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Chapter 521 I Really Wish You Could Speak to Me, Even Just Once · Oct 31, 2026

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501 Chapter 501: Grandma Said: 2026-10-31
502 Chapter 502: Don’t Wear Colored Glasses 2026-10-31
503 Chapter 503: Entering Sumeru City 2026-10-31
504 Chapter 504: Searching for Little Lord Kusanali 2026-10-31
505 Chapter 505 506: Dehya Is Always Following Dunyarzad 2026-10-31
506 Chapter 506 505: Dunyarzad Appears 2026-10-31
507 Chapter 507: Becoming Friends With You 2026-10-31
508 Chapter 508: Nilou Appears 2026-10-31
509 Chapter 509: The Scarlet King and Ei—Who Is More Extreme? 2026-10-31
510 Chapter 510: Katheryne (?) 2026-10-31
511 Chapter 511 Port Ormos 2026-10-31
512 Chapter 512 Ding ding~ Dori Makes Her Appearance 2026-10-31
513 Chapter 513 The End of the First Act 2026-10-31
514 Chapter 514 Vulpes Zerda Chapter 2026-10-31
515 Chapter 515 Ganyu... This Time It’s Not Her Childhood Story 2026-10-31
516 Chapter 516 Mechanical Crab or Puppy? 2026-10-31
517 Chapter 517 Mechanical Quack Quack That’s More Useful Than Paimon 2026-10-31
518 Chapter 518 Paimon’s Actually Pretty Impressive 2026-10-31
519 Chapter 519 Abattouy 2026-10-31
520 Chapter 520 Loving You More Than Myself 2026-10-31
521 Chapter 521 I Really Wish You Could Speak to Me, Even Just Once 2026-10-31
522 Chapter 522 A Question with No Answer · End 2026-10-31
523 Chapter 523: Act II · The Morn a Thousand Roses Brings 2026-10-31
524 Chapter 524: “Moon,” “Illusion,” and “Lies” 2026-10-31
525 Chapter 525: Candy, Sandbags, and Greatswords 2026-10-31
526 Chapter 526: The Long Bench of Fate 2026-10-31
527 Chapter 527: The Grand Sage Takes the Stage 2026-10-31
528 Chapter 528: A Flower God’s Birthday Festival That Cannot Be Held? 2026-10-31
529 Chapter 529: The Endless Flower God’s Birthday Festival 2026-10-31
530 Chapter 530: The First Deduction 2026-10-31
531 Chapter 531: Obtaining the Key Item—Dehya 2026-10-31
532 Chapter 532: Yet Another Cycle 2026-10-31
533 Chapter 533: Tomorrow Will Come 2026-10-31
534 Chapter 534: The Second Deduction 2026-10-31
535 Chapter 535: Gradually Approaching the Truth 2026-10-31
536 Chapter 536: Going Outside the City 2026-10-31
537 Chapter 537: Memories, They’re Back 2026-10-31
538 Chapter 538: The Final Deduction 2026-10-31
539 Chapter 539: Time to Make a Move, Time to Make a Move 2026-10-31
540 Chapter 540: Dunyarzad’s Tragic News 2026-10-31
541 Chapter 541: Searching for the Dream’s Main Body 2026-10-31
542 Chapter 542: Vihar’s Romance 2026-10-31
543 Chapter 543: Dunyarzad’s Relic 2026-10-31
544 Chapter 544: Silence, Breaking Defenses, Aftertaste 2026-10-31
545 Chapter 545: Nilou’s Dream 2026-10-31
546 Chapter 546: Dance of the God of Flowers 2026-10-31
547 Chapter 547: Dawn Brought by a Thousand Roses · End 2026-10-31
548 Chapter 548: Aranyaka · Part 1 2026-10-31
549 Chapter 549: Three Stories 2026-10-31
550 Chapter 550: The Advancing Sudabeh 2026-10-31

In reality, Abattouy froze upon reading Tighnari’s words. Had I really not noticed?

Karkata’s core tilted as if cocking its head, looking at Abattouy: ”Gurgle gurgle?”

In real life, he had received funding from Lucian, so he was even more eager to produce results—to prove himself and to justify the backer’s faith in him.

That urgency to prove himself seemed to have truly caused him to overlook certain things around him.

Meanwhile, in the story, the ”friend” that Abattouy had failed to calmly observe was now observing him in his ”deep slumber.”

The Traveler and Tighnari shut down the device. When they returned, they found Karkata in front of Abattouy.

In the illustration, Karkata cautiously extended its small mechanical claw to touch Abattouy. In its claw it held a mechanical part.

It placed the part here and there, unsure where it should go. When its ”hand” released, the part slid off Abattouy’s body.

Karkata seemed startled. In a slight panic, it carefully cradled the part with both small claws and placed it back on Abattouy—over his heart.

Abattouy still showed no reaction.

”I replaced them with new parts. You’re fine now.”

Karkata looked at Abattouy. Why wasn’t it working? With new parts, shouldn’t he be fine?

Was it not enough? No problem—I collected a lot! So many!

Karkata brought out one mechanical part after another—all the ones it had gathered. It placed them one by one on Abattouy, hoping only that he would wake up.

Yet the piled parts scattered powerlessly. They seemed unable to ”support” the weight of life.

Karkata nudged Abattouy. Still no reaction.

”Even if one day I’m gone, you wouldn’t notice anything different, right?”

Karkata realized—its master was gone.

In the illustration, Karkata’s core trembled, sparks flying like collapsing tears.

At a loss, Karkata curled up like a wronged child, electric light flickering like tears.

Life is born from ”crying.” Does a machine that can ”shed tears” also count as life?

”Even just once—I really wish you could speak to me…”

Abattouy wept. He had thought his life was a haphazard one—unnoticed by anyone, meaningless.

But he was wrong. He had succeeded. Those parts that could not sustain life had been pieced together by him into a ”life”!

This scene overwhelmed readers emotionally. The more sensitive ones were already in tears—especially those with children or pets at home.

Karkata’s ”crying” was devastating. The moment readers saw the electric sparks flashing at its core in the illustration, they instantly understood: these were ”tears.”

Thinking that Karkata’s own parts were already worn and old, yet it still gave them all to Abattouy—readers’ tears fell like leaves unable to bear the rain.

The above is Nahida’s metaphor.

As for Nahida herself, her mood was also very low.

This was fascinating knowledge. This was a sorrowful story. This was why Nahida loved humans.

Curiosity deserves praise.

Scaramouche’s emotions seemed unchanged. He pressed his hat down and continued reading.

This ”mechanical life” had already had a heart from the moment of its birth, yet he had kept searching for the heart that was already there.

He was a wanderer who had passed away—no path ahead, no place to return to, merely a drifting leaf in the world—a farewell from the ”deceased” to the world.

Fischl stroked Oz. His feathers were soft, with a slight tingling sensation. She was glad Oz could speak.

Though Oz often undermined her, she couldn’t imagine what she would do without him.

As a child, she had been just like Abattouy—dreaming of hearing ”them” speak.

She heard no response, yet she continued building her dream realm until one day Oz flew out from her ”dream.”

Fischl heard her ”dream”—they were speaking. What they said no longer mattered.

Faruzan buried her face in the book. The strong senior didn’t want others to see her sadness.

She simply couldn’t handle this kind of story—because a certain prophet had once taken her to find a small machine searching for its owner.

How could Faruzan resist the sorrow this story brought?

Faruzan suddenly understood why they wanted to beat Lucian.

Why make the story so moving! It clearly makes you cry, yet I can’t stop reading!

And such a story naturally wouldn’t lack sad Furina. Little Furina’s eyes had turned into ”wave patterns”—a single blink would squeeze out tears.

Lucian, come find me quickly! Please, let me kick you once. Woo woo woo—I’ll do anything.

Furina was heartbroken. Earlier, Lucian had tricked her, saying this book was about ”creating life,” an adult book, claiming she couldn’t handle it.

Furina refused to accept it. What do you mean adult content? I’m almost five hundred years old—don’t treat me like a child!

Yet for ”adult content,” Furina still hesitated. After a long internal struggle, she started reading—only to find she couldn’t win even with all her strength.

Lucian was right—she really couldn’t handle it! Woo woo woo~

The story wasn’t actually over yet; there was still a little explosive final blow.

Tighnari and the Traveler analyzed Karkata’s behavior. It probably couldn’t understand ”death.”

Simply because in the past, when it malfunctioned, Abattouy had repaired it this way—so it searched for parts, wanting to ”fix” Abattouy.

But how could a human be repaired with such things? Karkata’s actions were doomed to be futile.

Yet precisely because they were futile, everything held meaning.

[Tighnari: ”What matters is that it formed the thought ’I want to fix Abattouy.’”]

[”No one knows how this thought emerged, but the thought itself even overrode the ’instinct’ Abattouy had programmed into it.”]

[”If our guess is correct, this truly is research that could shock the Akademiya.”]

Just like androids—only when they break ”directives” to do what they want are they truly ”life.”

Abattouy’s experiment had only partially succeeded, but even that partial success was already a major advancement in human technology.

Mechanical life—ancient technology had once achieved it, but that was Khaenri’ah. Even Ei had referenced that era’s technology to create her ”puppet.”

Abattouy had taken this step relying entirely on modern technology—on human wisdom.

The nation of wisdom, under Akademiya rule, could not tolerate wisdom, yet there would always be believers in ”wisdom” who refused to yield to the ”unknowable.”

It can be unknown, but it must not be unknowable.

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Character Voice · Albedo: About Vulpes Zerda Chapter

”…A very good story. Though I’m not skilled in mechanical engineering, I really do want to learn more about Karkata.”

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