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What's going on? Why does this girl always give people the feeling that she likes you but is too embarrassed to discuss conditions, and is always evasive?
And why do you guys always like to discuss other women? How come you don't feel superior if you don't compare?
"That's good, but you probably have to be careful... Silver Wolf gave you to Kafka before she did... She was a little angry... She just didn't have fear, not anger..."
As she said this, light particles floated out from behind the Iron Cavalry. The psychically sensitive Sora could feel that her resentment was not controlled properly when it was brewing, and activated certain weapons or energy pipelines on the armor. It was obvious that she was using Kafka to warn him not to flirt with other women so frequently, and she was beating around the bush.
9 Kong's somewhat strange gaze made Tieqi notice that he was "exuding an aura". When he lowered his handsome helmet, he showed the expectation of a shy girl.
0 Sora didn't know how he could see the girl's expectations through the helmet...
4 "...There's still some time left. How about we follow Kafka's suggestion... and play Truth or Dare? I know you have a lot to ask me, and I'm curious about something too, about your wonderful adventures following the train - and those visitors from another world who suddenly appeared."
8 No, your purpose is too obvious, isn't it, girl? You just want to ask me when did all these old lovers get to know each other secretly?
4 Or why don't you just give me a slap? Just because I'm letting you vent your anger, don't take it too far, okay?
2 Under the gaze of Paimon who only hated that he was not strong enough to kick Kong on the butt and kick him into Sam's arms, Kong overcame his instinct to escape and nodded stiffly.
9. "The normal truth or dare game is not interesting enough. We each ask two questions, and the other party can freely choose to tell the truth or a lie, but there must be one truth and one lie in each of the two questions... I may not judge accurately, please forgive me."
0 "It doesn't matter, who goes first?"
5 “You, you go first.”
Perhaps because he felt that the questions he had prepared were too impactful and he wanted to make it a finale to avoid letting others escape, Sam stuttered and the momentum he had built up before completely turned into smoke.
"Uh, let me make it clear first. What I'm asking may sound a little annoying. Can you answer first and then hit me?"
"Pfft... How could I possibly hit you--ahem, ask quickly?"
"Do you like me?"
Wang fried.
If the knight's helmet hadn't restricted her mobility, she would have had to turn her head two and a half times in front of Sora.
After a brief blackout, she suddenly understood the sinister intention behind Kafka's playful suggestion - because she could hardly hide anything in front of Kong, and she had never thought of actively hiding anything from him - it was fine that she had a bad habit of playing with her prey, but why did she even play with her own people?
"……Yes."
373. You two should get married
Judging from all the signs of Sam's excessive concern, the answer to the first question, whether it was yes or no, true or false, didn't matter anymore, Hollow already had the answer in his mind.
But he regretted it the moment he got a positive answer... The girl really took care of him too much. Even when playing this little game of exchanging unimportant information and killing time, she treated him with a gentle attitude of "Even if I'm lying, I have to let you know in advance that I'm lying to you."
After briefly complaining about Kafkajou, Sam calmed down and immediately felt a little helpless.
Although it did make her shy for a moment, it was only for a brief moment. She had never tried to hide her feelings for him, so it was like Sora wasted a question and just took the opportunity to play a trick on her - this way, when she answered the second question, she would have to lie... I believe Sora could hear how serious she was.
She felt that although Kong had a high IQ, he could be stupid at times - he could definitely ask more obscure and interesting questions. What, are you planning on giving me a chance to ask questions for free?
She looked at Sora and saw that he was visibly nervous. She felt shy and wanted to tease him:
"Are you satisfied with this answer? Can you guess whether it's true or not?"
"……Um."
Sora did his best to keep his eyes focused on Sam's visor.
His awkward appearance of trying to act as if nothing had happened but unconsciously caring about her made the depressed Sam inexplicably happy, and the corners of his mouth that were hot behind his mask curved up:
You've been fooling around with so many women for such a long time, but you didn't know how to contact me. Although it's because you have lost your memory, and also because you only see me as a comrade - but I'm taking revenge on you a little... I'll just make it a little difficult for you, you shouldn't be mad at me, right?
"Now it's my turn to ask. Sora, how long have you known those women? It's only been half a year since you left the Hunters—"
So do you want to hear the truth or a lie?
This was just a complaint from the bottom of his heart - he wouldn't be so tactless.
With Sam showing his sincerity first, even though he knew that "dealing with past interpersonal relationships" was a trap left for him by Party A, Kong still planned to have some fun with her.
This body was written into the long river of time out of thin air, including the interpersonal relationships before he officially activated the system, which were all "backgrounds" created by Party A. He needed to explore and understand them himself. In any case, judging from the girl's accommodation and help to him, this interpersonal relationship that he did not remember and was equivalent to being imposed on him was actually quite important... He should return his true nature and not let those who were good to him down.
"The question is too general... Please be more specific. Are you referring to Ruan Mei or Liu Yun and the others?"
"Visitors from another world, I wanted to ask you this before." Sam's tone was a little anxious.
"In theory, before I joined the Hunters, including before I met you, I already knew them - whether they were friends in Teyvat, comrades in the harbor, or my students... Their timelines have been moving forward, but at different speeds. For example, Shen He and I have been separated for about a year and a half in terms of perceived time, and Belfast... We have been separated for at least fifty years."⑷
"Ah?"
The handsome mecha made a surprised sound, destroying her last sense of mystery and solemnity.
Choosing to respond to the truth with the truth first, Sora was not sure if Sam's smart brain could understand the seriousness in his tone. After all, the truth itself was nonsense, and he couldn't force others to believe it... He just hoped that the other party would ask a less important question next, otherwise he could only modify some details of the answer to achieve the effect of "lying". ０
"Then... can you ask another question?"
Sam regretted not putting more qualification on the question.
"Who was I before?"
Since there is no way to get an answer from Party A, and Silver Wolf never explains in detail, it is better to take this opportunity to roughly define it through Sam's lies.
Useful information may be revealed unintentionally in lies, completely blocking a direction and ensuring profit.
"Hey... just now you complained that my question was too broad, why do you ask such a difficult question when it's your turn..."
The girl had no time to manage her voice and even put her hands on her chest. This feminine move made the mecha more slender despite its metallic texture.
"Just tell me about how I met you and worked with you... No need to go into too much detail."
"...You used to be a member of my Grammer Troopers. We worked together on the battlefield for a long time, but after the war on the Border Star ceased, you and I found Elio in order to continue our lives, hoping to use the resources of the Hunters to defeat our respective destinies."
This sounds so fake! Can you at least write it more carefully?
The Grammer Troopers are all clones, and I'm in your group? Don't confiscate my genitals, ok?
Sam saw Kong's expression of disbelief, which made her very embarrassed. She was sure that she really had no talent for lying and that hiding something was already an effort she had made.
Although Sam still wanted to tell the truth, she didn't want to break the rules of the game casually, so she had to use a "possibility" she had imagined to perfunctory Kong.
However, after staring at her for a while with eyes of complete disbelief, Sora slowly realized that he had not gained nothing from this ridiculous "origin". Sam should be troubled by a disease in her body - most likely a problem related to the physiological defects of clones.
Is this armor also her life support capsule? No wonder she didn't reveal her true form to talk to me... Could it be that she can only move around as a girl for a short period of time every day, and is a reverse Ultraman and Kamen Rider?
Also, if I help solve her life span problem...would that be considered circumventing the agreement between Elio and Sam?
...No, Elio introduced himself to Sam and helped him solve the problem, which was also considered as fulfilling the contract between them. But if this is the case, is there any need for Sam to continue to work for the Hunters? If Sam becomes an unknown guest, would it be considered poaching?
In an instant, countless guesses and plans flashed through Sora's mind, but he still gentlemanly spread his hands forward, indicating that it was Sam's turn to ask.
"Then I asked. Phew, you don't have to answer if you don't think it's appropriate."
"It's okay, just ask..."
"do you hate me?"
The girl, who was originally planning to ask a hot question, just opened her mouth, but then she remembered that she had to confirm whether the previous answer was true, so she temporarily changed to a question that was almost equivalent to a hot question.
"...I hate you." The corners of Kong's mouth twitched wildly, and in the end he had to touch his forehead and squeeze out a few words.
"……Hey."
This should have been a shocking answer, but due to the two people's extremely stupid, love-brained tacit operation, it changed its meaning, causing Sam to chuckle:
"Want to play another round?"
Wow, no, I can't take it anymore, you two should just get married as soon as possible, please, don't torture me here, I have jade syndrome!
Paimon's little face, which was "disgusted" by Sam's sincere interaction, was wrinkled just like the paper crumpled into a small hill at the head of Sora and Kokoro's bed, which had been left dry for several days.
Sam was fine, she had rarely seen Kong so stupid before. In the past, he was able to deal with those girls who he liked with ease and it was effortless for him to deal with them. How come he was no use to this knight girl?
Kong glanced helplessly at Paimon who was almost unable to bear it. He also had his reasons - if he guessed correctly, the relationship between him and Sam was equivalent to that of childhood sweethearts. If he really used the methods of a veteran playboy to deal with Sam, he would be a poet of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
"Let's have another round. This time you ask first."
The two of them asked an invalid question each, and this time they had to be a little more serious, so as not to fall into the pink abyss in the end - one system time was not enough for them to talk about love.
"——I heard that you are in the potion business. Since you joined the club, you seem to have developed a lot of drugs... So in your laboratory... have you developed a potion to treat entropy loss?"
Sam knows that Sora has lost his memory and has forgotten his "genetically modified disease" - but he is researching drugs and assigning Dr. Nata to solicit sponsorship from the society, which seems to hint that he wants to find a way to cure his disease... There is a slight possibility that he has some memory fragments left.
Even though the boy had lost his memory, he still relied on a sense of responsibility and concern in his instinct to involuntarily look for a cure for the girl whose impression had long since blurred. What a romantic story!
Even if it was most likely just wishful thinking, Sam wanted to hear Kong confirm this possibility. Whether it was disappointment or ecstasy, it would become the reality she was willing to face.
This question made Sora stunned for a moment. He had just analyzed various possibilities in his mind - but now it was slapped in the face.
Want to tell the truth?
Let’s tell the truth.
"Give me your hand."
"Eh?"
Not sure what the point of doing this was, but Sam did it anyway.
There was temperature on the armor - not the temperature of its energy lines, but the temperature of a human body like breathing - as if even metal could not block the girl's joyful mood.
"..." Kong held the metal gauntlet with a serious face, looking at it for a long time. The blue light penetrated into the armor and then into her skin.
This is a very special disease, very similar to the situation after being exposed to nuclear radiation, where a person's genes are shattered by radiation, but the difference is that the person will not melt but will be "frozen" instead.
Is this the "fate" of the Grammer Knights? The fate of their weapons is nothing more than being replaced, and they can't even live as ordinary humans.
“…soon.”
Kong naturally had some clumsy ways to deal with the physical pain - Ruan Mei was an expert in the field of genetics, and Nata was an internal medicine expert. If he asked them for help, perhaps there would be no need for those drastic methods.
Besides, if the blessing of abundance is used in a place like this... it should be considered "correct", right?
This was the first time that Kong had used the ominous "goodwill" lurking in his body. Unlike the star core, the pharmacist's seed would only react when Kong actively looked inward at his own organs. But when Kong had the idea of sharing his vitality with Sam, it beat more violently, and for a short period of time it was even more powerful than the core.
Kong thought of the man named Bai Shu, and Soraka - of course, he didn't have the high level of enlightenment of Bai Dafu and the Children of the Stars, but he could still share a little vitality with those who were truly kind to him.
"Seeds of abundance?! Sora, stop it! Using ungerminated seeds to treat me directly will damage your body!"
Feeling the vitality transmitted by the seeds, Sam was greatly encouraged, but he also let out a cry of fear.
Kong had never plundered other creatures before - she had seen those rich evil creatures that feasted on flesh and blood, but she had never expected that Kong would give his own "flesh and blood" back to her - this was not something that could be exchanged for a few sweet words or a while of rubbing, but real vitality.
The enormous power that the power gave her and the outstanding healing effect made Sam even more afraid. She was afraid that by healing him for nothing, she would end up draining all her blood out of him.
"Hey, stop struggling?" But in Sora's eyes, Sam was just like a noisy child who didn't want to get an injection.