Phew... I bluffed my way through that.
Vita breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
It seemed her new boss was the same kind of person as Sa—very strong, but still reasonably easy to communicate with?
That was what she thought, but the next instant, another voice reached her ears.
"Just as you use everything unfamiliar to you to achieve your goals, yet cannot bear to abandon certain people—or artificial creations—from your homeland?"
The relief on Vita's face froze.
Vita: Mom, I'm Here to Kill You
"Vita, you wouldn't want your 'little friends' to be threatened, would you?"
Those words came from the man's mouth.
Just as Hachikage's first words upon discovering that the hooded figure had awakened were "Where is Prometheus?", the previously cheerful Qingque's expression abruptly changed.
Righteousness, Accumulation, True Form, Lawful Conduct, Harmony and Light, Foresight, Attunement.
After realizing that all virtues were fragile beyond measure in the face of survival, the original Vita had regarded those seven emotions as stray colors in a painting and peeled them away from herself, turning them into seven children.
These were the seven virtues once possessed by Venus's last survivor.
Those seven shared Vita's origin. They were the people Vita had once hated most—just as the Mobius in the chat group hated the real Mobius, she felt intense disgust toward the seven of them.
Yet as time gradually passed, she came to accept them as well.
After all, who would truly hate adorable children who were the very incarnations of virtue?
Like her, they were also "Vita," the hope Sa had desired—hope capable of guiding the construction of a new home.
"Are you threatening me?"
Even after being punched into the ground, forcibly knocked from Phase Two back into her original form, and still keeping a straight face as she shamelessly