[A couple of weeks, she thinks. The longer she was alive the more time began to meld and flow together, go strange and syrupy. 2B's memories give her a date, an approximate time, and she uses that as a reference.
Perhaps it's compassion, or pity, or some mixture of both that makes her look up at last. She shakes her head.]
...There was no other way.
[Even knowing this, that this was the way things were — even carrying the weight of killing her own kind on her shoulders — A2 feels the inexplicable need to apologize. To say sorry to someone, anyone. 9S would not believe her, even if she tried. Perhaps Simon would, but she doubts it, and so shies away from the possibility even within the safety of her own thoughts.
...Number 21 had tried to give them another way. She'd quelled the virus only to be cut down later, when it had returned. All of her comrades, gone. A2 couldn't apologize to them, either.
Pod fills the space with words in the wake of her silence.]
Per her final request, YoRHa Unit 2B directed this Pod to accompany YoRHa Unit A2.
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[A couple of weeks, she thinks. The longer she was alive the more time began to meld and flow together, go strange and syrupy. 2B's memories give her a date, an approximate time, and she uses that as a reference.
Perhaps it's compassion, or pity, or some mixture of both that makes her look up at last. She shakes her head.]
...There was no other way.
[Even knowing this, that this was the way things were — even carrying the weight of killing her own kind on her shoulders — A2 feels the inexplicable need to apologize. To say sorry to someone, anyone. 9S would not believe her, even if she tried. Perhaps Simon would, but she doubts it, and so shies away from the possibility even within the safety of her own thoughts.
...Number 21 had tried to give them another way. She'd quelled the virus only to be cut down later, when it had returned. All of her comrades, gone. A2 couldn't apologize to them, either.
Pod fills the space with words in the wake of her silence.]
Per her final request, YoRHa Unit 2B directed this Pod to accompany YoRHa Unit A2.