as if it symbolizes the bright future of artificial humans.

"Is the war...over? Victory!?"

There was no joy of victory in my heart, and all the emotions that should have surged in my heart turned calm.

"Report: Victory in the war confirmed. The remaining mechanical life forms on Earth are only individuals with a higher level of evolution, and most of them are no longer hostile to androids. There are no longer organized armies of mechanical life forms on Earth."

"Confirmed: The war has been won."

"Ho ho..."

He smiled bitterly and said with a dead heart:

"what's the function?"

Pod 153 was speechless for a moment. After a long while, she responded:

"We...are not...the creators of victory...

But, YoRHa 9S, please... stay strong and live on, carrying on YoRHa's will.

This... is also her... their long-cherished wish."

After hearing POD's advice, 9S stretched out his remaining right hand.

He gently touched her head, and then gently touched 042's head.

Then, turning around, he dug through the piles of rubble, crossed the large ruins,

at last,

He struggled to climb up a beam that was a hundred meters high.

His feet suddenly slipped, his other foot suddenly stepped on empty air, and his body fell backwards.

Pod 042 and Pod 153, who were following closely behind, saw the sudden situation and quickly hugged him.

His expression remained indifferent. He looked up, his blue eyes still lifeless.

The assistant machine reacted and began to float upwards, placing him gently on the broken beam.

He stretched out his only remaining right hand, supported the ground, and sat on the ground very leisurely, overlooking the abandoned city.

This is where they were once active.

The salty and humid sea breeze blew past him from behind, gently blowing up his hair that was sticking to his skin.

The white hair had long been stuck with sweat and dust, turning into dark gray.

And it's rough.

Passing through the layers of ruins, he seemed to see the entire past.

"Ms. twoB, you can call me 'Nez'..."

He no longer remembered anything before the 243 airborne operation.

Others said that he collided with 2B's black box and destroyed the enemy's super-giant combat weapon with a huge explosion.

"Haha, still as messy as ever." He smiled and talked to himself, seeming very happy.

Later, he received an order from the commander to carry out a mission with 2B, until...

Join the resistance forces on the ground first and obtain key intelligence.

In the underground caverns of the Desert Mammoth Tribe, kill the newly born Naked Adam and then escape the collapsed cave.

In the ruins amusement park, the mechanical singer Beauvoir was killed.

Because she killed a large number of android soldiers just to make herself more beautiful so that a mechanical creature named Jean-Paul Sartre would fall in love with her.

Bits and pieces with Pascal, those chirping little kids mechanically.

"Ha ha……"

At this moment, super-giant weapons attacked the ruined city.

With the help of the newly modified HO fighter, he and 2B easily destroyed it.

The weapon's self-detonation caused an underground cavity to appear, and the remains of long-extinct aliens were discovered.

At the same time, a great battle broke out with Adam and Eve who appeared here.

In the Forest Kingdom, A2 stabbed the little mechanical king to death with one sword.

The Commander said that A2 was the betrayer of YoRHa.

Oh, and those who were also accused of betrayal were 2B, 22B, and 64B, who were killed by 8B and I...

Later, in an underwater city battle, he faced a two-thousand-meter-tall super steel monster. After a hard fight, he drove a missile to kill it.

And he was captured by Adam while seriously injured, and taken to the replica town built by Adam for research.

It was still 2B who killed Adam, who was extremely insane and determined to commit suicide, and saved himself.

2B went to the machine factory alone.

Of course, Pascal, whose combat power is negative infinity, also accompanies them to negotiate with the Mechanicus.

Then, the cultists went berserk.

He remotely hacked into the factory and helped 2B escape from the ruined factory.

Later, after killing the runaway Eve, he was attacked by 2B and had to let B kill him personally.

However, even though I died,

but……

2B just rode on him...

Okay,

With the help of the network of mechanical life forms, he did not lose his memory and was resurrected.

Later, the so-called ground-recapture operation...

9S laughed at himself at the thought.

The plan to retake the ground battle was nothing more than a scam by the Human Council. It was time for YoRHa to be liquidated by the higher-ups.

Even if the machine lifeforms do not release the logic virus, the higher-ups will find a way to kill YoRHa.

The ground combat team members are running wild!

The people left behind in the bunker are running wild!

The bunker turned into a sea of fire!

The commander is determined to live and die with the bunker!

Later...

2B was infected with a logic virus! I watched her die under A2's knife...

9S closed his eyes in despair at the thought.

This is the scene he least wants to recall, a nightmare that can never be erased!!!

[But how did 2B get infected with the logic virus? ]

「Also, although I killed 2B, when I think about it carefully……」

【I have no reason to hate A2. 】

[It was those conspirators who killed them, killed us, killed all of us. ]

[Or did I kill them? ]