Herrscher of Reason's Arknights

Even though there were no strangers in the house, the presence of an older sister left Yelena somewhat bewildered.

After that day, Yelena felt somewhat uncomfortable every time she saw this woman.

It's not that it's inconvenient, but simply that it's hard to face.

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On the other side, downstairs in an abandoned parking lot.

Through her dark sunglasses, Talulah looked up at the third floor before stepping into the entrance.

This is a multi-story parking garage, but it has long been abandoned and turned into a dangerous building. It seems that perhaps due to funding issues, this abandoned and dangerous building has not been demolished for a long time.

Go up to the third floor, find the girl, give her some food, and you can take her away.

This is the daily life of the lower world, where many so-called "Deadpool" figures disguised as ordinary people are not loyal killers at all.

They are simply infected individuals who, after being given a few meals, will rebel and then turn on their lives by offering food.

This was the last thing most of the poor, starving, and destitute residents could offer.

After all, even human life isn't something of great value.

Ignore the beggars on the roadside who look like zombies, and the "dwellings" made of stacked tattered cardboard boxes.

Everything here is permeated with an atmosphere of despair.

No one's face will have even the slightest expression.

They were all numb and indifferent, their eyes clouded and murky.

The third floor is much flatter. The abandoned vehicles have been parked here for who knows how long, and under the deflated tires are spider webs connecting the bottom of the vehicles to the ground.

And metal oil drums with a campfire burning.

However, it doesn't seem to be the time for homeless people to gather, as there were very few people in the abandoned parking lot.

She successfully found the girl huddled in a corner eating bread.

Misha.

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The girl looked up at the unfamiliar woman dressed in gorgeous clothes.

I felt a kind of instinctive fear.

Chapter 356 [Confession]

Today... seems a bit strange.

Yelena thought to herself.

From the moment I walked in today, the atmosphere in this house felt a bit off.

But what exactly is strange about it?

Is it because of my sister's beautiful golden eyes?

Instead of using the blue-gray eye color, the eerie gold was simply breathtaking in the dimly lit room.

That doesn't seem to be it either.

Because this doesn't seem that strange.

"That...sister?"

"Ok?"

It was a somewhat alluring voice, as if countless people were responding to Yelena's call.

That was a voice that only the older sister could have under special circumstances, and even her golden eyes were like that.

"Why... what is my sister doing?"

Feeling the slightly lower-than-normal body temperature behind her, Yelena clearly felt that the temperature was not warm at all, but her face was burning hot.

Perhaps for a girl who has completely embraced the cold and will never be hugged again, this temperature is warm enough.

Even though she no longer freezes the people who hug her into ice cubes, no one has hugged her anymore.

Except for... my older sister.

"doing what?"

Yelena felt the warm breath blowing over her head and her sister's arms on her stomach.

Yes, she didn't know why, but her sister leaned closer to her from the moment she sat down on the sofa.

This...this is absolutely not normal.

Is this really my older sister?

Or is she dreaming?

You should know that the older sister has a very cold personality; comparatively speaking, she is more like an older brother than an older sister.

After all, it's probably only men who care but don't say it out loud.

This is what Yelena saw in the book.

But this rule was broken today, as my older sister took the initiative to come closer.

This is not normal, this is really not normal.

Humans are such pathetic creatures; when something they've always longed for suddenly appears before them out of nowhere, they become suspicious.

Instead of feeling surprised.

The older sister gently tapped the girl's head with the tip of her nose, inhaling Yelena's scent in her hair and the aura of Honkai energy emanating from the surrounding area.

"It's nothing, I just came to see you."

"Ugh?"

He seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Yelena's boring reaction, or perhaps he was simply enjoying the sensation of forcibly prying open the mimosa.

Even though he knew that steam was constantly rising from the girl's head, Sodium Chloride still tilted his head indifferently.

"Weird?"

"No, no, no, no...no, it's just...why did you suddenly come back today..."

The girl seemed caught off guard by her sister's sudden change in behavior.

"Just passing by."

She told a lie on a whim, and the girl wove together the first half of her life with lies, and now she doesn't care about telling one more lie.

Yelena certainly guessed it was a lie, but she didn't call it out.

Why you came is not important.

Even though her face was burning, she still leaned closer.

Perhaps longing for this fleeting warmth, the girl didn't intend to expose the lie.

It's because she simply doesn't dare to face her sister, whose origins are unknown.

What's more, she's an older sister whose whereabouts are unknown and who disappears for no reason.

Her only relative.

Actually, I used to really dislike you.

"Ugh?"

Suddenly, a somewhat startling statement struck the girl's mind.

My sister stated the most astonishing facts in the coldest tone.

"I actually really dislike children."

Feeling the girl in her arms tremble for a moment after hearing the truth, the older sister did not intend to end the conversation.

"Actually, I really dislike children. They're so troublesome, impolite, clueless about life, and impossible to understand using common sense. They always act like they're so friendly..."

Feeling the girl tremble, I instinctively felt bewilderment and fear after my worldview was once again overturned.

A lullaby woven from countless lies.

"I hate trouble, and I hate people who create trouble even more."

My sister's voice remained as cold as ever, devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

It's like a self-narration, or like talking to oneself.

From the moment she stepped into the house, my sister acted completely out of character.

"What is my sister saying...?"

"To state the facts that should exist, finding you in the first place was indeed more due to luck, and a little bit of my own purpose."

"Simply exploiting and deceiving is indeed the simplest form of supply and demand. There's no burden involved; once the contract expires, we part ways and never speak to each other again. That's how it should be, or rather…"

That was my original idea.

As the woman spoke, she hugged herself even tighter.

"This is your sister, a complete villain who intends to use you and then discard you. And I've always been like this, and I will always be like this. Don't expect me to apologize to you or anything; no one watches that kind of boring story anymore."

The girl opened her eyes wide, looked up, and saw a pair of golden eyes shrouded in shadow as she looked down.

The older sister reached out and gently brushed aside the girl's long bangs, revealing her red eyes hidden beneath the silver ends of her hair.

"That guy is so quiet. He doesn't seem to have fully recovered yet. Has everything really changed?"

The woman, as if talking to herself, cupped the girl's cheeks in her hands, gazing at the girl's bewildered expression. The older sister, however, offered neither sarcasm nor cold indifference.

"But I have to admit that raising you was the biggest mistake of my life, so much so that I actually started to worry about the life and future of a tool. This would have been completely impossible before."

I still sometimes wonder, if I had just left you in that forest that day, would things have turned out completely different...?

"So... were all those things before lies?"

"all of them."

Without denying it, sodium chloride only felt something cold falling on his hands.

Is this guy crying again?

It's incredibly ironic that the girl, who lived through so many lies, has grown up unharmed and is still alive today.

And all of that was woven from this lie.

When a lie is repeated countless times, it eventually becomes the truth.

"And now?"

The girl asked calmly.

"I do not know either."

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On the other side, in an abandoned parking lot.

"Who are you···?"

She was a woman dressed quite elegantly, at least for a girl like Misha who had spent most of her life in the slums.

After all, for people like this, having a complete set of clothes is already a very lucky thing.

The woman was from a race the girl had never seen before.

Beneath the sunglasses were a pair of vertical pupils!

The girl's face was reflected in those unusual vertical pupils, and her cold demeanor instinctively made people feel distant and afraid.

Tallulah

Chapter 357 [The Scenery Through My Sister's Eyes]

"do not know?"

It seems they felt that such an answer was excessive, even more excessive than being honest about the past.

The girl stubbornly struggled out of the sodium chloride's embrace and faced her older sister.