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第四关（后）

(*Pant, pant*...! *Pant, pant*...)

(...A trap?! Was that attack back there just a feint?)

(If she keeps cutting up my team, the whole unit will be worthless...)

(I have to contact them right away!

(Grrr, why can't I move my fingers? Why am I shivering?!)

(I... I can't let her get me!)

Nggah!

(Low growling).

Projekt Red, don't kill her.

*Hack* *hack*...! Gah!

Is it her?

Yes, definitely. It's her scent.

*Sniff sniff*

Ick. Fake. She is no wolf.

But the scent is real.

The scent of a true wolf. The first true wolf.

True wolf?

You... filthy cub!

Don't move.

Mmf, how can I...? My muscles won't even respond.

Can... can you control me?

She tried to use a wolf technique, a bite she learned from wolves.

She wants to fight back. I can sever her spine, and paralyze her.

No need for that.

Ok.

Wait, you...

I know you... I finally found you...!

Traitor... you traitor! I found the traitor!

And you are...?

Ilia's daughter, Lyudmila?

Shut up! You have no right to speak my father's name!

Ursus destroyed all the lab, and all the scientists.

Is that what you think?

How dare you?!

It was you! You're the disgusting traitor who sold out my father with Sergei, who sold out all the scientists!

Your hair is the same color as his.

...What are you talking about? Why would you...?

Don't move.

Agh!

You're wondering why I have no reaction to your accusations?

Because you're scum!

Scum. And what type of scum should I be?

Should I be a coward, out for wealth and luxury...? Or should I be cruel and calculating, doing whatever it takes to achieve my goals?

The me, standing here before you, does it fit your image?

I never thought... I never thought you were a heartless, cold-blooded woman!

Did Sergei give you a heartfelt confession before you killed him?

...What are you...?

Did you know he was Alex and Misha's father?

Hah... Hahaha...! Alex helped me find him!

...Reunion took in Alex, killed his father, and hunted down his sister.

Hah...

Projekt Red, let her move.

Ok.

...What do you want?

To give you a chance to kill me.

A chance? Do you know what you're saying?

You're giving up on life? You want to repent, like Sergei, who sat on top of Chernobog after selling out his colleagues?

...Oh you'll regret it. You'll regret everything you ever did!

'No regrets,' I always say...

But actually, there is one massive regret I will share with you today.

——But I'm afraid it has nothing to do with your father.

I'll kill you. I'm going to kill you!

*Hiss* Haah...

'Swallow the bitterness of the dead'...

Fog?

It's Arts.

No, not fog... This is smoke.

The nervous system stimulates a smoke-emitting organ in the oral cavity. It is indeed an Originium Art that relies on this Infected organ.

You stand there talking your mouth off... You're beyond saving. Are you so scared you can't even show it?

Why did you betray my father? Why did you betray the scientists?

Why?! Tell me why——

'Director Kal'tsit'?!

Lyudmila, I only barely made it out alive myself.

You expect me to believe your bullshit?

Hah. Your father read you 'Truth and Justice,' didn't he?

To give a five-year-old a book like that... Ilia really had no sense.

But he loved that book. One summer day, he carried you, and the book, past the window, the bushes orange against the sun. He made you wave to me. You pouted and turned your head.

Enough!

That night, he asked me: what if we just sealed up the sarcophagus and never told the Ursus about the machines inside? Would we be able to save more people?

Would we be able to prevent the Ursus from using these machines in battle?

Are you saying all of this to... to confuse me?!

Ilia was one of the scientists who came up with the plan to seal the sarcophagus. And his convictions influenced his entire life.

You have his fighting spirit. But there was more to him than that...

Lyudmila, you call me a traitor, you want to kill me. You could do that, but——

When you choose violence, you are doomed to one day meet something stronger than you.

Hah hah...

Could you be more arrogant? No one, no caster can penetrate my fog. You have no idea where I am.

You're going to die screaming. I need you to die screaming.

...... (Sticking out her tongue).

For the scientists, for the infected, I have to kill you. You Ursus puppet! You piece of trash!

Do I look like a caster to you? I am Infected though, you got that right...

Come, Mon3tr.

...Huh? What... what's that?

H- how? Your spine?!

I guess you can see through the fog, huh?

How...?

Ack...! Wh- what are you...?!

What is that?!!!

I am not a caster. I've never relied on Originium Arts.