The tall, blonde, blue-eyed Android girl—Android 18—was slowly walking toward him.
Her steps were slow. With every step, her long legs paused slightly.
If one did not look carefully, one would never notice that the fingers hanging at her sides were trembling faintly.
That was nervousness.
For Android 18, who had been turned into a killing machine, it was an emotion she had not felt in a long time.
In that sunless laboratory, through countless painful modification surgeries, what had kept the girl named "Lazuli" alive—
Apart from her younger brother Lapis, Android 17, there was only that brief yet dreamlike warm memory.
That sunny afternoon.
That big brother who had handed her an ice cream.
That warm smile when he praised her marksmanship.
It had been the only bright color in her bleak childhood.
"It's right in front of me..."
Android 18 stopped three meters away from Sun Wuxiu's side.
She raised her head. In those sapphire-like beautiful eyes was reflected Sun Wuxiu's profile, a face that bore almost no traces of time.
More than ten years had passed.
He had grown taller, more mature, and more charming.
But that reassuring aura around him had not changed.
"Phew..."
Android 18 took a deep breath, as though gathering the greatest courage of her life, and parted her lips.
What did she want to say?
"Long time no see?"
"I'm that little girl from back then?"
"Do you still remember me?"
Countless words swirled in her throat, but in the end, excessive nervousness and shyness left them stuck there.
Sun Wuxiu noticed the movement beside him.
He turned his head and looked at this girl, who was breathtakingly beautiful even as an enemy.
"Hmm?"
Sun Wuxiu did not recognize her.
After all, Lazuli had only been a ten-year-old girl back then,