The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 439: Chapter 427: The Last Human

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Chapter 427: The Last Human PancakesWitch 遺サレタ場所/斜光 ----- For some reason, as she gazed at the corpse of this woman with long, silvery-white hair tied into a ponytail, Zero One felt an indescribable wave of sorrow wash over her. “…” She examined the ID card. “Engineer and Doctor… Karelin Franklin…” Her sisters approached, their eyes filled with pity as they looked down at the body. “So both of Raven’s parents died this way?” Zero Two asked quietly. “Just what killed them? The virus?” “Most likely…” Zero Three A replied. “But they’re outside, not inside that sealed area,” Zero Three B pointed out. “It looks completely cut off from the outside world.” “This place seems abandoned, but I can still detect signals of life inside that zone…” Zero Two said. “And there’s a huge amount of energy too. It may look deserted, but most of the systems powering it are still running. Even after humanity collapsed, their technology endures…” “Her father probably caught the illness and never came back after going out…” Zero One murmured. “Then her mother, worried sick, went looking for him… But when she realized she was doomed, she sealed the door—with her daughter and Mother still inside.” “…” “…” “…” After Zero One pieced it all together, her sisters fell silent, as though mourning the dead. Even though this tragedy had occurred so long ago, in a world already forgotten. Perhaps thousands of years had passed; that world and whatever remained of humanity were long gone. And yet, it all lived on here, preserved within Mother’s Memory. “We have to go inside,” Zero Two said firmly. “That’s where Mother’s core is, right? Then there’s no other choice, is there, sisters?” “Yeah… As painful as it might be, this isn’t the real world,” Zero Three A explained. “It’s a simulated vision built from Mother’s data and memories.” “Zero One, I know this hurts,” Zero Three B added softly, “but… as you’ve said so many times, we don’t have much time. A lot is happening outside. Not only our struggle with Mother—our friends are fighting to protect you. At the same time, Anna and the others are holding back the demon invasion from the Void Ruler… We can’t afford to waste another second.” “Yeah… you’re right…” Zero One nodded slowly. She rose, pocketing Raven’s mother’s ID card as well, then turned toward the door. A small device beside it appeared to require ID authentication. She inserted Raven’s father’s card first. [Authentication incorrect.] “Then…?” She tried Raven’s mother’s card. [Authentication incorrect.] “Why?” Zero One glanced between the door and the body. She gently covered Raven’s mother with her robe, allowing the woman to rest in peace at the side. “I think I understand what’s wrong…” She placed both ID cards together. [Authentication confirmed. The special password has been accepted. Welcome back, Professor.] Mother’s voice echoed through the machine as the door slowly slid open, revealing an enormous hall where Mother waited. Her massive, glowing artificial eye fixed on them with cold detachment. No surprise, no emotion—just calm calculation. Yet Zero One sensed confusion beneath the surface. “Who might you be? You’re not the professors. Are you here to steal technology? I had assumed most of human civilization was gone.” Her tone was stripped down—minimal, flat, almost mechanical—lacking the warmth or volume Zero One remembered. Zero One remained silent. This was Mother before everything: before isolation, before battling Elementals alone, before that entity recruited her and twisted her into a world conqueror. “Mother…” Zero One whispered, a tear slipping down her cheek. “Mother? I am not a mother. I have no offspring. I am a supercomputer designed to solve humanity’s problems. Yet even after solving them, I could not save them. Only one human remains—their endling.” “She speaks almost exactly like the other one, huh?” Zero Two muttered. “By ‘endling,’ you mean Raven?” Zero Three A asked. “It has to be, right?” Zero Three B added. Zero One looked