I'm not a hero, but I didn't say I couldn't beat you.

"Purpose?"

NO.15 I really wanted to say that he didn't have any purpose, but looking at this too obvious action trajectory, I suddenly realized it.

Why did I go to that place at that time? Was it really based on my own will?

It was only at this moment that NO.15 vaguely realized that he seemed to have... arrived at the alley and participated in the battle without control.

Although the moment the battle started, his memory had been reconnected, and it was as if all the memories and thoughts in the middle did not exist, but he did not care about it at all and went into the battle.

"What were you attracted to? Or were you driven away by some kind of will?"

While NO.15 was thinking, Ful asked.

"........."

He was silent, collecting the trivial memories and emotions, and got the answer.

"I... must have been driven there by some kind of will."

NO.15 said slowly.

"I thought it was impossible for me to cross nearly half the city and sense the existence of the monster. But at that moment, I was indeed enveloped by a will [I must go there], and followed the weak Guidance, we arrived at the alley before the monster was about to succeed."

"Then, during the battle, as my invisibility effect gradually disappeared, my consciousness gradually returned. However, I did not have any doubts about my memory that disappeared out of thin air. I just started fighting with those monsters. fighting."

"I...can't even control my own power...no, even my own will, can I really help anyone?"

NO.15 can’t help but think of this.

He was afraid of his own power. Power that was not within his control could overwhelm his consciousness. If at a certain moment, he lost consciousness again, what would he see when he regained control? ?

Some fragmented memory fragments emerged... It was as if... there were corpses around him, but his hands were covered in blood.

"No, that's the only thing, don't doubt-"

Fu'er patted his shoulder, awakening him from the memories of pain and fear, and said softly.

"You have actually helped some people. Whether it is Pachi or the children in the orphanage later. Even those people who were possessed by the disaster, didn't you kill them?"

"After we dealt with the disaster monster, all of them, maybe some were injured, but without exception, they all survived."

"You have to remember, it wasn't me who saved them, and it wasn't Harts who saved them. It was you who pulled their lives back from the edge of death. NO.15."

Fu'er pointed at No. 15 and said.

"You saved them, you helped them."

"Is it me……"

NO.15 stretched out his hand and looked at the engraving lying quietly in his hand.

"But I don't even know what my miracle is—"

"What does that matter?"

Fu'er said with an indifferent expression.

"When I first awakened, I still didn't even know what my abilities were, and then I just went out to fight with disasters like this. So compared to what your abilities are, you should pay more attention to what you want to do. What to do.”

"A person who doesn't know where to go, no matter how powerful he is, can't save anyone. But as long as you still have the idea of ​​helping others in your heart, even if you are an ordinary person, you can still do what you can. Everything that comes. Not to mention——"

"Letting you join the Management Bureau is not just to [manage] you. It is also our duty to help you control your own power."

Fu'er's hand showed his own engraving.

"Although I'm a little embarrassed, let me ask you questions."

It was like the question Sylvia asked herself in the small room in the lounge two summers ago.

"NO.15, what do you want?"

"……………………"

"I……"

NO.15 hesitated, as if he was still thinking about a definite answer, but didn't know how to say it. But when he raised his head and saw the encouraging eyes of the other party, he seemed to suddenly have a hint of courage.

Not much, but at least enough to express my thoughts out loud that I had suppressed for a long time.

"I want to retrieve my past memories! I want to know who I am! Why was I born as a clone?"

"I want to witness with my own eyes the world Audrey told me about. If possible, I want to see the place where she rests."

"I...want...to be like Audrey..."

"I want to... help the people I can help..."

The emotions that had been suppressed for many years surged out like a flood that burst a dam, dyeing the engraving with a faint white light. After flickering for a long time, it extinguished again and returned to NO.15's body.

"Hmm...what's going on? Why is it like this and the mark hasn't appeared yet?"

Fu'er on the side seemed not to be satisfied with the result in front of him, frowning and saying.

"I don't know...but I can feel it, I'm more connected to it."

"Then it's even more strange... The miracle has obviously been shown once, and now the phenomenon of resonance has also appeared, but why is it not engraved with the name of miracle?"

Fu Er scratched his hair and said.

"Showed it once...are you talking about when I was [invisible]?"

"correct."

"Then my ability will be invisibility?"

"Try it. Can you try to become invisible in front of me?"

NO.15 Closed his eyes, silently praying for invisibility, trying to activate his own miracle.

But it is a pity that no matter how hard he tried to invoke the miracle, the engraving still did not give him the slightest response. It was obvious that the engraving was constantly emitting a friendly light, but it was indifferent to his invocation.

"No...no reaction at all."

"As expected... So I guess your [Miracle] is not invisibility at all, it's just a by-product of your miracle."

"It's just my guess for the time being. There's no definite evidence, so just listen and don't take it too seriously."

Fu'er took out his mobile phone and pulled out the e-book.

"Do you remember this novel?"

"Ah."

"Then do you remember this part of the plot?"

He opened the novel to the part marked by his bookmark and handed it to NO.15.

"This is……"

NO.15 I quickly flipped through this part of the story, opened the table of contents, and checked the chapters.

"I seem to have...already seen this part? But the impression is not very deep. But...this plot..."

"Same as what happened to you, right."

Fu'er took back his phone, looked at the text above, and said.

"The protagonist interfered with the entire laboratory by rubbing EMP, and then escaped through the restored invisibility, and fought with the mutants. During this period, the mutants also multiplied. No matter how you look at it, it is too coincidental."

"By the way, you have indeed read this part, because this chapter was retrieved from the mobile phone I found in your room after restoring the cloud account data."

"That is to say, I have an idea."

Fu'er pointed at NO.15's chest, where the engraving existed.

"Your miracle may be to re-present an event you have seen."