You are being watched... You are being watched... You are being watched...
Yu Xunge had grown used to ignoring those voices, but there were simply too many this time, comparable to the day she became Zaijiu Arbiter.
She still said, "Sorry." Even if it had not been her intention, she had affected a little robot. By the rules back then, awakened members of the Mechanical Race would be destroyed.
L did not respond to her apology. Instead, it asked, "If I were destroyed and thrown into the Abandoned Zone, would you come look for me if you found out?"
The pale pink fluorescence inside its cube stopped blinking and remained steadily lit. It simply stared at Zai Jiu Xunge, waiting for her answer.
"I would." After giving that definite answer, Yu Xunge immediately tried to qualify it. "Because it's easy for me to go to the Abandoned Zone, if I learned that, I'd go see you. Just like when I took you flying before, I wouldn't have to pay any price. After all, it would be related to me."
Her cold explanation was far longer than her affirmative answer.
She clearly knew what answer it wanted to hear. She could have stopped there, yet she insisted on giving it the cruel truth.
She explained when no explanation was needed.
When she could have told L about that Divine Punishment, she did not mention a single word of it.
Living beings liked to use lies to embellish lies, but she was the opposite. She liked to use truth to carve truth.
She always had to use words that would hurt people to shatter that beautiful, pleasant shell. Yet every word she spoke was sincere.
L tilted its cube head up and stared at Zai Jiu Xunge for a long time before