The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 330: Chapter 319: Zero One’s Sister

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Chapter 319: Zero One’s Sister ----- Zero One ran towards her sister, hugging her tightly. I turned off the Abyssal Flames as she reached her, so they wouldn’t hurt her. “Sister! Are you okay?” “Ugh, let go of me…” Zero Two glared at Zero One hatefully. She didn’t seem to have changed a single thing, even when the protocol “forcing” her to work was gone. “But… you’ve not changed?” wondered Zero One. “W-Why are you so hostile? This is the first time we ever met; why did you even want to kill me?” “It’s my mission; I was born to do that,” Zero Two said. “It’s my purpose… a purpose that goes beyond internal protocols or programs. It was something I was told I had to do, and I wanted to follow that to my very end…” It wasn’t something that she was being forced to do; she had the free will to stop, yet she didn’t. “But… why?” “Because you wanted to destroy the Tree, this is my home. This is where I was born. And the tree is my mother…” Zero Two sighed. “You’ve overwritten her… She’s no longer the same as before. She forced the protocol into most of the machines because your existence was changing them. The emotions your program created spread everywhere. Machines started having their own independent thoughts, making everything even more difficult for the colony to remain together.” “But that’s wrong!” Zero One cried. “You simply can’t… force others to do what you want.” “Why is it wrong? Who told you such a thing?” Zero Two asked. “Your program has been contaminated by the morality of the people of this world… of the beings we were meant to eliminate so we could claim this world as ours. So we could continue the legacy of humanity.” “No…” Zero One glanced at her sister’s eyes. Her face, her expression—they seemed different. She was angry. “That’s not right! Mother… Mother created me to be whatever I wanted!” said Zero One. “Whatever I decided, whatever path I took. She wanted me to be free… to feel emotions, to cry, to smile… Because... because she couldn’t do so herself. Because she wanted to understand what made living beings so special. Maybe… maybe so Mother could understand the last humans he ever interacted with, the girl that lived in the lab where she was. Raven.” “The human who our model is based off?!” Zero Two asked. “W-What does that even have to do with anything? How could that even be… true to begin with! We machines are… we are created to… to…” Suddenly, she fell silent, as if thinking, processing. “Sister?” “Why… why do I exist?” “Eh?” That’s a question most humans will ask at one point in their lives. Why do we exist? What is the purpose of my life? Where do I go? And where will I end? I suppose if she’s asking herself that… She’s becoming more human. “You exist to…” muttered Zero One. “To be happy, I think!” “What? My existence must have a greater purpose!” said Zero Two. “My intelligence, my powers—I was born to protect the colony, now that everything is… gone. What do I do? You… you took everything I was.” “Yes, I did…” Zero One muttered. “And I’m sorry, but… you must move on, sister.” “Move on?! What’s… what is that?” Zero Two asked. “What does it mean to… move on?” “It means that you must accept what happened, even if it was bad, and continue living to do something else, something you may want to do,” said Zero One. “I… see…” Zero Two muttered. “But Mother… she’s…” “She’s alive,” said Zero One. “I didn’t overwrite her as you think. I simply replaced her protocol with a pacifist one of my own creations. Much like the machines, even this Mechanical Tree was implanted with that protocol, that mission within their very core, their programs.” “She’s not dead?” wondered Zero Two. “Ugh… really?” “Yes, she’s here, perhaps tired…” said Zero One. “But she’s okay. Right?” “…” The gigantic tree made of metal suddenly trembled slightly; swarms of nanobots were created, flying towards Zero Two and quickly repairing her entire body. “Do you feel better now?” wondered Zero One. “Ah… Mother…” Zero Two glanced at the ceiling, t