"If I understand your attitude, yes, this is a journey for you."

When Magnus shook his head helplessly at Perturabo's sudden outburst, Horus knew that he had miscalculated, and Perturabo's untimely sensitivity was surprising.

Seeing Horus admit it so frankly, Perturabo had the feeling of punching the cotton.

He was dissatisfied with the test because he didn't think he had done anything wrong and shouldn't be suspected.

He also knew very well that the same test as this trip was not Horus's idea at all, because Horus could not do it at all, which was obviously the emperor's intention.

Is it possible to still scold the emperor?

“……”

In this way, Peturabo went from suddenly irritable to taciturn, as if words such as calm and resolute had been written on his body in the eyes of others.

However, Peturabo's heart is not as calm and calm as it seems.

In his head, he was yelling at Horus.

"I can understand that my father and you are suspicious of me, after all, my essence has rebelled, although my damn essence rebelled with your Horus body, but everyone is used to targeting me alone."

"But why did my father humiliate me? Why are you humiliating me like this?! ”

In Peturabo's mind, Horus even gave him a response.

"Father humiliated you?" Imaginary Horus asked.

"This trip was arranged by him, he could send me directly to the most dangerous place, and then see if I would be soft in the face of my damned children, but he chose to do it in the worst way!"

Perturabo roared in his heart.

"He arranged for us to meet a bunch of skinless mutants who believe in him, how can this damn group of mutants be his followers?!"

"He's just here to humiliate me, to show me the remnants of a fallen Iron Legion using the most vicious technology, intended to make me think that a bunch of mutants can be loyal to him, but my damn ontology called Perturabo says rebellion is rebellion!"

"And I'm a clone of that damn body, two bastards are no different!"

"And that bastard thing called Locke, if the mutant showed up just to make me feel ashamed, then he showed up to insult me in the purest form."

After roaring in his heart, Perturabo crossed his arms over his chest and stared directly at Horus.

Then he continued to speak in his heart.

"If you ask me if the rebels deserve to die, then I think all traitors deserve to die!"

"But damned traitors don't grow out of the ground either."

"The Iron Warriors fought the most brutal and difficult battles, but glory and glory never belonged to the Iron Warriors."

"We damn big bastards are all tools he made, the difference is that some tools are particularly appealing to him, and some tools are like toilets, and they are dirty when used."

“……”

Horus suddenly stepped forward to interrupt Perturabo and said gently, "I can explain. ”

"You don't have to say anything." Perturabo shook his head slowly, "I understand. ”

Horus ran out of tricks.

Some of the other clones could understand what Perturabo's state of mind was, but they didn't know what to do with him.

Locke, who went to find out the news of the skinless ones, didn't know anything, he could only see the group of "Thunder Warriors" struggling and gessing, and didn't know what to talk about in the encrypted communication channel.

"I'm not trying to humiliate you, never."

"I did arrange this trip for you, and I wanted to test your loyalty, but I wanted to explain something to you."

Perturabo suddenly heard a burst of words, and he turned to look at Magnus, only to see that the psionic brother's eyes glowed with gold.

Everything around is still.

More than once, Perturabo had seen the eyes of those possessed by the Emperor's humanity twinkle, and he had heard about the Emperor persuading Koz himself, so he immediately realized what was happening.

"Father." Perturabo buried everything deep in his heart, lowered his head and snorted softly.

The voice continued to echo in Perturabo's ears.

"There are some skinless ones who do believe in me, even in Medrengard, where your slave to darkness is located, there are skinless people who believe in me, that's true."

"I don't want them to humiliate you, but I want their presence to make you aware of something."

"That is, depravity and rebellion are not rooted in genes, and you are not born to rebel, but it depends on how you choose."

"Locke is also a psychological hint that I have placed on me, and he will appear on your way, but he is also not to humiliate you, but to prove to you that you and your heirs are not necessarily born against you, just like the loyalists represented by Dantiok, they exist, but they were all slaughtered."

Magnus's eyes glowed golden as he walked toward Perturabo.

Perturabo did not look up, but had the feeling that he had seen the graceful emperor in a magnificent palace 10,000 years ago.

"The clones of the original are relatively loyal, I know that, but that doesn't mean I can't put you to the test." The Emperor continued to borrow Magnus's body and speak bluntly to Pertulabo, "As long as you have been tested, even if your body stands before me and begs for my forgiveness, I will give him forgiveness, just as I have forgiven your other brother." ”

The Emperor, who was manipulating Magnus, could clearly sense the change in Perturabo's thinking.

After a moment of silence, Perturabo asked the Emperor, "I feel the same sins committed by my body as I am a clone myself, and I have always felt guilty. ”

"That's normal, after all, you're not the product of pure cloning technology, you're not connected to the ontological biometrics, you're just a Perturabo who hasn't been reduced to a slave of darkness." The Emperor replied.

Hearing this, Perturabo felt that what the emperor said was not entirely right.

He didn't think that he was a good Perturabo who didn't bear responsibility, just as he didn't think that the human will of the emperor in front of him could be stripped from the experience of the original emperor and become a completely different being

In short, Peturabo thought about a lot of things in just a few seconds, and in the end he neither agreed nor questioned, but fell silent.

But hearing this from the Emperor's lips had already moved Perturabo, and he now had only one thing to ask, only one to get an answer from the Emperor.

"Did you say this to me voluntarily? I have the privilege of hearing your candid words and explanations? ”

Hearing this, Magnus's golden pupils turned to the empty side.

"Yes......"

(End of chapter)