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"A better way to put it?"
Hearing the other person's doubts, Rick felt even more strongly that the other person was actually retaliating against him for rejecting the name 'Shuvarza' and his personality.
"Never mind, on another note."
"Can't you be a little more mature?"
"If you want to seduce me, then it's even more necessary."
After quickly tidying up one side of the room, Rick unceremoniously pushed aside Shubi, who was blocking his way.
That way, things wouldn't have turned out this way.
Sensing the displeasure in Rick's words, Shubi lowered her head and gently nodded.
"...This body...is Rick's ideal form."
"I have no interest in that."
Rick, tidying his things, denied it without turning his head.
"So... what kind of posture do you like?"
[Hubi asked weakly.]
In the Collapsed Star Railway World, Star exclaims, "Can...can it still be customized?! I have a daring punishment!!"
In the world of caged children, Si Rui exclaimed, "How can this be! They're cute even when they're small!"
"Hey you, do you even know what 'like' means?"
"...I want to know what Rick likes."
[Shubi picks up a chess piece that Rick had overlooked from the ground and looks at Rick.]
"I think I've said before that only when one understands emotions that transcend the boundaries of language can it be called [heart]."
Clearly, Rick didn't want to explain further. He placed the plate of food between the two of them, gesturing for Schwi to have some as well.
What just happened served as a lesson for him; let's stop spreading strange rumors in the settlement...
【"That……"】
【"bump."】
The chessboard gently touched the plate, and looking up, I saw a chess piece in Huggie's tiny hand.
"...Let's play a game."
"I refuse."
Rick glanced at the object with an extremely dark and sinister look, his tone filled with utter contempt.
[Then he stopped focusing his attention on that [meaningless] thing.]
"I agreed to play the game back then out of necessity. Games are meaningless; I didn't have time to waste on them."
【"Clang!"】
[He drew his kunai, using its sharp point to pierce the food and use it as a serving utensil.]
Iron is also an important resource...
"What if it's not meaningless..."
[Shubi slowly opened the chessboard and arranged the pieces.]
"If you defeat Shubi... then produce the information you want, Riku..."
"...for example, the reasons for starting the war...and the factors that ended the war...etc..."
"Your Majesty, spare my life!" Lu Xiaoyu exclaimed. "It's here! Important intelligence has arrived!"
"Next, the story will be about Riku getting the information, ending the great war with Shubi, and living happily ever after!"
"Oh~ so sweet!"
However, when Shubi looked up, she was met only with Rick's expression, which seemed utterly gloomy.
"Ha...how boring."
Once again, Rick flatly rejected Schwi's suggestion.
"Your Majesty, spare my life!" Lu Xiaoyu: "?? Why isn't this playing by the rules?"
Jiang Beiran: "How can we play if everyone can guess our moves?"
In the world of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Rohan Kishibe: "NO~!"
Chapter 396 It's Broken Down—!
What caused the great war to begin? What factors led to its end?
【…】
Who cares about that?
[What can this endless war, for whatever reason, bring about in terms of the ongoing reality?]
【cannot! 】
[Moreover, the conditions for ending it... if those conditions could be met, someone should have accomplished it long ago.]
But the truth is, no...
Even those with the power to destroy the world couldn't do it, so why would they covet mere humans who can only hide...?
Therefore, Rick can conclude that knowing wouldn't make a difference.
This is not a war that humanity can control.
[Or to put it another way, if the final conditions for completion are stringent, or even virtually impossible to achieve...]
What can humanity do?
[It will only plunge us into deeper despair...]
Just as Ivan said to his daughter Ina, one day...
One day, this great war will end...
Someday...
"I have neither interest in nor need to know about such things concerning mere humans."
"If I had to say what I want..."
【"bass!"】
A cold, sharp blade pointed at Shubi's eyes, and a fierce gust of wind instantly tousled her hair.
The food hanging on the blade was also cut open by the sudden impact and fell to the ground.
Rick looked at Shubi with a deep, unfathomable gaze.
"This is the only way to survive."
"This is the real reason I brought you back."
Rick stated bluntly.
"The knowledge, mathematics, and design technology possessed by the machine-type."
"If I win, give these to me."
"...Okay...I understand..."
[Shubi nodded in agreement, then lowered her head, her gaze falling on the food on the floor, seemingly lost in thought...]
Then, Shubi slowly began to speak.
"The present..."
"Planetary environment..."
"The fact that humanity could survive is extraordinary..."
[Gently picking up the food scraps, the scraps seemed unable to hold on, scattering into even more fragments.]
"Even the analysis of the Mighty Legion doesn't provide a clear reason..."
【...girr...】
What sound is that...?
Rick's empty gaze fell on Shubi.
However, it turned out that the other party seemed to be merely stating facts, and even harbored doubts about those facts...
"Biologically weak, with an immature civilization, they can't even utilize elves."
"But they survived."
[…crackling…]
The scene before Rick's eyes seemed to have transformed back to five years ago, to that 'bloody day' when he lost everything!
"So there must be a reason for this."
[As the mechs soared through the sky, Riku was horrified to find his mother's charred corpse lying on top of him.]
"Humans have factors that drive their survival."
"That element, presumably [heart]."
[A thirteen-year-old boy sits on the ruins, having lost his community, his family, everything... Finally, he seems to realize something...]
[...an anomaly...the element...is speculated to be [heart]...]
【hehe……】
"...If it weren't for you guys who drove humanity to the brink of destruction!!"
【……Bang!!】
Something... has broken down...
[“Shubi wants to know that…”]
"I said..."
[Interrupted, Shubi looked up at Rick, whose head was bowed and whose expression was unreadable...]
"Are you kidding me?"
[The suppressed voice was about to burst forth; something was about to erupt!]
"Rick?"
"To wage war at will..."
"They've taken everything from us one after another..."
"I thought you were going to say something..."
Rick's hand, gripping the kunai, trembled slightly; his entire body was tense with tension.
[“In return, I was told, ‘Hey, how come you humans are still alive?’”]
"[Tell me what your [hearts] are thinking...is that right?]"
Inside the room, the liquid beneath a stone seemed to have run out, emitting a final flicker before fading back into darkness...
['Crackling'... The bones in my fingers are making a mournful sound. If this continues, my fingers will really break...]
【--roar!!!】
[—It's broken!]
"Okay! Let me tell you!!"
"My heartfelt feelings!!!"
Rick suddenly erupted! The raging anger within him could no longer be contained!!
【"Clang!"】