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Nier sat on the floor of the hut he had built with his own hands, in a world that was a lie, holding a sword that had killed a thousand truths, and looked at the face of the sister he had loved—whether she was real or not.
Kainé was a storm in human form. One arm was a crystalline, glowing white—the arm of a Shade she had absorbed long ago. She wore clothes that were more straps and defiance than fabric, and her eyes held the exhausted fury of someone who had seen too much and forgiven none of it.
“The library does not contain the cure. The cure was never written.” NieR Replicant ver122474487139
And for the first time in twelve thousand years, he began to cry.
That was how Nier found himself, three days later, standing at the edge of the Lost Forest. The trees were not trees. They were petrified giants, their branches twisted into agonized shapes, their bark the texture of bone. A thick, silent fog crawled between their trunks. Beside him, Weiss floated, grumbling. At his other side, a heavy-browed, muscular man named Kainé was sharpening a jagged blade with a whetstone that threw sparks. Nier sat on the floor of the hut
The library was not a building. It was a crater. At its center, a spiral of stone shelves descended into darkness, each shelf crammed with waterlogged tomes, scrolls, and clay tablets. And at the bottom, in a pool of stagnant water, sat the Shade.
Weiss floated past Nier, his pages trembling. “No. No, it’s not possible. The Gestalt fragment cannot activate without the original Gestalt present. Unless…” She wore clothes that were more straps and
Yonha, eleven years old, her hair the color of wheat bleached by the dead sun, smiled at him from her worn chair. Her legs were too thin, wrapped in a blanket. The black glyphs of her disease spiraled up her left arm, past the elbow now. Last month they’d been at her wrist.
He reached for the girl’s hand.