NieR: Whirlpool

Chapter 38 Beauvoir

"Got it...I'll be prettier."

A small, short-legged machine said in an electronic female voice, and in front of her was a medium-sized machine with a gentleman's hat.

“Put on more decorations…become prettier.”

The screen flashed.

"Hey... look at me."

“I decorate it with parts from other creature companions.”

"I will become more beautiful."

"So, please..."

"Can you like me?"

A robot wearing a long skirt made of iron sheets, with slender mechanical arms and a slim mechanical upper body, opened its mouth and spoke to the gentleman robot in front of it.

"Hey, look at me."

"Looking at me becoming more beautiful..."

"How about this dress?"

"Will he find this action cute?"

……

Until now, I still don't understand what kind of feeling "like" is.

Even so, I will do whatever it takes to make that person fall in love with me.

This is what I decided.

I've heard it said before from old mechanical creatures that 'beautiful things win love'.

What exactly is the so-called "beauty"?

We mechanical creatures have no such concept in our knowledge.

So I tried to look up the remaining data from the past of mankind, and it seems that "beauty" can be enhanced through behaviors such as dressing up and taking care of the skin.

I want to become more beautiful for that person.

I have heard that there are precious gems in the East.

The gem is found in the steep mountains.

I slipped down the cliff several times before I finally got it.

A stone that sparkles with a dazzling blue light.

In order to obtain this stone, several parts of my body stopped working.

But these scars are all medals.

Such rumors have been circulating among other mechanical creatures recently.

'Eating the body of an artificial human will give you eternal beauty'

So stupid.

It makes no sense that you can become beautiful by eating a cyborg.

But I practiced.

Even if the chances are slim, I will try anything.

I ate until I almost threw up, the android tasted like rancid motor oil.

I try to make myself more beautiful and attractive every day.

But I couldn't get him to look back at me.

After hearing that something called 'song' can attract the other person, I practiced singing every day.

But I couldn't get him to look back at me.

Not just the androids, I even swallowed my own compatriots, the mechanical creatures.

But I couldn't get him to look back at me.

I could never get him to look back at me.

He never looked back at me.

Finally, I found it.

…I can’t get that person’s heart.

He had no interest in expensive gems, precious ornaments or beautiful bodies.

Why on earth did I become like this?

Pointless.

I looked at my unconscious form in the mirror and screamed.

who is coming

Identify with

......

Lines of confessions ended in the darkness, condensing into a painting.

The gentleman looked up and raised his hand towards the elegant mechanical singer - Simone de Beauvoir.

The three of them exited the mechanical singer's memory space and looked at each other.

For a long time, the only sound in the air was the song that auxiliary machine 154 was still playing repeatedly.

"What should we do?" Ye Feng asked.

"That machine seems to have consciousness and emotions." 9S, who had just advocated killing it, said with difficulty.

"But not much." 2B said regretfully, "For another male machine, at all costs..."

"What on earth..." 9S said.

"...Who is wrong?" 2B muttered, "Everyone is wrong. No, no one is wrong."

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

a long time,

"We all understand the truth, but..." 9S was speechless for a moment, thinking for a long time, and then continued:

"Kill her, she's quite pitiful.

She didn’t kill. She killed many androids. She herself was in pain.”

9S raised his sword and slowly lowered it.

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

"9M, what do you think?" 2B raised his head and slashed at Ye Feng.

Ye Feng thought that he had never been so conflicted before.

"System, give me an answer."

"Host, you can handle it yourself." The system didn't say anything, but it seemed to say something.

"this!!!!!"

grass,

It would have been a good thing if I had just killed her.

Ye Feng stood up and said to 9S:

"Senior, come, let's dismantle her parts together first."

"Alright!"

Ye Feng and 9S immediately took action and removed all the attached parts from Beauvoir's body, including the android corpse on him.

2B stood there, silently watching the two people dismantling the parts.

With the harsh sound of metal collision and friction,

Finally, a small short-legged machine squatted quietly in front of everyone, without saying a word.

Is this Beauvoir's true self? Ye Feng pondered and then said:

"Do you have any last words?"

After hearing Ye Feng's words, Beauvoir slowly closed her mechanical eyelids, still without saying a word, and motor oil silently flowed out from the corners of her eyes.

Ye Feng was furious. He drew out his sword quickly and swung it towards Beauvoir fiercely.

Your life and death is in the hands of God. If you hesitate with this sword, I will let you go!

shuh~

The sword stopped just beside Beauvoir's face, her mechanical skin had been cut, but she remained motionless.

Forget it, I can’t do it!

Ye Feng put away his sword. The dilemma made him very angry, and he punched the ground.

Since you don’t understand, I’ll make you understand!

"Auxiliary machine!" Ye Feng ordered.

"Yes..." the auxiliary machine replied weakly.

"Reform her thinking circuits for me, remove the shackles, and make her smarter. This half-stupid love-brained idiot."

“Send me the works of Simone de Beauvoir, a 20th century French existentialist writer and founder of the feminist movement, The Second Sex and The Mandarins, as well as her love life experience with her boyfriend Jean-Paul Sartre. Let her teach me a lesson!!!”

"learn."

"Damn it, you gave yourself a name like that, why don't you learn from people in the real world, you idiot." Ye Feng cursed.

2B let out a long sigh, as if some of her worries had finally come to an end. She patted the angry Ye Feng lightly and comforted him silently.

“That’s all, 9M.” 9S also felt relieved and said in a comforting tone.

After all, they didn’t know whether they should kill or not!

I do not know how long it has been,

Beauvoir moved and knelt on the ground.

Her confused eyes became clear at this moment.

"I know it's useless to say anything. Thank you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to everyone... I will use this useful body to wash away my sins..."

She prostrated herself on the ground, silently repenting.

Seeing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He stepped forward to help Beauvoir up and said softly:

"Live well and don't let us save you in vain."