K423 from Dark Souls

At this time, Otto was holding a white controller and skillfully pressing the buttons. The music from the screen in front of him, as well as the super high score on the screen, were obviously a pair of players who were proficient in games. appearance.

"Uncle Otto..."

"Huh? Aurora, you are here, do you want to play games with uncle?"

Otto heard Aurora's words, pressed the pause button of the game, then smiled at Aurora, and sent an invitation to Aurora.

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Chapter 5 Great Inventors

"..."

Aurora sat cross-legged on the ground behind the desk, and Otto sat next to Aurora, focusing on manipulating the white-haired girl character on the screen.

The floor of the office with solid wood floors was heated to a relatively warm temperature by the system in the office with a strict temperature control system.

"...The character used by Uncle Otto is really Kallen..."

Aurora looked at the character that Otto had been using all the time. When the character used skills, the familiar dark stealth suit made Aurora immediately recall the past of Miss Kallen's Phantom Thief.

'...but...my character should be Ms. Yae Sakura, this pair of cherry pink long ears, and the attire of a priestess...'

Although Aurora focused on the inexplicable complaints, the movement of the joystick in her hand was even faster than that of Otto next to her.

When the white-haired girl raised her leg to attack the Miko, the Miko stepped back sideways, and put the sword back into the sheath.

At this time, it happened that the white-haired girl controlled by Otto became stiff because of a kick attack. The miko rushed forward, pulled out the sword, and played the execution animation on Otto's character.

"KO"

"..."

Otto put down the handle, turned to look at the petite girl sitting beside him, and warned Aurora earnestly.

"Aurora, do you often play this game... By the way, don't be addicted to the game, although it is really interesting..."

"?"

Aurora tilted her head and looked at Otto with a puzzled expression on her face.

"Uncle Otto, this is the first time I play this game, and you taught me how to operate it just now..."

"..."

Otto looked at Baimao Tuanzi with a puzzled expression, inexplicably remembered Cecilia who easily surpassed him on the leaderboard, and then silently changed the subject.

"By the way, Aurora, you should have met the defected Dr. Markey recently, how do you feel about him?"

Otto stood up from the ground, then put the handle on the desk casually, stretched his hand towards Aurora, and pulled Aurora up from the ground in a gentlemanly manner.

"Dr. Markey? Uncle Otto, what are you talking about about the feeling?"

Aurora put her hand on Otto's outstretched palm, and stood up from the ground with her strength, and then answered Otto's inquiry.

"Well, probably what do you think about his philosophy, about whether to sacrifice these young girls, and then come to save the world..."

Otto looked down at Aurora's blue eyes, his turquoise eyes were full of curiosity and exploration of Aurora's answer.

"...Sacrifice some people to maintain the world..."

After hearing this familiar question, Aurora hesitated for a moment, and then told Otto about her opinion.

"...If there is no way, I think it is worth their sacrifice to maintain this world."

"Oh? Do you agree with their sacrifice? Do you agree with what I said, the idea of ​​sacrificing to maintain the world? Aurora."

Otto was surprised by Aurora's answer. He originally thought that from Aurora, who should be regarded as Kaslana's hot-blooded idiot, he would only hear more idealized answers.

"Well, I agree with their sacrifices. In order to maintain the existence of the world, they have sacrificed their most precious lives..."

Aurora seemed to remember something, and her eyes became a little dull, as if recalling past memories.

"...But I will work hard to become stronger and keep becoming stronger until I can make the people who come after me no longer have to continue to sacrifice, so that the person who sacrifices is only me..."

"Oh, what a childish speech, your idea is still too ideal, Aurora..."

Otto originally thought that Aurora would be a special Kaslana.Unexpectedly, in the end, he was still an ideal person who only wanted to sacrifice himself.

"..."

Aurora heard Otto's seemingly helpless comments, and lowered her head in a depressed mood, as if Otto's words had hit her.

"Okay, it's getting late, and it's time for you to take part in the level assessment, although I think this assessment is just a piece of cake for you..."

Otto glanced at the time, then reached out and patted Aurora on the shoulder, smiled habitually at Aurora, and reminded Aurora to take the exam.

"I see, Uncle Otto..."

Looking at Otto's smile, Aurora felt inexplicably that this smile was very fake, completely different from the smile she had seen in Miss Kallen's memory.

"..."

After saying goodbye to Otto, Aurora walked out of the office alone, and Otto just watched the back of Aurora leaving in place, constructing the next plan in his mind.

"...Aurora, do you feel it? That Otto has become different from what I saw at the beginning..."

After Aurora walked out of the door of Otto's office, Sirin's voice suddenly sounded in Aurora's mind, reminding Aurora of Otto's changes.

"Well, it's probably because of some things, he already tacitly knows that I know, for example: Uncle Otto is in the destiny, and it's not like he has no right to speak..."

"But Otto has really changed a lot compared to the past... compared to the great inventor who promised to save the world..."

"Huh? Aurora, what are you talking about? What kind of great inventor...?"

"...just some memories from the past..."

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"...Great inventor?! Aurora, no, how could K-423 know this, even if it has the influence of the soul, it should be the Second Herrscher..."

Otto's soul-steel body not only has extremely high protection strength, but also can enhance Otto's senses, for example; allowing Otto to clearly hear many nearby sounds.

Although Otto doesn't usually use this ability to enhance the senses, but in his alone time with Aurora today, in order to better observe Aurora, he deliberately turned on all the sensory abilities.

And after Aurora left the office, Otto naturally heard all the whispers she said to herself after she left the office.

However, the content of these words exchanged between Aurora and Sirin caused Otto to fall into temporary confusion.

"...Leaving aside how K-423 has these memories, for K-423, we should first strengthen the monitoring and observation of her..."

"...No matter what the price is, we must figure out how she has these memories that only belong to Kallen, and only belong to me and Kallen..."

"...if she really is Kallen..."

"...No, it's impossible..."

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Chapter 6 assessment begins

"I searched around, but I couldn't find Aurora. Even if I asked the staff on the tarmac, I didn't know where Aurora went..."

Qiyana leaned on the seat in the examination area helplessly, waiting for Aurora's arrival.Regarding the matter of not being able to find her sister, she really had no choice.

"Master Youlandal, it's about 5 minutes before the assessment time, but the Valkyrie hasn't come to report yet..."

When Qiyana sighed helplessly, a very young-looking Valkyrie ran up to her in small steps, and then reported the situation to her.

"Any 5 more minutes? Okay, I see, thank you..."

Qiyana looked at the young Valkyrie, and then nodded to her, making Martina, who had just passed the assessment and had just become an official Valkyrie, very excited.

"Ah, Master Ulandal has spoken to me!"

Martina fled away from Qiyana's side in a daze, but when she was about to report the situation to her senior, she bumped straight into a person.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I was so excited that I couldn't concentrate...Eh? Kiyana-san...?!"

Martina quickly apologized to the person she bumped into, and when she looked up at the person, a familiar face caught her eyes.

"You are... Martina, why are you here? You also became a Valkyrie... By the way, my real name is Aurora Shaniat, and the name Kiyana is me Sister's."

Aurora asked Martina with some doubts, and at the same time explained her real name to her. Normally, Martina would never have any intersection with Destiny.

After all, in the first few contacts, Aurora has already judged Martina's Houkai resistance, and the results Aurora perceives show that Martina's Houkai resistance does not count color.

"Hey, it's not Qiyana... Sister Aurora, it's actually like this. After the Houkai beast incident, grandpa was admitted to the hospital of destiny..."

"Mr. Baldo, he..."

"It's okay, under Tianming's treatment, grandpa was discharged from the hospital soon, and I also knew the truth because the captain came to my house to explain the situation, and then persuaded me to join Tianming..."

Martina pointed to the metal badge hanging on her chest, showed it to Aurora, and then continued to talk to Aurora.

"However, I voluntarily became a Valkyrie... I don't want what happened that night to happen again... So, under the guidance of the captain, I am now an official Valkyrie!"

"Well, then you go on..."

Aurora glanced at the metal badge on Martina's chest. According to her understanding, only relatively powerful teams in the headquarters are eligible to use special badges.

"Then why is Sister Aurora here...? Why haven't I seen Sister Aurora before..."

"...Because I am a member of the Far East Branch, this time I came to the headquarters of the Destiny temporarily to participate in the Valkyrie level assessment..."

Aurora looked up at the road sign above her head, then looked around at the situation, showing a somewhat confused expression.

"Wait, Sister Aurora, you said you came to participate in the assessment? If I remember correctly..."

Martina looked at Aurora with a confused expression in surprise, and then said to Aurora with a trembling voice.

"...There should be only one Valkyrie make-up exam today, could it be...Could it be, the Valkyrie who skipped the exam is you, Sister Aurora!"

"..."

Aurora didn't care about Martina's surprise, but continued to explore the surrounding situation, but still found nothing.Wait, it's not all for nothing.

Aurora suddenly opened her eyes wide, staring closely at Martina standing in front of her, and then said to Martina.

"...can you... show me the way?"

"what?"

"Can you take me to the assessment place? I don't know the way..."