Chapter 163 This Is the Last Time

Among the ruins of Attica City's coastal area, Anna glanced at her watch in the nascent sunshine - five forty-two in the morning.

“Damn it—damn it—damn it, damn it, damn it!”

Kosmo angrily knocked on the stone slab under him, once, again, and again, until he was exhausted, until his fists were bloody and bloody, until the cries under the stone slab became smaller and smaller...

Then one drop, two drops, three drops...

There were several darker dots on the slate. Kosmo pursed his lips silently, and the bitter taste was amplified by the tip of his tongue.

Xi'er silently held his shoulders, but he lowered his head further, as if he was afraid that others would see him crying.

Anna straightened up and looked at her hands, which were also bloody and bloody, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He was also injured. Kosmo was just trying to save a stranger who had nothing to do with him and had never even met him. But she was doing it... for Kosmo?

The indescribable emotion had dissipated, and she couldn't explain why she ran back to find Cosmo?

He is indeed just a "tool man". Under rational analysis, there is no essential difference between him and the "colleagues" who died in her hands. They are just the resources she needs to use to complete the task.

Is it just because of his youthful sense of justice?

No, no, no, that is something weird. How could she, a senior agent, almost sacrifice herself for such a trivial reason...

Or was it just because he called me sister?

She looked coldly at Kosma who was helplessly kneeling on the ground, as if she saw a vague figure in her memory. She was also so young and so powerless...

"Click..."

She clenched her teeth, lowered her head, and her long hair spread out, covering her increasingly ferocious expression.

After a while, when she raised her head again, a gentle smile appeared on her face again.

Realizing that Xi'er's eyes were on her, Anna tilted her head, and their eyes met inadvertently.

Xi'er's eyes trembled, and she silently looked away, not daring to look at Anna.

It's not that there's anything wrong with the other person's expression, his eyes are soft and clear, and you can even see Xi'er's own reflection in them. But she instinctively felt that something was wrong - something seemed to be missing, so that it seemed too deliberate.

"What's missing..."

Sad!

Yes, it’s sad! And fear! And a lot of responsible emotions!

When facing such a cruel disaster, how could a normal person erase all emotions except tenderness from his eyes?

There is something wrong with this "investigator" sister!

As soon as Xi'er stood up, she staggered back. She couldn't tell whether this retreat was due to fear/distrust of Anna, or simply because her legs were numb from kneeling in the ruins...

"Kosmo..."

"Anna...sister..."

"Let's go, I have to take you to a safe place quickly. The people under the ruins will be handled by the coalition government's rescue team."

"but……"

Kosmo stared at his feet unwillingly, and could still hear faint sobbing through a stone slab.

"But if we don't leave, we'll turn into monsters like that!"

Kosmo and Xi'er looked in the direction of her finger and saw a pile of flesh that could barely be called "human" squirming on the ground.

Its lower body was gone, and its organs, blood, and soil were mixed together, dragging a long trail behind it.

But it is indeed "alive" in a sense, even if its eyes turn white, even if it trembles and opens its mouth, revealing a mouth full of broken teeth, it roars like a beast...

"Ugh... ugh!"

Kosmo could still bear it. After all, although the scene was terrifying, the smell of blood was still far away, and he was not a young bird who had never seen corpses before.

But Xi'er made a start, which directly caused a chain reaction. Once she bent down, she vomited all over the place.

Anna could only hold their hands and forcefully half drag and half pull them through the ruins.

There was almost no complete house to be found in the entire seaside area, and Kosmo could not recognize the streets that he thought he was familiar with. He just followed Anna and walked quickly numbly and feebly, and from time to time he helped Xi'er, who seemed to be struggling.

Not sure if it was an illusion, but he felt as if Xier had been looking at him.

She blinked at him and then at Anna, which made Cosmo confused.

[What does she want to express to me? Is it related to sister Anna? 】

Between Xi'er and Anna, Kosmo undoubtedly believed in Anna more, no, absolutely believed in Anna.

After all, if the pink-haired sister hadn't arrived in time, Anna would have exchanged her death for his life.

So of course he...should believe her...

But Xier's rapid blinking and nervous expression made him suddenly realize one thing - did he really know Anna well?

She didn't even tell herself her full name, her age...

He seemed to only know her mission.

That's right, the mission...

Before Anna became a "sister", she was an investigator...or, to put it in a more civilian tone - an agent/spy.

Once suspicion exists, it cannot be eliminated. It will only continue to grow, widening the gaps between people.

So he inadvertently slowed down and asked seemingly casually:

"Sister Anna, are we going to the airport?"

There are a small number of coalition government troops stationed near the airport, as well as coalition government offices, housing complexes for airport staff and some grassroots coalition government officials.

If Anna was an investigator for the coalition government, she would naturally be more inclined to lead them there.

"Ah! Ah - yes, let's go to the airport. That way, even if the battle expands, we can evacuate immediately... What's wrong?"

Kosmo stopped stiffly, threw away Anna's hand, and pulled Xi'er over to protect him behind him.

"You lied!"

The young man's voice was extremely excited, full of anger and confusion, and his fingers tremblingly pointed at the rising sun behind him——

"The airport is in the northeast of Binhai District. You are taking us to the west...

"Anna! Why did you lie to me!"

Anadia sighed, she closed her eyes first, trying hard to say something to defend...

After all, there are still areas that can be defended. For example, she is a road idiot, she can't tell the direction, and she went wrong because she was nervous...

But...all the excuses were ultimately deceptions. She knew very well that they were lies. Once the lies appeared, they would be exposed.

Especially under the clear morning light, it seemed to wash away all the darkness in the world.

Besides... now that her companion has arrived, there is no need to deceive anymore.

Kosmo's body stiffened instantly, and a cold and hard touch came from the back of his head. He was no stranger to it - it was the muzzle of a gun...

"ah!"

"Xie'er!"

A pair of black hands snatched Xi'er from Kosmo's hands, and at the same time, a deep voice sounded behind him:

"Don't move! Okay, Lyudashka, your mission is completed. I'll take this girl away... What to do with this boy? You decide for yourself."

Anna readily took out the pistol from her arms, loaded it, and pointed it at Kosmo's forehead.

Seeing this, the man in black skillfully stuffed the ball of cloth into Xi'er's mouth, dragged her with one hand, and left without looking back.

"Why, Anna...sister, why!"

"Because..." Anna bit her lip, a complicated look flashed in her eyes:

"Because I am Lyudashka Schneitsvna, an orphan adopted by Lord Lichtenstein, and a hidden child who has fallen into a poisonous chrysalis."

"Is that so...it turns out that even the name Anna is fake...it's all fake-"

"Bang!"

Kosmo turned around blankly, and the man in black also turned around. He covered his heart in disbelief, where there was another small hole that was bleeding out.

"Liudashka! What do you mean!"

When Anna's eyes closed, she changed back to a cold look again:

"Excuse me, Trofen Schneetsvich..."

"Why...do you...do you have other..."

"Bang!"

Trofen's head exploded like a watermelon, and his words disappeared together with them.

Anna did not speak, but remained silent for a while in front of the body of her "companion".

She tried to get closer to Xi'er, but Xi'er, who collapsed on the ground, used her hands and feet to avoid her.

She turned back to look at Kosmo, but Kosmo also took two steps back and distanced himself from her.

Anna smiled sadly, and many memories washed through her brain over and over again, until she finally stopped at Kosmo's "sister".

She smiled and took steps towards Kosmo, but what she got in return was the boy's frightened eyes and his constant retreat.

"Kosmo, actually..."

[My name is Anna. I was instigated when I first infiltrated the coalition government, and my task was to reversely monitor the actions of the Lichtenstein family. 】

She wanted to tell this fact, and she wanted to tell Kosmo that she was not actually a "bad guy".

But no, she couldn't say it, because she didn't fire that shot out of kindness, just because of the mission.

"Well!"

She suddenly covered her heart, and her vision became blurry for some reason. She looked down at her palms, and she could see cyan frost covering her entire palms.

【What's going on...】

Her consciousness was blurred at the same time, and she couldn't even think about where and when the pain all over her body came from.

【who I am? Where am I? What am I going to do? 】

She had no idea - as she had always done.

She kept switching between countless identities and killed countless people. She no longer knew who she was.

The only thing she can do is to complete the tasks of each of her identities. This is why she brings Xier to her "companion", but why she wants to kill her in another identity after completing one task. kill.

So there’s no way someone who killed so many people could not be a “bad guy”, right?

Thoughts of regret filled her brain for a moment, and she suddenly thought of a possibility - if, if her identity did not have a final reversal, if she did complete the task of her last identity, she would fire this gun again, Does it mean that she finally has "kindness"?

What a pity... what a pity...

No!

She suddenly thought that she had another identity and a mission waiting for her to complete!

That was given by herself, that was given by the boy...

elder sister……

[The last time, the last time, just the last time...]

Feeling the strength of her body fading away, feeling her body temperature gradually cooling down, feeling the pain in her brain, she was crying and begging in her heart...

[Can you, can you let me hear that word for the last time...]

She didn't understand why the boy in front of her looked terrified. She just followed the inertia of her thoughts and slowly approached Kosmo with stiff and weak steps.

"Don't come over here!"

Kosmo kept retreating, and finally leaned against a broken wall, with no way to retreat.

Xier picked up the pistol from Trofen and aimed at Anna's staggering back, but her hands kept shaking and she couldn't pull the trigger.

"Think about it carefully... Think about it carefully... Brother Mikael clearly taught me how to shoot!"

Suddenly, a huge force came from behind and dragged her away.

"Don't come over here! Don't come over here! Don't come over here!"

Kosmo kept howling, picked up a brick and threw it at Anna, but it just fell at her feet.

"Don't come over! Don't come over! Don't come over!"

The howl turned into a plea, but Anna did not stop.

The boy's facial features were blurred, leaving only a faint outline in her eyes, but she still took firm steps towards him - even though she had forgotten his name.

"Call me... Call me... Call me... Let me... Let me know who I am!"

She was also begging, she kept begging, but she even lost the ability to control her lips, and this voice only sounded in her consciousness.

And the boy, of course, couldn't hear her voice.

But it didn't matter, she just wanted to get close to the boy for the last time, bandage his wound for the last time, and then hear that word for the last time...

For some reason, the temperature around seemed a little cold, and even the boy's eyebrows in front of her were stained with white frost.

Tears burst out of her eyes, but turned into ice beads and rolled down.

She stretched out her hand dejectedly, wanting to touch the boy's cheek.

But at the moment when her fingers were about to touch, the wall behind the boy shattered, and his body was dragged back and protected behind him.

The temperature began to rise. Was it a flame?

No.

As her vision refocused, she saw the fiery red figure clearly.

And the girl named Anna, or maybe Anatea... No, maybe Lyudashka Xuenetsevna, the last thing she saw in the world was herself reflected in the amber pupils -

The snow-white hair fluttered in the wind, and the frost turned into her crown, her scepter, her skirt...

Even her pink eyes, which she was always proud of, turned into ice blue.

"Is this... me?"

Under the extreme cold, the gears inside the watch were also frozen.

So the pointer stopped at 5:54 in the morning.