()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>97</BIN><黑屏2><SE1>AVG_footsteps_woodfloor</SE1>:In a corridor in Statesec HQ, Neo-Soviet Union.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AK-15's dull footsteps echo through the empty corridor. +...She has just completed her training for the day and is on her way back to the dormitories.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Just then, she comes to a stop.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:...Is something the matter, AN-94?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:She turns her head and looks behind her. +A Doll much shorter than her but no less striking strides out from the shadows.
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<BGM>BGM_Room</BGM>:...
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:You've been following me since I left Doctor Shaw's office. +If there's anything you'd like to say, just say it.
AN94(5)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Let's have a duel, AK-15.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:Pardon?
AN94(5)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:I want a duel with you.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:...I don't understand. +What is the point of that?
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Doctor Shaw never lets anyone question her decisions. +Unless they can prove that she's mistaken. +Whether I'm Unit 1 or Unit 0, I don't care. +But I must prove that I'm better than you, AK-15. +I'm not some experimental unit left to rot in the factory. I am the forerunner of the Wolf Pack.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:I still don't understand. If that's the case... +Your action is even more pointless, AN-94.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:AK-15 turns around and faces AN-94.
AK15(0)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:My performance is superior to yours in every way. +You cannot win against me.
AN94(2)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:...How will we know without trying? +I really hate the way you look at everything so indifferently. +Can't you even be bothered to look me in the eye?
AK15(5)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AK-15 is silent for a while.
AK15(2)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:...Alright. +As you wish... +Prototype.
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Much obliged.
()||<黑点1>:
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:...
AN94(2)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Shake>0.1</Shake>||<BIN>22</BIN><BGM>BGM_Truth</BGM><震屏3>:<size=50>Hm?!</size>
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AN-94's eyes snap open as she awakens abruptly. She jumps right out of the repair tank.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Shaw is sitting on a chair with her back to her, breaking open a cigarette and scattering the tobacco on the table.
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Run a self-diagnostics to see if anything's wrong with your neural cloud, little nutter.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:D-Doctor Shaw? +...Why are you calling me that? +Wait, where's AK-15?
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Shaw swivels around on her chair and stares at AN-94 in silence. +She's looking at her with a strange expression—she seems angry, but there's something more. +What just happened? As AN-94 recalls, she was on the training ground with AK-15...
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Shake>0.1</Shake>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:Ugh...!
NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:How dare you do that behind my back.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Heartbeat</SE1>:Ba-dump.
NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...Anna was right. +I've made you too human.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:(Groans)
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:She remembers now. +Effortlessly, like a grown-up teasing a child, like a mastiff hunting a hare... +She was defeated... unequivocally, as expected.
()||<黑屏1>:
AK15(2)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||<BIN>73</BIN><黑屏2><回忆>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AK-15 is superior in every way. +Be it performance, tactics, or skills. +She simply cannot hold a candle to this insurmountable mountain of a Doll. +To AN-94, this is an unprecedented experience. She has always won. She has always been victorious. This is the first time she has experienced crushing defeat.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...She cannot accept it.
AN94(2)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<SE1>RunStep</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:I'll never, ever—
AK15(4)<Speaker>AK-15</Speaker>||:—!
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Punch_Hit</SE1><BIN>9</BIN><关闭蒙版>:The last thing she remembers doing was lunging at AK-15 like a lunatic. +It wasn't even a duel at that point. All she wanted was to beat AK-15, because if she didn't do that, she would never recover from the defeat. +However...
AN94(2)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<BIN>22</BIN><SE1>AVG_Scene_Transfer</SE1><白屏2>:Ugh...
AN94(2)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Shake>0.1</Shake>||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1><SE1>AVG_21Winter_OperatingDisc_Drop</SE1><震屏3>:<size=50>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!</size>
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...Tsk. +Nadia, deactivate her!
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Yes, madam.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_keyboardtype_sci</SE1><SE1>AVG_Power_Down</SE1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:She remembers it all. +She suffered a one-sided beatdown against AK-15, but she refused to give up. +In the end, AK-15 disabled her completely, and she was taken to the repair workshop.
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>412</BIN><BGM>GF_EV9_Story</BGM>:<color=#00CCFF>Wild fluctuations detected in AN-94's neural cloud.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>It is inadvisable to assign her any tasks for the time being. More lenient management is recommended.</color>
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...Right.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Shaw tosses her cigarette butt into the garbage can and picks up the postcard lying on her desk.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_footsteps_woodfloor</SE1>:I told you so.
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Get off it. You're the last person who can say that.
NPC-AngeYoung(2)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:Is it so difficult to admit that you made a mistake?
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:What mistake? My only mistake was making her too human.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Ange walks around Shaw's desk and sits down across her quietly. She studies the chessboard lying on the surface. +Shaw eyes the notation written on the postcard morosely and moves a white piece.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:She is a Doll.
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:As well as a weapon. +Which makes her, quite simply, a weapon.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:T-Dolls are not just weapons. +She is far more human than you think.
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Tell me, Nadia, are you human?
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>I do not comprehend your question, Doctor Shaw.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>According to official information, humans, also known as homo sapiens, are the only surviving species within the genus of Homo.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>A human is, first and foremost, a member of the kingdom of Animalia.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Since I am an artificial intelligence, I cannot be classified as a human.</color>
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:You heard her.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:You know that's not what I mean.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Ange watches the chessboard. +Now fiddling with a black piece, Shaw ponders how to counter white's previous move. +She is playing against someone far, far away. He is the investor of the Wolf Pack Project as well as a friend of Shaw's.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:A Doll's neural cloud has infinite potential. It is more than just programs and data that you wrote and compiled. +Whether you acknowledge that or not, the fact is you've created AN-94, so why are you destroying her by your own hand?
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:...Persica would never do that.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>There are also certain fields where Doctor Shaw's expertise far surpasses Doctor Persica's.</color>
NPC-AngeYoung(1)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:I'm talking to your master, Nadia.
NPC-AngeYoung(1);NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:You're interrupting my thoughts.
NPC-AngeYoung(1)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(4)||:Shaw.
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Anna.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:Shaw squeezes the chess piece in her hand. Her voice grows steely.
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:I've never taught you how to use a gun, have I?
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:If I ever start behaving like a stubborn idiot like you, feel free to tell me.
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Stop making unsolicited comments about my work.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:Dolls and weapons are two totally different things. +If you want to succeed, you must let go of your prejudice.
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Prejudice?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Shaw snickers as she moves the black queen.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_Grey_Hand_Mech</SE1>:Nadia records her move quietly and prints the notation onto an empty postcard with a robotic arm.
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Would a Doll made according to your philosophy be able to defeat AK-15?
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(5)||:...
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:AK-15 is the most ideal and perfect T-Doll—she doesn't question her orders, and she is practically a one-man army. +Right now, she is definitely the most powerful T-Doll in the Neo-Soviet Union, no doubt about it.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:...If you truly believe that... +Why did you make 94 so much like a human? +So much like...
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:...
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:That's because you never intended for her to head onto the battlefield, isn't that right? +That's terribly selfish of you, and you're hurting her with your selfishness.
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:I don't know what you're talking about.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(4)||:In any case, I'm sure you don't actually hate 94 as much you pretend to. I'd stake my life on it.
NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Whatever you say. I don't have the energy to argue with you. +Can we change the subject now?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Angelia looks at Shaw and lets out a long, exasperated sigh. +She finds it unbelievable that there's someone in the world who's even more hard-headed than herself.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:I read your proposal on improving the Assault Artillery. You really are second to none when it comes to creating weapons. +But you're creating Dolls right now... and there's a lot more to Dolls than simple weapons. AK-15 is indeed very powerful. +But she also comes with a fatal flaw. You just haven't noticed it yet.
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:A flaw that you see, but I don't?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Shaw snorts.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:That Wolf Eye System is pretty useful, but it's stifling AK-15's ability to learn and grow. +She makes a brilliant soldier, but without flexible thinking, she won't be an effective leader.
NPC-AngeYoung(0);NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Would you let your gun order you around?
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>;NPC-shaw(0)||:You're letting Nadia help you with your research, aren't you? +Can't you create a Doll that can both fight and lead?
NPC-shaw(0)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Trying to goad me into doing it? You think that'd work?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Shaw narrows her eyes dangerously, as if she's about to do something to Ange. +However, Ange only returns her gaze and crosses her legs the other way round.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Yep.
NPC-shaw(5)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Ha! You're right, it always works. +I'll make you eat your words... There's no need for another high-performance weapon anyway. AK-15 alone will do. +I'll give AK-12 some additional features.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Shaw takes the postcard offered by Nadia's robotic arm and stamps her own seal on it.
NPC-AngeYoung(0)<Speaker>Angelia</Speaker>||:Persica is giving a lecture. +I suggest you have a listen and broaden your mind.
NPC-shaw(4)<Speaker>Shaw</Speaker>||:Screw off.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Shaw dismisses this ridiculous suggestion without hesitation.
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()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:A few days later... +Statesec Lab, Neo-Soviet Union.
()||<黑屏1>:
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<BIN>22</BIN><黑屏2><SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:...
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Dragging her battered body, AN-94 slowly sits down before a one-way mirror. She gazes at the half-assembled Doll lying on the other side of the glass with hollow eyes.
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_tele_connect</SE1>:<color=#00CCFF>You challenged AK-15 to another duel.</color>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:A light flickers in the empty room as a familiar voice offers her some company.
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:...Nadia? +So you're still here.
AN94(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>I'm in charge of the security of Doctor Shaw's lab.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Besides, I'm just an AI. I'm always on duty as long as the power supply is running.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>So I saw everything that had happened on the training ground.</color>
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:...
AN94(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>The first time you fought AK-15, both your body and neural cloud experienced an unprecedented breakdown.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>You are putting yourself in excessive danger with your actions. I advise against further duels.</color>
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Nadia, am I weak?
AN94(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>You are without a doubt one of the strongest T-Dolls in existence.</color>
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:I once believed I represented a long-awaited new generation of Dolls in Statesec. +I thought I was special. A powerful soldier destined to shoulder extraordinary responsibility.
AN94(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>...Well, you are indeed very special.</color>
AN94(0)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:But I'm weak. +Maybe not objectively speaking, but no matter how many times I take on AK-15, the result is always the same. +I'm pathetically weak, Nadia. +Doctor Shaw is right. She doesn't need me for no reason other than because I'm weak.
AN94(0)<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>...AK-15 is an exception among exceptions.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Even Doctor Shaw herself may not be able to produce another Doll that powerful.</color>
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:What about her?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<BGM>GF_21summer_avg_Demon</BGM>:AN-94 points to the slumbering T-Doll on the other side of the glass.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:...How do you explain her?
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>"Snow Wolf" is only half-complete. It's too early to tell what kind of Doll she'll be at this stage.</color>
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Stop lying to me, Nadia. +I found out about what the Wolf Pack Project is all about. +Right from the start, only two Dolls were planned—White Mastiff, the direct combat specialist, and Snow Wolf, the commander and strategist. +They are the Wolf Pack. They are destined to work together and blaze a trail into the future for Statesec. As for me... I'm just a simple puppet.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:AN-94 puts her hand against the glass and stares at the Doll in the workshop. +...Who exactly is she? What was the purpose of her creation? +If AK-15 is a weapon, then she... is just a useless gun.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Griffin Dolls may be weak, but they're still needed; they still have a place where they belong. +But I... I was born in the lab, and I will never get to leave the lab.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<SE1>Rope</SE1>:My creator has no use for me, and neither does anyone else.
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>...</color>
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:If I can't win against AK-15... Doctor Shaw will never spare me even a glance. +I thought I was important, but in truth, I'm useful to no one. +Nadia, I have no "value". 
()<Speaker>"Nadia"</Speaker><同时置暗>||:<color=#00CCFF>94...</color>
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:They... THEY are the Dolls that Doctor Shaw, Statesec, and the world need.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:Looking at Snow Wolf through the window, AN-94 lowers her head bitterly.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker><Shake>0.1</Shake>||:<size=30>I am, quite simply, superfluous...</size>
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:Even Nadia doesn't know what to say to that.
()<Speaker></Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_XXS_kick</SE1>:AN-94 clenches her fists and curls up into a ball on the floor. +Her shoulders shake lightly.
AN94(4)<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:<size=30>I'm... superfluous.</size>
()||<黑屏1>:
()<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏2>:...+AK-15's existence made me realize that. +There's nothing special about me. I am not the least bit valuable.
()<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:Neither Shaw nor Statesec expected anything of me. +Nobody is counting on me. Nobody needs me. I don't have to do anything. +...Can I even say that I'm alive?
()<Speaker>AN-94</Speaker>||:... +...The truth is too much for me to bear. +If I'm not needed... If I have no value, then what is my purpose?
()<Speaker></Speaker>||:...
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