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The forest was too quiet. 9S adjusted his tactical visor, the HUD flickering with heat signatures that shouldn’t have been there. They weren't the aggressive, jagged spikes of a Goliath-class machine. They were soft, rhythmic pulses. "2B, look," he whispered, gesturing toward a clearing.

The machine turned. It didn't raise an alarm. Instead, it waved a stubby metal arm and let out a series of rhythmic chirps that sounded—impossibly—like a greeting. For a moment, the war for Earth felt a million miles away, replaced by the simple, terrifying realization that their enemy might be learning to love the very world they were both fighting to reclaim.

"Let's move," 2B said, her voice steady but her hand lingering just an inch further from her blade than before. "We have a mission." Watch NieR:Automata Ver1.1a - Crunchyroll

2B gripped the hilt of Virtuous Treaty, her white hair catching the dappled sunlight. "Command says they are incapable of emotion, 9S. This is just a remnant of human data being mimicked."

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