Neil, Automata

Year 12991.

A small town by the sea.

Annabelle opened the curtains as usual, and today was a new day, a repetitive, boring new day.

The Land of the Sun is never short of light.

As usual, after washing, she applied a hot towel to her face.

There was a rattle in the circuit under his face.

Annabelle can only use a screwdriver to unscrew the mechanical screws under her skin and repair herself in front of the mirror, which she does once a month.

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

Squeak.

Her little assistant stood outside with the door frame on it.

"Boss, why are you cultivating yourself again?"

"If you don't fix it, won't you die?"

The assistant entered the house with a stack of reports.

"You just need to change your body."

She stared timidly at Annabelle's barely skin-obscuring airborne mechanical skeleton.

"We all suspect that you are doing this to scare us at any time."

“……”

"You have some kind of obsession with this body."

Annabelle turned around and threw the screwdriver on the table.

"What's going on in the morning?"

Annabelle said as she took the report slip from the assistant's hand.

A large number of cyborg and mechanical lifeform maintenance orders are delivered every day.

It's so busy every day.

Annabelle can't even remember when she became a "social animal" in human materials.

If you think about it, it seems that since the peace treaty was signed in 11946.

It's been more than a hundred years.

"Already...... It's been more than 100 years......"

Annabelle's eyes seemed to see the promise made by the witcher and the white-haired girl on the harbor side in 11941.

There is further ......

"Smack!"

The little assistant woke up Annabelle with a slap in both hands.

"What's wrong?"

"Well, it's okay......"

Annabelle put the report on the table, took out a pair of chopsticks in the gap in the sunlight, and coiled her hair.

"That's all, right?"

"And."

The little assistant touched his pointed chin and said, "There is a woman who calls herself Jacole and says that she will give you a piece of goods in a while, and I will trouble signing for it." ”

"Jacoor." Annabelle murmured, "I haven't seen her in over thirty years, and every time she comes, nothing good happens." ”

A few minutes later.

The little assistant who finished explaining his work jumped out of here.

The door closes.

Annabelle stood motionless in front of the window, looking at the sunlight outside the window, as if looking at a memory of the past.

It took a while to pick up the white coat on the chair and put it on.

The morning is muggy.

Annabelle has a headache and is afraid of memory damage, so she does not dare to repair her electronic brain, but the probability of damage is less than 0.1%.

She's scared...... It's just that the face in the archive fades in the memory.

My head started hurting again.

Before going out, she rummaged through the cigarette stick, lit it silently, closed her eyes and took a puff to relieve the pain.

There were footsteps outside, and the sound of knocking on the door was muffled.

Annabelle hurriedly extinguished the cigarette stick.

"Who?"

There was a little silence outside the door.

One second, two seconds...... Ten seconds.

"Delivered."

The door opens.

A man with messy hair was clubbed in the doorway.

The warm breeze swirled into the house.

Sunlight shines through the windows.

Her lips trembled slightly in the warm light and heaviness.

She walked to the door, raised her hand, and carefully touched the man's face.

Warm ......

Memories of a hundred years ago become reality before my eyes.

She covered her mouth in disbelief, her eyes moist.

"Where have you been in the past 100 years?"

Xing Kai raised his hand tiredly, and his fingertips touched her sliding tears.

"I've been looking for my way home."

"Are you going to leave this time?"

Xing Kai looked at the woman.

Shook his head.

"I won't leave until I die."

……

"Whew~"

Jacole let out a sigh.

She sat in an iron chair outside the house, holding a note on which she wrote, "The goods have been delivered." ”

"What a strange cargo." The assistant was standing next to him.

"Yes, treating living creatures as goods, in the human mind, this is called trafficking." Jacole speaks of things that are incomprehensible to androids.

"Where did you get the goods?" The assistant was curious.

"This ......"

Jacole closed his notebook and looked across the side.

The trees were full of birds.

The pasture is in full bloom.

It's a good world.

Just see how you look at it.

She thought so and smiled with satisfaction.

The memories came not so long ago, when I was in the "threshold".

……

Leno obtained the data disc that shaped the island whale from Jacoor.

"What's the going to do?"

"It's probably enough to start silently." Jacole reminded, "You've thought about it! Your head will explode with pain after using it! ”

"Huh...... It's better than being killed. Leno glared at the dead fish and smiled, he made Jacole not understand, just like the previous time they got along, people couldn't understand what was going on in their heads.

"By the way, Jacoor, there's something."

"Hurt whom?"

Jacole still knew him in some ways.

Li Nuo skipped the part of complaining and asked: "Is there a bastard with a scumbag on his face, messy hair, and a particularly scumbag who looks very pleasing to the eye from the 'threshold' to your world?" ”

"Don't you think your description of that person is incomprehensible?" Jacole complained as he clicked on the magic panel he could see.

"There's one."

She put the image out.

Xing Kai's face is printed on a translucent panel.

"Ah, that's him."

Li Nuo smiled and bared his front teeth.

"Excuse me, help me transport him to Annabelle's house."

"This guy...... It's the ...... Annabelle is looking for," Jacole touched his chin and said, "You still want to have it delivered to your door?" ”

"It's all come to this point, and if something goes wrong in the middle, I can't explain it."

"As for it?"

"Of course." Leno said, "Do you know what the most precious quality of human beings is? ”

Jacole: "Not you." ”

Li Nuo: "Thanksgiving." ”

"Actually......" Jacole paused, "you don't owe anything for a long time. ”

"But that's nothing to do with Annabelle." Li Nuo said: "Please, the reward is that we once helped your world." ”

"Demon King or Brave Man?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, you're a good guy or a bad guy."

"A missionary priest, a hunter of demons, in layman's terms, a stinky painter, if you have to say the essence." Li Nuo thought for a while: "A humanoid self-propelled machine carrying tea white." ”

Jacoor: "Hmm...... I warn you, the world you live in right now may also be in danger, but there is no one like me who can travel through the anchor points to help you, so you better take your bit...... Kind. ”

Li Nuo said: "You mean that time and space are intertwined, which will cause the world to ......."

"It's just a hunch." Jacole interrupted him and said, "Something will happen in this world, and it is possible that it will become a second world of us (Neil). ”

Li Nuo still smiled: "I was prepared. ”

……

"Prepared?"

Jacole leaned back in his chair.

What exactly is in store?

And to change the world?

Or let the world jump out of its fate?

"This guy...... What the hell is he trying to do. ”

Jacoor, she named the world of Sand Feather "Vaporwave".

"The fate of the world and the world is broken, because you are connected alone, and the consequences will be borne by you alone."

"Lino."

"That's what I mean."

If it could, she would have liked to see what had happened there.

……

Vaporwave Era 1999;

A strange spherical object descended on San Francisco's old neighborhood, and on the same day, San Francisco was hit like never before.

The notorious Mafia Tiger's Eye Society, dispatched a large number of mercenaries and used missiles to solve the spherical things floating in the air at a critical moment, ending the chaos.

In the same year, the transformation of Tiger's Eye was successful.

Vaporwave Era 2000;

The eldest lady adopted Dumbledore a year ago, which was commissioned by Leno before he left.

Her initial goal was to "meet the celestial spheres", but Dumbledoro discovered that there were his own compatriots near the planet.

In this way, the Grand Magician of Icarus, who had been lonely for more than 10,000 years, summoned a group of Cairo stars.

Vaporwave Era 2004;

A large number of strange things appeared in the sky, and a certain large country discovered that it was a legendary UFO.

The first alien creatures landed on the planet.

They call themselves "Cairo Starlings".

Vaporwave Era 2006;

Star hunters, a large number of strange but peacefully coexisting aliens have arrived in the world.

Vaporwave Era 2019......

“……”

The eldest lady sat on the sofa, gritting her teeth and frowning, holding a game console in her hand.

"The purpose of my taking you in is 'Celestial Sphere Convergence', it's been twenty years, and you're going to give me this thing?"

Across from her sat Dumbledore.

Early this morning, the Cairo magician presented the results of twenty years of research, and the thing was the "celestial sphere convergence starter" that the eldest lady had found twenty years ago.

Dumbledore said with a cigar in his mouth and a teddy dog in his arms, with a look of arrogance:

"That thing is too dangerous, this one is safe."

The eldest lady pressed the switch with a skeptical attitude.

The screen shines brightly.

Then, a paper guy popped out of it.

It was a paper man.

Knowledgeable people can tell that their real identity is South Park.

In a sense, Dumbledoro used the "Celestial Sphere Convergence Fragment" he carried with him to fuse magic to create an absurd summoner.

But the summoned paper man seems to have something seriously wrong, and after appearing in the house, he began to roar wildly "ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Dumbledoro pouted, "I have to revise it again......"

“……”

The eldest lady stared at it, then at the paper man, and she suddenly figured out something.

"Poof......

The woman smiled.

"Hahaha...... Hahahahaha! ”

Suddenly, she burst out laughing.

Everyone around her was afraid of her, everyone was afraid of her laughter, including Dumbledore.

"It's okay...... Hahaha......"

"I just came up with something interesting."

The eldest lady recalls twenty years ago.

The image of Mr. Lee giving Dumbledore to her.

"So that's the case, he gave you to me at that time, just to tell me that Cairo Star Talent is the real 'Celestial Sphere Convergence'."

Dumbledore: "? ”

The eldest lady looked out the window.

"You've been calculating me for twenty years, Mr. Li."

She is still so beautiful and moving, just like twenty years ago, but with a little more charm of the years.

"The world has become like this, and no matter how obsessed I am with the 'intersection of the heavens', there is no point in it."

……

The café's rattle rang for a moment.

"Welcome."

Saba stood behind the counter and saw Mr. Uesugi who lived a block away coming in.

"Here I go again." Uesugi took off his hat and sat down on a chair in front of the counter: "Hehe~"

"The same old way?" Sand Feather asked, picking up the hair curtain in his ear as he made his coffee, and the blue earrings collided in the air.

"I said, Sand Feather ......"

"Nope."

Sappa placed the coffee on the table in front of Uesugi.

Uesugi asked frustratedly, "How many times have I asked you to have a relationship?" ”

Sand Feather smiled and said, "How can I still remember such a thing?" ”

"I can give you a lot of money, my family has money, really, Sand Feather." Uesugi stared at the pair of red pupils on the other side and said, "Why are you opening this café in such a broken neighborhood and having no business?" ”

Sand Feather smiled and said, "It's just a landmark, I have the money~"

landmark

was admitted to university from abroad, and then her life was cut off from before, she really lived an ordinary life, because of her killer ability, and even better.

She has stronger insight than ordinary people, has outstanding physical fitness, can find loopholes in work one step faster than ordinary people, and can adapt to harsh environments better than anyone else.

- Those who have soaked in alkaline water are more precious than gold.

Sand Feather gradually understood the true meaning of Marje's original words.

For those who have experienced hardships, the upper limit of willpower is like an undetectable peak for ordinary people.

She came back later.

In the place where he used to live, he bought this abandoned café.

"Funny, ma'am, what's the landmark, who can see it here?"

"Of course there is."

Sand Feather was still smiling.

"I'm afraid that when he comes back, he won't be able to find his way."

Mr. Uesugi looked at the ripples in the coffee cup.

He thought of the first time he saw Sand Feather, who had been drunk that day, and went the wrong way to this café.

On that day, the café's lights were on late at night.

The beauty looked back, and the wine woke up.

Uesugi inexplicably confessed.

All I got was Sand Feather's sentence "It's closed".

Uesugi understood that the reason why the café lights were still on that night was a signpost for that person.

He asked in frustration, "How long have you been waiting?" ”

Without thinking about it, Sand Feather said, "7299 days." ”

One day short, twenty years.

Uesugi knows that he has never had a chance in his life, he has seen too many bitches, and he has seen a lot of dog men and women who talk about infatuation.

But when Sand Feather mentioned that person, his eyes were clear, and he had always been seventeen years old.

The café was quiet again.

Sand Feather held his chin and looked at the door with a blank and silent face.

The café's rattle rang for a moment.

"Welcome."

“……”

She was stunned for a moment, and then smiled as plain as water.

This is the story twenty years later.

……

"Nier Mechanical Age", in 12991, Xing Kai returned and resided here, and all the cause and effect and fate of the world were settled.

Vaporwave, in 2019, aliens stationed, the world changed, it has nothing to do with the little people, although there are no waves, but the curtain has not yet ended, and the ending, I'm afraid it will be the day everything ends.

……

[Main Quest: The Tournament has ended]

(All reward gold data has been boosted by [Focuser])

[Base Reward Coins: 160000]

[Base Bonus XP: 80000]

[Hidden Quest Line Reward Coins: 100000]

[Hidden Quest Line Bonus XP: 120000]

[The purchase permission of the "Vaporwave" World Mall has been opened]

[Since you're on a Basel airboat, you'll need to check the rest of your rewards in your personal mailbox when you return]

[Congratulations on becoming the winner of this competition]

"Looks like an upgrade......"

Li Nuo opened his eyes, and his headache was about to explode.

He didn't bother to care if it was an upgrade or something, because it was really uncomfortable to death.

Chabai poured into his arms, sleeping very deeply.

"Uncomfortable ......"

Cha Bai opened his mouth: "After all abilities are turned off, the body feedback can't stand it......"

Li Nuo tilted his head, his eyes full of confusion.

At this time, Cha Bai said: "By the way, Li Nuo, I met the manager of the cloister in the 'threshold'...... He said, I can make a request, and he will give a direction. ”

Li Nuo's pupils moved left and right to look around, and at the same time asked, "Are you supposed to ask...... How not to be a player? ”

Cha Bai said "um".

He knew her too well.

But Li Nuo still couldn't help but say: "Aren't you wasting resources." ”

Cha Bai: "Isn't what you crave is a dull and boring life?" As a player, you can't live that kind of life. ”

"Who told you?"

"Last time...... Your dad...... (See next chapter). ”

【The airship has arrived】

The chat between the two ended in a daze.

In the next second, I saw the door on the opposite wall open, and white light entered my eyes.

By the time they reacted, they were already standing on Basel's airship tarmac.

Li Nuo and Cha Bai stood in place, one in the coat of a priest and the other in the long skirt of a witch, looking at each other in a daze.

"Li Nuo......" Cha Bai looked around: "Where is Marjie?" ”

“……”

Li Nuo opened the team's panel at this time.

I saw a sentence:

[The "Humph" team has been disbanded]

(End of chapter)