The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 442: Chapter 430: Don’t Give Up Hope

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Chapter 430: Don’t Give Up Hope ----- Zero One explained everything to Raven as the young woman listened intently. She noticed pixels of data beginning to overflow from Zero One’s body, slowly spreading through the surroundings. The damage Mother had suffered gradually healed, and she returned to her previous appearance. This time, however, as she listened to Raven, Mother came to understand that Zero One and her sisters truly held no ill intentions. They were here to save her. “So our entire world… All of this is memories from myself?” Mother asked. “From a future self… that was controlled by something you call a Void Ruler? This future you speak of seems so strange and improbable.” “But you already saw what we could do, Mother,” Zero One replied. “Everything in here is made of Data… Like this.” Zero One picked up a small computer mouse and turned it into particles of digital data—blue and white pixels that dissipated into the empty air. “…” “So everything we’ve gone through is only a part of your memories, Mother?” Raven asked. “Then that means I might truly be the Core of your Memories and Data…!” “But Raven, you shouldn’t trust everything they say…” Mother sighed. “I know, but what else can we do?” Raven asked with a gentle smile. “I think they’re telling the truth. I just have a feeling!” “…” Mother slowly extended one of her large mechanical limbs, a long, cable-like appendage of cold metal tipped with steel claws designed to grasp objects. She reached toward Raven, as if trying to touch her… But then she stopped midway, as though afraid of causing harm. Raven smiled warmly, took hold of Mother’s claw, and pulled the arm closer, wrapping her smaller arms around it in an embrace. “I want to trust them!” “Raven…” Zero One and her sisters remained silent. Even so, Zero One felt something strange stirring within her very heart, within her soul. This scene… It felt so familiar yet so distant. “I actually… I wish it was the truth. I want it to be the truth as well.” “Really?” “Yes… Because if that’s the truth, then I won’t lose you.” “Mom… I don’t want to die either…” Raven shed a few tears as she finally let her true feelings surface, despite her usual optimism. She had reached her breaking point too. “I wish the world didn’t end… I wish Mom and Dad… were still alive… And I wish there could be a future with all of us…” Zero One clenched her fists tightly, unable to stop the tears that welled up as she heard Raven’s words. They felt like such familiar words, or perhaps thoughts. Why did Raven’s words feel so familiar? What was Raven to her, really? “I also wish… none of that had happened. I feel so useless now; my existence seems pointless… Or well, I thought it was.” Mother gently patted Raven’s head with her cold, hard steel claws. “But you were there for me… You gave my existence purpose. Your voice every day, your personality. You have been the only star guiding me through the night this entire time.” “M-Mom…!” Raven began to cry openly as she hugged her mother again. “I don’t know why I said those words just now. I don’t know why… I feel this way… But… I have such strange ‘feelings’ within me, such strange ‘desires’ that I… I feel like I might be defective.” “You aren’t defective! I-It means that… that you’re like me! You’re like a human… You’re a person.” “A person? A human? Me? But unlike you, I am made of steel and wires. Of hard metal… I am not warm; I am cold. I have no beating heart, no blood, no bones.” “T-That doesn’t matter!” “…!” Raven looked at Zero One and her sisters, then back at Mother. “I don’t think that’s what makes a human… A-After all, look at me! I am already half made of steel too, and you think I am not a human?” “But that’s…” “I think what makes a human is their spirit and heart! As long as you can feel like us, as long as you love people, and as long as you have dreams and wishes… I think you’re a human, a person!” “That’s illogical, and it makes no sense, Raven, that’s…” “It doesn’t matter in the