Nikke, something’s seriously wrong with this evacuation point! Chapter 133 133: I’ll Bite You to Death!

"So you really are Rose?"

Charon placed a huge tray of junk food onto the table. Sitting across from him, the white-haired girl imdiately rubbed her hands together and dug in without hesitation–one bite of hamburger, one gulp of cola.

"Waaah… it's been so long since I got to eat my beloved junk food. Long live Charon! Long live the shelter!"

She let out a blissful sigh before opening her jewel-like eyes and staring directly at him.

"Of course I'm Rose. I lost my mories, not my life–ah, pass that chicken leg!"

"Eat, eat, eat. You just ca back to life and you're already stuffing yourself with greasy food. When you get fat later, don't cry to about it."

For so reason, probably because of Ana's influence, Charon sounded exactly like an exasperated father.

It couldn't be helped. Rose's current petite body made it far too easy to instinctively treat her like a daughter, even though she wasn't actually that much younger than Liliweiss.

"That's not sothing you need to worry about." Rose puffed out her tiny chest proudly. "This body is the shelter-provided Sleeping Beauty-exclusive Nikke body. Everything I eat gets converted directly into stored energy without wasting even a single bit. You know what that ans, right?"

"Oh, I get it. Cute girls don't go to the bathroom."

"That's NOT what I ant! Though… technically you're not wrong."

One of the rewards from the Shittim Chest quest had been an exclusive Nikke body for "Sleeping Beauty." Clearly, this wasn't sothing originating from the Nikke world itself.

Charon opened his mouth to say sothing–

Only for a chicken wing to suddenly get shoved directly into it.

"I know you've got a ton of questions," Rose said. "Let finish eating first, then I'll explain everything slowly."

"Fine, take your ti. I'll go check on the Shittim Chest in the anti–"

"Wait!"

Charon paused mid-stand.

"Hm?"

Faced with his puzzled expression, Rose hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth.

"Just wait a little, okay? This is part of what I'm about to explain too. Don't rush."

So Charon sat back down.

It wasn't that Rose actually had control over him. But looking at this lively girl sitting before him–and rembering that grave-marker-like tower–he simply couldn't bring himself to refuse her.

At the very least, he could now face Liliweiss properly.

The al Charon had prepared was basically family-bucket sized, yet Rose devoured it all with frightening speed while sohow still looking perfectly elegant. Once she finished, she wiped the oil from her lips, took another sip of ice-cold cola, patted her stomach, and let out an utterly satisfied sigh.

"Ahhh… this is life. Back then we could barely get our hands on anything good. Do you know how hard it was just to line up for junk food like this?"

"..."

Charon stayed silent. When it ca to food, soone who owned a shelter like his had no right to complain.

After another contented sigh, Rose finally straightened her posture.

"Charon–no, Commander. I know you have a lot of questions. Honestly, even my own mind was a ss until just now. I've been organizing my mories while eating. But now… I think I more or less understand everything."

Charon also sat up straight, expression serious. This concerned Rose's current condition–of course he had to take it seriously.

"As for the Shittim Chest: although it's now fully restored, without Kivotos's 'Sanctum Tower,' it's basically all functionality and no server. Luckily, the shelter was surprisingly considerate. The 'Command Operations Room' you unlocked earlier just so happens to perfectly replace the Sanctum Tower's role, allowing the system to function again."

"Ah… right."

Charon realized he'd completely overlooked that reward earlier. At the ti, his entire mind had been focused solely on saving Rose.

"As for my current state…" Rose continued, "you could say my true self has always existed inside the Shittim Chest. Everything that makes up is now deeply bound to it. This body–" she pointed at herself, "–just allows to move around with you normally. Functionally, there's basically no difference from a real body."

"Wait."

Charon suddenly interrupted her.

"If this body is a Nikke body, then what's different between you and a normal Nikke?"

"First, I'm unaffected by NIMPH. Second, if I die, there's no need to recover a brain or core… since I don't actually have those."

"Oh. So you literally don't have a brain."

Charon suddenly grinned.

"That's NOT what I an! I an–technically yes–but not in the way you're saying it!"

Instantly understanding his implication, Rose's face turned bright red. She slamd the table and shot to her feet.

"Y-you–you bully!"

"It's fine. Even if you don't have a brain, you're still the smartest person in the shelter."

Charon gave her a thumbs-up.

Unfortunately, that only poured gasoline onto the fire.

"Cha. Ron. I'm going to bite you to death!"

Rose launched herself forward and pounced straight into his arms, imdiately biting down on his shoulder.

"Ow, ow–huh? That didn't hurt?"

Charon had fully expected to be tackled to the ground. After all, the only Nikkes he'd ever interacted with were monstrously strong. Or rather, all Nikkes were absurdly strong by human standards.

But sitting in his lap now, tiny Rose barely exerted any force at all. The bite felt more like an affectionate kitten nibbling at him.

"That's because I'm a specialized Nikke," Rose huffed proudly. She simply stayed seated in his lap afterward, even adjusting herself into a more comfortable position. "My original Nikke body was designed to imitate Sister Liliweiss's strength. But the body couldn't withstand that level of power and literally exploded. After you recovered my data, the Shittim Chest restored itself by integrating that enhancent data into my personality data instead."

"So now," she said proudly, "what got enhanced isn't physical strength–it's my hacking ability."

Charon suddenly rembered the first ti Rose appeared, when she effortlessly caused the entertainnt room to go berserk.

And that had been before she was fully restored?

"Scared now?" Seeing the shock in his eyes, Rose looked deeply satisfied. "My specs are completely modeled after Sempai's, you know. Liliweiss's overwhelming physical power corresponds to my current processing power."

Unlike Liliweiss's straightforward physical strength, Rose's hacking capabilities were much harder to asure.

"If the current had been beside Sempai during the orbital elevator incident," Rose said softly, "she wouldn't have stayed under control for even a second."

Her voice gradually grew quieter.

"If that had happened… then maybe you wouldn't have had to leave so early back then."

"At the very least… you could've had ti to say goodbye, right?"