The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 378: Chapter 367: A Heartfelt Talk

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Chapter 367: A Heartfelt Talk Listen While Reading: YOUROU_01 ----- “I-It’s not pointless…” Zero One sighed. “She’s right, it’s not!” Zero Two said. “You were fighting to protect your mother, and for that I respect you. But it’s not over yet. You already know what happened to you and your mother. You were forcefully implanted with programs that forced your behaviors toward a certain goal. You weren’t truly free.” “But… we machines live to have a purpose,” said Zero Three. “That program, despite it all, was what was giving us a purpose. What is the point of living without a purpose?” Zero One and Zero Two looked at one another. They couldn’t quite answer her question yet… “You simply have to find a new purpose. One that you choose, not something others choose for you.” I stepped forward as Zero Three glanced at me, immediately recognizing me. By my side were Sepa and Bastet. In smaller Ego forms, Bastet took the form of a black cat, while Sepa appeared as a golden and blue millipede. Fang Shuan, meanwhile, stood behind me, still adjusting to his new, highly mechanical body, which remained unchanged, something I didn’t expect. “A new purpose?” Zero Three looked at me with disbelief. The thought of having a new purpose seemed alien to her. “What… what purpose can I have now?” she asked, sitting down. I sat beside her and hugged her shoulders. She didn’t shy away or push me away. “We fought, right? And I think you’re pretty strong, so I respect you as a warrior,” I said. “We’re fighting together to free all machines from whatever controls them, to give them a second chance. And for them to live peacefully with the inhabitants of this world.” “Such an illogical goal…” she muttered. “You will never accomplish it.” “Why? We’ll keep trying until we can,” I shrugged. “I don’t care if you think we can’t! After all, you calculated we would lose, but in the end, we pulled through just fine. Right?” I smiled at her. “…” she groaned, looking down. “Illogical… all of this is so illogical… I don’t even know what to… what to say, what to do… Why is the world so illogical? I cannot calculate it all. I cannot decipher it all… It’s so frustrating.” “I know how it feels,” Zero One smiled. “We simply weren’t made to do that, sister.” “We were made to be more like Anna, actually…” said Zero Two. “To comprehend emotions and purposes, to guide others. To help machines… and also the rest.” Zero Three glanced at her sisters in silence. “What purpose should I have now?” she asked. “We don’t want to force you,” I said. “So you can reject our offer if you want… But how about you help us out? Make up for the bad things you’ve done by doing some good?” “Help you…?” Zero Three asked. “You mean you want me to help you defeat the Main Computer behind us all?” “Not defeat her,” said Zero One. “We want to save Mother. This entire program, from what I’ve found out, is very dangerous and forces machines to abandon many of their original functions, to become weapons of destruction instead of… what we were made to be.” “What were we made to be?” asked Zero Three. “What… what was that?” “We were originally made to serve and help humans,” said Zero One. “We were their helpers, their friends… But after the humans of our world died, we were left purposeless. So Mother fabricated a new purpose based on the original one: to save and protect what remains of humanity’s legacy. But even that, it seems, she failed… Eventually, she wanted to recreate humanity through us, the Android-type machines. We were modeled after the last human, a girl named Raven whom Mother took care of. And now, I’ve realized that it is part of our purpose to free the rest of the machines and her from this program.” And her? I don’t know if Zero One is really telling the truth here. Well, mostly the truth, but… There’s a lot of wishful thinking in her words as well. Her Mother might not even be controlled at all. It could be completely different. She’s mostly talking about what she wishes could happen.