【One month ago】
Hakama said to Nanami seriously, "If you want the Commander to survive and save the world, you have to make the Commander hate us constructs."
Nanami didn't understand for a moment: "Huh? We want to make the commander hate us?"
"Exactly. Just like everyone else, we constructs are used like tools, and then discarded like garbage among the scrap metal."
"Are you kidding me? Hakama."
Nanami looked at the elegant woman in a white flip-up hat in front of her with a bit of disbelief. The sharp words and cruel reality were hard for her to accept.
Nanami clenched her fists on her chest with a complicated expression: "There's no way I'll agree to this. I can't live without the Commander."
Hakama's nameless anger suddenly rose in his heart: "Do you know how much you have sacrificed for him? You fail every time, and you always have to start over. His feelings for you are becoming increasingly weak. Don't you understand? And then the disaster comes, and you have to save him again, and then fail, and then start over again? Can't you think more open-mindedly? What's the point of what you do? You are just being toyed with by those guys, and then being laughed at over and over again."
"No, it's not like that. I won't fail again...Aaaaah!"
Nanami was never brave enough to face this cruel reality. She fell to the ground and burst into tears. Her sorrowful cries filled the entire bright room. Hakama didn't want to see Nanami become like this.
Hakama squatted down and gently helped the crying girl up: "Then let's live happily together!"
"Hakama? What does that mean?"
"A new life!"
Nanashi didn't understand what Hakama was talking about for a moment. She was just confused, but when she saw the huge beautiful city spread out on the ground, Nanashi seemed to understand something.
【Now】
Huge ice peaks stand on the hard rock, and ice shoots of various sizes stand upright on the ground, forming a dense ice forest.
Rosetta and I walked in it. I reached out and touched a piece of blue ice. My face was visible in the ice. Even through the armor, I could feel the biting cold around me.
"Is this where you forest rangers live? It's a bit too shabby."
"That can't be helped. Aren't secrets hidden deep down?"
"Haha! That's right."
Rosetta looked at her surroundings with a bit of confusion, and suddenly felt a sense of panic in her heart: "Why do I feel like there is a murderous aura around me?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Rosetta's expression suddenly grew serious. She raised her gun and shield and shouted at me, "Hurry up and get into combat mode, Commander! Ceberia seems to be out of control. Those machines are coming."
I was still unable to react for a moment. The atmosphere around me didn't seem to change. "Who lost control? What machine?"
Before I could finish my words, a huge bear-shaped mechanical body suddenly appeared in the reflection of the ice. Its sharp fangs, dark face, and huge body revealed its ferocity and terror.
"ah!"
I screamed and turned around to chop backwards, but the knife didn't hit anything, and there was nothing behind me. "What's going on? What's that reflection in the ice?"
At this moment, the ice less than five meters away from me suddenly exploded, and the bear-shaped mechanical body in the reflection just now rushed out from it with a roar, and the sharp reverse tore towards my back. Only then did I finally understand the coldness around me. It had completely covered up the murderous aura, so my reaction became so slow.
As I expected, Rosetta threw the shield out with force. The sharp edge of the shield circled along the neck of the mechanical body and then returned to Rosetta's hand.
The mechanical head fell off invisibly and rolled next to me. Its huge body lost the ability to move and knelt on the ice with a plop.
“Phew~ I was scared to death.”
I let out a long breath and relaxed. "Why the hell is this guy in there? I thought he was behind me. I almost died on the spot."
"Don't make a fuss. We need to hurry and find out what condition Ceberia is in. I hope she hasn't completely lost consciousness yet."
Rosetta said that we should continue to pass through the ice spikes, and I followed closely behind Rosetta.
Looking at the densely packed obstacles around me, I couldn't help but ask, "Can't we just fly into the sky? Wouldn't that be faster? Why do we have to go around here?"
Rosetta paused when she heard me say, "Look up at the sky."
I turned invisible and looked up at the blue sky above, confused. "Isn't this nothing? What's the problem?"
Rosetta lightly threw the end of an icicle with a flying knife, and then used her gun shield to stab the sky where there was nothing originally. Suddenly, a white crack appeared in the originally transparent sky.
"ah?"
This operation shocked me. Doesn't that mean the entire sky is blocked by transparent ice? No wonder there are so many icicles and ice spikes. Are they used for support?
Rosetta returned to the ground. "Now you understand why you can't just fly, right?"
"Uh... I kind of get it, but this is too outrageous, right? So, the sky for dozens of kilometers is completely covered in ice?"
"Um!"
Rosetta's nonchalant reply left me speechless. What the hell? How could this be possible? This is outrageous!
"You forest rangers live here? I'm really surprised."
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