Sign language also doesn't lend itself well to giving 6O time to digest things the way text would. Not that news like this would really be any easier to take written down, but at least then she could look away for a bit or could take it one piece at a time. Could think about it in depth and question and do more than just react.
6O swallows. A back door in the system...
She almost doesn't catch the rest of what A2 signs as several things click together in her mind, and her eyes widen slightly even as they unfocus for a moment. (She remembers the feeling of the Logic Virus sliding in, and that probably got in through some back door.) 'Good friends died... no matter how much we begged or pleaded.'
And it doesn't even matter, because they're all dead now anyway. Except A2 and 9S. They're all dead.
The part of her mind still functioning logically points out that by name alone, A2 and her comrades were prototypes, and like any other prototype, testing was only to be expected. And besides, they're all soldiers. A good soldier is willing to give her life for the cause. Even when she doesn't want to die. Even when her friends don't want her to die.
Except that humans are dead. Which makes the cause meaningless.
But... are they really? 6O is still confused about this.
How did you find out? How do you know humans are dead?
The logical part of her is still hung up on this, but it's also looking over past odd bits of data. Discarded observations. It... might be true... Is this -- Is this why 2B had to keep killing 9S over and over? Learning this? Learning the lie? Unless A2 is wrong. But 6O can't think of anything worse than this for 9S to have found out.
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6O swallows. A back door in the system...
She almost doesn't catch the rest of what A2 signs as several things click together in her mind, and her eyes widen slightly even as they unfocus for a moment. (She remembers the feeling of the Logic Virus sliding in, and that probably got in through some back door.) 'Good friends died... no matter how much we begged or pleaded.'
And it doesn't even matter, because they're all dead now anyway. Except A2 and 9S. They're all dead.
The part of her mind still functioning logically points out that by name alone, A2 and her comrades were prototypes, and like any other prototype, testing was only to be expected. And besides, they're all soldiers. A good soldier is willing to give her life for the cause. Even when she doesn't want to die. Even when her friends don't want her to die.
Except that humans are dead. Which makes the cause meaningless.
But... are they really? 6O is still confused about this.
How did you find out? How do you know humans are dead?
The logical part of her is still hung up on this, but it's also looking over past odd bits of data. Discarded observations. It... might be true... Is this -- Is this why 2B had to keep killing 9S over and over? Learning this? Learning the lie? Unless A2 is wrong. But 6O can't think of anything worse than this for 9S to have found out.