Story Reader / Extra Hidden / EX02 Firn Night / Story
Ugh... I can't hear the mother-frame anymore... What are you?
Nanami is Nanami!
He's not asking for your name...
Having dealt with the Corrupted, most of the bionics sink to the floor out of relief. Some, however, decide to ask of Nanami's affiliations.
...To which, they are met with little success.
Some of the bionics just off and ran when the Corrupties appeared, but I think we saved most of who we can save, yeah?
LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE!
Wha?
Before Nanami could even respond, several more bionics join. They glare at Nanami with murderous wrath.
What are we going to do without the voice of our mother-frame?! We won't know where our main forces are attacking!
Wait... You're still trying to fight?
What?
Of course we are! You aren't siding with that Construct, are you?!
I'm not siding with her. But no good will come out of fighting for both sides.
"Good"... Pah. You call yourself a bionic? You'd let these humans off, even when they made us into weapons and sealed us underground?!
We woke up to find ourselves stabbed by our own creators—then next thing we know—we're all forced underground via our in-built commands.
We will never forgive these humans who treated us so!
Um... I... think this info's not even in my lost data files. What was all that about?
Hmph. I see. You're one of the newer batches, huh?
Oh. Y'all come from different production batches?
Of course. Without a production line, how else could we keep up with the humans? Your platoon must have been filled with these rookies. Pah.
But whether you're an old-bear or a new-bear, you were all controlled by the mother-frame until now, right?
You don't understand. The mother-frame shares the same goal as ours. We can feel what our mother-frame feels through our receivers, but we are willingly fighting for her ourselves.
Willingly, huh...
That Martin must have lost his related data files, but everyone else here should know about what happened to Amberia, our mother-frame.
The older bear model scans around before resting his sights on Nanami.
Our mother-frame, Amberia is also a Construct like you.
Amberia is a Construct?!
When the Punishing Virus broke out, ARU had some dying or terminally ill people sent into their labs for "research."
They paint it as an effort to fight against the virus on the surface, but secretly, they're building their own weapons.
After endless sacrifices, the ARU created what came to be known as humanoid-hybrid Constructs. The very first prototype was our mother-frame, Amberia.
Huh, so... Amberia was a weaponized Construct?
Indeed. With the body of a mutant, every movement of her brought about destruction. But that is not her most terrifying realization when she woke up...
She isn't the master of her own body. The higher-ups in the ARU are.
Do you think a little girl could just accept this and live with it?! Her unending anger coursed through her frenzied M.I.N.D.; it shot through the receivers and flowed into our processors.
We have never, and will never forget that despair she felt... Which is why...!
The bear model surveys the other bionics.
Which is why we still fight even without our receivers! If you still wish to avenge Amberia, then come with me!
Under the roars of the bear models, some bionics stand and follow his exit.
Wait! Some weird Corrupted are still rolling about in the snow up ahead! Just like the ones just now, trying to corrupt you!
It doesn't matter if we get corrupted or not! As long as we can wake Amberia and free her, we'll go through anything!
We're just... trying to free Amberia from her nightmare.
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