NIKKE, after maxing out the favorability, all the Nikkis are not right

Yurxia: "The name Edmi is like a thorn in her heart that she can never remove. Whenever someone calls her name, she will remember her experience of being abandoned. After all, she is an abandoned child, just like a stray cat."

Yurxia: "Most children who had unsatisfactory childhoods have an indelible scar in their hearts."

Yurxia: "So, if you want to get closer to her, promise me not to abandon her. If you can't do that, then don't talk to her too much. After all, a sinful man like you can easily trick a little girl into wanting you. But even if I say this, you won't ignore it, right? That's why I must solemnly remind you."

Yurxia: "Your gentleness is a poison to her."

Yurxia: "If she really is infatuated with you, and one day in the future you lose interest in her and leave her, she probably won't be able to bear such a blow. You know the final result, she will probably change her mind. Don't let what I said become a reality, okay?"

Green: "I see."

Yurxia: "You understand, but you still want to do this?"

Green: "She did nothing wrong, but was abandoned. It should have been her parents' fault, but why was she the only one who got hurt in the end? I don't like this kind of tragic story. I like happy endings."

Yurxia: "Ah, you, you're a stubborn ass, ever since I first met you."

Yurxia: "Do whatever you want to do. It's your business. I won't interfere."

Yurxia: "Also, call that idiot Privati back! Just now, she heard the news that you were back and ran out excitedly. I guess she's still waiting for you in your command center. This idiot! We still have so much work to do, and she's so good as to leave me alone to find a handsome guy!"

Green: “Okay!”

Yurxia: "Have you finished explaining everything? I have to go back to work. If you have time, remember to come drink with me. I've been really exhausted from working these past few months."

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Chapter 272: Edmi is dead!

"Yurxia, even though you're Nikki, you should drink less. A hangover feels like a mess in your brain."

"Anyway, let's make an appointment next time."

After hanging up the phone, Green stood there hesitating for a while, then opened an umbrella and walked into the drizzling rain.

……

evening.

Green knocked on the door of a downtown apartment building.

Boom boom boom!

After a while, muffled footsteps were heard from inside the room. A middle-aged man's hoarse voice suddenly rang out from behind the door: "I've told you so many times, put all the takeout and express deliveries on the shelf by the door! Don't fucking knock on my door, okay?!"

“I’m not a delivery man.”

Green flashed his ID in front of the peephole and said, "I'm from the Central Government's Special Rangers Counterattack Force and the commander of the ground outpost, Mr. Edrick. Let's talk."

"Um...you? I've seen you on TV."

"come in."

The door was opened.

When Green stepped in, what caught his eye was a messy living room.

The foundation of this house is covered with scattered wine bottles and cigarette ashes. A drunk middle-aged man is lying on the sofa. He has an unshaven beard and a dazed look in his eyes, and he is holding a half-drunk bottle of wine in his hand.

"excuse me."

When Green sat down on the sofa in front of him, the middle-aged man named Edrick narrowed his drunken eyes and stared at him. Then he asked rudely: "Kid, no matter what you asked me to do, I'm telling you, I'm fucking retired."

"So what are you looking for me for? Are you short of soldiers ready to die at the front, and you've drafted a half-dead soldier like me?"

Before Green could answer, Edric suddenly raised his hand and threw the bottle in his hand to the ground.

Snapped!

With a crisp sound, the wine bottle fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Edric's eyes were red as he stared blankly at the mess of tiles. After a moment's silence, he finally collapsed powerlessly on the sofa and muttered loudly: "I have worked diligently for the central government for so many years. Even if you are the commander-in-chief of the central government, you are not allowed to tell me what to do. Do you understand?!"

"I'm not the commander-in-chief, nor am I here to recruit soldiers."

"I just came to check on you for some personal reasons."

Green looked at the information sent by Aikosia on his mobile phone. In the photo, Edric was wearing a government uniform and looked full of vigor and vitality, completely different from the disgusting drunkard he had become now.

"Visiting? Oh, don't be so hypocritical. You work for the central government, too. Don't you know that in a place like the Ark, no one ever mentions the word humanitarianism?"

Edric laughed coldly, then suddenly yelled excitedly: "This shitty society, and the people who live here, are all fucking crazy! Me too, you too, everyone is the same, all fucking psychotic!"

"And those damned companies, those damned chaebols, they should all die!"

"..."

After criticizing the cold-bloodedness and inaction of the government and businesses for a while, Edric suddenly became depressed.

He held his face in his hands and sobbed softly, "My daughter, Edmi, died in an accident. She took a bullet for me and saved my life. The central government, in recognition of this contribution, took her brain and created Nikki. And that Edmi is exactly like my daughter."

"They all have the same face, speak with the same accent, and are all equally cute... but you'll soon discover that humans and Nikki are different."

"My real daughter, Edmi, loves animals, is mature and sensible, and happily calls me dad every day when she comes home from school. But Nikki, who is wearing my daughter's skin, is not like that!"

"She's just a monster that Ark implanted my daughter's memories into and created to please me! She's not my daughter at all!"

"Edmi is dead!"

Edric lowered his head hysterically and growled, "And yet Ark sent out a Nikki who looks exactly like her to torture me and disgust me!"

"So I threw her away. I severed all ties with her. I don't think that iron monster is worthy of being my daughter! No matter what she does, I won't thank her! And my only wish is for her to die quickly and not live in this world with my daughter Edmi's face!"

"Huh...Huh...That's it, are you satisfied?!"

Edric was panting heavily.

Over the years, he has been tormented by the shadow in his heart.

He firmly believed that his daughter Edmi, the girl who died in the accident, would never come back.

After venting his frustrations on Edrick, Green sat on the sofa with a calm expression. He pondered for a moment before saying, "You've come up with so many high-sounding excuses just to prove that Edmi is a tin monster?"

"She saved your life and gave you a second chance at life, and she's still so sensible...even I feel bad for her."

"But you cruelly abandoned her just because she was Nikki."

"So what?!"

Edric roared hysterically, "She's pretending to be my daughter. Why can't I abandon her? Don't act like you understand everything. You haven't experienced anything like this, so how can you understand my feelings?! Watching your loved ones die, and then the next day Ark creates an identical person and throws her into your house, claiming she's your dead daughter."

"If it were you, would you be able to accept it?!"

"..."

"Mr. Edrick, do you believe in the soul?"

Green pointed to his head and suddenly asked, "Although I don't believe in religion or superstition, I think there are still things like souls in this world."

"It is a bright light in the heart of a person. No matter how her identity changes, how her appearance transforms, even if she loses her memory, as long as her soul is still there, she will still be herself."

"Moreover."

"Niki... They have contributed so much to humanity. To support people like you and me, countless Niki die above ground every day, or work in dark mines."

"But even so, how do humans treat them?"

"Tools, monsters, slaves, commodities."

"When they are needed, they hold them up high and write lavishly about them. When they are no longer needed, they kick them aside and discriminate against them. Then they sit back and pretend to be righteous and complacent, saying that this is how it should be. They come up with many excuses to try to justify their discrimination and indifference."

"But you're wrong. Put aside those appearances, she's just a girl."

"Edmi, a girl who died for her father and was abandoned by her father in the end, that's all."

Just a few simple words broke down Edric's defense.

He was trembling all over, and finally his eyes turned red. He growled in a low voice: "Shut up! Do you think these words can make me change my mind? I will never admit that the freak is my daughter, never!"

"You think too much, and I have no intention of changing your mind."

Green waved his hand.

The reason he came this time was simply to inquire about Edmi's background, meet her father, listen to his thoughts, and see if he could find a solution from this aspect.

But now it seems that this decadent middle-aged man is probably possessed.

He has become an out-and-out "Niki-phobe" and is destined to live in this shadow for the rest of his life, unable to get out of it.

"Mr. Edrick, listen to me."

"Since you feel your daughter is dead, let go of the past. It only obscures the future."

"Also, even though I sound magnanimous, I still want to say this. You're clearly the one in the wrong, the one who abandoned Edmi. Why are you acting like a victim? Just because she's Nikki, you can sit here with a clear conscience, rolling around and throwing a tantrum, cursing wantonly?"

"You just said that everyone on the Ark is a psychopath. I think you're no worse than me. Look in the mirror and see how crazy you look now. You've already become the kind of person you hate the most, haven't you?"

"Having said that, I should go back, Mr. Edric. If there is a next time, I hope you can pay attention to your health, drink less alcohol, and watch more movies and read more books to calm your mind. But I think we probably won't have any intersection again. Finally, I wish you a happy retirement."

Green nodded slightly to Edrick, then he stood up and left.

There was no verbal battle.

After leaving only a few simple words to express his attitude, he left, leaving Edric slumped on the sofa, staring at the faded photos on the wall, grieving alone.

……

As night falls, the eternal sky goes out.

Walking out of Edrick's house, which was filled with the smell of alcohol.

Green chose not to return to the outpost. Although as a busy man in the Ark, he always had a lot of things to do, but today he decided to spend time with a girl who had nothing.

Cosmo Burger, the largest burger chain under Tetra.

Edmi came early today. Whenever someone made an appointment with her, she was always punctual, fearing that she would upset the other person by missing the time.

But Edmi, who was sitting on the chair, seemed a little uneasy about Green's sudden invitation request today.

No reward for no merit.

She is not as shameless as Privati, who can go to the outpost every day without changing her expression.

Therefore, when he was suddenly invited, Edmi felt a little nervous.

Could it be that she had done something wrong that caused the commander to ask her to come here?

While she was daydreaming, Green had already sat down on the chair next to her.

"Awaited."

"Commander, you are here."

"So what's the matter with asking me to come here?"

Edmi raised his head and asked nervously, "If this is just a simple treat, I haven't done anything worthy of your invitation..."

"Didn't you give me two cookies in the alley yesterday? Consider this as a way of repaying you for the meal."

Green smiled, tapped the table lightly, and called to the waiter: "Two Happy Shooting Star Meals."

"Two set meals...so you ordered one for me too?"

"Well, you have a share too."

"Actually, I don't have to eat it."

After ordering the food, Edmi thought it was just an ordinary dinner party.

But when the burger shop clerk handed her two star badges, she finally understood Green's intention.

This burger restaurant is having a promotion recently. Every time you order a Happy Meteor Set Meal, you get a star badge. When you collect ten badges, you can exchange them for a cat doll.

Because Edmi likes cats, Green wanted to give her this gift to repay her kindness.

But this favor...isn't it a little too much?

Just two cookies.

After a moment of random thought, Edmi complained seriously, "Commander, do you think I really want that cat doll? And even if I do, we can buy it somewhere else. Why do I have to have that one?"

"Because that one is cuter, just like the little black cat we met yesterday."

"I hope you like it."

Green smiled.