The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

However, after hearing this, the latter fell into a brief silence.

"…Have all current mechanical life forms already produced individuals like this?"

A2's expression was a little strange.

She had long ago discovered that among mechanical life forms, there were an increasing number of abnormal species with abnormal thoughts.

But it was still too ridiculous to think that she was a human being or something... Although she couldn't really confirm this, that's why she tried to bring Lin Qiao back.

"...No, you would rather believe that I am a mechanical life form than a carbon-based life form?"

Facing A2's indifference, Lin Qiao raised her eyebrows: "I think there is still a gap between me and those round-headed tin cans, right?"

"I don't deny that you are different from ordinary mechanical life forms, but I have never heard of a human being becoming like you."

A2 narrowed his eyes. Except for a very small number of androids, he had hardly seen any human beings who had "escaped" to the moon.

But at least she was sure that humans could not use such strange and bizarre abilities.

"Besides, even if you are not a mechanical life form, the possibility that you are an alien is very high."

"Ah this..."

How to say good?

Lin Qiao didn't know how to respond to the sharp words.

Indeed, he couldn't really refute this point.

Apart from anything else, at least ordinary humans who were written in the Death Note would have already been sent by this time... I don't know what the werewolf is doing now.

Moreover, his posture after the transformation looked completely different from that of a human being.

"Forget it, I'll start from the beginning. Although you may not believe it, this is a very bizarre story after all..."

"explain."

A2 looked as if to say, "Go on, I'm listening..." But the sword in his hand never left Lin Qiao's neck.

He sighed and explained without reservation the origins of himself and others - including things related to the system.

……

Even though the system is a bastard who likes to play battle royale, it is at least somewhat different from the orthodox main gods or something - at least after revealing relevant information, you don't have to worry about being punished or anything.

But whether they simply don’t care, or whether they can take advantage of this to leverage the power of local forces, which is also part of the battle royale, is hard to say.

But this problem is not too important.

A person was sitting somewhat lonely by the lake - no, judging from the size alone, this was just a slightly larger pool.

The water flowing down from the pipe above continuously flows into it, and when the water in the pool overflows to a certain height, it will flow to the next place along the lower terrain.

This was once a refuge in the "old world" where humans still existed.

But now it has become A2's temporary stopover to avoid YoYe's pursuit... and now Lin Qiao has to be added to the mix.

Almost two days had passed since he was rescued by A2.

Looking at her own reflection on the water with some ripples, Lin Qiao felt a bit complicated.

He reached out his hand to his chest; the heart paralysis that had been caused by the Death Note had been completely healed, and he no longer felt any discomfort there.

Although his physical injuries had healed, Lin Qiao still couldn't help but recall what happened at that time.

What does it feel like to kill someone?

Nausea? Throwing up? Or feeling guilty?

Both are possible.

But unfortunately, whether it was because everything happened too fast, or because of the heart failure that caused the brain to be drowsy, or because of the tension of being on the verge of death, Lin Qiao did not feel any of the above feelings.

Even when thinking back on it afterwards, it is just an exclamation of "Ah, it turns out I killed someone", without any sense of guilt and it seems insignificant.

"Am I being too hypocritical?"

I sighed. I was lucky to be alive in that situation, but I was still worrying about this...

But no matter what, it’s never wrong to respect life...right?

At least it should be better than being completely numb to killing people.

puff-

A somewhat discordant sound fell into the water, bringing Lin Qiao back to his senses.

I glanced at the figure swimming in the pool. The black steel body and glowing eyes did not look like those of a normal creature.

Black tentacles extended from the wrist, slowly reached into the water, and touched the defenseless fish-shaped mechanical life form.

Before it could react, the black attack suddenly burst out, piercing its metal body in a flash, and the fish-shaped mechanical lifeform jumped twice, then became motionless, and the light in its eyes dimmed.

Lin Qiao nodded at this. To be honest, fishing is quite interesting, especially if you don't come back empty-handed.

He used his tentacles to fish the motionless fish-shaped mechanical life out of the pool and placed it aside - and before that, two other fish-shaped mechanical life forms had already been placed next to him.

"what are you doing?"

The cold voice coming from behind startled Lin Qiao. She turned around and found that A2, dressed in battle-damaged clothes, had been standing there since she didn't know when.

Chapter 7 Please Don't Treat Me as a Human

Frankly speaking, until now Lin Qiao still hasn't figured out how she or Yoshiha's artificial humans can run at high speeds while wearing high heels without making any noise or even falling.

Oh, by the way, there is magic in this world, so it’s okay.

Putting down the mechanical fish in her hand, Lin Qiao's expression was a little stiff: "Um... help you get rid of the mechanical lifeforms as much as possible?"

"..."

Ugh…

Although her delicate face remained unchanged, she seemed to be letting out a silent sigh.

Seeing this, Lin Qiao also scratched his head.

The first meeting between the two was not harmonious, but after explaining their origins, their relationship now... is far from harmonious.

Although there are still doubts about the "human from another world", at least A2 can be sure that the guy in front of him should not be a mechanical life form or an alien invading the earth.

——This is also the fundamental reason why the two can coexist peacefully.

Just then, A2 came over and threw a simple white backpack that was covered in sand and looked dirty to Lin Qiao.

"Is this your stuff? I've retrieved it for you."

"Ah, thanks."

He was a little flustered and used the spider silk backpack thrown to him by A2.

He had asked her before when she went out to see if she could help find it, but he didn't expect her to act so quickly.

However, the backpack is much lighter than before - it seems that the water in the tank has been drained in order to reduce weight.

However, A2 seemed not to hear Lin Qiao's thanks.

He just sat aside, spread out some collected bulk parts on the ground, and began to maintain his body.

While out on an operation to kill mechanical life forms, she encountered some tough guys and some parts of her body needed to be replaced.

The silence in the not-so-spacious room was eerily quiet.

Apart from the sound of running water, there was only the faint sound of A2 parts being disassembled.

Neither A2 nor Lin Qiao are good at communication.

Needless to say, the former has the words "No Trespassing" almost written on his face; and although Lin Qiao himself likes to say dirty words occasionally, he is essentially a person with a slight social anxiety disorder.

It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but when it comes to someone as cold-tempered as A2, it's truly a vicious cycle.

"Um, do you need my help?"

Perhaps she really couldn't stand this kind of atmosphere, so Lin Qiao took the initiative to come over.

"Can you fix it?"

"Ah this..."

Lin Qiao was speechless for a moment.

To be honest, he really can't.

Not to mention the cutting-edge technology of artificial humans, which is many years ahead of his time, even computers, which he has been playing with for many years, he may not be able to disassemble and reassemble them completely after following the video tutorial.

If he really had to help, A2 might not even be able to stand up after the job was done.

"Since there's nothing you can do, could you at least stay there quietly and not bother me?"

"Feel sorry……"

"I'm really flattered that you would apologize to a homunculus... Hey, Master Human!"

The hand holding the parts clenched tightly involuntarily.

It seemed as if he had thought of something, or perhaps he was overwhelmed by the excitement brought about by the battle, and in the end, the words almost came out from between his teeth word by word.

The resentment contained therein is almost too strong to be ignored.

But she quickly realized her own gaffe, turned her head as if nothing had happened, and continued to focus on maintaining herself.

The room returned to silence again.

"..."

How should I put it? It's completely different from what I expected at the beginning.

The wonderful thing of being surrounded by many beautiful artificial ladies never happened to him.

Instead, I became... half a target for venting?

Looking at A2's lonely and thin back, Lin Qiao felt a little complicated.

But having said that, he does not have any resentment towards A2.

To be honest, the reason he stayed here was just because he unilaterally requested A2 to take him in for a while, and the latter found it difficult to refuse because of the underlying code of "eternal glory of mankind".

——Just this one thing could not affect her hatred towards the command of the androids, or even the entire human race, the "culprit".

It's probably like the heroines in some adult anime, who say they dislike it but their bodies can't resist it.

By the way, she didn’t know that the human race in this world had already become extinct... This was one of the few things that Lin Qiao concealed.

This eerily quiet atmosphere lasted for a long time before it was broken again when one of the parties spoke.

“Um, A2…”

"what happened again?"

Compared to before, her tone was much better, as if she had calmed down from her previous agitated emotions.

He put down the tools in his hands, stretched his arms, and confirmed that there were no faults before he finished the repair.

"No, it's nothing... I just wanted to say thank you."

"Thank you? Didn't you say that before?"

"No, it's not about the bag. Although I thank you for that, what I want to say has nothing to do with this."

Lin Qiao couldn't help but look away and continued.

"It just suddenly occurred to me that ever since you rescued me last time and took care of me these past two days, I still haven't formally said 'thank you' to you..."

"If that's the case, forget it. After all, all I did was just pick you up."

This is not a self-deprecating statement, but an objective fact.

From the time he suffered a heart attack to his body rebuilding his heart until he woke up, the entire process took no more than 14 hours.

With his recovery ability, even if he is left there, he will be able to recover after a period of time.

"Besides, you are a human being, and I am a man-made human. From the moment I was created, some things were already destined."

Humans in another world are still humans after all.

Although A2 had no way of confirming this at that time...