The agreed meeting place was still the small wooden house hidden in the forest, Chu Tianjiang and Kisstis arrived early, and Lyphia also arrived on time. Like the last time they met, Iska arrived after Chu Tianjiang waited for a while, and of course she wasn't the real Iska.

"I went to the Southern Continent and found Hawke." Although it was very likely that the Iskar in front of Zhilu Dao was created by Gramm, when facing her, Chu Tianjiang still had an indescribably complicated feeling, or he was unwilling to believe the inference that had been made.

"Hawke?" Iska's expression was calm, but his tone was a little surprised.

"Why, you don't know him?"

"No, of course I do, but he's dead, long dead."

"What do you think?"

"Is there something wrong?"

Chu Tianjiang let out a long breath and said, "Iska, don't you think that there are some deficiencies in what you know, or that there are some deficiencies in your understanding?" ”

"Lacking?"

"Do you know who I am?"

Iskar looked at Chu Tianjiang with a surprised gaze.

"To put it simply, do you know where I'm from?"

"Of course I know ...... way"

"So, do you know the purpose of my coming to this world?"

"You ......"

"You're not an Iskar at all, at least not the Iskar I know."

"Why do you say that?"

Chu Tianjiang did not avoid Iska's gaze. "Obviously, something very important has happened to you, and you don't even know what's going on."

"I don't think so."

"So, think back to what you've done with me before, especially before you met Soya. You may have these memories in your mind, but have you ever thought about whether these memories are really reliable, or are they really like that? ”

Iska was silent, but still staring at Chu Tianjiang.

"Obviously, all these things you remember are what Soya told you, to be precise, from Soya's memory, because you once told Soya these things, so Soya knows about our previous relationship."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Obviously, you're not Isca, at least not the one I'm familiar with, but another, or rather only a partial memory of Isca, and all of them come from Soya or Laika." Chu Tianjiang paused slightly. "Actually, you were created by Gramm."

"Impossible!" Iska's eyes immediately widened.

"Actually, before I went to the Southern Continent, I was very skeptical, but there was no way to prove this guess."

"Proof?"

"A thousand years ago, Soya and Laika died."

"What!?"

"Also, you've only been hiding on the Southern Continent for a year, not two hundred."

"This ...... That's impossible. ”

"Gram's purpose is to get revenge on me, and he is powerful enough that it will not be difficult to find you, and it is impossible to let you go."

"No, it's absolutely impossible."

"To protect you, the real you, to be precise, Soya and Laika died in battle a thousand years ago."

"Do you have proof?"

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "I found Hawke, he is the only survivor, to be precise, it is only his consciousness that has survived. Then, I found the place where you had fought, and Sawa and Laika detonated their own energy bodies, just to keep Gram from knowing where the real you were hiding. They did achieve their goal, but alas, they did not escape Gramm's clutches. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Before they blew themselves up, Gram must have captured their consciousness, then reshaped their bodies, and used the memories of their consciousness related to you to piece together the current you, your consciousness to be exact, and molded the same body for you."

"This can't ......" Iska still refused to believe it, but her emotions had calmed down.

"Believe it or not, that's the truth."

"No, that's definitely not true."

"Well, think carefully about what we have done, why I want to return to this world, and what we experienced before we met Soya."

Iskar fell silent, and his expression darkened.

"If you think I'm lying, you can remember these things, you can answer my questions, but you can't remember at all."

"I ...... What the hell am I ......"

"You're still you."

Iskar raised his head and looked at Chu Tianjiang.

"In fact, this is also what makes you very different from Soya and Laika."

"Distinctly different?"

"Don't you think your attitude towards me is different from theirs?"

"But ......"

"Obviously, Gram has changed them, or rather, somehow changed their consciousness and controlled them. Although your consciousness is pieced together through their memories, it is all from the real Iska, and the real Iskar and I have a deeper relationship, so Graham has no way to control you like they do, but can only influence you in some indirect ways. ”

"It can't ......"

"Nothing is impossible."

He ...... Why did he do this? ”

"It's clear that he wants to achieve a goal, and that is the only way to do it. In other words, you are indispensable in his planning. ”

Iskar closed her eyes, looking very pained.

"Anyway, you're still Isca, the same Iska I know."

"No, no, I'm not ......," Iskar sighed, "You're right, I'm not really Isca, because I can't remember what happened in the past at all, and I don't even know you, but I think you're familiar, but I think I should know you very well." ”

"Iskar ......"

"Maybe, I'm just a monster."

"You're not ......"

"I am!" Iskar suddenly yelled, and then laughed miserably. "All the while, I was puzzled by these questions. In my memory, you are a person who deserves absolute trust, and I even feel that everything I have belongs to you. But when I think of you, even when I see you, I don't feel like this, I always feel that you are a very strange existence. I don't know what the road is about, I feel distressed, but no one can help me out, not even Soya and Laika. Of course, I feel the same way about them. Previously, I thought that this was the inevitable result of the position we were in, a change in time. But it's not that simple, they were originally my most trusted friends, but ......"

"It's not your fault."

"My existence is a mistake in the first place."

"Iska, it's really not your fault."

"No—"

Chu Tianjiang sighed secretly and said, "You can't decide how you came about, but you can decide what kind of person you are. ”

"Decided!?"

Chu Tianjiang nodded and said, "No matter what, you have Iska's memory, even if it is incomplete, it is her most precious memory, and this is also your basic consciousness. In a sense, you are the Isca, the Iskar I came back to find. ”

"No, I'm not Isca, not the Iskar you want."

"You should know what I'm going to come back for."

"You're for her, not for me."

"You're her."

"No, I'm not her."

"I can make you her."

Iskar was stunned for a moment, and looked at Chu Tianjiang a little incomprehensibly.

"Obviously, Soya didn't know our true relationship, didn't know about our previous experiences, and didn't have access to my memories of the past. These memories, I used to give you, only you have forgotten them. Chu Tianjiang paused slightly, "And I can let you regain these memories again." ”

"That's not the real Iskar either."

"I don't care how you came to this world, because it doesn't matter, the point is whether the memories you have and the consciousness formed by them are the Iska I came back to seek. You weren't complete until then, but it doesn't matter. Chu Tianjiang let out a long sigh and said, "It is your actions that determine who you are, not those things that you can't control. ”

Iskar was silent, but she avoided Chu Tianjiang's gaze.

"Help me, tell me what you know, and together we will defeat Gramm, change all this, and rewrite the value of your existence."

"I can't."

"For what?"

"Really, I can't."

Chu Tianjiang sighed and said, "I won't force you, but if you know it, I won't give up." After defeating Fest, I returned to this world with only one purpose, and that was to meet you, the subject, to complete the task that had to be completed. ”

"You're going to die."

"If we were afraid of death, we wouldn't know each other."

"But ......"

"If you have a complete memory of Iska, you should know that death is not a threat to me, and I have never flinched from death."

"You're no match for him at all."

Chu Tianjiang smiled and said, "That's not necessarily, you also thought before that I was not Feist's opponent, but I defeated Feist." ”

"He's not like Feist."

"Obviously, I need your help."

Iska was silent again, and this time for a longer time.

Chu Tianjiang didn't force her anymore, after all, it was her decision. What's more, she is not the same as the real Iska, so no matter what Chu Tianjiang says, it may not be able to affect her. What Chu Tianjiang could count on was only the part of her consciousness that really belonged to Iska.