I, Tokisaki Kurumi, a Wanderer

For Rick, he was always hesitating whether to bring these two guys back to the settlement.

They are too powerful, too powerful to be dangerous.But it will also be a trump card, and if it is used well, life will be much easier in the future.

The snowstorm has increased a little bit, and according to the clock, it is now approaching night.

A few people temporarily dug a snow cave on the back slope, built a temporary camp, and smeared the feces of some large beast around the camp to disperse wolves or bears.

As for the [Fifteen Races]...that's not something worth considering.

It was night, and Rick, who was in charge of the vigil, was wrapped in a rawhide robe and watched as the snowflakes fluttered like goose feathers, and the snowflakes were mixed with small shiny blue fragments.

He stretched out his hand.呲呲——, a black mark appeared in his palm, and there was a burst of stinging pain.

what do I do?Do you want to take them back.Rick's eyes were dim, as dull as an undead.

He looked at the darkness outside the snow cave, and in the darkness, it seemed that someone had been watching him.

That is the figure that Rick has been able to see since he was very young.

He never speaks, and only appears when Rick sets the chessboard alone, and then beats Rick with a vengeance.

But this time...

"There is no night without dawn"

Such words floated in Rick's mind.

After all, for the first time, Rick had the thought of breaking the jar.

Why don't you just bring two people back?

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In the snow cave, Kurumi and Hubby were talking quietly, the two of them curled up together and whispered in their ears.

"Hubby... know him, right?"

"Yeah." Hubby replied in a low voice.

"He's special."

"Ah."

Of course, he was special. From the time when the battle against Yanlong destroyed the small village, Hubby had noticed him.

At that time, she was still in the "connector" sequence.

It was only later... when I was exploring the "heart", there was a problem.

But... what exactly went wrong.

There was a rattling in Hubby's head, and the machine... seemed to have an unknown error.

···

Countless years ago, the creators of the Ex-Machina created them because of their own confusion, but as a machine, they were naturally unable to answer the god's confusion.

So... after He disappeared, the Ex-Machinas began to search for the heart.

Chapter 10 The Truth of the Star Cup War (4k Version)

A pair of dim--emotionless--necromantic eyes--

Looking up at the reddish sky.

Rick was holding his knees in front of the snow cave. The blue snow outside was an absurd scene unique to this devastated world.

The untanned rawhide robe was airy, and the fingers were numb.

From behind came the sound of rustling and the footsteps of cats getting up. The two eldest ladies in luxurious clothes would not make such a movement.

The person who came was Iwan, who was sitting beside Rick on tiptoe.

"Rick..." Iwan looked at the young leader of the settlement with some complexity, the burden on him was too heavy.

"I'll watch in the middle of the night, you go and rest for a while."

"Ewan." Rick's voice was hoarse. "Finally survived, go get a good night's sleep."

"Escape from the dead... but can't sleep." Looking in the direction Rick was looking at, Iwan replied. "Then...I'll keep watch with you."

"Okay." Looking at this man who was a generation older than himself, who could die without hesitation, Rick smiled apologetically.

After a long silence, Rick tore dry words from his throat.

"Iwan...you know what."

"It's like a beam of light connecting the sky and the earth... I'm not the first to see it."

On that day more than ten years ago, the same fiery beam of light that burned the retina fell from the sky, shattering everything in an instant, and ripping apart Rick's dream.

In the whole village, only Rick survived.

He got out from under the corpses of his parents, and it was they who covered him with their bodies that allowed him to survive.

The sight is full of corpses...the ear is full of abyss-like silence...the nose is full of the smell of burnt human body...

In the flying sand and dust, Rick saw the shadow of the soldier covered with military uniforms falling from the sky.