[As dawn was about to break, you drove to the vicinity of Chun Li's bamboo house, maintaining the transport vehicle's form.]
[Your body began to transform, retracting its various components until only the Mechanical Heart remained, allowing Chun Li, who had been enclosed within your body, to get out.]
[Yet the moment Chun Li breathed fresh air again, she dropped to the ground and began vomiting, seemingly suffering from "motion sickness"...]
[You delivered a bottle of alertness potion to Chun Li with a Mechanical Arm.]
[Chun Li picked up the potion and drained it in one gulp, finally recovering some of her energy.]
["Are you all right?" you asked.]
["I-I'm fine..." Chun Li lay weakly on her back on the grass nearby, but her expression was somewhat blank.]
["System-kun, what... happened to that robot?" Chun Li asked.]
["It has been laid to rest."]
Mu You had chosen the gentlest wording he could. In fact, the robot had already been dismembered into a pile of fragments.
["Did we really... kill a Watchers?" Chun Li asked dazedly.]
Mu You sighed. He truly had not expected the young girl to show such strong resistance to killing a robot.
From his perspective, robots were merely inanimate objects, tools created by intelligent beings. Killing them was no different from dismantling an item.
But judging by her current reaction, she seemed to regard robots as genuine living beings. What had just happened had shaken her as much as witnessing a murder would shake a child who had always grown up in peace and security.
["What happened just now was entirely my decision. It had nothing to do with you. Don't feel burdened by it," you said.]
[Chun Li forced a smile without arguing, then got up and dragged her exhausted body home.]
[After entering the bamboo