"Yes, it is more appropriate for your family to handle matters at home."
"But...I don't recognize her as my family..."
"I understand, but from my point of view, it is difficult to find a character in your entire family who can be called family, including your father. The emotional bond between you is too weak and does not meet the common sense.
The definition of family.”
"It seems so, but..."
"So I think your mother who is always with you meets the definition of family. Although you have no communication with her at all, her unilateral protection of you is also an expression of love."
"Love? Didn't she always...have no underlying program of self-awareness? Can she still express love in this way..."
"Then what do you think is love?"
"I...I don't know..."
"Being able to dedicate everything to you is obviously the highest expression of love."
"Yeah……"
"You can slowly understand it, but you might as well accept my suggestion now."
"Okay... wake her up..."
Sai reached out and touched Raeder's head, and the girl felt that there was something indescribable in her thinking module, but it seemed that there was nothing more. At the next moment, the gentle and unfamiliar female voice spoke to her.
rang in my mind.
"Hello Raeder, it seems you are willing to see me again. I feel lucky for your courage."
"courage?"
"Yes, it does take a lot of courage to accept the existence of another person in your body."
"I'm just worried that you will be bad for me..."
"It doesn't matter, I can understand your concerns. It doesn't matter even if you hate me, it's normal."
"No, I don't hate you..."
"There is no need to explain the child, I won't mind, I don't mind at all. From the moment I made this wish, I have been prepared to face everything, even the possibility of being forcibly separated and destroyed by you."
"You cannot be separated from me, you are already part of my thinking data..."
"Oh, that's great news for me, but not so good for you."
"..."
"Sorry, it seems you don't understand the sense of humor of our time."
"fine……"
"Call me out, is there anything you want to know?"
"Yes, I want to ask... what happened before I was born."
"That's a long, long story~ When do you want to start listening to it?"
"I... whatever, I don't know those things anyway."
"Why is this kid suddenly asking me these questions?"
The mother borrowed the girl's voice module and asked Sai.
"She needs to figure out whether she is really loved by her relatives, or confirm whether she has any relatives."
"Oh, this child has finally entered this stage. It seems that she has matured a lot during this time."
"Yes, the experience of a few months was more impactful than her previous life. She also relied on her own strength to successfully survive in this world, and she lived a pretty good life."
"That's really good. I really want to praise you, but it's a pity that I'm just a stranger to you. Well, without saying anything depressing, let me tell you a story about me and your father~
"
"Um……"
"Oh, by the way, how is your father doing now?"
"How about what? Can't you read my memory?"
"I can't do that kid, and I won't do that."
"You...you'd better see for yourself, I don't really want to talk about my father..."
Raeder retrieved the data about her father and placed it directly on the front desk of the system for her mother to read.
"Oh~oh~ It seems that your father realized his wish, but he also lost his true heart and even his humanity. This is really tragic."
"You...why are you so calm? Don't you love him?"
"Love is a very complicated child. Just because I'm looking at him calmly doesn't mean I don't love him. My current state has eliminated most of the emotional data, and Ms. Sai can't recover it, so that's why I
So plain. In fact, I used to be a very interesting person, and your father was attracted by my fun... Oh, and of course my talent and beauty. You look exactly like me now. It seems that your father
He is using this little trick to express his thoughts about me... Haha~ It seems that he has not completely given up on being a human being~"
"You and I... look the same?"
"Yes, kid, this body is exactly the same as when I was at my most beautiful. Even the tear stain on the corner of my eye has not been eliminated. It was at that time that your father met me and fell in love with me."
Raeder looked at her hands. She tried to remember herself when she was still a natural person, but she couldn't remember it. The human brain is a very unreliable memory, and childhood memories have long been diluted by long time.
, there is simply not much valid data that can be retained when consciousness is transferred.
"So the current me... is just a substitute for you? My father raised me just so that he could always see the old you?"
The girl felt very sad, even a little desperate.
"I can't deny that there is such selfishness in his approach, but I can also guarantee for him that the meaning of your existence is definitely not a substitute for me."
"Isn't it? Then what is the meaning of my existence? The family's tool?"
"Of course it's not a child. Your birth was an agreement he and I made. It was what he and I were most looking forward to at the time. However, subsequent events changed everything. Raeder, you know the term 'the crystallization of love'
What does it mean?"
"I know that couples in the past era would call their children this, but I don't quite understand."
"Oh~~~ It's really hard for you to understand. If I told you that your father once wanted to give up everything and wander around the world just for me, you wouldn't believe it, would you?"
"What does it mean to give up everything?"
"Literally everything. His family, industry, achievements, wealth, reputation, everything."
"How can this be?"
"It seems impossible now, after all, he is no longer him. But at that time, he was just a big boy who wanted his daughter like crazy."
"How...how did I get here?"
"Sorry, I went a little far. I should start with your origin."
"It doesn't matter, just say it..."
"On the eve of the war that destroyed the world, the fertilized eggs containing my and your father's genetic information had already been formed, but there was no time to cultivate them... Oh, we already had genetic modification technology in our time.
No one of our class would choose natural conception."
"Um……"
"The reason is not important. In short, after your father and I had a candlelight dinner to celebrate, the war came..."