"Does it matter whether I'm human?"
The woman spoke calmly, but there was a touch more mockery in her tone.
That mockery was directed not at Ye Qiyan personally, but at the human race itself.
"You seem very dissatisfied with humans. In that case, tell me, why were you following me?"
The woman fell silent briefly, then spoke in a subdued voice.
"You shouldn't be here."
"Then where should I be?"
Ye Qiyan asked with interest.
"The Dark Sea, the world that belongs to the Performers. We used Train Coins to bring you into this world. It was only because of an accident that you ended up arriving here."
"Oh? Isn't it possible that I wasn't actually summoned by you? Who knows, perhaps one of the humans here used Train Coins too~?"
"Impossible. Only we know about Otherworlders. In each of the Six Wars in the past, as the war neared its end, it was always the Performers who summoned you into this world to drive the humans back."
That answer was very interesting.
It was as though these nonhuman creatures called [Performers] did not pose an enormous threat to humans, as Chloe had claimed.
Instead, it was the humans who had always wanted to seize the Performers' land, leaving them no choice but to summon Train Conductors from the Wasteland to drive the humans back.
"Why should I believe you're telling the truth? If I'm seeing this correctly, those marks on your neck should be what was left by a Collar the humans of this world use to control Performers. And you have a human form, which means you used to be an Artificial Automaton. Am I right?"
Ye Qiyan's words seemed to touch a sensitive nerve in the woman.
An angry expression finally appeared on her face.
"...So